WEB NOTEBOOK TOOLS

• US 20070266342A1
• Filed: 05/10/2007
• Published: 11/15/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 05/10/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Google LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Google Inc. (Alphabet Inc.)
• Inventors: Dave, Kushal, Chang, Bay-Wei, Ryskamp, Robert Allen, Ashear, Joseph M., Fontes, Paul, Dai, Xiangtian, Russell, Daniel M.
• Granted Patent: US 8,255,819 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/810
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9535 Search customisation based on user profiles and personalisation

Abstract

A computer-implemented method of providing information for a web notebook is disclosed. The method can include displaying a web document in a content area of a browser window, receiving a user selection of content from the document initiated by a first user mouse click, and displaying a selection icon in the content area upon completion of the user selection, wherein the selection icon is displayed without the need for a second user mouse click.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method of providing information for a web notebook, comprising:

displaying a web document in a content area of a browser window;

receiving a user selection of content from the web document initiated by a first user-initiated mouse click; and

displaying a selection icon in the content area upon completion of the user selection, wherein the selection icon is displayed without the need for a second user-initiated mouse click.

2. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the user selection of content comprises a user-initiated mouse click followed by a user-initiated dragging selection of an area of content.

3. The computer-implemented method of claim 2, wherein the selected content is copied to a web notebook.

4. The computer-implemented method of claim 3, wherein the selected content is appended to a web notebook containing content from other web pages.

5. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, further comprising receiving a user activation of the icon and copying the selected content to a web notebook in response to the user activation.

6. The computer-implemented method of claim 5, further comprising selecting the web notebook from a plurality of web notebooks by comparing the selected content to content in the plurality of web notebooks.

7. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the selection icon is displayed adjacent to a final selection point of the user selection of content.

8. The computer-implemented method of claim 7, wherein the first icon is replaced with a second icon that is different than the first icon after a pointer hovers over the first icon for a predetermined period of time.

9. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the selection icon comprises a first icon and a second icon displayed adjacent to the first icon.

10. The computer-implemented method of claim 9, wherein the second icon is displayed when a pointer hovers over the first icon.

11. A method of clipping web page content to a web notebook, comprising:

displaying web page content in a browser content area;

receiving a click-and-drag command from a pointing device;

detecting the end of the click-and-drag command at a location in the browser content area; and

displaying a content selection icon without the need for a pointer-device down click.

12. A method of clipping web page content to a web notebook, comprising:

determining that a click-and-drag content selection operation has occurred in a content area of a web browser;

detecting an end-of-selection indication;

determining a pointer location when the end-of-selection indication occurs; and

displaying a content selection icon adjacent to the pointer location, wherein activation of the content selection icon causes content selected by the content selection operation to be copied to a web notebook.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein the detected end-of-selection indication comprises a pointer up-click event.

14. The method of claim 12, wherein the method is performed by instructions stored in a web browser extension.

15. A method of capturing data from a plurality of web documents, comprising:

displaying a web document in a first web browser window;

receiving a selection of content from within the displayed web document that is substantially less than all of the content in the displayed web document; and

displaying a web document portion or a web document connector associated with the selected content in an active content area of a second web browser window.

16. The method of claim 15, wherein the second browser window is a frame or region displayed within the first web browser window.

17. The method of claim 15, further comprising storing the web content in a document with content from a plurality of web pages.

18. The method of claim 15, wherein a web document portion comprises a snippet of text contained in the selected content.

19. The method of claim 18, wherein a web document portion comprises an image contained in the selected content.

20. The method of claim 18, wherein a web document connector comprises a link to the web document comprising the selected content.

21. The method of claim 15, further comprising displaying a plurality of web document portions, each associated with corresponding content selected from a different web document.

22. The method of claim 15, further comprising receiving a selection of a web document connector and displaying the selected content in response to the selection.

23. The method of claim 22, wherein displaying the selected content comprises displaying the selected content separately from its corresponding web document.

24. The method of claim 22, wherein displaying the selected content comprises externally referencing up-to-date content from the corresponding web document.

25. The method of claim 24, wherein externally referencing up-to-date content comprises analyzing pointers in a web notebook that is displayed in the second web browser window.

26. A method of presenting content associated with a web notebook, comprising:

obtaining content stored in a web notebook, the content representing sub-portions of a plurality of different web pages;

externally referencing up-to-date content from each of the plurality of different web pages; and

populating the web notebook with the up-to-date content from each of the plurality of different web pages.