METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MOVING WEB OBJECT BASED ON INTENT

• US 20140025725A1
• Filed: 09/21/2012
• Published: 01/23/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 07/23/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
• Original Assignee: Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
• Inventors: PARK, HYO JIN, CHOI, JUN KYUN, YANG, JIN HONG
• Granted Patent: US 9,442,687 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/203
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/954 Navigation, e.g. using categorised browsing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2209/545 Gui
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1423 controlling a plurality of local displays, e.g. CRT and flat panel display
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1454 involving copying of the display data of a local workstation or window to a remote workstation or window so that an actual copy of the data is displayed simultaneously on two or more displays, e.g. teledisplay
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/54 Interprogram communication
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2370/022 Centralised management of display operation, e.g. in a server instead of locally

Abstract

A method and apparatus for moving a web object based on an intent is provided. A primary device may identify a web object supporting movability on a loaded web page, and may determine whether the identified web object can be moved to a secondary device based on movability information of the identified web object. The primary device may re-render the web page in a web browser, aside from the web object supporting movability, while maintaining a full layout of the web page. In the movement of the web object, the primary device may push, to a push server, movement of the web object to the secondary device.

Claims

1. A method of moving a web object from a primary device, the method comprising:

loading a web page;

identifying a web object supporting movability on the loaded web page;

determining whether the identified web object can be moved to a secondary device based on movability information of the identified web object; and

transmitting a request for movement of the identified web object to the secondary device when the identified web object can be moved to the secondary device.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

registering the movability information of the identified web object and information about the primary device.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving information about a list of registered devices;

displaying the list of registered devices based on the received information about the list of registered devices; and

recognizing that the secondary device is selected from the displayed list of registered devices.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the registered devices correspond to devices in which reception of an intent for a web service running on the primary device is registered.

5. The method of claim 3, wherein each of the registered devices provided in the list of registered devices is displayed distinguishably based on whether the web object can be moved to the registered device.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the identified web object is plural,

the method further comprises:

recognizing a selected web object among a plurality of identified web objects,

wherein the transmitting comprises transmitting a request for movement of the selected web object among the plurality of identified web objects to the secondary device.

7. The method of claim 6, further comprising:

displaying each of the plurality of identified web objects distinguishably based on whether the identified web object can be moved to the secondary device.

8. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

updating the web page after the identified web object is moved.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the web object supporting movability is identified based on a movability tag representing an attribute of the web object on the web page.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the request for movement of the identified web object to the secondary device includes invoking an intent to the secondary device.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein the primary device and the secondary device correspond to N-screen devices of a web service providing the web page.

12. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

rendering the web page in a web browser; and

re-rendering the web page in the web browser, aside from the web object supporting movability, while maintaining a full layout of the web page.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein the re-rendering comprises maintaining the full layout of the web page by substituting an image for an area of the web object supporting movability.

14. The method of claim 12, wherein the re-rendering comprises:

setting the web object invisible in the web browser; and

displaying an image on an area corresponding to the web object.

15. A device comprising:

a processing unit to load a web page, to identify a web object supporting movability on the loaded web page, to determine whether the identified web object can be moved to a secondary device based on movability information of the identified web object, and to generate a request for movement of the identified web object to the secondary device when the identified web object can be moved to the secondary device; and

a transmitting/receiving unit to receive the web page and to transmit the request for movement of the identified web object to the secondary device.

16. A method of moving a web object using a push server from a primary device, the method comprising:

loading a web page;

identifying a web object supporting movability on the loaded web page;

determining whether the identified web object can be moved to a secondary device based on movability information of the identified web object;

pushing, to the push server, movement of the web object to the secondary device when the identified web object can be moved to the secondary device; and

receiving a response to the push from the push server.

17. The method of claim 16, further comprising:

receiving a request for the web page from the secondary device; and

transmitting the web page to the secondary device.

18. The method of claim 16, wherein the pushing comprises invoking, by the push server, a uniform resource locator (URL) or an application of the secondary device and receiving a response to the invocation.

19. The method of claim 18, wherein the invoking corresponds to invoking an intent provided by the secondary device.

20. The method of claim 16, wherein the primary device and the secondary device correspond to N-screen devices of a web service providing the web page.