Web Manipulation: Multi-Level Hierarchy Page Segmentation for Efficient Mobile Web Access

摘要

It is said metaphorically "The World is going Mobile". Mobile devices have made the world a small place. There has been an enormous increase in the number of mobile users since the last decay, to an extent that it even exceeds the number of desktop users in many countries. In order to achieve device independence and enhance information availability in the context of the Web, it becomes important to enable web access through these devices, which provide greater portability as compared to a normal desktop. But most available web pages are designed for desktop PC, thus it is quite inconvenient to browse these large web pages on a mobile device with a rather small screen. In this paper, we propose a relatively new browsing technique to facilitate efficient web access and provide a better user experience. In order to solve the problem of incomplete tags in HTML, an equivalent XML is generated for the desired webpage, since XML being more structured provides an opportunity of efficient web-page parsing. For efficient browsing, the web page is represented as a multi level hierarchy, with the index of major sections on the first level and the sections indexed again in to sub-sections on the second level and so on, until we reach sub-sections that can be represented as sub-pages that fit in the small screen. We also designed an efficient algorithm for navigating through the sub-pages, thereby providing better user experience. A look in to the future aspects of this research has also been included. The proposed browsing technique provides better and efficient user experience.