Add-in program for upload, auxiliary program for upload and upload method

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-8959434-B2
Application number	US-43988607-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 3, 2007
Priority date	Sep 4, 2006
Publication date	Feb 17, 2015
Grant date	Feb 17, 2015

Abstract

[PROBLEMS TO BE SOLVED] An HTML object or the like is easily uploaded to an outer information providing system. [MEANS FOR SOLVING THE PROBLEMS] A processing means of a terminal device adds a display area for displaying a web page to a part of a window of a predetermined program, receives the web page corresponding to a web page identifier read out from a memory means from an outer information providing system and displays it on the display area. When an object dragged by an input means is dropped at an HTML object of the web page displayed on the display area, an upload path associated with the HTML object is read out from the web page, data corresponding to the dropped object are acquired from a process of the dropping origin program and the acquired data are transmitted to make a memory means of the outer information providing system corresponding to the read-out upload path store the data.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A computer implemented uploading add-in method provides an upload function when run on a terminal comprising a storage unit, an input device, a display device, a network communication unit, and a processing unit, wherein the storage unit saves a web page identifier of a web page which keeps an association between an HTML object and an upload path for uploading, the method comprising:
adding, into an open web browser window having a primary display region displaying a first web page and an address region outside the primary display region, by the processing unit, a new secondary display region inside the address region and separate from the primary display region, the primary display region displaying the first web page based on a uniform resource locator (URL) in the address region, and the new secondary display region for displaying a different web page, wherein the new secondary display region is smaller than the primary display region by being shorter in height and narrower in width than the primary display region, the address region is located above the primary display region in the open web browser window, and the new secondary display region is located horizontally adjacent to the URL in the address region, such that the open web browser window includes both the primary display region displaying the first web page and the new secondary display region for simultaneously displaying the different web page horizontally adjacent to the URL in the address region and above the primary display region;
reading, by the processing unit, a first web page identifier which keeps the association between the HTML object and the upload path for uploading saved in the storage unit, acquiring a corresponding second web page from the storage unit or a first external information provider system, and displaying the second web page on the new secondary display region horizontally adjacent to the URL in the address region outside and above the primary display region;
reading, by the processing unit, the upload path associated with the HTML object in the new secondary display region, on which an object dragged by the input unit from the first web page is dropped; and
acquiring, by the processing unit, the dropped object data from a process of a drop source program and sending, by the network communication unit, the acquired data to the first external information provider system which stores the acquired data.

2. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
acquiring, by the processing unit, the dropped object data from the first external information provider system by receiving notification of upload completion from an uploading add-in program;
if the acquired data saves a link path in the second web page on the new secondary display region, including file identifier, acquiring, by the processing unit, the link path file data from a second information provider system specified by the link path via the first external information provider system; and
creating, by the processing unit, a new file based on the acquired data and sending, by the network communication unit, the created file to the first external information provider system to store the created file.

3. A computer implemented upload method used by a computer system comprising a terminal and an information provider system that are connected with a network communication unit, the method comprising:
adding, into an open web browser window having a primary display region displaying a first web page and an address region outside the primary display region, by a processing unit of the terminal, a new secondary display region inside the address region and separate from the primary display region, the primary display region displaying the first web page based on a uniform resource locator (URL) in the address region, and the new secondary display region for displaying a different web page, wherein the new secondary display region is smaller than the primary display region by being shorter in height and narrower in width than the primary display region, the address region is located above the primary display region in the open web browser window, and the new secondary display region is located horizontally adjacent to the URL in the address region, such that the open web browser window includes both the primary display region displaying the first web page and the new secondary display region for simultaneously displaying the different web page horizontally adjacent to the URL in the address region and above the primary display region, reading a web page identifier which keeps an association between an HTML object and an upload path for uploading saved in a storage unit, acquiring a corresponding second web page from the storage unit or first external information provider system, and displaying the second web page on the new secondary display region horizontally adjacent to the URL in the address region outside and above the primary display region, reading the upload path associated with the HTML object in the new secondary display region, on which an object dragged by an input unit from the first web page is dropped;
acquiring, by the processing unit of the terminal, dropped object data from a process of drop source program and sending, by the network communication unit, the acquired data to the first external information provider system which stores the acquired data;
receiving, by a processor unit of the information provider system, data corresponding to the dropped object from the terminal, storing the data corresponding to the dropped object in a storage unit of the information provider system corresponding to the upload path, and notifying to the terminal of completion of uploading the dropped object data;
receiving, by the processor unit of the terminal, notification of completion of uploading the dropped object data from the information provider system, if the processor unit receives the notification, then the processor unit sends a get request of the dropped object data to the information provider system;
receiving, by the processor unit of the information provider system, the get request of the dropped object data and reading the dropped object data from the storage unit of the information provider system, and sending the dropped object data to the terminal;
receiving, by the processor unit of the terminal, the dropped object data from the information provider system, and if the acquired data saves a link path in the second web page on the new secondary display region, including a file identifier, sending a first request demanding:
get the file data corresponding to the link path and send the acquired data to the terminal

to the information provider system;
receiving, by the processor unit of the information provider, the first request, and based on the first request, acquiring the link path file data from a second information provider system specified by the link path and sending the acquired file data to the terminal;
receiving, by the processor unit of the terminal, the file data corresponding to the link path from the information provider system, and based on the received file data, creating a new file and sending the created file to the information provider system to store the created file; and
receiving, by the processor unit of the information provider system, the created file from the terminal and storing the created file in the storage unit.

4. The method of claim 3 , wherein said creating a new file based on the received file data comprises following the logic of a script embedded in the second web page displayed on the new secondary display region.

Assignees

• Fujita Takeshi
• Kawachi Tsutomu
• Ogawa Keiichi
• Sony Corp

Inventors

• Fujita Takeshi
• Kawachi Tsutomu
• Ogawa Keiichi

Classifications

• G06F3/0486 Primary

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