Web server that renders a web page based on a client pressure profile

A method for a web server computer system to render web pages to an electronic device, the method comprising:

• generating a plurality of web pages that each comprises a version of a selected web page;
• generating a plurality of server pressure profiles, wherein each of the plurality of server pressure profiles corresponds to a hand of a user and a screen orientation and further corresponds to one of the plurality of web pages;
• receiving a request for a requested web page from a selected client device that includes a pressure-sensitive interface on a touch screen display, wherein the pressure-sensitive interface is capable of detecting a plurality of pressures when a user touches a displayed pressure-sensitive input on a touch screen display on the client device and interpreting each of the plurality of pressures as a different action with respect to the displayed pressure-sensitive input;
• receiving from the selected client device a client pressure profile corresponding to a user of the selected client device, the client pressure profile specifying a current orientation of the selected client device and further including a pressure map that includes a plurality of pressure detection thresholds for a plurality of regions on the touch screen display on the client device;
• in response to receiving the request for the requested web page from the selected client device and receiving the client pressure profile:
• identifying one of the plurality of server pressure profiles that corresponds to the client pressure profile;
• identifying one of the plurality of web pages that corresponds to the identified one server pressure profile;
• and
• rendering to the selected client device the one web page.

An article of manufacture comprising software stored on a computer readable storage medium, the software comprising:

• a web server mechanism that renders a plurality of web pages to client devices that each includes a pressure-sensitive interface that is capable of detecting a plurality of pressures when a user touches a displayed pressure-sensitive input on a touch screen display on the client device and interpreting each of the plurality of pressures as a different action with respect to the displayed pressure-sensitive input, wherein the web server mechanism receives a request for a requested web page from a selected client device, receives from the selected client device a client pressure profile corresponding to a user of the selected client device, the client pressure profile including a pressure map that includes a plurality of pressure detection thresholds for a plurality of regions on the touch screen display on the client device, wherein the web server mechanism comprises:
• a plurality of web pages that each comprises a version of a selected web page;
• a plurality of server pressure profiles, wherein each of the plurality of server pressure profiles corresponds to a hand of the user and a screen orientation of the selected client device and further corresponds to one of the plurality of web pages;
• and
• wherein the web server mechanism, in response to receiving the page request from the selected client device with the client pressure profile corresponding to the user that specifies a current hand and orientation of the selected client device, identifies one of the plurality of server pressure profiles that corresponds to the client pressure profile, identifies one of the plurality of web pages as corresponding to the one identified server pressure profile, and renders to the selected client device the one web page.

A computer system comprising:

• at least one processor;
• a memory coupled to the at least one processor;
• a plurality of web pages residing in the memory that each comprises a version of a selected web page;
• a plurality of server pressure profiles residing in the memory, wherein each of the plurality of server pressure profiles corresponds to one of the plurality of web pages, wherein the plurality of server pressure profiles comprises:
• portrait orientation, right hand;
• portrait orientation, left hand;
• landscape orientation, both hands;
• wherein the plurality of web pages comprises:
• a first version of the selected web page corresponding to the portrait orientation, right hand server pressure profile;
• a second version of the selected web page corresponding to the portrait orientation, left hand server pressure profile;
• and
• a third version of the selected web page corresponding to the landscape orientation, both hands server pressure profile, where each of the first, second and third versions of the selected web page are different;
• a web server mechanism residing in the memory and executed by the at least one processor, the web server mechanism rendering a plurality of web pages to client devices that each includes a pressure-sensitive interface that can detect a plurality of pressures when a user touches a displayed pressure-sensitive input on a touch screen display on the client device and interpreting each of the plurality of pressures as a different action with respect to the displayed pressure-sensitive input, wherein the web server mechanism:
• receives a request for a requested web page from a selected client device;
• receives from the selected client device a client pressure profile corresponding to a user of the selected client device, the client pressure profile comprising:
• an indication of whether an operating system on the selected client device supports pressure-sensitive inputs;
• a screen size of the selected client device;
• a current screen orientation of the selected client device;
• and
• at least one preferred screen region of the selected client device with the selected client device in the current screen orientation;
• identifies at least one of the plurality of server pressure profiles that corresponds to the client pressure profile;
• and
• renders to the selected client device the first version of the selected web page when the identified server pressure profile is the portrait orientation, right hand server pressure profile, renders to the selected client device the second version of the selected web page when the identified server pressure profile is the portrait orientation, left hand server pressure profile, and renders to the selected client device the third version of the selected web page when the identified server pressure profile is the landscape orientation, both hands server pressure profile.