DECORATING WEBPAGE LINKS WITH A USER-SPECIFIED INDICATOR

• US 20170192985A1
• Filed: 01/04/2016
• Published: 07/06/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 01/04/2016
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Fontes, Stephen M., Neergaard, J. Peter
• Application Number:
  US14/986,805
• Publication Number:
  US 20170192985A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/958 Organisation or management of web site content, e.g. publishing, maintaining pages or automatic linking
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/134 Hyperlinking
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/169 Annotation, e.g. comment data or footnotes

Abstract

A computer implemented method for decorating webpage links is provided. The computer implemented method displays a user-selectable icon via a display interface in response to the displaying of a webpage via the display interface. The computer implemented method prompts a user to specify an indicator indicative of a relevance of the webpage, in response to a user-selection of the user-selectable icon.

Claims

1. A computer implemented method for decorating webpage links, the computer implemented method comprising:

in response to a display of a webpage via a display interface, displaying a user-selectable icon via the display interface; and

in response to a user-selection of the user-selectable icon, prompting a user to specify an indicator indicative of a relevance of the webpage.

2. The computer implemented method of claim 1, further comprising:

storing the indicator.

3. The computer implemented method of claim 2, further comprising:

in response to a display of a link to the webpage via the display interface, displaying the indicator proximate the link.

4. The computer implemented method of claim 3, wherein in response to a user cursor disposed proximate the indicator, displaying a dialog box.

5. The computer implemented method of claim 4, wherein the dialog box includes user input information associated with the webpage.

6. The computer implemented method of claim 3, further comprising in response to a user-selection of the indicator, prompting a user to modify the indicator.

7. A system for decorating webpage links, comprising:

at least one processor programmed to;

output for display a webpage;

output for display a user-selectable icon; and

in response to a first user-selection of the user-selectable icon, output for display indicators available to create a user-defined indicator associated with a link to the webpage specifying a user-determined relevance of the webpage.

8. The system of claim 7, wherein the at least one processor is further programmed to store the user-defined indicator.

9. The system of claim 7, wherein the at least one processor is further programmed to, in response to the first user-selection of the user-selectable icon, output for display a dialog box that receives user input data.

10. The system of claim 9, wherein the at least one processor is further programmed to store the dialog box.

11. The system of claim 10, wherein the at least one processor is further programmed to, in response to a display of a link to the webpage, output for display the user-defined indicator proximate the link to the webpage.

12. The system of claim 11, wherein the at least one processor is further programmed to, in response to a second user-selection of the indicator, output for display the indicators available to modify the user-defined indicator.

13. The system of claim 12, wherein the at least one processor is further programmed to, store a modified indicator.

14. The system of claim 12, wherein the at least one processor is further programmed to, in response to the second user-selection of the indicator, output for display the dialog box to modify the user input data.

15. The system of claim 14, wherein the at least one processor is further programmed to, store a modified dialog box.

16. A computer program product for implementing a method of decorating webpage links, the computer program product comprising a computer readable storage medium having program instructions embodied therewith, the program instructions executable by at least one processor programmed to perform the method including:

displaying a webpage via a display interface;

displaying a user-selectable icon via the display interface; and

in response to a user-selection of the user-selectable icon

prompting a user to specify an indicator indicative of a user-specified relevance of the webpage, and

outputting for display a dialog box that receives user data associated with the webpage.

17. The computer program product of claim 16, further comprising storing the indicator and the dialog box.

18. The computer program product of claim 17, further comprising

in response to displaying a link to the webpage, displaying the indicator proximate the link to the webpage.

19. The computer program product of claim 18, wherein in response to a user cursor disposed proximate the indicator, displaying the dialog box.

20. The computer program product of claim 18, further comprising, in response to a user-selection of the indicator, prompting a user to modify at least one of the indicator and the dialog box.