JP2004110698A - Internet terminal - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an Internet terminal capable of easily instructing a link destination of a homepage. <P>SOLUTION: Each piece of link destination information is extracted from the homepage 21 and header display of each link destination is displayed in a window 22 for link destination. When header display of any link destination of the window 22 for link destination is clicked at this state, jump to other homepage at the link destination is performed through hyperlink according to link destination information corresponding to header display of the clicked link destination and other homepage is displayed. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO

Description

[0001]
TECHNICAL FIELD OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to an Internet terminal device for browsing and displaying a homepage through the Internet.
[0002]
[Prior art]
As is well known, a homepage browsing service is provided through the Internet. Generally, this service is often received using a terminal device such as a personal computer or a mobile computer. The terminal device uses a WWW browser (such as those called “Internet Explorer” or “Netscape Navigator”) to call up a homepage via the Internet, and displays the homepage on a screen. Further, when the link displayed on the home page is instructed (clicked) by operating the mouse or the like, the link home page is called and displayed. It is possible to surf the Internet by repeating such an operation (see Patent Document 1 and the like).
[0003]
[Patent Document 1]
JP 2000-249748 A
[Problems to be solved by the invention]
However, on a homepage, a plurality of link destinations are often scattered and displayed, and there is a problem that it takes time to find a desired link destination and give an instruction.
[0005]
In addition, when sequentially instructing each link on the homepage and calling it, the user must indicate the link, call the homepage of this link, return to the original homepage, and then specify another link. In other words, unless the user returns to the original home page, the next link cannot be specified, which is very troublesome.
[0006]
Therefore, the present invention has been made in view of the above-mentioned conventional problems, and has as its object to provide an Internet terminal device in which an instruction operation of a link destination of a homepage can be easily performed.
[0007]
[Means for Solving the Problems]
In order to solve the above-mentioned problem, the present invention provides an Internet terminal device for browsing and displaying a home page through the Internet, and an extracting means for extracting a link destination from the home page, and using the extracted link destination in another different from the home page window. Link destination display means for displaying in a link destination window.
[0008]
According to the present invention having such a configuration, the link destination is extracted from the home page, and the extracted link destination is displayed in the link destination window. Therefore, by looking at the link destination window, all the link destinations on the home page can be seen, and a desired link destination can be easily searched for and instructed in a short time.
[0009]
Further, in the present invention, the link destination display means divides a plurality of link destinations according to the type of the link destination, and displays the link destination for each type of the link destination.
[0010]
For example, the type of the link destination includes “phone to”, “mail to”, “web to”, and the like. If each link destination is displayed for each of "phone to", "mail to", and "web to", it is easy to identify each link destination, and a desired link destination can be found more quickly.
[0011]
Further, in the present invention, there is provided an operation input means for designating the type of the link destination, and the link destination display means displays the type of the link destination designated by the operation input means.
[0012]
If the type of link destination specified by the user's operation is displayed in this manner, the display content of the link destination window is simplified, and the identification of the link destination becomes easier.
[0013]
In the present invention, the operation input means includes a plurality of operation buttons displayed on a screen, and each operation button corresponds to a type of a link destination.
[0014]
Here, when any one of the operation buttons is operated, the type of the link corresponding to the operated operation button is indicated. This facilitates the operation of instructing the type of the link destination.
[0015]
Further, in the present invention, when any one of the operation buttons is designated, each link destination of the type corresponding to the designated operation button is displayed in a pull-up manner from the display position of the button.
[0016]
This makes it easier to recognize each link destination in the link destination window.
[0017]
In the present invention, the link destination display means maintains the display content of the link destination window regardless of the update of the display content of the homepage window.
[0018]
In this way, regardless of the update of the display contents of the homepage window, if the display contents of the link destination window are maintained, the respective link destinations of the link destination window are sequentially designated, and the respective homepages corresponding to the respective link destinations are designated. Can be called and displayed one after another, and it is not necessary to return to the original homepage one by one as in the past.
[0019]
BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION
Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.
[0020]
FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a first embodiment of the Internet terminal device of the present invention. The Internet terminal device 1 of the present embodiment is a terminal device such as a personal computer or a mobile computer, and includes a communication unit 11 that performs data communication through the Internet 2, an input unit 12 including a mouse and a keyboard, a CRT, a liquid crystal display device, and the like. And a control unit 14 for controlling the terminal device 1 as a whole.
[0021]
The control unit 14 includes a CPU for performing arithmetic processing, a ROM for storing various programs and data tables, a RAM for storing various data and a work area, and an interface for inputting and outputting various data. By executing the program, a link destination extracting unit 15, a link list branching unit 16, a small window creating unit 17, a link destination detecting unit 18, and the like are provided.
[0022]
The control unit 14 accesses the server 3 from the communication unit 11 through the Internet 2 by executing, for example, a WWW browser, and receives homepage data described in a hyper markup language (hereinafter, referred to as HTML) from the server 3, The homepage indicated by the homepage data is displayed on the display unit 13. This homepage is displayed in a homepage window on the screen.
[0023]
The link destination detection unit 18 detects a tag representing the link destination from the homepage data, and extracts the tag as link destination information. The link destination extracting unit 15 extracts a URL, a text, or an image (hereinafter, referred to as a link destination heading display) representing the link destination from the link destination information. If each tag representing a plurality of link destinations can be extracted from the home page data, each tag is extracted as respective link destination information, and a heading display of each link destination is extracted from the link destination information.
[0024]
The link list branching unit 16 classifies the headline display of each link destination extracted from the homepage according to the type of the link destination information. The type of link destination information includes "phone to", "mail to", and "web to". The heading of each link destination is displayed for each of "phone to", "mail to", and "web to". Classify.
[0025]
The small window creation unit 17 creates a link destination window on the screen of the display unit 13 and displays a heading display of each link destination in the link destination window.
[0026]
Therefore, a window for the homepage and a window for the link destination are displayed on the screen of the display unit 13.
[0027]
Next, a process of processing the link destination information by the Internet terminal device 1 will be described with reference to the flowchart shown in FIG.
[0028]
First, the control unit 14 accesses the server 3 from the communication unit 11 via the Internet 2, receives homepage data from the server 3, and displays a homepage indicated by the homepage data on the screen of the display unit 13 (step S101). FIG. 3A illustrates a homepage 21 on the screen.
[0029]
The link destination detection unit 18 extracts a tag representing the link destination from the homepage data as link destination information. In HTML, link destination information is set in a format surrounded by tags <A HREF="URL of link destination"> to </A>. Therefore, a tag in this format is detected from the homepage data, and the tag is extracted as link destination information. The link destination extracting unit 15 extracts the URL or the link information of the link destination information as a heading display of the link destination (step S102).
[0030]
When the display of the heading of the link destination is instructed (clicked) on the screen by operating the input unit 12, a jump to the link destination is performed via the hyperlink according to the link destination information.
[0031]
On the other hand, the small window creation unit 17 displays a link destination window 22 as shown in FIG. Then, as shown in FIG. 3B, a list of headings of each link destination is displayed on the link destination window 22 (steps S103 and S104).
[0032]
At this time, the link destination window 22 displays the headings of the link destinations of “phone to”, “mail to”, and “web to” in a mixed manner.
[0033]
Thereafter, the link list branching unit 16 fetches each piece of link destination information one by one, and determines the type of each piece of link destination information based on each link destination information (steps S105 and S106).
[0034]
For example, if the character string “tel:” is included in tags <A HREF=“URL of link destination”> to </A>, it is determined that the type of link destination information is “phone to”. (Step S107). When the character string "mailto:" is included in the tag, it is determined that the type of the link destination information is "mail to" (step S108). Further, when another character string different from “tel:” and “mailto:” is included in the tag, the type of the link destination information is regarded as “web to” (step S109).
[0035]
If the type of the link destination information is “phone to”, the link list branching unit 16 stores the link destination information in the data table corresponding to the “phone to”, and the link destination information type is “mail to”. If "to", the link destination information is stored in the data table corresponding to "mail to". If the type of the link destination information is "phone to", the link destination information is stored in the data table corresponding to "phone to". The link destination information is stored (step S110).
[0036]
Further, when each piece of the link destination information is classified according to the type of the link destination information, the small window creating unit 17 displays a heading display of the link destination by the type of the link destination information as shown in FIG. 4 (step S111). ). Here, the link destination window 22 is divided into display columns 22a, 22b, and 22c, and a heading display of each link destination of "phone to" is displayed in the display column 22a, and a heading of each link destination of "mail to" is displayed. The display is displayed in the display column 22b, and the headline display of each link destination of "web to" is displayed in the display column 22c.
[0037]
Next, the control unit 14 displays respective operation buttons (soft keys) corresponding to “phone to”, “mail to”, and “web to” on the screen of the display unit 13 as shown in FIG. 23, 24, and 25 are created and displayed (step S112). At this time, the link destination window 22 is deleted from the screen of the display unit 13.
[0038]
For example, when the operation button 25 corresponding to “web to” is clicked by operating the input unit 12, the small window creation unit 17 displays the link destination window 22 on the display unit 13 as shown in FIG. Is displayed in a pull-up manner from the display position of the operation button 25 on the screen, and the heading display of each link destination of "web to" is displayed in a list in the link destination window 22 (step S113).
[0039]
Similarly, when the operation button 23 corresponding to “phone to” is clicked by operating the input unit 12, a heading display of each link destination of “phone to” is displayed in a list in the link destination window 22, and “mail” is displayed. When the operation button 24 corresponding to “to” is clicked by operating the input unit 12, a heading display of each link destination of “mail to” is displayed in a list in the link destination window 22.
[0040]
In this way, each link destination information is extracted from the homepage, and the headline display of each link destination is displayed in the link destination window 22 of the screen of the display unit 13. In this state, when any one of the link headings displayed in the link destination window 22 is clicked by operating the input unit 12 (step S114), the control unit 14 corresponds to the clicked link headline display. In accordance with the link destination information, a jump is made to another linked home page via a hyperlink, and this other home page is displayed on the screen of the display unit 13 (step S115).
[0041]
As described above, in the present embodiment, each link destination information is extracted from the home page 21 and the headline display of each link destination is displayed in the link destination window 22. All link destinations can be viewed, and a desired link destination can be easily searched for and instructed in a short time.
[0042]
FIG. 6 is a flowchart showing a process of processing link destination information according to the second embodiment of the Internet terminal device of the present invention. Note that the Internet terminal device of the present embodiment has the same configuration as the terminal device 1 of FIG.
[0043]
Here, first, the processes of steps S101 to S112 in FIG. 2 are performed to display the homepage 21 and the operation buttons 23, 24, 25 as shown in FIG. 5A (step S201). Thereafter, for example, when the operation button 25 corresponding to “web to” is clicked by operating the input unit 12 (each of steps S202 and S203), the small window creation unit 17 links as shown in FIG. The first window 22 is pulled up from the display position of the operation button 25 on the screen of the display unit 13, and the heading display of each link destination of "web to" is displayed in a list in the second window 22 (step S204).
[0044]
Similarly, when the operation button 23 corresponding to “phone to” is clicked by operating the input unit 12 (each step S202, S205), the headline display of each link destination of “phone to” is displayed in the link destination window 22. A list is displayed (Step S206), and when the operation button 24 corresponding to “mail to” is clicked by operating the input unit 12 (Steps S202 and S207), the heading display of each link destination of “mail to” is linked. A list is displayed in the previous window 22 (step S208).
[0045]
Then, for example, in the state shown in FIG. 7A, when the headline display of the link destination “News” in the link destination window 22 is clicked by operating the input unit 12 (step S209), the control unit 14 According to the link destination information corresponding to the heading display of the link destination of "news", the browser jumps to the homepage of the link destination of "news" through a hyperlink, and displays the homepage 26 as shown in FIG. It is displayed (step S210). However, the display of the link destination window 22 is continued as it is.
[0046]
Further, in the display state of FIG. 7B, when the heading display of the link destination “Sports” in the link destination window 22 is clicked by operating the input unit 12 (step S209), the link destination “Sports” is clicked. Jump to the homepage (step S210). Similarly, since the display of the link destination window 22 is continued in the same manner, the jump to the next homepage can be repeated by clicking any one of the link headings displayed in the link destination window 22.
[0047]
As described above, in the present embodiment, even if the homepage on the screen is updated, the display of the link destination window is maintained as it is. Therefore, the heading display of each link destination is sequentially instructed, and the heading display of each link destination is performed. Each corresponding homepage can be called and displayed one after another.
[0048]
Note that the present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiment, and can be variously modified. For example, instead of the operation buttons 23 to 25 displayed on the screen, each key on the keyboard may be used in association with “phone to”, “mail to”, and “web to”. Further, the display mode of the link destination window may be appropriately changed.
[0049]
【The invention's effect】
As described above, according to the present invention, the link destination is extracted from the home page, and the extracted link destination is displayed in the link destination window. Therefore, by looking at the link destination window, all the link destinations on the home page can be seen, and a desired link destination can be easily searched for and instructed in a short time.
[0050]
In addition, since the link destinations are displayed for each type of link destination, it is easy to identify each link destination, and a desired link destination can be found more quickly.
[0051]
Furthermore, since the type of link destination specified by the user's operation is displayed, the display content of the link destination window is simplified, and the identification of the link destination becomes easier.
[0052]
In addition, regardless of the update of the homepage, the display contents of the link destination window are maintained, so each link destination of the link destination window is sequentially instructed, and each homepage corresponding to each link destination is sequentially changed from the next. Can be called and displayed.
[Brief description of the drawings]
FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a first embodiment of an Internet terminal device of the present invention.
FIG. 2 is a flowchart illustrating a process of processing link destination information by the apparatus of FIG. 1;
3A is a diagram showing a homepage displayed on the screen of the apparatus in FIG. 1, and FIG. 3B is a diagram showing a homepage and a link destination window displayed on the screen.
FIG. 4 is a diagram showing a homepage and other link destination windows displayed on the screen of the apparatus in FIG. 1;
5A is a diagram showing a home page and each operation button displayed on the screen of the apparatus in FIG. 1, and FIG. 5B is a view showing the home page, each operation button and a link destination window displayed on the screen. FIG.
FIG. 6 is a flowchart showing a process of processing link destination information according to a second embodiment of the Internet terminal device of the present invention.
7A is a diagram showing a homepage and each operation button displayed on the screen of the apparatus of FIG. 1, and FIG. 7B is another homepage, each operation button and a link destination displayed on the screen. FIG. 6 is a diagram showing a window for use.
[Explanation of symbols]
Reference Signs List 1 Internet terminal device 2 Internet 3 Server 11 Communication unit 12 Input unit 13 Display unit 14 Control unit 15 Link destination extraction unit 16 Link list branching unit 17 Small window creation unit 18 Link destination detection unit 21, 26 Home page 22 Link destination window 23 , 24, 25 Operation buttons

Claims (6)

In an Internet terminal device that browses and displays homepages via the Internet,
Extraction means for extracting link destinations from the homepage,
An internet terminal device comprising: link destination display means for displaying the extracted link destination in another link destination window different from the homepage window. 2. The Internet terminal device according to claim 1, wherein the link destination display unit divides a plurality of link destinations according to the type of the link destination, and displays the link destination according to the type of the link destination. An operation input means for indicating the type of the link destination is provided,
2. The Internet terminal device according to claim 1, wherein the link destination display means displays a type of link destination specified by the operation input means. The Internet terminal device according to claim 3, wherein the operation input means includes a plurality of operation buttons displayed on a screen, and each operation button corresponds to a type of a link destination. 5. The Internet according to claim 4, wherein when any one of the operation buttons is designated, each link destination of the type corresponding to the designated operation button is displayed in a pull-up manner from a display position of the button. Terminal device. 2. The Internet terminal device according to claim 1, wherein the link destination display unit maintains the display content of the link destination window regardless of the update of the display content of the homepage window.

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