System and method for saving browsed data

• US 7,822,735 B2
• Filed: 05/25/2001
• Issued: 10/26/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 05/29/2000
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Saora Kabushiki Kaisha, Saroa Kabushiki Kaisha
• Original Assignee: Saora Kabushiki Kaisha
• Inventors: Jeyachandran, Suresh, Joseph, Prem Anand, Suda, Aruna Rohra
• Primary Examiner(s): Jalil; Neveen Abel
• Assistant Examiner(s): Pulliam; Christyann R
• Application Number:
  US09/865,773
• Publication Number:
  US 20020035563A1
• Time in Patent Office: 3,441 Days
• Field of Search: 707 1- 10, 707100-1041, 707200-205, 707/711, 715/501.1, 715510-514, 715/841, 715/968, 715/500.1, 709203-228, 345/781, 345/825, 345/861, 345/853, 345/968
• US Class Current: 707/711
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/95 Retrieval from the web

Abstract

A system saves browsed data in a database in response to a user request by assigning a predetermined index to the data, wherein the user is not requested for any index. The system sorts indices of the data in the database and displays the sorted indices, then the system retrieves, in response to a selection of an index from the displayed indices by a user, the data corresponding to the selected index from the database. Accordingly if a user wants to save a data currently browsed, he can make store the data in the database easily only by issuing an instruction to save without specifying any index.

Claims

1. A method of saving web page data comprising:

providing a first and a second save option within a window of a browser client;

receiving a selection of the first or second save option from a user;

acquiring web page data browsed by the browser client when the selection of the first save option is received from the user or when the browser client newly browses the web page data when the selection of the second save option has been received from the user;

extracting a keyword from a content of the acquired web page data;

assigning a plurality of indices that include a first index unique to the acquired web page data and a second index comprising the extracted keyword to the acquired web page data; and

saving, subsequent to the keyword extraction, the acquired web page data browsed by the browser client in correspondence with the assigned indices in a predefined database, the saved web page data being sufficient to regenerate at least a portion of a previously browsed web page without accessing to the original source,

wherein the acquired web page data is saved without prompting the user for a file name or destination folder when the selection of the first save option is received from the user, and

the acquired web page data is saved without any further instruction from the user when the browser client is subsequently operated to move to another URL, when the selection of the second save option has been received from the user.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the second save option includes a user selectable option to save only links of the browsed data or page contents of the browsed data.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the second save option further includes an exclusion option that excludes saving particular web pages.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

displaying the first or second index within the browser client,

wherein when the first index is displayed, a representation of the acquired web page data is listed in an order sorted by date, and

wherein when the second index is displayed the representation of the acquired web page data is listed in an order sorted by keyword.