Managing WEB page links using structured data

• US 20080195674A1
• Filed: 02/13/2007
• Published: 08/14/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 02/13/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Lyndersay, Sean O., Pavlicic, Miladin, Kim, Jane T., VonKoch, Walter, Truelove, Benjamin N.
• Granted Patent: US 8,725,719 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/957 Browsing optimisation, e.g. caching or content distillation

Abstract

In accordance with certain embodiments, requests to collect structured data in a web page and to subscribe to that structured data are received. This structured data is stored in a data store to allow offline use of the structured data. In accordance with other embodiments, a computing device displays multiple links each of which identifies a different one of multiple web pages. Additionally, the multiple pages include structured data. The display of these multiple links is altered as the computing device detects changes to the structured data in the web pages. In accordance with other embodiments, a web page includes structured data that has been subscribed to. The computing device detects changes to the web page, and notifies a user of a change to the web page only if the change is a change to the structured data and not a change to other portions of the web page.

Claims

1. One or more computer readable media having stored thereon instructions that, when executed by a computing device, causes the computing device to:

receive a request to collect structured data in a web page;

receive a request to subscribe to the structured data; and

store the structured data in a data store for offline use of the structured data.

2. One or more computer readable media as recited in claim 1, wherein the instructions further cause the computing device to, after the structured data has been stored in the data store:

retrieve a current version of the web page;

compare the retrieved web page to a previously stored version of the web page; and

detect that the web page has changed if the current version of the web page and the previously stored version of the web page are not the same.

3. One or more computer readable media as recited in claim 2, wherein the instructions further cause the computing device to:

perform the retrieval, comparison, and detection at a frequency based at least in part on a data type of the structured data.

4. One or more computer readable media as recited in claim 2, wherein the instructions further cause the computing device to:

notify a user of the computing device that the web page has changed only if the structured data in the web page has changed.

5. One or more computer readable media as recited in claim 4, wherein the instructions further cause the computing device to:

display a link identifying the web page;

display the link in a first manner if the structured data in the web page has changed;

display the link in a second manner if the structured data in the web page has expired;

display the link in a third manner if the structured data in the web page has not changed and has not expired; and

display the link in a fourth manner if the structured data has an error.

6. One or more computer readable media as recited in claim 1, wherein to store the structured data is to store the structured data on a removable storage device of the computing device.

7. One or more computer readable media as recited in claim 1, wherein the instructions further cause the computing device to:

display a link identifying the web page; and

display a preview of the structured data in response to a pointer hovering over the link.

8. One or more computer readable media as recited in claim 1, wherein to receive the request to collect structured data is to:

display a collect button along with the web page; and

receive a user selection of the collect button.

9. A method, implemented in a computing device, the method comprising:

displaying a plurality of links, each link identifying a different one of a plurality of web pages; and

altering how the plurality of links are displayed as changes to structured data in the plurality of web pages are detected.

10. A method as recited in claim 9, the displaying comprising displaying the plurality of links in a favorites list.

11. A method as recited in claim 9, the displaying comprising displaying one or more of the plurality of links in a links toolbar.

12. A method as recited in claim 9, further comprising:

displaying a preview of changed structured data in one of the plurality of web pages in response to detecting a pointer hovering over a link identifying the one web page.

13. A method as recited in claim 9, the altering comprising:

displaying a link of the plurality of links in a first manner if structured data in the web page identified by the link has changed;

displaying the link in a second manner if the structured data in the web page identified by the link has expired; and

displaying the link in a third manner if the structured data in the web page identified by the link has not changed and has not expired.

14. A method as recited in claim 13, the first manner comprising a bold font style, the second manner comprising a grey font color, and the third manner comprising a normal font style.

15. A method as recited in claim 9, the displaying comprising displaying the plurality of links organized so that each of the plurality of links is visually associated with one of a plurality of collection identifiers, and further comprising altering how the plurality of collection identifiers are displayed as changes to structured data in the plurality of web pages are detected.

16. One or more computer readable media having stored thereon instructions that, when executed by a computing device, causes the computing device to:

detect a change to a web page having structured data that has been subscribed to; and

notify a user of a change to the web page only if the change is a change to the structured data and not a change to other portions of the web page.

17. One or more computer readable media as recited in claim 16, wherein the instructions further cause the computing device to display a preview of the structured data in response to detecting a pointer hovering over a link identifying the web page.

18. One or more computer readable media as recited in claim 17, wherein the instructions further cause the computing device to mark a status of the structured data as unchanged in response to detecting the pointer hovering over the link.

19. One or more computer readable media as recited in claim 16, wherein to notify the user of the change is to change a display of a link identifying the web page in a link toolbar.

20. One or more computer readable media as recited in claim 16, wherein the instructions further cause the computing device to.

detect that the structured data has expired;

notify the user that the structured data has expired; and

display a delete option with an identifier of the web page.