Web page thumbnails and user configured complementary...

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2007-01-23

2007-01-23

Pardo, Thuy N. (Department: 2165)

Data processing: database and file management or data structures

Database design

Data structure types

C707S793000, C707S793000, C707S793000, C707S793000, C715S252000, C345S557000

Reexamination Certificate

active

10662611

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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