Methods and systems for automatically creating a site menu

• US 7,971,147 B2
• Filed: 07/21/2006
• Issued: 06/28/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 07/25/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Paymentus Corp.
• Original Assignee: Billeo
• Inventors: Subbarao, Murali, Lobo, Allwyn, Chittoor, Shankar, Lalwani, Rajesh
• Primary Examiner(s): HAILU, TADESSE
• Application Number:
  US11/491,419
• Publication Number:
  US 20070022419A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,803 Days
• Field of Search: 715/204, 715/206, 715/207, 715/243, 715/253, 715760-765, 709/217, 709/218, 717/108
• US Class Current: 715/762
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/958 Organisation or management of web site content, e.g. publishing, maintaining pages or automatic linking

Abstract

A method, system and computer program product for organizing and presenting web page information to a user. A browser plug-in extracts a domain name for the web page. Subsequently, a web page category is determined based on the menu table stored in the central repository. The browser plug-in captures the web links included in the web page based on the category of the web page. The captured web links are presented to a user on the browser plug-in.

Claims

1. A method for organizing and presenting information to a user in a browser plug-in for navigating to web pages within a web site, the method comprising the steps of:

a. downloading a web page in a web browser, the web page being downloaded by the user;

b. determining a category for the web page;

c. obtaining a menu template for the web page from a central repository, based on the category of the web page, wherein the menu template is obtained by the steps of;

(i) creating the menu template in the central repository for each category for navigating web sites;

(ii) specifying labels and images as menu items for one or more categories;

(iii) organizing the menu template to have standard menu items for a category, and specific menu items for a web site;

(iv) specifying a rank order for presenting the menu items;

(v) editing the menu items for a graphical user interface, wherein the standard menu items for a web site are edited by an editor and the specific menu items for a web site are edited by a merchant after proper authentication;

(vi) pre-assigning web links to the standard menu items;

(vii) marking web links that are broken; and

(viii) marking web links for allowing overriding of automatic assignment of information from the downloaded web page;

d. capturing web links included in the web page based on the category of the web page;

e. mapping the web links for the web page to the menu template; and

f. presenting the web links to the user, wherein the web links are presented on the browser plug-in of the user.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the step of downloading the web page in the web browser comprises the step of downloading the web page in the web browser, the web page being downloaded from a list of web pages provided by the browser plug-in.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the step of downloading the web page in the web browser comprises the step of downloading the web page in the web browser by inputting a Universal Resource Locator (URL) in the web browser.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the step of downloading the web page in the web browser comprises the step of initiating the browser plug-in in the web browser.

5. The method of claim 1 further comprising the step of checking tags in the web page, the tags providing the details regarding the web links present within the web page.

6. The method of claim 1 further comprising the step of reading a program code of the web page for searching the keywords in the web page.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the step of presenting the web links comprises the steps of:

a. showing a predefined order of menu items stored in the central repository;

b. showing menu items based on ranking of web pages accessed by a user or community of users; and

c. allowing user to add items to the menu items.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the step of capturing the web links included in the web page comprises the steps of:

a. encrypting the web links obtained from the web page; and

b. saving the encrypted web links on a computer of the user.

9. The method of claim 8, further including the step of deleting the saved web links when the user logs out of the web page.

10. The method of claim 8, further including the step of deleting the saved web links when the user closes the web page.

11. The method of claim 1 further comprising the steps of:

a. determining the ranking of the webpage, the ranking of the webpage being based on the web page usage; and

b. determining broken web links in the web page, the broken web links determination for the webpage is based on the usage of the web page.

12. A computer program product for use with a stored program computer for organizing and presenting information to a user, the information being related to a web page, the computer program product comprising a computer readable medium comprising:

a. one or more instructions for downloading the web page in a web browser, the web page being downloaded by the user;

b. one or more instructions for determining a category for the web page;

c. one or more instructions for obtaining a menu template for the web page from a central repository, based on the category of the web page, wherein the one or more instructions for obtaining the menu template comprises;

(i) one or more instructions for creating a menu template in a central repository for each category or navigating web sites;

(ii) one or more instructions for specifying labels and/or images as menu items for one or more categories;

(iii) one or more instructions for organizing the menu template to have standard items for a category, and specific items for a web site;

(iv) one or more instructions for specifying a rank order for presenting menu items;

(v) one or more instructions for editing menu items for a graphical user interface, wherein the standard items for a web site can be edited by an editor and specific items for a web site can be edited by a merchant after proper authentication;

(vi) one or more instructions for pre-assigning web links to standard menu items;

(vii) one or more instructions for marking for web links that are broken; and

(viii) one or more instructions for marking web links with information to allow override of automatic assignment of information from the downloaded web page;

d. one or more instructions for capturing web links included in the web page based on the category of the web page;

e. one or more instructions for mapping the web links for the web page to the menu template; and

f. one or more instructions for presenting the web links to the user, wherein the web links are presented on a browser plug-in.

13. The computer program product of claim 12 further comprising:

a. one or more instructions for determining ranking of the webpage, the ranking of the webpage being based on the web page usage; and

b. one or more instructions for determining broken links in the web page, the broken links determination for the webpage is based on the web page usage.

14. The computer program product of claim 12, wherein the instructions for presenting the web links comprises:

a. one or more instructions for showing a predefined order of menu items stored in the central repository;

b. one or more instructions for showing menu items based on ranking of web pages accessed by a user or community of users; and

c. one or more instructions for allowing user to add items to the menu items.

15. The computer program product of claim 12, wherein the instructions for capturing the web links included in the web page comprises:

a. one or more instructions for encrypting the web links obtained from the web page; and

b. one or more instructions for saving the encrypted web links on a computer of a user.