Adaptive Browser Bookmark Filtering by Webpage Context

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Solution Overview

Problem

Users face inefficiencies in locating and managing browser bookmarks due to the lack of adaptive systems that automatically save and present relevant bookmarks based on contextual information, leading to significant time spent retracing browsing history.

Innovation Solution

A dynamic browser bookmark system that uses processors and memory to determine contextual webpage information, filter bookmarks, and present them in a hierarchical view, dynamically linking relevant bookmarks based on similarity indices and user navigation patterns.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Loss of time

If users manually save and organize browser bookmarks, then bookmarks can be stored for future reference, but users spend significant time retracing browsing history to locate relevant bookmarks

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvetime spent locating bookmarksVSAvoidease of locating relevant bookmarks
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of timeVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The system continuously monitors current webpage content and provides feedback by automatically retrieving and displaying relevant bookmarks without requiring user search, creating a closed-loop system where bookmark retrieval is triggered by contextual information from the current page

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Solution Approach 2:

The bookmark system performs self-service by automatically detecting relevant bookmarks based on webpage context and presenting them to the user without requiring manual search or organization actions from the user

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

2Quantity of substance

If users save many browser bookmarks for future reference, then more relevant pages can be stored, but it becomes difficult to locate the right bookmark at the right time

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvenumber of saved bookmarksVSAvoiddifficulty of locating relevant bookmarks
Core Design Contradiction:
Quantity of substanceVSDifficulty of detecting and measuring

Solution Approach 1:

The system extracts only the relevant bookmarks from the user's complete bookmark collection by analyzing contextual information from the current webpage, displaying only the subset of bookmarks that are actually useful in the current context rather than presenting the entire bookmark library

Inventive Principle:
Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Solution Approach 2:

The system applies different relevance criteria and filtering based on the local context of each webpage being viewed, dynamically adjusting which bookmarks are presented based on the specific content, topic, and context of the current page

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

3Loss of information

If the bookmark system presents all saved bookmarks, then complete bookmark history is available, but the system complexity and user burden to manage and search through them increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecompleteness of bookmark historyVSAvoidcomplexity of bookmark management system
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of informationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary actions by pre-processing and analyzing the user's bookmark collection in advance, organizing bookmarks with metadata and contextual tags that enable rapid retrieval based on webpage context without requiring complex user-side search or filtering operations

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Data Source

PatentUS12056201B2Systems and methods for automatic and adaptive browser bookmarks
Publication Date: 2024.08.06 CAPITAL ONE SERVICES LLC
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AI summary

A dynamic browser bookmark system configured to present a user's bookmarks in a hierarchical manner based on webpage contextual data is disclosed. The system may aggregate browser bookmarks associated with a user device. The system may determine a first webpage being viewed on the user device. The system may dynamically filter the browser bookmarks to determine a first plurality of browser bookmarks associated with the first webpage. The system may generate and transmit a graphical user interface including a hierarchical view of the browser bookmarks. The system may determine a second webpage being viewed on the user device and dynamically filter the aggregated browser bookmarks to determine a second plurality of browser bookmarks relevant to the second webpage, which may include a browser bookmark of the first plurality of browser bookmarks, and generate a second graphical user interface including a hierarchical view of the second plurality of browser bookmarks.