Managing and Accessing Data in Web Notebooks

• US 20070266011A1
• Filed: 05/10/2007
• Published: 11/15/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 05/10/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Google LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Google Inc. (Alphabet Inc.)
• Inventors: Chang, Bay-Wei, Nayak, P. Pandurang, Rohrs, Christopher, Gomes, Benedict A., Frumkin, Michael, Shah, Avni
• Granted Patent: US 8,676,797 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9535 Search customisation based on user profiles and personalisation

Abstract

A method of adding web-based content to a web notebook can include producing multiple search results responsive to a search request; generating in the multiple search results multiple corresponding icons, each of which, when invoked, causes content associated with a corresponding search result in the multiple search results to be placed in a web notebook associated with a user account; and forming a correlation between one of the multiple search results and the web notebook.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method of adding web-based content to a web notebook, comprising:

producing multiple search results responsive to a search request;

generating, in the multiple search results, multiple corresponding icons, each of which, when invoked, causes content associated with a corresponding search result in the multiple search results to be placed in a web notebook associated with a user account; and

forming a correlation between one of the multiple search results and the web notebook.

2. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein at least one of the multiple corresponding icons comprises a textual description.

3. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein each of the multiple corresponding icons is associated with exactly one corresponding search result.

4. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein at least one of the multiple search results is selected from the group consisting of an image search result, a text search result, a scholarly article search result and video search result.

5. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein at least one of the multiple search results is a map search result.

6. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein at least one of the multiple search results is a shopping search result.

7. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein at least one of the multiple search results is a book search result.

8. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, further comprising receiving input that identifies the user account.

9. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein forming a correlation comprises identifying a web notebook by matching content in one of multiple existing web notebooks associated with the user account to a characteristic of the search result.

10. The computer-implemented method of claim 9, wherein the characteristic of the search result comprises textual content of web documents associated with the search result or keywords associated with a document related to the search result.

11. The computer-implemented method of claim 9, wherein the content in the one of multiple existing web notebooks comprises user-supplied titles, headings or annotations in the existing web notebooks.

12. The computer-implemented method of claim 9, wherein the content in the one of multiple existing web notebooks comprises content that was placed in the one of multiple existing web notebooks in response to user-invocation of an icon associated with a corresponding search result.

13. The computer-implemented method of claim 9, further comprising displaying an identified web notebook.

14. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein producing the list of multiple search results comprises applying the search request to an index containing content from web notebooks.

15. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, further comprising clipping at least part of one of the multiple search results into a web notebook.

16. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the correlation is formed only after input is received from a user selecting one of the multiple corresponding icons.

17. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein at least one of the multiple corresponding icons is generated only after input has been received to access a document referenced by one of the multiple search results.

18. The computer-implemented method of claim 17, wherein the at least one icon is generated only after the document corresponding to the one search result has been accessed for a period greater than a predetermined time period.

19. The computer-implemented method of claim 18, further comprising associating the at least one icon with content that was reviewed in the document corresponding to the search result.

20. The computer-implemented method of claim 19, further comprising displaying a preview of the content associated with the at least one icon and providing a user an opportunity to accept the content.

21. A computer-implemented method of presenting search result information for review by a web user, comprising:

generating a plurality of search results responsive to a search request;

identifying one or more web notebooks associated with search results in the plurality of search results and with a user account; and

transmitting for use by a client computer associated with the user account the plurality of search results along with one or more links for accessing the one or more associated web notebooks.

22. The computer-implemented method of claim 21, further comprising receiving a selection of a link for accessing the one or more associated web notebooks and transmitting information regarding the one or more associated notebooks to a server computer that stores the one or more associated web notebooks.

23. The computer-implemented method of claim 21, wherein the transmitted information comprises the content of a web notebook where only the web notebook is associated the one or more links.

24. The computer-implemented method of claim 21, wherein the transmitted information is a list of links to a plurality of notebooks.

25. The computer-implemented method of claim 24, wherein the list of links comprises titles of the one or more notebooks.

26. The computer-implemented method of claim 21, further comprising receiving input identifying the user account.