KR20090123045A - System and method for setting web viewer screen renewal period in mobile network - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: A web viewer screen updating period setting system in the wireless network and a method thereof are provided to enable a user to determine an update time of a web viewer screen by updating the web viewer screen according to a predetermined update period. CONSTITUTION: A mobile terminal(10) combines webpages with a plurality of grid images. The mobile terminal updates a web viewer screen by successively receiving grid image parts of the webpage of which contents are changed according to a screen update period, which is set by a user. A webpage conversion server(14) divides the specific webpage into a plurality of grid images, and successively transmits the grid images to the mobile terminal.

Description

System and Method for Setting Web Viewer Screen Renewal Period in Mobile Network}

The present invention relates to a system and a method for setting a web viewer screen update period in a wireless network such that the screen can be updated according to the change of the content of the web viewer screen according to the screen update period set by the user of the mobile communication terminal.

In general, a web page data provided from a remote web server can be wirelessly transmitted to a mobile communication terminal using a mobile communication network and a wireless internet network so that the web page data can be displayed on the screen of the mobile communication terminal. Web browsing service is being applied.

The web browsing service through the wireless communication network receives a web document data of a specific URL from a web server on the internet network in a mobile communication terminal, and analyzes the web document through data rendering and parsing to format the web document. Full browser method to display on the screen, and Web viewer to convert the web document data from the web server to a simplified image format on a specific server and provide it to the mobile communication terminal (Web Viewer). Are classified in a manner.

Among them, the web viewer type web browsing service is most widely applied because the mobile communication terminal does not need to render and parse a web document and can download and display a simplified image format from a server.

As shown in FIG. 1, when the web browsing service of the web viewer method receives a web page of a specific URL from a server of the mobile communication system, the web page content is captured as image data, and the captured web page is captured. It divides and divides an image into small pieces of images, and provides image fragments of the divided web pages to the mobile communication terminal through the network.

The mobile communication terminal sequentially receives image fragments of a web page provided from a server through a network, and combines them into a single web browsing screen to display a screen, and according to the combination screen display according to the screen size of the mobile communication terminal. A customized web viewer screen can be implemented.

In the mobile communication terminal, the sequential downloading is performed on the remaining web page image fragments not displayed on the screen of the terminal, thereby enabling the user to scroll the screen.

On the other hand, in such a web viewer type web browsing service, a web page screen converted into an image form is reproduced on a mobile communication terminal, and the web page has an animated property such as Flash or Ajax, or If a change occurs in the content of the web page due to the presence of a web component that is activated, as shown in FIG. 2, each image fragment of the web page is sequentially transmitted from a specific page portion such as the upper left of the screen. The overall screen update of the page is performed.

However, in the conventional web browsing service according to the web viewer method, in order to make the web page screen of the personal computer look similar, the update process of the changed web page is performed as soon as possible with a short update time period. Since such a screen update time period cannot be arbitrarily set by the user, there is a problem in that it can put a heavy load on the network and cause unnecessary packet charges by causing an unwanted use of network packets.

Accordingly, the present invention has been made to solve the above-described problems, and an object thereof is to update a web viewer screen in a wireless network that allows a user to arbitrarily set a screen update period for an internet web viewer screen of a mobile communication terminal. It is to provide a cycle setting system and a method thereof.

In order to achieve the above object, according to the system of the present invention, a desired web page is transmitted through a network as a plurality of grid images to be combined and displayed on the web viewer screen, at a time interval according to the screen update period set by the user A mobile communication terminal which receives the changed grid image portion of the web page sequentially and updates the web viewer screen, and divides a specific web page into a plurality of grid images and sequentially transmits the web page to the mobile communication terminal, Web page conversion period setting in the wireless network, characterized in that it comprises a web page conversion server for sequentially transmitting to the mobile terminal the portion of the grid image, the content of the web page in accordance with the time interval of the set screen update period Provide a system.

According to the method of the present invention to achieve the above object, the step of setting the screen update period of the web viewer screen by the user in the mobile communication terminal, the web page conversion server when the mobile terminal requests a specific web page Receiving a web page from a web server and dividing the web page into a plurality of grid images and sequentially transmitting the web pages to a mobile communication terminal, and receiving and combining the grid images sequentially from the mobile communication terminal to display a web viewer screen; Counting the time interval according to the set screen update period in the communication terminal and requesting the web page conversion server to update the web viewer screen every time elapsed according to the corresponding time interval, and the contents of the web page in the web page conversion server The changed grid image portion is sequentially transmitted to the mobile communication terminal. And updating a web viewer screen by sequentially receiving a grid image portion of which the contents have been changed in the mobile communication terminal, and transmitting a web viewer screen update cycle in a wireless network. do.

As described above, according to the present invention, the user can arbitrarily set the screen update period according to the content change of the web viewer screen in the mobile communication terminal, so that the web viewer screen is updated at a time interval according to a preset screen update period. As a result, it is possible for the user to arbitrarily set the update time of the web viewer screen according to his or her own situation, and to implement the web viewer screen intended by the user, and to slow down the update cycle of the web viewer screen. It is possible to reduce the packet usage fee due to unnecessary network packet transmission.

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

That is, FIG. 3 is a diagram illustrating a configuration of a system for setting a web viewer screen update period in a wireless network according to the present invention.

As shown in FIG. 3, the system for setting a web viewer screen update period in a wireless network according to the present invention includes a mobile communication terminal 10, a proxy server 12, a web page conversion server 14, and a plurality of webs. It consists of servers A1-An.

The mobile communication terminal 10 requests a URL of a specific website desired by a user through a mobile communication network, and sequentially receives images of the corresponding web page received through the mobile communication network for each divided image fragment through a mobile web browser. The screen is displayed on the web viewer screen, and the user can set the screen update cycle for the change of the web viewer screen, and the web viewer is displayed on the web page conversion server 14 at a time interval determined according to the set screen update cycle. By requesting the screen update, the grid image of the updated web page screen is sequentially received and displayed on the screen.

The proxy server 12 requests a URL of a specific website requested from the mobile communication terminal 10 to a specific web server, downloads the webpage data of the corresponding URL, and provides it to the webpage conversion server 14. Image fragments of the web page converted into images from the web page conversion server 14 are sequentially transmitted to the mobile communication terminal 10.

The web page conversion server 14 captures an image of a web page of a specific URL to be provided to the mobile communication terminal 10, divides the captured web page image into a small grid image, and then generates each grid image. The pieces are sequentially provided to the mobile communication terminal 10, which means that even if a change occurs in the content of the captured web page, the web page can be updated only when there is a request for updating the web viewer screen from the mobile communication terminal 10. Only the changed grid image part is selectively transmitted to the mobile communication terminal 10 in sequence.

The plurality of web servers A1 to An hold web pages according to respective websites, and provide the web pages of the requested URLs to the proxy server 12.

4 is a diagram showing in detail the configuration of the mobile communication terminal shown in FIG.

As shown in FIG. 4, the mobile communication terminal 10 includes a key input unit 30, a display unit 32, a program memory 34, a data memory 36, a mode state memory 38, and a microprocessor. 40, a radio data processor 42, a radio signal transceiver 44, and a digital signal processor 46.

The key input unit 30 is provided with a function key button for performing key input for voice call, text data communication, and wireless Internet. It has a function key button to perform.

The display unit 32 displays a web viewer screen according to a web page of a specific URL as a combination screen of grid images, and displays a user setting state of a screen update period for the web viewer screen.

The program memory 34 stores a system operation program of the corresponding mobile communication terminal, a mobile web browser program for implementing a web viewer screen of an internet web page, and an update cycle setting program for setting an update cycle of a web viewer screen.

The data memory 36 stores grid image data of a specific web page for screen display on the display unit 32, and the mode state memory 38 sets a setting mode according to the screen update period setting of the web viewer screen. Data is stored.

The microprocessor 40 sequentially receives grid image data of a web page of a specific URL and controls the screen to be displayed on the display unit 32 as a combination screen, and the web set by the key input unit 30. The wireless data processing unit 42 stores the setting mode data for the screen update period of the viewer screen in the mode state memory 38 and for each time interval of the set update period counted by an internal timer 40a. The wireless signal transmitter / receiver 44 requests an update of the web viewer screen, and controls to display the combined grid image received on the screen.

The radio data processor 42 converts the RF signal through the radio signal transceiver 44 into an intermediate frequency signal and converts the RF signal into a digital information signal, and converts the digital information signal from the digital signal processor 46 into an intermediate frequency signal. The intermediate frequency signal is converted into an RF signal to be transmitted through the wireless signal transceiver 44.

The radio signal transceiver 44 performs radio communication with a base station of a mobile communication network through an antenna to transmit and receive an RF signal.

The digital signal processor 46 digitally processes the digital information signal from the wireless data processor 42 and combines a grid image of a specific web page to display a screen on the display unit 32 through the operation of a mobile web browser. Be sure to

On the other hand, the screen update period setting of the web viewer screen, as shown in Figure 5 so that it is possible to set the screen update period on the configuration menu of the mobile communication terminal, the user through the key input unit 30 Depending on the selection operation, the update cycle can be selected according to the user's sensational choices, such as "fast", "moderate", "slow", or "very slow". Internally, time intervals corresponding to the update rate are set.

Next, the operation of the present invention made as described above will be described in detail with reference to the drawings of FIG. 6.

First, in the mobile communication terminal 10, when the key input unit 30 performs key input operation by the user and sets the screen update period for the web viewer screen, and then requests web page data of a specific website, the proxy server 12 ) Receives a web page from the web server of the website and provides it to the web page conversion server 14.

The webpage conversion server 14 captures the webpage into a specific image, divides the captured webpage image into grid image fragments of a predetermined size, and sequentially divides the grid image fragments into pieces. Transfer to the terminal 10.

The mobile communication terminal 10 sequentially receives grid images of web pages from the web page conversion server 14 and combines them, and displays them as one web viewer screen on the screen of the display unit 32.

In this state, the microprocessor 40 of the mobile communication terminal 10 according to the screen update period preset by the user through the internal timer 40a at the time when the current web viewer screen is implemented (Time = t0). The time interval (Time = t0 + n) is counted, and when the time interval elapses, the web page conversion server 14 requests to update the web viewer screen.

The web page conversion server 14 sequentially transmits the grid image changed in the mobile communication terminal 10 to the image portion of the grid image portion of the web page whose page content is changed by Flash or Ajax. On the other hand, data is not transmitted for the portion of the grid image whose contents are not changed.

Accordingly, the mobile communication terminal 10 sequentially receives only the grid image portion whose contents have been changed and displays the screen to update the web viewer screen contents, and the microprocessor 40 updates the web viewer screen. Counting the time intervals according to the preset screen update period from again and repeatedly requesting the web page conversion server 14 to update the web viewer screen every time the time corresponding to the time interval elapses, thereby changing the content of the web page. The screen portion is updated.

While specific embodiments of the present invention have been described and illustrated above, it will be apparent that the present invention may be embodied in various modifications by those skilled in the art. Such modified embodiments should not be understood individually from the technical spirit or the prospect of the present invention, but should fall within the claims appended to the present invention.

1 is a view illustrating a method of providing a web viewer screen by capturing and dividing an image of a general web page;

2 is a view showing a state in which the image fragments of the conventional web page is updated sequentially;

3 is a diagram illustrating a configuration of a system for setting a web viewer screen update period in a wireless network according to the present invention;

4 is a view showing in detail the configuration of the mobile communication terminal shown in FIG.

5 is a diagram illustrating a state of user setting a web viewer screen update period on a mobile communication terminal according to the present invention;

FIG. 6 is a diagram exemplarily illustrating a state in which a changed part of a web viewer image is updated according to a screen update period set by a user according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention.

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

10: mobile communication terminal, 12: proxy server,

14: web page conversion server, 30: key input section,

32: display unit, 34: program memory,

36: data memory, 38: mode status memory,

40: microprocessor, 42: wireless data processing unit,

44: wireless signal transceiver, 46: digital signal processor.

Claims (6)

Through the network, the desired web page is transmitted as a plurality of grid images and combined and displayed on the web viewer screen. A mobile communication terminal for updating a viewer screen; Particular web page is divided into a plurality of grid images and sequentially transmitted to the mobile communication terminal, and the mobile image is sequentially transmitted to the grid image portion whose contents of the web page are changed according to the time interval of the screen update period set from the mobile communication terminal. And a web page conversion server for transmitting to the terminal. The method of claim 1, The mobile terminal repeatedly counts a time interval of a preset screen update period and requests an update of the web viewer screen at each elapsed time according to the corresponding time interval. When the web page conversion server receives the web viewer screen update request from the mobile communication terminal, the web viewer screen update in the wireless network is sequentially transmitted to the mobile communication terminal. Frequency setting system. The method of claim 2, And when the web page conversion server receives an update request for the web viewer screen from the mobile communication terminal, does not transmit the grid image of which the contents are not changed. A first step of setting a screen update period of a web viewer screen by a user in a mobile communication terminal; When the mobile communication terminal requests a specific web page, the web page conversion server receives the web page from the web server, divides the web page into a plurality of grid images, and sequentially transmits the web pages to the mobile communication terminal. Receiving a combination and sequentially displaying a web viewer screen; A third step of counting the time interval according to the set screen update period in the mobile communication terminal and requesting the web page conversion server to update the web viewer screen every time the corresponding time interval elapses; A fourth step of sequentially transmitting the grid image portion of which the contents of the web page is changed to the mobile communication terminal by the web page conversion server; And And a fifth step of receiving a grid image portion of which the contents are changed sequentially and updating the web viewer screen in the mobile communication terminal. The method of claim 4, wherein The method of claim 5, wherein the mobile communication terminal is configured to repeatedly count a time interval according to the screen update period every time a web viewer screen is updated. The method of claim 4, wherein In the fourth step, when the web page conversion server receives an update request for the web viewer screen from the mobile communication terminal, the web viewer screen update in the wireless network is not transmitted. How to set the frequency.

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