Patent application number | Description | Published |
20090144283 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GENERATING FILE USAGE INFORMATION - Embodiments relate to systems and methods for tracking local and remote file usage, and aggregating the resulting file usage statistics for presentation to a user. The operating system of a local computer can track and generate local file usage statistics, such as most recently used files and editing time. A Web application or service, such as an email or word processing application or service, can record the file usage data for a user's remote stored or served files. A file usage aggregator module, which can be located or resident in the operating system of the local computer or hosted at a Web site, can receive and combine the local and remote file usage statistics. The file usage aggregator module can generate a display of the aggregated file usage statistics, so that local and remote files are listed in a most-recently used order, on a combined basis. | 06-04-2009 |
20090210870 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GENERATING ORDERED DOWNLOAD SELECTIONS BASED ON USAGE INFORMATION - Embodiments relate to a platform for generating ordered download selections based on usage information. A download site can provide a selectable or searchable set of applications to download. The download site collects usage information from online desktops operating on a set of clients. The online desktop of each client samples the applications being used on the client at given intervals and reports the client's usage statistics to the download site. The download site aggregates the usage information received from participating clients and collectively orders applications for download, according to usage rank. A work processing application used by the most users in the last day or other period may be listed first, followed by the second-most used, and so forth. The sampling of actual application usage, instead of for instance download totals, allows the download site to provide downloads in an order most closely approximating users' actual usage behavior. | 08-20-2009 |
20090222463 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR A JOURNAL PAGE - An embodiment relates generally to a method of displaying information. The method includes monitoring any user activity within at least one application executing on a computer and detecting a completion of a user activity. The method also includes creating a link to the completed user activity and placing in the link in a time-ordered sequential basis in a journal section of a desktop of the computer. | 09-03-2009 |
20090222735 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ENHANCING BROWSER HISTORY USING SYNDICATED DATA FEEDS - Embodiments relate to systems and methods for enhancing browsing history using syndicated data feeds. A browser contains a navigation manager that captures and tracks the URLs (universal resource locators) of the Web sites and subsections of sites that a user visits. The captured URL pathways are stored to a navigation record. In addition, the presence and identify of RSS feeds which the user has chosen to activate is also recorded. Upon return to the same Web site or other location, the navigation manager directs the user to the specific section of the Web site associated with the RSS feed, such as media lists, photography upload sections, or other portions of a Web site. | 09-03-2009 |
20090222736 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR A FILTER MODULE FOR A BROWSER HISTORY - An embodiment relates generally to a method of filtering for a browser. The method includes providing a browser with a browser history function, the browser history function configured to store each site web page visited and stored in time sequential order as a browser history. The method also includes providing a filter module for the browser; and applying the filter module to the browser history function to eliminate intermediary web pages from entering the browser history. | 09-03-2009 |
20090222899 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR UNIFIED LOGIN TO MULTIPLE NETWORKED SERVICES - Embodiments relate to systems and methods for unified login to multiple networked services. A user operates a browser to access a Web site, such as an email portal. The user is presented with a query box to input login information such as a user name and password to view email from an email account. Upon entry of login information to the email or other site, a login manager captures the login information to automatically transmit that information to a local program and associated networked sites or services, such as messenger or media services, that accept the same login information. The login manager logs the user into that program and additional services without the user having to re-enter the same login information. The additional services can be accessed via an online desktop, and the user can configure the additional local programs or registered services via that desktop or other interface. | 09-03-2009 |
20100299617 | IDENTITY MANAGEMENT FOR OPEN OVERLAY FOR SOCIAL NETWORKS AND ONLINE SERVICES - Methods and systems can manage the multiple identities used by a user. The user's existing contact lists, website accounts, buddy lists, and the like are analyzed to determine the identities used by the user. A graph is then constructed in order to track and integrate the multiple identities of the user in a social network. The social network graph may then be used by a social network overlay so that the user can share information across their different identities with different users that only know some of the user's multiple identities. | 11-25-2010 |
20120233263 | IDENTITY MANAGEMENT FOR OPEN OVERLAY FOR SOCIAL NETWORKS AND ONLINE SERVICES - Methods and systems to manage users of a social network. The method includes receiving, at a server, a request to contact a user from another user of a social network based on a selected one of a plurality of associated identity resources of the user known by other users. The method also includes restricting views of other users for the identity of the user to the selected one of the plurality of associated identity resources. | 09-13-2012 |
20140258422 | PROVIDING SOCIAL NETWORK USER DISCUSSIONS - Discussion of content between users of social networks is described. A request from a first user to discuss content with a recipient user in a first social network is received, wherein the recipient user has a first identifier in the first social network. A request from a second user to discuss content with the recipient user in a second social network is received, wherein the recipient user has a second identifier in the second social network. A discussion is initiated between the second user and the recipient user about the content in the second social network. The recipient user is tracked in view of the first identifier in the first social network and the second identifier in the second social network. | 09-11-2014 |