CAPTURING WEBSITE CONTENT THROUGH CAPTURE SERVICES

• US 20140380142A1
• Filed: 06/20/2013
• Published: 12/25/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 06/20/2013
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Mikutel, Ian William, Morrill, Jason, Lee, Yu Been, Kurtzeborn, Scott, Vega-Gonzalez, Eleazar, Desai, Shikha Devesh, Lu, Yan
• Application Number:
  US13/922,250
• Publication Number:
  US 20140380142A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/234
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/143 Markup, e.g. Standard Generalized Markup Language [SGML] or Document Type Definition [DTD]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/166 Editing, e.g. inserting or deleting
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/451 Execution arrangements for user interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/543 User-generated data transfer, e.g. clipboards, dynamic data exchange [DDE], object linking and embedding [OLE]

Abstract

Website content curation can be performed through a capture service receiving a clipping of a web page rendered in a web browser. A clipping of at least a portion of the web page can be sent to multiple applications. The source of the clip can remain intact and be provided as part of the clipping. When a region of the web page is selected for a clip to one or more of multiple available applications, the clip can include an extended portion outside of a region specifically selected as the clip. A preview experience can be provided in which the clipping can be viewed and edited.

Claims

1. A method of capturing content through a capture service, comprising:

receiving a clip selection of a web page rendered in a browser; and

sending the clip selection to be saved for a selected one or more applications of a plurality of applications available for receipt of the clip selection.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein receiving the clip selection comprises receiving an indication for capturing a page of content,

wherein sending the clip selection to be saved for the selected one or more applications comprises sending an intact source of the page, the method further comprising:

displaying a preview of an extracted selection of the page of content.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising automatically sending one or more additional web pages related to the clip selection.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein receiving the clip selection comprises receiving an indication of a freeform selection of a region of content.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein receiving the clip selection comprises receiving an indication of a rectangular selection of a region of content.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the clip selection comprises markup language corresponding to a selected region and an extended region in addition to the selected region.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising generating a preview of the clip selection by setting a scaling parameter in a markup language of the clip;

and

displaying the preview of the clip selection.

8. The method of claim 1, further comprising receiving an edit of the clip selection after sending the clip selection to be saved for the selected one or more applications;

and

sending an update for the clip selection to be saved for the selected one or more applications, wherein the update comprises the edit of the clip selection.

9. An interface for capturing content from a web page, comprising:

a preview display region configured to display a preview of a clip selection comprising a selected region of a web page by rendering markup language of the selected region and assigning a scaling parameter of the markup language of the selected region for a size of the preview display region; and

a destination input field configured to display multiple available destination applications and receive a selection of one or more of the multiple available destination applications for receipt of a clip selection.

10. The interface of claim 9, further comprising an edit input field for initiating an update to the clip selection.

11. The interface of claim 9, wherein the clip selection further comprises an extended region in addition to the selected region.

12. The interface of claim 9, wherein the selected region is a page of the web page.

13. The interface of claim 9, wherein in response to determining the selection of one or more of the multiple available destination applications, the interface sends the clip selection to be saved for the one or more of the available destination applications.

14. A computer-readable storage medium having instructions stored thereon that cause a processor to perform a method for capturing content of a web page comprising:

capturing a source of a clip selection in response to receiving an indication of a clip selection of a web page rendered in a browser;

sending the clip selection to be saved for a selected one or more applications of a plurality of applications available for receipt of the clip selection; and

displaying a preview of the clip selection.

15. The medium of claim 14, wherein receiving the indication of the clip selection comprises:

receiving a selection of a region of a web page.

16. The medium of claim 15, wherein capturing the source of the clip selection comprises capturing the source of the region and an extended portion in addition to the region.

17. The medium of claim 16 wherein displaying the clip selection comprises displaying the region while the extended portion is hidden.

18. The medium of claim 14, wherein the source comprises at least one hypertext markup language (HTML) tag.

19. The medium of claim 14, wherein displaying the clip selection comprises rendering markup language of the clip selection and assigning a scaling parameter of the markup language of the selected region for a size of a preview display region.

20. The medium of claim 14, wherein sending the clip selection to be saved for the selected one or more applications comprises sending an intact source of a page.