Information processing device, information processing method, information processing program, display control device, and display control program

• US 9,977,765 B2
• Filed: 02/28/2013
• Issued: 05/22/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 02/28/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Rakuten Group, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Rakuten, Inc. (Rakuten Group, Inc.)
• Inventors: Do Ba, Duc
• Primary Examiner(s): Baderman, Scott
• Assistant Examiner(s): Velez-Lopez, Mario M
• Application Number:
  US14/770,602
• Publication Number:
  US 20160012018A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,909 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0483 Interaction with page-structured environments, e.g. book metaphor
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0485 Scrolling or panning
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04855 Interaction with scrollbars
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/114 Pagination
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/14 Tree-structured documents parsing G06F40/205; validation G06F40/226
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/6418 Hybrid transport

Abstract

An information processing device according to one embodiment includes a receiving unit, a frame generation unit, an acquisition unit, an embedding unit and a transmitting unit. The receiving unit receives a request for a full size frame from a user terminal. The frame generation unit generates the full size frame having a size of a region occupied by a plurality of objects to be displayed on a plurality of pages arranged in a specified direction. The acquisition unit acquires, from an object storage unit, all initial display objects to be embedded in an initial display page. The embedding unit embeds the initial display objects in the full size frame. The transmitting unit transmits the full size frame in which the initial display objects are embedded to the user terminal.

Claims

1. An information processing device comprising:

at least one memory operable to store computer program code; and

at least one processor operable to access said program code in said memory and operate according to said program code, said program code including;

receiving code configured to cause at least one of said at least one processor to receive a request for a full size frame from a user terminal, the full size frame being an outer frame of a web content made up of a plurality of pages arranged in a line, the pages being switchable by a scrolling operation on a web browser on the user terminal;

frame generation code configured to cause at least one of said at least one processor to generate, in response to the request, the full size frame having a size of a region occupied by a plurality of objects to be displayed on the plurality of pages arranged in a line;

acquisition code configured to cause at least one of said at least one processor to acquire, from an object storage, all initial display objects to be embedded in an initial display page, without acquiring all of the plurality of objects to be displayed on the plurality of pages in the full size frame, the initial display page being a page initially displayed on the user terminal among the plurality of pages;

embedding code configured to cause at least one of said at least one processor to embed all the initial display objects in the full size frame; and

transmitting code configured to cause at least one of said at least one processor to transmit the full size frame in which the all initial display objects are embedded to the user terminal, wherein

the acquisition code is further configured to cause at least one of said at least one processor to acquire, from the object storage, waiting objects with a data size, measured in bytes, equal to or smaller than a specified value, the waiting objects being at least some of a group of objects to be embedded in one or more other pages located near the initial display page, the initial display page and the one or more other pages being arranged sequentially.

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

the embedding code is configured to cause at least one of said at least one processor to embed the all initial display objects in the full size frame without embedding the waiting objects in the full size frame, and

the transmitting code is configured to cause at least one of said at least one processor to further transmit to the terminal the waiting objects and the full size frame in which the all initial display objects are embedded without the waiting objects being embedded.

3. The information processing device according to claim 2, wherein

the acquisition code is configured to cause at least one of said at least one processor to refer to an access history storage configured to store an access history to a web site from the user terminal and specify information which a user is interested in, and acquire objects related to the specified information as the waiting objects.

4. The information processing device according to claim 3, wherein

the access history includes information indicating a display time of each web site on the user terminal, and

the acquisition code is configured to cause at least one of said at least one processor to specify information being the same as or similar to information shown on a web site having been displayed for a specified period of time or longer on the user terminal, and acquire objects related to the specified information as the waiting objects.

5. The information processing device according to claim 3, wherein

the access history includes information indicating a search query transmitted from the user terminal, and

the acquisition code is configured to cause at least one of said at least one processor to specify information matching the search query, and acquire objects related to the specified information as the waiting objects.

6. The information processing device according to claim 2, wherein

the acquisition code is configured to cause at least one of said at least one processor to refer to an operation history storage configured to store a scrolling operation history of the user terminal on the web browser and calculate statistics of a scrolling range on the web browser, and acquire objects located in a range of the full size frame corresponding to the statistics as the waiting objects.

7. The information processing device according to claim 2, wherein

the acquisition code is configured to cause at least one of said at least one processor to acquire objects located in an acquisition range set based on capabilities of the information processing device as the waiting objects.

8. The information processing device according to claim 2, wherein

the acquisition code is configured to cause at least one of said at least one processor to refer to rule information where a model of a user terminal and an acquisition range of waiting objects are associated and specify the acquisition range corresponding to model information received from the user terminal, and acquire objects located in the acquisition range as the waiting objects.

9. A non-transitory recording medium storing a display control program for controlling, in the user terminal, the full size frame transmitted from the information processing device according to claim 1, comprising:

display control code configured to cause at least one of said at least one processor to process the full size frame displayed on the web browser of the user terminal.

10. The non-transitory recording medium according to claim 9, wherein

when displaying a different page by the scrolling operation, the display control code determines whether objects in a page already displayed are to be used also in the different page, and when determining that the objects are to be used, reuses the objects at time of displaying the different page.

11. The information processing device according to claim 1, wherein

the acquisition code is further configured to cause at least one of said at least one processor to acquire, from the object storage, waiting objects with text that has a size equal to or smaller than a specified value.

12. The information processing device according to claim 1, wherein

the initial display objects and the waiting objects include text, still images, moving images, links to another web content, and banner advertisement.

13. A display control device causing the user terminal to execute a display control program for controlling, in the user terminal, the full size frame transmitted from the information processing device according to claim 1, wherein

the display control program comprises display control code configured to cause at least one of said at least one processor to process the full size frame displayed on the web browser of the user terminal.

14. The display control device according to claim 13, wherein

when performing a scrolling operation to another page for which objects to be embedded are not acquired, the display control code causes at least one of said at least one processor to set a scrolling speed to be slower than an initial speed.

15. The display control device according to claim 13, wherein

position information indicating a position of a specific object in the full size frame is described in the full size frame, and

the display control code causes at least one of said at least one processor to put a mark at a place corresponding to a display position of the specific object on a scroll bar of the web browser based on the position information.

16. The display control device according to claim 13, wherein

when displaying a different page by a scrolling operation, the display control code causes at least one of said at least one processor to determine whether objects in a page already displayed are to be used also in the different page, and when determining that the objects are to be used, reuses the objects at time of displaying the different page.

17. An information processing method performed by at least one computer processor in an information processing device, comprising:

receiving a request for a full size frame from a user terminal, the full size frame being an outer frame of a web content made up of a plurality of pages arranged in a line, the pages being switchable by a scrolling operation on a web browser on the user terminal;

generating, in response to the request, the full size frame having a size of a region occupied by a plurality of objects to be displayed on the plurality of pages arranged in a line;

acquiring, from an object storage, all initial display objects to be embedded in an initial display page, without acquiring all of the plurality of objects to be displayed on the plurality of pages in the full size frame, the initial display page being a page initially displayed on the user terminal among the plurality of pages;

embedding all the initial display objects in the full size frame;

transmitting the full size frame in which the all initial display objects are embedded to the user terminal; and

acquiring, from the object storage, waiting objects with a data size, measured in bytes, equal to or smaller than a specified value, the waiting objects being at least some of a group of objects be embedded in one or more other pages located near the initial display page, the initial display page and the one or more other pages being arranged sequentially.

18. A non-transitory recording medium storing an information processing program causing a computer to:

receive a request for a full size frame from a user terminal, the full size frame being an outer frame of a web content made up of a plurality of pages arranged in a line, the pages being switchable by a scrolling operation on a web browser on the user terminal;

generate, in response to the request, the full size frame having a size of a region occupied by a plurality of objects to be displayed on the plurality of pages arranged in a line;

acquire, from an object storage, all initial display objects to be embedded in an initial display page, without acquiring all of the plurality of objects to be displayed on the plurality of pages in the full size frame, the initial display page being a page initially displayed on the user terminal among the plurality of pages;

embed all the initial display objects in the full size frame;

transmit the full size frame in which the all initial display objects are embedded to the user terminal; and

acquire, from the object storage, waiting objects with a data size, measured in bytes, equal to or smaller than a specified value, the waiting objects being at least some of a group of objects to be embedded in one or more other pages located near the initial display page, the initial display page and the one or more other pages being arranged sequentially.