Expandable Homepage Modules

• US 20080172372A1
• Filed: 01/17/2007
• Published: 07/17/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 01/17/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Google LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Google Inc. (Alphabet Inc.)
• Inventors: Jenson, Scott, Rechis, Leland, Shacham, Yael, Nishar, Dipchand
• Granted Patent: US 8,966,407 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/5
• 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 method, comprising:

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.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising configuring the display content for display in a plurality of categories in contracted form, and capable of display in expanded form.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein each of the plurality of categories is configured to show one set of content in contracted format, and another set of content in expanded format.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising identifying a plurality of selectable controls for display, wherein each of the plurality of selectable controls, when selected, causes a category of content to be added to the personalized page.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the plurality of selectable controls are identified based on popularity of the controls in a geographic region associated with the user device.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising receiving a search request from the user device and generating a plurality of search results and the control in response to the search request.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the web page displayed on the user device is a landing page associated with a search result.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the registered account is identified by associating a session ID associated with the received command to a the registered account based on a log in process associated with the session ID and the registered account.

9. The method of claim 8, further comprising adding display content associated with the control to a plurality of different personalized pages associated with the registered account.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein the plurality of different personalized pages include a personalized page associated with mobile-based content and a personalized page associated with full-featured content.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein adding display content associated with the control to a personalized page includes adding a URL associated with a content feed to the personalized page.

12. The method of claim 1, further comprising providing code for generating the control to a developer of the web page.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein providing code includes generating code, in response to receipt of developer-provided parameters, that the developer can copy and paste into the web page.

14. The method of claim 1, wherein the command includes an HTTP request having information identifying a resource location for the display content.

15. The method of claim 1, wherein the control comprises a hyperlink.

16. A computer-implemented method, comprising:

receiving display content for a personalized page at a mobile communication device associated with a registered account;

displaying a first category of display content associated with the personalized page in a contracted format; and

displaying the first category of display content in an expanded format in response to user selection of the first category of display content displayed in a contracted format.

17. The method of claim 16, wherein the contracted format displays a single line of display content.

18. The method of claim 16, further comprising displaying a plurality of additional categories of display content capable of being display in contracted format and expanded format with the first category of display content.

19. The method of claim 16, wherein the first category of display information and the plurality of additional categories of display information are displayed in a stack in a direction of the mobile communication device'"'"'s longest display dimension.

20. The method of claim 16, wherein the first category of display information and the plurality of additional categories of display information are displayed in a vertical stack.

21. The method of claim 16, further comprising displaying a search input box with the first category of display information.

22. The method of claim 16, further comprising adding display content to the personalized page in response to a user selection of a control associated with the content, without requiring the user device to navigate to a configuration screen.

23. 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 by identifying web content associated with each of the plurality of controls;

a personalized web page database containing code defining web pages unique to each of a plurality of registered users; and

a web control processor to receive information from the interface relating 9 to a selected web-page control, to identify a registered user who selected the control, and to add content related to the control to a personalized home page of the identified registered user.

24. The system of claim 23, 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 the users.

25. 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 by identifying web content associated with each of the plurality of controls;

a personalized web page database containing code defining web pages unique to each of a plurality of registered users; and

means for identifying a registered user associated with a selection of a web page control and adding code associated with the selected web page control to a web page associated with the identified user.