System and method for accessing content of a web page
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsHans Donker, Edward E. Kelley, Tijs Y. Wilbrink
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Abstract
A process and system for visually displaying to a user at a client computer alternative web pages to a desired web page. The invention locates these alternative web pages in search engines by searching for alternative cached copies of web pages and/or mirror sites. A user may view a hotlink to a desired web page on an accessed web page and either be provided with a table of alternative web pages for manually selecting the alternative web page or the invention may automatically, dynamically select the best alternative web page to the originally selected web page.
Claims20
A process of presenting alternative web pages of a requested hyperlink to a user at a client computer comprising:
- accessing a first web page having hyperlinks to other web pages;
- selecting a first hyperlink from said hyperlinks on said first web page;
- locating at least one alternative web page for said first hyperlink in a search engine;
- and
- visually displaying said at least one alternative web page to said user at said client computer.
A process for deploying computing infrastructure comprising integrating computer-readable code into a computing system, wherein the code in combination with the computing system is capable of performing the method of presenting alternative web pages of a requested hyperlink to a user at a client computer comprising:
- accessing a first web page having hyperlinks to other web pages;
- selecting a first hyperlink from said hyperlinks on said first web page;
- locating at least one alternative web page for said first hyperlink in a search engine;
- and
- visually displaying said at least one alternative web page to said user at said client computer.
A system for presenting alternative web pages of a requested hyperlink to a user at a client computer, the system to perform the steps of:
- accessing a first web page having hyperlinks to other web pages;
- selecting a first hyperlink from said hyperlinks on said first web page;
- locating at least one alternative web page for said first hyperlink in a search engine;
- and
- visually displaying said at least one alternative web page to said user at said client computer.
A program storage device readable by a machine, tangibly embodying a program of instructions executable by the machine to perform method steps for a process of presenting alternative web pages of a requested hyperlink to a user at a client computer comprising:
- accessing a first web page having hyperlinks to other web pages;
- selecting a first hyperlink from said hyperlinks on said first web page;
- locating at least one alternative web page for said first hyperlink in a search engine;
- and
- visually displaying said at least one alternative web page to said user at said client computer.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.