METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CREATING, CONFIGURING AND DISPLAYING USER-SELECTED CONTENT PORTIONS

摘要

A method and system for enabling the display of portions of internet documents that have been selected by users of a content selection service are disclosed. Accordingly, a content selection service includes a web portal with a web page providing users with a snippet of code, which, when inserted into an internet document, causes the internet document to display selected portions from the content selection service. The snippet of code can be configured to query the content selection service for content portions that were generated by certain users, or, content selection made on documents from certain domains, and so forth. The code associated with the user interface object displaying the content selections can be configured to periodically query the content selection service to retrieve up-to-date portions, thereby dynamically changing the content selections appearing on a web page or internet document.

主权项

1. A computer-implemented method, comprising:
automatically generating, with at least one processor, a code snippet for a user interface object to be embedded in a first web page, in response to a user-selected parameter provided via one or more user interface input mechanisms, the code snippet configured to query a content selection service for a user selected portion of content from other web pages, the portion of content being generated by one or more users of the content selection service, and displaying the portion of content, or a representation of the portion of content, within the user interface object.