Browser Search History Grouping by Domain Similarity
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current browser methods for accessing previously visited web pages, such as bookmarks and browsing history, become cluttered and difficult to navigate, making it hard for users to locate specific pages due to overcrowding and chronological organization.
Innovation Solution
Implement a browser search history management system that detects user searches, determines similarity between search phrases and existing groups of web pages, and organizes pages into groups based on similarity, allowing users to easily access related pages through a ranked and updated list.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Quantity of substance
If browser history stores all previously accessed web pages chronologically, then users can access all visited pages, but the list becomes cluttered and difficult to navigate
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the flat list of browser history into hierarchical groups organized by domain. Each domain becomes a parent group containing its associated web pages as children. This segmentation allows users to navigate to a domain first, then access specific pages within that domain, reducing the visual clutter of a single long list while maintaining access to all pages.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces a new organizational dimension by adding domain-level hierarchy to the traditional flat chronological list. Instead of organizing pages solely by time, the system adds a domain dimension, creating a two-level structure (domain → pages) that enables more efficient navigation and reduces the apparent clutter of the page list.
2Ease of operation
If bookmarks are used to save frequently accessed web pages, then important pages are easily accessible, but the bookmark list becomes overcrowded and hard to manage
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges the functionality of bookmarks and browser history by allowing both bookmarked and non-bookmarked pages to be organized within the same domain-based group structure. This unification eliminates the need to maintain separate bookmark and history lists, reducing management complexity while preserving easy access to important pages through the domain hierarchy.
3Quantity of substance
If browser history is organized chronologically, then all visited pages are preserved, but users cannot easily find related pages from different time periods
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments pages by their domain context rather than mixing them in a single chronological stream. This segmentation preserves the contextual relationship between pages from the same domain while maintaining chronological order within each domain group. Users can thus find related pages by navigating to the appropriate domain group, regardless of when those pages were visited.
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AI summary
A search initiated by a user within an internet browsing application using a search phrase can be detected. A similarity between the search phrase and each of one or more existing groups can be determined, each of the one or more existing groups including one or more saved web pages. An existing group of the one or more existing groups can be selected based on the determined similarity. A current browsed web page returned from the search can be obtained, and the current browsed web page can be added to the existing group.