Facilitating navigation of a webpage on a computer device

• US 9,600,589 B2
• Filed: 08/26/2015
• Issued: 03/21/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 10/29/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Chen, Li-Ju, Hsu, John J. Y., Pan, Bor-Ping, Wu, Rick M. F.
• Primary Examiner(s): Walsh, John B.
• Assistant Examiner(s): STILTNER, WEIWEI YE
• Application Number:
  US14/836,931
• Publication Number:
  US 20150379149A1
• Time in Patent Office: 573 Days
• Field of Search: 709217-218
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/951 Indexing; Web crawling techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/954 Navigation, e.g. using categorised browsing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/957 Browsing optimisation, e.g. caching or content distillation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9577 Optimising the visualization of content, e.g. distillation of HTML documents
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/958 Organisation or management of web site content, e.g. publishing, maintaining pages or automatic linking
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0483 Interaction with page-structured environments, e.g. book metaphor
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0485 Scrolling or panning
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04886 by partitioning the display area of the touch-screen or the surface of the digitising tablet into independently controllable areas, e.g. virtual keyboards or menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/117 Tagging; Marking up details of markup languages G06F40/143; Designating a block; Setting of attributes style sheets, e.g. eXtensible Stylesheet Language Transformation [XSLT], G06F40/154
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/134 Hyperlinking
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/143 Markup, e.g. Standard Generalized Markup Language [SGML] or Document Type Definition [DTD]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/04 specially adapted for terminals or networks with limited capabilities; specially adapted for terminal portability
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/329 in the application layer [OSI layer 7]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/40 Network security protocols

Abstract

A method of Webpage navigation can include a computer device loading a Webpage having at least a first portion and a second portion, arranging the Webpage in order to present the first portion in the display area of the computer device and to place the second portion out of the display area, and presenting a navigation map corresponding to the Webpage in the display area. In response to a control command input with respect to the navigation map, the Webpage can be arranged in order to present the second portion in the display area.

Claims

1. A method for facilitating navigation of a Webpage on a display having a display area, comprising:

initially arranging a first portion of the Webpage within the display area and a second portion of the Webpage out of the display area;

presenting, within the display area, a navigation map corresponding to the Webpage; and

rearranging, in response to a control command input associated with the navigation map, the second portion to present the second portion within the display area, wherein

the navigation map includes a pointer to a Webpage object within the second portion,

the first portion does not overlap the second portion, and

the Webpage object is an object within the Webpage;

wherein metadata of the Webpage object is embedded in the Webpage, and a comparison is made between the metadata and a user preference data.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein

the second portion is rearranged to present the Webpage object at a predetermined position within the display area.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein

the pointer is arranged in the navigation map based upon the comparison.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein

the first portion is initially arranged within the display area based upon the comparison.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein

the user preference data includes a keyword previously entered by a user into a search engine.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the user preference data includes a keyword previously entered by a user into a search engine.

7. A computer hardware system, comprising:

a display having a display area; and

at least one hardware processor configured to initiate the following executable operations;

initially arranging a first portion of a Webpage within the display area and a second portion of the Webpage out of the display area;

presenting, within the display area, a navigation map corresponding to the Webpage; and

rearranging, in response to a control command input associated with the navigation map, the second portion to present the second portion within the display area, wherein

the navigation map includes a pointer to a Webpage object within the second portion,

the first portion does not overlap the second portion, and

the Webpage object is an object within the Webpage;

wherein metadata of the Webpage object is embedded in the Webpage, and a comparison is made between the metadata and a user preference data.

8. The system of claim 7, wherein

the second portion is rearranged to present the Webpage object at a predetermined position within the display area.

9. The system of claim 7, wherein the pointer is arranged in the navigation map based upon the comparison.

10. The system of claim 7, wherein the first portion is initially arranged within the display area based upon the comparison.

11. The system of claim 10, wherein

the user preference data includes a keyword previously entered by a user into a search engine.

12. The system of 7, wherein the user preference data includes a keyword previously entered by a user into a search engine.

13. A computer program product, comprising:

a computer storage device having stored therein computer usable program code for facilitating navigation of a Webpage on a display having a display area,

the computer usable program code, which when executed by a computer hardware system, causes the computer hardware system to perform;

initially arranging a first portion of the Webpage within the display area and a second portion of the Webpage out of the display area;

presenting, within the display area, a navigation map corresponding to the Webpage; and

rearranging, in response to a control command input associated with the navigation map, the second portion to present the second portion within the display area, wherein

the navigation map includes a pointer to a Webpage object within the second portion,

the first portion does not overlap the second portion, and

the Webpage object is an object within the Webpage;

wherein metadata of the Webpage object is embedded in the Webpage, and a comparison is made between the metadata and a user preference data.

14. The method computer program product of claim 13, wherein the second portion is rearranged to present the Webpage object at a predetermined position within the display area.

15. The computer program product of claim 13, wherein the pointer is arranged in the navigation map based upon the comparison.

16. The computer program product of claim 13, wherein the first portion is initially arranged within the display area based upon the comparison.

17. The computer program product of claim 16, wherein the user preference data includes a keyword previously entered by a user into a search engine.