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US 6,683,633 B2Granted
Method and system for accessing information
AssigneeIncontext Enterprises, Inc.
InventorsKaren Holtzblatt, Hugh Beyer, Paul Dworkin
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AssigneeIncontext Enterprises, Inc.
InventorsKaren Holtzblatt, Hugh Beyer, Paul Dworkin
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An information accessing system and method enables users to easily navigate through and switch between multiple paths of linked pages of information stored in an information base of text, graphic, video, audio, and animation data. Linked pages of information are displayed in multiple panels on a window on the display. The system displays a navigation panel, a preview panel, a history panel and an expert path panel. The system allows users to preview different possible paths emanating from a specific page of information prior to selecting a specific path to explore.
In a computer system having a user interface, a display, and an information base source, a method for easily navigating through multiple paths of linked pages of information stored in the information base by displaying pages of information in a window on the display, the window having multiple panels, comprising the steps of:
A computer system comprising:
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Using information identifiers, e.g. uniform resource locators [URL]: details of hyperlinks; Management of linked annotations
Computing and data processing
Term ended 12 Mar 2022 (estimated)
The present application for United States Patent is a conversion of provisional application for U.S. Patent Serial No. 60/190,853, filed on Mar. 20, 2000.
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates generally to a system to navigate through web pages, and more particularly, to a navigation tool that allows a user to easily and efficiently move between different paths of linked pages using panels on a display window.
FIG. 1 is an illustration of the system of the present invention showing the Knowledge Crystal Browser implemented on a client computer and communicating with a server to process pages of multi-media pages of information.
FIG. 2 shows the multi-view interface of the Knowledge Crystal Browser, having the navigation panel, preview panel, history panel, and expert path panel.
FIG. 3 shows an initial picture of the human body as displayed in the navigation panel.
The system and method of the present invention will be described by a particular implementation, called a Knowledge Crystal Browser, although it will be apparent to those skilled in the art that other implementations are possible. The Knowledge Crystal Browser is a specialized design based on multi-view browser technology.
Referring to FIG. 1, the Knowledge Crystal Browser is implemented on a client computer 100 such as a Personal Computer PC using HTML. A Knowledge Crystal Browser 102 is installed on the client 100 and communicates with a server 110 using a traditional browser 120 (e.g., Netscape Communicator or Internet Explorer) as an implementation platform. An HTML Library 104 on the client 100 is provided by the conventional browser. Like traditional browsers, the Knowledge Crystal Browser communicates with content servers through the http protocol, shown at 130.
The Knowledge Crystal Browser Server 112 accesses multi-media content (such as text, graphics, audio, video, and/or animation) represented as pages of information, which is stored in an information base called the Knowledge Crystal Database 140. Each page of information stored in the Knowledge Crystal Database 140 may contain one or more links to other pages of information in the information base.