SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING A TAILORED USER INTERFACE ASSOCIATED WITH A WEB PAGE

• US 20120311470A1
• Filed: 05/31/2011
• Published: 12/06/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 05/31/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Incorporated (Verizon Communications Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Incorporated (Verizon Communications Inc.)
• Inventors: Roberts, Brian F., Stettner, Armando P.
• Granted Patent: US 9,400,850 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/763
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/972 Access to data in other repository systems, e.g. legacy data or dynamic Web page generation
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/42204 User interfaces specially adapted for controlling a client device through a remote control device; Remote control devices therefor constructive details of casings for the remote control device H01H9/0235; user interfaces for controlling a tuning device of a television receiver through a remote control H03J9/00; remote control of peripheral devices connected to a television receiver through the remote control device of the television receiver H04B1/205
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/42218 for mapping a matrix of displayed objects on the screen to the numerical key-matrix of the remote control
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4782 Web browsing , e.g. WebTV

Abstract

Exemplary systems and methods for providing a tailored user interface associated with a web page are disclosed. An exemplary method includes a user interface computing system identifying, from computing code representative of a web page and based on a predefined element selection heuristic, one or more select elements of the web page and generating a user interface including data representative of the one or more select elements for display on a display screen, the user interface having a presentation scheme that is different from a presentation scheme of the web page and that is tailored to facilitate interaction with the data representative of the one or more select elements by a user utilizing a set of user inputs. Corresponding systems and methods are also disclosed.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

identifying, by a user interface computing system from computing code representative of a web page and based on a predefined element selection heuristic, one or more select elements of the web page; and

generating, by the user interface computing system, a user interface including data representative of the one or more select elements for display on a display screen, the user interface having a presentation scheme that is different from a presentation scheme of the web page and that is tailored to facilitate interaction with the data representative of the one or more select elements by a user utilizing a set of user inputs.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the set of user inputs comprises a direction pad set of user inputs.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the direction pad set of user inputs comprises a plurality of directional arrow buttons and a selection button implemented on a user input device.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the set of user inputs is provided by a remote control device configured for use by the user to provide input to a content access device.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the one or more select elements comprise a subset of elements of the web page.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the tailored user interface does not include at least one structural, appearance, or style property of the web page.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the data representative of the one or more select elements included in the tailored user interface comprises at least one of graphical and functional copies of the one or more select elements of the web page.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the data representative of the one or more select elements included in the tailored user interface comprises a menu of one or more shortcuts to content associated with the one or more select elements of the web page.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the content comprises at least one of media content and one or more other web pages.

10. The method of claim 8, further comprising:

detecting, by the user interface computing system, a user selection of a shortcut included in the menu of shortcuts; and

accessing, by the user interface computing system in response to the user selection, content associated with an element within the select elements of the web page, the selected shortcut associated with the element within the select elements of the web page.

11. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

providing, by the user interface computing system, the web page to a display device for display on a display screen; and

providing, by the user interface computing system, the tailored user interface to the display device for display together with the web page on the display screen.

12. The method of claim 1, wherein the tailored user interface graphically indicates the set of user inputs.

13. The method of claim 1, wherein the computing code representative of the web page comprises markup language code.

14. The method of claim 1, wherein the identifying comprises:

parsing the computing code representative of the web page to detect elements of the web page; and

selecting, from the detected elements of the web page and based on the predefined element selection heuristic, the one or more select elements of the web page for inclusion in the tailored user interface.

15. The method of claim 1, wherein the predefined element selection heuristic specifies one or more conditions to be used by the user interface computing system to identify the one or more select elements from elements of the web page.

16. The method of claim 15, wherein the one or more conditions specify one or more types of web page elements to be selected by the user interface computing system for inclusion in the tailored user interface.

17. The method of claim 16, wherein the one or more types of web page elements comprise at least one of interactive elements, navigational elements, and media content link elements.

18. The method of claim 1, embodied as computer-executable instructions on at least one non-transitory computer-readable medium.

19. A method comprising:

accessing, by a user interface computing system, computing code representative of a display page;

parsing, by the user interface computing system, the computing code representative of the display page to detect elements of the display page;

selecting, by the user interface computing system from the detected elements of the display page, one or more select elements of the display page;

generating, by the user interface computing system, a user interface including data representative of the one or more select elements, the user interface having a presentation scheme that is different from a presentation scheme of the display page and that is tailored to facilitate interaction with the data representative of the one or more select elements by a user utilizing a set of user inputs;

providing, by the user interface computing system, the tailored user interface to a display device for display on a display screen;

detecting, by the user interface computing system, a user interaction with the data representative of the one or more select elements included in the tailored user interface; and

accessing, by the user interface computing system in response to the user interaction, content associated with an element included in the one or more select elements of the display page.

20. The method of claim 19, wherein the display page comprises a web page.

21. The method of claim 19, wherein the tailored user interface does not include at least one structural, appearance, or style property of the display page.

22. The method of claim 19, embodied as computer-executable instructions on at least one non-transitory computer-readable medium.

23. A system comprising:

an element selection facility configured to identify, from computing code representative of a web page and based on a predefined element selection heuristic, one or more select elements of the web page; and

a user interface facility communicatively coupled to the element selection facility and configured to generate a user interface including data representative of the one or more select elements for display on a display screen, the user interface having a presentation scheme that is different from a presentation scheme of the web page and that is tailored to facilitate interaction with the data representative of the one or more select elements by a user utilizing a set of user inputs.