System for displaying and managing information on webpage using indicator

• US 9,177,055 B2
• Filed: 10/12/2007
• Issued: 11/03/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 10/19/2006
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Isforu Co., Ltd
• Original Assignee: Isforu Co., Ltd
• Inventors: Choi, Moon-Sung, Han, Man-Jin, Kim, Tae-Kyun
• Primary Examiner(s): Weiss, John G
• Assistant Examiner(s): CAO, VINCENT M
• Application Number:
  US12/446,215
• Publication Number:
  US 20100211461A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,944 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/951 Indexing; Web crawling techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/103 Formatting, i.e. changing of presentation of documents automatic justification G06F40/189; automatic line break hyphenation G06F40/191
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/169 Annotation, e.g. comment data or footnotes
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0254 based on statistics
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0277 Online advertisement

Abstract

A system for displaying and managing information on a webpage using an indicator comprises an indicator displayed on a surface of specific contents of the webpage with reference to coordinate values corresponding to the specific contents and for classifying and elaborating on the specific contents; an indicator generation module for generating the indicator comprising a block setting portion for predicting a width of the specific contents, a coordinate setting portion for grasping the coordinate value of a webpage area corresponding to the specific contents, an input portion for inputting information to be recorded in the indicator, a storage portion for storing the coordinate value and an output portion for outputting the indicator to the specific contents based on the information stored in the storage portion; and an indicator database stored in the system server through the storage portion and collected according to a specific classification.

Claims

1. A system for displaying and managing information on a webpage using an indicator, comprising:

a client server comprising one or more processors and memory, the memory comprising;

an indicator configured for display over specific contents of the webpage with reference to coordinate values corresponding to the specific contents of the webpage for classifying and elaborating on the specific contents, wherein a plurality of indicators associated with same specific content of the web page can be associated with different classifications of the same specific content; and

an indicator generation module for generating the indicator, including a block setting portion for predicting a width of the specific contents of the webpage;

a coordinate setting portion for grasping the coordinate value of a webpage area corresponding to the width of the specific contents;

an input portion for inputting information to be recorded in the indicator, wherein the information to be recorded in the indicator is provided by a user and is different from the specific contents of the web page;

an output portion for outputting the indicator to the specific contents of the webpage based on coordinate value information stored in the storage portion; and

a multi-level generation module for controlling overlapping of the indicator and displaying the number of overlapped indicators on the top layer of the indicator;

a piling number management module for changing a color of the indicators each time the indicators associated with the same specific content of the web page are piled by a predetermined piled number by means of the multi-level generation module;

a generation time management module for allowing the plurality of indicators associated with the same specific content of the webpage to become dim when the piled number is not changed after lapsing of a predetermined time, indicating that the same specific content did not draw attention from users of the system; and

a system server comprising one or more processors and memory, the memory comprising;

a storage portion for storing the coordinate value; and

an indicator database stored in the system server through the storage portion and collected according to specific classifications of indicators, wherein the indicator includes an item selected from the group consisting of;

a user-drafted memo related to the webpage;

an advertisement related to the webpage;

a classifier for illustrating a title on the specific contents of the webpage;

a keyword indicator for illustrating a path or a keyword for finding the webpage;

an information indicator for recording actual contents and displaying an evaluation memo, an elaborate comment, and information of the webpage;

a category indicator for setting up categories of the specific contents of the webpage; and

a file attaching means for transmitting an attached file to the system server and calling it.

2. The system of claim 1, further comprising:

an information share module for enabling communication between one or more client servers and the system server so as to share the indicator database with other users connected to the system server.

3. The system of claim 1, further comprising:

a priority order selection module for providing the indicators piled by the multi-level generation module to a specific user according to a selected piling order based on the specific user'"'"'s taste.

4. The system of claim 1, further comprising:

an advertisement display module having a search engine for searching a word related to the classifier of the indicator;

an advertisement database for recording advertisement information related to results from the search engine; and

a display portion for displaying the advertisement information into the indicator.

5. A computer-implemented method for displaying and managing information on a webpage, comprising:

at a client server having one or more processors and memory storing one or more programs for execution by the one or more processors, the client server executing the steps of;

displaying an indicator over specific contents of the webpage with reference to coordinate values corresponding to the specific contents of the webpage for classifying and elaborating on the specific contents, wherein a plurality of indicators associated with same specific content of the web page can be associated with different classifications of the same specific content;

generating the indicator, including predicting a width of the specific contents of the webpage;

grasping the coordinate value of a webpage area corresponding to the width of the specific contents;

inputting information to be recorded in the indicator, wherein the information to be recorded in the indicator is provided by a user and is different from the specific contents of the web page;

storing the coordinate value;

outputting the indicator to the specific contents of the webpage based on stored coordinate value information;

controlling overlapping of the indicator and displaying the number of overlapped indicators on the top layer of the indicator;

changing a color of the indicators each time the indicators are piled by a predetermined piled number associated with the same specific content of the web page by means of the multi-level generation module;

allowing the pluralityindicators associated with the same specific content of the webpage to become dim, when the piled number is not changed after lapsing of a predetermined time, indicating that the same specific content did not draw attention from users of the system; and

collecting indicators in an indicator database according to specific classifications for storage in a system server, wherein the indicator includes an item selected from the group consisting of;

a user-drafted memo related to the webpage;

an advertisement related to the webpage;

a classifier for illustrating a title on the specific contents of the webpage;

a keyword indicator for illustrating a path or a keyword for finding the webpage;

an information indicator for recording actual contents and displaying an evaluation memo, an elaborate comment, and information of the webpage;

a category indicator for setting up categories of the specific contents of the webpage; and

a file attaching means for transmitting an attached file to the system server and calling it.

6. The method of claim 5, further comprising:

enabling communication between one or more of the client servers and the system server so as to share the indicator database with other users connected to the system server.

7. The method of claim 5, further comprising:

providing the indicators to a specific user according to a selected piling order based on the specific user'"'"'s taste.

8. The method of claim 5, further comprising:

searching in a search engine a word related to the classifier of the indicator;

recording advertisement information related to results from the search engine; and

displaying the advertisement information into the indicator.

9. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium having stored thereon a set of instructions that, when executed by a computer system, cause the computer system to perform a method comprising:

displaying an indicator over specific contents of the webpage with reference to coordinate values corresponding to the specific contents of the webpage and for classifying and elaborating on the specific contents, wherein a plurality of indicators associated with same specific content of the web page can be associated with different classifications of the same specific content;

generating the indicator, including predicting a width of the specific contents of the webpage;

grasping the coordinate value of a webpage area corresponding to the width of the specific contents;

inputting information to be recorded in the indicator, wherein the information to be recorded in the indicator is provided by a user and is different from the specific contents of the web page;

storing the coordinate value;

outputting the indicator to the specific contents of the webpage based on stored coordinate value information;

controlling overlapping of the indicator and displaying the number of overlapped indicators on the top layer of the indicator;

changing a color of the indicators each time the indicators associated with the same specific content of the web page are piled by a predetermined piled number by means of the multi-level generation module;

allowing the plurality of indicators associated with the same specific content of the webpage to become dim, when the piled number is not changed after lapsing of a predetermined time, indicating that the same specific content did not draw attention from users of the system; and

collecting indicators in an indicator database according to specific classifications for storage in a system server,

wherein the indicator includes an item selected from the group consisting of;

a user-drafted memo related to the webpage;

an advertisement related to the webpage;

a classifier for illustrating a title on the specific contents of the webpage;

a keyword indicator for illustrating a path or a keyword for finding the webpage;

an information indicator for recording actual contents and displaying an evaluation memo, an elaborate comment, and information of the webpage;

a category indicator for setting up categories of the specific contents of the webpage; and

a file attaching means for transmitting an attached file to the system server and calling it.