LOCATION BASED GROUPING OF BROWSING HISTORIES

• US 20110320450A1
• Filed: 06/29/2010
• Published: 12/29/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 06/29/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Apple Inc.
• Original Assignee: Apple Inc.
• Inventors: Liu, Alice, Barraclough, Gavin
• Granted Patent: US 9,798,822 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/737
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/29 Geographical information databases
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/51 Indexing; Data structures therefor; Storage structures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9038 Presentation of query results
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9537 Spatial or temporal dependent retrieval, e.g. spatiotemporal queries
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/955 using information identifiers, e.g. uniform resource locators [URL]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2221/2111 Location-sensitive, e.g. geographical location, GPS

Abstract

Methods and systems that present URLs from a history of records organized by locations are described. Each record may be stored to represent a URL accessed for retrieving a web page by a browser hosted in a device at a certain point in time. Additionally, the record may include a location data indicating a physical location of the device at the certain point in time. Optionally, a timestamp indicating the certain point in time may be included in the record. Groups of the records may be clustered according to the locations. In one embodiment, at least one of the groups may be selected for presentation on a display according to where the display is currently located.

Claims

1. A machine implemented method comprising:

storing a history of records for a browsing history, each record including a URL (Universal Resource Locator) and a location indicating where a device was when accessing a web page of the URL; and

presenting URLs from the history of records organized by locations of the records.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the storing comprises:

accessing a particular web page address in a particular URL via a particular device;

generating a particular record including the particular URL and a particular location of the particular device; and

storing the particular record into the history of record.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the access of the particular web page is based on a network interface of the device, further comprising:

receiving the particular location substantially during accessing the particular web page via the network interface.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the location is a geolocation.

5. The method of claim 3, wherein the location is a GPS (Global Positioning System) location.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the history of records include one or more groups of records, further comprising:

clustering the records into the groups of records based on the locations and wherein the clustering excludes records that are determined to be outside of any cluster.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the presentation is based on a list of user interface items, each item representing a separate one of the clusters.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein the record including a timestamp indicating when the particular location was received.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the separate cluster includes one or more records having timestamps, and wherein the user interface item includes an expanded list of user interface items for representing the one or more records ordered by the timestamps.

10. A machine implemented method comprising:

collecting a history of records, each record associated with a URL (Universal Resource Locator) and a location data indicating a physical location for retrieving content from the URL;

identifying one or more clusters of the records using the location data;

detecting a current location of a device capable of accessing the records; and

presenting the records organized by the clusters and the current location.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the collection comprises:

retrieving one or more of the records from a remote server.

12. The method of claim 10, wherein the record includes a timestamp indicating when the content was retrieved.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein the timestamp indicates when the content was requested from the device.

14. The method of claim 10, wherein the presentation comprises:

selecting one of the clusters closest to the current location, wherein records not in the selected cluster are hidden from the presentation.

15. The method of claim 10, wherein the clusters are ordered according to distances to the current location.

16. The method of claim 10, further comprising:

filtering records from the history of records, wherein the filtered records do not belong to the clusters.

17. The method of claim 16, wherein the filtered records are hidden from the presentation.

18. A machine implemented method comprising:

in response to receiving a request from a device for a history of records, determining a current location of the device, each record associated with a location data and a timestamp indicating where and when the record was recorded;

performing clustering analysis to group the records into one or more clusters using the location data;

selecting the records according to at least one of the clusters based on the current location of the device; and

sending the selected records grouped as the clusters to the device.

19. The method of claim 18, wherein the current location is a geolocation of the device and wherein the request includes the geolocation of the device.

20. The method of claim 18, further comprising:

synchronizing the history of records from one or more devices associated with an identity for a user.

21. A machine implemented method comprising:

collecting a history of records, each record associated with a location data indicating where the record was recorded;

clustering the plurality of the records into one or more clusters using the location data, each cluster having a cluster location;

generating human readable default names for the clusters; and

presenting a window on a screen having representations of the clusters with the default names, wherein the window enables editing of the default names for the clusters.

22. The method of claim 21, wherein the generation of the default names comprises:

performing reverse geocoding of the cluster location based on map data, wherein the default names identify neighborhoods of the cluster location in the map data.

23. The method of claim 21, wherein the window includes a map and wherein the representations are located in the map according to cluster locations.

24. A machine-readable storage medium having instructions, when executed by a machine, cause the machine to perform a method for a plurality of messaging services, the method comprising:

storing a history of records for a browsing history, each record including a URL (Universal Resource Locator) and a location indicating where a device was when accessing a web page of the URL; and

presenting URLs from the history of records organized by locations of the records.

25. An apparatus, comprising:

a memory storing executable instructions;

a network interface coupled to a push network;

a processor coupled to the network interface and the memory to execute the executable instructions from the memory for the messaging services, the processor being configured to;

collect a history of records, each record associated with a URL (Universal Resource Locator) and a location data indicating a physical location for retrieving content from the URL;

identify one or more clusters of the records using the location data;

detect a current location of a device capable of accessing the records;

and

present the records organized by the clusters and the current location.