Foldable Browser Tool for Selective Web Content Rendering
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Solution Overview
Problem
Users have limited options to customize and share specific content from web pages, as conventional browsers only allow minimal modifications and no easy way to isolate or direct others to particular content.
Innovation Solution
A computer tool that allows users to select and render only a defined portion of a web page on their device, maintaining a link for continuous updates, and providing attributes like Favicon or logo for manipulation and sharing, with functions to toggle between partial and full page display.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If conventional web browsers are used to access web pages, then users can view complete web pages, but users have very few options to customize how the browser displays the content
Solution Approach 1:
The patent divides the web page content into multiple portions or regions, allowing users to select and customize specific segments of content. This segmentation enables users to focus on particular areas of interest while maintaining the ability to view the complete page when needed, thus providing customization options without compromising ease of operation.
2Adaptability or versatility
If users want to share specific content from a web page, then content can be directed to others, but it is very difficult to share or direct another user to specific content of a website using conventional browsers
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts or isolates specific portions of web page content that users wish to share, separating them from the rest of the page. This extracted content can then be easily shared with others through various channels, while the mechanism remains integrated within the browser interface, avoiding excessive complexity.
3Adaptability or versatility
If users want to isolate specific content from a web page, then content can be selected and manipulated, but conventional browsers provide minimal options for isolating or manipulating specific content portions
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an intermediary layer or tool within the browser that facilitates the isolation and manipulation of specific content portions. This intermediary mechanism provides user-friendly interfaces for selecting, highlighting, and managing content segments, making the process accessible while enabling advanced customization capabilities.
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AI summary
A computer tool allows a user to manipulate displayed content of a web page by a user device. The computer tool may be used to implement a collapsing, foldable browser that allows users to customize web content. The computer tool receives an indication of a user defined first portion of the content of a web page displayed by a browser, determines a remaining portion of the content of the web other than the first portion; and renders only the first user defined portion on a display screen of a display associated with the user device. An attribute may be associated with the first portion and displayed in proximity to the first portion to provide functions to manipulate the first portion within the display screen of the display associated with the user device. A menu may be associated with the attribute. The menu may include functions to allow toggling between display of only first portion and the first portion combined with a remaining portion, to minimize the browser, to close the browser to a file, and to expand display of only the first portion to display the browser window in addition to the first portion.