Mobile communication terminal and associated methods

• US 9,448,711 B2
• Filed: 10/12/2005
• Issued: 09/20/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 05/23/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy (Nokia Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy (Nokia Corporation)
• Inventors: Visnen, Matti
• Primary Examiner(s): Gaffin, Jeffrey A
• Assistant Examiner(s): GREENE, SABRINA LETICIA
• Application Number:
  US11/249,156
• Publication Number:
  US 20060262136A1
• Time in Patent Office: 3,996 Days
• Field of Search: 715/788, 715/781, 715/764, 715/864
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9577 Optimising the visualization of content, e.g. distillation of HTML documents
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0485 Scrolling or panning
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/00 Arrangements for program control, e.g. control units program control for peripheral devices G06F13/10

Abstract

It is disclosed a method for displaying previously visited hypermedia pages in a hypermedia browser application executing on a mobile communication terminal comprising a display. The method comprises the steps of: rendering a first hypermedia page on said display, accepting a first input to modify rendering of said first hypermedia page according to a first content display mode, rendering said first hypermedia page according to said first content display mode, accepting a second input to render a second hypermedia page, rendering a second hypermedia page, accepting a third input to again render said first hypermedia page, and rendering said first hypermedia page according to said first content display mode.

Claims

1. A method for displaying previously visited hypermedia pages in a hypermedia browser application executing on a mobile communication terminal comprising a display, the method comprising:

selecting a hypermedia page to be rendered on said display;

determining if the hypermedia page is associated with a first content display mode in a history item of a browser history of the terminal;

if the hypermedia page is associated with a first content display mode in the browser history, rendering said hypermedia page according to the first content display mode associated with the hypermedia page in the browser history, the first content display mode comprising a zoom factor;

if the hypermedia page is not associated with a first content display mode in the browser history, rendering said hypermedia page according to a default content display mode;

wherein during display of a hypermedia page, enabling zoom modification of the content display mode of the hypermedia page by a user; and

in response to the zoom modification of the content display mode of the hypermedia page by the user, automatically storing the modified content display mode as the first content display mode associated with the hypermedia page in the browser history such that when the hypermedia page is revisited, the hypermedia page is re-rendered using the automatically stored modified content display mode.

2. A method according to claim 1, wherein said first or default content display mode includes a mode when a text of said hypermedia page is selected.

3. A method according to claim 1, wherein said first or default content display mode includes a page layout mode.

4. A method according to claim 1, wherein said hypermedia page is selected by navigating back through the browser history.

5. A method according to claim 1, wherein said hypermedia page is selected by navigating forward through the browser history.

6. A method according to claim 1, wherein said hypermedia page represents at least one type of content selected from the group consisting of:

HyperText Markup Language (HTML) content, Wireless Markup Language (WML) content, Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML) content and Extensible Markup Language (XML) content.

7. A computer program product embodied in a non-transitory processor usable medium comprising processor readable program code for causing a mobile communication terminal to perform the method according to claim 1.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the method comprises determining if a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) of the hypermedia page is associated with the first content display mode in a history item of a browser history of the terminal.

9. A mobile communication terminal capable of executing a hypermedia browser application, said hypermedia browser application rendering hypermedia pages on a display of said mobile communication terminal, said mobile communication terminal comprising:

means for selecting a hypermedia page to be rendered on said display;

means for determining if the hypermedia page is associated with a first content display mode in a history item in a browser history of the terminal;

means for rendering said hypermedia page according to a first content display mode associated with the hypermedia page in the browser history, the first content display mode comprising a zoom factor, if the hypermedia page is associated with a first content display mode in the browser history;

means for rendering said hypermedia page according to a default content display mode if the hypermedia page is not associated with the browser history

means for enabling zoom modification of the content display mode of a hypermedia page by a user during display of the hypermedia page; and

means for automatically storing the zoom modified content display mode as the first content display mode associated with the hypermedia page in the browser history in response to the zoom modification of the content display mode of the hypermedia page by the user such that when the hypermedia page is revisited, the hypermedia page is re-rendered using the automatically stored modified content display mode.

10. An apparatus comprising:

at least one processor; and

at least one memory including computer program code,

the at least one memory and the computer program code configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus to perform at least the following;

enabling selection of a hypermedia page to be rendered on a display;

determining if the hypermedia page is associated with a first content display mode in a history item in a browser history of the apparatus;

if the hypermedia page is associated with a first content display mode in the browser history, enabling rendering said hypermedia page according to a first content display mode associated with the hypermedia page in the browser history, the first content display mode comprising a zoom factor;

if the hypermedia page is not associated with a first content display mode in the browser history, enabling rendering said hypermedia page according to a default content display mode;

wherein during display of a hypermedia page, enabling zoom modification of a content display mode of the hypermedia page by a user; and

in response to the zoom modification of the content display mode of the hypermedia page by the user, automatically storing the zoom modified content display mode as the first content display mode associated with the hypermedia page in the browser history such that when the hypermedia page is revisited, the hypermedia page is re-rendered using the automatically stored modified content display mode.