System, method and apparatus for selecting, displaying, managing, tracking and transferring access to content of web pages and other sources
View Patent ↗A method, system and apparatus for selecting, displaying, managing, tracking and transferring access to content of Internet web pages and other sources along with custom text messages has programming permitting a user to create custom selections of selected image, animation, movie and text content items, and other types of content items from web pages or other sources from the same or different network sources containing multiple content items, along with user-supplied text messages, in an independent, resizable, rescalable browser window; permitting the user to transfer access to the custom selection of content items to a recipient; permitting the user or recipient to navigate quickly to a source of a content item in the custom selection; and permitting the user to define search keywords for performing searches related to content items in a custom selection; and other features. A method of tracking viewing and sharing activities of content items and custom selections of content items by users and recipients is also disclosed. A method of assisted content selection provides temporary borders around content items on mouseover.
1. A method of selecting and displaying content items in a network browser application on a user computing device, the method comprising:
said user computing device displaying a network source with a plurality of displayed content items in an original browser window, each displayed content item having a network location;
said user computing device receiving a selection of a selected content item, from among said plurality of displayed content items;
said user computing device loading said selected content item into an independent browser window from said network location exclusive of at least one non-selected ones of said plurality of displayed content items;
said user computing device displaying said selected content item in said independent browser window exclusive of at least one non-selected ones of said plurality of displayed content items;
said user computing device being operable to place a temporary border on or substantially immediately around a moused over content item to identify said moused over content item prior to selection of said moused over content item, said temporary border disappearing when a pointing device exits said moused over content item;
said user computer device producing an html table selection menu having options to select an entire html table, a current row of said html table or a current cell of said html table, upon an initial selection of an entire html table, an html table row or an html table cell;
said temporary border being located on or substantially immediately around said html table, row or cell when said pointing device is directed at a respective option in said html table options menu; and
said temporary border dynamically adjusting among said html table, said html table row and said html cell as said pointing device is moved among said respective options of said html table menu.
2. The method of claim 1 , wherein:
said temporary border is produced by creating a transparent border object in said network source, said border object having a visible border and being alternately hidden and unhidden to display and remove said temporary border and being moved to a location of said mouse over content item.
3. The method of claim 1 , wherein:
a border property of said moused over content item is temporarily modified to create said temporary border.
4. The method of claim 3 , wherein if said moused over content item has a visible border, said visible border is stored and replaced by said temporary border when said pointing device is over said moused over content item, and replaced when said pointing device exits said content item.