US 9,317,878 B2Granted

User interface for accessing an applet in a browser on a mobile device

AssigneeApple Inc.

InventorsAnthony D'Auria, David A. Carson, Elizabeth C. Cranfill, Richard R. Dellinger

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Abstract

Information about a product advertised on a web page is presented separately, but concurrently, with the content of the web page, to avoid having to navigate away from the web page. The information may be automatically presented in a banner that is displayed adjacent the content of the web page. Controls on the banner initiate the display of further information, and/or enable purchase of the product, while maintaining the web page content in view on the browser. Alternatively, the display of the product information may be triggered by user selection of a link associated with that product. The information about the product may appear in an overlay sheet displayed in front of the original web page. The user can interact with controls on the sheet to initiate purchase or download of the product, or can dismiss the overlay sheet to continue viewing the content of the web page.

Claims29

Dependent claims

A method to facilitate access to an applet from a web page displayed in a browser on a mobile computing device, comprising:

at the mobile computing device using one or more processors:
detecting an identification of the applet in content of the web page being displayed on the computing device;
retrieving information pertaining to the applet, based upon the detected identification, from an online store via which the applet can be obtained;
using an operating system of the mobile computing device, generating a view of the applet provided by the online store, based on the retrieved information, on the computing device for display within an overlay user interface object generated by the operating system, that is separate from the content of the web page and the browser, the overlay user interface object including an action button to trigger a function of a plurality of functions including installation and execution of the applet, the function selected depending upon a status associated with the applet;
selecting, based at least in part on the status associated with the applet, a current function of the plurality of functions to assign to the action button;
displaying, on the action button in response to selecting the current function, a label indicative of the current function;
and
in response to a user input directed to the action button within the user interface object, initiating a process to perform the current function.

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Anon-transitory computer-readable storage medium encoded with program instructions that, when executed by a computing device, cause the device to perform the following operations:

detect an identification of an applet in content of a web page;
retrieve information pertaining to the applet, based upon the detected identification, from an online store via which the applet can be obtained;
generate, using an operating system of the computing device, a view of the applet provided by the online store, based on the retrieved information, for display within an overlay user interface object generated by the operating system, that is separate from the content of the web page and the browser, the overlay user interface object including an action button to trigger a function of a plurality of functions including installation and execution of the applet, the function selected depending upon a status associated with the applet;
select, based at least in part on the status associated with the applet, a current function of the plurality of functions to assign to the action button;
display, on the action button in response to selecting the current function, a label indicative of the current function;
and;
and
in response to a user input directed to the action button within the user interface object, initiating a process to perform the current function.

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A computing device, comprising:

a processor;
a display device;
a user input device;
a network interface;
and
a memory storing program instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to perform the following operations:
detect an identification of an applet in content of a web page downloaded via the network interface;
based upon the detected identification, retrieve information pertaining to the applet via the network interface, from an online store via which the applet can be obtained;
generate, using an operating system of the computing device, a view of the applet provided by the online store, based on the retrieved information, for display on the display device within an overlay user interface object generated by the operating system, that is separate from the content of the web page and the browser, the overlay user interface object including an action button to trigger a function of a plurality of functions including installation and execution of the applet, the function selected depending upon a status associated with the applet;
select, based at least in part on the status associated with the applet, a current function of the plurality of functions to assign to the action button;
display, on the action button in response to selecting the current function, label indicative of the current function;
and;
in response to a user input directed to the action button within the user interface object, initiating a process to perform the current function.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.