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US 6,208,995 B1Granted
Web browser download of bookmark set
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsMaria Azua Himmel, Herman Rodriguez
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AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsMaria Azua Himmel, Herman Rodriguez
Estimating the term…
Bookmark sets are provided to a browser in a computer system by downloading a respective bookmark set as a unit. The process begins by creating a bookmark set at a first computer system computer system coupled to a network, the bookmark set containing a set of Uniform Resource Locators (URLs) and downloadable as a unit one or more computer systems. A request for downloading the bookmark set results in sending the bookmark set via the network to a second computer system. The bookmark set is received and used at the second computer system by a browser to access the set of URLs. The request for downloading the bookmark set can be initiated at the first computer system as a push operation or at the second computer system in a pull operation. The bookmark set can be set for automatic update; if changes are made at the first computer system, the updated bookmark set to the second computer system. The bookmark set can be incorporated in a downloaded web document. The browser parses for a tag in the web document which indicates the presence of a bookmark set in the web document and prompts for whether the incorporated bookmark set is to made available for use by the browser.
A method for providing bookmarks to a browser in a computer system comprising the steps of:
A method for providing access to the Internet comprising the steps of:
A system including processor, memory, display, input device and network connector for providing access to the Internet comprising:
A computer program product in a computer readable memory for providing access to the Internet comprising:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.