Patent ID: 9721032
Date: 2017-08-01
CPC Classifications: G06F

Claim:
1. A machine-implemented method of providing a suggestion for a uniform resource locator (URL) on a first electronic device, the method comprising: processing content of at least one document accessed by one or more second electronic devices associated with a user of the first electronic device, the at least one document corresponding to respective ones of a plurality of types of media formats; extracting a URL from the processed content: modifying the extracted URL into a suggested URL string: adding the suggested URL string to a list of suggested URLs; receiving a request for a URL suggestion in association with an application running on the first electronic device; and providing, in response to the received request, a suggested URL string from the list of suggested URLs, the suggested URL string including an indication of at least one of the plurality of types of media formats and an indication of a sender of the content from which the suggested URL string was identified, wherein the suggested URL string is associated with a timestamp; determining that a URL within a suggested URL string in the list of suggested URLs has expired, based on the timestamp for that URL; and removing the suggested URL string having the expired URL from the list of suggested URLs.