Web browsing

• US 10,387,546 B1
• Filed: 02/26/2014
• Issued: 08/20/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 06/07/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: United Services Automobile Association
• Original Assignee: United Services Automobile Association
• Inventors: Duran, Francisco A., Klint-Looney, Leena Maria, Pate, Kim Earnest, Krebs, Rachel Ann, Lindley, Jason W., Tarrillion, Ann C., Langley, Guy
• Primary Examiner(s): Singh, Amresh
• Application Number:
  US14/191,062
• Time in Patent Office: 2,001 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/951 Indexing; Web crawling techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9538 Presentation of query results
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/106 Display of layout of documents; Previewing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/14 Tree-structured documents parsing G06F40/205; validation G06F40/226
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/216 using statistical methods
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/30 Semantic analysis

Abstract

A method for grouping of multiple tabs in a web browser includes displaying a plurality of tabs by the web browser. Each tab has separate webpage content associated therewith. Two or more webpages are grouped into at least one category based on semantics of corresponding webpage content. Two or more tabs associated with the two or more grouped webpages are merged into a single tab. The single tab represents the grouped webpages. An aggregated view of contents associated with the grouped webpages is generated and displayed in a single browser window associated with the single tab. The aggregated view has two or more portions. Each portion of the aggregated view concurrently displays content of a corresponding grouped webpage.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method for grouping of multiple tabs in a web browser of a client device, comprising the steps of:

providing user tools on a web browser displayed on a client device, wherein the user tools are manipulatable by a web browser user for prescribing a level of similarity for webpage content to cause two or more webpages to be combined;

displaying, via the web browser, two or more tabs, each tab associated with a webpage and having separate webpage content that corresponds to the webpage associated therewith;

determining the level of similarity of the webpage content of the two or more webpages displayed in the web browser;

merging the two or more tabs associated with the two or more grouped webpages into a single tab representing the two or more grouped webpages when the determined level of similarity of the two or more webpages meets the user prescribed webpage level of similarity for combining the two or more webpages; and

generating an aggregated view of webpage contents associated with the two or more grouped webpages in a single browser window associated with the single tab, the aggregated view having two or more portions, each of the two or more portions concurrently displaying webpage content of a corresponding grouped webpage.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein each of the two or more grouped webpages comprises an active webpage.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein each of the two or more grouped webpages are associated with at least one corresponding title and wherein generating an aggregated view comprises generating a merged title based on semantics of corresponding webpage contents of the two or more grouped web pages and associating the merged title with the single tab.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein said step of generating an aggregated view comprises displaying at least one user interface control associated with each of the two or more portions of the aggregated view, each user interface control configured to be operated by a user to manipulate at least one attribute of the corresponding portion of the aggregated view.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising, after said step of grouping two or more webpages into at least one category, assigning one or more visual indicators to the at least one category according to a visualization scheme.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein said visualization scheme is a visual indication scheme and wherein said assigning step comprises assigning a visual indicator in the form of a visual indication to each of the tabs grouped into the at least one category.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein said step of grouping one or more webpages further comprises utilising a natural language processing technique, a machine learning technique, a model-based technique, a rules-based technique or any combination thereof to classify contents of the one or more webpages.

8. A computer program product for grouping of multiple tabs in a web browser of a client device, the computer program product comprising:

one or more computer-readable storage devices and a plurality of program instructions stored on at least one of the one or more computer-readable storage devices for execution by one or more processors of the client device, the plurality of program instructions comprising;

program instructions to provide user tools on a web browser displayed on a client device, wherein the user tools are manipulatable by a web browser user for prescribing a level of similarity for webpage content to cause two or more webpages to be combined;

program instructions to display via the web browser two or more tabs, each tab associated with a webpage and having separate webpage content that corresponds to the webpage associated therewith;

program instructions to determine the level of similarity of the webpage content of the two or more webpages displayed in the web browser;

program instructions to merge the two or more tabs associated with the two or more grouped webpages into a single tab representing the two or more grouped webpages when the determined level of similarity of the two or more webpages meets the user prescribed webpage level of similarity for combining the two or more webpages; and

program instructions to generate an aggregated view of webpage contents associated with the two or more grouped webpages in a single browser window associated with the single tab, the aggregated view having two or more portions, each of the two or more portions concurrently displaying webpage content of a corresponding grouped webpage such that each webpage in the single tab is individually displayed as an active webpage relative to each other webpage grouped in the single tab.

9. The computer program product of claim 8, wherein each of the two or more grouped webpages are associated with at least one corresponding title and wherein the program instructions to generate an aggregated view further comprise program instructions to generate a merged title based on semantics of corresponding webpage contents of the two or more grouped web pages and program instructions to associate the merged title with the single tab.

10. The computer program product of claim 8, wherein the program instructions to generate an aggregated view further comprise program instructions to display at least one user interface control associated with each of the two or more portions of the aggregated view, each user interface control configured to be operated by a user to manipulate at least one attribute of the corresponding portion of the aggregated view.

11. The computer program product of claim 8, further comprising program instructions to assign one or more visual indicators to the at least one category according to a visualization scheme.

12. The computer program product of claim 11, wherein said visualization scheme is a visual indication scheme and wherein said program instructions to assign further comprise program instructions to assign a visual indicator in the form of a visual indication to each of the tabs grouped into the at least one category.

13. The computer program product of claim 8, wherein said program instructions to group one or more webpages further comprise program instructions utilising a natural language processing technique, a machine learning technique, a model-based technique, a rules-based technique or any combination thereof to classify contents of the one or more webpages.