WO2001084368A2 - Procede et appareil de navigation web rapide - Google Patents

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WO2001084368A2
WO2001084368A2 PCT/SE2001/000930 SE0100930W WO0184368A2 WO 2001084368 A2 WO2001084368 A2 WO 2001084368A2 SE 0100930 W SE0100930 W SE 0100930W WO 0184368 A2 WO0184368 A2 WO 0184368A2
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Niclas STÅHL
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  • the present invention relates to network browsers and more particularly to a method and an apparatus for loading of data to Internet and World Wide Web (hereinafter Web) browsers.
  • the Web can be regarded as a giant database.
  • the data is spread out over many "sites", located on computers connected to the Internet.
  • a site can contain data in one or more data sources, often text files called pages or Web pages, each identified by its own, unique address, called Uniform Resource Locator (URL).
  • URL Uniform Resource Locator
  • a page often contains references to other pages, easily accessible by activating the "link".
  • An advantage of this is that it is possible to keep pages small and easy to update, by having several small pages linked to each other, rather than a single, big page.
  • An example of this is Web based a newspaper, where different journalists could be responsible for keeping their own articles updated, while an editor updates the main page, with links to the different articles, each one on a different page. From this example it will also be obvious that the content of a site can change rapidly.
  • Pages often contain other kinds of information than pure text. Pictures are most common, but the pages can also contain for example application programs, forms and sound files. All in all, pages often contain a large amount of data to be transferred from a site to the browser. On for example an internal network (Intranet) transmission speeds are often quite high, resulting in a low delay when downloading a page. The same often applies to other kinds of high-speed connections.
  • IP internal network
  • a solution known to the art is to start downloading the text and wait with the images until all the text has been downloaded. As the images often contain more information than the text, this approach works rather well, bringing down the time a user has to wait until he can start reading something on the page. The total time the user has to wait remains the same, however.
  • Another solution is to open another browser window in which the second page is downloaded.
  • a disadvantage with this solution is that it can be difficult to handle more than one browser window, especially if the size of the display is small, as it often is on handheld terminals.
  • this solution uses a feature called "prefetching". This feature is said to be useful in two instances. Firstly, when having used a search engine, this solution will automatically download the second page while the first is being read, and so on. Secondly, it can be used to prefetch pages on sites that aren't search engines. In this case it is possible to configure a browser equipped with this solution to automatically fetch certain pages that fit a profile predetermined by the user; an example being prefetching the quotes for a certain stock when accessing a site with stock quotes. This solution is not, however, able to dynamically adjust to for instance new pages or sudden, new interests. That is to say that the solution cannot for example be used to prefetch pages about subjects not in the predetermined profile.
  • the present invention seeks to overcome these problems in providing a solution to reduce the time it takes to access consecutive pages.
  • the present invention is directed to a method and an apparatus for reducing the time it takes to access consecutive Web pages.
  • Said method and apparatus allows a user to start the downloading of a second page while reading a first page.
  • the second page is stored in a memory and can then be accessed immediately when the user so requests.
  • FIG. 1 depicts schematically a browser and a number of pages
  • FIG. 2 depicts a flowchart illustrating a method according to the invention.
  • FIG 1 illustrates a browser 10, comprising means for navigation, for instance a control window 11 (hereinafter used as an example of means for navigation), and a document window 12.
  • the control window 11 is typically used to navigate the Web, i.e. to choose which page to download etc., for example using so-called "Back" or "Home” buttons, or a list of "Bookmarks".
  • the control window 11 is also used to print a page, to search for information in a page and so on.
  • the document window 12, displays a selected page.
  • FIG. 1 In FIG. 1 are also shown a memory 13, usually a cache memory (called simply 'cache'), three pages 15, 16, 17 located somewhere on the Web, and a list of pages 18 that will be described below.
  • the first of these pages 15 has been downloaded to the memory 13 and is shown in the document window 12, as is indicated by the arrows.
  • the present invention improves this procedure by enabling the possibility to download a second page 16 without disturbing the display of the first page 15 at all. This is achieved by allowing the user to order the "hidden” download of the second page 16; whereupon the browser 10 starts to download said second page 16 from the Web, storing it in another place of the memory 13. The user is then able to continue reading the first page 15 while the second page 16 is downloaded. Whenever the user has finished with the first page 15 he can give the order to the browser 10 using some the navigational means 11 - for example by selection with a mouse or by pressing a button or key, advantageously the "Forward" key or its equivalent - to display the second page 16 instead.
  • the means 11 to give the order could normally be inactive, and only activated when the download of the second page 16 has been initiated. Alternatively, the browser 10 itself could give said order, for instance when a timer has expired. The above- mentioned procedure could then be as follows:
  • this procedure removes one period of waiting at the minimal expense of having to order the switch to the second page 16, which for instance could be done by activating the link to a third page 17.
  • the time it takes to order the switch is, normally, significandy shorter than the period of waiting for the second page 16 to be downloaded: This will result in a saving of the time it takes to access consecutive Web pages and, especially, a reduced amount of stress experienced by the user.
  • these benefits are cumulative, i.e. accessing three pages in a row saves two waiting periods and so on, the total benefits can be considerable.
  • Extending the procedure above can make it much more efficient to access several often-accessed pages in a row.
  • a user knowing that he usually accesses the same pages every morning, could put these pages in a list 18; or more accurately, the URLs or identifiers of those pages.
  • the browser 10 starts downloading all the pages in the list 18, displaying the first one, while the remaining pages lie waiting in the memory 13 as they are downloaded.
  • this approach could save the disconnection and reconnection if two consecutively accessed pages are stored on the same site, thus reducing network traffic.
  • a simple option is simply to put the downloading of the second page 16 on hold, download the third page 17, display it and continue with the downloading of the second page 16.
  • Another option is to continue with the downloading of the second page 16 and, simultaneously or consecutively, download the third page 17 to the memory 13 as if it was a third item on the list 18 described above, an option easily extended to any number of pages.
  • a further option is to download the pages simultaneously, where each page, depending on in which order the download was ordered, is designated as "second page", "third page", etc.
  • Yet another possibility would be to open a new browser window for the download and display of this third page 17.
  • a further possibility is to ask the user in some kind of dialogue box. Preferably, the user himself could decide between the different options in advance by making choices in the browser 10.
  • FIG. 2 depicts a flowchart of an embodiment of the method according to the invention.
  • Step 201 “Start” is initiated when the user orders the download of the second page 16. '
  • Step 202 "Download second page” follows directly after step 201 "Start”.
  • the Web browser 10 downloads the second page 16.
  • the Web browser 10 stores the second page 16 in a different part of the memory 13 than that occupied by the first page, as previously described; step 203. If stored virtually simultaneously with the downloading, the second page 16 is advantageously stored in bits as the data gets downloaded or in bigger chunks made up of the downloaded bits. (In this context, "bits" does not necessarily refer to computer term, but could be used in a wider sense.)
  • step 204 "Wait for display order”.
  • step 205 "Display second page”.
  • step 206 "End".
  • the browser awaits an order to display a page while downloading or storing the same or a different page.
  • the method could be slightly different.
  • the method would then still comprise the steps 202 "Download second page" and 203 "Store in memory”.
  • a further step is to read the identifier of a page from the list 18..
  • the method will then iteratively read the next identifier from the list 18, and download and store the corresponding pages according to the steps mentioned (although in this case step 202 is somewhat of a misnomer, as the page being downloaded can also be a third, fourth etc. page).
  • the browser 10 simultaneously awaits the command to display the page following the one presently displayed, i.e. if the third page is displayed, the following page is the fourth page and so on.
  • the above-mentioned embodiment of the method can be embellished with various extra features. It is up to the user to decide whether these extra features are useful or not.
  • One such feature is to make the "Forward" (or similar) button or menu choice, a simple way of switching to the next page. Normally, said button, together with the "Back" button is used to move between pages already downloaded and viewed in the browser 10.
  • the "Back” button refers to the first page while the “Forward” button points to the third page. If the user activated “Back”, the first page would be displayed, after which "Back” wouldn't refer to anything while “Forward” would refer to the second page. The third page would still be stored in the memory as the page succeeding the second page.

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L'invention concerne un navigateur Web et un procédé destiné à un navigateur Web (10) qui permet à un utilisateur de lancer le téléchargement d'une deuxième page (16) sans déranger la lecture de la première page (15). Un utilisateur ayant la première page (15) enregistrée dans la mémoire (13) et affichée à l'écran (12) peut commander le lancement du téléchargement de la deuxième page (16). Cette deuxième page (16) sera ensuite téléchargée et enregistrée dans une autre partie de la mémoire (13) que la partie occupée par la première page (15). Le navigateur (10) attend alors que la commande soit donnée par l'utilisateur avant d'afficher la deuxième page (16).
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