Apparatus and method of composing web document and apparatus of setting web document arrangement

• US 9,465,886 B2
• Filed: 08/14/2012
• Issued: 10/11/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 09/14/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Sung, Young-hun, Kim, Sang-ryong, Kim, Yeun-bae, Kim, Seong-woon, Choi, Chang-kyu
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen, Maikhanh
• Application Number:
  US13/584,976
• Publication Number:
  US 20120311432A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,519 Days
• Field of Search: 718200-203, 718/205, 718/209, 718/226, 718/227, 718/229, 718/234, 718/240, 718/243, 718/244, 718/255, 718/273, 718/700, 718/760, 718/762, 718/764, 718/790, 718/793, 718/794, 718/825, 718/838
• 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: G06F 3/0481 based on specific properties of the displayed interaction object or a metaphor-based environment, e.g. interaction with desktop elements like windows or icons, or assisted by a cursor's changing behaviour or appearance
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/143 Markup, e.g. Standard Generalized Markup Language [SGML] or Document Type Definition [DTD]

Abstract

An apparatus and method of composing a web document and an apparatus to set a web document arrangement are provided. The apparatus to compose a web document includes a generation module which generates a plurality of frames by analyzing a source of a web document, a composition module which arranges the generated frames using a predetermined frame arrangement mode, and an output module which displays the arranged frames on a screen.

Claims

1. An apparatus to compose a web document, the apparatus comprising:

a processor to control one or more processor-executable modules;

a generation module generating a plurality of frames by analyzing a source of a web document;

a composition module to arrange the generated frames using a predetermined frame arrangement mode that comprises overlapping the generated frames with each other while preventing titles of the overlapped frames from being overlapped by another frame; and

an output module displaying the arranged frames on a screen,

wherein;

the generation module generates each title of each frame based on information included in a corresponding frame,

the output module displays a maximum number of frames on the screen, the maximum number being determined according to a size of the screen, and

when a number of the arranged frames exceeds the maximum number of frames that can be displayed on the screen by the output module, the output module groups a number of frames corresponding to a difference between the number of arranged frames and the maximum number of frames that can be displayed on the screen by the output module into one or more tabs, and displays the tabs at a predefined location on the screen.

2. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein:

the predetermined frame arrangement mode includes at least one of a cascade mode, a thumbnail mode, and a tree mode.

3. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein, when one of the arranged frames is selected, the composition module moves the selected frame forward and moves a frame previously followed by the selected frame backward so that the selected frame becomes a first frame and the frame previously followed by the selected frame becomes a last frame.

4. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein, when one of the tabs is selected, the composition module arranges a plurality of frames included in the selected tab on the screen as a cascade.

5. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the generation module searches for tags that divide the web document into one or more paragraphs and generates a frame based on a plurality of pieces of information included between a start tag and an end tag that is paired with the start tag.

6. The apparatus of claim 1, further comprising a menu providing a module setting the predetermined frame arrangement mode of arranging the plurality of frames on the screen.

7. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the generation module generates each title of each frame to represent a theme of the corresponding frame.

8. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the generation module defines a word or phrase that most frequently appears in information included in a frame as a title of the corresponding frame.

9. A method of composing a web document, the method comprising:

generating a plurality of frames by analyzing a source of a web document;

arranging, using a processor, the generated frames using a predetermined frame arrangement mode that comprises overlapping the generated frames with each other while preventing titles of the overlapped frames from being overlapped by another frame; and

displaying the arranged frames on a screen,

wherein;

in the generating of the plurality of frames, each title of each frame is generated based on information included in a corresponding frame, and

the displaying comprises;

displaying a maximum number of frames on the screen, the maximum number of frames being determined according to a size of the screen; and

when a number of the arranged frames exceeds the maximum number of frames that can be displayed on the screen, grouping a number of frames corresponding to a difference between the number of arranged frames and the maximum number of frames that can be displayed on the screen into one or more tabs, and displaying the tabs at a predefined location on the screen.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein:

the predetermined frame arrangement mode comprises at least one of a cascade mode, a thumbnail mode, and a tree mode.

11. The method of claim 9, wherein the arranging comprises, when one of the arranged frames is selected, moving the selected frame forward and moving a frame previously followed by the selected frame backward so that the selected frame becomes a first frame and the frame previously followed by the selected frame becomes a last frame.

12. The method of claim 9, wherein the arranging comprises, when a tab of the one or more tabs is selected, arranging a plurality of frames included in the selected tab on the screen as a cascade.

13. The method of claim 9, wherein the generating comprises searching for tags that divide the web document into paragraphs and generating a frame based on a plurality of pieces of information included between a start tag and an end tag that is paired with the start tag.