Method, a hypermedia communication system, a hypermedia server, a hypermedia client, and computer software products for accessing, distributing and presenting hypermedia documents

Abstract

The present invention relates to accessing, distributing, and presenting hypermedia documents (5, 6). In particular the invention relates to a method for a hypermedia communication system comprising the steps of generating a hypermedia by presenting the hypermedia in a hypermedia description at a hypermedia server, requesting the hypermedia at a hypermedia client, deploying the hypermedia description from the server to said hypermedia client, presenting the hypermedia by translating the hypermedia description, where said hypermedia description comprising expression means for a reference (70) from an atemporal hypermedia object to a referred hypermedia object, where said method comprises the steps of generating, requesting, deploying, and presenting hypermedia, uniformly, using a hypermedia description comprising further expression means for a reference from a temporal hypermedia object (5) to a referred hypermedia object (5,6). The invention also relates to a hypermedia communication system, a hypermedia server, a hypermedia client, and computer software products therefor.

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