Dynamic website specific browser menus
Naveen Kumar G, Sudarshan Parthasarathy, Arpita Bahuguna, Joy Bose · 2015
Currently, in a web browser, the menus are fixed and cannot be changed. It would be helpful if the browser menu incorporates relevant information from the website currently being browsed, so that such information becomes easily accessible to the end user. In this paper we propose a method to automatically extract and display a website specific menu as part of the browser menu for any website. Selecting the website specific menu options enables the user to launch the appropriate application for the type of menu option. For example, upon selecting the Contact Number menu option, the device's default calling application is launched with the website's pre-registered contact number. This information can also be presented by way of clickable icons on the URL bar or status bar of the browser or via a voice interface. The system can be implemented by having specific meta tags, HTML tags or manifests for each of the extracted options. The web developer specifies the entries by means of these tags. We present the implementation details of the system on a mobile device and describe various user interfaces.