Patent ID: 8589811

Claim:
Apparatus for assisting in the organization of information accessed through a web browser, comprising: a memory; and at least one processor coupled to the memory and operative to: render a web browser graphical user interface of the web browser, the web browser graphical user interface comprising a web browser display area and an organizational display area; capture at least one item of information accessed through the web browser display area in a first web-browsing behavior; visually represent the captured at least one item of information in the organizational display area of the web browser graphical user interface; calculate a relevance index for at least one item of information of a second web-browsing behavior; convey the relevance index for the at least one item of information of the second web-browsing behavior to a user of the web browser; and manipulate the at least one captured item of information comprising an operation of linking the at least one captured item of information to at least one other captured item of information in the organizational display area based on at least one user defined link; wherein the calculated relevance index is based on the linking operation that compares the captured at least one item of information, which was found on the web browser in the first web-browsing behavior, to the at least one item of information from the second web-browsing behavior to inform the user of the web browser of the relevant connections between the captured at least one item of information and the second web-browsing behavior, and further wherein the calculated relevance index is computed based on a relevance metric which comprises converting the captured at least one item of information and one or more other captured items of information that are within a given relational neighborhood of the captured at least one item of information to respective textual content segments, and comparing the respective textual content segments with a textual content segment representing the at item of information from the second web-browsing behavior, and wherein the relevance recomputed for a subsequent item of information accessed via the web browser.