Browser hierarchical contextual information for web pages
Patent 6177936 Issued on January 23, 2001. Estimated Expiration Date: 
August 20, 2018. Estimated Expiration Date is calculated based on simple USPTO term provisions. It does not account for terminal disclaimers, term adjustments, failure to pay maintenance fees, or other factors which might affect the term of a patent.
August 20, 2018. Estimated Expiration Date is calculated based on simple USPTO term provisions. It does not account for terminal disclaimers, term adjustments, failure to pay maintenance fees, or other factors which might affect the term of a patent.Patent ReferencesItinerary list for interfaces Method and apparatus for attaching navigational history information to universal resource locator links on a world wide web page Simple method for creating hypertext links User interface for information retrieval system System and method for adding network links in a displayed hierarchy 5854630 InventorApplicationNo. 137382 filed on 08/20/1998US Classes:709/201, DISTRIBUTED DATA PROCESSING709/217, REMOTE DATA ACCESSING715/501.1HypermediaExaminersPrimary: Bayerl, Raymond J.Assistant: Thai, Cuong T. Attorney, Agent or FirmInternational ClassG06F 003/00AbstractA mechanism for providing contextual information for a web page. In the preferred embodiment, a browser displays multiple web pages in multiple windows in a parent-child hierarchy on a display screen. The browser maintains this hierarchical relationship by building and updating a window-list data structure, which contains information about the active windows and their web-page contents. When the user requests a change to the contents of one window, the browser updates the contents of the other windows to maintain the parent-child hierarchical relationship. In this way, the browser provides contextual information for a displayed web-page. | |
