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Microsoft patents browser that suggests actions based on page content

Microsoft describes a system where a web browser looks at the specific content on a page to suggest useful actions or display settings. When a user interacts with a browser tab, the system shows temporary icons for these suggested features, allowing the user to quickly apply them.

Why it mattersThis could make web browsing more intuitive by automatically offering tools that match what you are currently viewing, reducing the need to manually search for specific browser settings.

In the filing’s own words

The present systems and methods enable a web browser to recommend or present features to a user based on the content of a web page. The features, which may include various actions that can be taken and different display configurations for viewing the content of the web page, may be specific to the type(s) of content that are present on the web page. Furthermore, such features may be presented to the user upon detection of a trigger that indicates an intent to arrange or configure a tab of the browser. Such features may be presented as transient graphical elements that illustrate the feature.

What exactly they claim (claim 1)

1. A system for providing graphical browser actions, the system comprising: a processing system; and memory storing instructions that, when executed by the processing system, cause the system to: receive a first input associated with a tab of a web browser; determine contextual information related to content in the tab; determine, based at least in part on the contextual information, one or more browser actions applicable to the tab; display one or more action elements corresponding respectively to the one or more actions, the one or more action elements providing graphical indications of the one or more browser actions; receive a second input associated with the tab; determine a selected action element of the one or more action elements based on the second input; and perform a browser action on the tab corresponding to the selected action element.

Facts

Company
Microsoft (Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC)
Official title
CONTEXT-AWARE BROWSER FEATURE RECOMMENDATIONS
Publication number
US20260277401A1
Application number
19078744
Filed
Mar 13, 2025
Published
Sep 17, 2026
Inventors
3
Claims
20

Classified under

G06F 3/0483 Physics & computingG06F 3/0482 Physics & computingG06F 9/451 Physics & computingG06F 16/9574 Physics & computingG06F 3/0486 Physics & computing
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