System, method and apparatus for selecting content from web sources and posting content to web logs

• US 8,595,635 B2
• Filed: 01/25/2008
• Issued: 11/26/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 01/25/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Salesforce.com, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Salesforce.com, Inc.
• Inventors: Krzanowski, Derek, Weitner, Eric
• Primary Examiner(s): HO, RUAY L
• Application Number:
  US12/020,170
• Publication Number:
  US 20080184138A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,132 Days
• Field of Search: 715200-277, 715700-867, 715/531, 700701-866, 709201-229, 705 50- 79, 705/27, 705/201, 345 30-111, 386 46-131, 707 1- 10, 707100-1041, 707200-206, 707/805, 726/2, 726/28, 713/2, 439/152
• US Class Current: 715/760
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/954 Navigation, e.g. using categorised browsing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9562 Bookmark management
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/33 using certificates
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/08 for authentication of entities cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for entity authentication H04L9/32

Abstract

A method, system and apparatus for selecting, displaying, managing, tracking tagging and transferring access to specific content of Internet web pages and other sources, permitting the user or recipient to navigate quickly to a source of a content item in the custom selection, and posting content to web logs. A method and system of assisted content selection provides temporary borders around content items on mouseover; of Dynamic Content Display provides updating of selected content items; of Content Marks allows users to tag specific content items in web pages with a keyword or keywords, store a definition of the content item along with the keyword(s), and then search the stored definitions using search keywords; and a method of Multiple Clip Mode allows users to select specific content items from disparate source web pages and then tag, save, search, retrieve and print the selection.

Claims

1. A system for selecting content items from a source web page and posting content items to web logs, comprising:

a user computing device having a display, a network browser application and a user pointing device;

said browser application being operable to load and display a source web page;

said source web page having a plurality of displayed content items;

said browser application being operable to receive a selection of one or more selected content items from among said plurality of displayed content items of said source web page, said one or more selected content items being selectable exclusive of non-selected ones of said plurality of displayed content items of said source web page in response to input from a user through said user pointing device;

said system being operable to receive access credentials for a web log of said user;

said system being operable to access said web log of said user at a network location, and to communicate with said web log using said access credentials;

said system being operable to receive, from one or more blog servers, web log publication information associated with said web log, said web log publication information including a web log ID and a corresponding uniform resource locator (URL);

said system being operable to compare the URL of said web log publication information with a URL of said access credentials;

said system being operable to determine that the URL of said web log publication information matches the URL of said access credentials; and

said system being operable to transmit said web log ID and a post including a definition of said one or more selected content items to said web log in a format suitable for receipt and posting of said one or more selected content items on said web log.

2. A system for selecting content items from a source web page and posting content items to web logs as in claim 1, wherein:

said system is operable to access said web log of said user and to transmit said definition of said one or more selected content items to said web log without displacing the display of said source web page on said user computing device.

3. A system for selecting content items from a source web page and posting content items to web logs as in claim 1, wherein;

said system is operable to receive access credentials and network locations for a plurality of web logs of said user, and to communicate with said plurality of web logs; and

said system is operable to broadcast said definition of said one or more selected content items to said plurality of web logs.

4. A system for selecting content items from a source web page and posting content items to web logs as in claim 1, wherein:

said browser application displays a preview window prior to transmitting said definition of said one or more selected content items to said web log;

said preview window displaying said one or more selected content items in a manner in which said one or more selected content items will be presented in said web log.

5. A system for selecting content items from a source web page and posting content items to web logs as in claim 4, wherein:

said preview window allows said user to remove a content item from said one or more selected content items.

6. A system for selecting content items from a source web page and posting content items to web logs as in claim 1, wherein:

said system is operable receive access credentials and network locations for a plurality of web logs of said user, and to communicate with said plurality of web logs; and

said system is operable to broadcast said definition of said one or more selected content items to said plurality of web logs;

said browser application displays a preview window prior to transmitting said definition of said one or more selected content items to said plurality of web logs;

said preview window displaying said one or more selected content items in a manner in which said one or more selected content items will be presented in at least one of said web logs; and

said preview window allows said user to choose one or more target web logs from among said plurality of web logs to which said definition of said one or more selected content items is to be broadcast.

7. A system for selecting content items from a source web page and posting content items to web logs as in claim 1, wherein:

said definition transmitted to said web log includes a source page hypertext link leading to said source web page.

8. The system of claim 1 wherein the access credentials are received by the user computing device and used to access the web log by the user computing device.

9. A method in a user computing device for selecting content items from a source web page and posting content items to web logs, comprising:

loading, by the user computing device, a source web page;

displaying, by the user computing device, the loaded source web page to provide a plurality of displayed content items;

receiving, via a user pointing device of the user computing device, input selecting one or more selected content items from among the plurality of displayed content items, the selected content items being selectable exclusive of non-selected content items among the plurality of display content items;

receiving access credentials for a web log;

accessing the web log at a network location by communicating the received access credentials to the web log;

receiving, from one or more blog servers, web log publication information associated with the web log, the web log publication information including a web log ID and a corresponding URL;

comparing the URL of the web log publication information with a URL of the access credentials;

determining that the URL of the web log publication information matches the URL of the access credentials; and

transmitting, by the user computing device, the web log ID and a post including a definition of the selected content items to the web log in a format suitable for receipt and posting of the selected content items on the web log.

10. The method of claim 9 wherein the transmitted definition includes a source page hypertext link leading to the source web page.

11. The method of claim 9, further comprising:

receiving access credentials and network locations for a plurality of web logs; and

broadcasting the definition of the selected content items to the plurality of web logs.

12. The method of claim 9, further comprising:

receiving access credentials and network locations for a plurality of web logs;

receiving user input selecting at least one of the plurality of web logs; and

broadcasting the definition of the selected content items to the selected web logs.

13. The method of claim 9, further comprising:

displaying a preview window prior to transmitting the definition of the selected content items to the web log; and

displaying in the preview window the one or more selected content items in a manner in which the selected content items will be presented in the web log.

14. The method of claim 9, further comprising:

receiving user input identifying content item to remove from the selected content items; and

in response to receiving user input identifying content item to remove from among the selected content item, removing the identified content item from the selected content items.

15. A non-transitory computer-readable medium having contents adapted to cause a computing system to perform a method for selecting content items from a source web page and posting content items to a web log, the method comprising:

loading a source web page;

displaying the loaded source web page to provide a plurality of displayed content items;

receiving via a user pointing device of the computing system input selecting one or more selected content items from among the plurality of displayed content items, the selected content items being selectable exclusive of non-selected content items among the plurality of display content items;

receiving access credentials for a web log;

accessing the web log at a network location by communicating the received access credentials to the web log;

receiving, from one or more blog servers, web log publication information associated with the web log, the web log publication information including a web log ID and a corresponding URL;

comparing the URL of the web log publication information with a URL of the access credentials;

determining that the URL of the web log publication information matches the URL of the access credentials; and

transmitting the web log ID and a post including a definition of the selected content items to the web log in a format suitable for receipt and posting of the selected content items on the web log.

16. The computer-readable medium of claim 15 wherein the transmitted definition includes a source page hypertext link leading to the source web page.

17. The computer-readable medium of claim 15, further comprising:

receiving access credentials and network locations for a plurality of web logs; and

broadcasting the definition of the selected content items to the plurality of web logs.

18. The computer-readable medium of claim 15, further comprising:

receiving access credentials and network locations for a plurality of web logs;

receiving user input selecting at least one of the plurality of web logs; and

broadcasting the definition of the selected content items to the selected web togs.

19. The computer-readable medium of claim 15, further comprising:

displaying a preview window prior to transmitting the definition of the selected content items to the web log; and

displaying in the preview window the one or more selected content items in a manner in which the selected content items will be presented in the web log.

20. The computer-readable medium of claim 15, further comprising:

receiving user input identifying content item to remove from the selected content items; and

in response to receiving user input identifying content item to remove from among the selected content item, removing the identified content item from the selected content items.

21. A method in a user computing device for selecting content items from a source web page and posting content items to web logs, comprising:

loading, by the user computing device, a source web page;

displaying, by the user computing device, the loaded source web page to provide a plurality of displayed content items;

receiving via a user pointing device of the user computing device input selecting one or more selected content items from among the plurality of displayed content items, the selected content items being selectable exclusive of non-selected content items among the plurality of display content items;

receiving access credentials for one or more webs logs at one or more blog servers, the access credentials including a blog name, a user name and password, and a URL;

accessing the one or more web logs using the access credentials;

receiving, from the one or more blog servers, web log publication information associated with the one or more web logs, the web log publication information including a web log ID and a corresponding URL;

comparing the URL of the web log publication information with the URL of the access credentials ;

determining that the URL of the web log publication information matches the URL of the access credentials ; and

transmitting, by the user computing device, the web log ID and a post including a definition of the selected content items in a format suitable for receipt and posting of the selected content items on the web log.

22. A non-transitory computer-readable medium having contents adapted to cause a computing system to perform a method for selecting content items from a source web page and posting content items to a web log, the method comprising:

loading a source web page;

displaying the loaded source web page to provide a plurality of displayed content items;

receiving via a user pointing device of the computing system input selecting one or more selected content items from among the plurality of displayed content items, the selected content items being selectable exclusive of non-selected content items among the plurality of display content items;

receiving access credentials for one or more webs logs at one or more blog servers, the access credentials including a blog name, a user name and password , and a URL;

accessing the one or more web logs using the access credentials;

receiving, from the one or more blog servers, web log publication information associated with the one or more web logs, the web log publication information including a web log ID and a corresponding URL;

comparing the URL, of the web log publication information with the URL of the access credentials;

determining that the URL of the web log publication information matches the URL of the access credentials; and

transmitting the web to the web ID and a post including a definition of the selected content items in a format suitable for receipt and posting of the selected content items on the web log.

23. A user computing device for selecting content items from a source web page and posting content items to web logs, comprising:

means for leading a source web page;

means for displaying the loaded source web page to provide a plurality of displayed content items;

means for receiving via a user pointing device of the user computing device input selecting one or more selected content items from among the plurality of displayed content items, the selected content items being selectable exclusive of non-selected content items among the plurality of display content items;

means for receiving access credentials for one or more webs logs at one or more blog servers, the access credentials including a blog name, a user name and password , and a URL;

means for accessing the one or more web logs using the access credentials;

means for receiving, from the one or more blog servers, web log publication information associated with the one or more web logs, the web log publication information including a web log ID and a corresponding URL;

means for comparing the URL of the web log publication information with the URL of the access credentials;

means for determining that the URL of the web log publication information matches the URL of the access credentials; and

means for transmitting the web log ID and a post including a definition of the selected content items to the web log in a format suitable for receipt and posting of the selected content items on the web log.

24. A system for providing bi-directional communication with one or more blog servers, the system comprising:

one or more processors operable to execute one or more instructions to;

receive a selection of one or more content items from a plurality of content items displayed on a source web page;

receive access credentials for one or more webs logs at the one or more blog servers, the access credentials including a blog name, a user name and password, and a URL;

access the one or more web logs using the access credentials;

receive, from the one or more blog servers, web log publication information associated with the one or more web logs, the web log publication information including log ID and a corresponding URL;

compare the URL of the web log publication information with the URL of the access credentials;

determine that the URL of the web log publication information matches the URL of the access credentials;

select, in response to determining the match, the web log ID of the web log publication information;

generate a post including a definition of the one or more selected content items and the selected web log ID; and

send the post to the one or more blog servers.

25. The system of claim 24, wherein the definition of the one or more selected content items is a Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) description.

26. The system of claim 25, wherein the HTML description includes one or more of:

a blog post title, an HTML layout tag, styling information, and formatting information of the one or more selected content items.

27. The system of claim 24, wherein the one or more web logs at the one or more blog servers are accessed using an application programming interface (API).