WEB PAGE CONVERSION SYSTEM

• US 20110145695A1
• Filed: 11/23/2010
• Published: 06/16/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 12/11/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Fujifilm Corporation (Fujifilm Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Fujifilm Corporation (Fujifilm Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: MATSUI, Yuko
• Application Number:
  US12/952,858
• Publication Number:
  US 20110145695A1
• 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

Efficiency of user operation is improved. To achieve this, a web page conforming to a request from a mobile telephone is converted to a web page image represented as one frame of an image. An image file representing the web page image is transmitted to the mobile telephone. Displayed on the display screen of the mobile telephone are image portions displayed in accordance with a sequence in which the user of the web page image applies commands. The user is capable of applying commands in regular order without moving the image in order to display a desired image portion on the display screen.

Claims

1. A web page conversion system comprising a web page data conversion server and a mobile telephone having a display device, wherein said web page data conversion server includes:

a web page request receiving device for receiving a web page request transmitted from the mobile telephone;

a web page request transmitting device for transmitting the web page request, which has been received by said web page request receiving device, to a web page server storing web page content representing a web page requested by this web page request and including a plurality of user interface areas that accept commands from the user of said mobile telephone;

a web page content receiving device for receiving the web page content transmitted from said web page server in response to transmission of the web page request to said web server by said web page request transmitting device;

a web page image generating device for generating one frame of a web page image from the web page content received by said web page content receiving device;

a first user interface area deciding device for deciding, from among the plurality of user interface areas included in the web page image generated by said web page image generating device, and based upon a command sequence history of commands that have been applied to the plurality of user interface areas, a user interface area expected to be one to which the user of said mobile telephone will apply a command; and

a first transmitting device for transmitting first user interface area specifying data, which specifies the user interface area decided by said first user interface area deciding device, and a web page image file representing the web page image generated by said web page image generating device, to said mobile telephone; and

said mobile telephone includes;

a display control device, responsive to receipt of the first user interface area specifying data and web page image file transmitted from said first transmitting device of said web page data conversion server, for controlling the display unit in such a manner that an image portion, from within the web page image represented by the web page image file and which includes a user interface area specified by the first user interface area specifying data, is displayed on a display screen;

a command device for applying a command to any user interface area among the plurality of user interface areas included in the web page image; and

a second transmitting device for transmitting second user interface area specifying data, which specifies the user interface area to which the command has been applied by said command device, and data representing command contents of the command applied by said command device, to said web page data conversion server.

2. The system according to claim 1, wherein said web page conversion server further includes an updating device for updating the command sequence history using a command to a user interface area represented by the second user interface area specifying data transmitted from said second transmitting device of said mobile telephone;

and

in response to receipt of the data representing the command contents of the command transmitted from said second transmitting device of said mobile telephone, said web page image generating device generates a web page image that reflects the command contents represented by the data representing the command contents.

3. A web page conversion server comprising:

a web page request receiving device for receiving a web page request transmitted from a mobile telephone;

a web page request transmitting device for transmitting the web page request, which has been received by said web page request receiving device, to a web page server storing web page content representing a web page requested by this web page request and including a plurality of user interface areas that accept commands from the user of the mobile telephone;

a web page content receiving device for receiving the web page content transmitted from said web page server in response to transmission of the web page request to said web page server by said web page request transmitting device;

a web page image generating device for generating one frame of a web page image from the web page content received by said web page content receiving device;

a user interface area deciding device for deciding, from among the plurality of user interface areas included in the web page image generated by said web page image generating device, and based upon a command sequence history of commands that have been applied to the plurality of user interface areas, a user interface area expected to be one to which the user of the mobile telephone will apply a command; and

a transmitting device for transmitting user interface area specifying data, which specifies the user interface area decided by said user interface area deciding device, and a web page image file representing the web page image generated by said web page image generating device, to the mobile telephone.

4. A method of controlling operation of a web page conversion server, comprising the steps of:

receiving a web page request transmitted from a mobile telephone;

transmitting the received web page request to a web page server storing web page content representing a web page requested by this web page request and including a plurality of user interface areas that accept commands from the user of the mobile telephone;

receiving the web page content transmitted from the web page server in response to transmission of the web page request to the web server;

generating one frame of a web page image from the received web page content;

deciding, from among the plurality of user interface areas included in the generated web page image, and based upon a command sequence history of commands that have been applied to the plurality of user interface areas, a user interface area expected to be one to which the user of the mobile telephone will apply a command; and

transmitting user interface area specifying data, which specifies the decided user interface area, and a web page image file representing the generated web page image, to the mobile telephone.

5. A recording medium storing a computer-readable program for controlling operation of a web page conversion server so as to:

receive a web page request transmitted from a mobile telephone;

transmit the received web page request to a web page server storing web page content representing a web page requested by this web page request and including a plurality of user interface areas that accept commands from the user of the mobile telephone;

receive the web page content transmitted from the web page server in response to transmission of the web page request to the web server;

generate one frame of a web page image from the received web page content;

decide, from among the plurality of user interface areas included in the generated web page image, and based upon a command sequence history of commands that have been applied to the plurality of user interface areas, a user interface area expected to be one to which the user of the mobile telephone will apply a command; and

transmit user interface area specifying data, which specifies the decided user interface area, and a web page image file representing the generated web page image, to the mobile telephone.