Patents Examined by Cad H. Nguyen
  • Automatic bookmarks
    Patent number: 6100890
    Abstract: A browser generates automatic bookmarks to browsed pages of information based on a selection criteria. The selection criteria can be based on a duration of time that a user browses the viewed page or based on matching words in the viewed page to keywords or to a synonym list for the keywords that the browser generates using a thesaurus. The browser also automatically catalogs the bookmark-list entries into folders based on matching words in the viewed page to the keywords and the synonym list.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 1997
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2000
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Cary Lee Bates, Jeffrey Michael Ryan