Method, apparatus, and program for finding and navigating to items in a set of web pages
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorTai Anh Cao
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AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorTai Anh Cao
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A mechanism is provided for highlighting items of interest in a set of web pages. The link highlighting mechanism may retrieve and examine web pages referenced by the instant web page. In this manner, the link highlighting mechanism may crawl through a set of web pages and highlight links that direct the user to the item of interest. The link highlighting mechanism may also record a user's click sequence to determine the most recently or most frequently visited links. The mechanism may then highlight the most recently or most frequently visited links to allow easy and quick navigation to items that are of particular interest to the user. The user may also enter properties of an item of interest, such as a file type or link type. The link highlighting mechanism examines a web page for items and links that match the property. If the user is using a mobile computing device or is otherwise operating with limited bandwidth, the highlighting mechanism may reside on a server. Thus, the server may transmit only the item of interest unless otherwise instructed by the user.
A method for highlighting recently used items in an interface, comprising:
A method for highlighting frequently used items in an interface, comprising:
A method for highlighting links of interest in a web document, comprising:
An apparatus for highlighting recently used items in an interface, comprising:
An apparatus for highlighting frequently used items in an interface, comprising:
An apparatus for highlighting links of interest in a web document, comprising:
A computer program product, in a computer readable medium, for highlighting recently used items in an interface, comprising:
A computer program product, in a computer readable medium, for highlighting frequently used items in an interface, comprising:
A computer program product, in a computer readable medium, for highlighting links of interest in a web document, comprising:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.