KR20080100665A - Mobile communication apparatus having a plural of browser and control method thereof, and system for browsing markup page comprising the mobile communication apparatus and control method thereof - Google Patents

Abstract

A markup page browsing system using plural browsers is provided to improve the whole browsing speed by making browsing performed according to the web site using pattern of a user. A markup page browsing system comprises a markup page providing server(41), a mobile communication terminal(10), and a conversion server(31). The markup page providing server provides a markup page written in the markup language. The mobile communication terminal performs browsing of the markup page through the wireless Internet. The conversion server determines whether a browser executed in the mobile terminal is the first browser or the second browser based on browser information included in a request signal of the mobile terminal.

Description

MOBILE COMMUNICATION APPARATUS HAVING A PLURAL OF BROWSER AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF, AND SYSTEM FOR BROWSING MARKUP PAGE COMPRISING THE MOBILE COMMUNICATION APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF}

1 is a schematic block diagram of a markup page browsing system using a plurality of browsers according to an embodiment of the present invention.

2 is a schematic functional block diagram of a mobile communication terminal of FIG. 1,

3A to 3C are control flow diagrams of a markup page browsing system using a plurality of browsers according to an embodiment of the present invention.

4 is a diagram illustrating an example in which an icon is displayed on a display unit of the mobile communication terminal of FIG. 3A,

5A and 5B illustrate an example in which a web page is displayed on a display unit of the mobile communication terminal of FIG. 3A.

* Explanation of symbols for the main parts of the drawings

10: mobile communication terminal 11: mobile communication module

12 control unit 13 storage unit

14: key input unit 15: display unit

12_2: browser execution unit 20: base station

30: mobile communication packet network 31: conversion server

40: Internet network 41: markup providing server

50: router

The present invention relates to a mobile communication terminal, a control method thereof, a system including the mobile communication terminal, and a control method thereof. More specifically, the present invention relates to a mobile communication terminal for browsing a markup page with a browser and a control method thereof. The present invention relates to a mobile communication terminal and a control method thereof.

Due to the development of communication environment, many additional functions have been added to mobile communication terminals such as mobile phones.

Among them, there has been a desire for the use of the Internet using a mobile communication terminal due to the activation of the Internet through a wired network. Accordingly, communication companies have added a function to enable the use of the wireless Internet in the mobile communication terminal.

INTERNET is the world's largest computer communication network, originating from ARPANET, originally developed for military purposes. It is based on the TCP / IP protocol. Services available on the Internet include e-mail, remote computer connection (telnet), file transfer (FTP), Usenet News, Internet information search (Gopher), Internet conversation and discussion (IRC). ), Electronic bulletin boards (BBS), hypertext information browsing (WWW: World Wide Web), online games, and so on. Recently, with the rapid increase of web sites, viewing of web pages has become the main use of the Internet.

As such, the Internet connection made in a wired network is possible even in a wireless communication environment using a mobile communication terminal.

However, when accessing the Internet using a mobile communication terminal, initially, only a limited content was accessed by accessing a wireless network having a closed structure for each mobile communication using a WAP browser. In this closed structure, the contents provided by other mobile carriers could not be accessed, nor could they directly access the web server of the wired Internet network.

Therefore, in order to solve this inconvenience, a full browser has been introduced in the mobile communication terminal.

The full browser connects directly to the web server of the wired Internet network from the mobile terminal, requests and receives a web page from the web server, parses the markup tag included in the web page and displays it on the display. It is configured to be able to view.

However, although the full browser has better performance than the WAP browser, the full browser has a problem that its program capacity is large. In the mobile communication terminal, which has limited hardware size or performance in consideration of price, driving of such a full browser requires a lot of hardware resources, and thus, web page processing time becomes long.

In particular, there are some websites whose main purpose is to read the content posted on the website according to the user's website usage pattern, and some sites whose main purpose is to write on the bulletin board of the website.

Ignoring the user's website usage pattern and accessing the website by running the full browser every time, whenever the user wants to browse the web, unnecessary waste of hardware resources is required and the processing time of the web page is long, resulting in user inconvenience.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made to solve the above-mentioned disadvantages, and an object thereof is to perform a web browsing in consideration of a user's website usage pattern, thereby improving a processing time of a web page and a control method thereof. And a markup page browsing system including the mobile communication terminal and a control method thereof.

In order to achieve the above object, a markup page browsing system using a plurality of browsers according to the present invention comprises: a markup page providing server for providing a markup page written in a markup language; A first browser for processing a markup page converted into an image form, and a second browser for processing a markup page including a markup tag, and among the first browser and the second browser according to the user's selection A mobile communication terminal which executes any one of the mobile communication terminals and transmits a markup page request signal including the executed browser information and markup page address information; When the markup page request signal is received from the mobile communication terminal, the markup page request server is transmitted to the markup page providing server based on the markup page address information, and the mobile communication terminal is based on the browser information. If it is determined that the browser executed in the first browser, the conversion server for converting the markup page received from the markup page providing server into an image and transmits the image to the mobile communication terminal.

In addition, the markup page browsing method using a plurality of browsers according to the present invention for achieving the above object, the first browser for processing the markup page in the form of an image, and the markup page including a markup tag In the mobile communication terminal including a second browser, executing one of the first browser and the second browser according to a user's selection; Transmitting, by the mobile communication terminal, a markup page request signal including the executed browser information and markup page address information; When the conversion server receives the markup page request signal from the mobile communication terminal, requesting the markup page providing server to transmit a markup page based on the markup page address information; Transmitting, by the markup page providing server, a markup page according to a request for transmitting a markup page from the conversion server; Determining, by the conversion server, the type of browser executed in the mobile communication terminal based on the browser information; When the conversion server determines that the browser executed in the mobile communication terminal is the first browser, converting the markup page received from the markup page providing server into an image and transmitting the image to the mobile communication terminal; And displaying, by the mobile communication terminal, an image received from the conversion server on a display unit.

In addition, in order to achieve the above object, a mobile communication terminal having a plurality of browsers according to the present invention includes a key input unit; A display unit; A mobile communication module for transmitting and receiving a wireless communication signal; A storage unit for storing a first browser for processing a markup page in an image form and a second browser for processing a markup page including a markup tag; At least one icon including browser information and markup page address information is displayed on the display unit, and when any one of the icons displayed on the display unit is selected according to a user's manipulation of the key input unit, the icon is included in the selected icon. Executing either one of the first browser and the second browser based on the received browser information, and causing a markup page request signal including the address information and the browser information to be transmitted through the mobile communication module; And a control unit for displaying a markup page received through the mobile communication module according to a request on the display unit.

In addition, in order to achieve the above object, a control method of a mobile communication terminal having a plurality of browsers according to the present invention includes the steps of displaying at least one icon including browser information and markup page address information on a display unit; Wow; Selecting one of the icons displayed on the display unit according to a user's manipulation of a key input unit; Executing any one of a first browser for processing a markup page in an image form and a second browser for processing a markup page including a markup tag based on the browser information included in the selected icon; Transmitting a markup page request signal including the address information and the browser information; And displaying the markup page received according to the request on the display unit.

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

Markup page browsing system using a plurality of browsers according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a markup page providing server 41, a mobile communication terminal 10, a conversion server 31 as shown in FIG. It is composed.

The markup page providing server 41 is a server providing markup pages written in a markup language. Here, the markup language attaches a kind of tag called a tag to a predetermined text and adds a specific meaning. There are various kinds of markup languages such as HTML (HyperText Markup Language), XML (eXtensible Markup Language), and WML (Wireless Markup Language). .

The mobile communication terminal 10 is, for example, a mobile phone, a personal digital assistant (PDA), or the like, and performs browsing of markup pages through the wireless Internet. Here, browsing of a markup page means a series of processes for requesting a markup page and displaying a markup page received according to the request so that a user can view the contents of the markup page.

For such browsing, the mobile communication terminal 10 includes a mobile communication module 11, a key input unit 14, a display unit 15, a storage unit 13, and a control unit 12 as shown in FIG. It is configured by.

The mobile communication module 11 forms a wireless communication channel with the base station 20 to transmit a signal received from the base station 20 to the control unit 12, and transmits a signal generated from the control unit 12 to the base station 20. To pass. In this case, the mobile communication module 11 may perform modulation and demodulation in accordance with the communication format.

The key input unit 14 includes a plurality of key buttons (not shown), and when a user presses a specific key button, the key input unit 14 transmits a signal of the corresponding key button to the control unit 12, thereby controlling the key button selected by the user 12. Let's know.

The display unit 15 is an apparatus for displaying an image and may be configured as an LCD (Liquid Crystal Display) with low power consumption. In particular, in the present exemplary embodiment, the markup page is displayed on the display unit 15 so that the user can view the markup page.

The storage unit 13 stores programs necessary for the operation of the mobile communication terminal 10 and temporary data generated during program execution. In particular, in the present embodiment, the storage unit 13 stores a first browser for processing a markup page in the form of an image and a second browser for processing a markup page including a markup tag. The storage unit 13 in which the browser is stored is preferably configured as a nonvolatile memory in which data is not deleted even when the power is cut off.

The controller 12 causes the display unit 15 to display at least one icon including browser information and markup page address information according to a user's selection. Here, the inclusion of the browser information and the markup page address information in the icon includes a case where the browser information and the markup page address information corresponding to the icon are stored in one area of the storage unit 13.

The browser information and markup page address included in the icon can be set and changed by the user through the operation of the key input unit 14, and the icon may be in a menu format.

In this state, if any one of the icons displayed on the display unit 15 is selected according to the user's manipulation of the key input unit 14, the control unit 12 selects the first browser and the based on the browser information included in the selected icon. Run any one of the second browsers. That is, the controller 12 may load the loaded browser into the browser execution unit 12_2 by loading any one of the first browser and the second browser stored in the storage unit 13. The browser execution unit 12_2 may be a volatile memory such as a random access memory (RAM) or a register.

The control unit 12 delivers the markup page address information included in the icon to the executed browser. Here, the markup page address information may have, for example, a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) or a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) format.

Accordingly, the browser executed by the controller 12 transmits a markup page request signal including the markup page address information and the browser information through the mobile communication module 11, and receives the markup page received according to the request signal. Displayed on the display unit 15 allows the user of the mobile communication terminal 10 to view the markup page.

Meanwhile, when the markup page request signal is received from the mobile communication terminal 10, the conversion server 31 of the mobile communication packet network 30 marks the markup page of the Internet network 40 based on the markup page address information. Request for transmission of the markup page to the providing server 41. Here, the mobile communication packet network 30 is a network that supports call processing and data communication for voice communication of the mobile communication terminal 10, and the internet network 40 is based on TCP / IP. As a network to which is connected, the mobile communication packet network 30 and the Internet network 40 may be connected via a router 50.

The conversion server 31 determines whether the browser executed in the mobile communication terminal 10 is the first browser or the second browser, based on the browser information included in the request signal of the mobile communication terminal 10. If it is determined that the browser executed in the mobile communication terminal 10 is the second browser, the conversion server 31 transmits the markup page received from the markup page providing server 41 to the mobile communication terminal 10 as it is. However, when it is determined that the browser executed in the mobile communication terminal 10 is the first browser, the conversion server 31 converts the markup page received from the markup page providing server 41 into a single image and performs the mobile communication. Transfer to the terminal 10. Here, the single image may be an image in the form of a single file or may be an image stream.

In order to convert the markup page received from the markup page providing server 41 into a single image, the conversion server 31 parses and renders a tag included in the markup page and converts the markup page into a form that appears on a display or the like. Can be performed.

Hereinafter, a control process of a markup page browsing system using a plurality of browsers according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to FIGS. 3A to 3C. In the present embodiment, the storage unit 13 of the mobile communication terminal 10 can process a web page that can process a web page in the form of an image and a web page that includes HTML tags. A full browser, that is, a case where two web browsers are provided will be described as an example. It is assumed that the markup data providing server 41 is a web server 41.

First, as shown in FIG. 4, the controller 12 of the mobile communication terminal 10 causes a web page request icon to be displayed on the display unit 15 according to a user's selection (step S1).

4, four icons are displayed, and each icon includes a web page address, that is, a URL. For example, the NAVER icon 16_1 includes a URL "http://naver.com". This URL included in each icon can be set by the user's key operation.

In addition, the controller 12 sets the browser type corresponding to each icon according to the user's manipulation of the key input unit 14 (step S2). For example, you can set a web viewer for the Naver icon and a full browser for the blog icon.

Web pages that users generally access and browse can be classified into two types according to their utilization status.

The first is when a web browsing user only browses a web page. The second is when a web browsing user requests a link to a link included in a web page, or writes on a bulletin board of a web page. to be.

In the first case, the user only needs to browse the content of the web page, so the browser does not have to have a function for parsing the tag of the web page. Therefore, a user can reduce the overhead of displaying a web page on a display by assigning a web viewer which does not have a markup tag function and can only process an image to an icon including a URL that only wants to view the contents of the web page. That is, since there is no tag processing function, the web viewer has a small overall capacity and runs fast at execution.

On the other hand, if any one of the icons displayed on the display unit 15 is selected by the user (step S3), the control unit 12 calls and executes the browser corresponding to the selected icon (step S4). At this time, the controller 12 transmits the URL included in the selected icon to the executed browser.

If the browser to be executed is a web viewer (step S5), the web viewer transmits a web page request signal through the mobile communication module 11 (step S6), and the web page request signal is received from the controller 12. It contains the URL and web viewer browser information. Here, various functions (eg, control of the mobile communication module 11) for requesting a web page and receiving the web page may be performed through the control unit 12, but the web browser directly functions for convenience of description. I will explain by doing. Browser information may utilize User-Agent header information in the case of HTTP (HyperText Transfer Protocol).

Receiving the web page request signal from the mobile communication terminal 10 (step S7), the conversion server 31 first of all, based on the browser information included in the web page request signal, of the browser executed in the mobile communication terminal 10; The kind is extracted (step S8). Since the web viewer request information includes the web viewer browser information, the type of browser extracted is the web viewer.

The conversion server 31 requests the web page from the web server 41 based on the URL included in the web page request signal (step S9).

Receiving a web page request from the conversion server 31 (step S10), the web server 41 analyzes the received URL (step S11), extracts the requested web page, and converts the extracted web page to the conversion server 31. (Step S12).

When the web page is received from the web server 41 (step S13), the conversion server 31 analyzes / interprets the web page according to the web viewer because the browser extracted in step S8 is the web viewer (step S14) (step S15). ) A single image is generated (step S16). Here, analyzing / interpreting the web page includes parsing markup tags included in the web page. The single image may be an image in a state where the web page is displayed on the display device. The single image may be a single file or may be a single stream. The image generated by the conversion server 31 may be generated in various formats such as jpg, png, and gif.

That is, the web page is converted from the text form including the markup tag to the image file form.

When the conversion server 31 generates and transmits a web page (for example, an image file having a JPG extension) in the form of one image file (step S17), the web of the mobile communication terminal 10 that receives it (step S18) is received. The viewer displays the web page in the form of a received image file on the display unit 15 (step S19). Since a technique of processing an image file and displaying it on a display unit is well known, its detailed description is omitted.

As such, the web viewer needs only a function of displaying an image on the display unit 15, so that the capacity of the web viewer is small and the execution speed is fast, thereby improving the user's web browsing speed. However, since the markup tag of the web page is not analyzed and displayed, hyperlink connection based on the markup tag may be limited.

On the other hand, if the type of browser corresponding to the icon is a full browser, the full browser is called and driven according to the user's icon selection (step S20), and the full browser is based on the URL transmitted by the control unit 12 on the web page. Is requested (step S21).

Upon receiving the web page request signal from the mobile communication terminal 10 (step S7), the conversion server 31 extracts the type of the browser executed in the mobile communication terminal 10 based on the browser information included in the web page request signal. (Step S8). The type of browser is full browser.

The conversion server 31 requests the web page from the web server 41 based on the URL included in the web page request signal (step S9).

Receiving a web page request from the conversion server 31 (step S10), the web server 41 analyzes the received URL (step S11), extracts the requested web page, and converts the extracted web page to the conversion server 31. (Step S12).

When the web page is received from the web server 41 (step S13), the conversion server 31 transmits the web page to the mobile communication terminal 10 without converting the image since the browser extracted in step S8 is a web browser (step S22). (Step S23).

When the web page is received from the conversion server 31 (step S24), the mobile communication terminal 10 parses and renders the markup tag included in the web page (step S25) and displays it on the display unit 15 (step S25). S26).

As described above, when the markup tag of the web page is analyzed and displayed on the display unit 15, the hyperlink may be connected to a new hyperlink according to the tag attribute, or the user may write on the bulletin board. These features of the browser parsing / rendering web pages are well known and will not be described in detail.

Accordingly, the user of the mobile communication terminal 10 may shorten the browsing time by setting a hotkey or an icon in accordance with a usage pattern of a site desired to be browsed.

For example, as shown in FIG. 5A, if a user wants to view only a specific news title of a portal site, a web viewer may be set and used for an icon corresponding to the site, and the contents of the bulletin board may be checked as shown in FIG. 5B. At the same time, if you want to write as needed, you can use the full browser by setting the icon corresponding to the site.

As such, the website that only wants to be viewed can be browsed in the form of a single image using the web viewer, thereby preventing unnecessary waste of hardware resources using the full browser. And for websites that require full browsing such as tag processing, you can use the full browser to use all the functions provided by the website (for example, writing a bulletin board).

In the above-described embodiment, the conversion server 31 is an example of being in the mobile communication packet network 30, but the conversion server 31 may be configured in the Internet network 40, of course.

On the other hand, the present invention is not limited to the above specific embodiments, but can be modified and modified in various ways without departing from the gist of the present invention. It will be apparent that such variations and modifications are included in the present invention as long as they belong to the appended claims.

As described above, according to the present invention, when a user browses the web using a mobile communication terminal, browsing is performed according to the user's website usage pattern, thereby improving the overall browsing speed.

Claims (8)

A markup page providing server for providing a markup page written in a markup language; A first browser for processing a markup page converted into an image form, and a second browser for processing a markup page in a text form including a markup tag, wherein the first browser and the first browser are selected by a user. 2 executes any one of the browsers, transmits a markup page request signal including the executed browser information and markup page address information, and displays the received markup page according to the markup page request signal on the display unit. A mobile communication terminal; When the markup page request signal is received from the mobile communication terminal, the markup page request server is transmitted to the markup page providing server based on the markup page address information, and the mobile communication terminal is based on the browser information. If it is determined that the browser executed in the first browser, the plurality of browsers, characterized in that it comprises a conversion server for converting the markup page received from the markup page providing server into an image form and transmitting to the mobile communication terminal Markup page browsing system using. The method of claim 1, When the conversion server determines that the browser executed in the mobile communication terminal is the second browser, based on the browser information, the conversion server does not convert the markup page received from the markup page providing server into an image and converts the image into the mobile communication terminal. Send, And the mobile communication terminal interprets the markup tag of the markup page transmitted from the conversion server and displays the markup tag on the display unit. In the system comprising a mobile communication terminal requesting the transmission of a markup page, a markup page providing server for providing a markup page, and a conversion server provided between the mobile communication terminal and the markup page providing server, (a) In the mobile communication terminal having a first browser for processing a markup page in the form of an image and a second browser for processing a markup page including a markup tag, the first browser according to a user's selection And executing one of the second browsers; (b) the mobile communication terminal transmitting a markup page request signal including the executed browser information and markup page address information; (c) when the conversion server receives the markup page request signal from the mobile communication terminal, requesting transmission of a markup page to the markup page providing server based on the markup page address information; (d) transmitting, by the markup page providing server, a markup page according to a request for transmitting a markup page from the conversion server; (e) determining, by the conversion server, the type of browser executed in the mobile communication terminal based on the browser information; (f) when the conversion server determines that the browser executed in the mobile communication terminal is the first browser, converting the markup page received from the markup page providing server into an image and transmitting the image to the mobile communication terminal. Wow; and (g) displaying, by the mobile communication terminal, a markup page in the form of an image received from the conversion server on a display unit. The method of claim 3, If it is determined that the browser executed in the mobile communication terminal is the second browser as a result of step (e), the conversion server transmits the markup page received from the markup page providing server to the mobile communication terminal. And a mobile communication terminal interpreting the markup tag of the markup page received from the conversion server and displaying the markup tag on the display unit. A key input unit; A display unit; A mobile communication module for transmitting and receiving a wireless communication signal; A storage unit for storing a first browser for processing a markup page in an image form and a second browser for processing a markup page in a text form including a markup tag; At least one icon including browser information and markup page address information is displayed on the display unit, and when any one of the icons displayed on the display unit is selected according to a user's manipulation of the key input unit, the icon is included in the selected icon. Executing either one of the first browser and the second browser based on the received browser information, and causing a markup page request signal including the address information and the browser information to be transmitted through the mobile communication module; And a control unit for displaying a markup page received through the mobile communication module on the display unit in response to a request. The method of claim 5, The browser information and the markup page address information included in the icon are set according to a user's manipulation of the key input unit and are stored in the storage unit. A mobile communication terminal comprising a first browser for processing a markup page in an image form and a second browser for processing a markup page in a text form including a markup tag, (a) displaying at least one icon including browser information and markup page address information on a display unit; (b) selecting one of the icons displayed on the display unit according to a user's manipulation of a key input unit; (c) executing one of the first browser and the second browser based on the browser information included in the selected icon; (d) transmitting a markup page request signal including the address information and the browser information; and (e) causing the markup page received in response to the request to be displayed on the display unit. The method of claim 7, wherein Before step (a) above, And setting the browser information and the markup page address information included in the icon according to a user's manipulation of the key input unit.

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