Intelligent bookmarks and information management system based on the same

Abstract

An intelligent bookmark is a collection of information, including an address (e.g., a URL) for a document (e.g., web page) or other hyper-media enabled item bundled together with selected other information. The selected other information may be manually or automatically obtained from the document, the browser history leading up to the display of the document, user entered annotations, etc. A collection of intelligent bookmarks may be sorted and searched using the selected other information. Intelligent bookmarks may be exchanged between users, and users may edit the bookmark content or in layers above the bookmark. Users may rate the bookmarks. A complete system provides for creating, storing, accessing, editing, grouping, exchanging, and searching intelligent bookmarks locally and/or remotely via a server.

I claim: 
     
         1 . A computer-implemented method for creating an intelligent bookmark to a document, the document of the type including at least an address, a title, and a body, the intelligent bookmark including at least an address of a document and identifier information about that document obtained at least in part from the body of the document, comprising:
 displaying the document;   retrieving the address of the document;   extracting certain identifier information from the body of the document; and   storing said address and said certain identifier information such that said address and said identifier information are associated with one another so that the document can be accessed from the address and information about the document can be obtained from the identifier information.