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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 09, 2008
Filed:
Apr. 16, 2004
Applicants:
Vidur Apparao, Palo Alto, CA (US);
John Philip Bandhauer, Aptos, CA (US);
Christopher Robert Waterson, San Francisco, CA (US);
Inventors:
Vidur Apparao, Palo Alto, CA (US);
John Philip Bandhauer, Aptos, CA (US);
Christopher Robert Waterson, San Francisco, CA (US);
Assignee:
AOL LLC, Dulles, VA (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/30 (2006.01); G06F 15/173 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A simple, user-friendly method and apparatus for establishing and maintaining a categorized Web browsing history uses a directory service, such as the Open Directory Project, to get category metadata about visited URLs. Metadata thus obtained are used to present a user's personal browser history in a category based hierarchy.