VISUAL PRESENTATION OF MULTIPLE INTERNET PAGES

• US 20130191709A1
• Filed: 12/28/2012
• Published: 07/25/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 09/30/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Apple Inc.
• Original Assignee: Apple Inc.
• Inventors: Decker, Kevin, Sullivan, John William
• Granted Patent: US 10,296,175 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/205
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0483 Interaction with page-structured environments, e.g. book metaphor

Abstract

A novel method for graphically organizing and displaying multiple pages of internet content based on how the page was accessed. Pages are determined to be indirectly accessed if they were accessed via a hypertext link or a trail of hypertext links. Pages are determined to be directly accessed if accessed via other means, such as a bookmark or via Uniform Resource Locator (URL). Page groupings are created for each directly accessed page, and each indirectly accessed page is categorized into a grouping associated with a directly accessed page containing a link through which the indirectly accessed page was accessed. The web pages are presented to the user in an interface that is a graphical representation of the page groupings, wherein a user selects a page to view by first selecting the page'"'"'s page grouping and then selecting the page.

Claims

1. A method for displaying multiple pages of internet content comprising:

determining for each of the multiple pages whether a page was accessed indirectly, if accessed via a hypertext link or a trail of hypertext links, or directly, if accessed in a manner other than via a hypertext link or trail of hypertext links;

creating a separate page grouping for each page determined to have been accessed directly;

categorizing each indirectly accessed page into a page grouping associated with a directly accessed page through which the indirectly accessed page was requested via the hypertext link or trail of hypertext links;

presenting, through a graphical user interface (GUI), the user with a visual representation of the page groupings and the pages contained in a page grouping having a selected status;

transitioning the selected status from one page grouping to another page grouping within the GUI in response to user input; and

enabling the user to select a page to view from the selected page grouping within the GUI.