JP2005242964A - Bookmark supported with three-dimensional technology, and web browsing support system supplied with various functions - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To realize a browsing history display function, a marker function, a retrieving function, and a prereading function for providing a user interface using various layouts in a three-dimensional space regarding pictures on a web page itself functioned as a bookmark and supporting web browsing. <P>SOLUTION: By analyzing bookmarks of a web browser, titles and URLs of the web page for the bookmarks are extracted, access to a web page of the WWW is performed by using the URLs of the web page. The web page itself is converted into an image, and the web page is displayed on the basis of the various layouts in the three-dimensional space. The browsing history display function makes the web page existing on the browsing history display by using the same technique with the bookmark. The marker function pastes images of a memo on the web page in the three-dimensional space. The retrieving function supplies retrieved results from the web page itself. The prereading function reads the linked web page in advance by extracting a link of the web page. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI

Description

The present invention relates to a web browsing support system, bookmarks, and user assistance in web browsing.

Due to the spread of the Internet, there is a huge amount of information on the WWW, and there is a Web browser as a system for accessing and acquiring a huge amount of information on the WWW. With the development of Web browsers, efficient Web browsing has become possible.

However, the bookmark, which is a typical function of the Web browser, is a list display of only the title and URL of the Web page, and cannot be said to have a sufficient user interface for performing Web browsing. In the list display method using bookmark text, if the user forgets the contents of a page, the following work can be assumed.

1. Select a forgotten web page from the bookmark and access the web page.

2. Examine the web pages you have visited.

3 If it is not the web page that the user is looking for, the web page to be searched is searched again from the bookmark.

Steps 1, 2, and 3 are repeated until the Web page requested by the user is reached. There is a demand for the development of a support system that increases the efficiency of Web browsing by reducing the burden on the user.

On the other hand, there are the following as conventional researches that support Web browsing. There is a context-dependent bookmark in which metadata such as ranking is attached to a bookmark web page by comparing the browsing history web page and the bookmark web page with emphasis on the process until the bookmark is obtained. (Shinsuke Nakajima, Shinsuke Kuroda, Katsumi Tanaka, “Context-dependent Web bookmark reflecting browsing history”, Information Processing Society of Japan Symposium Series Vol 2001, No. 17, pp 201-208). However, if you forget the contents of the web page, it is not enough to remember the web page. In other words, it may not be possible to remember what the Web page was.
Patent Publication 2002-132828

The bookmark of the current Web browser is a user interface with a list display. List display is a technique for simplifying implementation on a computer, and is difficult to handle for human users.

When the number of Web pages registered in the bookmark becomes enormous, it takes a long time to search for a Web page requested by the user in the list display, and if it is different from the required Web page, it must be searched again.

The present invention has been made in view of the above-mentioned problems. In the present invention, the user interface is improved by displaying a list of current bookmarks, and various functions are added to provide the user with efficient web browsing. The purpose is to do.

The support system for Web browsing according to claim 1 acquires a Web page title and URL in a bookmark from an existing Web browser, acquires a Web page from the WWW based on the Web page information, and then acquires the Web page. This is achieved by displaying an image of a web page converted into an image and converted into a three-dimensional space.

The support system for Web browsing according to claim 1 includes a Web page conversion module that converts a Web page itself into an image, a data acquisition module that acquires various information, a list display module that displays in a three-dimensional space, and a Web page It consists of a database that stores information and images of the Web page itself. When the Web page conversion module recognizes that the bookmark data of the Web browser exists in the database, it acquires the title and URL of the Web page from the data pace, makes a request for acquiring the Web page to the WWW, and the Web page conversion module acquires The Web page conversion module can analyze HTML stored in the Web page and display the Web page, display it on a virtual viewer that cannot be viewed by the user, convert the Web page itself into an image, Store the image in the database. The data acquisition module acquires and stores information from a bookmark and browsing history of a Web browser or a database. The list display module accesses the database based on the bookmark list sent from the data acquisition agent, acquires the image of the Web page itself registered in the bookmark, constructs a three-dimensional space, and then sends it. This is realized by displaying the list and the image of the Web page itself on a three-dimensional space based on the layout.

In order to realize an easy-to-handle user interface for displaying a web page in a three-dimensional space, there are three layouts according to claim 2. The Book layout uses a book metaphor, which allows the user to handle the book as if it were viewed in the real world. The Circle layout is suitable for displaying items that are drawn in a circle with the center of the three-dimensional space as the origin and are classified into the same category by bookmarks. The Dice layout is configured by a cube, and each surface is arranged by a Web page.

In order to display a Web page in a three-dimensional space, the Web page according to claim 3 is accessed and the Web page itself is held as an image, thereby displaying not only the title and URL but also the Web page itself. did.

In order to assist the user, the Web browser browsing support system according to claim 4 has a function of making a Web page transparent, a function of displaying a browsing history in a three-dimensional space, and a Web page displayed in the three-dimensional space. This has been achieved by having a function for pasting a memo, a function for searching from the contents of a web page, and a function for reading a linked web page in advance.

The Web browser browsing support system according to claim 5 is characterized in that when a user is browsing the Web, the Web page is made transparent so that the Web browser is not disturbed by the transparency of the Web page. Achieved the system.

In order to support the user's Web browsing, the Web browser browsing support system according to claim 6 is realized by reading the browsing history of the Web browser and displaying the Web page in the three-dimensional space in the same manner as the bookmark. In this case, the 3D browsing history display function searches the Web page from the enormous browsing history by providing a sort based on the search result, domain name, time series, and title of the Web search engine in claim 7. Achieve significant time savings.

In order to support the user's Web browsing, the Web browser browsing support system according to claim 8 converts the Web page into a memo inputted to the Web page displayed in the three-dimensional space and pastes it. The pasted image achieves a Web browser browsing support system by maintaining a coordinate relationship with the target Web page.

In order to support the user's Web browsing, the Web browser browsing support system according to claim 9 searches not only from the title and URL but also from the content of the Web page when searching the Web page to be obtained from the bookmark and browsing history of the Web browser. This is achieved by passing the URL of the Web page as a search keyword to a search site, performing a search, and displaying the search result in a three-dimensional space.

In order to support the user's Web browsing, the Web browser browsing support system according to claim 10 extracts a link in the Web page in advance, reads the extracted link destination, and reads the Web page itself according to claim 3. This is achieved by converting the image into an image and displaying the web page prefetched to the user in a three-dimensional space as soon as the request from the user is confirmed.

In order to support web browsing, the web browsing support program according to claim 11 can be applied to any web browser by creating a web browser and a system independently, and between a plurality of web browsers, bookmarks and Achieving this by featuring what allows browsing history sharing.

As described above, according to the present invention, when a web browsing is performed by displaying a web page in a three-dimensional space, the contents of the web page registered in the bookmark are accessed. It is possible to confirm without needing to do so, and the user can perform Web browsing more effectively.

Further, in the present invention, when displaying a Web page in the three-dimensional space, by using the Book layout, the Circle layout, and the Dice layout, the arrangement of the Web page in the three-dimensional space is taken into consideration, so that the user can use the page more. An easy and fun user interface can be provided.

Furthermore, in the present invention, a function for making a web page transparent to support a user's web browsing, a function for displaying a browsing history three-dimensionally, a function for pasting a memo to a web page displayed three-dimensionally, a web page in advance It is possible to support more effective Web browsing by having the function of reading the link destination of the.

In addition, in the present invention, by being independent of the web browser, it is possible to cope with any web browser, and bookmarks and browsing histories can be shared among a plurality of web browsers, so that any user can be shared. It becomes possible to respond.

As a Web browsing support by bookmarks, it was implemented as a WWeb system.

When searching for a Web page that contains the information that you want from a Web browser bookmark, you must search the Web page registered in the bookmark using a list display user interface. It may be difficult to remember if it was. For this reason, in the present invention, by displaying the Web page in the bookmark described in claim 1 in the three-dimensional space, it is possible to easily remember what the Web page in the bookmark was. Built.

According to the present invention, the Web page itself can be confirmed in the three-dimensional space, and FIG. 1 shows a screen shot in which the Web page is actually arranged in the three-dimensional space using the Book layout according to claim 2. ing. Web pages 10 to 15 in FIG. 1 display images of the Web page itself acquired according to claim 3. FIG. 2 is a three-dimensional display example using the Circle layout according to claim 2, and the web pages 21 to 28 are images of the web page itself acquired according to claim 3. FIG. 3 is a three-dimensional display example using the Dice layout according to claim 2, and the web pages 31 to 33 show images of the web page itself acquired according to claim 3.

The configuration in this embodiment is shown in FIG. In FIG. 4, the user possesses a computer, and an environment for performing web browsing by the present invention and a web browser is prepared inside the computer.

FIG. 5 shows an execution example in which the user is operating. First, the user selects a Web page to be obtained from the Web pages 51 to 56 in the bookmark displayed in the three-dimensional space, and selects the target Web page. When double-clicked, the web browser 50 set as the default in the OS is activated, and the selected web page is accessed and displayed.

FIG. 6 shows an execution example in which Web pages 61 to 66 in the three-dimensional space according to claim 5 are made transparent and Web browsing is performed using the Web browser 60. By making the web page transparent as shown in FIG. 6, it is possible to prevent the web browser from being hindered.

First, the user makes a bookmark display request to the Web browsing support system. Upon receiving the display request, the Web browsing support system acquires bookmark data from the Web browser using the data acquisition module, and stores it in the database. If it is confirmed that there is bookmark data in the database, the Web page conversion module is used to extract the title and URL of the bookmark's Web page in the database, and a request for acquiring the Web page is sent to the WWW based on the extracted Web page information. After acquiring the Web page, the Web page itself is converted into an image and the image is stored in the database.

Next, the bookmark data and the image of the web page itself are sent to the data acquisition module to the list display module, and the list display module arranges the web page in the constructed three-dimensional space based on the received data and presents it to the user. I do. The list display module constructs a three-dimensional space for displaying the Web page itself using OpenGL, and performs three-dimensional display based on the bookmark list data and the Web page image. The transparency of the Web page is realized by setting an alpha value for all Web pages when performing three-dimensional display.

The database is managed by XML (extensible Markup Language), and the database holds the data of the web page in the bookmark and the image of the web page itself obtained by the web page conversion module.

The three-dimensional browsing history display function according to claim 6 reads the browsing history information of the Web browser, and arranges the Web page in the three-dimensional space like the bookmark. Since the browsing history becomes enormous, this function realizes an easy-to-understand interface for the user by the sort function, and there are search results of the Web search engine, domain name, time series, and title as the sort criteria.

The sorting by the search result of the Web search engine according to claim 7 is to display the search result page and the page directly viewed from the search result as one group, with the keyword at the time of search as the title. That is, it is possible to sequentially browse the history of reaching a web page of interest using a search engine in the past.

Sorting by domain name reconstructs and displays the browsing history for each domain name. Since Web pages are managed for each domain name hierarchy, it is possible to easily confirm where in the Web site the user has browsed by sorting by domain name. Sorting by time series and title is rearranged in the order of newest, oldest, and alphabetic, as in the existing sorting method. In addition, when a Web page is to be registered from a browsing history to a bookmark, the browsing history page can be added to the bookmark by drag and drop.

The marker for pasting a memo on the three-dimensional space according to claim 8 can help to grasp the contents of the Web page in detail.

The search for the bookmark and the browsing history according to claim 9 searches for a specified keyword from the bookmark and the browsing history. Options for searching include ignoring small / upper case letters, wrapping, searching previous, searching bookmarks, searching browsing history, and the like. The search method obtains a search result by passing a given keyword and bookmark or a Web page in a browsing history to a search site, and displays the obtained search result in a three-dimensional space.

The function of extracting a link destination according to claim 10 and extracting the link destination in a three-dimensional space analyzes a <A> tag from the source code of the Web page, and links in the Web page from a portion surrounded by the <A> tag The previous URL is extracted, the Web page of the extracted URL is accessed, and the Web page conversion module 11 is requested to perform image conversion of the Web page itself. When the image is stored in the database and a prefetch request is received from the user, the prefetched web page image is displayed in the three-dimensional space.

Since the present invention is independent of the Web browser according to claim 11, it can be used without depending on the Web browser, and the system is provided with a wrapper for a typical Web browser in advance. In order to correspond to a web browser not prepared in the above, it is possible to add a wrapper for the web browser to the system. When dealing with a plurality of Web browsers, the present invention enables sharing of bookmarks and browsing histories among a plurality of Web browsers.

It is possible to provide a better Web application by linking with the Web application. The Web application here refers to a recommendation system using the Web such as store selection support, book recommendation, and paper selection support. These recommendation systems indicate links to Web pages with recommended information. The web page must be accessed every time it is confirmed, and in combination with the present invention, the linked web page can be confirmed, and the recommended information is compared and examined. The system which enables can be provided.

3D display example of bookmark by Book layout 3D display example of bookmark by Circle layout 3D display example of bookmark by Dice layout This embodiment User operation example Web page transparency example

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10-15 Image of Web page itself 21-28 Image of Web page itself 31-33 Image of Web page itself 50 Web browser 51-56 Image of Web page itself 60 Web browser 61-66 Image of Web page itself

Claims (11)

In addition to the title and URL, the Web page saved in the bookmark of the Web browser
A support system for Web browsing, characterized by displaying a Web page itself in a three-dimensional space. The web browsing according to claim 1, wherein when the web page itself is displayed in the three-dimensional space after acquiring the web page information, display using a book layout, a circle layout, and a dice layout is performed. Support system for. The support system for web browsing according to claim 1, wherein the web page stored in the bookmark is accessed and the web page itself is acquired as an image. A function that assists the user and makes the web page displayed in the three-dimensional space transparent, a three-dimensional browsing history display function that displays a web page in the browsing history in the three-dimensional space, and is displayed in the three-dimensional space. A web browser browsing support system having a marker function for pasting a memo to a web page, a search function for searching from the content of the web page, and a prefetch function for reading a linked web page in advance. When making a web page displayed in the three-dimensional space transparent,
5. The web browser browsing support system according to claim 4, wherein an alpha value is set for all images of the web page itself, and the web page is made transparent based on the alpha value when a request is made from the user. When displaying a web page in the browsing history in the three-dimensional space,
The Web browser browsing support system according to claim 4, wherein the Web pages in the browsing history can be sorted based on a search result of a Web search engine, a domain name, a time series, and a title. When sorting the browsing history in the search result of the Web search engine, the search result keyword is displayed as a title, and the search result Web page and the page directly browsed from the search result are displayed as one group. The Web browser browsing support system according to claim 4 or 6. When pasting a memo to a web page displayed in the three-dimensional space,
5. The web browser browsing support system according to claim 4, wherein the inputted memo is converted into an image, the web page is pasted in a three-dimensional space, and the coordinate relationship with the target web page is maintained. When searching from the contents of the web page,
5. The Web browser browsing support system according to claim 4, wherein the keyword to be searched, the URL of the Web page in the bookmark and browsing history are passed to the search site, and the search result is displayed in a three-dimensional space. When loading the linked web page in advance,
5. The Web browser browsing support system according to claim 4, wherein the <A> tag is analyzed from the Web page source code, a link destination in the Web page is extracted, and the link destination Web page is displayed in a three-dimensional space. . A Web browsing support program that realizes compatibility with any Web browser and enables sharing of bookmarks and browsing history between Web browsers.

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