Patent ID: 8533628

Claim:
A method for enabling a user to perform full page browsing of a Web page on a hand-held wireless device in a manner that replicates browsing the Web page on a desktop Web browser, wherein the Web page comprises HTML-based content and cascading style sheet (CSS) content defining a page layout and design of display content on the Web page, the method comprising: in response to a user request to access the Web page, retrieving HTML-based content and the CSS content corresponding to the Web page and processing the HTML-based content and CSS content with the Web browser rendering engine to interpret the page layout and design of the display content on the Web page at a first scale; and employing scaled page layout information and/or content derived therefrom to generate scaled Web page content at multiple scale factors; and enabling a user of the mobile device to zoom in on an image via a user input to a touchscreen display and wherein said scaled Web page content including one or more images is generated by scaling bounding boxes corresponding to the one or more images to produce scaled bounding boxes and, for each of the one or more images, scaling content associated with the image to produce a scaled image that fits within its corresponding scaled bounding box; and enabling the user to perform full page browsing of the Web page at multiple zoom levels by generating corresponding views of the Web page on the hand-held device under which the page layout and design of the display content is retained relative to the interpretation of the page layout and design of the display content at the first scale, wherein each of the Web browser rendering engine and a Web browser rendering engine employed by a desktop browser for which browsing is replicated are the same.