Search capture

• US 20050216452A1
• Filed: 03/14/2005
• Published: 09/29/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 03/12/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Onfolio, Inc. (Microsoft Corporation)
• Inventors: Teague, Charles J.
• Granted Patent: US 7,702,678 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9562 Bookmark management

Abstract

When a Web-browser user employs a hyperlink, a Web-information manager makes a log entry that includes the URL of the Web page containing the hyperlink and also lists the URL of the target Web page, to which the hyperlink refers. When the user requests that a Web page be captured for later use, the Web-information manager uses the log to find the page at the root of the hyperlink chain that led to that page. It then determines from the root page'"'"'s URL whether the root page is a search-result page. If it is, the Web-information manager infers the search specification from that URL and associates it with the page to be captured.

Claims

1. For organizing results of browser-based research, a method comprising:

A) in response to a search-association trigger for a Web page in a hyperlink chain, determining whether the hyperlink chain includes a search-result page; and

B) if the hyperlink chain is thereby determined to include a search-result page, associating that search-result page'"'"'s search specification with the web page so designated.

2. A method as defined in claim 1 wherein the determination of whether the hyperlink chain includes a search-result page is made by, for at least one Web page in the hyperlink chain, inferring from that Web page'"'"'s URL whether that Web page is a search-result page.