Searching and browsing URLs and URL history

• US 10,423,319 B2
• Filed: 09/21/2015
• Issued: 09/24/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 07/12/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Inventors: Epling, Jeremiah Seth, Huang, Li-Hsin, Van Dok, Cornelis K., Davis, Jeffrey M.
• Primary Examiner(s): Woo, Isaac M
• Application Number:
  US14/859,664
• Publication Number:
  US 20160011760A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,464 Days
• Field of Search: 707600-899
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9562 Bookmark management
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0481 based on specific properties of the displayed interaction object or a metaphor-based environment, e.g. interaction with desktop elements like windows or icons, or assisted by a cursor's changing behaviour or appearance
• 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 3/04847 Interaction techniques to control parameter settings, e.g. interaction with sliders or dials
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/451 Execution arrangements for user interfaces

Abstract

System(s) and/or method(s) (“tools”) are described that present indicia for implicitly and explicitly user-associated web pages of a network browser application. The tools can present these indicia in a single graphic user interface, in response to a user'"'"'s selection of a single unified access point, or in response to a search of the browser'"'"'s user-associated web pages.

Claims

1. A system comprising:

a processor; and

a memory coupled to the processor, the memory for storing instructions which, when executed by the processor, performs a method comprising;

receiving a selection within a network browser application to present indicia for implicitly user-associated web pages and explicitly user-associated web pages, wherein explicitly user-associated web pages are web pages marked as favorites within the network browser application, and wherein implicitly user-associated web pages are web pages not marked as favorites within the network browser application that are implicitly associated with a user upon the user viewing the web pages with the network browser application; and

simultaneously presenting indicia for both explicitly and implicitly user-associated web pages in different regions of a navigable window within a graphical user interface of the network browser application, wherein each indicia includes an icon provided by the associated web page and a text label, and wherein the indicia for the implicitly user-associated web pages are presented in an order, determined by the network browser application, reflecting a number of times that the implicitly user-associated web pages have been viewed by the user.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the navigable window further comprises a search entry field configured to enable a search of the explicitly and implicitly user-associated web pages.

3. The system of claim 2, wherein the indicia associated with the explicitly and implicitly user-associated web pages are determined, based at least in part, on input in the search entry field.

4. The system of claim 3, wherein the determined indicia associated with the explicitly and implicitly user-associated web pages are presented as search results within a single region of the navigable window.

5. The system of claim 3, wherein input within the search entry field comprises text characters and the search results are updated as each character is entered within the search entry field.

6. The system of claim 1, further comprising presenting a single unified access point, wherein receiving the selection comprises receiving selection of the single unified access point with a single received action.

7. A computer-implemented method, the method comprising:

receiving a selection within a network browser application to present indicia for implicitly user-associated web pages and explicitly user-associated web pages, wherein explicitly user-associated web pages are web pages marked as favorites within the network browser application, and wherein implicitly user-associated web pages are web pages not marked as favorites within the network browser application that are implicitly associated with a user upon the user viewing the web pages with the network browser application; and

simultaneously presenting indicia for both explicitly and implicitly user-associated web pages in different regions of a navigable window within a graphical user interface of the network browser application, wherein each indicia includes an icon provided by the associated web page and a text label, and wherein the indicia for the implicitly user-associated web pages are presented in an order, determined by the network browser application, reflecting a number of times that the implicitly user-associated web pages have been viewed by the user.

8. The computer-implemented method of claim 7, wherein the navigable window further comprises a search entry field configured to enable a search of the explicitly and implicitly user-associated web pages.

9. The computer-implemented method of claim 8, wherein the indicia associated with the explicitly and implicitly user-associated web pages are determined, based at least in part, on input in the search entry field.

10. The computer-implemented method of claim 9, wherein the determined indicia associated with the explicitly and implicitly user-associated web pages are presented as search results within a single region of the navigable window.

11. The computer-implemented method of claim 9, wherein input within the search entry field comprises text characters and the search results are updated as each character is entered within the search entry field.

12. The computer-implemented method of claim 7, further comprising presenting a single unified access point, wherein receiving the selection comprises receiving selection of the single unified access point with a single received action.

13. A system comprising:

a processor; and

a memory coupled to the processor, the memory for storing instructions which, when executed by the processor, performs a method comprising;

receiving a selection within a network browser application to present indicia for implicitly user-associated web pages and explicitly user-associated web pages, wherein explicitly user-associated web pages are web pages marked as favorites within the network browser application, and wherein implicitly user-associated web pages are web pages not marked as favorites within the network browser application that are implicitly associated with a user upon the user viewing the web pages with the network browser application;

simultaneously presenting indicia for both explicitly and implicitly user-associated web pages in different regions of a navigable window within a graphical user interface of the network browser application, wherein each indicia includes an icon provided by the associated web page and a text label, and wherein the indicia for the implicitly user-associated web pages are presented in an order, determined by the network browser application, reflecting a number of times that the implicitly user-associated web pages have been viewed by the user; and

providing a search entry field within the navigable window, wherein the search entry field is configured to enable a search of the explicitly and implicitly user-associated web pages.

14. The system of claim 13, wherein the indicia associated with the explicitly and implicitly user-associated web pages are determined, based at least in part, on input in the search entry field.

15. The system of claim 14, wherein the determined indicia associated with the explicitly and implicitly user-associated web pages are presented as search results within a single region of the navigable window.

16. The system of claim 14, wherein input within the search entry field comprises text characters and the search results are updated as each character is entered within the search entry field.

17. The system of claim 13, further comprising presenting a single unified access point, wherein receiving the selection comprises receiving selection of the single unified access point with a single received action.