Systems and methods for organizing and annotating an information search

• US 20070022135A1
• Filed: 07/25/2005
• Published: 01/25/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 07/25/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Bellsouth Intellectual Property Corporation (AT&T, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Bellsouth Intellectual Property Corporation (AT&T, Inc.)
• Inventors: Malik, Dale
• Application Number:
  US11/188,933
• Publication Number:
  US 20070022135A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/955 using information identifiers, e.g. uniform resource locators [URL]

Abstract

These exemplary embodiments utilize a flexible, Information Search Organizer tool for capturing, accessing, and otherwise managing user-defined indexing (and/or a bookmark) of a website, user-defined content selected from the website, and/or a user-defined annotation for the selected website and/or the selected content. According to exemplary embodiments, a communications device includes a Information Search Organizer tool stored in memory. The Information Search Organizer tool is an application that may operate separately or simultaneously with a world wide web or Internet session to access a website (or other electronic communications address), select content of an electronic file, create an annotation, and save the annotation in an annotation profile that is associated with a search term and/or search category, information associated with content of the website, a key word of the annotation, and/or other information selected by the user.

Claims

1. A method for providing a personal annotation, comprising:

accessing an electronic file associated with an electronic communications address, the electronic file comprising data of a website, data of a remotely stored electronic file, and a link to an electronic application;

selecting the electronic file for association with a personalized annotation; and

creating the personalized annotation, the personalized annotation comprising data describing the electronic file and a portion of the data of the electronic file.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

storing the personalized annotation in a memory device of a computer system; and

classifying the personalized annotation using the electronic communications address and the annotation.

3. The method of claim 2, further comprising:

presenting an annotation profile of one or more classified, personalized annotations on a display device of the computer system.

4. The method of claim 3, further comprising:

communicating the annotation profile to a remote communications device; and

presenting the annotation profile to the remote communications device.

5. The method of claim 4, further comprising:

communicating a media control function to the multimedia content server via the communications network.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

presenting an alert to the electronic communications address, the alert comprising a notification of the personalized annotation associated with the electronic communications address.

7. A personal annotation tool, comprising:

a communications interface for controlling access to and communications with a remote data source of an electronic file, the electronic file comprising data of a website, data of a remotely stored electronic file, and a communications link to an electronic application; and

a personal annotation module communicating with a communications module interface, the personal annotation module creating a personalized annotation associated with data of the electronic file, the personalized annotation comprising data describing the data of the electronic file and a portion of the data of the electronic file.

8. The personal annotation tool of claim 7, further comprising:

an application sharing interface controlling activation of an application to present one of the personalized annotation, the portion of the data of the electronic file, a data communications address of the electronic file, and an annotated file, the annotated file comprising the personalized annotation embedded within the data of the electronic file.

9. The personal annotation tool of claim 7, further comprising:

means for managing the personalized annotation with the electronic communications address.

10. The personal annotation tool of claim 7, further comprising:

means for managing the personalized annotation using data of the annotation, the data of the annotation comprising a topic, a subtopic, a keyword, and a priority indicator.

11. The personal annotation tool of claim 7, further comprising:

means for managing the portion of the data of the electronic file.

12. A storage medium on which is encoded instructions for performing the following:

accessing an electronic file of an electronic communications address, the electronic file comprising data of a website, data of a remotely stored electronic file, and a link to an electronic application;

selecting the electronic file to associate a personalized annotation; and

creating the personalized annotation, the personalized annotation comprising data to describe the electronic file and a portion of the data of the electronic file.

13. The storage medium of claim 12, further comprising instructions for performing the following:

storing the personalized annotation to a memory device of a computer system; and

managing the personalized annotation using the electronic communications address and the annotation.

14. The storage medium of claim 12, further comprising instructions for performing the following:

presenting an information search organizer topic on a display device of the computer system, the information search organization topic comprising the personalized annotation, the portion of the data of the electronic file, and the electronic communications address.

15. The storage medium of claim 14, further comprising instructions for performing the following:

communicating the information search organization topic to a remote communications device; and

presenting the information search organization topic to the remote communications device.

16. The storage medium of claim 12, further comprising instructions for performing the following:

storing the portion of the data of the electronic file to a memory device of a computer system; and

managing the personalized annotation using the portion of the data of the electronic file and the personalized annotation.

17. The storage medium of claim 12, further comprising instructions for performing the following:

storing the electronic communications address to a memory device of a computer system; and

managing the personalized annotation using the electronic communications address and the personalized annotation.

18. The storage medium of claim 12, further comprising instructions for performing the following:

presenting an alert to the electronic communications address, the alert comprising a notification of the personalized annotation associated with the electronic communications address.