US 6,606,654 B1Granted

Link delivery for subsequent retrieval of networked information

AssigneeNetJumper, Inc.

InventorsGilbert Borman, Christopher Piedmonte, John Martin, Matapadi Ramachandra Acharya, Murali Kishan Bhat, Sudheesh Chandran Kakkroth Chakkapoyyan, Vinaya Kumari

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Abstract

A system and method for providing links to a browser program running on a computer connected to a network include receiving a request from the browser program to transfer a file representing a home page for display in the browser program, and determining a storage location on the computer for links used by the browser program. The system and method may include requesting permission to modify links used by the browser program prior to transferring a list of links to the storage location on the computer for subsequent use by the browser in retrieving information from the network. The list of links may be statically or dynamically generated with one or more links provided by a link server on the network. In one embodiment, accounting information relative to the number and type of links transferred to the user's computer is collected and may be forwarded to an associated billing computer located on the network.

Claims4

Dependent claims

A method for delivering links from a web server to a browser running on a user's computer system, the method comprising:

receiving a request from the browser to transfer a file representing a page for display in the browser;
automatically transferring a plurality of objects contained within the page to the browser in response to the request, wherein at least one object includes instructions for transferring a hierarchical directory structure of files and directories to the user's computer system;
generating a list of links to be transferred to the user's computer system by assembling a plurality of links into a hierarchical directory structure of files and directories wherein each file corresponds to a single link;
transferring the hierarchical directory structure of files and directories to the user's computer system;
storing the hierarchical directory structure of files and directories in a browser-specific location using the previously transferred instructions contained within the object such that the hierarchical directory structure integrates the plurality of links into at least the browser.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.