Stopping a slow download of internally included objects in a downloaded HTML page on a web client

• US 20020194296A1
• Filed: 06/14/2001
• Published: 12/19/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 06/14/2001
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Dutta, Rabindranath, Patel, Kamal Chandrakant
• Application Number:
  US09/881,924
• Publication Number:
  US 20020194296A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/217
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/75 Indicating network or usage conditions on the user display
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/329 in the application layer [OSI layer 7]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/40 Network security protocols

Abstract

The system, method and program of the invention enhances the stop button on a Web page to enable a user to specifically select which included objects the user desires to stop downloading. More specifically, if during the downloading of a Web page a user determines that the page is not loaded fully, the user enables the stop button (e.g., clicks on the stop button using a right mouse button). A popup window appears showing an identification of the included objects and a percentage amount that each object is loaded. The user has an option to select from among the identified objects. In response to a selection, the downloading of a selected object will be stopped.

Claims

1. A method for stopping the download of an object included within a requested page being downloaded by an application program running on a computer system, the method comprising:

generating a displayable list of each object being downloaded within the requested page in response to a selectable item within the user interface of the application program;

enabling at least one object within the displayable list to be selectable; and

stopping the download of a given object depending upon a selected status of the given object.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein the selectable item is a stop button within the user interface for stopping the download of objects included within the requested page.

3. The method of claim 1 wherein the selected status is a state of being selected.

4. The method of claim 1 wherein the selected status is an unselected state.

5. The method of claim 3 further comprising rendering the requested page without each selected object.

6. The method of claim 3 further comprising rendering the requested page with only those unselected objects included in the rendering of the page.

7. The method of claim 1 wherein the displayable list further comprises an indication of an amount that each at least one object is downloaded.

8. An application program, on a computer usable medium having computer readable program code means for getting data from a remote computer system over a network and rendering the data on a local computer system running the application program, comprising:

program code means for generating a user interface having a stop button which inhibits the application program from continuing to get at least one included object within a requested page of data;

program code means for generating a displayable selectable list, via the user interface, of at least one object included within the requested page in response to a selection of the stop button; and

program code means for stopping the download of a given object within the list depending upon a selected status of the given object.

9. A computer system running an application program having means for retrieving a requested page of data from at least one remote computer system communicatively connected over a network and rendering the retrieved data on a display of the computer system, the computer system comprising:

means for generating a displayable list of each object being downloaded within the requested page in response to a selectable item within the user interface of the application program;

means for enabling at least one object within the displayable list to be selectable; and

means for stopping the download of a given object depending upon a selected status of the given object.

10. The computer system of claim 9 wherein the displayable list comprises an indication of an amount that each of the at least one object is currently downloaded.