USABILITY ENHANCEMENTS FOR BOOKMARKS OF BROWSERS

• US 20110258216A1
• Filed: 04/20/2010
• Published: 10/20/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 04/20/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: VORA, JANKI Y., SUPAKKUL, TASSANEE K.
• Application Number:
  US12/763,558
• Publication Number:
  US 20110258216A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/769
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9562 Bookmark management
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04812 Interaction techniques based on cursor appearance or behaviour, e.g. being affected by the presence of displayed objects
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus

Abstract

Bookmarks can reference uniquely addressed Web resources. Bookmark annotations can include user specified, digital content related to uniquely addressed Web resources. An user interface of an annotative bookmark manager can permit users to create, edit, and delete bookmark annotations. A browser interface of a Web browser can include a bookmark section that displays a listing of textual descriptors for bookmarks. An annotation handler can present one of the bookmark annotations within the browser user interface responsive to a detection of a mouseover event for a corresponding textual descriptor. The bookmark annotation can be automatically hidden when the mouseover event ends. Bookmark prioritization enables listing of highly weighted parameterized bookmarks in a user friendly manner.

Claims

1. A method for improving usability of bookmarked content comprising:

within a user interface, presenting a listing of textual descriptors for a user'"'"'s bookmarks, each of the textual descriptors corresponding to one of the bookmarks, each of the bookmarks referencing a uniquely addressed Web resource, wherein each of the user'"'"'s bookmarks were previously added to the listing responsive to a user selection;

detecting a positioning of an interface pointer substantially over one of the textual descriptors;

triggering a mouseover event based on the detecting of the positioning;

responsive to the mouseover event, looking-up a previously established bookmark annotation corresponding to one of the bookmarks, wherein the corresponding bookmark is one of the user'"'"'s bookmarks that corresponds to the one textual descriptor that the interface pointer is positioned over, wherein the previously established bookmark annotation was established responsive to a user action, wherein a plurality of the user'"'"'s bookmarks comprise a plurality of different annotations, each uniquely corresponding to one of the user'"'"'s bookmarks;

responsive to the mouseover event, presenting the previously established bookmark annotation within the user interface before a user has opted to navigate to the uniquely addressed Web resource that the bookmark references;

when the interface pointer is moved so that it is no longer positioned substantially over the one of the textual descriptors, responsively hiding the previously established bookmark annotation from the user interface;

when the bookmark annotation or the corresponding textual descriptor are selected for navigating, triggering a navigation event to navigate to the uniquely addressed Web resource that the bookmark references; and

responsive to the navigation event, presenting the corresponding Web resource within the user interface and responsively hiding the previously established bookmark annotation from the user interface.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the previously established bookmark annotation comprises an audio annotation that is audibly presented within the user interface responsive to the mouseover event.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the previously established bookmark annotation comprises a textual description of the Web site previously manually entered by a user to whom the listing corresponds.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the previously established bookmark annotation comprises a portion of a video, which is played when the annotation is presented responsive to the mouseover event, wherein the portion of video is a portion of a longer video available upon navigating to the uniquely addressed Web resource.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the previously established bookmark annotation comprises a portion of an audio file, which is audibly played when the annotation is presented responsive to the mouseover event, wherein the portion of the audio file is a portion of a longer audio file available upon navigating to the uniquely addressed Web resource.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the previously established bookmark annotation comprises a sub-portion of a Web site corresponding to the uniquely addressed Web resource, said sub-portion of the Web site having been previously selected using a capture tool that captured the sub-portion of Web site as the Web site was being presented via the user interface;

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the previously established bookmark annotation comprises a thumbnail image of a Web site, which is the uniquely addressed Web resource referenced by the corresponding bookmark.

8. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

for each of the bookmarks, establishing a bookmark specific, time variable condition;

prioritizing at a specific time the bookmarks relative to each other, wherein prioritization values used when prioritizing each of the bookmarks varies based on the time variable condition in relationship to the specific time at which the prioritizing occurs;

ordering the bookmarks in accordance with results of the prioritizing;

ordering the textual descriptors within the listing in accordance with the ordering of the corresponding bookmarks, wherein the prioritizing, the ordering of the bookmarks, and the ordering of the textual descriptors occurs responsive to the application comprising the user interface being instantiated or occurs responsive to a user selection within the user interface, which the presenting of the listing occurs in response to, wherein the ordering of the textual descriptors occurs before the presenting of the listing so that as presented, the listing of the textual descriptors is in accordance with the ordering.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein one of the time variable conditions for one of the bookmarks, is associated with a periodic updating of resource content of the uniquely addressed Web resource, said method further comprising:

determining when the updating of resource content occurs; and

for the bookmark referencing the uniquely addressed Web resource having the resource content, determining a prioritization value for the bookmark at a given time, wherein the prioritization value varies in direct proportion to the given time and it'"'"'s relation with the time the resource content was updated, wherein the prioritization value is greater the closer the given time is to a time at which the resource content was most recently updated.

10. The method of claim 8, wherein one of the time variable conditions for one of the bookmarks is associated with a user calendar maintained for a specific user within a calendaring application, wherein the variable condition and the related resource referenced by the corresponding bookmark have a defined relationship;

when determining a priority value for the bookmark associated with the user calendar, accessing records of the calendaring application for the specific user; and

calculating the priority value for the bookmark based on content from the accessed records and specifics of the defined relationship.

11. The method of claim 8, further comprising:

attaching at least one of the bookmarks to a user selected calendared event of a calendaring application;

when prioritizing the bookmarks, utilizing the user selected calendared event as the time variable condition for each bookmark, which has been attached to the user selected calendared event.

12. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

detecting an occurrence of a user-specified prioritization event for at least one of the bookmarks;

querying a previously established, user configured bookmark prioritization profile for a record corresponding to the detected user-specified prioritization event, wherein said record defines a plurality of user-configured prioritization parameters for the at least one bookmark; and

dynamically modifying a position of the textual descriptor that corresponds to the at least one bookmark within the listing for the at least one bookmark within the listing is based upon the plurality of user-configured prioritization parameters.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein the plurality of user-configured prioritization parameters comprises at least three of a triggering event, a priority level, a recurrence frequency, an action definition, and a termination action.

14. The method of claim 1, wherein the user interface is a graphical user interface of a Web browser, wherein the Web browser natively lacks support for bookmark annotations, which includes lacking support for a user to defined bookmark annotations and for presenting the bookmark annotations responsive to related mouseover events, wherein the Web browser comprises a plug-in that provides the support for the bookmark annotations, which includes providing support for a user to define bookmark annotations and for presenting the bookmark annotations responsive to related mouseover events.

15. The method of claim 1, wherein the user interface is a graphical user interface of a Web browser, wherein the Web browser natively lacks support for bookmark annotations, which includes lacking support for a user to defined bookmark annotations and for presenting the bookmark annotations responsive to related mouseover events, wherein the Web browser subscribes to a Web service provided by a network element remotely located from the a client upon which the Web browser runs, wherein the Web service provides the support for the bookmark annotations, which includes providing support for a user to define bookmark annotations and for presenting the bookmark annotations responsive to related mouseover events.

16. A computer program product comprising a tangible computer readable storage medium having computer usable program code embodied therewith, the computer usable program code operable to run on hardware, said computer program product comprising:

computer usable program code stored on a tangible storage medium operable to, within a user interface, present a listing of textual descriptors for a user'"'"'s bookmarks, each of the textual descriptors corresponding to one of the bookmarks, each of the bookmarks referencing a uniquely addressed Web resource, wherein each of the user'"'"'s bookmarks were previously added to the listing responsive to a user selection;

computer usable program code stored on a tangible storage medium operable to detect a positioning of an interface pointer substantially over one of the textual descriptors;

computer usable program code stored on a tangible storage medium operable to trigger a mouseover event based on the detecting of the positioning;

computer usable program code stored on a tangible storage medium operable to, responsive to the mouseover event, look-up a previously established bookmark annotation corresponding to one of the bookmarks, wherein the corresponding bookmark is one of the user'"'"'s bookmarks that corresponds to the one textual descriptor that the interface pointer is positioned over, wherein the previously established bookmark annotation was established responsive to a user action, wherein a plurality of the user'"'"'s bookmarks comprise a plurality of different annotations, each uniquely corresponding to one of the user'"'"'s bookmarks;

computer usable program code stored on a tangible storage medium operable to, responsive to the mouseover event, present the previously established bookmark annotation within the user interface before a user has opted to navigate to the uniquely addressed Web resource that the bookmark references;

computer usable program code stored on a tangible storage medium operable to, when the interface pointer is moved so that it is no longer positioned substantially over the one of the textual descriptors, responsively hide the previously established bookmark annotation from the user interface;

computer usable program code stored on a tangible storage medium operable to, when the bookmark annotation or the corresponding textual descriptor are selected for navigating, trigger a navigation event to navigate to the uniquely addressed Web resource that the bookmark references; and

computer usable program code stored on a tangible storage medium operable to, responsive to the navigation event, present the corresponding Web resource within the user interface and to responsively hide the previously established bookmark annotation from the user interface.

17. A system for improving usability of bookmarked content comprising:

at least one tangible storage medium comprising a Web browser, an annotative and prioritization bookmark manager, an annotation handler, a plurality of bookmarks, and a plurality of bookmark annotations, each of which are digitally encoded within the tangible storage medium in a computer-readable fashion, wherein the Web browser, the annotative bookmark manager, and the annotation handler are operable to be run on hardware, wherein each of the plurality of bookmarks references a uniquely addressed Web resource, wherein each of the bookmark annotations comprises user specified, digital content related to the uniquely addressed Web resource and where each of the bookmark annotations corresponds to one of the bookmarks, wherein;

the annotative and prioritization bookmark manager comprises an annotate user interface operable to permit users to create, edit, and delete bookmark annotations; and

the Web browser comprises a browser user interface comprising a bookmark section, wherein said bookmark section is operable to display a listing of textual descriptors for the bookmarks, wherein the annotation handler is operable to present one of the bookmark annotations within the browser user interface responsive to a detection of a mouseover events for a textual descriptor corresponding to one of the bookmarks that corresponds to the presented bookmark annotation, wherein the bookmark annotation is automatically hidden when the mouseover event ends.

18. The system of claim 17, wherein the annotative and prioritization bookmark manager further comprises a prioritization handler and wherein the tangible storage medium further comprises bookmark prioritization profiles, wherein the prioritization handler and bookmark prioritization profiles are digitally encoded within the tangible storage medium in a computer-readable fashion, wherein the prioritization handler is operable to be run on hardware, wherein the prioritization handler when run is operable to:

detect an occurrence of a user-specified prioritization event for at least one of the bookmarks;

query a previously established and user configured one of the bookmark prioritization profiles for a record corresponding to the detected user-specified prioritization event, wherein said record defines a plurality of user-configured prioritization parameters for the at least one bookmark; and

dynamically modifying a position of the textual descriptor that corresponds to the at least one bookmark within the listing for the at least one bookmark within the listing is based upon the plurality of user-configured prioritization parameters, wherein the plurality of user-configured prioritization parameters comprises at least three of a triggering event, a priority level, a recurrence frequency, an action definition, and a termination action.

19. The system of claim 17, wherein the Web browser natively lacks support for bookmark annotations, wherein the annotative and prioritization bookmark manager and annotation handler are implemented as plug-ins for the Web browser.

20. The system of claim 17, wherein the Web browser natively lacks support for bookmark annotations, wherein the annotative and prioritization bookmark manager and annotation handler are implemented as Web services, wherein the Web services run in hosts remotely located from the device in which the Web browser runs.