SCALABLE DISPLAY OF INTERNET CONTENT ON MOBILE DEVICES

• US 20110231746A1
• Filed: 11/08/2010
• Published: 09/22/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 06/12/2000
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: SoftView LLC
• Original Assignee: SoftView LLC
• Inventors: Rohrabaugh, Gary B., Sherman, Scott A.
• Granted Patent: US 9,519,729 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/205
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/95 Retrieval from the web
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9537 Spatial or temporal dependent retrieval, e.g. spatiotemporal queries
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/957 Browsing optimisation, e.g. caching or content distillation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9574 of access to content, e.g. by caching
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9577 Optimising the visualization of content, e.g. distillation of HTML documents
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/958 Organisation or management of web site content, e.g. publishing, maintaining pages or automatic linking
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/986 Document structures and storage, e.g. HTML extensions
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04806 Zoom, i.e. interaction techniques or interactors for controlling the zooming operation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2212/1048 Scalability
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0481 based on specific properties of the displayed interaction object or a metaphor-based environment, e.g. interaction with desktop elements like windows or icons, or assisted by a cursor's changing behaviour or appearance
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/103 Formatting, i.e. changing of presentation of documents automatic justification G06F40/189; automatic line break hyphenation G06F40/191
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/134 Hyperlinking
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/143 Markup, e.g. Standard Generalized Markup Language [SGML] or Document Type Definition [DTD]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/451 Execution arrangements for user interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2340/0407 Resolution change, inclusive of the use of different resolutions for different screen areas
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2340/0492 Change of orientation of the displayed image, e.g. upside-down, mirrored
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/24 Generation of individual character patterns
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/04 : specially adapted for terminals or networks with limited capabilities; specially adapted for terminal portability
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/565 : Conversion or adaptation of application format or content adding application control or application functional data H04L67/561

Abstract

Mobile devices enabled to support resolution-independent scalable display of Internet (Web) content to allow Web pages to be scaled (zoomed) and panned for better viewing on smaller screen sizes. The mobile devices employ software-based processing of original Web content, including HTML-based content, XML, cascade style sheets, etc. to generate scalable content. The scalable content and/or data derived therefrom are then employed to enable the Web content to be rapidly rendered, zoomed, and panned. Display lists may also be employed to provide further enhancements in rendering speed. Context zooms, including tap-based zooms on columns, images, and paragraphs are also enabled.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

enabling a user of a mobile device having a touch-sensitive display to request access to a Web page comprising HTML-based Web content defining an original page layout, functionality, and design of content on the Web page;

retrieving and processing the HTML-based Web content to produce scalable content; and

employing the scalable content and/or data derived therefrom to,

render a view of the Web page on the touch-sensitive display; and

re-render the Web page in response to associated user inputs to enable the user to iteratively zoom in and out views of the Web page while preserving an original page layout, functionality, and design defined by the HTML-based Web content as interpreted by a rendering engine,

wherein preservation of the functionality defined by the HTML-based Web content includes preservation of hyperlink functionality.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the mobile device comprises a mobile phone.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising enabling the user to zoom in on a user-selectable portion of a display of the Web page in response to a user interface input made via the touch-sensitive display.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the display of the Web page is re-rendered in real-time to effect zooming operations.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the Web page includes at least one hyperlink, the method further comprising:

enabling the user to select a hyperlink via the touch-sensitive display; and

, in response thereto,

retrieving and processing HTML-based Web content associated with the hyperlink to produce additional scalable content; and

employing the additional scalable content and/or data derived therefrom to render the Web content associated with the hyperlink on the touch-sensitive display.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein at least a portion of the scalable content comprises scalable vector-based content.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising enabling a user to pan views of the Web page in real-time in response to corresponding user inputs made via the touch-sensitive display.

8. The method of claim 1, further comprising enabling a user to zoom on a column of the Web content by tapping on the column via the touch-sensitive display, wherein in response thereto, the display is re-rendered such that content corresponding to the selected column is displayed across the touch-sensitive display.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the Web content includes at least one image, the method further comprising enabling a user to zoom on an image by tapping on the image via the touch-sensitive display, wherein in response thereto, the display is re-rendered such that the image is displayed to fit a width of a display area of the touch-sensitive display used for displaying Web page content.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the scalable content includes scalable text content, and wherein execution of the instructions performs further operations comprising scaling a scalable font to render the scalable text content.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein the original format of the Web page defines a width for the Web page, the method further comprising:

employing the rendering engine to interpret a width of the Web page; and

rendering a view of the Web page wherein the width of the Web page is rendered to fit across a width of a display area on the touchscreen display used for displaying Web page content.

12. The method of claim 1, wherein the method enables the user to access user-selected Web pages from among billions of Web pages available via the World Wide Web while preserving an original page layout, hyperlink functionality, and design defined by the HTML-based Web content as interpreted by a rendering engine for each of the user-selected Web pages.