Web Browsing Profiles for Automatic URL Categorization

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Solution Overview

Problem

Users face difficulties in accessing and managing large collections of URLs across multiple profiles in web browsers, requiring manual intervention to select desired URLs from a cumbersome list.

Innovation Solution

A method and system for web browsing that creates and automatically categorizes browsing profiles, allowing users to display and prioritize contents based on these profiles, using a processor and communication interface in electronic devices to streamline URL access.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of operation

If users manually manage URLs in hotlists with multiple profiles, then users can access organized content categories, but users face troubles in selecting desired URLs due to manual intervention requirements

Engineering Contradiction:
ImproveURL selection processVSAvoidTime spent manually browsing URLs
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system automatically categorizes URLs into browsing profiles without requiring manual user intervention. The browser monitors visited URLs and autonomously organizes them into appropriate profiles based on content analysis, eliminating the need for users to manually sort and manage URLs across multiple profiles.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The system pre-categorizes URLs into browsing profiles before users need to access them. By continuously analyzing visited URLs and organizing them into profiles in the background, the system prepares the content organization structure in advance, so users can immediately access categorized content without manual sorting when they need it.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

2Adaptability or versatility

If users create multiple browsing profiles for different content categories, then content organization is improved, but system complexity increases due to profile management

Engineering Contradiction:
ImproveContent categorization capabilityVSAvoidProfile management structure
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system segments browsing content into distinct profiles based on categories such as news, shopping, and travel. Each profile contains URLs relevant to its specific category, allowing users to access organized content groups. This segmentation provides adaptability for different content types while maintaining manageable profile structures through automatic categorization.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The browsing profile system serves multiple functions: it categorizes URLs, organizes content by category, and provides quick access to different content types. The same profile mechanism handles various content categories uniformly, reducing the need for separate management systems for each category and thereby reducing overall system complexity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

3Reliability

If users manually add, modify or delete URLs in hotlists, then hotlist accuracy is maintained, but user effort and time consumption increase significantly

Engineering Contradiction:
ImproveHotlist accuracyVSAvoidURL management efficiency
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The system automatically monitors and analyzes visited URLs, then autonomously adds them to appropriate browsing profiles based on content analysis. This self-service mechanism maintains hotlist accuracy by ensuring only relevant URLs are included in each profile, while eliminating the need for manual URL addition, modification, or deletion operations.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The system continuously monitors user browsing behavior and uses this feedback to automatically update and refine profile categorizations. By analyzing visited URLs and user interaction patterns, the system adjusts profile contents dynamically, maintaining high accuracy in URL categorization without requiring manual verification or adjustment by users.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Data Source

PatentUS8843829B2Method and system for web browsing
Publication Date: 2014.09.23 SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO LTD
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AI summary

A method and system for web browsing is provided. The method includes creating one or more browsing profiles, automatically categorizing contents based on the one or more browsing profiles. The system includes one or more remotely located electronic devices and a communication interface in electronic communication with the one or more electronic devices. Furthermore, the system includes a storage device for storing data associated with the one or more electronic devices and a processor for web browsing, and a creating unit for creating one or more browsing profiles and automatically categorizing contents based on the one or more browsing profiles.