Toolbar document content sharing

• US 8,732,614 B2
• Filed: 12/30/2005
• Issued: 05/20/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 12/30/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Google LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Google Inc. (Alphabet Inc.)
• Inventors: Blain, Matthew, Mendes da Costa, Alex, Tang, Na
• Primary Examiner(s): Sax, Steven
• Assistant Examiner(s): Kumar, Anil N
• Application Number:
  US11/321,077
• Publication Number:
  US 20070157104A1
• Time in Patent Office: 3,063 Days
• Field of Search: 715/835
• US Class Current: 715/835
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence

Abstract

A system may provide a toolbar in a browser at a client, where the toolbar permits user selection from multiple different services for sharing document content. The system may receive a selection of a first one of the multiple different services from a user via the toolbar and may receive a selection of content of a first document browsed by the user. The system may post the selected content in a second document associated with the first one of the multiple different services.

Claims

1. A computer, comprising:

a memory comprising instructions; and

a processor to execute the instructions to;

implement;

a first graphical area on a toolbar of a first web browser window,

a second graphical area, of the first web browser window, from which a first user selects web-based content of a web document,

the web-based content being less than an entirety of the web document,

a third graphical area activated by selection of the first graphical area,

where the third graphical area lists information identifying an email service, information identifying a blog service, information identifying a short message service (SMS), and information identifying an instant messaging service that are selectable by the first user for sharing the selected web-based content of the web document with a second user, and

a fourth graphical area, in a second web browser window, in which the selected web-based content is to be included prior to the selected web-based content being shared with the second user via one of the email service, the blog service, the SMS, or the instant messaging service,

the fourth graphical area being created based on one of the information identifying the email service, the information identifying the blog service, the information identifying the SMS, or the information identifying the instant messaging service being selected;

receive selection of the web-based content of the web document from the second graphical area of the first web browser window; and

receive a selection of the one of the information identifying the email service, the information identifying the blog service, the information identifying the SMS, or the information identifying the instant messaging service,

where selection of the information identifying the email service from the third graphical area causes an email, in the fourth graphical area, to be automatically populated with the selected web-based content,

the email being associated with the email service,

where selection of the information identifying the blog service from the third graphical area causes a blog, in the fourth graphical area, to be automatically populated with the selected web-based content,

the blog being associated with the blog service,

where selection of the information identifying the SMS from the third graphical area causes a SMS message, in the fourth graphical area, to be automatically populated with the selected web-based content,

the SMS message being associated with the SMS, and

where selection of the information identifying the instant messaging service from the third graphical area causes an instant message, in the fourth graphical area, to be automatically populated with the selected web-based content,

the instant message being associated with the instant messaging service.

2. The computer of claim 1, where the first graphical area comprises a button on the toolbar.

3. The computer of claim 2, where the third graphical area comprises a drop-down menu that is displayed in the first web browser window upon user selection of the first graphical area, and

where the information identifying the email service, the information identifying the blog service, the information identifying the SMS, and the information identifying the instant messaging service are displayed in the drop-down menu.

6. The computer of claim 1, where the second graphical area comprises a browser.

4. A system comprising:

one or more devices to;

provide a first web browser window via a display associated with the one or more devices;

receive a selection of web-based content from within a web document,

where the selected web-based content is less than an entirety of the web document,

the web document being included in the first web browser window;

provide a menu, on the display, to a user,

the menu being included in the first web browser window,

the menu listing information for sharing the selected web-based content with another user via a network,

the information including information identifying an email service, information identifying a short message service (SMS), information identifying an instant message service, and information identifying a blog service;

receive a selection of one of the information identifying the email service, the information identifying the SMS, the information identifying the instant message service, or the information identifying the blog service;

automatically create a second web browser window based on receiving the selection of the one of the information identifying the email service, the information identifying the SMS, the information identifying the instant message service, or the information identifying the blog service,

the second web browser window including one of;

an email when the information identifying the email service is selected,

a SMS message when the information identifying the SMS is selected,

an instant message when the information identifying the instant message service is selected, or

a blog when the information identifying the blog service is selected; and

selectively automatically populate;

the email with the selected web-based content when the information identifying the email service is selected,

the SMS message with the selected web-based content when the information identifying the SMS service is selected,

the instant message with the selected web-based content when the information identifying the instant message service is selected, or

the blog with the selected web-based content when the information identifying the blog service is selected.

9. The system of claim 4, where, when providing the menu, the one or more devices are to provide the menu in a toolbar of a browser.

10. The system of claim 4, where the web document is browsed by the user, and

where the web-based content includes one or more selected portions of the web document browsed by the user.

13. The system of claim 4, where the menu includes a drop-down menu.

5. A computer-readable memory device that stores instructions, the instructions comprising:

one or more instructions which, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to provide a toolbar in a client web browser,

where the toolbar permits user selection from a list of information identifying multiple different services for sharing web document content over a network,

the multiple different services including a blog service, an email service, a short message service (SMS), and an instant messaging service;

one or more instructions which, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to receive a selection of information identifying one of the multiple different services, from a user via the toolbar, as a selected one of the multiple different services;

one or more instructions which, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to receive a selection of web-based content of a first web document, in a first web browser window of the client web browser, browsed by the user,

where the selected web-based content comprises less than an entirety of the first web document;

one or more instructions which, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to automatically create, based on the selected one of the multiple different services, a second web browser window of the client web browser,

the second web browser window being associated with the selected one of the multiple different services; and

one or more instructions which, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to automatically populate, based on creating the second web browser window, a second web document, associated with the second web browser window, with the selected web-based content for sharing the selected web-based content over the network,

the one or more instructions to automatically populate the second web document include;

one or more instructions to automatically populate a blog document, associated with the blog service, with the selected web-based content when the selected one of the multiple different services is the blog service,

one or more instructions to automatically populate an email document, associated with the email service, with the selected web-based content when the selected one of the multiple different services is the email service,

one or more instructions to automatically populate a SMS document, associated with the SMS service, with the selected web-based content when the selected one of the multiple different services is the SMS service, and

one or more instructions to automatically populate an instant message, associated with the instant messaging service, with the selected web-based content when the one of the multiple different services is the instant messaging service.

11. The computer-readable memory device of claim 5, where the web-based content includes one or more selected portions of the first web document browsed by the user.

12. The computer-readable memory device of claim 5, where the list of information identifying the multiple different services is provided via in a drop-down menu of the toolbar.

7. A method comprising:

retrieving, by one or more processors, a web document using a web browser;

presenting, by the one or more processors, the web document in a first web browser window associated with the web browser;

providing, by the one or more processors and via the first web browser window, a menu listing of services that lists information identifying a plurality of services for sending content to an intended destination over a network,

the information identifying the plurality of services including;

information identifying a blog service,

information identifying an email service,

information identifying a short message service (SMS), and

information identifying an instant messaging (IM) service;

receiving, by the one or more processors and as a selected service, a selection of one of the information identifying the blog service, the information identifying the email service, the information identifying the SMS, or the information identifying the IM service from the menu listing of services;

automatically creating, by the one or more processors, a second web browser window, based on receiving the selection of the one of the information identifying the blog service, the information identifying the email service, the information identifying the SMS, or the information identifying the IM service,

the second web browser window including;

a blog service document associated with the blog service when the information identifying the blog service is selected,

an email service document associated with the email service when the information identifying the email service is selected,

a SMS document associated with the SMS when the information identifying the SMS is selected, or

an IM document associated with the IM service when the information identifying the IM service is selected;

receiving, by the one or more processors, selection of web-based content from the web document,

where the selected web-based content is less than an entirety of the web document;

automatically posting, by the one or more processors and based on automatically creating the second web browser window, the selected web-based content, from the web document, in;

the blog service document when the information identifying the blog service is selected,

the email service document when the information identifying the email service is selected,

the SMS document when the information identifying the SMS is selected, or

the IM document when the information identifying the IM service is selected; and

causing, by the one or more processors, the selected service to provide the selected web-based content to the intended destination over the network.

8. The method of claim 7, where providing the menu listing comprises:

providing a drop-down window that lists the information identifying the blog service, the information identifying the email service, the information identifying the SMS, and the information identifying the IM service.

14. The method of claim 7, where providing the menu listing of services comprises:

providing the menu listing of services in a toolbar of the web browser.

15. A method comprising:

implementing by one or more processors;

a first graphical area on a toolbar of a first web browser window,

a second graphical area of the first web browser window from which a first user selects web-based content of a web document,

the web-based content being less than an entirety of the web document,

a third graphical area activated by selection of the first graphical area,

where the third graphical area lists information identifying an email service, information identifying a blog service, information identifying a short message service (SMS), and information identifying an instant messaging service that are selectable by the first user for sharing the selected web-based content of the web document with a second user; and

a fourth graphical area, in a second web browser window, in which the selected web-based content is to be included prior to the selected web-based content being shared with the second user via one of the email service, the blog service, the SMS, or the instant messaging service,

the fourth graphical area being created based on one of the information identifying the email service, the information identifying the blog service, the information identifying the SMS, or the information identifying the instant messaging service being selected;

receiving, by the one or more processors, selection of the web-based content of the web document from the second graphical area of the first web browser window; and

receiving, by the one or more processors, a selection of the one of the information identifying the email service, the information identifying the blog service, the information identifying the SMS, or the information identifying the instant messaging service,

where selection of the information identifying the email service from the third graphical area causes an email, in the fourth graphical area, to be automatically populated with the selected web-based content,

the email being associated with the email service,

where selection of the information identifying the blog service from the third graphical area causes a blog, in the fourth graphical area, to be automatically populated with the selected web-based content,

the blog being associated with the blog service,

where selection of the information identifying the SMS from the third graphical area causes a SMS message, in the fourth graphical area, to be automatically populated with the selected web-based content,

the SMS message being associated with the SMS, and

where selection of the information identifying the instant messaging service from the third graphical area causes an instant message, in the fourth graphical area, to be automatically populated with the selected web-based content,

the instant message being associated with the instant messaging service.

16. The method of claim 15, where the first graphical area comprises a button on the toolbar.

17. The method of claim 15, where the third graphical area comprises a drop-down menu that is displayed in the first web browser window based on user selection of the first graphical area, and

where the information identifying the email service, the information identifying the blog service, the information identifying the SMS, and the information identifying the instant messaging service are displayed in the drop-down menu.