Information-processing device, storage medium, information-processing system, and information-processing method

• US 9,928,304 B2
• Filed: 03/04/2013
• Issued: 03/27/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 11/15/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Nintendo Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Nintendo Company Limited
• Inventors: Sasaki, Tetsuya, Tsuda, Munetaka, Kakimoto, Yasuto, Aoki, Ryoma
• Primary Examiner(s): Bashore, William
• Assistant Examiner(s): SHREWSBURY, NATHAN K
• Application Number:
  US13/783,855
• Publication Number:
  US 20140137040A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,849 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/955 using information identifiers, e.g. uniform resource locators [URL]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9562 Bookmark management

Abstract

An example information-processing device that includes: a first registering unit that registers, in accordance with an operation performed by a user, a link data set indicating a specific data set, a specifying unit that specifies a status of use of a link data set registered by the first registering unit or a status of use of a specific data set indicated by a link data set registered by the first registering unit, and a second registering unit that registers at least one of a plurality of link data sets registered by the first registering unit based on a status of use specified by the specifying unit.

Claims

1. An information-processing device comprising:

a first registering unit that registers, in accordance with an operation performed by a user, a link data set to access a specific data set;

a specifying unit that specifies a status of use of a link data set registered by the first registering unit or a status of use of a specific data set indicated by a link data set registered by the first registering unit;

a second registering unit that registers at least one of a plurality of link data sets registered by the first registering unit based on a status of use specified by the specifying unit; and

a display control unit that controls a display unit to;

display a first list containing a plurality of link data sets registered by the first registering unit and a second list containing one or more link data sets registered by the second registering unit, wherein the first list and the second list are separate from each other, wherein the first list and the second list are displayed in different styles from each other or on different screens from each other, wherein the first list extends beyond a viewable area of a display screen and is scrollable to move different portions of the first list into the viewable area of the display screen, and wherein displaying of the second list is independent of the scrolling of the first list; and

display one or more link data sets from the second list as a start page when the user starts a web browser or displays a new page.

2. The information-processing device according to claim 1, wherein

link data sets contained in the first list are determined in accordance with operations made by the user, and

link data sets contained in the second list are determined by the second registering unit without any operation being performed by the user to select the link data sets.

3. The information-processing device according to claim 1, further comprising:

an access unit that accesses a data set identified by a link data set selected from among link data sets contained in the first list or in the second list in accordance with an operation performed by the user.

4. The information-processing device according to claim 1, wherein

the specifying unit specifies at least one of a timing of use of a link data set contained in the first list or a data set identified by a link data set contained in the first list, or a number of times of use of a link data set contained in the first list, or a data set identified by a link data set contained in the first list, and

the second registering unit registers link data sets based on at least one of the timing of use specified by the specifying unit and the number of times of use specified by the specifying unit.

5. The information-processing device according to claim 4, wherein

the specifying unit determines an evaluation value of a link data set by weighting the number of times of use based on the timing of use of the link data or the data set, and

the second registering unit registers link data sets based on the evaluation value determined by the specifying unit.

6. The information-processing device according to claim 5, wherein

the second registering unit registers link data sets so that link data sets registered by the second registering unit are displayed in a descending order according to at least one of the timing of use, the number of times of use, and the evaluation value.

7. The information-processing device according to claim 1, further comprising:

a designating unit that designates one or more link data sets registered by the first registering unit in accordance with an operation performed by the user;

wherein

the second registering unit registers link data sets from among link data sets that are registered by the first registering unit and that are not designated by the designating unit.

8. The information-processing device according to claim 1, wherein

link data sets registered by the first registering unit or the second registering unit are data sets indicating hyperlinks.

9. The information-processing device according to claim 1, wherein

link data sets registered by the first registering unit or the second registering unit are data sets indicating soft links.

13. The information processing device according to claim 1, wherein the display control unit controls the display unit to display the first list and the second list in different styles from each other.

14. The information processing device according to claim 1, wherein the display control unit controls the display unit to display the first list and the second list on different screens from each other.

17. The information processing device according to claim 1, wherein when the web browser is started, the one or more link data sets from the second list are displayed as the start page without requiring the user to perform an operation for displaying link data sets after a start page is displayed.

18. The information-processing device according to claim 1, wherein the second list is displayed without changing its position in the display screen during the scrolling of the first list.

19. The information processing device according to claim 1, wherein link data sets of the first list are arranged in a plurality of pages such that the first list is scrollable by the user to display a selected one of the pages on the display screen at a particular time, and wherein the second list is displayed unchanged on the display screen at the particular time irrespective of which of the pages of the first list is displayed at the particular time.

10. A computer-readable non-transitory storage medium storing a program causing a computer to execute operations comprising:

registering in a first list, in accordance with an operation made by a user, a plurality of link data sets each of which indicates a specific data set;

specifying a status of use of each of the registered link data sets or a status of use of each of the specific data sets indicated by the registered link data sets;

registering, in a second list separate from the first list, one or more of the registered link data sets as selected link data sets based on the specified statuses;

displaying the registered link data sets and the selected link data sets, wherein the registered link data sets and the selected link data sets are displayed in different styles from each other or on different screens from each other, wherein the first list extends beyond a viewable area of a display screen and is scrollable to move different portions of the first list into the viewable area of the display screen, and wherein displaying of the second list is independent of the scrolling of the first list;

executing, when a link data set is selected from the displayed link data sets in accordance with an operation made by the user, a processing identified by the link data set selected in accordance with an operation made by the user; and

displaying of one or more link data sets from the second list as a start page when a web browser is started or when a new page is displayed.

11. An information-processing system comprising at least one processor configured to:

register in a first list, in accordance with an operation performed by a user, a plurality of link data sets each of which indicates a specific data set;

specify a status of use of each of the registered link data sets or a status of use of each of the specific data sets indicated by the registered link data sets;

further register, in a second list separate from the first list, one or more of the registered link data sets based on the specified statuses;

display the registered link data sets;

display the further registered link data sets, wherein the registered link data sets extend beyond a viewable area of a display screen and is scrollable to move different portions of the registered link data sets into the viewable area of the display screen, and wherein displaying of the further registered link data sets is independent of the scrolling of the registered link data sets;

when a link data set is selected from the displayed link data sets in accordance with an operation performed by the user, executes a processing identified by the selected link data set; and

when a web browser is started or when a new page is displayed, display one or more further registered link data sets from the second list as a start page.

15. The information processing system according to claim 11, wherein when the web browser is started, the one or more further registered link data sets are displayed as the start page without requiring the user to perform an operation for displaying the one or more further registered link data sets after a start page is displayed.

16. The information processing system according to claim 11, wherein when the web browser is started, the one or more further registered link data sets are automatically displayed as the start page.

12. An information-processing method comprising:

Registering in a first list, in accordance with an operation made by a user, link data sets each of which indicates a specific data set;

specifying a status of use of each of the registered link data sets or a status of use of each of the specific data sets indicated by the registered link data sets;

registering, in a second list separate from the first list, one or more of the registered link data sets as selected link data sets based on the specified statuses;

displaying the registered link data sets and the selected link data sets, wherein the registered link data sets and the selected link data sets are displayed in different styles from each other or on different screens from each other, wherein the registered link data sets extends beyond a viewable area of a display screen and is scrollable to move different portions of the registered link data sets into the viewable area of the display screen, and wherein displaying of the selected link data sets is independent of the scrolling of the registered link data sets;

executing, when a link data set is selected from the displayed link data sets in accordance with an operation made by the user, a processing identified by the link data set selected in accordance with an operation performed by the user; and

displaying one or more selected link data sets from the second list as a start page when the user starts a web browser or displays a new page.