Saving selected hyperlinks for retrieval of the hyperlinked documents upon selection of a finished reading button in a web browser
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsRabindranath Dutta, Kamal Chandrakant Patel
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Abstract
The system, method and program of this invention enhances a Web browser by enabling a user to select hyperlinks of interest while reading a first document. The selected hyperlinks are not displayed by the Web browser until indicated to do so by a user. In the meantime, the Web browser stores the list of selected hyperlinks in a list. When a user finishes reading the first document, and now desires to view the selected hyperlinked documents, the user selects a “finished reading” button. Upon the selection of the button, the Web browser displays a next hyperlinked document according to the order of selected hyperlinks in the list.
Claims18
A method for displaying selected hyperlinked documents, comprising:
- receiving a selection, from a user, of at least one hyperlink of interest in a document;
- storing the selected at least one hyperlink in a list;
- and
- in response to receiving an indication from the user that the user is finished with a currently displayed document, automatically displaying a hyperlinked document that is next in the list.
A method for displaying, on a screen of a computational device, selected hyperlinked documents, comprising:
- receiving a selection, from a user, of at least one hyperlink within a document currently being displayed;
- in response to receiving the selection, storing the selected at least one hyperlink in a list in memory accessible by the computational device without displaying a corresponding hyperlinked document in response to the selection;
- in response to receiving an indication through a selectable object provided in conjunction with the displaying of displayed documents, displaying a hyperlinked document that is next in the list.
A computer system having means for displaying documents requested over a network of computers, the computer system comprising:
- means for receiving a selection, from a user, of at least one hyperlink of interest in a displayed document;
- means for storing the selected at least one hyperlink in a list;
- user selectable input means independent of a given hyperlink;
- and
- means for automatically displaying a hyperlinked document that is next in the list in response to receiving input from the user selectable input means.
A computer program having computer readable program code means on a computer usable medium, comprising:
- means for enabling a user selectable object to be enabled in conjunction with a displaying of at least a portion of a document;
- means for enabling a storing in a predefined ordered list of at least one selected hyperlink;
- means for displaying a hyperlinked document identified by a next stored hyperlink in the list upon a selection of the user selectable object.
A computer program having a computer readable program code means on a computer usable medium, comprising:
- means for receiving a request for a document;
- means for receiving the document from a server;
- means for inserting a user selectable control in conjunction with at least a portion of the document wherein the user selectable control causes a program to display a hyperlinked document identified by a next hyperlink in a list of hyperlinks;
- and
- sending the document with the inserted control to the requester.
A computer program having a computer readable program code means on a computer usable medium, comprising:
- means for receiving a requested document;
- means for inserting a user selectable control in conjunction with at least a portion of the document wherein the user selectable control causes a program to display a hyperlinked document identified by a next hyperlink in a list of hyperlinks;
- and
- displaying the document with the inserted control.
A computer system comprising:
- means for receiving a request for a document;
- means for receiving the document from a communicatively linked second computer system;
- means for inserting a user selectable control at an end of the document wherein the user selectable control causes a program to display a hyperlinked document identified by a next hyperlink in a list of hyperlinks;
- and
- sending the document with the inserted control to the requester.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.