John Evans Greene

US Patent:

20110252060, Oct 13, 2011

Filed:

Apr 7, 2010

Appl. No.:

12/755913

Inventors:

Paul Broman - Mableton GA, US
Jon Sweet - San Jose CA, US
Tim Rechin - San Carlos CA, US
Jessi Dong - Los Gatos CA, US
John Greene - Portland OR, US
Frank Yoo - San Francisco CA, US

Assignee:

Yahoo! Inc. - Sunnyvale CA

International Classification:

G06F 17/30
G06F 15/16
G06F 3/00

US Classification:

707771, 715738, 709203, 707E17014, 707E17112

Abstract:

Disclosed is a method and system for navigating, by a browser executing on the computing device, to a web page; transmitting by a client-side module executing on the computing device to a server computer over a network a request to the server computer for topics associated with the web page; receiving, by the computing device, a set of (one or more) topics associated with the web page from the server computer; displaying by the browser in a first content area the web page; and displaying by the browser in a second content area the received set of topics associated with the web page.