Displaying webpage information of parent tab associated with new child tab on graphical user interface

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10289278-B2
Application number	US-201514948478-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 23, 2015
Priority date	Dec 31, 2014
Publication date	May 14, 2019
Grant date	May 14, 2019

Abstract

Provided are a method, computer program product and computer system for displaying webpage information of a parent tab associated with a new child tab on a graphical user interface. The method includes the following steps: opening a link for identifying a new tab in a new webpage from a parent webpage; creating the new tab; recording a position of the link; capturing a screen of the parent webpage to generate a screenshot; highlighting the link in the screenshot; and saving the screenshot with the highlighted link to a tooltip attribute of the new tab.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method, said method comprising:
receiving, by a processor of a computer system, a click on a first link included in a parent webpage being displayed on a graphical user interface (GUI) on which a parent tab associated with the parent webpage is displayed;
in response to said receiving the click on the first link included in the parent webpage, said processor: (i) creating, on the GUI, a new tab corresponding to the first link that was clicked, (ii) displaying the new tab on the GUI, (iii) replacing the parent webpage by a new webpage associated with the first link resulting in the parent webpage no longer being displayed, and (iv) generating and saving a screenshot of the parent webpage to a tooltip attribute of the new tab, said generating and saving the screenshot comprising marking the first link for being highlighted during subsequent display of the saved screenshot;
after said generating and saving the screenshot, said processor detecting a cursor of a pointing device hovering above the new tab;
in response to said detecting the cursor hovering above the new tab, said processor retrieving the screenshot from the tooltip attribute and persistently displaying, on the GUI, the retrieved screenshot with the first link being highlighted; and
during said displaying the screenshot and with said hovering above the new tab no longer occurring, said processor receiving a click on the screenshot and in response, said processor reopening the parent webpage in the GUI.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein said marking the first link comprises marking the first link for being circled by a slender frame during subsequent display of the saved screenshot.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein said marking the first link comprises marking the first link for being highlighted by a distinguishing color or font during subsequent display of the saved screenshot.

4. The method of claim 1 , said method further comprising:
in further response to said receiving the click on the first link, said processor recording a position of the first link.

5. The method of claim 1 , said method further comprising:
in further response to said receiving the click on the first link, said processor recording a width/height of the first link.

6. A computer program product, comprising a computer readable hardware storage device having computer readable program code stored therein, said program code containing instructions executable by a processor of a computer system to implement a method, said method comprising:
said processor receiving a click on a first link included in a parent webpage being displayed on a graphical user interface (GUI) on which a parent tab associated with the parent webpage is displayed;
in response to said receiving the click on the first link included in the parent webpage, said processor: (i) creating, on the GUI, a new tab corresponding to the first link that was clicked, (ii) displaying the new tab on the GUI, (iii) replacing the parent webpage by a new webpage associated with the first link resulting in the parent webpage no longer being displayed, and (iv) generating and saving a screenshot of the parent webpage to a tooltip attribute of the new tab, said generating and saving the screenshot comprising marking the first link for being highlighted during subsequent display of the saved screenshot;
after said generating and saving the screenshot, said processor detecting a cursor of a pointing device hovering above the new tab;
in response to said detecting the cursor hovering above the new tab, said processor retrieving the screenshot from the tooltip attribute and persistently displaying, on the GUI, the retrieved screenshot with the first link being highlighted; and
during said displaying the screenshot and with said hovering above the new tab no longer occurring, said processor receiving a click on the screenshot and in response, said processor reopening the parent webpage in the GUI.

7. The computer program product of claim 6 , wherein said marking the first link comprises marking the first link for being circled by a slender frame during subsequent display of the saved screenshot.

8. The computer program product of claim 6 , wherein said marking the first link comprises marking the first link for being highlighted by a distinguishing color or font during subsequent display of the saved screenshot.

9. A computer system, comprising a processor, a memory coupled to the processor, and a computer readable storage device coupled to the processor, said storage device containing program code executable by the processor via the memory to implement a method, said method comprising:
said processor receiving a click on a first link included in a parent webpage being displayed on a graphical user interface (GUI) on which a parent tab associated with the parent webpage is displayed;
in response to said receiving the click on the first link included in the parent webpage, said processor: (i) creating, on the GUI, a new tab corresponding to the first link that was clicked, (ii) displaying the new tab on the GUI, (iii) replacing the parent webpage by a new webpage associated with the first link resulting in the parent webpage no longer being displayed, and (iv) generating and saving a screenshot of the parent webpage to a tooltip attribute of the new tab, said generating and saving the screenshot comprising marking the first link for being highlighted during subsequent display of the saved screenshot;
after said generating and saving the screenshot, said processor detecting a cursor of a pointing device hovering above the new tab;
in response to said detecting the cursor hovering above the new tab, said processor retrieving the screenshot from the tooltip attribute and persistently displaying, on the GUI, the retrieved screenshot with the first link being highlighted; and
during said displaying the screenshot and with said hovering above the new tab no longer occurring, said processor receiving a click on the screenshot and in response, said processor reopening the parent webpage in the GUI.

10. The computer system of claim 9 , wherein said marking the first link comprises marking the first link for being circled by a slender frame during subsequent display of the saved screenshot.

11. The computer system of claim 9 , wherein said marking the first link comprises marking the first link for being highlighted by a distinguishing color or font during subsequent display of the saved screenshot.

Assignees

• IBM

Inventors

• Chen Luke
• Chen Paige
• Liu Ken
• Yuan Paul

Classifications

• G06F17/30899

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06F3/0483 Primary

  Interaction with page-structured environments, e.g. book metaphor · CPC title

• G06F16/957

  Browsing optimisation, e.g. caching or content distillation · CPC title

• G06F16/955

  using information identifiers, e.g. uniform resource locators [URL] · CPC title