Expandable homepage modules

• US 8,966,407 B2
• Filed: 01/17/2007
• Issued: 02/24/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 01/17/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Google LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Google Inc. (Alphabet Inc.)
• Inventors: Shacham, Yael, Rechis, Leland, Jenson, Scott, Nishar, Dipchand
• Primary Examiner(s): TILLERY, RASHAWN N
• Application Number:
  US11/624,179
• Publication Number:
  US 20080172372A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,960 Days
• Field of Search: 715/864, 715/811
• US Class Current: 715/864
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/958 Organisation or management of web site content, e.g. publishing, maintaining pages or automatic linking

Abstract

A computer-implemented method is disclosed. The method includes receiving a command generated by selection of a control on a web page displayed on a user device, identifying a registered account associated with the user device, and adding display content associated with the control to a personalized page associated with the registered account based on the selection of the control, without requiring the user device to navigate to a configuration screen.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented system for adding web-based content to a web page, comprising:

an interface that is configured to interpret commands from multiple distributed web-page controls that are included in a plurality of web pages by identifying a uniform resource identifier (URI) that is associated with each of the selected web-page controls and that corresponds to display content that is to be delivered to a personalized page that is hosted by a server system for a user account;

a tracking database that stores, for each device identifier of multiple device identifiers, multiple URIs that correspond to display content that is to be delivered to a personalized page;

a personalized web page database that stores, for each of a plurality of user accounts for an information provider, multiple URIs that correspond to display content that is to be delivered to a personalized page; and

a web control processor to;

receive from the interface a particular URI that is related to a web-page control that was selected by a user using a particular device,

store, in the tracking database, the particular URI in association with a particular device identifier that identifies the particular device;

identify that a user has used the particular computing device to log into a particular user account for the information provider,

determine, in response to identifying that a user has used the particular computing device to log into the particular user account, an association between the particular user account and the particular device identifier;

associate the multiple URIs that are stored in the tracking database for the particular device identifier with the particular user account by storing the multiple URIs in the personalized web page database for the particular user account, the association of the multiple URIs with the particular user account being performed in response to determining the association between the particular user account and the particular device identifier; and

add content related to the multiple URIs that are stored in the personalized web page database for the particular user account to a personalized web page that corresponds to the particular user account.

2. The system of claim 1, further comprising a plurality of web-page controls distributed across a plurality of web pages and available for selection by users viewing the web pages so as to add content related to each control to the personal web pages associated with user accounts for each of the users.

3. A computer-implemented system for adding web-based content to a web page, comprising:

an interface configured to interpret commands from a plurality of distributed web-page controls located on a plurality of web pages from different content providers, by identifying web content associated with each of the plurality of controls;

a personalized web page database containing code defining a set of web pages that is unique to each of a plurality of user accounts for an information provider; and

means for identifying that a user account is associated with multiple controls that have been selected by a user of a user device by;

(i) associating multiple uniform resource identifiers (URI) for the multiple controls with the user device before a user has used the user device to log into the user account; and

(ii) associating the multiple URIs with the user account upon a user using the user device to log into the user account.