System, Method, and Computer-Readable Medium for Collection and Distribution of User-Supplied Comments Associated with Network and Local Content

• US 20080215589A1
• Filed: 06/28/2007
• Published: 09/04/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 11/10/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Getingate, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Getingate, Inc.
• Inventors: ELHAIK, Eran
• Application Number:
  US11/770,638
• Publication Number:
  US 20080215589A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/10
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/957 Browsing optimisation, e.g. caching or content distillation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/958 Organisation or management of web site content, e.g. publishing, maintaining pages or automatic linking

Abstract

A system, method and computer-readable medium for collection and distribution of user-supplied comments associated with network and local content is provided. User-supplied comments may be associated with network content and may be stored in a network repository in association with an identifier of the network content for which the comments were supplied. Other network users that view the content may be provided with the user-supplied comments associated with the content. User-supplied comments associated with local content may be stored in a local repository. Comments associated with local content may be displayed to a user in response to selection of the local content.

Claims

1. A method of facilitating collection and distribution of a comment related to an information resource, comprising:

receiving a user-supplied comment;

associating the user-supplied comment with a reference of an information resource;

storing the comment in association with the reference; and

displaying the comment in response to specification of the information resource.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein associating the user-supplied comment with the reference further comprises associating the user-supplied comment with a uniform resource locator, wherein the information resource comprises content publicly available at the uniform resource locator.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein associating the user-supplied comment with a reference of an information resource further comprises associating the user-supplied comment with a file name of a locally stored file, wherein the information resource comprises the locally stored file.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein storing the comment in association with the reference comprises storing the comment and the reference in a common record in a database.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the user-supplied comment comprises a comment supplied by a first user, and wherein displaying the comment in response to specification of the information resource further comprises displaying the comment to a second user in response to the second user supplying the reference in a web browser.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein receiving the user supplied comment is performed on a client system, and wherein storing the comment in association with the reference is performed at a network server system.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein receiving the user supplied comment is performed on a client system, and wherein storing the comment in association with the reference is performed at the client system.

8. A computer-readable medium having computer-executable instructions for execution by a processing system, the computer-executable instructions for collection and distribution of comments related to an information resource, comprising:

instructions that receive a user-supplied comment;

instructions that associate the user-supplied comment with a reference of an information resource;

instructions that store the comment in association with the reference; and

instructions that display the comment in response to specification of the information resource.

9. The computer-readable medium of claim 8, wherein the instructions that associate the user-supplied comment with the reference further comprise instructions that associate the user-supplied comment with a uniform resource locator, wherein the information resource comprises content publicly available at the uniform resource locator.

10. The computer-readable medium of claim 8, wherein the instructions that associate the user-supplied comment with a reference of an information resource further comprise instructions that associate the user-supplied comment with a file name of a locally stored file, wherein the information resource comprises the locally stored file.

11. The computer-readable medium of claim 8, wherein the instructions that store the comment in association with the reference comprise instructions that store the comment and the reference in a common record in a database.

12. The computer-readable medium of claim 8, wherein the user-supplied comment comprises a comment supplied by a first user, and wherein the instructions that display the comment in response to specification of the information resource further comprise instructions that display the comment to a second user in response to the second user supplying the reference in a web browser.

13. The computer-readable medium of claim 8, wherein the instructions that receive the user supplied comment comprise instructions executed by a client system, and wherein the instructions that store the comment in association with the reference comprise instructions executed by a network server system.

14. The computer-readable medium of claim 8, wherein the instructions that receive the user supplied comment comprise instructions executed by a client system, and wherein the instructions that store the comment in association with the reference comprise instructions executed by the client system.

15. A system for collecting and distributing comments related to an information resource, comprising:

a processor adapted to execute computer-executable instructions;

a display device communicatively coupled with the processor; and

an input device adapted to receive user input specifying a comment associated with an information resource displayed on the display device, wherein the comment is stored in association with a reference of the information resource, and wherein the comment is retrieved for display by supply of the reference.

16. The system of claim 15, further comprising a network storage device, wherein the information resource comprise a web page, wherein the reference comprises a uniform resource locator of the web page, and wherein the comment and the uniform resource locator are stored in the network storage device.

17. The system of claim 16, wherein a client system conveys the uniform resource locator to a server coupled with the network storage device, and wherein the server retrieves the comment from the network storage device and transmits the comment to the client system.

18. The system of claim 15, further comprising a storage device communicatively coupled with the processor, wherein the information resource comprises a data structure stored on the storage device, and wherein the reference comprises a data structure name.

19. The system of claim 18, wherein the processor executes a file management system, and wherein selection of the data structure results in retrieval of the comment from the storage device and output of the comment on the display device.

20. The system of claim 15, wherein an indicator that specifies the comment as one of public and private is stored in association with the comment and the reference.