Method and apparatus for moving web object based on intent

• US 9,442,687 B2
• Filed: 09/21/2012
• Issued: 09/13/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 07/23/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
• Original Assignee: Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
• Inventors: Park, Hyo Jin, Choi, Jun Kyun, Yang, Jin Hong
• Primary Examiner(s): Vostal, O. C.
• Application Number:
  US13/624,140
• Publication Number:
  US 20140025725A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,453 Days
• Field of Search: 709/203
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/954 Navigation, e.g. using categorised browsing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2209/545 Gui
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1423 controlling a plurality of local displays, e.g. CRT and flat panel display
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1454 involving copying of the display data of a local workstation or window to a remote workstation or window so that an actual copy of the data is displayed simultaneously on two or more displays, e.g. teledisplay
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/54 Interprogram communication
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2370/022 Centralised management of display operation, e.g. in a server instead of locally

Abstract

A method and apparatus for moving a web object based on an intent is provided. A primary device may identify a web object supporting movability on a loaded web page, and may determine whether the identified web object can be moved to a secondary device based on movability information of the identified web object. The primary device may re-render the web page in a web browser, aside from the web object supporting movability, while maintaining a full layout of the web page. In the movement of the web object, the primary device may push, to a push server, movement of the web object to the secondary device.

Claims

1. A method of moving a web object from a primary device, the method comprising:

programming a processor to execute machine-readable instructions, the instructions, when executed, causing the processor to move the object from the primary device by;

loading a web page;

identifying a web object supporting movability for moving to other devices among a plurality of web objects on the loaded web page;

determining whether the identified web object can be moved to a secondary device among the other devices based on movability information of the identified web object and by comparing an action attribute value and a type attribute value of an intent tag of the identified web object to a capacity of the secondary device registered by the secondary device;

transmitting a request for movement of the identified web object to the secondary device when the identified web object can be moved to the secondary device; and

moving the identified web object to the secondary device,

wherein the primary device and the secondary device correspond to N-screen devices of a web service providing the web page.

2. The method of claim 1, the instructions, when executed, further causing the processor to:

register the movability information of the identified web object and information about the primary device.

3. The method of claim 1, the instructions, when executed, further causing the processor to:

receive information about a list of registered devices;

display the list of registered devices based on the received information about the list of registered devices; and

recognize that the secondary device is selected from the displayed list of registered devices.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the registered devices correspond to devices in which reception of an intent for a web service running on the primary device is registered.

5. The method of claim 3, wherein each of the registered devices provided in the list of registered devices is displayed distinguishably based on whether the web object can be moved to the registered device.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the identified web object is plural, and the instructions, when executed, further causing the processor to:

recognize a selected web object among a plurality of identified web objects,

wherein the transmitting comprises transmitting a request for movement of the selected web object among the plurality of identified web objects to the secondary device.

7. The method of claim 6, the instructions, when executed, further causing the processor to:

display each of the plurality of identified web objects distinguishably based on whether the identified web object can be moved to the secondary device.

8. The method of claim 1, the instructions, when executed, further causing the processor to:

update the web page after the identified web object is moved.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the request for movement of the identified web object to the secondary device includes invoking an intent to the secondary device.

10. The method of claim 1, the instructions, when executed, further causing the processor to:

render the web page in a web browser; and

re-render the web page in the web browser, aside from the web object supporting movability, while maintaining a full layout of the web page.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the re-rendering comprises maintaining the full layout of the web page by substituting an image for an area of the web object supporting movability.

12. The method of claim 10, wherein the re-rendering comprises:

setting the web object invisible in the web browser; and

displaying an image on an area corresponding to the web object.

15. The method of claim 12, the instructions, when executed, further causing the processor to:

receive a request for the web page from the secondary device; and

transmit the web page to the secondary device.

13. A device comprising:

a processing unit, programmed according to a set of machine-executable instructions, which instructions configure the processing unit to load a web page,

to identify a web object supporting movability for moving to other devices among a plurality of web objects on the loaded web page,

to determine whether the identified web object can be moved to a secondary device among the other devices based on movability information of the identified web object and

by comparing an action attribute value and a type attribute value of an intent tag of the identified web object to a capacity of the secondary device registered by the secondary device, and

to generate a request for movement of the identified web object to the secondary device when the identified web object can be moved to the secondary device; and

a transmitting/receiving unit to receive the web page and to transmit the request for movement of the identified web object to the secondary device,

to move the identified web object to the secondary device,

wherein the primary device and the secondary device correspond to N-screen devices of a web service providing the web page.

14. A method of moving a web object using a push server from a primary device, the method comprising:

programming a processor to execute machine-readable instructions, the instructions, when executed, causing the processor to move the object from the primary device by;

loading a web page;

identifying a web object supporting movability for moving to other devices among a plurality of web objects on the loaded web page;

determining whether the identified web object can be moved to a secondary device among the other devices based on movability information of the identified web object and by comparing an action attribute value and a type attribute value of an intent tag of the identified web object to a capacity of the secondary device registered by the secondary device;

pushing, to the push server, movement of the web object to the secondary device when the identified web object can be moved to the secondary device; and

receiving a response to the push from the push server,

wherein the primary device and the secondary device correspond to N-screen devices of a web service providing the web page.

16. The method of claim 14, wherein the pushing comprises invoking, by the push server, a uniform resource locator (URL) or an application of the secondary device and receiving a response to the invocation.

17. The method of claim 16, wherein the invoking corresponds to invoking an intent provided by the secondary device.