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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 16, 2016
Filed:
May. 31, 2013
Symantec Corporation, Mountain View, CA (US);
Matthew Yeo, San Francisco, CA (US);
Symantec Corporation, Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
A computer-implemented method for managing web browser histories may include (1) identifying a website visited via a web browser, (2) selecting one or more website categories for which websites are not to be referenced in the web browser history, (3) querying a website categorization database to verify whether the visited website belongs to a selected website category, (4) receiving, in response to querying the website categorization database, an indication that the website belongs to a selected website category, and (5) blocking, based on the website belonging to a selected category, the website from being referenced in the web browser history. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.