US 2010/0169363 A1 · SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING AND DISPLAYING ADDITIVE CONTENT IN A WEB BROWSER

Abstract

A method and apparatus is provided for use with a web browser for managing and displaying additive content relating to web sites. For example, users can associate user generated content with third party web pages and to customize the visibility of this content based on multiple modes of authentication. Users may also manage personal profiles and contact lists over multiple social networks. Users can even monetize their popularity by hosting advertisements and being paid based on their respective level of viewer ship. Various other features are also available for use by users that will enhance their web browsing and social networking experience and provide the users with increased control of their personal profiles.

Claims2

Dependent claims

A method of displaying content at an internet client comprising:

providing a database containing information on a plurality of groups, wherein for each of the plurality of groups, the database stores group content intended for members of the respective group, and wherein the group content is intended to be displayable in conjunction with one or more web pages;
receiving a request from a first user of an internet client to view a first web page;
determining whether at least a portion of the requested first web page corresponds to group content stored in the database;
and
determining whether the first user is authorized to view the group content;
displaying at the internet client of the first user the first web page with group content added from the database.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

12/493,183Filed 27 Jun 2009

Priority

3 Jul 2006

Published

1 Jul 2010

Term ends

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Classification4 codes

G06F 16/9535
Querying, e.g. by the use of web search engines: search customisation based on user profiles and personalisation
G06F 16/9536
Querying, e.g. by the use of web search engines: search customisation based on social or collaborative filtering
G06F 16/9538
Querying, e.g. by the use of web search engines: presentation of query results
G06F
Computing and data processing

Family

Application60/806,529Us provisional application · filed 3 Jul 2006

Application60/827,668Us provisional application · filed 29 Sep 2006

Application11/556,614Continuation in part · filed 3 Nov 2006

Application12/493,183Continuation in part

US 2008/0005125 A1Published application

US 2010/0169363 A1This patent

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System and method for managing and displaying additive content in a web browser

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System and method for managing and displaying additive content in a web browser

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Abstract

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