Displaying Content From Multiple Users

• US 20130166696A1
• Filed: 09/15/2012
• Published: 06/27/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 11/08/1996
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Meta Platforms, Inc. (f/k/a Facebook, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Meta Platforms, Inc. (f/k/a Facebook, Inc.)
• Inventors: MacNaughton, Bruce A., Turner, Leigh R.
• Application Number:
  US13/620,871
• Publication Number:
  US 20130166696A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/219
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/954 Navigation, e.g. using categorised browsing
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0893 Assignment of logical groups to network elements
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/306 User profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/75 Indicating network or usage conditions on the user display

Abstract

A system and method are disclosed for integrating an on-line service community with a foreign service such as the Internet World Wide Web. To take advantage of the present invention, on-line service subscribers access a membership module to complete a membership process in which they join communities each of which represents a specific area of interest. The present invention operates as an extension to a user'"'"'s preferred Web browser and is manifested as a toolbar comprised of control buttons and a viewer on a computer user'"'"'s screen. By interacting with the control buttons of the toolbar and the menus of the viewer, on-line service content is delivered to the user in response to the URLs specified by the user as he or she browses the Web. In addition, control buttons on the toolbar present opportunities for interacting with other community members

Claims

1. A server system for providing Internet-related content which is accessible by a user'"'"'s client system, comprising:

a foreign server for receiving a request from the client system and delivering foreign content; and

a community server having community content that is automatically provided to the client system in response to the request, where the community content is related to the foreign content.

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