Method and apparatus for graphically representing portions of th

Details Method and apparatus for graphically representing portions of th Method and apparatus for graphically representing portions of th

1997-01-30

2000-05-30

Asta, Frank J.

Data processing: database and file management or data structures

Database design

Data structure types

395355, G06F 1730

Patent

active

060701765

ABSTRACT:
A technique is provided for displaying a map of a portion of the World Wide Web. A number of Web documents are retrieved by a client computer system executing a search engine. Web documents are then represented on a display device as objects and the relevance of the Web documents to the search criteria is indicated by the apparent distance of the corresponding object to the user. Hypertext links between Web documents are represented as arrows between the objects. Additional information relating to Web sites, such as the popularity of a Web site, the length of a Web document, and the number of hypertext links in a Web document, are represented to the user visually using visual attributes of objects, such as color, shape, and texture.

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