DECENTRALISED WEB ANNOTATION

• US 20110082849A1
• Filed: 06/07/2010
• Published: 04/07/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 12/12/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Google LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Google Inc. (Alphabet Inc.)
• Inventors: BOODMAN, Aaron, RAKOWSKI, Brian
• Granted Patent: US 8,095,528 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/706
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/951 Indexing; Web crawling techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/957 Browsing optimisation, e.g. caching or content distillation

Abstract

Annotations relating to web sites may be based on blog posts relating to the web sites. A user viewing a web site may concurrently view related blog posts about the web site. More particularly, in one implementation, a method includes detecting when a user visits a web page and receiving, in response to the detection, a group of blog posts that link to the web page. The method further includes displaying an indication of the group of blog posts to the user while the user is visiting the web site.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

receiving, from a search engine, a plurality of annotations that link to a web site; and

displaying the plurality of annotations to the user while the user is visiting the web site.

2-27. -27. (canceled)