Changing icons for a web page

• US 9,250,765 B2
• Filed: 01/06/2012
• Issued: 02/02/2016
• 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, Stanger, Keith A., Ahmed, Istiaque
• Primary Examiner(s): TSUI, WILSON W
• Application Number:
  US13/345,099
• Publication Number:
  US 20150193117A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,488 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;

processing, by the computing device, the resources to load a web page, including by using the HTML document to create a representation of the HTML document and by using the representation of the HTML document to load the web page;

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

presenting, by the computing device, a display of the web page;

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

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

receiving, by the computing device, a user request to bookmark the web page after the reference to the second bookmark icon has been added in the representation of the HTML document, and in response generating a bookmark for the web page that uses the second bookmark icon in a visual appearance of the generated bookmark.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising, in response to having received the user request to bookmark the web page, (i) identifying, in the representation of the HTML document, 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, wherein the generated bookmark 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 user request to bookmark the web page, and does not display the second bookmark icon before the computing device receives the user 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 the computing device identifying the reference to the second bookmark in the representation of the HTML document.

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 an 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.

13. A non-transitory 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, wherein the representation of the HTML file is created from the HTML file and the representation of the HTML file is used to load the web page;

determining that user input, to change a display of the web page from a first screen of the web page to a second screen of the web page 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.

14. The computer-readable storage device of claim 13, 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.

15. The computer-readable storage device of claim 13, wherein adding the reference to the second bookmark icon in the representation of the HTML file includes overwriting the reference to the first bookmark icon in the representation of the HTML file.

16. The computer-readable storage device of claim 13, wherein determining that user input to change the display of the web page from the first screen to the second screen has been received includes periodically determining whether a network address of the web page has changed.

17. The computer-readable storage device of claim 16, wherein the determining whether the network address of the web page has changed includes determining that a hash fragment in the network address of the web page has changed.

18. The computer-readable storage device of claim 13, further comprising, in response to determining that the user input to change the display of the web page from the first screen to the second screen has been received, changing the display of the web page from the first screen to the second screen.

19. The computer-readable storage device of claim 18, further comprising, in response to determining that the user input to change the display of the web page from the first screen to the second screen has been received, changing 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.

20. A computer-implemented method, comprising:

adding, after a 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, wherein the representation of the HTML file is created from the HTML file and the representation of the HTML file is used to load the web page;

determining that user input, to change a display of the web page from a first screen of the web page to a second screen of the web page 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.