Patent ID: 11941075
Assignee: NEW3S
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC G  H

Claim 5:
6. A method of navigation from or within the network address of a three-dimensional space of a three-dimensional network site comprising:
a network address (URL1-URL6);
at least one three-dimensional space (A1-A6; B1-B3);
at least one object (1) that is mobile and controllable in the space (A1-A6: B1-B3);
at least one navigation object (N1-N26) placed at a position (P11b) of the navigation object, the navigation object being programmed to detect whether the mobile object (1) overlaps a detection zone (N112), and to generate a navigation action as a function of the navigation properties assigned to the navigation object (N11) when the mobile object (1) overlaps the detection zone (N112);
the three-dimensional network site being associated with an access table comprising at least the following items of information:
the descriptor of the access table so as to be able to be interpreted by the navigation software package, comprising the number of rows, the number of columns and the field separator(s) used;
an identifier (P11a) of the or of each three-dimensional space in the site;
an identifier of the or of each navigation object;
the position (P11b) of each navigation object;
the navigation properties of each navigation object; and
an initial position (4, 6) of the mobile object when the user a user accesses the site, the method being performed with aid of a hardware interface, and comprising for a forward navigation:
a) in a navigation software package suitable for the hardware interface:
a.1) opening the network address (URL1-URL6);
a.2) controlling the movement of the mobile object (1) in the or one of the three-dimensional spaces (A1-A6; B1-B3) from the initial position (4, 6);
a.3) selecting the navigation object (N1-N26) by positioning the mobile object(1) in an overlapping manner with respect to the navigation object (N1-N26);
a.4) starting a timeout of predefined duration, as soon as the mobile object (1) and the navigation object (N1-N26) or the detection zone (N112) overlap,
a.6) generating a navigation action as a function of the navigation properties assigned to the navigation object (N1-N26), only if the mobile object (1) and the navigation object (N1-N26) or the detection zone (N112) remain overlapped throughout the duration of the timeout;
wherein step a.1) further comprises creation and storage in memory of a first history table (P1) of a last in-first out type, as well as an association of the first history table with page forward and page back selectable buttons of the navigation software package; and
step a.6) comprises the insertion, as first entry (P11a) in the first history table (P1), of the network address (URL1-URL6) of the departure three-dimensional space and the position (P11b) of the navigation object selected in the departure three-dimensional space;
wherein step a) is repeated n-2 times, n being an integer greater than or equal to 3, so as to end up at a network address of rank n, the first history table being created only at the first iteration and supplemented during the other iterations, each iteration of step a) corresponding to an opening of a new network address, each network address and, if appropriate, a position of each navigation object being stored chronologically in the first history table during navigation;
the method further comprising, for a backward navigation:
a step B) of backtracking consisting in reading the network address of rank n-1 in the first history table, and in opening this network address of rank n-t in the navigation software package, step B) being repeated k times, k being an integer lying between 1 and n-2;
wherein k lies between 1 and n-3, the network address of rank k corresponding to a network site according to the invention, the method comprising, furthermore, after the iteration of rank k of step B),at least one step y) of navigating towards a network site having a network address not stored in the first history table, step v) comprising the following sub-steps:
v.1) creation and storage in memory of a second history table of a “last in-first out” type, as well as an association of the second history table with a “page forward” and a “page back” selectable buttons of the navigation software package;
v.2) controlling the movement of the mobile object in the or one of the three-dimensional spaces of the network site having the network address not stored in the first history table;
v.3) selecting a navigation object by positioning the mobile object in an overlapping manner with respect to the navigation object;
v.6) generating a navigation action as a function of the navigation properties assigned to the navigation object, and inserting: as first entry in the second history table, a reference to the first history table;
as second entry in the second history table, the network address of the departure three-dimensional space and the position of the navigation object selected in the departure three-dimensional space;
as last entry in the first history table, a reference to the second history table.