Changing Icons for a Web Page

• US 20150193117A1
• Filed: 01/06/2012
• Published: 07/09/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 02/08/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Google LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Google Inc. (Alphabet Inc.)
• Inventors: Nicolaou, Alexander, Lider, Brett R., Tulchinsky, Ilia, Ahmed, Istiaque, Stanger, Keith A.
• Granted Patent: US 9,250,765 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9562 Bookmark management
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04817 using icons graphical or visual programming using iconic symbols G06F8/34

Abstract

In general, the subject matter described in this disclosure can be embodied in methods, systems, and program products for changing a reference to a bookmark icon. The method includes receiving resources that include an HTML document and computer program script code. The HTML document does not include a reference to a bookmark icon. The method includes determining that the computing device has loaded the web page and, in response, adding, in a representation of the HTML document, a reference to a first bookmark icon. The method includes receiving a request to change a display of the web page from a first screen to a second screen, without requesting additional resources over the network. The method includes removing the reference to the first bookmark icon in the representation of the web page, and adding a reference to a second bookmark icon in the representation of the web page.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method for changing a reference to a bookmark icon, the method comprising:

requesting, by a computing device and over a network, resources that correspond to a first network address;

receiving, by the computing device and from a server system, the resources, wherein the resources include an HTML document and computer program script code, and wherein the HTML document does not include a reference to a bookmark icon that causes a web browser, upon receiving a request to bookmark a web page generated from the HTML document, to generate a bookmark that uses the bookmark icon in a visual appearance of the bookmark;

processing, by the computing device, the resources to load the web page;

determining, by the computing device, that the computing device has loaded the web page and, in response, adding, in a representation of the HTML document, a reference to a first bookmark icon;

receiving, by the computing device, a request to change a display of the web page from a first screen to a second screen, wherein changing the display of the web page from the first screen to the second screen is performed without requesting additional resources over the network; and

removing, by the computing device and in response to receiving the request to change the display, the reference to the first bookmark icon in the representation of the web page, and adding, in response to receiving the request to change the display, a reference to a second bookmark icon in the representation of the web page.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising

receiving, by the computing device, a request to bookmark the web page and, in response, (i) identifying, in the representation of the HTML file, the reference to the second bookmark icon, and (ii) identifying an address for the second screen of the web page, wherein the address for the second screen of the web page includes the first network address;

and

generating, by the computing device, a generated bookmark that;

(iii) uses the second bookmark icon in a visual display of the generated bookmark, and (iv) designates the address for the second screen of the web page.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the computing device does not display the first bookmark icon before the computing device receives the request to bookmark the web page, and does not display the second bookmark icon before the computing device receives the request to bookmark the web page.

4. The method of claim 3, further comprising:

displaying, by the computing device and accompanying the display of the first screen, a first website icon, wherein the first website icon is different than the first bookmark icon; and

displaying, by the computing device and accompanying the display of the second screen, a second website icon, wherein the second website icon is different than the second bookmark icon.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the first website icon is displayed by the computing device in close proximity to an address bar that displays the first network address for the first screen.

6. The method of claim 2, further comprising requesting, by the computing device and over the network, the second bookmark icon in response to identifying the reference to the second bookmark.

7. The method of claim 2, wherein the address for the second screen of the web page includes the first network address and a second hash fragment, and wherein the address for the first screen of the web page includes the first network address and a first hash fragment.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the computer program script code that is received from the server system includes code that causes a web browser at the computing device to perform:

(i) the adding the reference to the first bookmark icon,

(ii) the removing the reference to the first bookmark icon, and (iii) the adding the reference to the second bookmark icon.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the reference to the first bookmark icon is included within a “

<

link>

”

tag, and wherein the reference to the second bookmark icon is included within a “

<

link>

”

tag.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein neither of the first bookmark icon and the second bookmark icon are named any of “

apple-touch-icon.png”

or “

apple-touch-icon-precomposed.png”

.

11. The method of claim 9, wherein the “

<

link>

”

tag includes a rel attribute that specifies that the link tag designates a bookmark icon.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the rel attribute specifies “

apple-touch-icon”

as a value.

14. The computer-readable storage device of claim 11, wherein the representation of the HTML file did not include any reference to a bookmark icon before the reference to the first bookmark icon was added in the representation of the HTML file.

13. A computer-readable storage device storing a computer scripting program, that when executed by a web browser application program that is executing by a processor, performs operations comprising:

adding, after the web browser determines that a web page that is generated using an HTML file has been loaded by the web browser, a reference to a first bookmark icon in a representation of the HTML file;

determining that user input, to change a display of the web page from a first screen to a second screen without requesting additional resources over a network, has been received;

removing, in response to determining that the user input has been received, the reference in the representation of the HTML file to the first bookmark icon; and

adding, in response to determining that the user input has been received, a reference in the representation of the HTML file to a second bookmark icon.

15. A computerized system comprising:

a web page requester, at a computing device, to receive a user-initiated request for a web page and, in response, to request resources that correspond to the web page over a network;

a web page loader, at the computing device, to receive the resources over the network and from a server system, and to load the web page using the resources;

a screen change determiner, at the computing device, to determine that a user has requested a change from a display of a current screen of the web page to a display of a new screen of the web page, wherein the current screen and the new screen can be generated by the web page loader using the resources without the web page requester requesting additional resources over the network; and

an icon changer, at the computing device, to;

modify a data structure that is generated from the resources to;

(i) add to the data structure a designation of an icon that corresponds to the current screen if the data structure does not include any designation of an icon that is used in a visual representation of a bookmark when the current screen is bookmarked, and (ii) add in the data structure a designation of an icon that corresponds to the new screen in response to the screen change determiner determining that the user requested the change to the display of the new screen.

16. The system of claim 15, adding the designation of the icon that corresponds to the new screen includes overwriting the designation of the icon that corresponds to the current screen.

17. The system of claim 15, wherein the web page loader determining that the user has requested a change from the display of the current screen to the new screen includes periodically determining whether a network address of the web page has changed.

18. The system of claim 17, wherein the determining whether the network address has changed includes determining that a hash fragment in the network address has changed.

19. The system of claim 15, wherein the web page loader, in response to determining that the user has requested a change from the display of the current screen to the new screen, further changes the display of the web page from the current screen to the new screen.

20. The system of claim 19, wherein the web page loader, in response to determining that the user has requested a change from the display of the current screen to the new screen, changes content of a network address of the web page by changing a hash fragment portion of the network address and not changing a remaining portion of the network address.