Bookmarks

• US 8,577,868 B1
• Filed: 06/29/2012
• Issued: 11/05/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 01/09/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Google LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Google Inc. (Alphabet Inc.)
• Inventors: Zamir, Oren, Korn, Jeffrey
• Primary Examiner(s): Beausoliel, Jr., Robert
• Assistant Examiner(s): ALLEN, NICHOLAS E
• Application Number:
  US13/538,811
• Time in Patent Office: 494 Days
• Field of Search: 707/710
• US Class Current: 707/710
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9562 Bookmark management

Abstract

A system receives a search query from a user and searches a repository of documents based on the search query to obtain search results. The system provides the search results to the user and automatically bookmarks one or more of the search results without the user explicitly requesting that the one or more search results be bookmarked.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

receiving, by one or more processors associated with a computer device, a search query from a user;

receiving, by the one or more processors and from the user, data specifying a threshold score;

obtaining, by the one or more processors, search results related to the search query,

each of the search results corresponding to a respective document in a corpus of documents;

providing, by the one or more processors, the search results for presentation to the user;

assigning, by the one or more processors, scores to the search results based on the search query;

automatically selecting, by the one or more processors, one or more of the search results based on the scores and the threshold score; and

automatically bookmarking, by the one or more processors, the one or more of the search results.

2. The method of claim 1, where automatically bookmarking the one or more of the search results includes:

storing, in a record associated with the user, information identifying the respective documents corresponding to the one or more of the search results.

3. The method of claim 1, where automatically selecting the one or more of the search results further includes:

including, in the one or more of the search results, one of the search results having a score that is greater than the threshold score.

4. The method of claim 1, where assigning the scores to the search results further includes:

identifying a set of topics associated with the user; and

assigning the scores to the search results further based on the set of topics,

each of the one or more of the search results being associated with one or more topics in the set of topics.

5. The method of claim 4, where identifying the set of topics includes:

determining a search history associated with the user; and

identifying the set of topics based on the search history.

6. The method of claim 4, where identifying the set of topics includes:

determining, for each particular topic in a plurality of topics, a frequency at which the user accesses documents, in the corpus of documents, associated with the particular topic; and

identifying, based on the determined frequencies, the set of topics from the plurality of topics,

each topic in the set of topic having a respective frequency that satisfies a threshold frequency.

7. The method of claim 4, where identifying the set of topics includes:

receiving an input from the user; and

identifying, based on the input, the set of topics from a plurality of topics.

8. The method of claim 1, where assigning the scores to the search results further includes:

obtaining a navigation history associated with the user; and

assigning the scores to the search results further based on the navigation history.

9. The method of claim 8,

where assigning the scores to the search results further includes:

determining, based on the navigation history, respective quantities of times that the respective documents, corresponding to the search results, have been accessed by the user; and

assigning the scores the search results further based on the respective quantity of times.

10. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

publishing, to another computer device that is unassociated with the user, information identifying the respective documents corresponding to the one or more of the search results.

11. The method of claim 1, where assigning the scores to the search results further includes:

identifying respective quantities of times that the user has previously selected the respective documents corresponding to the search results in connection with other search queries; and

assigning the scores to the search results further based on the respective quantities of times.

12. A system, comprising:

a memory configured to store instructions; and

a processor configured to execute one or more of the instructions to;

receive a search query from a user;

obtain search results related to the search query,

each of the search results being associated with a respective document in a group of documents;

determine respective ranks of the search results based on the search query; and

automatically bookmark, based on the respective ranks, a highest ranking one of the search results.

13. The system of claim 12, where the processor is further to:

receive, from the user, data to specify a threshold score,

assigning respective scores to the search results, and

automatically bookmark one or more of the search results,

the one or more of the search results being associated with one or more of the respective scores that satisfy the threshold score.

14. The system of claim 12, where the processor, when determining the respective ranks of the search results, is further configured to execute at least one of the instructions to:

determine a particular topic associated with the user; and

determine the respective ranks of the search results further based on the particular topic.

15. The system of claim 14, where the processor, when determining the particular topic, is further configured to execute at least one of the instructions to:

determine the particular topic based on at least one of;

information received from the user,

other bookmarks associated with the user, or

a frequency at which the user accesses documents associated with the particular topic.

20. The system of claim 12, where the processor is further configured to execute at least one of the instructions to:

receive, from the user, an input associated with a particular search result of the search results; and

associate, based on the input, a label with the particular search result.

16. One or more memory devices that store instructions, the instructions comprising:

one or more instructions which, when executed by one or more processors associated with a computer device, cause the one or more processors to;

maintain a set of bookmarks associated with a user;

receive a search query from the user;

identify search results based on the search query,

the search results being ranked;

identify a highest ranking search result of the search results; and

automatically add a bookmark, associated with the highest ranking search result, to the set of bookmarks to form an updated set of bookmarks.

17. The one or more memory devices of claim 16, the instructions further comprising:

one or more instructions which, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to;

publish, to another computer device that is unassociated with the user, the updated set of bookmarks via a data feed.

18. The one or more memory devices of claim 16, where the one or more instructions, when executed by the one or more processors to identify the highest ranking search result, further cause the one or more processors to:

obtain a particular topic associated with the user; and

identify the highest ranking search result, from the search results, further based on the particular topic.

19. The one or more memory devices of claim 18, where the one or more instructions, when executed by the one or more processors to obtain the particular topic associated with the user, further cause the one or more processors to:

identify the particular topic based on at least one of;

information received from the user,

a current collection of bookmarks associated with the user, or

a frequency at which the user accesses documents associated with the particular topic.