EP3146419A1

EP3146419A1 - Method for production of a three-dimensional network site, network site obtained by this method, and method for navigating within or from such a network site

Info

Publication number: EP3146419A1
Application number: EP15729540.3A
Authority: EP
Inventors: Hervé HEULLY
Original assignee: New3s
Current assignee: New3s
Priority date: 2014-05-21
Filing date: 2015-05-20
Publication date: 2017-03-29
Also published as: FR3021426A1; WO2015177466A1; US20180018075A1

Abstract

The invention relates to a method for producing network sites, in particular websites, offering real immersion in the sites (in the manner of video games) with intuitive and fluid navigation that does not require a means for directing the avatar, allowing selective referencing by a search engine of objects contained on the site, as well as providing improved access security. A simple mechanical control means (arrow keys on a keyboard, mouse without click buttons, joystick formed by a handle on a base with push buttons) or virtual control means (arrow-based computer representation, system for the detection of a movement of the hand, eye, etc., accelerometer remote control, etc.) can be used to direct the avatar, and the method of the invention allows the movements of the avatar to be interpreted, such as a simple walk through the site or a command to navigate to another space on the site (same URL) or to another site (different URL).

Description

METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING A THREE-DIMENSIONAL NETWORK SITE, NETWORK SITE OBTAINED THEREBY, AND METHOD FOR NAVIGATING WITHIN OR FROM A

TEL NETWORK SITE

The subject of the invention is a method of manufacturing a three-dimensional network site, as well as a network site obtained by this method, and a method of navigation within or between two network sites according to the invention.

A computer network is a set of equipment (computers, servers, etc.) interconnected to exchange information. A computer network such as the Internet comprises a multitude of sites, called "network sites" comprising information. These sites can be hosted on one or more computers or servers in the network.

The vast majority of current network sites, especially websites, are in the form of a multitude of pages.

These pages consist of a two-dimensional background, on which are affixed:

• of text ;

• images ;

• hypertext links (in the form of text or icons) leading, when the user clicks on these links, to new pages of the same site, to other sites, to documents (graphics or texts);

• windows capable of displaying videos and / or broadcasting music;

• ads ;

• etc.

Access to these sites and the pages they contain is done by software called "network browser" in which we inform the unique network address of the site that we want to visit. This address is also called "URL" for Uniform Resource Locator (in French literally "uniform resource locator"), or more generally "Internet address". Switching from one URL to another URL, or from one page to another page is called "navigation". This is a character string used to tell a network browser how to access a resource (such as an Internet site) through a computer network.

Each site has a unique URL, called "root URL". The pages of each site can have a clean URL, or benefit from the same root URL.

An example of a site whose pages have their own network address is the New3S® company site: the root URL of the site is http: / / www. new3s.com. The contact page has its own URL: http: // www. new3s.com/contact.asp.

An example of a site whose pages have the root address of the site is Google Maps®. The root address of the site is https: // maps.google.com. Both the Paris map and the New York map have the same root address.

Example: loading Google Maps®:

https: // maps.google.com/

with default view of USA if Windows® in English then entry of "Place de la Bastille, Paris, France"

change view, but same address: https: // maps.google.com/ Click on Directions: same address: https: // maps.google.com/

Starting point: 7501 1 Place de la Bastille, Paris, France Destination point: Place de la Republique, Paris, France The map is modified: identical address: https: // maps.google.com/

Double click on the starting point, then activate Street view® mode.

The map is modified: that is to say immersive view always interactive but in 3D panoramic. Identical address: https: // maps.google.com/

Arrival at Place de la République via the Street view® mode: Same address: https: // maps.google.com/

In this type of site, all the content of the URL is not downloaded in one step, but as the user navigates. Only the searched content is downloaded.

In sites where each page has its own URL, the content of each URL is fully downloaded in one step. Creators and owners of network sites have many concerns, including offering a site that is different from that of competitors and ensuring the security of access to certain content on the site.

In addition, the evolution of manners and technology tends to offer Internet access in places and with materials whose primary use was not intended to access the Internet. Thus, many TV manufacturers offer devices capable of being connected to the Internet. The services offered are similar to websites and, to navigate these sites, the manufacturers modify the remotes to allow clicking on the icons.

The graphical representation of the computer mouse is replaced by a highlighting of the links (or icons) selected by the user.

The most rudimentary remote controls have arrow navigation buttons to move from link to link (that is, to highlight links one after the other), and a validation button to click on the button. chosen link.

More advanced remotes include a touchpad surface and / or accelerometers so that the user makes navigation gestures (eg, right / left, or up / down motion) to move the highlight, and a validation gesture to click on the selected link.

In all cases, the user can only switch from link to link, in a two-dimensional graphical environment, not allowing a global vision of the entire site.

It is therefore desirable to propose a solution that makes it possible to propose sites easily apprehensible by the user, secure, easily navigable, and allowing greater graphic freedom to distinguish oneself from competitors' sites.

The present invention addresses many of these concerns.

Web sites are distinguished from each other only by their graphic design, their message, their size, etc., but not by their structure which is always a two-dimensional page tree.

In addition, it is always necessary to use the computer mouse to click on the hyperlinks, to start the videos or the music.

Some sites offer "3D salons" or "3D showroom". In the present description, the expression "3D" or "three dimensions" is understood in the sense of the design of the space, and not of its display technique, which is two-dimensional because it is implemented on a screen of an interface. In other words, a space is said to be three-dimensional when it includes a perspective and a moving object in this three-dimensional space can move back and forth, from right to left, and from top to bottom relative to the position of the user.

Thus, the expression "three-dimensional" relates well to the characteristics of the space and not the characteristics of the screen, which can in turn allow a 3D display with active glasses (selective display right eye / left eye) or passive (polarizing filters). Thus, it is not because a space is displayed on a 3D screen that it is three-dimensional within the meaning of the invention: for example, a photo (two-dimensional space within the meaning of the invention). is not three-dimensional because it is displayed on a 3D screen.

"3D salons" or "3D showrooms" are spaces in three dimensions in which objects are also in three dimensions, such as offices, stands, etc. However, if these sites offer a graphic alternative to two-dimensional sites, that is to say sites made of pages, they still require the use of the mouse to click on the selected elements (for example to read a video or go to another site). In addition, they require the use of the mouse to click into the three-dimensional space and walk the user or, more specifically, his avatar (computer representation, in 3D or not, of a user, for example in the form of a character). In other words, the user needs the mouse as a means of direction and as a means of selection. The avatar has no technical function and only serves to give the user a feeling of immersion in the 3D space.

These sites do not allow to get rid of mouse clicks (or manual click for touch interfaces) for navigation and activation of selected items. They can not therefore be a solution adapted to new media that are connected TVs and game consoles. In addition, their design does not allow to show in the results of the search engines the objects they contain. Finally, they do not propose a particular solution in terms of access security. The purpose of the invention is therefore to propose a method of manufacturing network sites, in particular Internet sites, allowing a real immersion in the sites (in the manner of video games) by an intuitive and fluid navigation requiring only a means management of the avatar, while allowing selective referencing by a search engine of the objects contained in the site, as well as increased access security. Thus, a simple mechanical joystick (arrow keys on a keyboard, mouse without the click keys, joystick consisting of a handle placed on a base with push buttons called "joystick" in English) or virtual (computer representation of arrows, movement detection system of a hand, an eye, etc., accelerometer remote control, etc.) makes it possible to direct the avatar and the method according to the invention makes it possible to interpret the movements of the avatar as a simple walk through the site or as a command to navigate to another area of the site (same URL) or to another site (different URL).

To this end, the subject of the invention is a method of manufacturing a so-called "three-dimensional" network site, such as a website, which can be consulted via an interface connected to the network, characterized in that it comprises the steps following:

A) with 3D modeling software:

a) Generate a three-dimensional project comprising at least three-dimensional space;

a2) creating at least one object, bi or three-dimensional, said "navigation" in said project and arrange it in the one or one of the spaces in a defined spatial position, called "position of the navigation object";

a3) creating a two or three dimensional mobile object in said space and controllable by a user through a control interface or a device, such as a mouse, keyboard keys, joystick or motion sensor, connected at the interface;

B) with real-time 3D software:

b l) attribute to the space or each space in three dimensions:

• a reference system of three-dimensional coordinates;

• aesthetic properties, such as textures or images;

Functional properties, such as a light source; and simulated physical properties, such as a force of gravity, a magnetic field, or an electromagnetic field;

b2) assigning to said navigation object:

aesthetic properties, such as textures;

navigation properties, such as a link to a so-called "arrival" position in said at least one three-dimensional space or a link to a so-called "destination" network address; and

simulated physical properties, such as deformation laws;

b3) assigning to said mobile and controllable object:

an initial position in the space or one of the spaces of the project, and

aesthetic properties, such as textures;

functional properties, such as mobility in three-dimensional space; and

simulated physical properties, such as deformation laws;

b5) save the project in three dimensions as a digital file having a format interpretable by at least one navigation software;

D) storing the file obtained in step b5) on an online network server;

E) assign a network address to the file in order to make it accessible by the network in the form of a network site.

According to other embodiments:

the navigation object may consist of a two or three dimensional information display and a so-called "detection" zone bi or three dimensional, preferably arranged near the display;

each three-dimensional space of the site can be associated with a specific network address;

the or each three-dimensional space of the site can be associated with a common network address;

the method may comprise, before step D), a step C l) of creation and networking of a site access table comprising at least the following information: A descriptor of the access table comprising a number of rows, a number of columns and one or more field separator (s) used;

• an identifier of the or three-dimensional space in the site;

• an identifier of the navigation object or objects;

• the position of each navigation object;

• the navigation properties of each navigation object; and

• an initial position of a user when accessing the site;

the access table may further include access rights data;

the access rights data may be data managing the possibility / impossibility of accessing the site, or managing the display / concealment of one or more navigation objects, or managing the activation / inactivation of one or more navigation objects;

the method may comprise, after step C 1), a step C2) of encrypting the access table;

the method may comprise, after step C 1), a step C3) of dividing the access table into several files, and of peer-to-peer sharing of said files between several computer servers;

the method may comprise, after step C2), a step C3) of dividing the encrypted access table into several files, and of peer-to-peer sharing of said files between several computer servers; and or

the method may comprise, after step a3), a step a4) of creating a selectable button "previous position" and a selectable button "next position", and after step b3), a step b4) assigning each of these buttons the following properties:

• associated with a history table;

• selected with a mouse click or manual click; and

• constantly posted on the site.

The subject of the invention is also a three-dimensional network site obtained by the method according to the invention, characterized in that it comprises: • A network address;

• at least one space in three dimensions;

At least one navigation object disposed at a position of the navigation object;

At least one mobile and controllable object in said space.

According to other embodiments:

at least one navigation object may consist of a two or three dimensional information display and a so-called "detection" zone bi or three dimensional preferably arranged near the display;

the navigation property assigned to the or each navigation object may be the ability to control the opening in the navigation software of a destination network address different from the network address of the three-dimensional space in which is the navigation object;

the navigation property assigned to the or each navigation object may furthermore comprise the ability to position the mobile and controllable object at a so-called "arrival" position in a three-dimensional space of a three-dimensional site having the destination network address;

the or each navigation object may have as functional property the ability to position the mobile and controllable object at an arrival position in a three-dimensional space of the network site in which the navigation object is located; and / or the network site may include:

• a network address;

• at least one space in three dimensions;

At least one navigation object disposed at the position of the navigation object;

At least one mobile and controllable object in said space.

and in that it is associated with an access table comprising at least the following information • a descriptor of the access table to be interpreted by the navigation software, including the number of rows, the number of columns and the separator (s) field (s) used;

• an identifier of the or three-dimensional space in the site;

• an identifier of the navigation object or objects;

• the position of each navigation object;

• the navigation properties of each navigation object; and

• an initial position of a user when accessing the site.

The subject of the invention is also a method of navigation from or within the network address of a three-dimensional space of a three-dimensional site according to the invention, using a hardware interface, such as a computer, a tablet or a smartphone, characterized in that it comprises the following steps:

a) In a navigation software adapted to the hardware interface:

at. 1) open the network address;

a.2) controlling the movement of the movable and controllable object in the one or one of the three-dimensional spaces from an "initial" position; a.3) selecting a navigational object by positioning the mobile object and controllable secant to the navigation object;

a.6) generate a navigation action based on the navigation properties assigned to the navigation object.

According to other embodiments:

Step a3) can consist in selecting a navigation object by positioning the mobile object and controllable in a secant manner with respect to the detection zone of the navigation object;

Step a) may furthermore comprise, after step a.3), a step a.4) of predefined duration delay, starting as soon as the mobile object and the navigation object or the detection zone are secant, step a.6) being triggered only if the moving object and the navigation object or the detection zone remain intersecting throughout the time delay; and or

step a) may furthermore comprise, before step a.6), a step a.5) of predefined repositioning of the mobile object with respect to the navigation object, as soon as the mobile object and the The navigation object or the detection zone is intersecting, the repositioning retaining intersecting the moving object and the navigation object or the detection zone.

When browsing is within the same network address:

the navigation action, generated during step a.6), may comprise the positioning of the mobile and controllable object at a so-called "arrival" position in a three-dimensional space having the same network address as the network site where the navigation object is located;

the step a.4) can further include, during the time delay, the consultation by the navigation software of the access table of the network site;

step a. l) may furthermore comprise the creation and storage in memory of a first "last inbound-outgoing" type history table, as well as the association of the first history table with the selected selection buttons " previous position "and" next position "of the network site; and step a.6) may include inserting, as the first entry in the first history table, the identifier of the three-dimensional space in which the moving object is located, and the position of the navigation object selected in the three-dimensional space; step a) may be repeated n-2 times, n being an integer greater than or equal to 3, to arrive at an arrival position of rank n, the first history table being created only at the first iteration and completed during the other iterations, each iteration of step a) corresponding to the positioning of the mobile object and controllable to a new arrival position in a three-dimensional space having the same network address as the network site in which is the navigation object, the identifier of the three-dimensional space, and the position of the selected navigation object being stored chronologically at each iteration in the first history table during navigation;

the navigation method may furthermore comprise a backward step (b) of reading the identifier of the three-dimensional space and the position of the navigation object of rank n-1 in the first table d historical, and to position the moving object near the position of the selected navigation object of rank n-1; step β) can be repeated k times, k being an integer between 1 and n-2; and / or k may be between 1 and n-3, the position of the selected navigation object of rank k corresponding to a network site according to the invention, the method comprising, in addition, after the iteration of rank k of step β), at least one step γ) of navigation towards a navigation object having a position not stored in the first history table, step γ) comprising the following substeps:

γ. 1) creation and storage in memory of a second history table of type "last incoming-first outgoing", as well as the association of the second history table with select buttons "Advancing a page" and " go back one page "of the network site;

γ.2) controlling the movement of the mobile and controllable object in one of the three-dimensional spaces of the network site;

γ.3) selecting a navigational object by positioning the mobile object and controllable secant with respect to the navigation object;

γ.ό) generate a navigation action according to the navigation properties assigned to the navigation object, and insert:

• as the first entry in the second history table, a reference to the first history table;

As the second entry in the second history table, the identifier of the starting three-dimensional space and the position of the selected navigation object in the starting three-dimensional space;

• as the last entry in the first history table, a reference to the second history table. When navigation is from network address to network address:

the navigation action, generated in step a.6), may include opening, in the navigation software, a destination network address different from the network address of the three-dimensional space in which is the navigation object; the navigation action may furthermore include the positioning of the mobile and controllable object at a so-called "arrival" position in a three-dimensional space of a three-dimensional site having the destination network address;

the step a.4) can further include, during the time delay, the transmission to the navigation software of the access table of the second network site;

the step a.4) may furthermore comprise, during the time delay, and after the reception of the access table of the second network site, the display of a position called "arrival" by default and the position of the object or of each of the navigation objects of the second network site, so that the user can choose the position to which he wishes to arrive in the second network site;

step a. l) may further comprise the creation and storage in memory of a first "last inbound-first out" type history table, as well as the association of the first history table with select buttons " Move forward one page "and" back one page "of the navigation software; and step a.6) may include inserting, as the first entry in the first history table, the network address of the starting three-dimensional space and the position of the navigation object selected in the three-dimensional space of departure;

step a) can be repeated n-2 times, n being an integer greater than or equal to 3, to arrive at a network address of rank n, the first history table being created only at the first iteration and completed during the other iterations, each iteration of step a) corresponding to an opening of a new network address, each network address and, where appropriate, a position of each navigation object being stored chronologically in the first table of history during navigation; the navigation method may furthermore comprise a step β) of going backwards, consisting of reading the network address of rank n-1 in the first history table, and opening this network address of rank n-1 in the navigation software;

step β) may also include positioning the moving object near the position of the selected navigation object in the three-dimensional space having the network address of rank n-1.

step β) can be repeated k times, k being an integer between 1 and n-2; and / or k may be between 1 and n-3, the network address of rank k corresponding to a network site according to the invention, the method comprising, in addition, after the iteration of rank k of step β ), at least one step γ) of navigation to a network site having a network address not stored in the first history table, the step γ) comprising the following substeps:

γ. 1) creation and storage in memory of a second history table of type "last incoming-first outgoing", as well as the association of the second history table with select buttons "Advancing a page" and " go back one page "of the navigation software;

γ.2) controlling the movement of the mobile and controllable object in the one or one of the three-dimensional spaces of the network site having the network address not stored in the first history table;

• as the second entry in the second history table, the network address of the starting three-dimensional space and the position of the selected navigation object in the initial three-dimensional space;

• as the last entry in the first history table, a reference to the second history table. Other features of the invention will emerge from the following detailed description with reference to the appended drawings which represent, respectively:

in Figure 1, a schematic plan view of an exemplary architecture of a network site according to the invention;

in Figure 2, a schematic perspective view of an example of a three-dimensional space of a network site according to the invention;

in Figures 3 and 4, schematic perspective views of the implementation of the navigation method according to the invention;

in FIG. 5, a flowchart of the navigation method according to the invention;

in FIG. 6, a flowchart of the navigation method according to the invention with a timing step;

in FIG. 7, a flowchart of the navigation method according to the invention with a delay and repositioning step;

in FIG. 8, a schematic plan view of an exemplary avatar navigation route within a site A according to the invention, from the site A to a site B according to the invention, within the site B, and back to Site A;

in FIG. 9, a schematic plan view of an exemplary avatar navigation route within four three-dimensional spaces of a site according to the invention comprising the same network address, and an example of a a history table generated according to the method according to the invention;

in FIG. 10, a schematic plan view of an example of a return navigation route within the site of FIG. 6 and comprising a bifurcation towards two new three-dimensional spaces of the site, and an example of tables of historical data generated according to the method according to the invention;

in Figure 1 1, a schematic plan view of an example of a navigation route of an avatar between four sites according to the invention having different network addresses, and an example of a generated history table according to the process according to the invention;

in FIG. 12, a schematic plan view of an exemplary reverse navigation route between two sites of FIG. 6 and including a bifurcation towards two new sites having different network addresses, and an example of history tables generated according to the method according to the invention;

• In Figure 1 3, a schematic diagram of an exemplary embodiment of the forward and reverse navigation method according to the invention;

• In Figure 1 4, a schematic diagram of an embodiment of the method according to the invention for reverse navigation with a bifurcation;

FIG. 15 shows a flowchart illustrating an embodiment of the method for manufacturing a site according to the invention; and

In FIGS. 1 to 6, three flowcharts illustrating three embodiments of the method for manufacturing a secure site according to the invention.

Site fabrication

The invention proposes a method for manufacturing a three-dimensional network site, such as a website, which can be consulted via an interface connected to the network.

In the following description, the exemplary embodiments will be given for a website, but other types of network sites may be used.

In a first step A), a 3D modeling software is used to define the structure of the 3D space (s) and objects that will occupy it.

In the present description, a 3D modeling software is software comprising at least the following functionalities:

• Simultaneous view design (ISO, XY plane, YZ plane, XZ plane);

• Point, curve, circles, intersection, projected, line segment, line, spline, plane

• Surfaces, faces, volumes

• Volume extrusion

• Boolean operations,

By way of illustrative and nonlimiting example, the following software may be mentioned:

• 3DS Max® edited by Autodesk®

• Maya® edited by Autodesk®

• ReaINAT® edited by Bionatics® Solidworks® edited by Dassault Systèmes®. Some architecture software can also perform these functions, such as:

• Sketchup® edited by Google®

• Allplan® edited by Nemetschek®

More precisely, during step A), a 3D modeling software is used for:

a) generating a three-dimensional site project comprising at least one three-dimensional space (hereinafter 3D space); in Figure 1, the site obtained according to the method according to the invention comprises six 3D spaces, numbered from A1 to A6;

a2) creating at least one object, bi or three-dimensional, said "navigation" in said project and arrange it in the one or one of the spaces in a defined spatial position, called "position of the navigation object"; the site illustrated in FIG. 1 comprises ten navigational objects, numbered from N 1 to N 1 0;

a3) creating an object 1, bi or three-dimensional, mobile in said space and controllable by a user through a control interface or a device, such as a mouse, keyboard keys, a joystick or a sensor of movement, connected to the interface.

The navigation object is the equivalent of a door leading to another position: another 3D space of the same site, or another site, in 3D or not. Any graphic object can be intended to be a navigation object. For example, simply, the representation of a door or poster referring to another site.

Similarly, the mobile object 1 is advantageously in 3D and is an avatar of the user in the site. It can, as such, take the form of a human being, a fictional character, an animal or an object.

Of course, during step A, other objects 2 may be created, such as decorative objects 2a, non-functional characters, mobile or static, windows 2b for viewing video or broadcasting music, etc.

In step A, only the shapes of the 3D spaces and objects are defined. The acquisition of their function (s) (navigation, mobility, behavior, etc.) is only done in the subsequent stage B, thanks to real-time 3D software. In the present description, a real-time 3D software is software comprising at least the following functionalities:

• Import of data with application of compression without degradation of shapes and volumes;

• Application of at least one camera (XYZ point, focal length);

• Attribution of a contemplative or embedded mode

• In embedded mode, be able to connect the movements to the functions of the navigation devices (forward, backward, turn, ...)

• Export in a format interpretable by the main WEB browsers and allowing real-time interactive 3-dimensional navigation

• UNITY3D® edited by Unity Technologies

• 3DVIA® edited by DASSAULT SYSTEMES®

• Quest3D® edited by Act-3D B.V.®

During this step B, a real-time 3D software is used for:

b l) attribute to the space or each space in three dimensions:

• a reference system of three-dimensional coordinates. This repository makes it possible to define and know the position (x, y, z) of each object with respect to a position of origin x = 0, y = 0 and z = 0;

• aesthetic properties, such as textures, images, photos, or graphic animations (water body or waterfall, circulation of clouds on a surface representing a ceiling or a window), it being understood that the structure 3D space is created in step A;

Functional properties, such as one or more light sources, a function of raising and lowering at regular intervals of an elevator (whose structure was created in step A), etc. ; and

Simulated physical properties, such as a magnetic field an electromagnetic field, or a force of gravity that allows, for example, to drop water or an object in 3D space with a trajectory in accordance with the simulated physical properties .

Similarly, during a step b2), said navigation object is assigned: • aesthetic properties, such as textures, images, photos;

• Navigation properties, such as a link to a so-called "arrival" position in the three-dimensional space or a link to a so-called "destination" network address. Thus, when the navigation object is selected in accordance with the method according to the invention described later, the moving object is moved to the destination position or a destination network address is opened in the navigation software; and

• Simulated physical properties, such as deformation laws, or a mass (whose weight will be defined according to the force of gravity attributed to the 3D space, for example).

Also, during a step b3), the mobile and controllable object is assigned:

• an initial position 4 in the space or one of the spaces of the project. In the example of FIG. 1, the 3D space Al has an initial position 4 to which the mobile object 1 is located when the site is first opened in the navigation software. This is the gateway of the site according to the invention which is, by analogy with the current 2D sites, the equivalent of the "home page";

• aesthetic properties, such as textures; and

• functional properties, such as mobility in three-dimensional space, mobility can be continuous only, or include the ability to jump, fall, cling to objects (to whom the property has been given to be caught by the moving object, of course); and

• simulated physical properties, such as deformation laws, mass.

Then, in a step b5), the three-dimensional project is recorded as a digital file having a format interpretable by at least one navigation software.

As an illustrative and non-limiting example, the Unity3D software allows the project to be saved in the format ".EXE" (for auto-executable);

The file obtained in step b5) is then stored on an online network server during a step D, then a network address is assigned to the file during a step E in order to make it accessible by the network in the form a network site.

The site obtained by the process according to the invention thus comprises:

• a network address;

• at least one space in three dimensions; At least one navigation object N arranged in space at a position (x, y, z) of the navigation object;

At least one mobile and controllable object in said space.

Preferably, the navigation object N consists of an information display, bi or tri-dimensional, and a so-called "detection" area, bi or tri-dimensional, preferably arranged near the display.

"Nearby" means that the detection zone is preferably disposed in a partial or total peripheral zone around the first object.

The navigation object thus fulfills three functions:

• by the display, an information function of the user to indicate its status as a navigation object and / or possibly the position or the network site to which it allows navigation;

• by the detection zone, a detection function of the moving object in the vicinity of the navigation object; and

• by the display and / or the detection zone (this depends on the choice made by the person who created the site), a navigation function, that is to say opening a new network address or positioning from the moving object to a destination position in a 3D space having the same network address as that of the space in which the navigation object is located.

In FIG. 2, the 3D space comprises two navigation objects N i 1 and N I 2.

The object N I 1 comprises a three-dimensional display N I 1 1 near which is a detection zone N I 1 2 also three-dimensional (alternatively it could be two-dimensional).

The object N I 2 comprises a two-dimensional display N I 2 1 in the form of a door near which there is a detection zone N I 22 also two-dimensional (alternatively it could be three-dimensional).

As will be explained in more detail below, the navigation property associated with each navigation object is activated by simply meeting the mobile object 1 with the navigation object N, without the need to click on the navigation object with one of the buttons of a mouse. Architecture of the site

According to a first embodiment of the invention, each three-dimensional space of the site is associated with a specific network address.

Thus, according to the invention, it is possible to create a site having a plurality of 3D spaces, each 3D space having a specific network address. This amounts to considering each 3D space as an independent network site. The only links that exist between the 3D spaces are the navigational properties of the navigation objects that allow the mobile object to navigate from 3D space to 3D space, that is from network address to network address.

In this first embodiment, at least one navigation object of each 3D space has as navigation property the ability to control the opening, in the navigation software, of a destination network address, different from the network address. of the 3D space in which the navigation object is located, and to position the mobile and controllable object at a so-called "arrival" position in a three-dimensional space of a three-dimensional site having the address destination network.

For example, if the site of FIG. 1 is made in accordance with this first embodiment, each 3D space A1 to A6 has its own network address.

Each space A2 to A5 includes, in this simplified example, a navigation object for navigating to the next space and a navigation object for navigating to the previous space.

Al space has only one navigation object to navigate to A2 space, and the next space A6 has only one navigation object to navigate to the previous space A5.

When the moving object 1 walks in the space Al along the path F 1, it can meet the navigation object N I. This meeting triggers the opening of the network address of the 3D space A2 by the navigation software, in the same tab, in the same window, in a new tab or in a new window.

The navigation software then displays the destination 3D space (here space A2) and positions the mobile object 1 therein. Advantageously, the navigation property assigned to the navigation object further comprises the ability to navigate the mobile object 1 to a specific arrival position.

Advantageously, this arrival position is located near the position of a navigation object N2 located in the destination space A2, this object N2 allowing a return to the starting space A1. Thus, in the event that the user has made a bad manipulation by triggering the opening of the address of the space A2, he can easily return to the previous space thanks to the object N2.

In a second embodiment of the invention, each 3D space of the site is associated with a common network address. In this case, the navigation is done not by loading a new network address, but by "teleporting" the moving object in the 3D space to the arrival position, that is to say by positioning the object mobile directly to the arrival position, without the user having to control the movement of the moving object all the way from the navigation object to the arrival position.

In this second embodiment, the or each navigation object has the navigation property the ability to position the mobile and controllable object at an arrival position in a three-dimensional space of the network site in which the user is located. navigation object.

For example, if the site of FIG. 1 is made according to this second embodiment, each 3D space Al to A6 has the same network address.

When the moving object 1 walks in the space Al along the path F 1, it can meet the navigation object N I. This meeting triggers the sending of the mobile and controllable object 1 to an arrival position in the 3D space A2 of the network site. It is of course conceivable to provide several navigation objects within the same space, so that the object is sent from object to object in the same space.

Navigation

As explained above, the navigation property associated with each navigation object is activated by simply meeting the moving object 1 with the navigation object N. More specifically, the invention proposes a method of navigation from or within the network address of a three-dimensional space of a network site according to the invention, comprising the following steps.

Using a hardware interface,

a) In a navigation software adapted to the hardware interface used (a computer, a tablet or a Smartphone, for example):

at. l) the user opens the network address of the site according to the invention;

a.2) then it controls the movement of the movable and controllable object 1 in the one or one of the three-dimensional spaces from an initial position 4 (FIG. 1); a.3) depending on the information present on navigation objects N or their shape or any other visual or auditory stimulus, the user may be interested in a navigation object and decide to implement the action of navigation associated with the object of interest. For this, without it being necessary for the user to click on the object, he selects a navigation object by positioning the mobile object 1 and controllable in secant manner with respect to the navigation object;

a.6) the navigation software then generates a navigation action according to the navigation properties assigned to the navigation object.

The mobile and commandable object can be displayed on the interface, as if the user were "outside" the mobile object. This representation allows easy manipulation of the mobile object by the user.

Alternatively, the representation can be more immersive in the site by removing the display of the moving object, so that the user feels like the moving object itself.

These two types of representations are known in video games, respectively under the names "third-person view" (the avatar is displayed), and "first-person view" (the moving object is not displayed) .

Even if the mobile object is not displayed, it is still included in the network site according to the invention, and it is functional, that is to say that it can be positioned secantely with an object navigation. The control of the movement of the moving object can be done with keys of a keyboard (preferably the arrows), with a joystick, with one or more motion detectors (accelerometer, radar, camera, etc.), capable of detecting the movement of the interface itself, at least one finger, at least one hand, at least one eye, the head, or the body.

The moving object can also be moved by mouse movement (or finger for touch interfaces) but not by mouse buttons (mouse clicks) or manual clicks for touch interfaces. According to the invention, the selection of the navigation object, and therefore the navigation, is done solely by means of moving the moving object, without a means of selection (click buttons of a mouse ) is necessary.

Advantageously, as illustrated in FIGS. 3 and 4, if the navigation object comprises an information display and a detection zone, step a3) consists of selecting the navigation object N by positioning the mobile object 1 of Secant way (see area 5 in Figure 4) with respect to the detection area of the navigation object.

As long as the moving object is not secant with the detection zone (FIG. 3), no navigation action is generated. However, the user can read on the screen what is written on the navigation object. If he wants to trigger the navigation, for example because he is interested in visiting the site that is represented on the object, the user controls with his joystick, his arrow pad, or any other motion detection interface, the movement of the moving object towards the navigation object (direction of arrow F2 in Figure 3).

Alternatively, the detection zone N I 22 may be flat, that is to say, two-dimensional. In this case, the selection of the navigation object is done when the moving object meets the plane, passes over the plane or passes below the plane of the detection zone.

When the moving object 1 is secant with the detection zone, the navigation action is triggered.

Alternatively, the detection area of the navigation object can be included in the information display, if the information display is provided with a physical property for detecting that the moving object hits it rigidly or elastically (with or without deformation). The detection zone included in the display can then command the navigation software to generate the navigation action.

Preferably, step a) of the method according to the invention further comprises, after step a.3), a step a.4) of predefined duration delay, starting as soon as the mobile object and the object the navigation zone or the detection zone are intersecting, step a.6) being triggered only if the mobile object and the navigation object or the detection zone remain intersecting during the entire duration of the time delay.

In other words, if the moving object 1 and the detection zone are no longer intersecting before the end of the predefined delay time (for example 3 seconds), the navigation action is not triggered. This allows the user to move the mobile object 1 away from the navigation object if he does not wish to navigate, or if he has made a mistake. This possibility of retraction allows a very smooth navigation, walking the moving object without the risk of navigating involuntarily out of the 3D space in which the user is. On the contrary, with a mouse or finger click for the touch interfaces, it is necessary either to stop the loading of the new address, at the same time to go back by the button "to retreat of a page" of the software of navigation. In the present method, the user is informed that he has triggered a countdown to navigate out of the 3D space in which he is, and he can choose to retract before triggering the navigation action.

Optionally, the method according to the invention can comprise, when the timer is started (thus after step a.4)), and before the navigation action is triggered (thus before step a.6). )), a step a.5) predefined repositioning of the moving object relative to the navigation object, as soon as the moving object and the navigation object or the detection zone are intersecting, the repositioning retaining secants the moving object and the navigation object or the detection zone to prevent the timer from being canceled.

This repositioning can be the information given to the user that he is about to trigger a navigation action.

Figures 5 to 7 summarize the navigation method according to the invention, according to whether it comprises a timing step (Figure 6), repositioning (Figure 7), or none of these steps (Figure 5). The flowchart in Figure 5 is interpreted as follows:

After having implemented step a. l), the user walks the mobile object 1 in the 3D space of the site according to the invention, in a step a.2).

As long as no navigation object N is selected in accordance with step a.3) (arrow "no" of step a.3) of FIG. 5), the movement of the moving object 1 can continue according to step a.2).

When a navigation object N is selected in accordance with step a.3) (arrow "yes" of step a.3) of FIG. 5), step a.6) can be implemented, and a navigation action is triggered.

If the method according to the invention comprises a timing step, the flowchart of FIG. 6 is interpreted as follows:

Steps from a. 1) to the arrow "no" of step a.3) are identical to the figure

5.

When a navigation object N is selected in accordance with step a.3) (arrow "yes" of step a.3) of FIG. 6), the timing step a.4) is started.

If the timer is interrupted (arrow "no" of step a.4) of Figure 6), the movement of the moving object 1 can continue according to step a.2).

If the timer goes to completion (arrow "yes" of step a.4) of Figure 6), step a.6) can be implemented, and a navigation action is triggered.

If the method according to the invention comprises a step of repositioning, the flowchart of FIG. 7 is interpreted as follows:

Steps from a. 1) to the arrow "no" of step a.3) are identical to the figure

6.

When a navigation object N is selected in accordance with step a.3) (arrow "yes" of step a.3) of FIG. 7), the timing step a.4) is started. A repositioning of the moving object 1 with respect to the navigation object N is then performed by the navigation software so as not to interrupt the timer involuntarily.

If the user retracts, he commands a recoil motion of the moving object, so that it is no longer secant with the detection zone. The timer is then interrupted voluntarily by the user (arrow "no" of step a.4) of Figure 7), and the movement of the moving object 1 can continue according to step a.2).

If the user leaves the mobile object in its repositioned position, the timer goes to completion (arrow "yes" of step a.4) of Figure 7), step a.6) can be implementation, and a navigation action is triggered.

As previously described, this navigation action can be either the opening of a new network address, or the immediate positioning of the moving object at an arrival position in the same 3D space or in a different 3D space but provided with the same network address as the network site where the navigation object is located.

Access table

Advantageously, the invention proposes to associate with the 3D site according to the invention, a text file called, in the present description, "access table". This file contains a standard description of the site in 3D according to predefined descriptors.

Thus, the method for manufacturing a three-dimensional network site according to the invention comprises, before step D), a step C 1) of creating and networking a site access table comprising at less the following information:

• a descriptor of the access table including the URL of the site, the number of three-dimensional space that the site contains, the number of navigation objects that the site contains, and the field separator used;

• an initial position of a user when accessing the site.

• an identifier of the or three-dimensional space in the site;

• an identifier of the navigation object or objects;

• the position of each navigation object;

• the navigation properties of each navigation object; and

The access table is therefore in the form of a table constituted at least by the following columns:

• 3D Space ID

• navigation object identifier;

• navigation object position;

• navigation object navigation property; and • initial position of the mobile object when a user accesses the site.

For example, the site of Figure 1 could have as an access table the following file:

http: //www.XXXX. yyy

6

1 0

0,0,0

/

A 1 / N 1 / xN 1 yN 1 zN 1 / A2 / N 2 / xN 2 y N 2 ZN 2

A2 / N2 / xN2yN2zN2 / A 1 / N 1 / xN 1 yN 1 zN 1

A2 / N3 / xN3yN3zN3 / A3 / N4 / xN4yN4zN4

A3 / N4 / xN4yN4zN4 / A2 / N3 / xN3yN3zN3 /

A3 / N5 / xN5yN5zN5 / A4 / N6 / xN6yN6zN6 /

A3 / N7 / xN7yN7zN7 / A5 / N8 / xN8yN8zN8

A4 / N6 / xN6yN6zN6 / A3 / N5 / xN5yN5zN5

A5 / N8 / xN8yN8zN8 / A3 / N7 / xN7yN7zN7

A5 / N9 / xN9yN9zN9 / A6 / N 1 0 / xN 1 OyN 1 OzN 1 0

A6 / N 1 0 / xN 1 OyN 1 OzN 1 0 / A5 / N9 / xN9yN9zN9

This file is interpreted as follows:

The first line is the URL of the site.

The second line is the number of three-dimensional spaces in the site. As seen in Figure 1, the site has six spaces Al to A6.

The third line is the number of navigation objects in the site. In the example of Figure 1, the site has ten.

The fourth line is the initial position of the visitor's avatar in the site. Here, the initial position is identical to the reference position where x = 0, y = 0 and z = 0. This is, in Figure 1, the entry door referenced 4 in the figure.

The fifth line is the field separator used. Here it is /. Thus, the display system of the site knows how to interpret the following lines comprising different fields (or columns).

The sixth to fifteenth lines describe each navigation object and its navigation properties. For example, the sixth line is interpreted as follows: In the space Al, the object NI positioned at the coordinates xN l yN l zN la for navigation property to place the user in the space A2, near the object N2 positioned at the coordinates xN2yN2zN2. Of course, this is only an example embodiment of an access table. Instead of directly including the previous information, the access table could use other tables including the information. This would speed up the reading and interpretation of the access table by the navigation software.

A standard could be established for the design of the access table so that the navigation software can interpret uniformly access tables of all 3D sites according to the invention.

The access table of the site according to the invention is particularly advantageous because it allows:

• ergonomic navigation within a site or between two sites;

• in combination with a navigation history table (described in detail later), to allow a return navigation;

• increased security of the site in terms of administration and access.

Indeed, when the network site according to the invention is associated with an access table, it is possible to provide that the browser browses the access table just before generating the navigation action. Thus, the software knows the configuration of the destination 3D space before sending the mobile object 1.

Advantageously, the method according to the invention provides a timing step a.4), furthermore comprising, during the time delay, the consultation by the navigation software of the access table of the network site to which the object of navigation.

If it is an intra site navigation (that is to say within the same network address), it is the access table of the site where the object is already located. mobile 1.

If it is an inter-site navigation (that is to say from a first network site according to the invention, called "departure", to a second network site according to the invention, said "Arrival") is the access table of the destination network site.

The navigation software can then position the moving object at the initial position 4 of the arrival site.

Preferably, step a.4) of the method according to the invention furthermore comprises, during the time delay, and after the reception of the access table of the second network site, the display a position called "arrival" by default (for example the initial position of the arrival site) and the position of the object or each of the navigation objects of the second network site, so that the user can choose the position you want to reach in the second network site.

In other words, the invention provides that during the timing phase, the destination site targeted by the navigation object of the departure site, sends to the starting site its access table for locating each navigation object in the targeted site.

The start site then displays, still during the timeout phase, the possible destinations (i.e., at least the positions of navigation objects) in the targeted site.

Thus, after having interpreted the access table of the arrival site, the navigation software can propose to the user either to position the moving object at the initial position of the arrival site, or close to the one navigation objects, or even another object. It is then sufficient for the user to select the destination position of his choice.

The access table thus allows ergonomic navigation within a site or between two sites.

An example of navigation according to the invention is illustrated in FIG.

The moving object illustrated in the form of an avatar 1 navigates within a site A according to the invention, from site A to site B according to the invention, within site B, and back to site A .

In the embodiment of FIG. 9, the mobile object 1 is moved by the user from the initial position 4 of the site A, located in the 3D space A7, until the navigation object NI 3 is selected according to the method according to the invention.

The navigation action of the object N I 3 consists of placing the moving object 1 close to the navigation object N 1 4 of the 3D space A8.

The moving object 1 is then moved in the space A8 until the navigation object N I 5 is selected according to the invention.

The navigation action of the object NI 5, generated during step a.6), comprises opening, in the browser software, the network address of the site B of destination, different from the address three-dimensional space network A8 in which the navigation object 1 is located. By default, the navigation action further comprises positioning the mobile object 1 at an arrival position in the 3D space B3 of the site B having the destination network address. Here, the arrival position is the initial position 6 in the space B3.

As explained above, the method according to the invention can propose this arrival position 6 by default, but also, thanks to the access table, another arrival position, here the position of the navigation object NI 5 in 3D space B l.

Assuming that the user selects the NI position 6, the navigation software opens the network address of the site B and places the mobile object 1 near the navigation object NI 6 ("nearby" to avoid to be in a selection position of navigation object N 1 6 and to immediately return to position NI 5).

Then the user moves the moving object to select the navigation object N I 7 which positions the moving object near the navigation object N I 8 in the space B3.

Then, the user moves the moving object in the space B3 until the navigation object N I 9 is selected and positions the moving object in the vicinity of the navigation object N20 in the space B2.

In the same way, the moving object goes from navigation object N20 to N2 1, then

N22.

The user thus visited the entire site B.

The return to Site A is from Navigational Object N I 6 to Navigation Object N I 5, and Site A can continue through navigational objects N23, N24, N25 and N26.

Note that in this example, the navigation has always been done in "forward" mode, that is to say that the return to site A is not done through a history, but so continue, always selecting the navigation objects.

However, the access table also allows, in combination with a navigation history table, an efficient return navigation, without having to select the navigation objects to retrace its steps.

Navigation history

In the case of a network address to network address navigation, the return navigation is done by the button "move back a page" of the navigation software. In order to allow an optimal return, close to the position that the mobile object occupied before leaving the site, the invention proposes the creation of a specific history table. Indeed, the classic history of the navigation software is unable to memorize the spatial position of the moving object in a three-dimensional network site. It only stores the network address of the site (s) previously visited.

Without the access table, the selection of the "move back a page" button of the navigation software systematically deposit the moving object at the initial position in the site 3 D according to the invention. In other words, the entire journey made in the starting site would be lost on return. If the 3D space is large, this would require the user to reorder the movement of the moving object to near the position where the moving object was before leaving the site.

Two embodiments of a method according to the invention generating a history table are illustrated in FIGS. 9 and 10, for a navigation between several 3D spaces having the same common network address, and FIGS. 1 1 and 1 2 for a navigation between several 3D spaces each having a specific network address.

Browsing history within a single network address

In the first embodiment of a navigation within the same network address, it is necessary to provide, during the manufacture of the site, after step a3), a step a4) of creating a selectable button "Previous position" and a selectable button "next position", and after step b3), a step b4) assigning each of these buttons the following properties:

• associated with a history table;

• select with mouse click or manual click for touch interfaces; and

• constantly posted on the site.

In other words, in this case, it is necessary to introduce in the site the buttons to go back or return forward. Indeed, the navigation being done within the same network address, the use of the buttons "Advancing of a page" and "backing up of a page" of the navigation software would simply leave the site 3D, since the history navigation software only stores network addresses. The buttons introduced on the site and constantly displayed, whatever the position of the mobile object and / or whatever the 3D space of the site, allow, in association with a history table according to the invention and the table access according to the invention to return to a previous spatial position, without having to restart the movements of the moving object.

In the case of a navigation within the same network address, the or each navigation object has as functional property the ability to send the mobile and controllable object to an arrival position in a three-dimensional space of the the same network site where the navigation object is located.

In order to manage the navigation history, the method according to the invention provides that

• step a. l) further comprises creating and storing in memory a first "first-in-first-out" PI history table, as well as associating the first history table with the selected selection buttons " previous position "and" next position "of the network site; and

Step a.6) includes inserting, as the first input PI 1 in the first history table, the identifier PI 1a of the three-dimensional space in which the moving object is located, and the position PI 1b of the navigation object selected in the three-dimensional space.

A history table is an alphanumeric table with entries ordered according to their order of introduction into the table. Each entry represents historical information, such as the address of a visited network site.

A table is called "last in-first out" (or "last in - first out", "LIFO" in English) when it is read starting with the last entry (that is, the entry the most recent in the order of introduction).

The exemplary embodiment of FIG. 9 illustrates a navigation within the site of FIG. 1, assuming that each 3D space of this site has the same common URL1 network address. A first PI history table was created when site A was opened.

In this example, the mobile object 1 is moved by the user in the space A1, until the navigation object N I is selected according to the method according to the invention.

The navigation action of the object NI consists in placing the mobile object 1 near the navigation object N2 of the 3D space A2. At the same time, the PI history table is supplemented by a first PI 1 input including a location information of the moving object 1 before its positioning in the vicinity of the object N2. This positioning information includes the identifier PI 1a of the three-dimensional space in which the moving object was located (here space Al), and the spatial position PI 1 b (in x, y and z coordinates). the selected NI navigation object in this Al space.

Then the user moves the moving object in the space A2 to select the navigation object N3 which positions the moving object in the vicinity of the navigation object N4 in the space A3. In parallel, the history table PI is completed by a second PI 2 entry comprising a location information of the moving object 1 before its positioning in the vicinity of the object N4. This positioning information comprises the identifier PI 2a of the three-dimensional space in which the moving object (here space A2) was located, and the spatial position PI 2b (in x, y and z coordinates) of the navigation object N3 selected in this space A2.

Then the user moves the moving object in the space A3 to select the navigation object N5 which positions the moving object near the navigation object N6 in the space A4. In parallel, the history table PI is completed by a second PI entry 3 including location information of the moving object 1 before its positioning in the vicinity of the object N6. This positioning information comprises the identifier PI 3a of the three-dimensional space in which the moving object (here space A3) was located, and the spatial position PI 3b (in x, y and z coordinates) of the navigation object N5 selected in this space A3.

To go back, without having to select navigation objects, the user can click on the button "previous position" of the network site. This button being associated with the table LIFO PI, the navigation software will read the last entry of the stack: the entry PI 3. It will then place the mobile object 1 in the space A3, close to the position ( x, y, z) of the object N5.

The user could thus return to the 3D starting space A1, without having to control the movement of the moving object, but simply by returning to its previous actions. The schematic view of FIG. 10 shows that, in this example, the user has returned only one step back, at the object N5 of the space A3.

There, he decides to visit the space A5, by selecting, in accordance with the invention, the navigation object N7, this navigation object N7 having a position not stored in the first history table PI.

The navigation action associated with this object N7 places the mobile object 1 near the object N8 in the space A5.

In this case, the method comprises an additional step γ. 1) creation and storage in memory of a second history table P2, type "last-in-first out", and the association of the second history table with the selectable buttons "Advancing a page "and" back one page "from the network site.

Parallel to the placement of the moving object 1 near the navigation object N8, in the space A5, the method according to the invention provides for inserting:

As first entry P2 1 in the second history table P2, a reference to the first history table PI;

As a second input P22 in the second history table P2, the identifier P22a of the initial three-dimensional space (here space A3) and the spatial position P22b (in x, y and z coordinates) of the navigation object N7 selected in the starting three-dimensional space A3;

As the last PI entry 3 in the first PI history table, a reference to the second history table P2.

Then the user decides to visit the space A6 by selecting, in accordance with the invention, the navigation object N9.

The navigation action associated with this object N9 places the mobile object 1 close to the object N I 0 in the space A6.

Meanwhile, the second history table P2 is completed by a third input P23 comprising a location information of the moving object 1 before its positioning in the vicinity of the object N 1 0. This positioning information comprises the identifier P23a of the three-dimensional space in which the moving object was located (here space A5), and the spatial position P23b (in x, y and z coordinates) of the navigation object N9 selected in this space A5.

And so on.

History of navigation between multiple network addresses

FIGS. 11 and 12 illustrate the same course of the user, via the mobile object 1, among the spaces A 1 to A 6 of the site of FIG. 1, in the event that each of these spaces has its own address network, respectively URL1 to URL6.

The generation of the first and second history tables P3 and P4 is similar to that described for a site having common network address 3D spaces (FIGS. 9 and 10), with the difference that the tables of P3 and P4 are associated with the "Move One Page" and "Move Back One Page" selection buttons of the navigation software itself, while the PI and P2 history tables are associated with buttons displayed on the screen. site itself.

Furthermore, the entries in the history tables P3 and P4 include location information of the moving object in the previous network address, namely: the network address of the three-dimensional starting space and the position the selected navigation object in the starting three-dimensional space.

For example, in FIG. 12, when the user has arrived at the address URL4, the table P3 comprises three entries P3 1, P32 and P33 relating, chronologically, to the location information of the mobile object 1 in the sites URL1, URL2 and URL3.

An input (eg input P3 1) comprises the network address P3 1a of the starting three-dimensional space and the position P3 1b of the selected navigation object in the initial three-dimensional space .

Similarly, again in this FIG. 12, when the user has arrived at the URL address 6, the table P4 comprises two entries P41 and P42 relating, chronologically, to the location information of the mobile object 1 in the URL3 sites and URL5.

Generalization

In a more general way, the navigation can concern more 3D space and / or more network addresses than what is illustrated in the examples. FIGS. 1 3 and 1 4 illustrate the generalization of the method according to the invention for creating and completing the history tables.

These figures illustrate a navigation between sites having different network addresses (URL 1, 2, 3, n-2, n-1, n), or between different 3D spaces (space 1, 2, 3, n-2, n- 1, n) having the same common address.

The general principle remains the same.

Thus, the navigation method according to the invention provides that, for a navigation by advancing navigation objects in navigation objects, step a) is repeated n-2 times (in the figure "Rep n-2") , n being an integer greater than or equal to 3, to arrive at an arrival position of rank n. Indeed, the first iteration al of step a) makes it possible to go from the URL address 1 to the URL address 2 (or from the space 1 to the space 2). The first repetition Rep 1 of step a) leads to the iteration a2 of step a) which makes it possible to pass from the URL address 2 to the URL address 3 (or from the space 2 to the space 3), and so on. It is therefore n-2 repetition of step a) to reach the URL n or space n.

The first history table P3 is, of course, created only at the first iteration and completed during the other iterations, each iteration of step a) corresponding to an opening of a new network address. Each network address and, preferably, a position of each navigation object is stored chronologically in the first history table during navigation.

Alternatively, the first PI history table is also created at the first iteration and completed during the other iterations, each iteration of step a) corresponding to the positioning of the mobile object and controllable to a new position of arrival in a three-dimensional space with the same network address as the network site in which the navigation object is located. The identifier of the three-dimensional space and the position of the selected navigation object are stored chronologically at each iteration in the first history table during navigation.

Thanks to the history table, the method according to the invention may furthermore comprise a step β) of going back, consisting of reading the network address (or the identifier of the three-dimensional space and the position of the navigation object) of rank n-1 in the first history table, and to open this rank n-1 network address in the navigation software (or position the moving object near the position of the selected navigation object of rank n-1).

In the case of a navigation between different network addresses, step β) can also include the positioning of the moving object near the position of the selected navigation object in the three-dimensional space having the address network of rank n-1.

This step β) can be repeated k times, k being an integer between 1 and n-2. If k is n-2, the user is returned to the first URL (or starting point)

1) ·

If k is between 1 and n-3, the user can still make a bifurcation in his navigation.

The method provides that the user can choose to start in a new direction, that is, to select a navigation object not yet stored in the history table.

After the iteration of rank k of step β), the method comprises at least one step γ) of navigation towards a network site having a non-stored network address (or a navigation object having a non-stored position) in the first historical table P3 (or PI), step γ) comprising the following substeps:

γ. 1) create and store in memory a second history table P4 (or P2) of the type "last incoming-first out", and associate the second history table with the select buttons "move forward one page" and "Back one page" of the browser software (or network site);

γ.2) controlling the movement of the mobile and controllable object in the one or three-dimensional spaces of the network site having the non-stored network address in the first history table (or in one of the three-way spaces) dimensions of a network site according to the invention);

γ.3) selecting a navigation object, preferably by positioning the mobile object and controllable in secant manner with respect to the navigation object;

γ.ό) generate a navigation action according to the navigation properties assigned to the navigation object, and insert: As the first entry in the second history table P4 (or P2), a reference to the first history table P3 (or PI);

As a second entry in the second history table P4 (or P2), the identifier of the starting three-dimensional space and the position of the selected navigation object in the starting three-dimensional space;

• as the last entry in the first history table P3 (or PI), a reference to the second history table P4 (or P2).

In Figure 14, which illustrates the return to the previous network addresses (or 3D space) through the history table, k is equal to n-3. In other words, the user has returned to URL 2 (or Space 2). At this address (or in this space), it selects a navigation object having a position not stored in the first history table P3 (or PI), this object allowing it to pass to the site "A", itself to move to site "B".

The explanation was given for the creation of two tables of history, corresponding to a single bifurcation in the navigation (bifurcation at rank k).

It is understood that at each bifurcation, an additional history table is created, a reference to the previous history table is inserted, and a reference to the new history table is inserted in the table d previous history.

Securing access

The invention takes advantage of the spatialization (three-dimensional rather than two-dimensional space) of the site to ensure the security of the site, both in terms of referencing by the search engines, but also in terms of private access (usually managed by username and password) and dynamic site management.

Thus, a site according to the invention, manufactured according to the method according to the invention makes it possible to secure the management of the site and its access in a very innovative way, thanks to the three-dimensional spaces and to the navigation objects that are there, in particular thanks to the "physical" interactions between these objects and the mobile object (when it meets the navigation objects, in accordance with the method according to the invention) and thanks to the access table associated with the site according to the invention. If the access table is written in a format interpretable by a browser, then a search engine can also read and interpret it. He can then reference the site, not only by keywords (as for conventional 2D sites), but also by its objects, including its navigation objects.

Access to the site is completely free.

Thanks to the access table, it is possible to make this selective referencing, or even to prohibit the referencing of the site.

To this end, the method of manufacturing the site provides after step C 1), a step C2) of encryption of the access table, this encryption can be partial (selective referencing) or total (no referencing).

Alternatively, or in combination, the method according to the invention advantageously provides for the access table to further include access rights data. These access rights data are, for example, data managing the possibility / impossibility of accessing the site, or managing the display / concealment of one or more navigation objects, or managing the activation / the inactivation of one or more navigation objects.

Thus, depending on the access rights, it is possible to see or not certain objects, including navigation objects.

It is therefore possible either to do without access type identifier / password, must strengthen the security of this type of access.

For example, in the case of a site having a private part, one of the navigation objects can be used to access this part in which the user will have to enter his username and password. Thanks to the invention, it is possible to display or not display this navigation object according to the access rights of the user.

A private access in a network site known from the state of the art is in the form of a selectable link on a public page of the site, for example "Client Access". The interested user clicks on this link and a page requesting an access key opens. Generally, this access key consists of an identifier (or login in English) and a password. During a so-called "brute force" attack of such a site, the hacker knows exactly where to click in the public page of the site to reach the page of access to the secure part, since the link is perfectly visible. The hacker can then launch a program that will try all possible passwords.

In a site according to the invention, an unauthorized person does not even see the link to the private part, since this link (a navigation object) is displayed only for an authorized person.

To take an image, everything happens as if the door of the safe of a bank appeared only for the people authorized to access it, and disappeared for all the other people, so that robbers would not even know where drill.

Thus, the method allows for double security: conventional security by identifier and password, and security upstream, by displaying or hiding the link to the private part.

Security can be further enhanced if access rights are also encrypted.

Alternatively, or in combination, the security of access can be further improved by providing, during the manufacture of the site, after step C 1), a step C3) of dividing the access table into several files, and peer-to-peer sharing of said files between multiple computer servers.

Thus, only users with adapted peer-to-peer file management software will be able to "rebuild" the access table to enter the site.

Advantageously, the step C3) is done on a previously encrypted access table, so that it will require not only a suitable peer-to-peer file management software, but also the encryption key to access the site. .

The flow charts of FIGS. 1-5 summarize the various possibilities for securing a website according to the present invention.

In Figure 1 5, the site is free to access and does not include special security other than what may exist in 2D sites (eg access by username and password). Figure 1 6 provides an encryption of the access table, while Figure 1 7 only provides a division of the access table into several files, and a pair-to-peer sharing of said files between multiple servers computer.

Figure 18 provides the combination of encryption and division of the access table.

Other possibilities exist to take advantage of the spatialization of the site. For example, it is possible to provide that the detection zone of the navigation object allowing access to the private part is movable relative to the display of the object. It is then possible to attribute to this detection zone and to the moving object properties that make it impossible to meet them. For example, it is possible to define in the site a north-south polarity, and to attribute to the mobile object (representing the user) and to the detection zone different polarities so that they attract, if the user is allowed to access the private part, and the same polarities if the user is not allowed. In the latter case, the detection zone will systematically "leak" the moving object without it being able to be secant with the detection zone, so that the navigation object can not be selected.

It is thanks to the spatialization of a network site according to the invention that secure access strategies can be implemented, impossible strategies with a site in 2D. In addition, it is through the interactions provided by the method according to the invention between the mobile object and the navigation objects that these strategies are effective. If it was enough to click on the navigation objects to select them, these strategies would be ineffective. Indeed, the invention takes advantage of the physical properties assigned to the objects during the manufacture of the site to use them as a security tool. Finally, the access table according to the invention plays a vital role in securing the site.

Claims

1. A method of manufacturing a so-called "three-dimensional" network site, such as an Internet site, which can be consulted via an interface connected to the network, characterized in that it comprises the following steps:

A) with 3D modeling software:

a3) creating a two or three dimensional mobile object in said space and controllable by a user through a control interface or a device, such as a mouse, keyboard keys, a joystick or a motion sensor, connected to the interface;

B) with real-time 3D software:

b l) attribute to the space or each space in three dimensions:

a reference system of three-dimensional coordinates;

aesthetic properties, such as textures or images;

functional properties, such as a light source; and

simulated physical properties, such as a force of gravity, a magnetic field, or an electromagnetic field;

b2) assigning to said navigation object:

aesthetic properties, such as textures;

simulated physical properties, such as deformation laws;

b3) assigning to said mobile and controllable object:

an initial position in the space or one of the spaces of the project, and • aesthetic properties, such as textures;

• functional properties, such as mobility in three-dimensional space; and

• simulated physical properties, such as deformation laws;

D) storing the file obtained in step b5) on an online network server;

2. A method of manufacturing a three-dimensional network site according to claim 1, wherein the navigation object consists of a bi or tri-dimensional information display and a so-called "detection" zone bi or tri-dimensional, preferably arranged near the display.

A method of manufacturing a three-dimensional network site according to claim 1, wherein each three-dimensional space of the site is associated with a specific network address.

A method of manufacturing a three-dimensional network site according to claim 1, wherein the or each three-dimensional space of the site is associated with a common network address.

5. A method of manufacturing a three-dimensional network site according to any one of claims 1 to 4, comprising, before step D), a step C l) of creation and networking of a table d access to the site containing at least the following information:

A descriptor of the access table comprising a number of rows, a number of columns and one or more field separator (s) used;

• an identifier of the or three-dimensional space in the site;

• an identifier of the navigation object or objects;

• the position of each navigation object;

• the navigation properties of each navigation object; and • an initial position of a user when accessing the site.

The method of manufacturing a three-dimensional network site according to claim 5, wherein the access table further comprises access rights data.

The method of manufacturing a three-dimensional network site according to claim 6, wherein the access rights data is data managing the possibility / impossibility of accessing the site, or managing the display / concealment of the site. one or more navigation objects, or managing the activation / inactivation of one or more navigation objects.

8. A method of manufacturing a three-dimensional network site according to claim 6 or 7, comprising, after step C l), a step C2) of encryption of the access table.

9. A method of manufacturing a three-dimensional network site according to claim 6, comprising, after step C l), a step C3) of dividing the access table into several files, and sharing of peer-to-peer of said files between multiple computer servers.

1 0. A method of manufacturing a three-dimensional network site according to claim 8, comprising, after step C2), a step C3) of dividing the access table encrypted into several files, and sharing pair-to-peer said files between multiple computer servers.

1 1. A method of manufacturing a three-dimensional network site according to claim 4, comprising, after step a3), a step a4) of creating a selectable button "previous position" and a selectable button "next position" , and after step b3), a step b4) of assigning each of these buttons the following properties:

• associated with a history table;

• selected with a mouse click or manual click; and

• constantly posted on the site.

1 2. Three-dimensional network site obtained by the process according to claim 1, characterized in that it comprises:

• A network address;

• at least one space in three dimensions;

At least one navigation object disposed at a position of the navigation object;

At least one mobile and controllable object in said space.

3. A three-dimensional network site obtained by the method according to claim 2, characterized in that at least one navigation object consists of a bi or tri-dimensional information display and a so-called "detection" zone. bi or tri-dimensional preferably arranged near the display.

4. A three-dimensional network site obtained by the method according to claim 3, wherein the navigation property assigned to the or each navigation object is the ability to control the opening, in the navigation software, of an address. destination network different from the network address of the three-dimensional space in which the navigation object is located.

A three-dimensional network site according to claim 14, wherein the navigation property assigned to the or each navigation object further comprises the ability to position the mobile and controllable object at a position called "d". arrival "in a three-dimensional space of a three-dimensional site having the destination network address.

6. A three-dimensional network site obtained by the method according to claim 4, in which the or each navigation object has the functional property of the ability to position the mobile and controllable object at an arrival position in a space in three. dimensions of the network site in which the navigation object is located.

7. A three-dimensional network site obtained by the process according to claim 5, characterized in that it comprises:

• a network address;

• at least one space in three dimensions; At least one navigation object disposed at the position of the navigation object;

At least one mobile and controllable object in said space.

and in that it is associated with an access table comprising at least the following information

• a descriptor of the access table to be interpreted by the navigation software, including the number of rows, the number of columns and the separator (s) field (s) used;

• an identifier of the or three-dimensional space in the site;

• an identifier of the navigation object or objects;

• the position of each navigation object;

• the navigation properties of each navigation object; and

• an initial position of a user when accessing the site.

A method of navigating from or within the network address of a three-dimensional space of a three-dimensional network site obtained by the method according to claim 1, using a hardware interface, such as a computer, a tablet or a smartphone, characterized in that it comprises the following steps: a) In a navigation software adapted to the hardware interface:

at. 1) open the network address;

The navigation method according to claim 18, from or within the network address of a three-dimensional network site obtained by the method of claim 2, wherein step a3) is to select a navigation object by positioning the movable object and controllable in secant manner with respect to the detection area of the navigation object.

20. Navigation method according to any one of claims 1 8 or 1 9, wherein step a) further comprises, after step a.3), a step a.4) of predefined duration time delay, starting as soon as the moving object and the navigation object or the detection zone are secants, step a.6) being triggered only if the moving object and the navigation object or the detection zone remain secant during the entire duration of the time delay.

2 1. Navigation method according to any one of claims 1 8 to

20, wherein step a) further comprises, before step a.6), a step a.5) predefined repositioning of the moving object with respect to the navigation object, as soon as the object mobile and the navigation object or the detection zone are intersecting, the repositioning retaining intersecting the moving object and the navigation object or the detection zone.

22. Navigation method according to any one of claims 1 8 to

2 1, within the network address of a three-dimensional network site obtained by the method according to claim 1, wherein the navigation action, generated in step a.6), comprises the positioning of the mobile and controllable object at a so-called "arrival" position in a three-dimensional space having the same network address as the network site in which the navigation object is located.

23. The navigation method according to claim 22, within the network address of a three-dimensional network site obtained by the method of claim 1 1, wherein step a.4) further comprises, during the delay, the consultation by the navigation software of the access table of the network site.

24. Navigation method according to any one of claims 1 to 23, within the network address of a three-dimensional network site obtained by the method according to claim 11, wherein:

• step a. l) further comprises creating and storing in memory a first "last-in-first-out" type history table, as well as associating the first history table with the selectable "position" buttons. previous "and" next position "of the network site; and Step a.6) comprises inserting, as the first entry in the first history table, the identifier of the three-dimensional space in which the moving object is located, and the position of the selected navigation object in the three-dimensional space.

25. The navigation method according to claim 24, wherein step a) is repeated n-2 times, n is an integer greater than or equal to 3, to arrive at an arrival position of rank n, the first d history being created only at the first iteration and completed during the other iterations, each iteration of step a) corresponding to the positioning of the mobile object and controllable to a new arrival position in a space in three dimensions having the same network address as the network site in which the navigation object is located, the identifier of the three-dimensional space and the position of the selected navigation object being stored chronologically at each iteration in the first table of the navigation object. history during navigation.

The navigation method according to claim 25, further comprising a backward step β) of reading the three-dimensional space identifier and the position of the n-1 navigation object. in the first history table, and to position the moving object near the position of the selected navigation object of rank n-1.

27. Navigation method according to any one of claims 25 or 26, wherein the step β) is repeated k times, k being an integer between 1 and n-2.

28. The navigation method according to claim 27, wherein k is between 1 and n-3, the position of the selected navigation object of rank k corresponding to a network site according to claim 1 2, the method comprising, in furthermore, after the iteration of rank k of step β), at least one step γ) of navigation towards a navigation object having a position not stored in the first history table, step γ) comprising the sub-items next steps: γ. 1) creation and storage in memory of a second history table of type "last incoming-first outgoing", as well as the association of the second history table with select buttons "Move forward one page" and "move back one page" from the network site;

• as the last entry in the first history table, a reference to the second history table.

29. Navigation method according to any one of claims 1 8 to 2 1, from the network address of a three-dimensional space of a three-dimensional network site obtained by the method according to claim 1, in which the navigation action, generated in step a.6), comprises opening, in the navigation software, a destination network address different from the network address of the three-dimensional space in which is the navigation object.

30. The navigation method according to claim 29, wherein the navigation action further comprises positioning the mobile and controllable object at a so-called "arrival" position in a three-dimensional space of a site. in three dimensions with the destination network address.

3 1. Navigation method according to one of claims 29 or 30, from a first network site, called "departure", to a second network site, called "arrival", obtained by the method according to claim 5, wherein step a.4) further comprises, during the delay, the transmission to the navigation software of the access table of the second network site.

32. Navigation method according to claim 31, wherein step a.4) further comprises, during the time delay, and after receiving the access table of the second network site, the display of a the default "arrival" position and the position of the object or of each of the navigation objects of the second network site, so that the user can choose the position to which he wishes to arrive in the second network site.

33. Navigation method according to any one of claims 29 to 32, wherein:

• step a. l) further comprises creating and storing in memory a first "last in-first-out" type history table, as well as associating the first history table with selectable "advance" buttons. one page "and" back one page "of the browser software; and

Step a.6) includes inserting, as the first entry in the first history table, the network address of the initial three-dimensional space and the position of the selected navigation object in the first three-dimensional space of departure.

34. The navigation method according to claim 33, wherein step a) is repeated n-2 times, n is an integer greater than or equal to 3, to arrive at a network address of rank n, the first history table. being created only at the first iteration and completed during the other iterations, each iteration of step a) corresponding to an opening of a new network address, each network address and, where appropriate, a position of each object browsers are stored chronologically in the first history table during navigation.

35. The navigation method as claimed in claim 34, further comprising a backward step (b) of reading the network address of rank n-1 in the first history table, and opening this network address of rank n-1 in the browser software.

36. Navigation method according to claim 35, wherein the step β) also comprises the positioning of the moving object near the position of the object. selected in the three-dimensional space with the network address of rank n-1.

37. Navigation method according to any one of claims 35 or 36, wherein the step β) is repeated k times, k being an integer between 1 and n-2.

38. The navigation method according to claim 37, wherein k is between 1 and n-3, the network address of rank k corresponding to a network site according to claim 12, the method further comprising, after iteration of rank k of step β), at least one step γ) of navigation towards a network site having a network address not stored in the first history table, step γ) comprising the following sub-steps: γ . 1) creation and storage in memory of a second history table of type "last incoming-first outgoing", as well as the association of the second history table with select buttons "Advancing a page" and " go back one page "of the navigation software;