Method for context personalized web browsing
View Patent ↗Computer software, systems and methods for providing context personalized browsing over computer networks. In the foregoing, an intelligent agent referred to as a “browser companion agent” includes a service component for holding one or more service modules that may assist a user by providing services that are contextually relevant to content on a browser on the user's computer system. The agent also includes a data component for holding data objects related to and sharable by one or more service modules. The agent further includes a tracking component for tracking the pages on a browser and for communicating browser page data to a remote computer system that may respond to the agent with data or code for use by service modules. Contemplated service modules include a comparison shopping service, a transaction tracking service, and automated form filling service.
1. A method for context personal browsing comprising:
providing a remote computer system, the remote computer system receiving data from a client computer system having a browser companion agent including one or more associated service modules that assist a user of the client computer system by providing services that are contextually relevant to a content page on a browser of the client computer system, the data received by the remote computer system being determined according to the content page present on a browser of the client computer system;
automatically determining from the page data at least one set of data or executable code that corresponds to a service module associated with the browser companion agent;
sending the data or code to the browser companion agent for use by a service module;
wherein the data or code sent to the browser companion agent is determined by parsing the page for elements matching elements in a database, the elements in the database corresponding to the code or data to send to the remote computer system;
wherein the browser companion agent determines contextual relevance by coupling to a browser on the client computer system via an application interface; and
determining contextual relevance according to changes of the content pages on the browser; and
wherein the content page on the browser of the client computer system is received from a content provider system that is not the same as the remote computer system.
2. The method of claim 1 wherein the service module is one or more of a form filling service, a transaction tracking service, and a comparison shopping service.
3. The method of claim 2 wherein the browser companion agent includes at least two of the service modules.
4. The method of claim 1 wherein the data or code sent to the browser companion agent is determined by looking up in a database corresponding code or data to send to the remote computer system.
5. The method of claim 1 wherein the browser companion agent includes one or more of a form filling service module, a transaction tracking service module, and a comparison shopping service module.
6. The method of claim 1 wherein the browser companion agent includes at least two of the service modules.
7. The method of claim 4 wherein the browser companion includes one or more of a form filling service module, a transaction tracking service module, and a comparison shopping service module.
8. The method of claim 4 wherein the browser companion includes at least two of the service modules.
9. The method of claim 1 wherein a data and/or service module comprises a COM object.
10. The method of claim 1 wherein the browser comprises a version of a web browser and the companion agent comprises a browser helper object.
11. The method of claim 1 wherein the data sent to the remote computer system comprises the location identifier for a page on the browser of the client computer system.
12. The method of claim 11 wherein the location identifier comprises a URL for the page.
13. The method of claim 1 wherein the data sent to the remote computer system comprises data about the content on the page on the browser of the client computer system.
14. The method of claim 1 wherein the data sent to the remote computer system comprises data about the structure of the page on the browser of the client computer system.