Systems and methods for modifying the order of links presented in a document

• US 8,522,128 B1
• Filed: 09/30/2011
• Issued: 08/27/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 12/15/1999
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Google LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Google Inc. (Alphabet Inc.)
• Inventors: Silverstein, Craig, Page, Lawrence E, Dean, Jeffrey A
• Primary Examiner(s): Hutton, Jr., Doug
• Assistant Examiner(s): Mercado, Ariel
• Application Number:
  US13/250,978
• Time in Patent Office: 697 Days
• Field of Search: 715/206, 715/207
• US Class Current: 715/206
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/954 Navigation, e.g. using categorised browsing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/957 Browsing optimisation, e.g. caching or content distillation

Abstract

A system modifies documents to aid users in determining which of the entries in the documents to choose. The system identifies a document that includes one or more entries. The system determines a score for each of the entries and modifies the identified document, or entries in the identified document, based on the determined scores. The system then provides the modified document to a user.

Claims

1. A system comprising:

one or more servers to;

obtain, from a client device, an address of a corresponding document that is stored on a device in a network, the corresponding document including links to respective other documents;

determine a score for each of the links in the corresponding document;

modify, based on the determined scores, the corresponding document;

where, when modifying the corresponding document, at least one of the one or more servers is to perform the following functions in the corresponding document;

reorder two or more of the links based on the respective determined scores,

delete one or more of the links having a determined score that is below a predetermined threshold, and

for the links having determined scores above the predetermined threshold, include one or more additional links to respective one or more additional documents that relate to a respective one of links other documents; and

provide the modified document for display at the client device.

2. The system of claim 1, where, when modifying the obtained document, at least one of the one or more servers is further to:

visually distinguish at least one of the links.

3. The system of claim 1, where at least one of the one or more servers is further to:

receive a selection of the one or more additional links, and

provide the respective other document based on receiving the selection.

4. A system comprising:

one or more servers to;

obtain, from a client device, an address of a corresponding document that is stored on a device in a network, the corresponding document including links to respective linked documents;

determine scores for two or more of the links in the corresponding document;

reorder the two or more of the links in the corresponding document based on the determined scores;

in the corresponding document, delete one or more of the links having a determined score that is below a predetermined threshold; and

for the links having determined scores above the predetermined threshold, include one or more additional links to respective one or more additional documents that relate to a respective one of the linked documents; and

provide the corresponding document to the client device.

5. The system of claim 4, where at least one of the one or more servers is further to:

visually distinguish at least one of the two or more of the links.

6. A device comprising:

a non-transitory computer-readable memory device to store instructions; and

one or more processors to execute the instructions to;

obtain, from a client device, an address of a corresponding document that is stored on a server in a network, the corresponding document including links to respective linked documents, the links arranged in a first order within the corresponding document;

determine scores for each of the links in the corresponding document;

arrange the links in a second order based on the determined scores, the second order being different from the first order;

in the corresponding document, delete one or more of the links having a determined score that is below a predetermined threshold;

for the links having determined scores above the predetermined threshold, include one or more additional links to respective one or more additional documents that relate to a respective one of the linked documents; and

present the corresponding document to a user via the client device.