Terminal apparatus, processing system, processing method, and program

• US 8,972,486 B2
• Filed: 03/23/2011
• Issued: 03/03/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 03/26/2010
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Ishikawa, Tsuyoshi
• Primary Examiner(s): Whipple, Brian P
• Assistant Examiner(s): Chambers, Michael A
• Application Number:
  US13/069,516
• Publication Number:
  US 20110238741A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,441 Days
• Field of Search: 709/203, 715/745, 707/802
• US Class Current: 709/203
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/958 Organisation or management of web site content, e.g. publishing, maintaining pages or automatic linking

Abstract

A terminal apparatus includes a communication unit, a storage unit, and a controller. The communication unit is capable of communicating with a web server and receives information of a web page from the web server. The controller displays the web page in a window displayed on a display unit, generates an image of the web page before a change each time the web page is changed to a different web page, associates the generated image with a change history of the web page to store the generated image in the storage unit, and reads the image corresponding to the change history from the storage unit based on an instruction made by a user to display the image, to display the image on the display unit.

Claims

1. A terminal apparatus, comprising:

a communication unit configured to be capable of communicating with a web server and receive information of a web page from the web server;

a storage unit; and

a controller configured to display the web page in a window displayed on a display unit, generate an image of the web page before a user input changes the web page to a different web page, associate the generated image with a change history of the web page to store the generated image in the storage unit, and read the image corresponding to the change history from the storage unit based on an instruction made by a user to display the image, to display the image on the display unit,

wherein the image is a graphical reproduction of the web page as it was previously displayed on the display unit, and

wherein the controller performs, when the web page is changed to the different web page, scroll capture on the web page before the change, to generate the image of the entire web page before the change;

wherein the controller displays the image, instead of the web page, in a main display area serving as an area of the window in which the web page is displayed.

2. The terminal apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

the controller displays an input operation image in which the instruction made by the user to display the image is input, on the display unit.

3. The terminal apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the

controller displays the input operation image on a confirmation screen used for confirming, with the user, whether information for redisplaying the web page displayed in the past is transmitted to the web server via the communication unit.

4. The terminal apparatus according to claim 2, wherein

the controller displays the input operation image in an operation image display area of the window in which operation images for operating the web page are arranged.

5. The terminal apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

the controller displays a dedicated window on the display unit separately from the window and displays the image in the dedicated window.

6. The terminal apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

the controller displays the image after being changed in an order corresponding to the change history based on an instruction made by the user to change the image.

7. The terminal apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

the controller generates a history image showing a state where reduced-size images of the images are arranged in an order corresponding to the change history based on the images that are associated with the change history and stored in the storage unit, and displays the history image on the display unit based on an instruction made by the user to display the history image.

16. The terminal apparatus of claim 1, wherein the graphical reproduction is separate from a cached version of the web page.

17. The terminal apparatus of claim 1, wherein the graphical reproduction is substantially a static image substantially without meta data associated internet content associated with the web page.

18. The terminal apparatus of claim 17, wherein the graphical reproduction is a static image without meta data associated internet content associated with the web page.

8. A terminal apparatus, comprising:

a communication unit configured to be capable of communicating with a web server and receive one of information on a first web page including metadata indicating that an image of a web page displayed on a display unit is to be stored, and information on a second web page excluding the metadata, from the web server;

a storage unit; and

a controller configured to display one of the first web page and the second web page in a window displayed on the display unit based on one of the information on the first web page and the information on the second web page, generate an image of the first web page based on the metadata each time the first web page is displayed, associate the image with a change history of the first web page and the second web page to store the image in the storage unit, and read the image corresponding to the change history from the storage unit based on an instruction made by a user to display the image, to display the image on the display unit,

wherein the image is a graphical reproduction of the web page as it was previously displayed on the display unit, and

wherein the controller performs, when the web page is changed to the different web page, scroll capture on the web page before the change, to generate the image of the entire web page before the change;

wherein the controller displays the image, instead of the web page, in a main display area serving as an area of the window in which the web page is displayed.

9. A processing system, comprising:

a web server configured to transmit information of a web page; and

a terminal apparatus including

a communication unit configured to be capable of communicating with the web server and receive information of the web page from the web server,

a storage unit, and

a controller configured to display the web page in a window displayed on a display unit, generate an image of the web page before a change each time the web page is changed to a different web page, associate the generated image with a change history of the web page to store the generated image in the storage unit, and read the image corresponding to the change history from the storage unit based on an instruction made by a user, to display the image on the display unit,

wherein the image is a graphical reproduction of the web page as it was previously displayed on the display unit, and

wherein the controller performs, when the web page is changed to the different web page, scroll capture on the web page before the change, to generate the image of the entire web page before the change;

wherein the controller displays the image, instead of the web page, in a main display area serving as an area of the window in which the web page is displayed.

10. A processing system, comprising:

a web server configured to transmit one of information on a first web page including metadata indicating that an image of a web page displayed on a display unit is to be stored, and information on a second web page excluding the metadata; and

a terminal apparatus including

a communication unit configured to be capable of communicating with the web server and receive one of the information on the first web page and the information on the second web page from the web server, a storage unit, and

a controller configured to display one of the first web page and the second web page in a window displayed on the display unit based on one of the information on the first web page and the information on the second web page, generate an image of the first web page based on the metadata each time the first web page is displayed, associate the image with a change history of the first web page and the second web page to store the image in the storage unit, and read the image corresponding to the change history from the storage unit based on an instruction made by a user to display the image, to display the image on the display unit,

wherein the image is a graphical reproduction of the web page as it was previously displayed on the display unit, and

wherein the controller performs, when the web page is changed to the different web page, scroll capture on the web page before the change, to generate the image of the entire web page before the change;

wherein the controller displays the image, instead of the web page, in a main display area serving as an area of the window in which the web page is displayed.

11. A processing system, comprising:

a web server configured to transmit information of a web page;

a server including a storage unit; and

a terminal apparatus including

a communication unit configured to be capable of communicating with the web server and the server and receive information of the web page from the web server, and

a controller configured to display the web page in a window displayed on a display unit, generate an image of the web page before a change each time the web page is changed to a different web page, associate the generated image with a change history of the web page to transmit the generated image to the server, cause the storage unit of the server to store the generated image, and receive the image corresponding to the change history from the server based on an instruction made by a user, to display the image on the display unit,

wherein the image is a graphical reproduction of the web page as it was previously displayed on the display unit, and

wherein the controller performs, when the web page is changed to the different web page, scroll capture on the web page before the change, to generate the image of the entire web page before the change;

wherein the controller displays the image, instead of the web page, in a main display area serving as an area of the window in which the web page is displayed.

12. A processing method, comprising:

receiving information of a web page from a web server;

displaying the web page in a window displayed on a display unit;

generating an image of the web page before a change each time the web page is changed to a different web page;

associating the generated image with a change history of the web page to store the generated image in a storage unit; and

reading the image corresponding to the change history from the storage unit based on an instruction made by a user to display the image, to display the image on the display unit,

wherein the image is a graphical reproduction of the web page as it was previously displayed on the display unit, and

wherein when the web page is changed to the different web page, scroll capture on the web page before the change, generating the image of the entire web page before the change;

wherein a controller displays the image, instead of the web page, in a main display area serving as an area of the window in which the web page is displayed.

13. A processing method, comprising:

receiving one of information on a first web page including metadata indicating that an image of a web page displayed on a display unit is to be stored, and information on a second web page excluding the metadata, from a web server;

displaying one of the first web page and the second web page in a window displayed on the display unit based on one of the information on the first web page and the information on the second web page;

generating an image of the first web page based on the metadata each time the first web page is displayed;

associating the image with a change history of the first web page and the second web page to store the image in a storage unit; and

reading the image corresponding to the change history from the storage unit based on an instruction made by a user to display the image, to display the image on the display unit,

wherein the image is a graphical reproduction of the web page as it was previously displayed on the display unit, and

wherein when the web page is changed to the different web page, scroll capture on the web page before the change, generating the image of the entire web page before the change;

wherein a controller displays the image, instead of the web page, in a main display area serving as an area of the window in which the web page is displayed.

14. A non-transitory computer-readable medium having

embodied thereon a program, which when executed by a terminal apparatus, causes

the terminal apparatus to perform a method, the method comprising:

receiving information of a web page from a web server;

displaying the web page in a window displayed on a display unit;

generating an image of the web page before a change each time the web page is changed to a different web page;

associating the generated image with a change history of the web page to store the generated image in a storage unit; and

reading the image corresponding to the change history from the storage unit based on an instruction made by a user to display the image, to display the image on the display unit,

wherein the image is a graphical reproduction of the web page as it was previously displayed on the display unit, and

wherein when the web page is changed to the different web page, scroll capture on the web page before the change, generating the image of the entire web page before the change;

wherein a controller displays the image, instead of the web page, in a main display area serving as an area of the window in which the web page is displayed.

15. A non-transitory computer-readable medium having embodied thereon a program, which when executed by a terminal apparatus, causes the terminal apparatus to perform a method, the method comprising:

receiving one of information on a first web page including metadata indicating that an image of a web page displayed on a display unit is to be stored, and information on a second web page excluding the metadata, from a web server;

displaying one of the first web page and the second web page in a window displayed on the display unit based on one of the information on the first web page and the information on the second web page;

generating an image of the first web page based on the metadata each time the first web page is displayed;

associating the image with a change history of the first web page and the second web page to store the image in a storage unit; and

reading the image corresponding to the change history from the storage unit based on an instruction made by a user to display the image, to display the image on the display unit,

wherein the image is a graphical reproduction of the web page as it was previously displayed on the display unit, and

wherein when the web page is changed to the different web page, scroll capture on the web page before the change, generating the image of the entire web page before the change;

wherein a controller displays the image, instead of the web page, in a main display area serving as an area of the window in which the web page is displayed.