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US 2010/0169364 A1Published application
Metadata Enhanced Browser
AssigneeBlame Canada Holdings Inc.
InventorDick C. Hardt
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Abstract
A social networking browser can display contextually relevant content to a user while the user navigates the Internet. The contextually relevant content is selected based on a determination of the topic of the displayed page, and can include contact-centric information about connections in the user's social graph.
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A method of selecting extrinsic metadata relevant to a user about a webpage comprising:
- receiving a webpage from an external server through a network interface;
- parsing the received webpage to identify cues indicating the topic of the webpage;
- selecting metadata from an extrinsic metadata store in accordance with the identified cues, at least a portion of the metadata in the extrinsic metadata store being specific to the user;
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- displaying the selected metadata to the user through a display interface.
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A browser for displaying extrinsic metadata about a webpage, the browser comprising:
- a network interface for receiving webpages from external servers;
- a parsing engine for examining webpages received by the network interface and for identifying cues indicating the topic of the examined webpage;
- a metadata selector for selecting data from an extrinsic metadata store in accordance with the topic indicated by the cues identified by the parsing engine;
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- a display interface for transmitting the selected data to a user viewable display.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.