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US 6,459,364 B2Granted
Internet browser facility and method for the visually impaired
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Company
InventorAloke Gupta
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Abstract
A method of communicating electronic information via a display device having a matrix of movable tactile elements. The method includes displaying a representation of a file containing hypertext links on a first portion of the matrix, and displaying a list of the hypertext links on a second portion of the matrix. The representation may include graphical elements and text symbols such as Braille.
Claims20
A method of communicating electronic information by tactile means comprising:
- providing a display device having a matrix of moveable tactile elements;
- displaying a tactile-readable translation of a first file containing hypertext links within the content of the first file and separate from a page number on a first portion of the matrix;
- and
- displaying a list of the hypertext links on a second portion of the matrix, whereby a user may select a second file associated with a first hypertext link from the displayed list of hypertext links.
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A tactile web browsing device comprising:
- a display device having a matrix of movable tactile elements;
- a first portion of the matrix operable to display a tactile-readable translation of a first file containing hypertext links within the content of the first file and separate from a page number;
- and
- a second portion of the matrix operable to display a list of the hypertext links, whereby a user may select a second file associated with a first hypertext link from the displayed list of hypertext links.
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A web browsing method comprising:
- downloading a first file containing hypertext links within the content of the first file and separate from a page number;
- generating a tactile-readable translation of the first file;
- extracting a list of hypertext links contained in the first file;
- and
- generating a tactile-readable translation of the list, whereby a user may select a second file associated with a first hypertext link from the displayed list of hypertext links.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.