USER CREATED MOBILE CONTENT

• US 20090006338A1
• Filed: 06/27/2008
• Published: 01/01/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 06/28/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Taptu Ltd. (Mediafed Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Taptu Ltd. (Mediafed Ltd.)
• Inventors: Butlin, Stefan, Ives, Stephen
• Application Number:
  US12/147,593
• Publication Number:
  US 20090006338A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9535 Search customisation based on user profiles and personalisation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9577 Optimising the visualization of content, e.g. distillation of HTML documents

Abstract

A search engine (50, 35, 60, 63, 103) interacts (17) with the user while they are accessing (7) an existing online content item to enable the user to create a mobile web version of at least a portion of that existing online content item. The mobile version is stored (37, 63) and indexed (35, 709) as a user created search result, retrievable by the search engine in response to a search query (47). This can produce better results than automated conversion, and thus improve mobile search. The interaction can involve constraining a size and text format of the mobile web version so it can reasonably be viewed on a screen of a hand held mobile device.

Claims

1. A system arranged to incorporate content created by a user, the system having a user interface to interact with the user while they are accessing an existing online content item to create a mobile web version of at least a portion of that existing online content item, and an indexing part arranged to store and index the user created mobile version as a user created search result, retrievable by the system in response to a search query.

2. The system of claim 1, the user created search result being formatted as a portion of a web page, and the user interface being arranged to constrain a size and text format of the mobile web version so that the portion can reasonably be viewed on a screen of a hand held mobile device.

3. The system of claim 1, the user interface being arranged to cooperate with a browser of the user to prompt a user to select an extract of a web page being presented by the browser.

4. The system of claim 1, the user interface being arranged to combine a number of extracts of the existing online content item to form the mobile web version.

5. The system of claim 4, the user interface being arranged to enable user control of layout of the extracts in the mobile web version.

6. The system of claim 1, the indexing part being arranged to store the user created search result in the form of instructions to retrieve an online accessible source content item, and to extract a given part of it to recreate the user created search result.

7. The system of claim 1, the indexing part being arranged to store the user created search result as a content summary.

8. The system of claim 3, the user interface being arranged to cooperate with the browser on the device of the user to highlight prospective extracts for the user to select.

9. The system of claim 1, having a sharing part arranged to enable the user to share the user created content with a given other user.

10. A method of offering a search service incorporating content created by a user, the method having the steps of interacting with the user while they are accessing an existing online content item to enable the user to create a mobile web version of at least a portion of that existing online content item, and storing and indexing the mobile web version as a user created search result so as to be retrievable when the search service responds to a search query.

11. The method of claim 10, the user created search result comprising a portion of a web page, and the interacting step involving constraining a size and text format of the mobile web version so that the portion can reasonably be viewed on a screen of a hand held mobile device.

12. The method of claim 10, the interacting step involving cooperating with a browser of the user to prompt a user to select an extract of a web page being presented by the browser.

13. A method of using a search service incorporating content created by a user, the method having the steps by a user of accessing an existing online content item, interacting with the search service to create a mobile web version of at least a portion of that existing online content item, and causing the search service to store and index the mobile web version as a user created search result so as to be retrievable when the search service responds to a search query.

14. A program on a physical medium and executable by computing hardware so as to provide a system arranged to incorporate content created by a user, the system having a user interface to interact with the user while they are accessing an existing online content item to create a mobile web version of at least a portion of that existing online content item, and an indexing part arranged to store and index the user created mobile version as a user created search result, retrievable by the system in response to a search query.