WO2001077886A1

WO2001077886A1 - A method of filtering the contents of a virtual page

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Publication number: WO2001077886A1
Application number: PCT/AU2001/000405
Authority: WO
Inventors: Graham Merrett
Original assignee: Blueskyfrog Pty Ltd
Priority date: 2000-04-10
Filing date: 2001-04-10
Publication date: 2001-10-18
Also published as: AUPQ680300A0

Abstract

A method to filter the contents of a HTML page, the method comprising the steps of: selecting a web page from a network; reformatting at least one of the objects of the selected web page into an individual display item, said individual display item associated with information data posted on the web page; and nominating the individual display item for storage within a data storage means.

Description

A method of filtering the contents of a virtual page

Field of the invention

The invention lelates to a method of filtenng the contents of a vntual page such as a HTML 01 XML page Background of the invention

The Internet is tapidly changing the way the wotld communicates and conducts business There continues to be an exponential increase in the numbei of useis who accesses the Internet to obtain information and to pui chase and sell goods and services via this medium

It is expected that there shall be at least 300 million users of the Internet worldwide by the yeai 2005 Ceitainly this giowth will continue aftei this time and with it, the numbei of websites accessible via the Internet Likewise, it is expected that theie will be a like inciease in the number of commeicial websites which are maintained by businesses which offer goods and services for sale via the Internet

Although the Internet has up until now been accessible mainly from personal computeis, it is expected that in coming years other platforms will exchange information over the Internet For example, mobile phones having Wireless Application Protocol capabilities and Peisonal Digital Assistants (PDAs) will be able to exchange data over the Internet

One problem with the piogression of platforms othei than computers being connected to the Internet is that a great poition of the information available on the Internet's is in the foim of web sites written in HTML code HTML code may not always be the most suitable format to piesent data on some platforms

Additionally, some web sites may piovide a lot of information and graphics which is not requned by a usei Foi example if a client usei wishes to legulaily download particular weathei information from a meteorological web site concerning a selected locale, the user is only interested in viewing information concerning the locale, not other information piovided on the

Summary of the invention

It is an ob]ect of the invention to piovide a method of filtenng the contents of a vntual page Accoiding to an aspect of the piesent invention, theie is piovided a method to filtei the contents of a vntual page, the method compnsing the steps of

(a) selecting a vntual page fiom a netwoik,

(b) lefoi matting at least one object of the selected vntual page into an individual display item, said individual display item associated with infoimation data posted on the vntual page foi display to useis of said netwoik, and

(c) nominating the individual display item foi stoiage within a data storage means Optionally, the method may furthei includes the steps of

(d) lequesting the stoied individual display item fiom the data stoiage means, and

(e) letneving the posted infoimation data associated with the stoied individual display item Step (e) may furthei includes the step furthei includes the step of

(f) stnpping the objects of the individual display item to only letπeve the posted information data in a piedefined format

In step (f), the predefined format may be any one oi moie of the following foi mats txt (Text format), itf (Rich Text Format), XML (Extensible Markup Language), XSL (Extensible Stylesheet Language, WML (Wireless Markup Language)

The retneved posted information may be presented to a usei on a mobile phone display a personal digital assistant platfoim or a personal computei display

The letueved posted information may optionally also be presented to a usei letiieved as a Short Message Service (SMS) text message The vntual page may be coded in HTML oi XML code

Accoiding to a second aspect of the present invention, theie is piovided a system to filtei the contents ot a vntual page compnsing data piocessing means application piogiam means associated with the data piocessing means to allow selection of a w eb page horn a netwoik and wheiein the application piogiam is capable oi lefoimatting at least one oi the objects oi the selected web page into an individual display item the individual display item associated with infoimation data posted on the web page, and a data stoiage means to stoie a nominated individual display item

The application piogiam may fuithei allows the stoied individual display item fiom the data storage means to be lequested and the posted information data associated with the stored individual display item to be leti ieved

Accoiding to a thud aspect of the piesent invention, theie is piovided a method to index the contents of a virtual page into an indexed foi mat, the method compnsing the steps of

(a) leading said virtual page,

(b) pai smg the components of the virtual page into individual display items,

(c) displaying said individual display items in an index format, and

(d) nominating using the index, at least one individual display item foi storage within a data storage means, said unique visual identifiei associated with current information data posted on the virtual page foi display to users of said network

The method mav fuithei include the step of

(e) utilizing a hand held display unit to access said unique visual identifiei so as to thereby cause said hand held display unit to access and display current infoimation from said virtual page in a format suitable for display on said hand held display unit

Step (d) may further compnse the step of pioviding a mechanism for associating an alphanumenc sequence with said unique visual identifiei Step (e) may fuithei compnse the step of accessing said unique visual identifiei by means of said alphanumeric sequence

The format suitable foi display on said hand held display unit may be sent in the format of a Short Message Seivice (SMS) text message Accoiding to a fomth aspect of the piesent invention theie is pιo\ ιded a method oi ti ansmitting data containing a message the method compnsing the steps of

(f ) associating one or moie electionic addiesses with a defined taiget

(g) stonng the electionic addiess associated the taiget identifiei within a data base

(h) inputting the target identifiei into a hand held data tiansmitting unit adapted to tiansmit data ovei a mobile oi cellulai netwoik

(l) allowing input of data containing a message to be attached to the taiget identifiei , and (j ) tiansmitting said input data to said associated electionic addiess

Optionally in some embodiments the defined taiget may be furthei associated with control instiuctions to perform a mechanical task such as initiation of a reticulation system Foi example, a usei of a mobile phone oi a PDA may assign a target identifier as "RETIC" which is the contiol system for then home leticulation The end usei types into their mobile or then PDA the text

START RETIC

The text "START" is identified as a contiol instruction to initiate a paiticulai target identifiei Hence the contiol reticulation system is issued within instructions to stait leticulation The text "SHUT" is a contiol instiuction to the leticulation system to teiminate reticulation

The text message from the mobile phone is sent over the Internet as a Short Message Seivice (SMS) text message which is received by the leticulation control system which is connected to the Internet

Othei contiol instiuctions may be to send a fax message with a target identifiei associated with a fax numbei In this example, the text typed into the PDA oi the mobile phone would be

FAX GM I am qoing to ai i ive at 10am In this example the above text is sent as an SMS text message to SMS lecen ing seivice which is connected to the Inteinet The SMS leceiving seivice then identifies that a fax is to be sent to the shoit-cut addiess GM which is a fax numbei 08 9555 5555 and the text "I am going to dim e at 10am is sent to that fax numbei Wheie in the specification the woid "compnsing' oi compiised is used, unless otheiwise stated explicitly the scope of the woid is to be constiued bioadly such that it has an inclusive meaning lathei than an exclusiv e meaning

Brief description of the drawings

Notwithstanding any othei forms which may fall within the scope of the piesent invention, piefeiied foims of the invention will now be descnbed, by way of example only, with lefeie ce to the accompanying diawings in which

Fig 1 is a display on a web biowsei of a web page downloaded by a client user,

Fig 2 is a schematic lllustiation of a s>stem for implementing a piefeiied embodiment of filtering HTML code Fig 3 is a display on a web browsei of a poition of a web page used to nominate a selected URL address,

Fig 4 is a display on a web browsei of nominated objects of the selected URL addiess,

Fig 5 is a display on a web biowser of a poition of a web page used to lecoid the name of the filter lequest, and Fig 6 is a display of the face of a mobile telephone

Detailed description of the embodiments

An embodiment of the invention will now be described which l elates to a method of filtering HTML data fiom a web page

Refeinng to Fig 1 theie is shown a web page 10 of a web site for an on-line biokeiage service, Commonwealth Securities which has a virtual page in the foim of a home page at www comsec com au The web page display 10 is seen fiom a client usei 's biowsei located on their peisonal computei The display 10 includes a "Market Indices' poition on the web site which provides a summary of maiket movements foi a particulai days trading as shown in frame 12 of Fig 1

Fig 2 is a schematic lllustiation a system 20 foi implementing the method of the preferred embodiment The system includes client computei s 22a and 22b which are connected to the Internet 24 A filter piovider shown generally as 26 has a seivei 28 prov ided with a web site 30 for the servei 28, a data base 32 and application program 31

In this example, a user of computer 22a is the owner of a mobile phone 22c Mobile phone 22c is provided with WAP capabilities and a Short Message Service (SMS) system

The usei would like to monitor the "S&P ASX 200 Index" piovided fiom the Commonwealth Securities web site on a daily basis from mobile phone telephone 22c To do this, the client user of computer 22a downloads the web site 30 from the Internet 24 using his/her browsei and typing into the Address request 34, the following URL

"http://champagne/fιlterbuιlder/" as shown in Fig. 3.

Referring to Fig. 3, in the space 36 the user nominates the URL and frame 12 of the web page shown in Fig 1 The server 28 obtains the HTML code shown in the web page shown in Fig. 1. The HTML code of this web page is represented as shown in Appendix 1

The Application program 31 is programmed to break up the objects of the HTML and reproduces the objects back to the client user of computer 22a, as shown in

The client user then nominates the objects from within the page that they would like to access data from the Commonwealth Securities web site In this regaid, the objects are itemised in a grid-type format so that the each object within the frame 12 can be individually selected by an end user by clicking on one of the buttons 41a to 41e. In this example, the client usei selects the data relating to information for the

"S&P ASX 200 Index" as shown by arrow 40 in Fig 4 by clicking on button 41 c This request is stored as a filter request and is named "COMSEC" by the client usei 22a as shown in shown in 36 of Fig 5 The application piogiam 1 saves the COMSEC lequest as a filtei in data base 32 so that the base URL and the objects of the page aie saved in the data base The actual HTML document (web-page) is not saved The code in Appendix 1 is filteied by the application program to look foi the Close of 3,176 80 by locating the code within such "tags ' as TABLE, TR (table low) and TD (Table data) as shown in the highlighted sections of the code in Appendix 1

A usei can lequest the COMSEC lequest at any time foim then computei 22a oi WAP phone 22c by downloading the web site 30 and entenng the COMSEC piedefined filtei lequest at the web site oi fiom then phone 22c by sending a SMS text message consisting of the request COMSEC. This will activate the application piogram to letneve only the object lelating to the S&P ASX 200 Index at any given time In this way, it is possible foi the client usei of computei 22a oi phone 22c to review only that infoimation and he/she does not have to wade through othei infoimation on the Commonwealth secunties web site

In this way, the prefened embodiment provides a method of filtering the contents of a HTML page, theieby providing ease of information retrieval and convenience to the client usei of computer 22a

The objects of the code may also be stnpped fiom the HTML code and the infoimation relating to the request stripped so that it is in raw data form The conveision occuis by the application piogram 31 leading the contents of the HTML code and finding objects containing law data in that code The raw data is kept and all othei HTML code is discarded The data can then be presented in any one or moie of the following formats txt (Text format), rtf (Rich Text Format), XML (Extensible Markup Language), XSL (Extensible Stylesheet Language, WML (Wireless Maikup Language)

Other foi mats can also be used and the choice will depend upon the platfoim to which the requested data is to be output to Foi example, the mobile phone 22a which is WAP capable, can leceiv e data fiom the Inteinet In the example above the S&P ASX 200 Index data is output as an SMS message to a base station which lelays the infoimation to mobile phone 22c The output which is viewed by the client usei is shown in Fig 6

The HTML coded web page is bioken into sepaiate objects and the user is able to individually select the object foi selection of particuiai information which is downloaded This allows the usei to configuie the infoimation piesented to anothei on anothei platfoim such as a mobile phone 01 a PDA Many diffeient forms of infoimation could be lequested Foi example the client usei can lequest to filtei all sorts of data such as weathei foiecast and spoits lesults

Returning to Fig 2 it can theiefoie be seen that the application 1 lunmng on computei 28 consists of two paits A fu st pait is designed to piovide a HTML inteiface to filtei a Web page enteied b\ a Usei foi infoimation that may be of inteiest A usei then selects the desned information field and enteis a code woid against the field The Web page field and code woid aie then recoided in the database 32 for futuie use

The second pait of the application momtois leceived internet requests for the code woid in question Upon receiving the requested code woid the application downloads the relevant Web page and filtei s the web page to extiact the field The infoimation content is then sent in a reply to the Internet request to the requesting device

The application can be programmed in many different languages (eg Peil, Java, ActiveScπpt etc) by a skilled Web application developer The embodiments can be extend to other methods of tiansmitting data containing a message An electionic addresses or destination address (such as a fax number) is associated with a defined taiget and this is stored within a data base A usei inputs the target identifiei into a hand held data tiansmitting unit adapted to transmit data ovei a mobile or cellular netwoik A client user inputs data which contains a message to be attached to the target identifier and this is transmitted to the associated electronic addiess or destination addiess

Optionally in some embodiments the defined target may be further associated with control instiuctions to perform a mechanical task such as initiation of a reticulation system Foi example, a usei of a mobile phone or a PDA may assign a target identifier as "RETIC" which is the contiol system foi then home leticulation The end usei types into then mobile oi then PDA the text

START RETIC

The text "START" is identified as a contiol instruction to initiate a particular target identifiei Hence the contiol leticulation system is issued within instructions to stait reticulation The text "SHUT is a contiol insti uction to the reticulation system to teiminate reticulation The text message from the mobile phone is sent over the Internet as a Shoit Message Service (SMS) text message which is leceived by the leticulation control system which is connected to the Internet

Other contiol instructions may be to send a fax message with a taiget identifiei associated with a fax number In this example, the text typed into the PDA or the mobile phone would be

FAX GM I am going to arrive at Warn.

In this example, the above text is sent as an SMS text message to SMS leceiving service which is connected to the Internet The SMS receiving service then identifies that a fax is to be sent to the shoit-cut address GM which is a fax number 08 9555 5555 and the text "I am going to arrive at 10am " is sent to that fax number

The following algorithms relate to the method of data tiansfer (such as in the piesent embodiment) to mobile phones and other devices such as PDAs

Algorithm - Mobile originated email using SMS Address book definition

Step 1 - The client user creates an address book using a range of 'short-cuts' as identifiers for each address book entry

Step 2 - The address book entries consist of a short cut and an email address oi a mobile telephone numbei eg gm=merrett@hotmaιl com, ga=041 1 047 510 Step 3 - Address book entries are stored in a central data-base.

Mobile Originated Email using Short cuts

Step 4 - Users can originate and send sms messages from mobile hand-sets that will be converted to email messages and transmitted across the internet to the intended recipient

Step 5 - The user types into the hand-set the address message structured as "shoit-cut" "body of message" eg g will be 10 mins late 4 mtg

Step 6 - SMSMB receives the short message and identifies the sender by the telephone number stored on their SIM Step 7 - SMSMB extiacts the shortcut from the beginning of the message and extracts the associated email address from the central data-base from the senders soit-cuts stored theie.

Step 8 - SMSMB constructs a new email message using the extracted email address and original body of message. Eg. From, sender no@smsmebaby.com

To: merrett@hotmail.com

Body will be 10 mins late 4 mtg.

This message is sent to the user across the internet.

Mobile Originated Email Step 4 - Users can originate and send sms messages from mobile hand-sets that will be converted to email messages and transmitted across the internet to the intended recipient.

Step 5 - The user types into the hand-set the address message structured as "email address" "body of message" eg merrett@hotmail.com will be 10 mins late 4 mtg.

Step 6 - SMSMB receives the short message and identifies the sender by the telephone number stored on their SIM.

Step 7 - SMSMB recognises the first part of the sms message as an email address

Step 8 - SMSMB constructs a new email message using the extracted email address and original body of message. Eg.

From: sender no@smsmebaby.com To: merrett @ hotmail .com

Body: will be 10 mins late 4 mtg.

This message is sent to the user across the internet

Mobile Originated SMS using Short cuts

Step 4 - Users can originate and send sms messages from mobile hand-sets that will be addressed to the recipient by the shortcut mechanism

Step 5 - The user types into the hand-set the address message structured as "short-cut" "body of message" eg ga will be 10 mins late 4 mtg. Step 6 - SMSMB leceiv es the shoit message and identifies the sendei by the telephone number stoied on then SIM

Step 7 - SMSMB extiacts the shortcut from the beginning of the message and extiacts the associated phone numbei fiom the cential data-base fiom the sendeis soit-cuts stoied theie Step 8 - SMSMB constiucts a new SMS message using the exti acted email addiess and onginal body of message eg Msg sent to 041 1510 317

"(From Sendei Name) (Reply GM) Msg will be 10 mins late 4 mtg (www smsmebaby com)"

This message is sent to the usei across the GSM Network Mobile Originated Web page access using SMS

Step 4 - Usets can onginate and send sms messages fiom mobile hand-sets that will be addressed to the lecipient bv the shoitcut mechanism

Step 5 - The usei types into the hand-set the address message structuied as "short-cut" "body of message" eg ga will be 10 mins late 4 mtg Step 6 - SMSMB receives the short message and identifies the sendei by the telephone number stored on then SIM

Step 7 - SMSMB extiacts the shoitcut fiom the beginning of the message and extiacts the associated phone numbei fiom the central data-base from the sendeis soit-cuts stored theie

Step 8 - SMSMB constructs a new SMS message using the extracted email addiess and original body of message eg Msg sent to 041 1510 317

"(From Sendei Name) (Reply GM) Msg will be 10 mins late 4 mtg (www smsmebabv com)^'

This message is sent to the usei across the GSM Netwoik

The SMSMB can again be a suitably piogiammed application piogram excutable ovei the Internet in lesponse to leceived lequests Wheie necessaiy, leplies can be forwarded in lesponse to the leceived lequests and the vanous actions initiated

It would be appieciated by a person skilled in the ait that numeious vanations and/oi modifications may be made to the piesent invention as shown in the specific embodiments without dcpaiting fiom the spint 01 scope of the invention as bioadly descnbed The piesent embodiments aie theiefoie, to be consideied in all icspects to be illustiativc and not lestnctive

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Claims

1 A method to filtei the contents oi a vn tual pdge the method compnsing the steps of

(a) selecting a ntual page fiom a netwoik,

(b) lefoi matting at least one object of the selected vntual page into an individual display item said individual display item associdted with infoimdtion ddtd posted on the virtudl page foi displav to usei s of said netwoik and

(c) nominating the individual display item foi stoiage within a data stoiage means

2 A method as claimed in claim 1 , wheiein the method fuithei includes the steps of

(d) lequesting the stored individual display item fiom the data storage means and

(e) letneving the posted infoimation data associated with the stoied individual display item

3 A method as claimed in claim 2, wherein step (e) furthei includes the step fuithei includes the step of

(f) stripping the objects of the individual display item to onlv letneve the posted infoimation data in a pi ede fined foimat

4 A method as claimed in claim 3, wherein in step (f), the predefined format is any one oi moie of the following formats txt (Text foimat), itf (Rich Text Format), XML (Extensible Markup Language), XSL (Extensible Stylesheet Language, WML (Wireless Maikup Language)

5 A method as claimed in any one of claims 2 to 4, wherein the letiieved posted information is piesented to a usei on a mobile phone display, a peisonal digital assistant platfoim oi a pei sonal computei display

6 A method as claimed in any one of claims 2 to 5 wheiein the letiieved posted information is piesented to a usei letneved as a Shoit Message Seivice (SMS) text message

7 A method as claimed in any one of claims 2 to 6 wheiein said virtual page is coded

8 A sy stem to f iltei the contents of a v n tual page compnsing data piocessing means application piogiam means associated with the data piocessing means to allow selection of a v ntual page fiom a netwoik accessible to a pluialitv of useis wheiein the application piogi am is capable oi icfoi atting at least one of the objects of the selected vntual page into an individual display item, the individual displav item associated w ith infoi mation data posted on the vntual page, and a data stoi age means to stoie a nominated indiv idual display item

9 A system as claimed in claim 8 w heiein the application pi ogiam fuithei allows the stoied individual displav item fiom the data stoiage means to be lequested and the posted infoimation data associated with the stoied individual display item to be letiieved

10 A piovidei of a web site available on the Inteinet, the web site utilising a method as claimed in any one of claims 1 to 7, or a system as claimed in any one of claims 8 to 9

1 1 A web site available on the Inteinet, the web site utilising a method as claimed in any one of claims 1 to 7, oi a system as claimed in any one of claims 8 to 9

12 A method to index the contents of a vntual page into an indexed foimat the method compnsing the steps of

(a) leading said vntual page,

(b) paising the components of the vn tual page into individual display items

(c) displaying said individual display items in an index foimat and

(d) nominating using the index, at least one indiv idual display item foi stoiage within a data storage means, said unique v isual identifiei associated with cunent infoimation data posted on the v ntual page foi display to usei s of said netwoik

1 A method as claimed in claim 12 wheiein said method fui thei includes the step of

( a) utilizing a hand held display unit to access said unique visual identifiei so as to theieb) cause said hand held displav unit to access and displav cui ient infoi mation fiom said vn tual page in a foimat suitable foi displav on said hand held display unit

14 A method as claimed in claim 1 3 wheiein step (d) fuithei compnses pioviding a mechanism foi associating an alphanumenc sequence with said unique v isual identifiei

15 A method as claimed in claim 14, wheiein step (e) fuithei compnses accessing said unique visual identifiei by means of said alphanumeric sequence

16 A method as claimed in any one of claims 1 to 1 , wheiein said foimat suitable foi display on said hand held display unit is sent in the foimat of a Shoit Message Seivice (SMS) text message

17 A method of tiansmitting data containing a message, the method compnsing the steps of

(a) associating one or more electronic addi esses with a defined target,

(b) stonng the electronic addiess associated the taiget identifiei within a data base

(c) inputting the taiget identifier into a hand held data transmitting unit adapted to tiansmit data ovei a mobile or cellular network,

(d) allowing input of data containing a message to be attached to the target identifiei and transmitting said input data to said associated electionic address

18 A method of pioviding a customised internet access service the method compnsing the steps of

(a) providing a fu st application for downloading and paising selected web pages foi the selection of infoimation fields within said selected web page by a usei

(b) stonng the selected infoimation fields,

(c) pioviding a second application foi leceiving lequest for cuπent infoimation lelated to said selected infoimation fields and upon leceiving a lequest fiom a lequesting device accessing a conesponding web page to deteimine cuiient infoimation associated w ith the selected infoimation field and foi wai ding said cuiient infoimation to said lequesting device 19 A method as claimed in claim 18 wherein said requesting device comprises a mobile phone.

20 A method as claimed in claim 19 wherein said current information is forwarded as an SMS message to said mobile phone