IP Library Granted Patent US 7,430,708
Granted Patent B2
US 7,430,708 · App. 10/791,802 · Granted Sep 30, 2008

Portable terminal device

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Quick Facts
Patent No.
US 7,430,708
App. No.
10/791,802
Granted
Sep 30, 2008
Kind
B2
Abstract

A portable terminal device is provided which is capable of displaying URLs in a manner so as to be fitter for a use state when a bookmark function provided by browser being installed in the portable terminal device is used. A situation information acquiring unit acquires position information about longitude and latitude from a position information acquiring unit. The situation information acquiring unit acquires information about time from a time information acquiring unit and information about a day of a week from the time information acquiring unit. A bookmark managing unit acquires the situation information and stores the situation information together with a URL passed from a browser processing unit and its title in a bookmark storing unit.

Claims (11)

1. A portable terminal device comprising:

a communication control unit being connected to an internet communication network to feed and receive information;

a browser processing unit to acquire a file being stored in a server over said internet communication network connected through said communication control unit;

a sort key storing unit in which sort keys are stored;

a bookmark storing unit in which a bookmark recording a URL (Uniform Resource Locator) of a server over said internet communication network is stored;

a situation information acquiring unit to acquire situation information showing a state occurring when said browser processing unit has obtained a file through said internet communication network;

a bookmark managing unit to record a URL of a server storing a file that said browser processing unit has obtained through said internet communication network in a bookmark being stored in said bookmark storing unit in such a manner that situation information that said situation information acquiring unit has acquired is annexed to said URL;

a bookmark sorting unit to sort URLs being recorded in a bookmark stored in said bookmark storing unit depending on a use situation; and

a displaying unit to display URLs sorted by said bookmark sorting unit,

wherein the bookmark sorting unit converts into numbers a degree of approximation between the situation information annexed to each of the URLs and a situation information at a present point of time and sorts the URLs in order of having approximation of the situation information with smallest to highest approximation, and

wherein if the bookmark sorting unit acquiring at least one sort key comprises acquiring at least two sort keys, a sum of the approximation corresponding to each of the sort key is used as an approximation of the situation information.

Assignments (4)
CORRECTIVE ASSIGNMENT TO CORRECT THE REMOVE PATENT NUMBERS 10342096;10671117; 10716375; 10716376;10795407;10795408; AND 10827591 PREVIOUSLY RECORDED AT REEL: 58314 FRAME: 657. ASSIGNOR(S) HEREBY CONFIRMS THE ASSIGNMENT. Recorded Feb 29, 2024
From: RAKUTEN, INC.
To: RAKUTEN GROUP, INC.
Reel/Frame 068066/0103 →
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Dec 6, 2021
From: RAKUTEN, INC.
To: RAKUTEN GROUP, INC.
Reel/Frame 058314/0657 →
CHANGE OF ADDRESS Recorded Dec 17, 2015
From: RAKUTEN, INC.
To: RAKUTEN, INC.
Reel/Frame 037751/0006 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded May 23, 2012
From: NEC CORPORATION
To: RAKUTEN, INC.
Reel/Frame 028252/0280 →