CONTEXTUAL DATA DISPLAYED VIA BROWSER TOOLBAR
First Claim
Patent Images
1. A method for a search engine service to provide contextual information to a browser toolbar, the method comprising:
- receiving, from the browser toolbar on a user device, an indication of a URL of a webpage currently being viewed by a user of the user device;
determining an entity corresponding with the URL;
gathering relevant data regarding the entity from a search engine index; and
providing the relevant data regarding the entity to the browser toolbar on the user device for presenting at least a portion of the relevant data on the user device via the browser toolbar.
2 Assignments
0 Petitions
Accused Products
Abstract
A browser toolbar displays contextual data from a search engine service for a webpage currently being displayed by a web browser. The browser toolbar identifies the URL of a webpage currently being displayed by a web browser. The browser toolbar provides an indication of the URL to a search engine service, which identifies an entity corresponding with the URL. The search engine service gathers data relevant to the entity and provides the relevant data to the browser toolbar, which displays information to the user to provide the user with contextual information about the entity corresponding with the URL.
-
Citations
20 Claims
-
1. A method for a search engine service to provide contextual information to a browser toolbar, the method comprising:
-
receiving, from the browser toolbar on a user device, an indication of a URL of a webpage currently being viewed by a user of the user device; determining an entity corresponding with the URL; gathering relevant data regarding the entity from a search engine index; and providing the relevant data regarding the entity to the browser toolbar on the user device for presenting at least a portion of the relevant data on the user device via the browser toolbar. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)
-
-
9. One or more computer storage media storing computer-useable instructions that, when used by one or more computing devices, cause the one or more computing devices to perform a method for presenting contextual data using a browser toolbar, the method comprising:
-
identifying a URL of a webpage currently being viewed by a user in a web browser; providing an indication of the URL to a search engine service that identifies an entity corresponding with the URL and retrieves data regarding the entity; receiving the data regarding the entity from the search engine service; providing a contextual display area to display at least a portion of the data regarding the entity to the user, including a plurality of actions that include links to other webpages to perform the actions; receiving a user selection of a first link corresponding with a first action; and continuing to display the contextual display area when the web browser navigates to a webpage corresponding with the first link. - View Dependent Claims (10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16)
-
-
17. One or more computer storage media storing a browser toolbar usable in web browser, the browser toolbar comprising:
-
a session tracking component that identifies URLs of webpages visited by a user during a current browsing session; a search engine interface that communicates to a search engine service an identification of a URL of a webpage currently being displayed in the web browser and session data that identifies URLs of other webpages visited during the current browsing session, the search engine interface also receiving in return from the search engine relevant data regarding an entity corresponding with the webpage currently being displayed in the web browser; a contextual data display component the displays at least a portion of the relevant data. - View Dependent Claims (18, 19, 20)
-
Specification