US 10,884,585 B2Granted

User widget displaying portions of content

OwnerRohit Chandrainventor

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Abstract

This invention discloses the creation of widgets that display portions of content. Using the teachings from this invention: an entity can create a widget to be programmatically embedded on any kind of a computing device such as a personal computer, or a mobile device. The widget is personalized for each individual user—both in appearance and in content. Users can choose which portions of content they want to see in their widget. Furthermore, the widget has the additional ability to be dynamically updated: including the ability to display content that had not even been created at the time of creation of the widget itself. Amongst other things—with embedded links in the widget, it is an attractive mechanism for content publishers to have ongoing engagement with users; and a powerful way for users to selectively and quickly view portions of content that they are most interested in.

Claims21

Dependent claims

A computer-implemented method, comprising on a computer with at least one processor:

providing one or more input mechanisms for a user,
wherein the input mechanisms identify one or more content portions, and a manner in which the one or more content portions will be displayed on the user's screen;
automatically generating a code snippet for a user interface object to be displayed on the user's screen,
wherein the user interface object is customized based on (i) one or more inputs provided by the user using the one or more user input mechanisms, or (ii) a reference to the user;
wherein the user interface object is configured to cause querying a service to retrieve the one or more content portions to be displayed on the user's screen,
wherein the one or more content portions identified for the query are extracted from one or more repositories,
wherein the functionality to select the one or more content portions is coupled to a computer readable storage medium,
wherein the content portions are queried for, by utilizing the world wide web to connect to the one or more repositories;
and
displaying the identified one or more content portions, or a representation of the one or more content portions, within the user interface object displayed on the user's screen.

7 more elements

A system comprising a computer-readable medium having computer implemented instructions executed by a processor on a computing device, for showing portions of content on a display device, the system comprising the steps of:

providing one or more mechanisms for a user to provide a set of inputs;
automatically generating a fragment of code for a user interface object to be showed on the display device,
wherein the user interface object is configured based on a set of criteria including:
the user, or a subset of the set of inputs provided by the user;
causing the user interface object to be showed on the display device,
wherein the user interface object is configured to cause querying one or more repositories, for portions of content satisfying a subset of the set of criteria,
wherein the repositories are comprised of:
(i) content, and/or
(ii) portions of content, and/or
(iii) a set of data associated with the user;
identifying one or more portions of content that satisfy the subset of the set of criteria, or identifying a representation of the one or more portions of content that satisfy the subset of the set of criteria;
retrieving the same, or another subset of, the identified:
one or more portions of content, or a representation thereof;
showing within the user interface object, the same or a different subset, of the identified:
(i) one or more portions of content, or
(ii) a representation of the one or more portions of content.

13 more elements

An apparatus containing at least one processor, at least one memory coupled to the at least one processor, and at least one display device coupled to the at least one processor, comprising:

providing one or more input mechanisms for a user,
wherein a combination of:
an input provided by the user using the input mechanisms, or a reference to the user, is used to identify a one or more content portions, and a manner in which the one or more content portions will be displayed on the display device;
generating a set of computer understandable instructions, for a user interface object to be displayed on the display device,
wherein the user interface object is personalized based on (i) at least one input provided by the user using the one or more user input mechanisms, or (ii) a unique reference to the user;
causing the user interface object to be displayed on the display device,
wherein the user interface object is configured to cause querying one or more repositories,
wherein, the one or more repositories are comprised of content, and/or portions of content, and wherein at least one of the one or more repositories is stored on a computer readable medium;
and
displaying one or more content portions matching the query, or a representation thereof, within the user interface object on the display device.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 16/374,567Filed 3 Apr 2019 · continuation in part
Priority: 22 Jun 2006
Published: US 2019/0227681 A125 Jul 2019
Granted: 5 Jan 2021
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification11 codes

G06F 40/14
Use of codes for handling textual entities: tree-structured documents
G06F 3/0482
Based on specific properties of the displayed interaction object or a metaphor-based environment, e.g. interaction with desktop elements like…:…
G06F 16/9577
Browsing optimisation, e.g. caching or content distillation: optimising the visualization of content, e.g. distillation of HTML documents
G06F 40/103
Text processing: formatting, i.e. changing of presentation of documents

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