Toolbar document content sharing

• US 10,055,104 B2
• Filed: 04/30/2014
• Issued: 08/21/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 12/30/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Google LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Google LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Inventors: Blain, Matthew E., Mendes Da Costa, Alexander M., Tang, Na A.
• Primary Examiner(s): Kumar, Anil N
• Application Number:
  US14/266,166
• Publication Number:
  US 20140237396A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,574 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence

Abstract

A system may provide a toolbar in a browser at a client, where the toolbar permits user selection from multiple different services for sharing document content. The system may receive a selection of a first one of the multiple different services from a user via the toolbar and may receive a selection of content of a first document browsed by the user. The system may post the selected content in a second document associated with the first one of the multiple different services.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

presenting, by a device, a document for display in a first browser window of a browser, the document including content;

receiving, by the device, selection of a portion of the content included in the document, the portion of the content being less than an entirety of the content included in the document;

providing, by the device, a selectable option in the browser for sharing the portion of the content after receiving the selection of the portion of the content, the option including an option to share the portion of the content via e-mail;

receiving, by the device, selection of the option to share the portion of the content via email;

opening, by the device, a second browser window, of the browser, based on receiving the selection of the option to share the portion of the content via e-mail, the second browser window being different from the first browser window;

creating, by the device and after opening the second browser window, an e-mail that includes the portion of the content for display within the second browser window of the browser; and

posting, by the device and after creating the e-mail, the portion of the content in the email, within the second browser window of the browser, to permit the portion of the content to be shared with one or more users via the e-mail.

2. The method of claim 1, where providing the option for sharing the portion of the content includes:

providing the option for sharing the portion of the content via a right-click menu of the browser.

3. The method of claim 1, where the browser is a web browser, and

where the document is a web page.

4. The method of claim 1, where the option for sharing the portion of the content further includes:

an option to share the portion of the content via a blog.

5. The method of claim 4, further comprising:

receiving selection of the option to share the portion of the content via the blog;

opening a third browser window, of the browser, based on receiving the selection of the option to share the portion of the content via the blog, the third browser window being different from the first browser window; and

posting the portion of the content in a blog document, within the third browser window, to permit the portion of the content to be shared with at least one user via the blog.

6. The method of claim 1, where the option for sharing the portion of the content further includes:

an option to share the portion of the content via instant messaging.

7. The method of claim 6, further comprising:

receiving selection of the option to share the portion of the content via instant messaging;

opening a third browser window, of the browser, based on receiving the selection of the option to share the portion of the content via instant messaging, the third browser window being different from the first browser window; and

posting the portion of the content in a document, within the third browser window, to permit the portion of the content to be shared with at least one user via instant messaging.

8. A system comprising:

a device to;

present a document for display in a first browser window of a browser;

receive selection of content included in the document;

provide a selectable option in the browser for sharing the content after receiving the selection of the content, the option for sharing the content including an option to share the content via e-mail;

receive selection of the option to share the content via e-mail;

open a second browser window, of the browser, based on receiving the selection of the option to share the content via e-mail,

the second browser window being different from the first browser window;

create, after opening the second browser window, an e-mail that includes the portion of the content for display within the second browser window; and

post, after creating the e-mail, information regarding an entirety of the content or information regarding a portion of the content in the e-mail, within the second browser window of the browser, to permit the entirety of the content or the portion of the content to be shared with one or more users via the e-mail,

the portion of the content being less than the entirety of the content,

the information regarding the entirety of the content being posted to the email when the selection of the content relates to selection of the entirety of the content,

the information regarding the portion of the content being posted to the email when the selection of the content relates to selection of the portion of the content.

9. The system of claim 8, where, when providing the option for sharing the content, the device is to:

provide the option for sharing the content via a tool bar of the browser.

10. The system of claim 8, where the entirety of the content or the portion of the content is selected by a user, and

where, when posting the information regarding the entirety of the content or the information regarding the portion of the content, the device is to:

determine that the user has logged in to an e-mail service associated with the email; and

post the information regarding the entirety of the content or the information regarding the portion of the content after determining that the user has logged in to the email service.

11. The system of claim 8, where, when providing the option for sharing the content, the device is to:

provide the option for sharing the content via a right-click menu of the browser.

12. The system of claim 8, where the browser is a web browser, and where the document is a web page.

13. The system of claim 8, where the option for sharing the content further includes an option to share the content via a blog, and

where the device is further to:

receive selection of the option to share the content via the blog;

open a third browser window, of the browser, based on receiving the selection of the option to share the content via the blog,

the third browser window being different from the first browser window; and

post the information regarding the entirety of the content or the information regarding the portion of the content in a blog document, within the third browser window, to permit the information regarding the entirety of the content or the information regarding the portion of the content to be shared with at least one user via the blog.

14. The system of claim 8, where the option for sharing the content further includes an option to share the content via instant messaging, and

where the device is further to:

receive selection of the option to share the content via instant messaging;

open a third browser window, of the browser, based on receiving the selection of the option to share the content via instant messaging, the third browser window being different from the first browser window; and

post the information regarding the entirety of the content or the information regarding the portion of the content in a document, within the third browser window, to permit the information regarding the entirety of the content or the information regarding the portion of the content to be shared with at least one user via instant messaging.

15. A non-transitory computer-readable medium that stores instructions, the instructions comprising:

one or more instructions which, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to present a document for display in a first browser window of a browser;

one or more instructions which, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to receive selection of content included in the document;

one or more instructions which, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to provide a selectable option in the browser for sharing content after receiving the selection of the content, the option for sharing content including an option to share content via e-mail;

one or more instructions which, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to receive selection of the option to share content via e-mail;

one or more instructions which, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to open a second browser window, of the browser, based on receiving the selection of the option to share content via e-mail, the second browser window being different from the first browser window;

one or more instructions which, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to create, after opening the second browser window, an e-mail that includes the portion of the content for display within the second browser window of the browser; and

one or more instructions which, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to post, after creating the e-mail and in the e-mail within the second browser window of the browser, information regarding an entirety of the content included in the document or information regarding a portion of the content included in the document to permit the entirety of the content or the portion of the content to be shared with one or more users via the e-mail,

the portion of the content being less than the entirety of the content,

the information regarding the entirety of the content being posted to the e-mail when the selection of the content relates to selection of the entirety of the content,

the information regarding the portion of the content being posted to the e-mail when the selection of the content relates to selection of the portion of the content.

16. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 15, where the instructions further comprise:

one or more instructions to present another document for display in the first browser window;

one or more instructions to receive selection of the option to share content via e-mail without receiving selection of content included in the other document; and

one or more instructions to post an entirety of the content, included in the other document, in another e-mail document within a third browser window of the browser, based on receiving the selection of the option to share content via e-mail without receiving the selection of the content included in the other document,

the other e-mail document being included in the third browser window of the browser.

17. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 15, where the document is a web page.

18. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 15, where the one or more instructions to provide the option for sharing content include:

one or more instructions to provide the option for sharing content via;

a right-click menu associated with the browser, or

a toolbar associated with the browser.

19. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 15, where the option for sharing content further includes at least one of:

an option for sharing content via a blog, or

an option for sharing content via instant messaging.

20. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 19, where the instructions further comprise:

one or more instructions to post the information regarding the entirety of the content or the information regarding the portion of the content, within a third browser window of the browser, to permit the information regarding the entirety of the content or the information regarding the portion of the content to be shared with at least one user via the blog when the option for sharing content via the blog is selected; and

one or more instructions to post the information regarding the entirety of the content or the information regarding the portion of the content, within a fourth browser window, to permit the information regarding the entirety of the content or the information regarding the portion of the content to be shared with at least one user via instant messaging when the option for sharing content via instant messaging is selected.