MOBILE DEVICE USER INTERFACE FOR REMOTE INTERACTION

• US 20080184128A1
• Filed: 01/25/2008
• Published: 07/31/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 01/25/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Otello Corp. ASA
• Original Assignee: Otello Corp. ASA
• Inventors: Duong, Dan, Vincent, Alexander James, Swenson, Erik R., Bhandari, Nitin
• Application Number:
  US12/020,472
• Publication Number:
  US 20080184128A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/738
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2340/0407 Resolution change, inclusive of the use of different resolutions for different screen areas
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2340/06 Colour space transformation
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2340/145 related to small screens
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2370/022 Centralised management of display operation, e.g. in a server instead of locally
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2370/042 for monitor identification
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2370/10 Use of a protocol of communication by packets in interfaces along the display data pipeline
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/14 Display of multiple viewports
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 19/107 between spatial and temporal predictive coding, e.g. picture refresh
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 19/15 by monitoring actual compressed data size at the memory before deciding storage at the transmission buffer
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 19/156 Availability of hardware or computational resources, e.g. encoding based on power-saving criteria
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 19/164 Feedback from the receiver or from the transmission channel
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 19/167 Position within a video image, e.g. region of interest [ROI]
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 19/172 the region being a picture, frame or field
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 19/59 involving spatial sub-sampling or interpolation, e.g. alteration of picture size or resolution
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 19/87 involving scene cut or scene change detection in combination with video compression
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/234336 by media transcoding, e.g. video is transformed into a slideshow of still pictures or audio is converted into text
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/41407 embedded in a portable device, e.g. video client on a mobile phone, PDA, laptop constructional details of equipment or arrangements specially adapted for portable computer application G06F1/1626; arrangements specially adapted for mobile receivers in broadcast systems H04H20/57
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4782 Web browsing , e.g. WebTV
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/816 involving special video data, e.g 3D video
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8451 using Advanced Video Coding [AVC]

Abstract

Systems and methods pertaining to displaying a web browsing session are disclosed. In one embodiment, a system includes a web browsing engine residing on a first device, with a viewing application residing on a second device and operatively coupled to the web browsing engine, where the viewing application is adapted to display a portion of a webpage rendered by the web browsing engine and an overlay graphical component. In the same embodiment, the system also includes a recognition engine adapted to identify an element on the webpage and communicate information regarding the element to the viewing application.

Claims

1. A system for displaying a web browsing session, the system comprising:

a web browsing engine residing on a first device;

a viewing application residing on a second device and operatively coupled to the web browsing engine, the viewing application adapted to display a portion of a webpage rendered by the web browsing engine and an overlay graphical component; and

a recognition engine adapted to identify an element on the webpage and communicate information regarding the element to the viewing application.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the recognition engine is further adapted to communicate information regarding the element to the viewing application responsive to the viewing application passing user input to the recognition engine.

3. The system of claim 2, wherein the user input comprises a selection of a location on the webpage displayed on the second device, the location corresponding to the element'"'"'s location on the webpage.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the recognition engine is further adapted to communicate information regarding the element to the viewing application with the portion of the webpage.

5. The system of claim 1, further comprising:

a state manager engine operatively coupled to the viewing application and the web browsing engine, the state manager engine adapted to synchronize user input displaying locally on the viewing application with user input transferred to the web browsing engine.

6. The system of claim 1, further comprising:

a plurality of overlay graphical components corresponding to a plurality of elements on the webpage.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein the overlay graphical component comprises a cursor icon, the viewing application further adapted to transform the cursor icon, based on the information communicated regarding the element, while the cursor icon overlays the element.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein the element comprises a radio button and the overlay graphical component comprises an overlay radio button, the viewing application further adapted to transform the overlay radio button upon a user selection and communicate selection of the radio button element to the web browsing engine.

9. The system of claim 1, wherein the element comprises a drop-down menu and the overlay graphical component comprises an overlay drop-down menu, the viewing application further adapted to expand the overlay drop-down menu upon a user selection and communicate user selection of a menu option to the web browsing engine.

10. The system of claim 1, wherein the element comprises a textbox and the overlay graphical component comprises an overlay textbox, the viewing application further adapted to fill in the overlay textbox based on user input and communicate the overlay textbox user input to the web browsing engine.

11. The system of claim 1, wherein the recognition engine is further adapted to identify elements based on underlying code of the webpage.

12. The system of claim 1, wherein the viewing application is further adapted to display a user interface accompanying the portion of the webpage.

13. The system of claim 1, wherein the viewing application is further adapted to switch from the portion of the webpage to a full screen view of a video embedded in the webpage.

14. The system of claim 13, wherein the viewing application is further adapted to display a video-control user interface accompanying the video.

15. A method for displaying a web browsing session, the method comprising:

rendering a portion of a webpage, the rendering performed by a web browsing engine residing on a first device;

recognizing an element on the webpage and communicating information regarding the element to a viewing application, the recognizing performed by a recognition engine, the viewing application residing on a second device; and

displaying the portion of the webpage and an overlay graphical component via the viewing application.

16. The method of claim 15, wherein the communicating information regarding the element to the viewing application is responsive to the viewing application passing user input to the recognition engine, the user input comprising a selection of a location on the webpage displayed on the second device and the location corresponding to the element'"'"'s location on the webpage.

17. The method of claim 15, further comprising:

communicating information regarding the element to the viewing application with the portion of the webpage.

18. The method of claim 15, further comprising:

synchronizing user input displaying locally on the viewing application with user input transferred to the web browsing engine.

19. The method of claim 15, further comprising:

a plurality of overlay graphical components corresponding to a plurality of elements on the webpage.

20. The method of claim 15, wherein the overlay graphical component comprises a cursor icon, the method further comprising:

transforming the cursor icon, based on the information communicated regarding the element, while the cursor icon overlays the element.

21. The method of claim 15, wherein the element comprises a radio button and the overlay graphical component comprises an overlay radio button, the method further comprising:

transforming the overlay radio button upon a user selection; and

communicating selection of the radio button element to the web browsing engine.

22. The method of claim 15, wherein the element comprises a drop-down menu and the overlay graphical component comprises an overlay drop-down menu, the method further comprising:

receiving an initial state of the drop-down menu, including items listed;

expanding the overlay drop-down menu upon a user selection; and

communicating user selection of a menu option to the web browsing engine.

23. The method of claim 15, wherein the element comprises a textbox and the overlay graphical component comprises an overlay textbox, the method further comprising:

receiving an initial state of the textbox, including initial text;

filling in the overlay textbox based on user input; and

communicating the overlay textbox user input to the web browsing engine.

24. The method of claim 15, further comprising:

displaying a user interface accompanying the portion of the webpage.

25. The method of claim 15, further comprising:

switching from the portion of the webpage to a full screen view of a video embedded in the webpage, the switching performed by the viewing application.