Composite Webpage Navigation via Portable Unit Movement
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current portable devices require users to manually switch between webpages or enter new URLs to access different webpages, which is time-consuming and inefficient, especially when trying to view multiple webpages or navigate through composite webpages with various sections.
Innovation Solution
A method where a portable unit moves within a plane parallel to its screen, allowing users to physically navigate through a composite webpage with stationary images, enabling easy access to different sections by moving the device, and utilizing voice commands or tilt/shift gestures to enter a 'Sliding Window' mode for seamless navigation.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If users manually switch between webpages or enter new URLs to access different webpages, then users can view multiple webpages, but the navigation process is time-consuming and inefficient
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges multiple separate webpages into a single composite webpage that displays multiple website contents simultaneously on one screen. Users can view multiple webpages at once without manually switching between them, eliminating the time-consuming navigation process while maintaining access to all desired webpages.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent transitions from sequential webpage viewing (one webpage at a time) to parallel webpage viewing (multiple webpages simultaneously) by adding spatial dimensionality to the display. Multiple webpages are arranged in different regions of the same screen, allowing users to access multiple webpages without the time loss associated with sequential navigation.
2Ease of operation
If users scroll through webpages using button control or touch screen to access content outside screen range, then users can view different parts of a webpage, but the process requires multiple scaling and scrolling operations
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the composite webpage into multiple distinct regions, each displaying a different webpage or website content. This segmentation allows users to directly access specific webpage regions without scrolling through entire webpages, improving navigation convenience and reducing the time required to reach desired content.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent performs preliminary action by pre-arranging multiple webpages in a composite webpage layout before user viewing. All desired webpages are already positioned in their respective regions on the screen, eliminating the need for users to perform time-consuming scrolling and scaling operations to access different parts of webpages.
3Area of stationary object
If users scale down the screen to see parts of a webpage outside the current view, then users can access more webpage content, but the screen becomes harder to read and other webpages become inaccessible
Solution Approach 1:
The patent resolves the contradiction between visible area and readability by transitioning from a single-scale view to a multi-scale simultaneous view. Multiple webpages are displayed at their optimal reading scales within different regions of the same screen, allowing users to access more webpage content without compromising readability or losing access to other webpages.
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AI summary
A composite webpage contains several webpages coupled together appearing as a separate image. Demarcation lines are used to isolate the boundaries of the edges of each individual webpage. The demarcation lines form block-like geometry. Each block contains one webpage. As the user moves the portable unit, the background composite webpage slides across the screen of the portable device. To the user, the background composite webpage appears stationary as if the screen of the portable unit is transparent. These features are advantageous to social websites, ease of portable device use, in the visitation of websites and email servers. This has several benefits since now relative distances and angular displacements within the plane between objects that are outside of the range of the screen of the handheld unit can be immediately be located and placed into view on the screen of a portable unit.