World wide web navigational mapping system and method

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1996-03-29

2000-03-07

Maung, Zarni

Electrical computers and digital processing systems: multicomput

Remote data accessing

Using interconnected networks

709200, 709203, 709213, 709217, 707102, 707514, 345356, 345357, G06F 1730, G06F 1300

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ABSTRACT:
An Internet navigational mapping system and method provides a user, browsing through various informational resources provided at various World Wide Web site locations supported by the Internet, with a graphical representation of the structure of the web site to permit the user to navigate through the web site efficiently using that structure. That structure can be thought of as a navigational map which represents objects in a web site and links to/from those objects in a hierarchical tree structure. The map could be represented in two-dimensional, three-dimensional, or a virtual reality format. The map therefore provides the user with an easy to read, graphical image of where the user is a web site and where he may go. A web site mapping mechanism is provided which parses the various objects contained in the web site and organizes those objects and links between the objects into an organized, and preferably, hierarchical, fashion. Virtually any object found in a web site such as web pages, graphics, audio clips, animation, etc. may be mapped.

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