SMALL FORM FACTOR WEB BROWSING

Patent №

US 7,873,901

Granted

2011-01-18

Filed 2006

Owner

MICROSOFT CORPORATION

AI components

4

nlp · vision · kr · hardware

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

11465718

A large web page is analyzed and partitioned into smaller sub-pages so that a user can navigate the web page on a small form factor device. The user can browse the sub-pages to find and read information in the content of the large web page. The partitioning can be performed at a web server, an edge server, at the small form factor device, or can be distributed across one or more such devices. The analysis leverages design habits of a web page author to extract a representation structure of an authored web page. The extracted representation structure includes high level structure using several markup language tag selection rules and low level structure using visual boundary detection in which visual units of the low level structure are provided by clustering markup language tags. User viewing habits can be learned to display favorite parts of a web page.

AI classification

Natural language1.00
AI hardware1.00
Knowledge representation1.00
Vision0.77
Machine learning0.03
Speech0.02
Planning0.00
Evolutionary computation0.00

Ownership

MICROSOFT CORPORATION

assignment · 243810582

Assignors

CHEN, YU, MA, WEI-YING, WANG, MING-YU, ZHANG, HONG-JIANG

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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