Unifying discoverability of a website's services

摘要

Various embodiments provide a unified discovery control that can be incorporated as part of a web browser. The unified discovery control provides a central location that describes various services that a website has to offer. In addition, the unified discovery control can allow the user to interact with the individual services that the website has to offer as by providing the user with the ability to add, update, uninstall and/or otherwise manage the various services that are described in the unified discovery control. Thus, the unified discovery control provides a centralized management system that provides the user with a common, predictable and repeatable user experience for interacting with various services that a website can offer.

主权项

1. A computer-implemented method comprising:
receiving a request to access a website; prior to rendering the website, parsing markup language of the website to locate two or more service descriptions associated with the website, the two or more service descriptions corresponding to at least two different service types; identifying, from the two or more service descriptions, two or more services that are offered by the website; and causing display of a service button to indicate that the website offers the two or more services.