356 results about "Bookmarking" patented technology

A multimedia program bookmarking system provides a bookmark function that allows the user to bookmark a program where he left off. The invention records the frame of the program where the user stopped when the user commands the system to do so. Alternatively, the invention automatically bookmarks the program for the user if the user exits viewing the program. The invention displays an indicator indicating that a bookmark has been saved and the user can, at any time, access his bookmark and continue playback of the program from where he left off. Bookmarks within a single program can be set for different users. Remote controls are encoded for a specific user in a household, allowing each person in the household to have a personal remote control and therefore, personal bookmarks. The invention notes that a set of bookmarks belongs to a certain encoded remote control. The user can alternatively select a specific set of bookmarks manually, through a menu. The system loads the associated bookmark information for the user and any bookmarks that do not have associated programs stored on the storage device are ignored and deleted, otherwise programs are played backed starting from the associated bookmarks, if they exist. Multiple bookmarks for a program are transparent to the user because the remote control that the user uses tells the system to only display and activate that particular user's bookmarks.

Systems and method are provided for providing a playlist transport bar. The playlist transport bar provides an overlay which graphically represents assets (e.g., programs) of a playlist in a manner that enables a user to simultaneously ascertain a playback position within the playlist and a particular asset. The playlist transport may include asset regions which each correspond to an asset in a playlist and a position indication region which may provide information relating to a playback position.

A method and system to bookmark a location, blog geo-referential information, and process the geo referential information, having a mobile device and a stationary server. The mobile device is configured to generate a waypoint to geographically identify the location, generate a timestamp, fetch and store data associated with the location, and receive a user-provided description regarding at least one of the location and the data associated with the location. The stationary server is configured to receive geo-referential information from the mobile device, the geo-referential information including the waypoint, timestamp, and at least one of the data and user-provided description. The server includes a database to maintain the geo-referential information in a spatially and temporally organized manner, and a processing arrangement to adaptively process the geo-referential information according to at least one of a characteristic and preference of a user.

A system and method for non-intrusively embedding a multimedia advertisement associated with an object in an audiovisual program provided by one of various sources. The advertisement may be accessed and extracted from the program by pointing and clicking on the object while the object is displayed. A summary of advertisements may thereby be created. The accessed advertisements may be bookmarked or stored to create the summary. A user may create a profile of preferred types(s) of advertisements to filter out the display of advertisements for undesired types of advertisements.

Interactive electronic book operating systems and methods for displaying and allowing customization of content of scientific, engineering and other technical and professional digital books. The systems and methods allow for a single screen for displaying digital books covering scientific and technical topics having a classical look and feel on operating platforms(such as portable laptops, desktops, and small handheld displays) that are capable of running the Java Virtual Machine. The display screen can include icon toolbars about the screen and / or directly on the screen to manipulate the pages and content of the digital book. The icons can allow for forward and backward page turning, generating of dynamic indexing and tables of contents, bookmarking, color themes, floating pages, highlighting, adding sticky notes, hiding selected content on the pages, quizzing the reader, lecturing the reader, tutoring the reader, showing the reader additional designs and practical relevance, and allowing the instructor to generate uniform seed numbers for problems and designs and / or allowing the instructor to generate random seed values for problems and designs.

Bookmarks can reference uniquely addressed Web resources. Bookmark annotations can include user specified, digital content related to uniquely addressed Web resources. An user interface of an annotative bookmark manager can permit users to create, edit, and delete bookmark annotations. A browser interface of a Web browser can include a bookmark section that displays a listing of textual descriptors for bookmarks. An annotation handler can present one of the bookmark annotations within the browser user interface responsive to a detection of a mouseover event for a corresponding textual descriptor. The bookmark annotation can be automatically hidden when the mouseover event ends. Bookmark prioritization enables listing of highly weighted parameterized bookmarks in a user friendly manner.

Hypertext information links are typically contained in documents accessible by networks. Data is gathered regarding the results of attempted access to documents identified by these links. The link's viability is calculated based on the number of successful attempts resulting in successful access in order to provide a measure of link viability. The display of the document is altered based on the measure of link viability. An average of link viability for all links on the document, and on the site, is used to calculate document viability and site viability which can be used to rate the document and site, respectively. These viability measures are displayed along with the corresponding link, document, and site. Display of results retrieved by conventional search engines may be sorted based on link, document or site viability, and displayed accordingly. Links contained in bookmark lists are also measured for viability to cull out bookmarks with low link viability to, or low document viability of, the bookmarked document. Viability calculations may be made by a user computer device, an Internet Service Provider, a third party service, and / or a server on which a document resides.

While viewing an electronically displayed document, a user creates a bookmark by selecting a desired part of a document to be marked. In response, a visual indicator is displayed and a bookmark object is created preferably separate from the document. The bookmark object comprises information linking the bookmark object to the desired part of the document as well as user-modifiable properties. If another part of the document is subsequently displayed, at least a portion of the visual indicator is still displayed. Later selection of the portion of the visual indicator causes the desired portion of the document to be re-displayed. Because the object is separate from the document, it may be viewed and sorted by its properties apart from its display with the document. A placemark is created whenever the display of a current document is discontinued. In response to a discontinuation signal, a placemark object comprising information linking the placemark object to a last-viewed part of the document is created. Subsequent selection of the document for re-display causes the last-viewed part of the document to be displayed.

A system and method are disclosed for processing a video item to automatically provide or recommend bookmarks and bookmark headings for the video item. In one embodiment, the video item is first logically segmented into a number of segments. For each segment of the video item, a bookmark linking to a start of the segment of the video item is generated. In addition, audio and / or video content of each segment of the video item is processed in order to generate one or more recommended headings, or titles, for the corresponding bookmark. Information identifying the recommended bookmarks and bookmark headings may then be returned to an owner of the video item. The owner may then provide user input accepting, modifying, or rejecting the bookmarks and bookmark headings. Based on the user input from the owner, the bookmarks and bookmark headings for the video item are finalized and stored.

A system enables user generated content (UGC) and data (collectively metadata) to be associated with playable media content in a GUI. A skin (metadata and GUI) overlays the media content and includes a set of markers associated with the selected media content, the markers with at least one of an elapsed time and a frame of the selected playable media content and including metatags relevant to the content of the media at the elapsed time or frame. The system includes a social networking and sharing platform and provides layers of meta-information that can be added, deleted, or edited without altering the original content. The system enables the tagging of objects within content and allows these objects to be matched to any category of interest, and allows sharing of such tags. The system enables ‘search & discovery’ by sorting and matching labels (e.g., title & description) and works with still image media, audio, or video.

Several ways are provided for a viewer of a movie to create a deep tag, that is, a bookmark for a segment of the movie. The deep tag can be associated with descriptive text and sent to an address provided by the viewer, either an e-mail address or an instant messaging address. Additionally, before the deep tag is created, it can be checked whether the content owner of the movie is known. If known, the content owner's rules, if any, regarding deep tagging are followed. If unknown, a set of registered content owners can be alerted of the presence of new content. When ownership of the new content is established, the already-created deep tags can be updated in accordance with the content owner's rules, if any, regarding deep tagging.

A video content distribution system includes a remote content server, a communications network, and multiple media playback devices. One of the media playback devices generates a place marker that indexes a location in a video content where to resume playback of the video content and then the media playback device stores the place marker locally in the communications network. Subsequently, the same media playback device connects to the remote content server and stores a copy of the place marker remotely in the communications network.

A media diary or media management application implemented in a digital device that incorporates a bookmarking and / or annotating mechanism for providing graphical enhancement to media files, calendar events and time periods displayed in the media management application. In addition, the bookmarking and annotation mechanism provides for text notes to be associated with the media files, calendar event or time period and for the text note to be accessible through the bookmark or annotation.

A graphical user interface for navigating among and selecting from selectable options presented on a display screen. A scrollable menu including a series of panels representing bookmarks and / or bookmark folders representative of the selectable options is displayed in an approximate semi-circular fashion along the bottom and the sides of the display screen. A cursor is displayed overlaid one panel at the bottom of the display screen. The cursor is scrollable through the series of panels through user input. Upon the cursor being scrolled to a panel appearing further up either side of the display screen than the panels at the bottom thereof the indicated panel is pulled down and stopped at the bottom of the display screen and the whole series of panels scrolled along with it. The user interface further provides for selection of the panel indicated by the cursor through user input.

A bookmark display method executable in a computer system having a processor, a display and a browser. The display method begins by associating a rating with a given bookmark entry (e.g., a bookmark or bookmark set) and then storing the bookmark entry with the rating. Upon a subsequent request to display the browser's bookmarks, the given bookmark entry is displayed with a user-selectable visual cue. Moreover, access to the given bookmark entry may be selectively inhibited if the bookmark rating has a given property. Bookmark rating values defined at a server also may be selectively displayed, modified and managed.

Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, system and computer program product for game determined tag relevance for social bookmarking. In one embodiment of the invention, a method for the game determination of tag relevance for social bookmarking can be provided. The method can include rendering a game user interface in connection with content in a content browser, providing a list of tags previously associated with the content in the game user interface for a game participant and receiving relevance values for the tags through the game user interface provided by the game participant for each of the tags, comparing the relevance values to relevance values provided by others to generate a score and presenting the score in the game user interface, and applying the received relevance values to the tags to improve quality for each of the tags in association with the content.

Some embodiments provide a content processing application with a novel annotation migration operation that allows the application to automatically migrate annotations from a first version of content such as a document to a second version of the content. Examples of such annotations include user-specified notes, highlights, bookmarks, and / or other annotations. The content processing application examines different sets of content segments in the second version to identify a particular set of content segments that matches a first set of content segments in the first version associated with a particular annotation. Upon identifying a matching particular set of content segments, the content processing application associates the particular annotation with the particular set of content segments in the second version. The content processing application can then provide a presentation of the second version with the particular annotation for the matching particular set of content segments.

An improved web browser architecture for an OOP application for a dynamic web page using a client-side scripting language in JavaScript and Ajax to encapsulate presentation logic as objects manipulated by a mediator class state controller object. The browser code is divided into reusable but decoupled and interacting objects. The objects publish to unknown subscribers, and there is no need for objects to explicitly know of or be bound to other objects subscribing to events, consistent with a delegate model. The state of the web browser can be maintained by the state controller, and bookmarking of the state of the web browser allows reconstruction of a web browser dynamic web page. In a preferred embodiment, a GUI for the web browser controls a SAN.

One aspect relates to a social bookmarking system that has the capability of displaying advertisements based on user input provided to the system. Advertisements displayed to the user may be determined based on one or more classifications provided by the social bookmarking system and selected by the user. Further, classification information that is created, used, or otherwise associated with the particular user may be used to determine ads displayed to that user. Another aspect relates to a system for collecting user classifications of content and using such classifications to match ads to appropriate content. In such a manner, more appropriate associations between ads and content may be made. Such classifications may be collected, for example, using a social bookmarking system. Further, advertisers may subscribe to classifications created in the social bookmarking system, allowing their advertisements to be displayed to users that perform actions with the subscribed classification. Also, advertisers may be permitted to submit their own classification information to the social bookmarking system.

A system and method for simplifying a login process makes use of a set of bookmarks that can be used to playback a series of actions and provide a stored username and password to a website or webservice. A user can access a bookmark manager component of the system and an identify manager component of the system either locally or remotely and have the two components act independently of each other but in communication to store the bookmarking and identity information.

A method and apparatus for managing bookmark information of a media server through a network based on the UPnP AV standard is disclosed. If a request for bookmarking a content item is made, a bookmark item is created and the created bookmark item is linked to the content item by adding the ID of the created bookmark item to the property information of the content item and recording the ID of the content item to be bookmarked in the created bookmark item.

A system is described for displaying images of a virtual three-dimensional book having one or more virtual pages. The system comprises a display system capable of executing a display program wherein images of the virtual three-dimensional book are produced on the display system. The display system may include a folding function, whereby a segment of a virtual page is displayed as at least partially folding backward form a surface of the display system. Additionally, based on one or more search terms, the display system may include an indexing function for creating a customized index and / or a table of contents function for creating a customized table of contents. Moreover, a dynamic bookmark function may be provided for displaying one or more dynamic bookmarks to a virtual three-dimensional book. Also disclosed is a computer program product comprising a computer usable medium having computer readable code embodied therein for producing images of a virtual three-dimensional book.

Embodiments of the invention improve the quality of search results returned for a given set of search terms based on metadata associated with the user performing the search. A search query may specify metadata elements to consider in ranking the search results. The metadata used may include bookmarks set by the user (either locally or at a social bookmaking site), group bookmarks, etc. In such a case, search results may be reordered to improve the ranking of websites that are both in the search results and in the bookmarks.

The disclosure generally relates to a method for preventing phishing attacks on a computer browser. The method includes the steps of: providing a web browser having a bookmark group; directing the browser to a first Uniform Resource Locator (“URL”) having a first URL address, the first URL address having a plurality of alpha-numeric characters pointing to a first IP address; saving the first URL address in the bookmark group as a first bookmark; receiving an email communication containing a second URL address, the second URL address having a plurality of alpha-numeric characters similar to the first URL address and purporting to point to the first IP address; comparing the first URL address with the second URL address; and determining whether the first URL address and the second URL address share an identical IP addresses.

The present invention relates to a method for bookmarking content being transferred between devices in a universal plug and play (UPnP) network. The method comprises receiving a request from a user for bookmarking content being transferred to at least one of a plurality of devices capable of performing playback of the content on which the bookmarking is requested, obtaining state information form the at least one of a plurality of devices, and creating a bookmark comprising the state information and source information of the state information. Preferably, the source information of the state information obtained from a first device of the plurality of devices is persistent information and not exposed to the network. Moreover, the source in formation of the state information obtained from the first device has the same structure as source information assigned to a second device of the plurality of devices.

A system receives, at a server, an action request from a client associated with bookmarks, where the bookmarks identify user designated documents. The system accesses bookmark records stored at the server based on the action request and acting on the bookmark records in a manner specified by the action request.