KR20030003818A - System and method for bookmarking specific position inside of web pages - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: A system and a method for appointing a bookmark to a specific position in a web document are provided to appoint the bookmark to a non-hyperlink part when an Internet user reads the web document including a plurality of web pages. CONSTITUTION: A client terminal(5) includes an input part(6) and an output part(7). A bookmark registration system(12) enables a user to register the specific position of the web document as the bookmark. A controller(10) performs a signal relay function between the client terminal(5) and the bookmark registration system(12) and loads the bookmarked web page to a web browser through the output part(7) of the client terminal(5) by controlling the bookmark system(12) according to a key signal of the client terminal(5). The bookmark system(12) includes the first user event detecting part(14), a position detecting part(15), an information memory(16), a dialog box displaying part(19), the second user event detecting part(20) and a bookmark registration part(21).

Description

SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR BOOKMARKING SPECIFIC POSITION INSIDE OF WEB PAGES}

The present invention relates to a bookmark registration system. In particular, when a web surfer reads a web document corresponding to a plurality of web pages, the user can designate a specific position in the web document to bookmark the non-hyperlinked portion. A system and method for bookmarking.

In general, web browsers provide bookmarks (or bookmarks) for the user's convenience, which is the directory (for Explorer) or file of the URL address of the website that Internet users want to visit again. (Navigator) in the form of a local memory area when the user wants to re-visit the site later, you do not have to re-enter the URL address, you can select a bookmark that is saved automatically go to the web page Function.

However, such a bookmark function has various inconveniences when a web document having a plurality of web pages or a web page itself has a complicated structure. In general, the part that the user actually wants to bookmark is often part of the entire web document, and often is part of the structure of the complex web page.

However, since the bookmark function up to now can register only the hyperlinked part as a bookmark, the user must register the entire web document including the part he wants to register as a bookmark. Therefore, even when the user runs the web browser and selects a bookmark, the entire web document is loaded. Therefore, the user can move the entire scrolling document by moving the scroll bar on the screen or pressing the go button on the keyboard to check some desired contents. You should read it again. That is, in the conventional bookmarking system, when a bookmarked web document is loaded, it is always displayed on the screen from the beginning of the web document. Therefore, if the user wants to be limited to any one of several web pages of the web document, If it is not displayed on the screen size, the user needs to search for the desired part directly and additional search time is required.

This problem will be more serious for web surfing users. Even though these users can organize dozens or hundreds of web pages by subject and type by using the current bookmark function, it is difficult to use the bookmark function efficiently because they cannot actually find what they want. . As such, for users surfing the web based on documents, there is an urgent need for a means for the user to easily identify only the bookmarked part while the web page at the time of the bookmark is displayed on the screen as it is.

Accordingly, the present invention has been made to solve the above-mentioned problem, and it is possible to specify a portion of a web document that is not hyperlinked when a web surfing Internet user reads a web document corresponding to several web pages. It is an object of the present invention to provide a system and a method for bookmarking a location.

1 is a block diagram of a system for bookmarking a specific location within a web document according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a detailed view of the location information memory 16 among the components of the system shown in FIG.

3 is a diagram illustrating a state in which a dialog box for adding a bookmark is loaded on a web browser screen.

4 is a flowchart illustrating a method for bookmarking a specific location within a web document in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention.

5 is a flowchart illustrating a process of loading a specific location designated as a bookmark in a web document into a web browser screen according to an embodiment of the present invention.

<Explanation of symbols for the main parts of the drawings>

5: client terminal

10: control unit

12: Bookmark Registration System

14,20: first and second user event detector

15: position detection unit

18: location information memory

19: Dialog Box Display

21: Bookmark Register

22: Bookmark Database

A system for bookmarking a specific position in a web document according to the present invention for achieving the above object is a system for bookmarking a specific position in a web document required by a user, the client having a web browser A control unit connected to a terminal, the client terminal to perform a signal transmission / reception role for a bookmark function, and a bookmark registration unit connected to the client terminal through the control unit, and registering a specific position of the web document as bookmark information. And the controller is configured to load the web document including the specific location bookmarked by the bookmark registration means into the web browser of the client terminal in response to a request of the client terminal.

The bookmark registration means may include: a first user event detector for detecting a bookmark request event of a user, detecting image information and mouse position information of a corresponding web page when the bookmark request event is detected, and inputting the bookmark to the user; Means for providing a dialog box window as a device, a memory for storing image information and mouse position information of the web page as bookmark location information, a second user event detector for detecting a key input event from the dialog box window, and the dialog box And a bookmark registration means for combining the dialog box data input through the window and the bookmark location information and storing the bookmark information as the bookmark information.

Further, a method for bookmarking a specific position in a web document according to the present invention, the method for bookmarking a specific position in a web document, the method comprising: storing a bookmark program in a client terminal having a web browser, the Running a web browser and executing the bookmark program, registering a specific location of the web document as bookmark information according to a user's request of the client terminal, and including the bookmarked specific location at the user's request And loading the web document into the web browser.

The registering of the bookmark information may include determining whether a bookmark request event is generated by the user, detecting image information and mouse location information of a corresponding web page when the bookmark request event is detected, and inputting the bookmark to the user. Providing a dialog box window, storing image information and mouse position information of the web page as bookmark location information, detecting a key input event from the dialog box window, and inputting the dialog box window. And combining the dialog box data and the bookmark location information as the bookmark information.

Hereinafter, with reference to the accompanying drawings, preferred embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail.

1 is a block diagram of a system for bookmarking a specific location within a web document according to the present invention. As shown in FIG. 1, a system for bookmarking a specific position in a web document according to the present invention includes a client terminal 5 having an input unit 6 and an output unit 7, a web document desired by a user. A bookmark registration system 12 for registering a specific location of the bookmark as a bookmark, and located between the client terminal 5 and the bookmark registration system 12 to serve as a signal transmission / reception medium between the two; Control unit for controlling the bookmark registration system 12 in accordance with the key signal input from the client terminal 5 to load the web page bookmarked by the user through the output unit 7 of the client terminal 5 to the web browser (10) is provided.

In addition, the bookmark registration system 12 may include a first user event detector 14 for detecting a bookmark request event of a user, image information of a web page for which a bookmark is requested, and mouse position information at a time when a user generates a bookmark request event. A position detecting unit 15 for detecting, a position information memory 16 for storing image information and mouse position information of the detected web page, and a dialog providing a dialog box for the user to provide an additional explanation of the position when a bookmark is requested. A second user event detection unit 20 for detecting whether a key input event is generated for further explanation from the user after the box display unit 19 is activated, and the dialog box display unit 19 is activated, and the current at which the user generated the bookmark request. Receives information about a bookmark location of a web document from the location information memory 16 as one bookmark information. And a bookmark register 21 for storing in the mark database 22. The bookmark database 22 stores a plurality of bookmark information transmitted from the bookmark register 21 according to a predetermined classification criteria such as type, subject, and the like. Store separately.

Although the bookmark registration system 12 and the control unit 10 are shown as separate elements from the client terminal 5 in FIG. 1, the bookmark program for activating the bookmark registration system 12 is executed. Since the program is raised to the RAM area of the client terminal 5 which is the main memory into which the operating system and the application program are loaded together with the web browser program, it becomes a partial area of the client terminal 5.

Each component of the bookmark registration system 12 will now be described in detail.

When the first user event detector 14 detects a bookmark request event of the user, the first user event detector 14 receives a click signal of a user's right mouse button, determines the occurrence of the bookmark request event, and notifies the position detector 15.

The position detecting unit 15 immediately receives the bookmark request event detection signal from the first user event from the first user event detecting unit 14, and the image information of the bookmarked web page and the mouse at the time when the user generates the bookmark request event. The location information is detected and stored in the location information memory 16. The location information memory includes an image information memory 17 and a mouse location information memory 18, as shown in FIG. The image information of the page is stored in the image information memory 17, and the mouse position information is stored in the mouse position information memory 18, respectively.

The image information stored in the image information memory 17 relates to the state information as it is displayed on the screen of the web page, and scrolls to indicate how much the position of the scroll bar is disposed vertically on the right side of the screen. Information data, screen size data (height, width), and specific word information in the right mouse click event generation area. In addition, the mouse position information stored in the mouse position information memory 18 is coordinate data where the mouse is located on one screen and can be represented by x and y coordinate values based on the size data of the screen. It can be easily extracted by using a library with geolocation data.

When the first event of the user, that is, the right mouse click event occurs, the dialog box display unit 19 loads the dialog box window 23 as shown in FIG. 3 into the user's web browser. An example will be described with reference to FIG. 3. With the user running the bookmark program A (located at the right edge of the toolbar area at the top of the screen in FIG. 3), it is assumed that the portion that the user wants to bookmark is underlined 'mark data'. When a right mouse click event is generated, a dialog box window 23, which is a sub window, is displayed on the right side. The configuration of the dialog box window 23 includes an item indicating the current URL information of the user, a bookmark selection icon group storing a plurality of icons, a description item provided so that the user can arbitrarily add a desired description, It is composed of a positioning item arranged to allow a user to designate a directory of bookmarks, and an index order item indicating a criterion classified when displaying marks representing a plurality of bookmark parts to the user.

The feature of the dialog box window 23 is flag information B in the area indicating the user's current URL information. The flag information refers to a predefined bit used by the program to store something or to leave a signal promised by another program. In the present invention, the flag information is used as data for indicating a specific position, and is used in a web browser. It has a subset of the view, which is the basic unit of rendering, and copies it as the information data by copying the view of the location where the event occurred. That is, when the user generates the right mouse click event, the data information is stored in the location information memory 16. For example, a tag (TAG) used when linking a specific document or URL and file in an HTML document is an example. In the conventional art, the << A HREF = "URL and path name" TARGET = "Frame window name"> </A> " Although it has URL information in the form, in the present invention, in addition to the conventional URL information storage method, a tag that links to a specific word in a document as flag information '<A HREF = "# specific word"> is connected to a specific word </A> 'is added, or a syntax indicating data information stored in the location information memory 167 is further included.

The second user event detector 20 is for detecting whether a user performs a data input operation for additional explanation in the dialog box window 23 after the dialog box display 19 is activated. 2 The dialog box data completed through the user event detector 20 is input to the bookmark register 21.

The bookmark register 21 not only displays the dialog box data from the second user event detector 20, but also provides information on the bookmark position of the current web document in which the user has made a bookmark request from the location information memory 16. At this time, the location information memory 16 is a bookmark registration section 21 by pairing the image information data stored in the image information memory 17 and the mouse location data stored in the mouse location information memory 18 as a pair of bookmark location information. ). The bookmark register 21 registers the dialog box data and the bookmark location information data as one bookmark and stores the data information in the bookmark database 22. The bookmark database 22 separates and stores a plurality of bookmark information delivered from the bookmark register 21 according to a predetermined classification criteria such as type, topic, and the like.

A method for bookmarking a specific location in a web document based on the system of FIG. 1 configured as described above is illustrated in FIG. 4.

If the user runs the web browser via his client terminal 5 (step S10), and executes the bookmark program by clicking the mark program button A shown in FIG. 3 (step S12), the bookmark according to the present invention The program goes up the RAM area, which is the main memory into which the operating system and application programs are loaded, along with the web browser program. After that, while the user is searching for a web document through the Internet (step S14), the controller 10 generates a first user event, that is, a user clicks a right mouse button at a specific position of the document to be bookmarked. It is monitored (step S16).

If it is determined in step S16 that the bookmark event has occurred from the first user event detector 14, the controller 10 proceeds to step S18 to display screen information at the time of the bookmark event generation, that is, scroll information data and a screen. The image information such as the size data (height, width) of the data, and the specific word information of the bookmark generation position is extracted through the position detector 15 and stored in the image information memory 17 of the position information memory 16. In operation S20, the mouse position information at the time of the bookmark event generation is extracted as x and y coordinate values and stored in the mouse position information memory 18 of the position information memory 16. As a result, the position information memory 16 bundles the separately stored image information data and the mouse position information data in pairs and holds them as one position information data (step S22).

Thereafter, the controller 10 loads the dialog box window 23 into the web browser of the user through the dialog box display unit 19 as shown in FIG. 3 (step S24). Description), directory designation, and display order (Index) item) When the input operation is completed (step S26), the bookmark registration unit 21 registers the dialog box data and the bookmark location information data of step S22 as one bookmark. And by storing the data informations in the bookmark database 22 (step S28), the specific positioning program in the web document is terminated.

A process of loading a specific position in a web document designated as a bookmark as a web browser screen as shown above is illustrated in FIG. 5, which will be described below.

The user drives the web browser via his client terminal 5 (step S30), and executes the bookmark program according to the present invention by clicking the mark program button A shown in FIG. 3 (step S32). Thereafter, when the user clicks the mark list button C (located at the top of the screen in FIG. 3) located in a predetermined area on the screen of FIG. 3 to load the web document previously bookmarked by the web browser. On the right side, a list of a plurality of bookmark notations (for example, O, □, *, Δ, etc.) registered up to now is displayed (step S34). At this time, when the mouse is placed on the bookmark mark, a brief description of the mark is automatically displayed so that the user can easily grasp the contents of the bookmark mark.

Thereafter, when the user selects a desired bookmark notation from among the plurality of displayed bookmark notations (step S36), the controller 10 extracts the corresponding bookmark information data from the bookmark database 22 through the bookmark register 21 to display the bookmark information. The program is terminated by displaying the web page on the web browser in the same manner as the screen state at the time of the user bookmark and displaying the bookmark mark on the web page using the mouse position information at the time of the bookmark (step S40).

As a result, when the user uses the bookmark function according to the present invention, the web document is displayed on the screen in the same state as when bookmarking, unlike in the prior art, and on the specific position that the user actually wanted to bookmark in the web document. By displaying the bookmark notation, the user will feel as if the state in which he bookmarked is reproduced as it is.

As mentioned above, although preferred embodiment of this invention was described, those skilled in the art can change variously, without deviating from the claim of this invention.

As described above, according to the method and system for bookmarking a specific position in a web document according to the present invention, unlike the conventional system, in which the entire web document including the bookmark portion desired by the actual user must be registered as a bookmark, When you read a web document, you can bookmark the non-hyperlinked part so that the user can actively manipulate the web page.

In addition, by displaying the mark notation on the screen so that the bookmarked part is easily identified while the web page at the time of the bookmark is displayed on the screen, the user can easily search only the desired part without having to read the entire web document again. As a result, the search time can be significantly reduced.

In particular, for users who mainly surf the web based on documents, if a plurality of web pages are well organized by subject and type by using the improved bookmark function, unlike the conventional bookmark system which requires a long additional search time, Since only a part of the desired contents can be searched quickly, the bookmark function can be conveniently used even for a web document that does not include hyperlink characters.

Claims (13)

A system for bookmarking a specific position in a web document required by a user, A client terminal having a web browser, A control unit connected to the client terminal to perform a signal transmission / reception role for a bookmark function; It is connected to the client terminal through the control unit, and includes a bookmark registration means for registering a specific position of the web document as bookmark information, In response to a request from the client terminal, the controller loads the web document including the specific location bookmarked by the bookmark registration means into the web browser of the client terminal. System for doing so. The method of claim 1, wherein the bookmark registration means, A first user event detector for detecting a bookmark request event of the user; Means for detecting image information and mouse position information of a corresponding web page when the bookmark request event is detected, and providing a dialog box window as an input device for designating the bookmark to the user; A memory for storing image information and mouse position information of the web page as bookmark position information; A second user event detector for detecting a key input event from the dialog box window, and And a bookmark registration means for combining the dialog box data input through the dialog box window and the bookmark location information and storing the bookmark information as the bookmark information. The method of claim 2, wherein the bookmark registration means, And the bookmark information and other bookmark information generated afterwards are stored according to a predetermined classification criterion. The image information of the corresponding web page, And a scroll information data, a screen size data, and a specific word information data of the corresponding web page screen upon detecting the bookmark request event. The method of claim 2, wherein the mouse position information of the corresponding web page, And a mouse position on a screen of the corresponding web page as coordinate data when the bookmark request event is detected. The method of claim 2, wherein the dialog box window, And a URL (Uniform Resource Locator) information display item having flag information indicating a specific location of the bookmarked web document. The system of claim 1, wherein the specific location of the web document is not hyperlinked. In a method for bookmarking a specific position in a web document, Storing a bookmark program in a client terminal having a web browser, Running the web browser and executing the bookmark program; Registering a specific location of the web document as bookmark information according to a user's request of the client terminal, and And loading the web document including the bookmarked specific location into the web browser at the request of the user. The method of claim 8, wherein the registering of the bookmark information comprises: Determining whether a user's bookmark request event has occurred, Detecting image information and mouse position information of a corresponding web page when the bookmark request event is detected, and providing a dialog box window as an input device for designating the bookmark to the user; Storing image information and mouse position information of the web page as bookmark position information, Detecting a key input event from the dialog box window, and And combining the dialog box data input through the dialog box window and the bookmark location information as the bookmark information and storing the bookmark information as the bookmark information. The method of claim 9, wherein the video information of the corresponding web page, And a scroll information data, a screen size data, and a specific word information data of the corresponding web page screen upon detecting the bookmark request event. The method of claim 9, wherein the mouse position information of the corresponding web page, And a mouse position on a screen of the corresponding web page as coordinate data when the bookmark request event is detected. The method of claim 9, wherein the dialog box window, And a URL (Uniform Resource Locator) information display item having flag information indicating a specific location of the bookmarked web document. 10. The method of claim 8, wherein the specific location of the web document is not hyperlinked.