Patent ID: 9009600
Filing Date: 2015-04-14
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method comprising: providing, by a processing device without any user input, a browser with a browser history, the browser executed by the processing device; receiving, by the processing device, indications of web pages visited by a user during a browser session of the browser; storing, by the processing device without any user input, the visited web pages in a time-sequential order; creating, by the processing device without any user input, a filter list in view of a heuristic algorithm generated in view of a time spent on each of the visited web pages and in view of a type of each of the visited web pages, and wherein the filter list to store a list of web page types to be excluded from the browser history; applying, by the processing device without any user input, the filter list to the browser history; filtering, by the processing device without any user input and in view of the applying, the browser history to remove one or more web pages in accordance with the filter list; and creating, by the processing device without any user input, a journal from the filtered browser history that is separate from the browser history, wherein the journal comprising resulting web pages remaining from the list of web pages subsequent to the filtering, the resulting web pages comprising preferred web pages as determined from the application of the heuristic algorithm via the filter list; and maintaining, by the processing device without any user input, the web pages within the journal after corresponding web pages are filtered out of the browser history subsequent to at least one of an elapse of time or additional browsing in the browser.