Patent 7,139,761 (the '761 patent) has been asserted by Leader Technologies, Inc. against Facebook, Inc. in a federal district court action alleging willful infringement. The '761 patent could pose a threat to numerous social network sites. This challenge is to determine whether the claims of the '761 patent are valid.
Summary / Description
| Summary / Description | Computer software, systems and methods for providing context personalized browsing over computer networks. In the foregoing, an intelligent agent referred to as a "browser companion agent" includes a service component for holding one or more service modules that may assist a user by providing services that are contextually relevant to content on a browser on the user's computer system. The agent also includes a data component for holding data objects related to and sharable by one or more service modules. The agent further includes a tracking component for tracking the pages on a browser and for communicating browser page data to a remote computer system that may respond to the agent with data or code for use by service modules. Contemplated service modules include a comparison shopping service, a transaction tracking service, and automated form filling service. |
Basic Information
| Type of Prior Art | Issued Patents - US |
| Country | United States of America |
| Patent/Application # | 7437312 |
| Kind Code | United States (US) - United STATES Patent - A |
| Patentee Name | Assginee: Bizrate.com |
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| URL | http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/... |
| Publication Date | October 24, 2002 |
| Additional Information | Filing date: August 20, 2001. Bizrate.com is operated by Shopzilla which was acquired by The E. W. Scripps Company (NYSE: SSP) in 2005. |
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Excerpt
The present invention provides a new paradigm of context personalized browsing. In this paradigm, in addition to the conventional browser (e.g. Internet Explorer) and the Web server (e.g., that of a merchant such as www.amazon.com), there is a novel software agent, referred to herein as a "Browser Companion Agent or "BCA" for short. The BCA is associated with a conventional, main browser on a client system (which may be referred to herein as the "main browser". Among other things, the BCA assists a user by hosting and orchestrating one or more services that are relevant to information accessed through the main browser. The BCA assists users in a number of ways, for example, to shop faster and smarter by providing "what to buy", "where to buy" and "how to buy" services. It also displays messages based on user navigation and states merchant related information. It also may assist in automated online form filling. It also may be used to maintain records of a user's online transaction. The BCA is designed with a novel modular architecture so that the addition or deletion of services available through the BCA is readily facilitated.
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Managing data via computer-executable acts
A computer-implemented method of managing data, comprising computer-executable acts of: creating data within a user environment of a web-based computing platform via user interaction with the user environment by a user using an application, the data in the form of at least files and documents; dynamically associating metadata with the data, the data and metadata stored on a storage component of the web-based computing platform, the metadata includes information related to the user, the data, the application, and the user environment; tracking movement of the user from the user environment of the web-based computing platform to a second user environment of the web-based computing platform; and dynamically updating the stored metadata with an association of the data, the application, and the second user environment wherein the user employs at least one of the application and the data from the second environment.
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Computer software, systems and methods for providing context personalized browsing over computer networks.
Computer software, systems and methods for providing context personalized browsing over computer networks.
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Server-based data management
A computer-implemented system that facilitates management of data, comprising: computer-implemented means for creating data by interaction of a user within a user workspace of a server using an application; computer-implemented means for associating metadata with the data, the metadata stored in association with the data on storage means of the server, the metadata includes information related to a user of the user workspace, to the data, to the application and to the user workspace; computer-implemented means for tracking movement of the user from the user workspace to a second user workspace of the server; and computer-implemented means for dynamically associating the data and the application with the second user workspace in the metadata such that the user can employ the application and data from the second user workspace.
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Computer software, systems and methods for providing context personalized browsing over computer networks.
Computer software, systems and methods for providing context personalized browsing over computer networks.
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Network-based system for facilitating data management
A computer-implemented network-based system that facilitates management of data, comprising: a computer-implemented context component of the network-based system for capturing context information associated with user-defined data created by user interaction of a user in a first context of the network-based system, the context component dynamically storing the context information in metadata associated with the user-defined data, the user-defined data and metadata stored on a storage component of the network-based system; and a computer-implemented tracking component of the network-based system for tracking a change of the user from the first context to a second context of the network-based system and dynamically updating the stored metadata based on the change, wherein the user accesses the data from the second context.
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Computer software, systems and methods for providing context personalized browsing over computer networks.
Computer software, systems and methods for providing context personalized browsing over computer networks.
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Computer storage of data management
A computer-readable medium for storing computer-executable instructions for a method of managing data, the method comprising: creating data related to user interaction of a user within a user workspace of a web-based computing platform using an application; dynamically associating metadata with the data, the data and metadata stored on the web-based computing platform, the metadata includes information related to the user of the user workspace, to the data, to the application and to the user workspace; tracking movement of the user from the user workspace to a second user workspace of the web-based computing platform; dynamically associating the data and the application with the second user workspace in the metadata such that the user employs the application and data from the second user workspace; and indexing the data created in the user workspace such that a plurality of different users can access the data via the metadata from a corresponding plurality of different user workspaces.
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Computer software, systems and methods for providing context personalized browsing over computer networks.
Computer software, systems and methods for providing context personalized browsing over computer networks.
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Managing data with plural user environments
A computer-implemented method of managing data, comprising computer-executable acts of: generating a plurality of user environments in a web-based system; ordering two or more of the plurality of user environments according to different arrangements of the user environments; providing a plurality of applications for generating and processing data in the user environments, data of a user environment is dynamically associated with the user environment in metadata that corresponds to the data; creating an association of the data with a second user environment when the data is accessed from the second user environment; dynamically storing the association of the data and the second user environment in the metadata; storing in a storage component ordering information related to the ordering of the two or more of the plurality of user environments; and traversing the different arrangements of the user environments with one or more of the applications based on the ordering information to locate the data associated with the user environments.
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Computer software, systems and methods for providing context personalized browsing over computer networks.
Computer software, systems and methods for providing context personalized browsing over computer networks.
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Context component of web-based server
A computer-implemented system that facilitates management of data, comprising: a computer-implemented context component of a web-based server for defining a first user workspace of the web-based server, assigning one or more applications to the first user workspace, capturing context data associated with user interaction of a user while in the first user workspace, and for dynamically storing the context data as metadata on a storage component of the web-based server, which metadata is dynamically associated with data created in the first user workspace; and a computer-implemented tracking component of the web-based server for tracking change information associated with a change in access of the user from the first user workspace to a second user workspace, and dynamically storing the change information on the storage component as part of the metadata, wherein the user accesses the data from the second user workspace.
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Computer software, systems and methods for providing context personalized browsing over computer networks.
Computer software, systems and methods for providing context personalized browsing over computer networks.
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