JPH10149372A - Information display device - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a shortcut for the execution of internet surfing and to improve user's operability by retrieving/displaying information locally prepared by the use of a browser function for hypertext mark-up language(HTML) and specifying required web information from the local information so as to refer to the web information as it is through an internet. SOLUTION: A browser area is divided into plural frames 11 to 14. The web information of internet addresses is hierarchically constituted like tree structure and arranged from large sorts up to fine sorts so that the final information itself is arranged on the position of a tip leave. The hierarchical structure is regulated by an HTL link. When a page e.g. to be linked in a prescribed frame, e.g. 11 or 13, is specified by click or the like, the linked page is displayed on the same frame or another frame.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an information display device, and more particularly to an HTML display stored in a local storage device.
(Hypertext Markup Language) Display the document,
In addition, the present invention relates to an information display device capable of accessing information existing on a network such as the Internet or an intranet using the information of the HTML document.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art When an HTML document such as a WWW (World Wide Web) page on the Internet is used, it takes a long time to acquire information due to restrictions on communication media, which is very inconvenient. Accessing the Internet, using the information search server, and then going to browse the searched web information (homepage) takes a considerable amount of time, which is problematic in terms of cost and ease of use.

[0003]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made in consideration of the above circumstances and the like, and enables information prepared locally to be searched and displayed by using a function of an HTML browser. The purpose of the present invention is to specify desired web information from simple information, to allow the web information to be browsed via the Internet as it is, to provide shortcuts for surfing the Internet, and to improve the usability of the user. And

[0004]

According to the present invention, in order to achieve the above object, an information display device for displaying an HTML document has means for displaying a plurality of classes in a first frame area; Means for selecting a class and one selected
Means for displaying information related to the HTML document belonging to the selected class in the second frame area in response to the operation for the class, means for selecting information of one HTML document, and information of the selected HTML document Means for specifying the address of the corresponding HTML document on the network, means for extracting the corresponding HTML document from the address and displaying it in the second frame area, and means for displaying the HTML document in the second frame area. When one of the classes is selected in the first frame when is displayed, means for displaying an information entity belonging to the selected class in place of the HTML document is provided. The HTML document may be an SGLM document, and may be an extensible markup language (XML).

[0005]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 shows a system configuration to which this embodiment is applied. In FIG. 1, an operating system 2, a communication interface 3, and a browser 4 are installed in a personal computer 1. The browser is a WWW browser such as Netscape Navigator (trademark of Netscape Communication Co., USA) and Internet Explorer (trademark of Microsoft Corporation, U.S.A.). Personal computer is CD-RO
A recording device such as an M drive device 5 is provided.
An HTML file is stored in the ROM recording medium 6. The browser displays the HTML file on the recording medium on a monitor screen.

FIGS. 2 to 4 show examples of displaying an introduction of web information of an Internet address.
In FIG. 4, the browser area includes a plurality of frames 11 to
It is divided into fourteen. The web information of the Internet address is hierarchically arranged in a tree structure and is arranged from a large classification to a fine classification, and the final information itself is located at a terminal leaf portion. HTM is a hierarchical structure
L is specified by the link. When a link destination is specified by clicking or the like in a predetermined frame, for example, 11 or 13, the page of the link destination is displayed in the same frame or another frame.

For example, the frame 11 in FIG. 2 displays the genre of web information and the like. When a specific genre, for example, a volunteer (welfare) item is clicked, the frame 13 displays a page of a list of web information belonging to the genre of volunteer. Is displayed. This list contains details about the web information. Then, when one of the web information is clicked in the frame 13, the corresponding address URL (uniform resource locator) on the Internet is specified. Then, in response to this, a connection to the Internet is made through a dial-up connection, and the corresponding web information is extracted. This information is displayed in the frame 12a instead of a list of web information.

Thereafter, the genre is newly changed in FIG. That is, it is assumed that a child of another genre is selected in the frame 11. Then, a list of linked pages, that is, a list of web information relating to the kids is displayed in the frame 13. Then, similarly to the above case, predetermined web information can be selected and the web information on the Internet can be displayed in the frame 12a.

The above display can be performed using a frame set. To jump to a link destination, markup is performed on a selected area (click area) with an anchor tag, and link information is described. The link information is a URL of a page describing an item belonging to each genre (a genre, for example, a list of webs belonging to volunteers), or a URL on the Internet specified by the item.
The link information includes a frame 12a as a target frame (that is, a frame in which link destination information is displayed).
Is also included. As a result, a list of items belonging to a genre (FIG. 2) and web information on the Internet (FIG. 3) can be selectively displayed on the frame 12a. For example, the description of the frameset is as follows:

[Table 1] <FRAMESET COL = 150, *><FRAME SRC = "../../ left.htm" SCROLING = "AUTO" NORESI
ZE><FRAME SRC = "fun.htm" NAME = "url" SCROLLING = "AUTO" N
ORESIZE </ FRAMESET> Markup by anchor tag is as follows.

[Table 2] <TABLE><TR><TD><IMG SRC = "../../ pic / fly1.gif" BORDER = 0></TD><TD><A AREF = "http: / www .dirus.com / TOMY / index.htm "T
ARGET = "url" ... Here, "url" is the frame 12c.

Note that after dialing up by designating web information, when browsing information on the Internet and browsing only CD-ROM information, a line is connected using a menu bar or the like of a browser. You may make it. Alternatively, the line may be automatically disconnected each time the access to the Internet ends.

As shown in FIGS. 4 and 5, four buttons are displayed on the frame 14, and when one of the buttons is clicked, the corresponding background music is displayed. This is realized by using music / image software such as Shockwave (trademark) to generate background music in accordance with the music file associated with the button. Since the frame 14 is displayed irrespective of the display of information, music can be generated, for example, even when viewing web information or when viewing information on a CD-ROM medium.

Next, an example of displaying information on a CD-ROM will be described. The information on the CD-ROM is also hierarchically structured. 6 and 7, the screen of the browser is divided into frames 21 to 23. In FIG. 6, a hiragana column is displayed in the frame 21. Prior to this, a title is selected in this example from a menu having items of genre, keyword, compatible model, publisher, and title. The same processing is performed when another item is selected.
When "and" is selected in the frame 21, a title starting with "and" is displayed in the right frame 22. When one of them is selected, for example, when “Top Emergency 2” is selected, information about the selected item is displayed in the frame 24. Frame 23
Is for generating background music in the same manner as in the example of displaying web information on the Internet.

Next, another embodiment of the present invention will be described. In this embodiment, telephone calls and non-calls are displayed in the screen area of the browser 4.
In this embodiment, whether a user who connects to the Internet (an access point of an Internet service provider) through a dial-up IP connection is accessing a CD-ROM, or is the user actually connected to the Internet and charged for it? Can be easily known. In this embodiment, the navigation can be used by the CD-ROM, and it is possible to avoid unnecessary continuation of the telephone call only when accessing the HTML file of the CD-ROM.

FIG. 8 shows the structure of this embodiment, and FIGS. 9 and 10 show the display state of a call / non-call. In FIG. 8, a block for displaying a call / non-call is a call state monitoring unit 30, an icon image storage unit 3.
1, file name change unit 32, reload command generation unit 3
3 and the like. The call state monitoring unit 30 monitors the control signal of the call unit (modem) and detects the start and end of the call. The icon image storage unit 31
Image file O of non-call icon 31a shown in FIG.
FF. GIF and the call icon 31b shown in FIG.
Image file ON. GIF is stored. One of the image files is TEL. The file name has been temporarily changed to GIF. The icon 31a (31b) area in FIG. 9 (FIG. 10) is defined by a frame, for example, and the source image file of this frame is TEL. GI
F. Therefore, TEL. The image file whose file name has been temporarily changed in the GIF is displayed on the browser.

In a non-communication state of a call, the OFF. G
IF file name is TEL. GIF has been changed,
OFF. The GIF image file is sent to the frame, and the non-call state of the telephone shown in FIG. 9 is displayed in the display area of the browser 4. At this time, the start of the call is determined by the call state monitoring unit 30.
Is detected, a call detection signal is sent to the file name change unit 32 and the reload command generation unit 33. In response to this, the file name change unit 32 turns OFF. GIF file name as TEL. GIF to original OFF. GIF, ON. GIF image file name as TEL. G
Change to IF. Thereafter, the reload command is output from the reload command generation unit 33, and the HTML document and the source file are sent again to the browser area including the frame. At this time, TEL. The GIF file contains ON. Since the image file is a GIF image file, the display on the browser is as shown in FIG. 10, and the user is informed that the user is in a call state. As a result, the user knows that the user is in the billing state, and can avoid inadvertently continuing the billing state.

Conversely, the same operation is performed when the communication state changes to the non-communication state, and the display shown in FIG. 9 is performed. Note that a call control unit 34 may be provided as shown by a broken line in FIG. 8 to automatically start and end a call. That is, the browser (frame, frame 1 in the example of FIG. 2)
Depending on whether the URL of the HTML document displayed in 2a) is on the network or on a local storage device (including a cache), the start / end of the call (authentication is also automated) may be controlled. Good. In this case, an HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol) data transfer request (GET,
(POST), when a data transfer request is not issued to a URL on the network even after a predetermined time has elapsed, the call is terminated, and a time-consuming dial-up procedure is not frequently performed. You may.

It should be noted that an HTML document included in a recording medium such as a CD-ROM may include a JAVA applet for detecting and displaying a telephone call / non-call so that the user can be notified of the telephone call / non-call. In short, in short, means for detecting and displaying telephone calls / non-calls is provided by a CD-ROM H
What is necessary is just to be able to reflect on the display of the TML document.

[0018]

As described above, according to the present invention, desired information can be easily obtained because information is displayed hierarchically using links of HTML documents.
In addition, since the display area of the browser is a plurality of frames and information is complementarily displayed, switching is facilitated. In addition, by directly accessing the Internet from the requested information, a shortcut for Internet surfing is provided, which leads to cost reduction and improvement in usability.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing a system configuration to which the present invention is applied.

FIG. 2 is a diagram (example of monitor screen display) for explaining an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a diagram (example of monitor screen display) for explaining an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a diagram (example of monitor screen display) for explaining an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 5 is a diagram (example of monitor screen display) for explaining an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 6 is a diagram (example of monitor screen display) for explaining an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 7 is a diagram (example of monitor screen display) for explaining an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 8 is a diagram illustrating a configuration of another embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 9 is a diagram (example of monitor screen display) for explaining the embodiment of FIG. 8;

FIG. 10 is a diagram (example of monitor screen display) illustrating the embodiment of FIG. 8;

[Explanation of symbols]

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Personal computer 2 Operating system 3 Communication interface 4 Browser 5 CD-ROM drive 6 CD-ROM medium 11, 12, 12a, 13, 14, 21, 22, 23,
24 frames

Claims (6)

[Claims] 1. A communication means for communicating with a network in which a plurality of HTML documents to be browsed are arranged; and a plurality of classes for classifying the plurality of HTML documents to be browsed are displayed in a first frame; A recording medium for recording an HTML document for browsing guidance for displaying information of the HTML document to be browsed in a second frame, reading the HTML document for browsing guidance from the recording medium, and classifying the plurality of classes into the first class. In the frame of
Means for displaying, in the second frame, information of the HTML document to be browsed belonging to the specified class; and a HTML to be browsed designated in the second frame.
Means for receiving a corresponding viewing target HTML document from the address on the network linked to the information of the L document via the communication means, and means for displaying the received viewing target HTML document in the second frame. An information display device comprising: 2. The information display device according to claim 1, wherein said recording medium is a removable recording medium. 3. The information display device according to claim 1, wherein said browsing target HTML document has means for displaying a call / non-call state of a communication means. 4. A plurality of classes for classifying a plurality of HTML documents to be browsed arranged on a network are displayed in a first frame, and the browse target HT belonging to the specified class is displayed.
A recording medium that displays information of an ML document in a second frame and records an HTML document for browsing guidance for specifying URL information of a corresponding HTML to be viewed based on the identification of the information of the HTML document to be viewed. . 5. The recording medium according to claim 4, which is detachably mounted on the recording medium reading device. 6. A means for displaying a plurality of classes in a first frame area; means for selecting one class; and means for displaying a plurality of classes in a second frame area according to an operation on the selected one class. A means for displaying information about the HTML document belonging to the class; a means for selecting information of one HTML document; and a corresponding HT from the information of the selected HTML document.
Means for specifying an address of the ML document on the network; means for extracting a corresponding HTML document from the address and displaying it in the second frame area; and displaying the HTML document in the second frame area. 1 of the class in the first frame when
Means for displaying an information entity belonging to the selected class in place of the HTML document when one is selected.