Data processing: presentation processing of document – operator i – Operator interface – Mark up language interface
Reexamination Certificate
2001-11-10
2009-06-09
Sax, Steven P (Department: 2174)
Data processing: presentation processing of document, operator i
Operator interface
Mark up language interface
C715S968000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07546538
ABSTRACT:
A system and method for web browsing contemporaneously displays multiple web pages, advertisements, or other applications, preferably within a single window, for a user to view. In a preferred embodiment, a current web page, a past web page, a future web page, and/or an advertisement or other application 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. In other embodiments, a host provides a list of web pages that are to be displayed in the panels. In other embodiments, a user selects a list of web pages that are to be displayed in the panels. In other embodiments, hyperlinks are filtered and/or prioritized to determine which web pages are to be displayed in the panels. In this manner, the user contemporaneously views the current web page, the past page, and the future web page, or alternately, multiple web pages in the single window. Preferably, the present invention is implemented as a web browsing room in a three-dimensional space where walls of the rooms correspond to various ones of the aforementioned panels and a floor of which may be used to display advertisements or provide other applications. The user can view the web pages in the browsing room using various three-dimensional navigation techniques.
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Johnson William R.
Randa Robert C.
Shuping David T.
Browse3D Corporation
Sax Steven P
Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice PLLC
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