Hyperlink Park and Search

• US 20050102274A1
• Filed: 12/12/2002
• Published: 05/12/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 12/12/2002
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Byteweavr, LLC (Ascend Innovation Management, LLC)
• Original Assignee: Jay Chieh Chen
• Inventors: Chen, Jay Chieh
• Granted Patent: US 7,383,248 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9535 Search customisation based on user profiles and personalisation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9566 URL specific, e.g. using aliases, detecting broken or misspelled links
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99933 Query processing, i.e. searching

Abstract

When the cursor parks on a hyperlink, behind the scene the computer automatically visits the link and performs a range of desired operations, such as: Searches for a set of strings that the user has inputted and displays on the current viewing computer screen whether or not there are matches. Stores all displayed data in the computer. Edits and displays the stored data in between parks. Indicates on the current viewing screen if any of the parked-on hyperlinks cannot be linked to and/or displayed. Rates the hyperlinked page. Displays the title of the page. Searches the page with song information and plays the searched song by using a media player without leaving the current viewing page.

Claims

1. A method of hyperlink park and search behind the scene of a current viewing computer screen, the method comprising:

add, delete, or modify a search criteria to become a user pre-defined search criteria;

obtain a URL by parking a cursor on a hyperlink of the current viewing computer screen;

establish an Internet connection with the URL behind the scene;

display on the current viewing computer screen if the parked-on hyperlink is not linkable and/or not displayable;

import a web page'"'"'s content if the parked-on hyperlink is linkable and displayable; and

search the imported web page with the user pre-defined search criteria.

2. The method of claim 1 further comprises the step of displaying on the current viewing computer screen a result of matches of a set of strings that the user has inputted into the user pre-defined search criteria.

3. The method of claim 1 further comprises the step of displaying the contexts that contain the searched strings on the current viewing computer screen.

4. The method of claim 1 further comprises the step of rating the imported web page content with a search-rate criteria and displaying a Web Page Text Rating Index (WPTRI) on the current viewing computer screen as a result from the search-rate criteria.

5. The method of claim 4 wherein the search-rate criteria further comprises the steps of:

determine a selected subject by selecting at least a rating subject and/or sub-subject from a predefined list;

determine a search subject by searching the imported web page with all the rating subjects in the predefined list if there is no selection of a selected subject, and search the web page with the sub-subjects of the rating subject with the most matches or if there is an equal number of rating subjects with the most matches, then search the web page with the sub-subjects of the rating subject that matches first on the web page; and

use the selected subjects sub-subjects if there is a selected subject, if not, use the searched subject'"'"'s sub-subjects to calculate the WPTRI by dividing the number of matches by the total number of strings in the sub-subjects and multiplying that number by 100.

6. The method of claim 1 or 2 or 3 further comprises the step of storing at least a portion of each displayed data into a memory located in the current viewing computer, editing, displaying and printing the stored data from the memory.

7. The method of claim 6 further comprise the step of using the obtained URL as a search string to search the stored data in the memory located in the current viewing computer, and displaying the match on the current viewing computer screen

8. The method of claim 1 wherein the user pre-defined search criteria may be added, deleted, or modified in between parks.

9. The method of claim 8 wherein in between parks is when interrupted by at least one keyboard input or at least one mouse button click.

10. The method of claim 8 wherein in between parks is when the browser navigating URL is changed.

11. The method of claim 1 further comprises the step of download a media data file to play on the current viewing computer by a media player when a search of the imported web page with the user pre-defined search criteria has identified a match of the media data file'"'"'s information.