System for precluding repetitive accessing of Web pages in a sequence of linked Web pages accessed from the World Wide Web through searching

In a World Wide Web communication network with user access via a plurality of data processor controlled interactive receiving display stations for displaying received hypertext documents including a sequence of at least one display page containing text, images and a plurality of embedded hyperlinks, each hyperlink being user selectable to access and display a respective linked hypertext document, a method for precluding repetitive accessing of documents linked to hyperlinks in a plurality of hypertext documents comprising:

• activating at a receiving display station, hyperlinks to linked documents, in a received hypertext document,
• accessing said linked documents responsive to said activating,
• discounting hyperlinks in received Web documents,
• keeping track of each discounted hyperlink in each accessed linked document, and
• precluding the accessing of any document linked to a previously discounted hyperlink in a subsequently accessed another Web document not previously received.

A computer program having code recorded on a computer readable medium for precluding repetitive accessing of documents linked to hyperlinks in a plurality of hypertext documents in a World Wide Web communication network with user access via a plurality of data processor controlled interactive receiving display stations for displaying received hypertext documents including a sequence of at least one display page containing text, images and a plurality of embedded hyperlinks, each hyperlink being user selectable to access and display a respective linked hypertext document, said program comprising:

• means at a receiving display station for activating hyperlinks to linked documents,
• means responsive to said activating means for accessing said linked documents,
• user interactive means for discounting hyperlinks in received Web documents,
• means for keeping track of each discounted hyperlink in each received or accessed document, and
• means for precluding the accessing of any document linked to a previously discounted hyperlink in a subsequently accessed another Web document not previously received.

A Web communication network comprising:

• a receiving display station,
• means for displaying accessed received Web documents having hyperlinks to other Web documents at said display station,
• means for discounting hyperlinks in a received Web document, and
• means for precluding said discounted hyperlinks in any Web documents received subsequent to said received Web document.