Method of saving a web page to a local hard drive to enable clie

Details Method of saving a web page to a local hard drive to enable clie Method of saving a web page to a local hard drive to enable clie

1997-09-29

2000-12-19

Breene, John

Data processing: database and file management or data structures

Database design

Data structure types

707 1, 707 10, 707104, 707500, 707501, 707513, 709203, G06F 1730

Patent

active

061637793

ABSTRACT:
A method of copying a Web page presented for display on a browser of a Web client. The Web page comprises a base HTML document and a plurality of hypertext references, one or more of which may be associated with embedded objects (such as image files). The operation begins by copying the base HTML document to the client local storage and establishing a pointer to the copied document. A first linked list of the hypertext references in the base document is then generated. Thereafter, and for each hypertext reference in the first linked list, the following operations are performed. If the hypertext reference refers to an embedded object in the base HTML document, the embedded object is saved on the client local storage and the file name of the saved embedded object is stored (as a fully-qualified URL) in a second linked list. If the hypertext reference does not refer to an embedded object in the base HTML document, the fully-qualified URL of the hypertext reference is stored in the second linked list. Then, the fully-qualified URLs of the second linked list (including those associated with the stored images) are updated to point to the files located on the client local storage. At the end of this operation, there is a new HTML page with links for images pointing to files on the local hard drive. When the user desires to retrieve the copied page, a link to the pointer is activated.

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