Patent ID: 7721197

Claim:
In a computing device that includes an operating system and a Web browser, a method of displaying only relevant content of a Web page, comprising: displaying the Web page including relevant and non-relevant content in an overview mode at a predetermined magnification; dividing the Web page into a plurality of cells, wherein each cell comprising either relevant or non-relevant content by: creating a document object mode tree representation of the Web page; determining the area occupied by each content block on the Web page by identifying coordinate positions occupied by each content block; classifying content stored in nodes of the document object model tree into their associated content blocks by comparing position and dimension information of content stored in the nodes to the position and dimension of the content blocks; storing the content blocks into a multi-celled table; and inserting the multi-celled table in a modified Web page such that the modified web page comprises the multi-celled table in addition to the relevant and non-relevant content of the Web page; and in response to receiving a user-generated command to identify the relevant content of the Web-page, displaying only the relevant content of the Web page by: identifying cells from the Web page comprising relevant content that will be displayed; identifying cells from the Web page comprising non-relevant content that will not be displayed; and displaying the identified cells comprising the relevant content, wherein the displayed cells are magnified by an amount equal to the space freed by the cells that will not be displayed.