Mobile communication terminal and associated methods

• US 20060262136A1
• Filed: 10/12/2005
• Published: 11/23/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 05/23/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy (Nokia Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy (Nokia Corporation)
• Inventors: Vaisanen, Matti
• Granted Patent: US 9,448,711 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/619
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9577 Optimising the visualization of content, e.g. distillation of HTML documents
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0485 Scrolling or panning
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/00 Arrangements for program control, e.g. control units program control for peripheral devices G06F13/10

Abstract

It is disclosed a method for displaying previously visited hypermedia pages in a hypermedia browser application executing on a mobile communication terminal comprising a display. The method comprises the steps of: rendering a first hypermedia page on said display, accepting a first input to modify rendering of said first hypermedia page according to a first content display mode, rendering said first hypermedia page according to said first content display mode, accepting a second input to render a second hypermedia page, rendering a second hypermedia page, accepting a third input to again render said first hypermedia page, and rendering said first hypermedia page according to said first content display mode.

Claims

1. A method for displaying previously visited:

hypermedia pages in a hypermedia browser application executing on a mobile communication terminal comprising a display, the method comprising the steps of;

rendering a first hypermedia page on said display,

accepting a first input to modify rendering of said first hypermedia page according to a first content display mode,

rendering said first hypermedia page according to said first content display mode,

accepting a second input to render a second hypermedia page,

rendering a second hypermedia page,

accepting a third input to again render said first hypermedia page, and

rendering said first hypermedia page according to said first content display mode.

2. A method according to claim 1, wherein said content display mode includes a zoom factor.

3. A method according to claim 1, wherein said content display mode includes a frame display mode.

4. A method according to claim 1, wherein said content display mode includes a mode when a text of said first hypermedia page is selected.

5. A method according to claim 1, wherein said content display mode includes a page layout mode.

6. A method according to claim 1, wherein said step of rendering a second hypermedia page involves rendering said second hypermedia page according to said first content display mode.

7. A method according to claim 1, wherein said method includes the further steps, after said step of rendering a second hypermedia page, and before said step of accepting a third input, of:

accepting a fourth input to modify rendering of said second hypermedia page according to a second new content display mode, and

rendering said second hypermedia page according to said second new content display mode.

8. A method according to claim 1, wherein said third input is an input to navigate back through browser history.

9. A method according to claim 1, wherein said third input is an input to navigate forward through browser history.

10. A method according to claim 1, wherein said hypermedia pages represent at least one type of content selected from the group consisting of:

html content, wml content, sgml content and xml content.

12. A computer program product, directly loadable into a memory of a digital computer, comprising software code portions for performing a method according to claim 1.

11. A mobile communication terminal capable of executing a hypermedia browser application, said hypermedia browser application rendering hypermedia pages on a display of said mobile communication terminal, said mobile communication terminal comprising:

means for rendering a first hypermedia page on said display,

means for accepting a first input to modify rendering of said first hypermedia page according to a first content display mode,

means for rendering said first hypermedia page according to said first content display mode,

means accepting a second input to render a second hypermedia page,

means for rendering a second hypermedia page,

means for accepting a third input to again render said first hypermedia page, and

means for rendering said first hypermedia page according to said first content display mode.