Patent ID: 8918720

Claim:
A method for presenting a list of most or recently selected documents in a new tab of a web browser comprising: accessing, by the web browser, a first online document having a first document type, stored on a first web server using a first web application running on the first web server; storing, by the web browser and in response to the first document being accessed by the web browser, an identifier for the first document and a user identifier in a local data store; incrementing, by the web browser and in response to the first document being accessed by the web browser, a count value in the local data store associated with the identifier for the first document; accessing, by the web browser, a second online document having a second document type, stored on a second web server using a second web application running on the second web server; storing, by the web browser and in response to the second document being accessed by the web browser, the user identifier and an identifier for the second document in the local data store; incrementing, by the web browser and in response to the second document being accessed by the web browser, a count value in the local data store associated with the identifier for the second document; aggregating, by the web browser, data in the local data using the user identifier and the count values associated with the first and second document identifiers in the local data store; presenting at least one list of most or recently selected documents categorized by the first document type or the second document type in the new browser tab using the aggregated data from the local data store and in response to receiving a request for the new browser tab; receiving at least one configuration applicable to the presenting of the at least one list from a user, where the at least one configuration comprises one or more of a number of lists displayed, a time span for each list displayed, the document type for each list, or the number of documents within a list; and sending the user identifier and the aggregated data to a synchronization server associated with the web browser.