Patent ID: 8769413

Claim:
A method for providing a multifunction toolbar for a web browser, comprising: displaying a toolbar over a web browser on a computer; linking the toolbar to a portal of a user on a remote server coupled to the computer via a network, wherein the portal is for aggregating content selected by the user; presenting a bucket on the toolbar; recognizing when the user selects content on a webpage displayed on the web browser and drops the selected content in the bucket, wherein the content selected by the user is a portion of the webpage displayed on the web browser and includes one or more of individual words, individual lines, and individual paragraphs of the webpage; and in response to the user selecting the content and dropping the selected content in the bucket: determining an invariant descriptor of the selected content, converting the invariant descriptor of the selected content into a hyperlink for the selected content, and adding the selected content to the portal by sending information including the hyperlink for the selected content from the web browser on the computer to the remote server for storage on the remote server.