Patent ID: 7424476

Claim:
A method for establishing and maintaining a categorized Web browsing history of a user, comprising the steps of: for websites previously visited by the user, performing a reverse lookup in a database to find a chain of categories for a URL, every time a URL that has not been previously seen is added to a history; for URLs for which there is no category in said database, iteratively retrying said reverse lookup using a less specific part of said URL until a category is found; presenting in an interactive user interface a resulting categorized web browsing history corresponding to said websites previously visited by the user; for a given category of previously visited web pages within said interactive user interface, said interactive user interface providing a link to said given category within a database of Web content never visited by the user; wherein the user views previously visited pares within said interactive user interface and follows a link to a wider view of similar pages through said link; providing a plurality of Web browsing tools that display metadata and that allow capturing an image or Web page; wherein said tools comprise any of Save Page and Stop Watching; wherein said metadata comprise any of Rating, Comments, Snapshots, and Categories; and viewing Web pages that have either been captured locally or that are part of a browsing history as any of a passively personalized Web favorites list and in a time-based history view.