Cloud-based text management for cross-platform display

• US 9,218,107 B1
• Filed: 12/30/2011
• Issued: 12/22/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 12/30/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: RPX Corporation
• Original Assignee: Hopto Inc.
• Inventors: Eilam, Eldad
• Primary Examiner(s): McDowell, Jr., Maurice L
• Assistant Examiner(s): Isanians, Raffi
• Application Number:
  US13/341,750
• Time in Patent Office: 1,453 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0484 for the control of specific functions or operations, e.g. selecting or manipulating an object, an image or a displayed text element, setting a parameter value or selecting a range
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/106 Display of layout of documents; Previewing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/166 Editing, e.g. inserting or deleting
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/01 Protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/131 Protocols for games, networked simulations or virtual reality

Abstract

Data including information regarding a display of the host device may be received. Such information may be used to identify one or more top-level windows in the host device display. Further, it is determined which of the top-level windows is currently active. The active top-level window may be determined to include a text caret and further, that the text caret is active such a keyboard display appears in a portion of the display of the client device. Instructions are generated for automatic adjustment of the remaining portion of the display of the client device based on the location of the text caret.

Claims

1. A method for managing text in cross-platform display, the method comprising:

receiving data sent over a communication network from a host device, the data including information regarding a display of the host device;

executing instructions stored in memory, wherein execution of instructions by a processor;

identifies that a window associated with a display of the host device has been opened, wherein the opening of the window automatically activates a text caret in the opened window, the identification based on the received data,

determines that the text caret has been activated, wherein activation of the text caret initiates display of a keyboard in a portion of a display of a client device, and

generates instructions for automatic adjustment of the opened window in a remaining portion of the display of the client device, the automatic adjustment based on a location of the active text caret in the opened window, wherein the automatic adjustment comprises zooming in on the text caret that was automatically activated by the opening of the window in the display of the host device; and

sending the generated instructions over the communication network to the client device, wherein execution of the instructions by the client device results in the automatic adjustment of the opened window in the client device with respect to the remaining portion of the display of the client device based on the location of the active text caret.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the determination that the text caret has been activated comprises identifying that the window is an active top-level window.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the determination that the text caret has been activated further comprises identifying the presence of a cursor or other indicator in the active top-level window.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the determination that the text caret has been activated comprises identifying that the window is in focus, wherein being in focus designates the window for receiving text.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the remaining portion of the client device display includes a window corresponding to the window with the active text caret.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the instructions for automatic adjustment further concern enlargement or zooming of the corresponding window.

7. The method of claim 5, wherein the instructions for automatic adjustment further concern centering of the corresponding window.

8. The method of claim 5, wherein the instructions for automatic adjustment concern further changing size of the text within the corresponding window.

9. A system for managing text in cross-platform display, the system comprising:

a communications interface for receiving data sent over a communication network from a host device, the data including information regarding a display of the host device; and

a processor for executing instructions, wherein execution of the instructions by the processor;

identifies that a window associated with a display of the host device has been opened, wherein the opening of the window automatically activates a text caret in the opened window, the identification based on the received data,

determines that the text caret has been activated, wherein activation of the text caret initiates display of a keyboard in a portion of a display of a client device, and

generates instructions for automatic adjustment of the opened window in a remaining portion of the display of the client device, the automatic adjustment based on a location of the active text caret in the opened window, wherein the automatic adjustment comprises zooming in on the text caret that was automatically activated by the opening of the window in the display of the host device,

wherein the communications interface sends the generated instructions over the communication network to the client device, and wherein execution of the instructions by the client device results in the automatic adjustment of the opened window in the client device with respect to the remaining portion of the display of the client device based on the location of the active text caret.

10. The system of claim 9, wherein the processor determines that the text caret has been activated by identifying that the window is an active top-level window.

11. The system of claim 10, wherein the processor further determines that the text caret has been activated by identifying the presence of a cursor or other indicator in the active top-level window.

12. The system of claim 9, wherein the processor determines that the text caret has been activated by identifying that the window is in focus, wherein being in focus designates the window for receiving text.

13. The system of claim 9, wherein the remaining portion of the client device display includes a window corresponding to the window with the active text caret.

14. The system of claim 13, wherein the instructions for automatic adjustment concern enlargement or zooming of the corresponding window.

15. The system of claim 13, wherein the instructions for automatic adjustment concern centering of the corresponding window.

16. The system of claim 13, wherein the instructions for automatic adjustment concern changing size of the text within the corresponding window.

17. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium, having embodied thereon a program executable by a processor to perform a method for automatic adjustment of cross-platform display, the method comprising:

receiving data sent over a communication network from a host device, the data including information regarding a display of the host device;

executing instructions stored in memory, wherein execution of instructions by a processor;

identifies that a window associated with a display of the host device has been opened, wherein the opening of the window automatically activates a text caret in the opened window, the identification based on the received data,

determines that the text caret has been activated, wherein activation of the text caret initiates display of a keyboard in a portion of a display of a client device, and

generates instructions for automatic adjustment of the opened window in a remaining portion of the display of the client device, the automatic adjustment based on a location of the active text caret in the opened window, wherein the automatic adjustment comprises zooming in on the text caret that was automatically activated by the opening of the window in the display of the host device; and

sending the generated instructions over the communication network to the client device, wherein execution of the instructions by the client device results in the automatic adjustment of the opened window in the client device with respect to the remaining portion of the display of the client device based on the location of the active text caret.