DISTRIBUTING WEB APPLICATIONS ACROSS A PRE-EXISTING WEB

• US 20070300160A1
• Filed: 11/14/2006
• Published: 12/27/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 11/14/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Trailfire, Inc
• Original Assignee: Trailfire, Inc
• Inventors: Kawai, Kenji, Evans, Lynne, Everhart, Dan, Forrest, Mike, Ferrel, Patrick, Sigurdsson, Stefan
• Granted Patent: US 8,943,035 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/744
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9535 Search customisation based on user profiles and personalisation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/954 Navigation, e.g. using categorised browsing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/972 Access to data in other repository systems, e.g. legacy data or dynamic Web page generation
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]

Abstract

An embodiment is a system and method for a user to organize web content and applications and to share web content and applications with other users. A user may bubble web pages that interest them. The bubbles may be linked or stitched together to form a trail of pages that may not only aid the user to navigate relevant pages, but also be shared with other users.

Claims

1. A distributed web application node comprising:

a bubble module operable to receive indications that a user bubbled one or more existing web pages, each bubble to include bubble content, a bubble application, or a combination thereof;

a trail module operable to link the bubbles in a trail; and

a privacy module operable to determine the visibility of the bubbles.

2. The distributed web application node of claim 1, the bubble application further comprising at least one of an audio player, a video player, a polling application, a messaging application, an executable script, and executable code, or a combination thereof.

3. The distributed web application node of claim 1, the bubble content further comprising at least one of a bubble name, a trail name, a blog entry, a wiki entry, a user comment, a viewer comment, or a combination thereof.

4. The distributed web application node of claim 1, the trail module operable to further:

generate, in a current one of the bubbles, a link to a previous one of the bubbles; and

generate, in the previous one of the bubbles, a link to the current one of the bubbles.

5. The distributed web application node of claim 1, the trail module operable to further:

generate a linked list of the bubbles to enable a user to navigate the web pages the user has bubbled.

6. The distributed web application node of claim 1 further comprising:

an interest module operable to determine a user'"'"'s interests, in response to receiving an indication that the user bubbled a web page, the interest module operable to

extract a plurality of terms from the web page;

filter the terms to remove HTML markup and unimportant words;

weight the filtered terms by their frequency of occurrence in the web page;

generate a term vector including the weighted terms; and

merge the term vector with a cumulative term vector for the trail.

7. The distributed web application node of claim 3 further comprising:

a relevant link module operable to generate one or more relevant links on the web page based on the user'"'"'s interests, the relevant link module operable to

identify links on the web page, each link pointing to a corresponding destination web page;

search for cumulative term vector terms in the destination web pages;

determine the relevancy of the destination web pages to the user'"'"'s interests based on the search results; and

suggest one or more relevant links to the user.

8. The distributed web application node of claim 1, the privacy module operable to determine the visibility of the bubbles based on a privacy setting, the privacy setting to include

private, to display the bubbles only to the user;

public, to display the bubbles to any user coupled to the distributed web application node; and

limited, to display the bubbles to a predetermined group of users coupled to the distributed web application node.

9. A method comprising:

receiving, from a user coupled to a distributed web application node, indication of a first bubble on a first web page, the first bubble including content, an application, or a combination thereof;

receiving, from the user, indication of a second bubble on a second web page, the second bubble including content, an application, or a combination thereof; and

linking the first bubble and the second bubble to generate a trail of bubbles.

10. The method of claim 9, the application further comprising at least one of an audio player, a video player, a polling application, a messaging application, an executable script, and executable code, or a combination thereof.

11. The method of claim 9, the content further comprising at least one of a bubble name, a trail name, a blog entry, a wiki entry, a user comment, a viewer comment, or a combination thereof.

12. The method of claim 9 further comprising:

extracting, from the first web page, a plurality of terms;

filtering the extracted terms to remove HTML markup and unimportant words;

weighting the filtered terms based on their frequency of occurrence in the first web page; and

generating a first term vector corresponding to the weighted terms.

13. The method of claim 12 further comprising:

extracting, from the second web page, a plurality of terms;

filtering the extracted terms to remove HTML markup and unimportant words;

weighting the filtered terms based on their frequency of occurrence in the second web page;

generating a second term vector corresponding to the weighted terms; and

merging the second term vector with the first term vector to generate a cumulative term vector

14. The method of claim 13 further comprising

identifying the user'"'"'s interests based on the weighted terms of the cumulative term vector.

15. The method according to claim 14 further comprising:

extracting, from a web page, links contained in the web page, each link to point to a corresponding destination web page;

searching for cumulative term vector terms in the destination web pages;

determining a relevancy of the destination web pages to the user'"'"'s interests based on the results of the search; and

suggesting one or more relevant links to the user.

16. The method of claim 9 further comprising:

detecting a privacy setting for each bubble;

displaying the bubble to only the user if the privacy setting is private;

displaying the bubble to any user coupled to the distributed web application node if the privacy setting is public; and

displaying the bubble to a predetermined group of users coupled to the distributed web application module if the privacy setting is limited.

17. An article comprising a machine-readable storage medium containing instructions that if executed enable a system to:

receive, from a user coupled to the system, indication of a first bubble on a first existing web page, the first bubble to include an application, the application to include at least one of an audio player, a video player, a polling application, a messaging application, an executable script, and executable code, or a combination thereof;

display the bubble on the existing web page based on a privacy setting; and

execute the application within the first bubble.

18. The article of claim 17, the executable instructions to enable the system to:

receive, from the user, indication of a second bubble on a second existing web page; and

link the first bubble and the second bubble to generate a trail of bubbles.

19. The article of claim 18, the executable instructions to enable the system to:

extract, from the first existing web page, a plurality of terms;

filter the extracted terms to remove HTML markup and unimportant words;

weight the filtered terms based on their frequency of occurrence in the first web page; and

generate a first term vector corresponding to the weighted terms.

20. The article of claim 19, the executable instructions to enable the system to:

extract, from the second existing web page, a plurality of terms;

filter the extracted terms to remove HTML markup and unimportant words;

weight the filtered terms based on their frequency of occurrence in the second web page;

generate a second term vector corresponding to the weighted terms; and

merge the second term vector with the first term vector to generate a cumulative term vector.

21. The article of claim 20, the executable instructions to enable the system to:

extract, from a web page, links contained in the web page, each link pointing to a corresponding destination web page;

search for cumulative term vector terms in the destination web pages;

determine a relevancy of the destination web pages to the user'"'"'s interests based on the results of the search; and

suggest one or more relevant links to the user.

22. The article of claim 17, the executable instructions to enable the system to:

display the first bubble and the second bubble to only the user if the privacy setting is private;

display the first bubble and the second bubble to any user coupled to the system if the privacy setting is public; and

display the first bubble and the second bubble to a predetermined group of users coupled to the system if the privacy setting is limited.

23. A distributed web application system comprising:

a client;

a distributed web application browser extension coupled to the client, the distributed web browser extension to

receive, from a user, indication of a bubble on an existing web page; and

receive a bubble application from the user, the client, a distributed web application node, a third party, or a combination thereof.

24. The distributed web application system of claim 23, the bubble application further comprising at least one of an audio player, a video player, a polling application, a messaging application, an executable script, and executable code, or a combination thereof.

25. The distributed web application system of claim 23, the distributed web application browser extension to further receive bubble content from the user, the client, the distributed web application node, the third party, or a combination thereof.

26. The distributed web application node of claim 25, the bubble content further comprising at least one of a bubble name, a trail name, a blog entry, a wiki entry, a user comment, a viewer comment, or a combination thereof.