Web page thumbnails and user configured complementary information provided from a server
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsMichael Wayne Brown, Kelvin Roderick Lawrence, Michael A. Paolini
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Abstract
A method for presenting content from the page in a distributed database. In a preferred embodiment, a server receives a request from a client for a page from the database wherein the page has a plurality of links to linked pages in the database. The server retrieves the page and generates a set of thumbnails of the linked pages in the database. The server then sends the page and the set of thumbnails to the client.
Claims12
A method for presenting content from a page in a distributed database, comprising the steps of:
- receiving, at a server, a request from a client for a page from the database, wherein the page has a plurality of links to linked pages in the database;
- retrieving the page;
- generating, by the server, a set of thumbnails of the linked pages in the database;
- identifying a given link within the plurality of links for which a replacement thumbnail is to be displayed;
- and
- replacing a thumbnail for the given page with the replacement thumbnail in the set of thumbnails,
- wherein the replacement thumbnail is one of an icon representing a broken link, an icon representing a link to a page containing an excessive number of broken links, and an icon provided by a content provider of a page associated with the given link.
A computer program product in computer readable media for use in a proxy server for providing content from the page in a distributed database, the computer program product comprising:
- first instructions for receiving, at a server, a request from a client for a page from the database wherein the page has a plurality of links to linked pages in the database;
- second instructions for retrieving the page;
- third instructions for generating a set of thumbnails of the linked pages in the database;
- fourth instructions for identifying a given link within the plurality of links for which a replacement thumbnail is to be displayed;
- and
- fifth instructions for replacing a thumbnail for the given page with the replacement thumbnail in the set of thumbnails,
- wherein the replacement thumbnail is one of an icon representing a broken link, an icon representing a link to a page containing an excessive number of broken links, and an icon provided by a content provider of a page associated with the given link.
A system for providing content from the page in a distributed database, comprising:
- means for receiving, at a server, a request from a client for a page from the database wherein the page has a plurality of links to linked pages in the database;
- means for retrieving the page;
- means for generating a set of thumbnails of the linked pages in the database;
- means for dentifying a given link within the plurality of links for which a replacement thumbnail is to be displayed;
- and
- means for replacing a thumbnail for the given page with the replacement thumbnail in the set of thumbnails,
- wherein the replacement thumbnail is one of an icon representing a broken link, an icon representing a link to a page containing an excessive number of broken links, and an icon provided by a content provider of a page associated with the given link.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.