JP2008242842A - Portable terminal and program for portable terminal - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To enhance convenience for a user in a portable terminal with built-in browser by dispensing with the necessity for a user to frequently perform switching of a browser screen for acquiring a plurality of medium contents or the like. <P>SOLUTION: The tab browser program 108 assigns "back assignment instruction function" to a part of keys constituting a key device 101 during activation. When "back acquisition function" of medium data 111, for example, owned by a content server 110 is instructed by this function, the tab browser program 108 displays a screen for reporting the acquisition progress or acquisition completion of the medium data 111 not on a focused tab (surface tab), but on a page identified by a back tab. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to a mobile terminal and a mobile terminal program, and more particularly to a mobile terminal equipped with a tab browser.

  When a conventional mobile terminal browser newly acquires and displays content data acquired from a Web server, the “front” of the browser (in other words, the current focus window (in the user interface of the multi-window system) In the case of acquiring a plurality of media contents such as music files, it is necessary to switch the browser screen, which is inconvenient for the user.

Patent Documents 1 to 3 are general prior arts related to an electronic device equipped with a tab browser.
JP 2005-050019 A Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 2003-131988 JP 2006-107079 A

  However, the above prior art does not overcome the problem of low convenience for the user because it is necessary to frequently switch browser screens when acquiring a plurality of media contents and the like.

  SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION In view of the above circumstances, the present invention eliminates the need for the user to frequently switch browser screens when acquiring a plurality of media contents and the like, and improves the convenience for the user.

  In order to achieve the above object, the invention according to claim 1 comprises a tab browser for analyzing a hypertext document and displaying the hypertext document on a display means, and the tab browser obtains a linked file indicated by the pointer of the hypertext document. In this case, the portable terminal is characterized in that backside acquisition processing is performed in which at least one of the acquisition progress and the display of the acquisition result is performed on other tabs except the focused tab.

  According to a second aspect of the present invention, in the portable terminal according to the first aspect, the portable terminal includes a key device that transmits a user operation to the portable terminal, and the key device is assigned a key operation that instructs execution of the back surface acquisition process. It is characterized by being.

  According to a third aspect of the present invention, in the portable terminal according to the first or second aspect, the tab browser analyzes the hypertext document, and as a result, the linked file indicated by the pointer of the hypertext document is a file of a predetermined format. In some cases, the back surface acquisition process is executed when the file is acquired.

  According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, a portable terminal having display means realizes a tab browser function for analyzing a hypertext document and displaying the hypertext document on the display means, and the tab browser is a link indicated by a pointer of the hypertext document. A portable terminal that, when acquiring a previous file, performs a back surface acquisition process in which at least one of the acquisition progress and the display of the acquisition result is performed on a tab other than the focused tab. Program.

  According to a fifth aspect of the present invention, in the portable terminal program according to the fourth aspect, a key operation for instructing execution of the back surface acquisition process is assigned to a key device that transmits a user operation to the portable terminal, and the key operation by the user is performed. If there is, the portable terminal is caused to execute the back surface acquisition process.

  According to a sixth aspect of the present invention, in the portable terminal program according to the fourth or fifth aspect, as a result of the tab browser analyzing the hypertext document using the portable terminal, the link destination indicated by the pointer of the hypertext document When the file is a file of a predetermined format, a function of executing the back surface acquisition process when acquiring the file is realized.

  According to the present invention, when a plurality of media contents and the like are acquired, the user does not need to frequently switch the browser screen, and convenience for the user is improved.

  Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.

  FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the overall configuration of the embodiment of the present invention. In FIG. 1, the mobile terminal 100 includes a key device 101, a display unit 102, a ROM 104, a RAM 105, a control unit 106, and a data transmission / reception unit 107.

  The key device 101 is an input device that transmits a user operation to the mobile terminal 100. Details will be described later with reference to FIG.

  The display unit 102 is an output device that transmits an operation result of the mobile terminal 100 to the user. Techniques known to those skilled in the art, such as a liquid crystal display device and an organic EL display device, can be used. The display unit 102 displays a tab browser by a tab browser program 108 described later.

  The ROM 104 is a non-volatile storage device, and stores a tab browser program 108 in addition to basic software (not shown) for operating the mobile terminal 100. The tab browser program 108 is called and activated by a user's operation of the key device 101 or the like. The activated tab browser program 108 is expanded on the RAM 105 under the control of the control unit 106, and executes a predetermined operation described later.

  The RAM 105 is a main storage device of the mobile terminal 100, and is a device for temporarily expanding these programs when the basic software for operating the mobile terminal 100 and the tab browser program 108 are loaded. In addition, the control unit 106 is a device that processes various calculations required by a program developed on the RAM 105, and also controls the entire mobile terminal 100.

  The mobile terminal 100 may be connected to be communicable with the outside using the data transmission / reception unit 107. In this case, the communication may be either wired or wireless, but wireless is advantageous in terms of improving the mobility of the mobile terminal 100. In the configuration example illustrated in FIG. 1, the mobile terminal 100 is connected to the content server 110 via the data transmission / reception unit 107.

  The content server 110 exists on, for example, the Internet or a unique information providing network provided by each mobile phone company, and transmits media data 111 and text data 112 in response to a request from a connected client.

  Note that the media data 111 indicates, for example, a music file or a moving image file. The media data 111 generally tends to have a large transmission file size and takes time to download. The text data 112 indicates a hypertext document such as HTML or HDML, for example. In general, still image data that is often interpreted by a browser to be expanded and displayed in a hypertext document may be included.

  The activated tab browser program 108 downloads various data from the content server 110 using the data transmission / reception unit 107. In particular, when the text data 112 is downloaded, the control unit 106 interprets (parses) the hypertext and causes the display unit 102 to display the interpretation result.

  FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating a configuration example of a display screen of the display unit 102 in the mobile terminal 100 in which the tab browser program 108 illustrated in FIG. 1 is operating. In FIG. 2, the display unit 102 displays a browser display screen 200. The browser display screen 200 divides the display area into a content data display area 201 and a tab display area 202.

  The content data display area 201 is a display area in which an interpretation result obtained by interpreting the hypertext of the text data 112 acquired by the tab browser 108 in the control unit 106 is displayed. A message issued to the user from the tab browser program 108 may be displayed. This message may be, for example, a message such as “Media file download complete”.

  The tab display area 202 is a display area in which tabs for identifying individual pages are displayed when the hypertext document displayed in the content data display area 201 is regarded as a “page”. When a plurality of pages are superimposed on the content data display area 201 for the purpose of saving the display area, the tabs are displayed so as not to overlap each other, and the user indicates that there are a plurality of pages below. Make it visible.

  Further, a tab for identifying a page currently displayed on the top surface of the content data display area 201 is referred to as a “table tab”, and is represented by, for example, underlining (table tab 203) in FIG. A tab hidden behind the “front tab” and indicating that another page exists on the back side is referred to as a “back tab” (back tab 204).

  Next, a detailed configuration of the key device 101 of this embodiment will be described. FIG. 3 is an external view showing a configuration example of the key device 101 shown in FIG. In FIG. 3, the key device 101 includes a determination key 101a and a back key 101b in addition to a numeric keypad and a page feed key.

  During startup, the tab browser program 108 assigns a front acquisition instruction function and a reverse acquisition instruction function to the enter key 101a and the back key 101b, respectively. The front acquisition instruction function is a function for instructing the tab browser program 108 for a front surface acquisition function to be described later, and the back acquisition instruction function is a function for instructing the tab browser program 108 for a rear surface acquisition function to be described later.

  Next, the front surface acquisition function and the back surface acquisition function will be described with reference to FIG. FIG. 4 is a state transition diagram showing an operation example of the present embodiment by state transition of the browser display screen 200 displayed on the display unit 102.

  In FIG. 4, in the mobile terminal 100, the tab browser program 108 is running, and the display unit 102 displays the hypertext document A identified by the table tab 203 in the content data display area 201 (state 1). . The hypertext document A is provided by the content server 110 shown in FIG. 1, and has a plurality of pointers indicating links to the media data 111 and links to the text data 112 in the document.

  Here, when the user presses the back key 101b shown in FIG. 3 to instruct acquisition behind the link destination file (for example, media data 111) indicated by any pointer, the browser display screen 200 is displayed. , Transition to state 2 (back surface acquisition function). In the state 2, the content data display area 201 still displays the hypertext document A, but the back tab 204 is generated. The back tab 204 displays a progress screen indicating the acquisition progress of the media data 111 and a completion screen indicating the acquisition result when the focus is given by a user instruction or the like.

  In state 1, when the user presses the enter key 101a shown in FIG. 3 to instruct acquisition of a linked file (for example, text data 112) indicated by any pointer in the table, the browser display The screen 200 transitions to the state 3 (surface acquisition function). In the state 3, the tab for identifying the hypertext document A is the back tab 204. In the content data display area 201, a hypertext document B, which is an interpretation result obtained when the tab browser program 108 causes the control unit 106 to interpret the text data 112, is displayed. Therefore, in the table acquisition function, the current focus shifts from the hypertext document A to the hypertext document B.

  Next, the effect of this embodiment will be described. The first effect of this embodiment is that, when acquiring a plurality of media contents such as music files, it is possible to acquire contents without having to switch browser screens. This is because the function of instructing “acquire on the front surface” and “acquire on the back surface” is assigned to the key device 101 of the mobile terminal 100.

  Next, a modification of this embodiment will be described. In this modification, first, the tab browser program 108 analyzes the hypertext document. As a result, when it is analyzed that the link destination file indicated by the pointer of the hypertext document is a file of a predetermined format, the back side acquisition function is executed when the file is acquired, and the file is acquired. The predetermined format is preferably a format corresponding to the media data (for example, a music file), but may be a partial hypertext document (for example, PDF (registered trademark)). In this embodiment, a function for instructing the back surface acquisition function and the front surface acquisition function to the key device 101 is assigned. However, in the present modification, the back surface acquisition function is realized without such a user operation.

  In addition, this invention is not limited to this embodiment, A various deformation | transformation can be performed within the range of the summary of this invention. The present invention is suitable for implementation on a portable terminal as in this embodiment, but can also be applied to the use of data acquisition method selection in various electronic devices equipped with a browser.

It is a block diagram which shows the structural example of embodiment by this invention. It is a figure which shows the structural example of the display screen of the display part 102 in the portable terminal 100 in which the tab browser program 108 shown in FIG. 1 is working. It is an external view which shows the structural example of the key device 101 shown in FIG. It is a state transition diagram which shows the operation example of embodiment by this invention.

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 100 Portable terminal 101 Key device 101a Determination key 101b Back key 102 Display part 104 ROM
105 RAM
106 Control Unit 107 Data Transmission / Reception Unit 108 Tab Browser Program 110 Content Server 111 Media Data 112 Text Data 200 Browser Display Screen 201 Content Data Display Area 202 Tab Display Area 203 Table Tab 204 Back Tab

Claims (6)

It has a tab browser that analyzes hypertext documents and displays them on the display means.
When the tab browser acquires a linked file indicated by the pointer of the hypertext document, at least one of the acquisition progress and the acquisition result is displayed in a tab other than the focused tab. A portable terminal that performs backside acquisition processing. It has a key device that conveys user operations to the mobile terminal.
The mobile terminal according to claim 1, wherein a key operation for instructing execution of the back surface acquisition process is assigned to the key device.   The tab browser executes the back side acquisition process when acquiring the file when the linked file indicated by the pointer of the hypertext document is a file of a predetermined format as a result of analyzing the hypertext document. The portable terminal according to claim 1 or 2, characterized by the above-mentioned. To a portable terminal having a display means,
Realizing a tab browser function to analyze a hypertext document and display it on the display means;
When the tab browser acquires the linked file indicated by the pointer of the hypertext document, at least one of the acquisition progress and the acquisition result is displayed in a tab other than the focused tab. A program for a mobile terminal, characterized by causing a back side acquisition process to be executed.   A key operation that instructs execution of the back surface acquisition process is assigned to a key device that conveys a user operation to the mobile terminal, and when the user performs the key operation, the mobile terminal is caused to execute the back surface acquisition process. The portable terminal program according to claim 4, wherein: Using the mobile terminal,
The tab browser analyzes the hypertext document, and when the linked file indicated by the pointer of the hypertext document is a file of a predetermined format, the function of executing the back side acquisition process when acquiring the file The mobile terminal program according to claim 4 or 5, characterized in that:

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