US 9,519,626 B2Granted

Hyperlink destination visibility

AssigneeMicrosoft Technology Licensing, LLC

InventorsHatem Zeine, Meir Shmouely

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Abstract

Various embodiments utilize page scripting and parsing to identify the target destination of a hyperlink and provide a visual indication of the destination to the user without causing redirection to the target destination. In some embodiments, hyperlink color, highlighting, or icons are used to indicate the destination. Particular colors and/or icons selected to indicate the destination can, in some embodiments, be selected based on the domain hosting the target destination. In at least some embodiments, the destination of a link is determined by the page script run by a web browser on a user's device, while in other embodiments, information is transmitted to a web request handler on the server hosting the web site to determine the destination.

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Dependent claims

A device comprising:

one or more processors;
one or more computer-readable storage memories embodying computer-readable instructions which, when executed by the one or more processors, implement a method comprising:
transmitting, to a client device, a webpage that includes at least one hyperlink;
receiving, from the client device, a request for information associated with a target webpage to which the at least one hyperlink leads;
ascertaining the-information regarding the target webpage to which the at least one hyperlink leads, the information comprising information regarding a domain hosting the target webpage;
and
transmitting, to the client device, the information regarding the target webpage to which the at least one hyperlink leads, the information being configured to enable determining of at least one style, from multiple styles, to be applied to the webpage and applying of the at least one style to the webpage, the determining of the at least one style being based at least upon the information regarding the domain hosting the target webpage.

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Facts

Application: 14/620,136Filed 11 Feb 2015 · division
Priority: 6 Sep 2011
Published: US 2015/0154158 A14 Jun 2015
Granted: 13 Dec 2016
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification9 codes

G06F 16/954
Retrieval from the web: navigation, e.g. using categorised browsing
G06F 16/9558
Using information identifiers, e.g. uniform resource locators [URL]: details of hyperlinks; Management of linked annotations
G06F 16/9577
Browsing optimisation, e.g. caching or content distillation: optimising the visualization of content, e.g. distillation of HTML documents
G06F 40/134
Use of codes for handling textual entities: hyperlinking

Family

Application13/226,078Parent of this division · filed 6 Sep 2011
US 2015/0154158 A1Pre-grant publication · published 4 Jun 2015
US 8,996,976 B2Parent of this division
US 2013/0061120 A1Published application
US 8,627,194 B2Related patent
US 9,519,626 B2This patent

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