Bookmark Editing Window Consolidates Browser Management
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current web browsers require multiple steps and interactions with various windows or dialog boxes for managing bookmarks, making the process cumbersome and prone to accidental additions or deletions.
Innovation Solution
A graphical user interface with a bookmark button that displays an editing window for completing bookmark operations, including title changes, label associations, and saving or discarding bookmarks, all within a single interface, with a semi-transparent overlay to maintain visibility of the web page being edited.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If multiple windows and dialog boxes are used for bookmark management, then comprehensive editing functionality is provided, but user operation complexity increases and accidental changes occur more frequently
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges multiple separate windows and dialog boxes into a single integrated bookmark management interface. This single window consolidates all bookmark editing operations including creating, modifying, deleting, and organizing bookmarks, thereby reducing the number of interactions required while maintaining comprehensive functionality.
Solution Approach 2:
The bookmark management interface is designed as a universal tool that handles all bookmark operations through a single interface. The system provides multi-functional capabilities within one window, allowing users to perform various bookmark management tasks without switching between different windows or dialog boxes.
2Reliability
If multiple steps are required for bookmark operations, then comprehensive control is provided, but time consumption increases
Solution Approach 1:
The interface provides preliminary actions by pre-configuring common bookmark operations and providing quick-access controls. Users can perform bookmark operations through single-click actions or pre-defined templates, reducing the number of steps required while maintaining control over the bookmark management process.
3Ease of operation
If a simple bookmark button is used, then ease of operation is improved, but functionality is limited
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an intermediary interface (the single bookmark management window) that mediates between the simple bookmark button and the comprehensive editing functionality. When users click the bookmark button, they are directed to this intermediate management interface that provides full editing capabilities without requiring direct access to complex settings or multiple windows.
Data Source
AI summary
Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, implementing and using techniques for managing bookmarks associated with web pages. A button is displayed on a graphical user interface associated with a browser displaying a web page on the computer display. A user input selecting the button is received. Each time the button is selected, an editing window is displayed, which includes several bookmark editing operations for the displayed web page. The bookmark editing operations can be completed by a user in the editing window.