Dynamic web application notifications including task bar overlays

• US 10,140,107 B2
• Filed: 09/28/2016
• Issued: 11/27/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 06/11/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Inventors: Hilerio, Israel, Patton, Mara B., Le, Phu Hoang, Posey, Justin Martin, Jangla, Kinnary M., Yeung, Carlos, Malek, Alexander H., Morgan, Bruce A., Davis, John E., Jaber, Mustapha
• Primary Examiner(s): Dao, Thuy
• Application Number:
  US15/278,770
• Publication Number:
  US 20170017477A1
• Time in Patent Office: 790 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04817 using icons graphical or visual programming using iconic symbols G06F8/34
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0486 Drag-and-drop
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/117 Tagging; Marking up details of markup languages G06F40/143; Designating a block; Setting of attributes style sheets, e.g. eXtensible Stylesheet Language Transformation [XSLT], G06F40/154
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/134 Hyperlinking
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/143 Markup, e.g. Standard Generalized Markup Language [SGML] or Document Type Definition [DTD]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/61 Installation
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]

Abstract

Web applications are created and installed in response to user interactions with browser menus and browser links. In some instances, a browser menu selection or a selection of an icon associated with a URL in a web browser triggers the web application creation. A link to the web application may be presented in a task bar or a menu of an application on a client device.

Claims

1. A system comprising:

one or more hardware processors; and

one or more computer-readable storage devices having stored thereon computer-executable instructions that are executable by the one or more processors to perform operations including;

navigating a web browser to a web page;

displaying the web page, the web page including a menu having selectable menu items;

receiving a selection of a selectable menu item that is displayed at the menu and that is associated with installation of a web application linked to a taskbar of a client application or to a menu of the client application;

creating a web application file in response to receiving the selection of the selectable menu item;

populating the web application file with content comprising one or more dynamic elements that can be dynamically updated by the web application; and

wherein creating the web application file comprises creating an artifact that does not contain information associated with a web site, and the populating further comprising adding one or more of information received from the web site, a jumplist task, a start URL, and a favicon to the web application file.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the operations further include creating and displaying a link on the task bar for the web application.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the operations further include creating and displaying a link on the menu of the client application to the web application.

4. A computer-implemented method comprising:

navigating a web browser to a web page;

displaying the web page, the web page including a menu having selectable menu items;

receiving a selection of a selectable menu item that is displayed at the menu and that is associated with installation of a web application linked to a taskbar of a client application or to a menu of the client application;

creating a web application file in response to receiving the selection of the selectable menu item;

populating the web application file with content comprising one or more dynamic elements that can be dynamically updated by the web application; and

wherein creating the web application file comprises creating an artifact that does not contain information associated with a web site, and the populating further comprising adding one or more of information received from the web site, a jumplist task, a start URL, and a favicon to the web application file.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the method further includes creating and displaying a link on the task bar for the web application.

6. The method of claim 4, wherein the method further includes creating and displaying a link on the menu of the client application to the web application.

7. A system comprising:

one or more hardware processors; and

one or more computer-readable storage devices having stored thereon computer-executable instructions that are executable by the one or more processors to perform operations including;

navigating a web browser to a web page associated with a particular URL;

displaying the web page, the web page being displayed with a selectable link which is operable, when selected, to trigger a creation of a web application;

receiving a selection of a selectable link; and

creating the web application file associated with the particular URL in response to receiving the selection of the selectable link; and

wherein creating the web application file comprises creating an artifact that does not contain information associated with a web site of the particular URL.

8. The system of claim 7, wherein the operations further include creating and displaying a link on a task bar of a client application for the web application.

9. The system of claim 7, wherein the client application is a desktop.

10. The system of claim 7, wherein the selectable link is displayed overlapping with at least a portion of the web page.

11. The system of claim 7, wherein the operations further include populating the web application file with content, the content comprising one or more dynamic elements that can be dynamically updated by the web application.

12. The system of claim 11, wherein the populating further comprising adding one or more of information received from the web site, a jumplist task, a start URL, and a favicon to the web application file.

13. The system of claim 7, the operations further comprising presenting a dialog display to the user, in response to the selection of the selectable link, which confirms a source URL of the web page.

14. The system of claim 7, the operations further comprising presenting a dialog display to the user, in response to the selection of the selectable link, which indicates where a shortcut link to the web application is located.

15. The system of claim 7, the operations further comprising presenting a dialog display to the user, in response to the selection of the selectable ink, which confirms an action being taken for creating the web application.