Function-based Object Model for Web Page Display in a Mobile Device

• US 20090125800A1
• Filed: 10/30/2008
• Published: 05/14/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 06/24/2002
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Ma, Wei-Ying, Chen, Jin-Lin
• Application Number:
  US12/262,105
• Publication Number:
  US 20090125800A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/234
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9577 Optimising the visualization of content, e.g. distillation of HTML documents

Abstract

By understanding a website author'"'"'s intention through an analysis of the function of a website, website content can be adapted for presentation or rendering in a manner that more closely appreciates and respects the function behind the website. A website'"'"'s function is analyzed so that its content can be adapted to different client environments. A function-based object model (FOM) identifies objects associated with a website, and analyzes those objects in terms of their functions. Desktop oriented websites are adapted for mobile devices based on the FOM and on a mobile control intermediary language.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

analyzing one or more functions associated with a web page by using one or more function-based object models that represent objects comprising the web page, wherein the objects comprise;

objects of a first type that are associated with the web page, wherein the objects of a first type are configured to perform at least one of multiple different types of functions; and

objects of a second type that are associated with the web page, wherein the objects of a second type comprise a set of other objects, and wherein the objects of a second type have at least one of the functions of the objects of a first type and, in addition, a clustering function in which root children of an object of a second type are clustered in accordance with rules that reflect an author'"'"'s intention regarding root children relationships and hierarchies;

forming a hierarchical structure of the web page based on the analyzing;

paginating the web page based on the hierarchical structure;

selecting mobile controls from an intermediary language to represent the web page content; and

corresponding the mobile controls to the web page content represented by the objects.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the method further comprises grouping the mobile controls into mobile forms.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the analyzing one or more functions associated with a web page comprises generating the one or more function-based object models that represent objects comprising the webpage.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the forming a hierarchical structure of the web page comprises measuring a similarity of the objects and detecting potential similarity patterns among the objects.

5. Computer-readable storage media having computer-readable instructions thereon which, when executed by processors, cause the processors to implement the method of claim 1.

6. A method comprising:

analyzing functions associated with a web page described in a first markup language;

forming a hierarchical structure of the web page based on the analyzing;

selecting mobile controls from a second markup language for the web page content; and

describing the web page in a third markup language based on the hierarchical structure, and the mobile controls.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein forming the hierarchical structure of the web page comprises, for objects of a first type, generating at least one specific function-based object model based upon properties of the objects of a first type and properties associated with any father or brother objects.

8. The method of claim 6, wherein the forming a hierarchical structure of the web page comprises, for objects of a second type, generating at least one specific function-based object model based upon properties of the objects of a second type and associated root children.

9. The method of claim 6, wherein the forming a hierarchical structure of the web page comprises using a rule-based decision tree to ascertain a category of an object.

10. The method of claim 6, wherein the describing of the web page in a third markup language based on the hierarchical structure, and the mobile controls comprises-identifying pages in the web page based on the hierarchical structure and generating an index for the pages of the web page.

11. The method of claim 10, further comprising adapting the web page for presentation on a mobile client based on the description of the web page in the third markup language and device capabilities of the mobile client.

12. The method of claim 11, further comprising:

receiving a request for the web page from the mobile client; and

transmitting the index and the pages of the adapted web page to the mobile client.

13. Computer-readable storage media having computer-readable instructions thereon which, when executed by processors, cause the processors to implement the method of claim 6.

14. A method comprising:

detecting objects that comprise a web page;

ascertaining functional properties of the objects;

generating basic function-based object models for the objects;

generating specific function-based object models for the objects; and

adapting the web page for presentation on a mobile client based on the basic function-based object models and the specific function-based object models.

15. The method of claim 14, wherein the ascertaining functional properties of the objects comprises at least one of ascertaining functional properties of basic objects or ascertaining functional properties of composite objects.

16. The method of claim 14, wherein the generating basic function-based object models for the objects comprises at least one of generating basic function-based object models for basic objects or generating basic function-based object models for composite objects.

17. The method of claim 14, wherein the generating specific function-based object models for the objects comprises at least one of generating specific function-based object models for basic objects or specific function-based object models for composite objects.

18. The method of claim 14, wherein the basic function-based object models comprise, for each of the objects, presentation, semanteme, decoration, hyperlink, and interaction.

19. The method of claim 14, wherein the specific function-based object models comprise, for each of the objects, an object category for an object in a given application environment.

20. Computer-readable storage media having computer-readable instructions thereon which, when executed by processors, cause the processors to implement the method of claim 14.