Content adaptation

• US 9,275,167 B2
• Filed: 05/14/2012
• Issued: 03/01/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 12/08/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: OptiMorphix, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Citrix Systems, Inc. (Cloud Software Group)
• Inventors: Melnyk, Miguel, Bashyam, Suresh, Penner, Andrew, Rochon, John, Dakhane, Kapil
• Primary Examiner(s): Mills, Frank D
• Application Number:
  US13/471,019
• Publication Number:
  US 20120290917A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,387 Days
• Field of Search: 715/236
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9577 Optimising the visualization of content, e.g. distillation of HTML documents
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/303 Terminal profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/56 Provisioning of proxy services store-and-forward switching systems in data switching networks H04L12/54
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/565 Conversion or adaptation of application format or content adding application control or application functional data H04L67/561
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/5651 Reducing the amount or size of exchanged application data

Abstract

A system includes a mobile device and an optimization server. The mobile device is capable of transmitting request data that includes a requested webpage and identification data. The optimization server is configured to receive response data that corresponds to the request data from a content server, to adapt the response data based on the identification data, and to transmit the adapted response data to the mobile device.

Claims

1. A system comprising:

an optimization server comprising one or more processors configured to receive from a content server response data corresponding to request data that includes a requested webpage and identification data and that is transmitted from a mobile device, to adapt the response data to the mobile device based on the identification data, and to transmit the adapted response data to the mobile device, wherein the adaptation of the response data includes a paginating of content, wherein the optimization server is further configured to;

identify content sections during a traversal of a first Document Object Model (DOM) representing the webpage;

transform the first DOM to a second DOM based on an adaptation parameter that describes features of the mobile device, wherein the transformation includes a detection of a tab box and a preservation of nodes corresponding to the tab box for the second DOM;

serialize the second DOM by converting the second DOM into adapted markup language source code; and

construct an adapted webpage from the markup language source code;

wherein the adapted webpage is provided to the mobile device for downloading.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the paginating further comprises the optimization server being further configured to classify HTML elements of the first data structure into grouping elements, ignored elements, and simple elements.

3. The system of claim 2, wherein the paginating further comprises the optimization server being further configured to skip the creation of the content section if a node is classified as the ignored element, or is an odd-shaped node and is associated with an <

image>

or <

iframe>

tag.

4. The system of claim 2, wherein the paginating further comprises the optimization server being further configured to create a content section if a node is classified as a tab box, is a text node and the text is not filler text, is classified as the simple element, or is classified as a grouping element whose geometric features fit within a content section bucket.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the identification of content sections includes a comparison of geometric properties of a node in the first DOM to one or more content section buckets to determine whether the node and any descendant nodes are a content section.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the adaptation parameter describes features of the mobile device and HyperText Markup (HTML) elements included in the first DOM and the second DOM.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein the serializing of the second DOM includes a breaking of the content sections into multiple presentation units if the content section exceeds the limitations of the mobile device, wherein the multiple presentations units are converted into sub-pages for downloading at the mobile device.

8. The system of claim 7, wherein the sub-pages include a main sub-page and any subsequent sub-pages, wherein the main sub-page is initially transmitted to the mobile device for downloading and the sub-pages are cached for future referencing.

9. The system of claim 1, wherein the construction of the adapted webpage involves a determination of whether the content section exceeds the limitations of the mobile device and a breaking of the content sections into multiple presentation units if the content section exceeds the limitations of the mobile device, wherein the multiple presentations units are converted into sub-pages for downloading at the mobile device.

10. The system of claim 9, wherein the sub-pages include a main sub-page and any subsequent sub-pages, wherein the main sub-page is initially transmitted to the mobile device for downloading and the sub-pages are cached for future referencing.

11. The system of claim 9, wherein the paginating further comprises the optimization server being further configured to enclose the sub-page with a header or a footer so that the sub-page can link to other sub-pages.

12. The system of claim 1, wherein the transforming involves the optimization server being further configured to flatten the first DOM based on a removal of layout imposing markup language tags and a transcoding of each node.

13. The system of claim 1, wherein the transforming involves the optimization server being further configured to preserve the layout based on a copying of grouping and layout tags to the second DOM.

14. A method being performed by one or more processors and comprising:

identifying content sections during a traversal of a first Document Object Model (DOM) representing a webpage;

transforming the first DOM to a second DOM based on an adaptation parameter that describes features of a mobile device, wherein the transforming includes detecting a tab box and preserving nodes corresponding to the tab box for the second DOM;

serializing the second DOM by converting the second DOM into adapted markup language source code; and

constructing an adapted webpage from the markup language source code;

wherein the adapted webpage is provided to the mobile device for downloading.

15. The method of claim 14, further comprising classifying HTML elements of the first DOM into grouping elements, ignored elements, and simple elements.

16. The method of claim 15, further comprising skipping the creation of the content section if a node is classified as the ignored element, or is an odd-shaped node and is associated with an <

image>

or <

iframe>

tag.

17. The method of claim 15, further comprising creating the content section if a node is classified as a tab box, is a text node and the text is not filler text, is classified as the simple element, or is classified as a grouping element whose geometric features fit within a content section bucket.

18. The method of claim 14, wherein identifying content sections includes comparing geometric properties of a node in the first DOM to one or more content section buckets to determine whether the node and any descendant nodes are a content section.

19. The method of claim 14, wherein the transforming includes form processing so that the form element label corresponds to the form element on a display of the mobile device.

20. The method of claim 14, wherein serializing the second DOM includes breaking the content sections into multiple presentation units if the content section exceeds the limitations of the mobile device, wherein the multiple presentations units are converted into sub-pages for downloading at the mobile device.

21. The method of claim 20, wherein the sub-pages include a main sub-page and any subsequent sub-pages, wherein the main sub-page is initially transmitted to the mobile device for downloading and the sub-pages are cached for future referencing.

22. The method of claim 14, wherein constructing the adapted webpage involves determining whether the content section exceeds the limitations of the mobile device and breaking the content sections into multiple presentation units if the content section exceeds the limitations of the mobile device, wherein the multiple presentations units are converted into sub-pages for downloading at the mobile device.

23. The method of claim 22, wherein the sub-pages include a main sub-page and any subsequent sub-pages, wherein the main sub-page is initially transmitted to the mobile device for downloading and the sub-pages are cached for future referencing.

24. The method of claim 22, further comprising enclosing the sub-page with a header or a footer so that the sub-page can link to other sub-pages.

25. The method of claim 14, wherein the transforming involves flattening the first DOM by removing layout imposing markup language tags and transcoding each node.

26. The method of claim 14, wherein the transforming involves preserving the layout by copying grouping and layout tags to the second DOM.

27. A method for small screen rendering of a webpage for a mobile device, the method being performed by one or more processors and comprising:

identifying a content section during a traversal of a first DOM representing the webpage;

determining whether the size of a data element of the content section would fit into the mobile device'"'"'s screen;

transforming the content section based on the determination;

determining whether the one or more nodes of the content section is to be copied to a second DOM, wherein the copying of the content section includes detecting a tab box and preserving nodes corresponding to the tab box for the second DOM; and

breaking the copied content section into multiple presentation units if the copied content session exceeds the limitations of the mobile device, wherein the multiple presentations units are converted into sub-pages for downloading at the mobile device.

28. The method of claim 27, further comprising flattening the data element of the content section if determined that the size of the data element content section would not fit into the mobile device'"'"'s screen.

29. The method of claim 27, further comprising preserving a layout of the data element of the content section if determined that the size of the data element would fit into the mobile device'"'"'s screen.

30. A non-transitory computer readable medium storing instructions that are executable by one or more processors of a computer, to cause the computer to perform a method of rendering a webpage for a mobile device, the method comprising:

identifying content sections during a traversal of a first Document Object Model (DOM) representing the webpage;

transforming the content sections based on the size of the content sections;

determining whether the one or more nodes of the content section is to be copied to a second DOM, wherein the copying of the content section includes detecting a tab box and preserving nodes corresponding to the tab box for the second DOM; and

breaking the copied content sessions into multiple presentation units if the copied content session exceeds the limitations of the mobile device, wherein the multiple presentations units are converted into sub-pages for downloading at the mobile device.

31. A method being performed by one or more processors and comprising:

identifying content sections during a traversal of a first Document Object Model (DOM) representing a webpage;

transforming the first DOM to a second DOM based on an adaptation parameter that describes features of a mobile device, wherein the transforming includes detecting a tab box and preserving nodes corresponding to the tab box for the second DOM;

serializing the second DOM by converting the second DOM into adapted markup language source code; and

breaking the content sections into one or more sub-pages for downloading at the mobile device; and

enclosing the one or more sub-pages with a header or a footer, wherein the one or more sub-pages are provided to the mobile device for downloading.

32. The method of claim 31, wherein the header or footer of a sub-page allows a user of a mobile device to navigate to another sub-page of the one or more sub-pages.

33. A non-transitory computer readable medium storing instructions that are executable by one or more processors of a computer, to cause the computer to perform a method of paginating content of a webpage for a mobile device, the method comprising:

identifying content sections during a traversal of a first DOM representing the webpage;

transforming the first DOM to a second DOM based on an adaptation parameter that describes features of the mobile device, wherein the transforming includes detecting a tab box and preserving nodes corresponding to the tab box for the second DOM;

serializing the second DOM by converting the second DOM into adapted markup language source code; and

constructing an adapted webpage from the markup language source code;

wherein the adapted webpage is provided to the mobile device for downloading.

34. A server comprising:

one or more processors;

a response monitor configured to receive response data from a content server, wherein the response data includes a webpage and corresponds to request data provided by a mobile device; and

an adaptor configured to adapt the response data based on the properties of the mobile device, wherein the adapted response data is provided to the mobile device for downloading, wherein the adaptation of the response data includes a paginating of content, wherein the adaptor is further configured to;

identify content sections during a traversal of a first Document Object Model (DOM) representing a webpage;

transform the first DOM to a second DOM based on an adaptation parameter that describes features of a mobile device, wherein the transformation includes a detection of a tab box and a preservation of nodes corresponding to the tab box for the second DOM;

serialize the second DOM by converting the second DOM into adapted markup language source code; and

construct an adapted webpage from the markup language source code;

wherein the adapted webpage is provided to the mobile device for downloading.

35. A method for small screen rendering of a webpage for a mobile device, the method being performed by one or more processors and comprising:

identifying a content section during a traversal of a first DOM representing the webpage;

determining whether the size of a data element of the content section would fit into the mobile device'"'"'s screen;

transforming the content section based on the determination;

determining whether the one or more nodes of the content section is to be copied to a second DOM; and

breaking the copied content section into multiple presentation units if the copied content session exceeds the limitations of the mobile device, wherein the multiple presentations units are converted into sub-pages for downloading at the mobile device, and wherein the breaking of the copied content section into multiple presentation units includes an identification of menu content sections based on a determined menu score and if the menu score exceeds a menu threshold, allowing the capability to reorder the menu content section from its current location in a sub-page to a subsequent sub-page.

36. A system comprising:

an optimization server comprising one or more processors configured to receive from a content server response data corresponding to request data that includes a requested webpage and identification data and that is transmitted from a mobile device, to adapt the response data to the mobile device based on the identification data, and to transmit the adapted response data to the mobile device, wherein the adaptation of the response data includes a paginating of the content in the original page, wherein the optimization server is further configured to;

identify content sections during a traversal of a first Document Object Model (DOM) representing the webpage;

transform the first DOM to a second DOM based on an adaptation parameter that describes features of the mobile device;

serialize the second DOM by converting the second DOM into adapted markup language source code; and

construct an adapted webpage from the markup language source code, wherein the construction of the adapted webpage includes an identification of menu content sections based on a determined menu score and if the menu score exceeds a menu threshold, the optimization server is further configured to allow the capability to reorder the menu content section from its current location in a sub-page to a subsequent sub-page, and wherein the adapted webpage is provided to the mobile device for downloading.

37. A method being performed by one or more processors and comprising:

identifying content sections during a traversal of a first Document Object Model (DOM) representing a webpage;

transforming the first DOM to a second DOM based on an adaptation parameter that describes features of a mobile device;

serializing the second DOM by converting the second DOM into adapted markup language source code; and

constructing an adapted webpage from the markup language source code, wherein constructing the adapted webpage includes identifying menu content sections by calculating a menu score and if the menu score exceeds a menu threshold, allowing the capability to reorder the menu content section from its current location in a sub-page to a subsequent sub-page, and wherein the adapted webpage is provided to the mobile device for downloading.

38. A non-transitory computer readable medium storing instructions that are executable by one or more processors of a computer, to cause the computer to perform a method of paginating content of a webpage for a mobile device, the method comprising:

identifying content sections during a traversal of a first DOM representing the webpage;

transforming the first DOM to a second DOM based on an adaptation parameter that describes features of the mobile device;

serializing the second DOM by converting the second DOM into adapted markup language source code; and

constructing an adapted webpage from the markup language source code, wherein the construction of the adapted webpage includes an identification of menu content sections based on a determined menu score and if the menu score exceeds a menu threshold, allowing the capability to reorder the menu content section from its current location in a sub-page to a subsequent sub-page, and wherein the adapted webpage is provided to the mobile device for downloading.

39. A server comprising:

one or more processors;

a response monitor that receives response data from a content server, wherein the response data includes a webpage and corresponds to request data provided a mobile device; and

an adaptor configured to adapt the response data based on properties of the mobile device, wherein the adapted response data is provided to the mobile device for downloading, wherein the adaptation of the response data includes a paginating of content, wherein the adaptor is further configured to;

identify content sections during a traversal of a first Document Object Model (DOM) representing the webpage;

transform the first DOM to a second DOM based on an adaptation parameter that describes features of the mobile device;

serialize the second DOM by converting the second DOM into adapted markup language source code; and

construct an adapted webpage from the markup language source code, wherein the construction of the adapted webpage includes an identification of menu content sections based on a determined menu score and if the menu score exceeds a menu threshold, allowing the capability to reorder the menu content section from its current location in a sub-page to a subsequent sub-page, and wherein the adapted webpage is provided to the mobile device for downloading.

40. A non-transitory computer readable medium storing instructions that are executable by one or more processors of a computer, to cause the computer to perform a method of rendering a webpage for a mobile device, the method comprising:

identifying content sections during a traversal of a first Document Object Model (DOM) representing a webpage;

transforming the content sections based on the size of the content sections;

determining whether the one or more nodes of the content section is to be copied to a second DOM; and

breaking the copied content sessions into multiple presentation units if the copied content session exceeds the limitations of the mobile device, wherein the multiple presentations units are converted into sub-pages for downloading at the mobile device, and wherein the breaking of the copied content section into multiple presentation units includes an identification of menu content sections based on a determined menu score and if the menu score exceeds a menu threshold, allowing the capability to reorder the menu content section from its current location in a sub-page to a subsequent sub-page.

41. A method being performed by one or more processors and comprising:

identifying content sections during a traversal of a first Document Object Model (DOM) representing a webpage;

transforming the first DOM to a second DOM based on an adaptation parameter that describes features of a mobile device;

serializing the second DOM by converting the second DOM into adapted markup language source code; and

breaking the content sections into one or more sub-pages for downloading at the mobile device, wherein the breaking of the content sections into one or more sub-pages includes an identification of menu content sections based on a determined menu score and if the menu score exceeds a menu threshold, allowing the capability to reorder the menu content section from its current location in one of the one or more sub-pages to a subsequent sub-page of the one or more sub-pages; and

enclosing the one or more sub-pages with a header or a footer, wherein the one or more sub-pages are provided to the mobile device for downloading.