System and method for web browsing

Details System and method for web browsing System and method for web browsing

2001-11-02

2009-11-24

Sax, Steven P (Department: 2174)

Data processing: presentation processing of document, operator i

Operator interface

Mark up language interface

C715S792000

Reexamination Certificate

active

07624348

ABSTRACT:
A system and method for web browsing contemporaneously displays multiple web pages, preferably within a single window, for a user to view. In a preferred embodiment, a current web page, a past web page, and a future web page are contemporaneously displayed in a single window. In this embodiment, the present invention tracks a past web page and renders it in a first panel, renders the current web page in a second panel, and identifies a hyperlink in the current web page to retrieve and render the future web page in a third panel. Preferably, all of these panels are embedded within a single window. In this manner, the user contemporaneously views the current web page, the past page, and the future web page in the single window. Preferably, a web browsing room is implemented in a three-dimensional space where walls of the rooms correspond to various ones of the aforementioned panels. The user can view the web pages in the browsing room using various three-dimensional navigation techniques.

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