Webpage-flags sensitive toolbar
First Claim
1. A web browser product that is stored in a computer readable medium and executed in a computer device with which said medium is associated, said browser including a communication module that enables said computer to interact via the Internet with remote devices, and a toolbar having a look-and-feel and a set of functionalities, the improvement comprising:
- a first module associated with the toolbar thatprovides a visual indication to a user of said browser when a webpage visited by the browser contains one or more preselected flags; and
enables a user to download parameters relative to a selected one of said one or more visually indicated flags, which parameters enable said toolbar to be morphed into a toolbar with a look-and-feel and functionalities dictated by said parameters.
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Abstract
A browser add-on toolbar that offers users to collect toolbars from visited webpages that offer such toolbars and which, later, the user may select any one of the collected toolbars to become the current toolbar that the browser provides to the user. These abilities are imparted by having the toolbar be sensitive to one or more particular flags in visited pages. When a browser that contains this toolbar visits a website, the browser parses and searches the visited website page for presence of one or more of the particular flags, and when such a flag is found, the user is given a visual indication of the find and is given the choice to include within the browser'"'"'s toolbar the ability to instantiate a toolbar based on information associated with the flag.
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21 Claims
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1. A web browser product that is stored in a computer readable medium and executed in a computer device with which said medium is associated, said browser including a communication module that enables said computer to interact via the Internet with remote devices, and a toolbar having a look-and-feel and a set of functionalities, the improvement comprising:
a first module associated with the toolbar that provides a visual indication to a user of said browser when a webpage visited by the browser contains one or more preselected flags; and enables a user to download parameters relative to a selected one of said one or more visually indicated flags, which parameters enable said toolbar to be morphed into a toolbar with a look-and-feel and functionalities dictated by said parameters. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11)
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12. A method executed by a toolbar installed in a browser product that is resident in computer device that includes a display monitor, comprising the steps of:
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said toolbar becoming aware that said browser received a webpage; parsing the webpage to find therein one or more flags having preselected characteristics; when said one or more flags are found, in response to a first received request presenting to said monitor an information label about each of said one or more flags; and in response to a second received request, downloading and storing in a toolbars database parameters relative to a selected one of said one or more flags, which parameters enable said toolbar to be morphed into a toolbar with a look-and-feel and functionalities dictated by said parameters, which constitutes an instantiation of said toolbar. - View Dependent Claims (13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21)
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