Associating supplementary information with network-based content locations

Abstract

The subject invention leverages a locating means, such as, for example, Internet addresses to provide supplementary information based on the location of network content. This allows additional information to be disseminated with the content without requiring the content itself to be modified to contain the supplementary information. By providing locating means association-based supplementary information, the subject invention permits supplementary information such as, for example, advertising, notes, and chats and the like to be relayed to a user along with the desired unaltered content such as, for example, with a web page. In one instance of the subject invention, advertisements are associated with Internet URLs, allowing advertisers to purchase associations that they deem beneficial to their businesses. In another instance of the subject invention, a function of the locating means is utilized to provide a set of locations to associate supplementary information with.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.