Automatic categorization of bookmarks in a web browser
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsNandini Sharma, Neelakantan Sundaresan
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Abstract
A web browser that automatically categorizes bookmarks. When a page to be bookmarked is identified, the web browser compares a property of the identified page with properties of pages already saved as bookmarks. If the web browser finds another page which is a bookmark that is “similar” to the identified page, it adds the URL of the identified page as a bookmark. On the other hand, if the URLs for the two pages are exactly the same, the URL of the identified page is not added as a bookmark. Similarity may be defined as commonality in some portion of the URLs for the pages or commonality in textual information associated with the pages.
Claims66
A method of browsing a network, comprising:
- (a) identifying a page to be displayed by a browser executed by a computer;
- (b) comparing a property of the identified page to properties of at least one other page stored as a bookmark by the browser, wherein the properties are determined by the browser;
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- (c) saving the property of the identified page as a bookmark when the comparing step indicates a similarity between the property of the identified page and a property of one or more of the other pages stored as a bookmark.
An apparatus for browsing a network, comprising:
- (a) a client computer connected to the network;
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- (b) a browser, executed by the client computer, for identifying a page to be displayed by a browser executed by a computer;
- for comparing a property of the identified page to properties of at least one other page stored as a bookmark by the browser, wherein the properties are determined by the browser;
- and for saving the property of the identified page as a bookmark when the comparing step indicates a similarity between the property of the identified page and a property of one or more of the other pages stored as bookmarks.
An article of manufacture embodying logic for performing a method for browsing on a network, the method comprising:
- (a) identifying a page to be displayed by a browser executed by a computer;
- (b) comparing a property of the identified page to properties of at least one other page stored as a bookmark by the browser, wherein the properties are determined by the browser;
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- (c) saving the property of the identified page as a bookmark when the comparing step indicates a similarity between the property of the identified page and a property of one or more of the other pages stored as bookmarks.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.