Method and Apparatus for Hardware Controlled Intelligent Web Content Navigation System

• US 20090119620A1
• Filed: 11/06/2007
• Published: 05/07/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 11/06/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Jain, Ashish, Chakravarty, Payal
• Application Number:
  US11/935,937
• Publication Number:
  US 20090119620A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/854
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/957 Browsing optimisation, e.g. caching or content distillation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/986 Document structures and storage, e.g. HTML extensions
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/038 Control and interface arrangements therefor, e.g. drivers or device-embedded control circuitry

Abstract

A navigational plug-in (NP) for the web browser identifies a web page by uniform resource locator address and parses the web page for a navigational control. The NP then maps a new and additional controller to the navigational control so that the user has the option of a single operation to activate the navigational control. Examples of a single operation are an exclusive key on the mouse or a specific key combination on the keyboard.

Claims

1. A computer implemented process for modifying a control device, the computer implemented process comprising:

loading a navigational program into a memory connected to a computer, the navigational program containing instructions encoded thereon, to cause the computer to perform the following steps;

responsive to display of a web page on a display connected to the computer, detecting a navigational control on the web page;

responsive to detecting the navigational control, mapping a user configured controller to the navigational control so that the navigational control can be activated by a single operation.

2. The computer implemented process of claim 1 wherein the control device is a mouse and the single operation is an activation of an exclusive key on the mouse.

3. The computer implemented process of claim 1 wherein the control device is a keyboard and the single operation is an activation of a specific key combination on the keyboard.

4. The computer implemented process of claim 1 further comprising specifying website specific detection strings from a detection string file so that controls on the web page in an alternate format will be detected.

5. The computer implemented process of claim 1 wherein the step of detecting the navigational control on the web page further comprises using a standardized specification of a selected control so that the navigational control can be parsed by any hypertext markup language parsing user agent.

6. The computer implemented process of claim 1 further comprising:

identifying a web page by comparing the web page uniform resource locator address to an address list in a configuration file, and only mapping a controller to a control if the web page uniform resource locator address matches one of the addresses in the address list.

7. An apparatus comprising:

A computer connected to a memory;

a navigational program encoded in the memory, the navigational program containing instructions encoded thereon, to cause the computer to display a web page on a display connected to the computer, detect a navigational control on the web page, and responsive to detecting the navigational control, mapping a user-configured controller to the navigational control so that the navigational control can be activated by a single operation.

8. The apparatus of claim 7 wherein the control device is a mouse and the single operation is an activation of an exclusive key on the mouse.

9. The apparatus of claim 7 wherein the control device is a keyboard and the single operation is an activation of a specific key combination on the keyboard.

10. The apparatus of claim 7 further comprising specifying website specific detection strings from a detection string file so that controls on the web page in an alternate format will be detected.

11. The apparatus claim 7 further comprising a standardized specification of a selected control so that the navigational control can be parsed by any hypertext markup language parsing user agent.

12. The apparatus of claim 7 wherein the computer is further caused to compare the web page uniform resource locator address to an address list in a configuration file, and only map a controller to a control if the web page uniform resource locator address matches one of the addresses in the address list.

13. A computer readable memory for causing a computer to modify activation of web page navigational controls, comprising:

a computer readable storage medium;

a computer program stored in the computer readable storage medium;

the computer readable storage medium, so configured by the computer program, causes the computer to perform the following steps;

responsive to display of a web page on a display connected to the computer, detecting a navigational control on the web page;

responsive to detecting the navigational control, mapping a user configured controller to the navigational control so that the navigational control can be activated by a single operation.

14. The computer readable memory of claim 13 wherein the control device is a mouse and the single operation is an activation of an exclusive key on the mouse.

15. The computer readable memory of claim 13 wherein the control device is a keyboard and the single operation is an activation of a specific key combination on the keyboard.

16. The computer readable memory of claim 13 further comprising:

website specific detection strings from a detection string file so that controls on the web page in an alternate format will be detected.

17. The computer readable memory of claim 13 wherein the step of detecting the navigational control on the web page further comprises using a standardized specification of a selected control so that the navigational control can be parsed by any hypertext markup language parsing user agent.

18. The computer readable memory of claim 13 further comprising:

identifying a web page by comparing the web page uniform resource locator address to an address list in a configuration file, and only mapping a controller to a control if the web page uniform resource locator address matches one of the addresses in the address list.