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US 7,073,121 B2Granted
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.
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A method of processing requests for pages on the Internet, comprising the steps of:
- receiving, at a server, user criteria and a request from a requestor for a page from the Internet, wherein user criteria comprises both positive preferences and negative preferences, and wherein the negative preferences indicate at least one of unwanted material or unwanted characteristics;
- retrieving the page requested by the requestor to form a requested page;
- parsing the requested page for a set of links to a set of linked web pages associated with the page;
- retrieving the set of linked pages;
- parsing the set of linked pages for the negative preferences;
- responsive to finding the negative preferences on a linked page within the set of linked pages, modifying the requested page to indicate a presence of the negative preferences on the linked page;
- parsing the set of linked pages for the positive preferences;
- responsive to finding the positive preferences on the linked page within the set of linked pages, modifying the requested page to indicate a presence of the positive preferences on the linked page;
- and
- sending a modified page to the requestor, wherein the modified page contains modifications to the requested page that indicate a presence of positive preferences and negative preferences found on the set of the linked pages associated with the requested page.
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A computer program product in a computer readable medium for processing requests for pages on the Internet, said computer program product comprising:
- instructions for receiving, at a server, user criteria and a request from a requestor for a page from the Internet, wherein user criteria comprises both positive preferences and negative preferences, and wherein the negative preferences indicate at least one of unwanted material or unwanted characteristics;
- instructions for retrieving the page requested by the requestor to form a requested page;
- instructions for parsing the requested page for a set of links to a set of linked web pages associated with the page;
- instructions for retrieving the set of linked pages;
- instructions for parsing the set of linked pages for negative preferences;
- instructions for responsive to finding the negative preferences on a linked page within the set of linked pages, modifying the requested page to indicate a presence of the negative preferences on the linked page;
- instructions for parsing the set of linked pages for the positive preferences;
- instructions for responsive to finding the positive preferences on the linked page within the set of linked pages, modifying the requested page to indicate a presence of the positive preferences on the linked page;
- and
- instructions for sending a modified page to the requestor, wherein the modified page contains modifications to the reqested page that indicate a presence of positive preferences and negative preferences found on the linked pages associated with the requested page.
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A system for processing requests for pages on the Internet, said system comprising:
- a storage device coupled to a bus, wherein the storage device contains a computer usable program product;
- a communications unit coupled to the bus;
- and
- a processor unit coupled to the bus, wherein the processor unit executes the computer usable program code to receive user criteria and a request from a requestor for a page from the Internet, and wherein user criteria comprises both positive preferences and negative preferences, and wherein the negative preferences indicate at least one of unwanted material or unwanted characteristics;
- retrieve the page requested by the requestor to form a requested page;
- parse the requested page for a set of links to a set of linked web pages associated with the page;
- retrieve the set of linked pages;
- parse the set of linked pages for negative preferences;
- modify the requested page to indicate a presence of the negative preferences on the linked page in response to finding the negative preferences on a linked page within the set of linked pages;
- parse the set of linked pages for the positive preferences;
- modify the requested page to indicate a presence of the positive preferences on the linked page, in response to finding the positive preferences on the linked page within the set of linked pages;
- and send a modified page to the requestor, wherein the modified page contains modifications to the requested page that indicate a presence of positive preferences and negative preferences found on the linked pages associated with the requested page.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.