WO2001059974A2 - Procede d'affichage de contenu enrichi - Google Patents

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WO2001059974A2
WO2001059974A2 PCT/US2001/040078 US0140078W WO0159974A2 WO 2001059974 A2 WO2001059974 A2 WO 2001059974A2 US 0140078 W US0140078 W US 0140078W WO 0159974 A2 WO0159974 A2 WO 0159974A2
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Ralph E. Machesky
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    • G09—EDUCATION; CRYPTOGRAPHY; DISPLAY; ADVERTISING; SEALS
    • G09G—ARRANGEMENTS OR CIRCUITS FOR CONTROL OF INDICATING DEVICES USING STATIC MEANS TO PRESENT VARIABLE INFORMATION
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    • G06F16/9577—Optimising the visualization of content, e.g. distillation of HTML documents
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    • G09—EDUCATION; CRYPTOGRAPHY; DISPLAY; ADVERTISING; SEALS
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    • G09—EDUCATION; CRYPTOGRAPHY; DISPLAY; ADVERTISING; SEALS
    • G09G—ARRANGEMENTS OR CIRCUITS FOR CONTROL OF INDICATING DEVICES USING STATIC MEANS TO PRESENT VARIABLE INFORMATION
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  • the present invention relates generally to the display of Rich Content in computer devices and, more particularly, concerns a method for displaying single or simultaneous multiple instances of re-scalable, re-sizeable and re-shapeable Rich Content in separate, re-scalable, re-shapeable and re- sizeable display windows.
  • Macromedia Flash/Shockwave Another method of delivering and enabling the display of rich content is to offer the content (and/or ;he player, program, or plug-in) within a web page or a file viewable by using a web browser or other viewing program. While these methods represent the state of current technology, each has drawbacks and limitations that are overcome by the present invention. Such limitations and drawbacks include, the inability to scale content both vertically and horizontally within a display, and the inability to function on multiple platforms and/or multiple operating systems.
  • the methods and systems existing today have a number of other limitations that interfere with the most desirable presentation of rich content.
  • the current players, programs and plug-ins all have limitations regarding their ability to simultaneously display multiple sessions of rich content. In many cases, it is not even possible to launch multiple sessions of a particular player, program or plug-in simultaneously.
  • this is not a limitation of the computer, but of the underlying player, program or plug-in.
  • the rich content within the display window has limitations on its ability to resize, reshape and rescale proportionately within the window. In fact, it is often the case that neither the content nor the window within which it is displayed will be re-sizeable, re-shapeable or re- scalable by the user.
  • An example of one of the drawbacks of existing technologies is that a user who is viewing rich content, such as video (for example, using RealNetworks RealPlayer, Microsoft Media Player, or Apple
  • Fig. 2 illustrates a browser program displaying a rich content file in a window full-screen ( 1 5) .
  • the rich content is in a JPEG file and is viewed by a multimedia viewing program which is built into the browser.
  • the browser window is resized and reshaped (1 5')
  • the underlying rich content within the resized window is unaffected and the image must be scrolled to view portions not visible in the resized window as shown in Fig. 2.
  • users would like to be able to resize a display window when they wish for the window to occupy more or less of the space available on their display device. For example, a user may wish to view multiple sessions of rich content simultaneously or may wish to view rich content in one portion of the screen, while using the another portion of the screen for other purposes, such as Word Processing, e-mailing, or surfing the web.
  • the program, player or plug-in which displays the rich content is accessed via an Internet browser, such as Netscape Navigator or Microsoft Internet Explorer.
  • the browser window containing the rich content is spawned by a web scripting language, such as Javascript, running, for example, within an HTML document, and the web scripting language specifically formats the browser window to display the rich content.
  • the rich content when embedded in a spawned browser window in accordance with the present invention, becomes proportionally scalable in two dimensions within the window in which it is displayed by virtue of defining the height and width of the rich content as a dual axis scalable percentage of the window within which it is displayed.
  • Figure 1 illustrates a computer screen consisting of multiple instances of proportionately re-scalable, re-sizeable, re-shapeable rich content, each displayed within their own separate, two-dimensionally re-scalable, re- sizeable, and re-shapeable browser window;
  • Figure 2 shows a conventional browser window displaying a rich content image in a full-size window (1 5) and after the window has been re- scaled to a reduced size ( 1 5');
  • Figure 3 shows the browser window of Fig. 2 when generated in accordance with the present invention, full-size ( 1 5) and drastically re- scaled ( 1 5") and reshaped and resizedd 5 ' ”) .
  • Figure 4 is a functional block diagram illustrating the preferred environment in which the present invention is utilized.
  • Figure 5 is a flow chart illustrating the processed performed by a server which is in communication with a user requesting rich content.
  • FIG. 4 is a functional block diagram illustrating the preferred environment in which the present invention is utilized. Illustrated are a plurality of users, user 1 ... user n, connected to the internet through their computers. Also shown are two servers, server A and server B, also connected to the internet. The number of users and servers has been limited for purposes of illustration. Also for purposes of illustration, it will be assumed that all users are in communication with server A. When a user, say user 1 , requests a particular rich content object, such as a movie, from server
  • the server will either handle the request and provide the object directly or, alternatively, may transfer the user to another server, such as server B, to provide the rich content object.
  • server B another server
  • server A could selectively transfer to any one of them to respond a user's request.
  • FIG. 5 is a flow chart of the preferred process followed by server A (or any of the other servers) in responding to a user request.
  • the server detects a request of a rich content object by the user at block 1 02. Such request is typically initiated by the user's clicking on a particular location and a page provided to him by server A.
  • a test is performed to determine whether the user has met certain predefined conditions. Conditions tested for would be, for example, whether the user is authorized to access the particular object, or whether he has been transferred from a site (e.g. another server) on which he is authorized to access the object. If the conditions are not met, the object is denied at block 1 04, an error message is issued to the user at block 1 1 0, and the process ends at block 1 1 6. If all of the conditions are met, the server grants the user access to the object at block 1 08.
  • an object appropriate for delivery to the user is created, and at block 1 1 4, the object is delivered.
  • Figure 1 illustrates a user's computer screen 1 0 which includes seven different windows (web browsers) of different size and shape, each displaying rich content.
  • the top three windows 1 2, 1 4, 1 6 each display different instances of rich content in the form of video footage via the Microsoft Media Player plug-in.
  • Window 1 8 contains a graphic imag a displayed via ImagePump applet.
  • Window 20 contains a display of a three-dimensional object via a Metastream plug-in.
  • Window 22 displays a cartoon via a Flash Animation plug-in.
  • Window 24 is a movie trailer being displayed via Apple QuickTime plug-in.
  • Item 26 is the usual task bar that appears on a Microsoft Windows 98 screen.
  • each window in screen 1 0 is a different instance of a browser program.
  • each window can be reshaped and/or resized in any manner the user desires (subject to the size and shape of the screen being used), and the content within each window will scale accordingly, such that all of the content will be visible within the window without any of the content being obscured from view.
  • Table 1 presents the HTML code for producing the content window 1 6.
  • the purpose of this code is to cause the receiving computer to define the content of the new browser window in which the rich content (in this instance, via Microsoft Media Player) is called as an embedded object.
  • the code of Table 1 is called in a Javascript which spawns a new window, for example, when a user clicks on an area of the screen.
  • the relevant portion of the Javascript is preferably as follows:
  • This defines a function, called REALVIEW, which spawns a new window using a standard routine, "window. open.”
  • the parameter "Link" is the URL for the file which defines the window content, which will be derived when the user clicks on a portion of a window being displayed.
  • the window name will be assigned by default if none is specified, and the default properties of the window are contained in the function call. In the example, only three properties of the spawned window are set, so the window will be free of space consuming features normally present in a browser window, maximizing the space available for rich content.
  • Table 1 contains the HTML code for that file.
  • Table 2 contains the HTML file for window 18 in Fig.1. In this case a window is spawned in which the ImagePump applet is utilized.
  • a c ual axis proportionately scalable viewing mode is achieved by embedding the rich content as an object in a spawned window and expressing the embedded object parameters of width and height as percentages.
  • the window is resized, reshaped or re-scaled by the user, all the rich content will continue to occupy the spawned window proportionately, regardless of the size, shape or scale of the window.
  • Figure 3 illustrates a browser window with a full-size, rich content image 1 5 as displayed in accordance with the present invention.
  • the JPEG file of Fig. 2 has been embedded in a browser window with space consuming features deleted, as discussed above.
  • the multimedia viewing program is the viewer built into the browser program.
  • the window 1 5 is drastically rescaled ( 1 5") or resized and reshaped (1 5 '"), the image resizes and reshapes in proportion to the window.
  • the spawned window was created and defined to eliminate space consuming elements of the usual browser window.
  • the parameters defining width and height of the content were set to 1 00%, causing the rich content to occupy the full spawned browser window.
  • the rich content was defined as an embedded object in a section of the web code, which permits multiple instances of the present invention to run simultaneously.
  • the dual axis proportionately scalable result of the present invention insures that the embedded object will be proportionately resized, reshaped and re-scaled, so that the embedded object is fully presented within the spawned window, regardless of the size, shape or scale of that window, as set by a user.
  • a user would permit a user to simultaneously watch a combination of media types, such as a music video, two videos of a jewelry display for comparison-shopping purposes, a graphic image, a movie trailer, a three-dimensional object, and a cartoon.
  • a user can resize, reshape, and rescale each window whenever and as often as the user chooses.
  • Another use of the current invention is related to a visual search engine. For example, a user would be able to search for items (e.g. automobiles) meeting specific criteria, with the resulting data returned as a series of separate re-sizeable, re-shapeable and re-scalable display windows, each window containing content based on the user's search criteria. The user could then view, compare, and selectively resize, reshape or close those windows containing content produced by the search.
  • items e.g. automobiles
  • re-shapeable and re-scalable display windows each window containing content based on the user's search criteria.
  • the user could then view, compare, and selectively resize, reshape or close those windows containing content produced by the search.
  • browser Although, an Internet browser has been described for convenience, it is not intended that the term “browser” be so limited. Also, the browsers described in the disclosure all utilize HTML code to define browser pages. Clearly, a “browser” may use any other page or window description language, so long as it enables a user to create code that will control the appearance of pages or windows containing rich content.

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L'invention concerne un procédé permettant de visionner simultanément plusieurs instances au contenu enrichi, chacune dans une fenêtre d'affichage séparée, qu'il est possible de régler en taille, forme et échelle. Dans une réalisation préférée, le programme, le logiciel de lecture ou le plugiciel qui permet de réaliser l'affichage de contenu enrichi est obtenu via un navigateur Internet, tel que Netscape Navigator ou Microsoft Internet Explorer. La fenêtre navigateur contenant le contenu enrichi est reproduite à l'aide d'un langage d'écriture web, tel que Javascript, s'exécutant avec un document HTML, et ce langage web permet de formater spécifiquement la fenêtre navigateur afin d'afficher le contenu enrichi. Lorsque ce contenu est imbriqué dans une fenêtre navigateur selon la présente invention, il est possible de l'agrandir ou de le réduire proportionnellement, à l'intérieur de la fenêtre dans laquelle il est affiché, par définition de la hauteur et de la largeur du contenu enrichi sous forme d'un pourcentage d'échelle de deux axes de la fenêtre à l'intérieur de laquelle il est affiché.
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