SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR BUILDING AND EXECUTING A NAVIGATION INSTRUCTION VIA CORRESPONDING SENTENCE CONSTRUCTION

• US 20020069264A1
• Filed: 03/25/1999
• Published: 06/06/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 03/25/1999
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Sandro Pasquali
• Original Assignee: Sandro Pasquali
• Inventors: PASQUALI, SANDRO
• Application Number:
  US09/276,016
• Publication Number:
  US 20020069264A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/219
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/954 Navigation, e.g. using categorised browsing
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 61/00 Network arrangements, protocols or services for addressing or naming
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 61/30 Managing network names, e.g. use of aliases or nicknames name-to-address mapping H04L61/45
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/01 Protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/40 Network security protocols

Abstract

System and method for building and executing a network navigation instruction via corresponding sentence construction that includes and involves a server data processing system having at least one database storing navigation options and corresponding navigation destination instructions. The system and method further include and involve a client data processing system coupled to the server data processing system via an electronic data network. The client data processing system is configured with at least one stored program. The stored program permits the client data processing system to access the server data processing system to load the navigation options and the corresponding navigation destination instructions into a local data storage facility, and to facilitate construction of a navigation sentence via selection of pre-configured sentence parts. The pre-configured sentence parts include a destination corresponding to at least one of the navigation options and the corresponding navigation destination instructions. The client data processing system retrieves network content based on the navigation sentence.

Claims

1. A system for building and executing a network navigation instruction via corresponding sentence construction, comprising:

a server data processing system having at least one database storing navigation options and corresponding navigation destination instructions; and

a client data processing system coupled to the server data processing system via an electronic data network and configured with at least one program, said at least one program causes said client data processing system to access said server data processing system to load said navigation options and said corresponding navigation destination instructions into a local data storage facility, to facilitate construction of a navigation sentence via selection of pre-configured sentence parts, said pre-configured sentence parts including a destination corresponding to at least one of said navigation options and said corresponding navigation destination instructions,

whereby said client data processing system retrieves network content based on said navigation sentence and said destination thereof.

2. The system according to claim 1, wherein said client data processing system retrieves said network content via a WWW site and said electronic data network.

3. The system according to claim 1, wherein said destination instructions include links to content accessible via said electronic data network, said at least one program further configured to traverse said links.

4. The system according to claim 3, wherein said links are uniform resource locators (URLs).

5. The system according to claim 1, wherein selection of said sentence parts is realized via pull-down dialogs within a graphical user interface provided within said client data processing system.

6. The system according to claim 5, wherein said graphical user interface is provided within a WWW site review window of a running WWW browser software package.

7. A network content search engine adapted to facilitate Internet and WWW content searching, comprising:

a software package configured to be downloaded to a client data processing system, said software package including at least one network navigation destination instruction, said software package facilitating client-side construction of a navigation sentence via selection of pre-configured sentence parts, said pre-configured sentence parts including said at least one network navigation destination instruction,

whereby network content is retrieved based on said navigation sentence and said at least one network navigation destination instruction.

8. The network content search engine according to claim 7, wherein said network navigation destination instruction is a uniform resource locator (URL).

9. The network content search engine according to claim 7, wherein selection of said pre-configured sentence parts is realized via pull-down dialogs within a graphical user interface provided within a client data processing system.

10. The system according to claim 9, wherein said graphical user interface is provided within a WWW site review window of a running WWW browser software package.

11. A method of using a network content search engine, comprising the steps of:

(a) accessing a first network location to receive a software package, said software package facilitating construction of a navigation sentence via selection of pre-configured sentence parts, said pre-configured sentence parts including said at least one network navigation destination instruction; and

(b) accessing a second network location based on said at least one network navigation destination instruction.

12. The method according to claim 11, wherein step (a) is initiated within a client-side system running in accordance with a WWW browser software application.

13. The method according to claim 11, wherein step (b) is initiated within a client-side system running in accordance with a WWW browser software application.

14. The method according to claim 11, wherein said at least one network navigation destination instruction is a uniform resource locator (URL).

15. The method according to claim 11, wherein said software package includes said at least one network navigation destination instruction.

18. The software system according to claim 17, wherein said database module includes values corresponding to sentence parts that may be assembled to correspond to said destination navigation instructions.

19. The software system according claim 17, wherein said database module includes a reference to a network resource having values corresponding to sentence parts that may be assembled to correspond to said destination navigation instructions.

20. The software system according to claim 17, wherein said search sentence construction module includes instructions to control said network client application to permit graphical user interface (GUI) selection of sentence parts.

16. A method for facilitation network content searching, comprising the steps of:

generating a software package, said software package including at least one network navigation destination instruction, said software package facilitating construction of a navigation sentence via selection of pre-configured sentence parts, said pre-configured sentence parts including said at least one network navigation destination instruction; and

serving said software package to a client data processing system to be run thereby.

17. A software system adapted to be downloaded to a network client system running in accordance with a network client application to facilitate access to a network content source, comprising:

a database module having a database of destination navigation instructions, said destination navigation instructions corresponding to network content sources; and

a search sentence construction module permitting construction of a search sentence corresponding to at least one of said destination navigation instructions, said at least one destination navigation instruction adapted to be processed within said network client application to access said network content source.