DYNAMICALLY ADDED NAVIGATION WIDGET FOR LOOSE INTEGRATION OF WEB PAGES ACROSS DIFFERENT WEB APPLICATIONS

• US 20090172567A1
• Filed: 12/31/2007
• Published: 07/02/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 12/31/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Miyamoto, Hiroyuki, Perry, Ethan L., Yates, Robert, De Saint-Aignan, Charles P., Brooks, David A.
• Application Number:
  US11/967,758
• Publication Number:
  US 20090172567A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/762
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/954 Navigation, e.g. using categorised browsing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/958 Organisation or management of web site content, e.g. publishing, maintaining pages or automatic linking

Abstract

Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to uniform Web application navigation in a Web application environment and provide a method, system and computer program product for a dynamically added navigation widget for loosely integrating multiple Web pages. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for dynamically adding a navigation widget for loosely integrating multiple Web pages in a social network can be provided. The method can include identifying a user as either author or owner of content for Web pages loaded from different sources for viewing in a content browser, matching the user with a set of menu selections and configuring a navigation script with the set of menu selections, and returning the navigation script for embedding in each of the Web pages as a navigator.

Claims

1. A method for dynamically adding a navigation widget for loosely integrating multiple Web pages in a social network, the method comprising:

identifying a user as either author or owner of content for each of a plurality of Web pages loaded from different sources of Web pages for viewing in a content browser;

matching the user with a set of menu selections and configuring a navigation script with the set of menu selections; and

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returning the navigation script for embedding in each of the Web pages as a navigator.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein matching the user with a set of menu selections and configuring a navigation script with the set of menu selections, comprises locating an identifier for a community for the user with a set of menu selections for the identifier and configuring a navigation script with the set of menu selections.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein matching the user with a set of menu selections and configuring a navigation script with the set of menu selections, comprises matching the user with a set of menu selections each corresponding to different social networking content, and configuring a navigation script with the set of menu selections.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein matching the user with a set of menu selections and configuring a navigation script with the set of menu selections, comprises matching the user with a set of menu selections each menu selection corresponding to a blog, a profile, a set of social bookmarks and a set of communities for the user, and configuring a navigation script with the set of menu selections.

5. A Web application data processing system comprising:

a view of a plurality of Web pages;

a navigator comprising a navigation script of menu selections disposed in each of the Web pages and,

a framework underlying the Web pages comprising program code enabled to identify a user for each of the Web pages and to embed a reference in each of the Web pages to a navigator servlet remotely disposed about a computer communications network, the servlet comprising program code enabled to configure the navigator as a script for execution each of the Web pages with menu selections specific to the user and to embed the script in each of the Web pages.

6. The system of claim 5, wherein the menu selections comprises links to social networking content.

7. The system of claim 6, wherein the social networking content is a blog for the user.

8. The system of claim 6, wherein the social networking content is a profile for the user.

9. The system of claim 6, wherein the social networking content is a set of shared bookmarks for the user.

10. The system of claim 6, wherein the social networking content is a listing of communities for the user.

11. A computer program product comprising a computer usable medium embodying computer usable program code for dynamically adding a navigation widget for loosely integrating multiple Web pages in a social network, the computer program product comprising:

computer usable program code for identifying a user as either author or owner of content for each of a plurality of Web pages loaded from different sources of Web pages for viewing in a content browser;

computer usable program code for matching the user with a set of menu selections and configuring a navigation script with the set of menu selections; and

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computer usable program code for returning the navigation script for embedding in each of the Web pages as a navigator.

12. The computer program product of claim 11, wherein the computer usable program code for matching the user with a set of menu selections and configuring a navigation script with the set of menu selections, comprises computer usable program code for locating an identifier for a community for the user with a set of menu selections for the identifier and configuring a navigation script with the set of menu selections.

13. The computer program product of claim 11, wherein the computer usable program code for matching the user with a set of menu selections and configuring a navigation script with the set of menu selections, comprises computer usable program code for matching the user with a set of menu selections each corresponding to different social networking content, and configuring a navigation script with the set of menu selections.

14. The computer program product of claim 11, wherein the computer usable program code for matching the user with a set of menu selections and configuring a navigation script with the set of menu selections, comprises computer usable program code for matching the user with a set of menu selections each menu selection corresponding to a blog, a profile, a set of social bookmarks and a set of communities for the user, and configuring a navigation script with the set of menu selections.