Method of providing a web user with additional context-specific information

Abstract

Additional context-specific information is made available to a user at a client machine as the user at a client makes a request and retrieves information from a content provider on the Web. Such additional information is either generated or separately retrieved based on an analysis of the content of the response from a content provider to a request from the client and, optionally, the original request from the client. If this analysis indicates that additional context-specific information is needed, the original response from the content provider is provided to the client with an indication that such additional context-specific information is available. While the original requested information is being delivered to the client and viewed by the user, the additional information is either being generated or retrieved in the background and stored in a Web cache or at a Web server so that if and when the user requests that additional information after reviewing the original response, it is immediately available from a nearby repository. The additional context-specific information is made available to the user by, for example, modifying the original response provided to the user to include a hyperlink to the additional context-specific information, opening a new window or frame that includes the context-specific information, or adding the additional information directly to the untransformed content in the original response.

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