Webpage presentation method for mobile phone

• US 8,230,334 B2
• Filed: 06/29/2007
• Issued: 07/24/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 02/21/2007
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Park, Sang Min, Kim, Sang Heon
• Primary Examiner(s): Hong, Stephen
• Assistant Examiner(s): Vaughn, Gregory J
• Application Number:
  US11/824,130
• Publication Number:
  US 20080201666A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,852 Days
• Field of Search: 715/200, 715/243, 715/244, 715/247, 715/252
• US Class Current: 715/252
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9577 Optimising the visualization of content, e.g. distillation of HTML documents

Abstract

A webpage presentation method for a mobile phone having a limited screen size is provided for efficiently presenting webpages. A webpage presentation of the present invention includes presenting a preset number of webpages including a current and previously visited webpages on a display screen in response to a zoom-out command input during a web browsing session, thereby facilitating search for interested information and improving usability of web browsing function of a handheld device.

Claims

1. A webpage presentation method for a mobile phone, comprising:

sequentially presenting at least one of a preset-number of webpages, including a current webpage and at least one previously visited webpage, on a display screen, wherein a number of previously visited webpages that are displayed is determined in accordance with a number of executions of a zoom-out command input during a web browsing mode, said webpages being presented in a same reduced size format, wherein said webpage are presented in a temporal order of visitation;

selected an area in one of the presented at least one of said a preset number of webpages; and

presenting the selected area in a full screen view.

2. The webpage presentation method of claim 1, wherein presenting the preset number of webpages comprises:

determining whether a zoom-out command is input while navigating on a webpage;

presenting, if a zoom-out command is input, the current webpage in a reduced size format;

determining whether the zoom-out command is input again while presenting the current webpage;

determining, if the zoom-out command is input again, repeatedly whether at least one previously visited webpage exists; and

presenting, if at least one previously visited webpage exists, the previously visited webpage with the current webpage in the reduced size format.

3. The webpage presentation method of claim 2, wherein presenting the selected area in a full screen view comprises

moving a pointer on the selected area;

determining whether a zoom-in command is input while the pointer staying on the selected area; and

zooming, if a zoom-in command is input, in the selected area.

4. The webpage presentation method of claim 3, wherein the selected area of the webpage is zoomed in with an increase of font size in response to the zoom-in command.

5. The webpage presentation method of claim 1, wherein presenting the preset number of webpages comprises:

determining whether a zoom-out command is input while navigating on a webpage;

presenting, if a zoom-out command is input, the current webpage in a reduced size format;

determining whether the zoom-out command is input again while presenting the current webpage;

determining, if the zoom-out command is input again, repeatedly whether at least one previously visited webpage exists;

shrinking, if at least one visited webpage exists, the webpage in size; and

presenting the shrank previously visited webpage with the current webpage in the reduced size format.

6. The webpage presentation method of claim 5, wherein presenting the selected area in a full screen view comprises

moving a pointer on the selected area;

determining whether a zoom-in command is input while the pointer staying on the selected area; and

zooming, if a zoom-in command is input, in the selected area.

7. The webpage presentation method of claim 6, wherein the webpage is shrank to show entire content thereof.

8. The webpage presentation method of claim 6, wherein the preset number of webpages is determined such that the webpages are presented without overlapping each other.

9. The webpage presentation method of claim 6, wherein the zoom-out command is generated when a predetermined key provided by the mobile phone is pressed or when a menu option displayed on the screen is selected.

10. The webpage presentation method of claim 6, wherein the webpage is shrank with a reduction of font size in response to the zoom-out command.

11. A mobile communication system comprising at least one mobile phone in communication with a web server connected via at least one mobile communication network, wherein the mobile phone is configured to sequentially present one of a preset number of webpages, including a current webpage and at least in one previously visited webpage, on a display screen in a same reduced size format, wherein a number of previously visited webpages is determined in accordance with a number of executions of a zoom-out command input during a web browsing mode, wherein said webpages are presented in a temporal order of visitation and to present a selected area in a full screen view when an area of one of the webpages is selected.

12. The system claim 11, wherein the preset number of webpages is determined such that the webpages are presented without overlapping each other.

13. The system claim 11, wherein the mobile phone is configured to support a page zooming function in which the webpage is zoomed out to be fit for the screen size in response to a zoom-out command.

14. The system claim 11, wherein the mobile phone saves records of the previously visited webpages, each in the form of a presented screen image or a zoomed-out screen image.