System and method for transmitting submissions associated with web content

• US 10,387,391 B2
• Filed: 05/20/2015
• Issued: 08/20/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 03/14/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Search and Share Technologies LLC
• Original Assignee: Newsplug, Inc.
• Inventors: Shriber, John S., Zaks, Roman
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen, Maikhanh
• Application Number:
  US14/717,984
• Publication Number:
  US 20150256591A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,553 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/22 Indexing; Data structures therefor; Storage structures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/24578 using ranking
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/248 Presentation of query results
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/951 Indexing; Web crawling techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9535 Search customisation based on user profiles and personalisation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9538 Presentation of query results
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/166 Editing, e.g. inserting or deleting
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/169 Annotation, e.g. comment data or footnotes
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/35 Discourse or dialogue representation
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/10 in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network software deployment G06F8/60; multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46

Abstract

Among other things, embodiments of the present disclosure enable real-time communication between a first user and a second user regarding web content, and enable the second user to receive a submission of at least some of the web content from the first user.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method comprising:

providing, by a computing device, a plug-in module to a first client computer, the plug-in module executable by a processor of the first client computer to;

display a user interface by a web browser operating on the first client computer;

display the user interface separate from a main window of the web browser;

automatically select, with the user interface, a portion of web content displayed by the web browser;

display the portion of the web content within the user interface; and

configure the portion of the web content displayed by the user interface to be configurable by a first user via the user interface;

providing, by the computing device, a second plug-in module to a second client computer operated by a second user, the second plug-in module executable by a processor of the first client computer to;

display a second user interface by a second web browser on the second client computer; and

display the second user interface separate from a main window of the second web browser;

receiving, by the computing device, a submission associated with web content from the first user via the first client computer;

receiving, by the computing device, a request from the first user via the first client computer to provide the submission to the second user of a second client computer; and

in response to the request to provide the submission to the second client computer, transmitting, by the computing device, a feed to the second client computer to be displayed by the second web browser.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the computing device automatically pushes the feed to the second client computer as content of the feed becomes available.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the computing device automatically pushes the feed to the second client computer as content of the feed is updated.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the request from the first user identifies a plurality of other users to provide the submission to, and wherein the feed is provided to each of the plurality of other users in response to the request from the first user.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the feed is generated in response to the request to provide the submission to the second user.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the submission includes one or more of:

a webpage, an image, video, text, and audio.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the user interface is configured to display a list of one or more contacts with whom the first user can select to share the submission, wherein the second user is included in the list of one or more contacts.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the plug-in module activates the user interface in response to input from the first user.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the user interface further displays content received from the second user and associated with the web content.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein the content from the second user includes one or more of:

a notification, a comment, and a review.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein configuring the portion of the web content to be displayed by the user interface includes receiving, from the user via the user interface, a command to display one of:

a portion of text from the web content, one or more images from the web content, a combination of text and one or more images from the web content, and the entire web content.

12. The method of claim 1, wherein the portion of the web content automatically selected by the user interface includes one or more of:

a meta-tag, a thumbnail image, a title, and text.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein the portion of the web content automatically selected by the user interface includes a meta-tag, and the submission from the first user includes a modification to the selected meta-tag.

14. The method of claim 1, wherein displaying the portion of the web content within the user interface includes pre-populating one or more fields of a blog entry.

15. The method of claim 1, wherein the submission is stored, by the computer system, in association with the web content.

16. A non-transitory, computer-readable medium storing instructions that, when executed, cause a computing device to:

provide a plug-in module to a first client computer, the plug-in module executable by a processor of the first client computer to;

display a user interface by a web browser operating on the first client computer,

display the user interface separate from a main window of the web browser;

automatically select, with the user interface, a portion of web content displayed by the web browser; and

display the portion of the web content within the user interface; and

configure the portion of the web content displayed by the user interface to be configurable by a user via the user interface;

provide a second plug-in module to a second client computer, the second plug-in module executable by a processor of the first client computer to;

display a second user interface by a second web browser on the second client computer; and

display the second user interface separate from a main window of the second web browser;

receive a submission associated with web content from the first user via the first client computer;

receive a request from the first user via the first client computer to provide the submission to the second user of a second client computer; and

in response to the request to provide the submission to the second client computer, transmitting, by the computing device, a feed to the second client computer to be displayed by the second web browser.

17. A system comprising:

a plug-in module executable by a processor of a first client computer to;

display a user interface by a web browser operating on the first client computer;

display the user interface separate from a main window of the web browser;

automatically select, with the user interface, a portion of web content displayed by the web browser;

display the portion of the web content within the user interface;

configure the portion of the web content displayed by the user interface to be configurable by a user via the user interface;

receive a submission associated with web content from the first client computer;

receive a request from the first client computer to provide the submission to the second client computer; and

in response to the request to provide the submission to the second client computer, transmit a feed to the second client computer to present the submission to the second client computer; and

a second plug-in module executable by a processor of the second client computer to;

display a second user interface by a second web browser on the second client computer; and

display the second user interface separate from a main window of the second web browser.