Method and apparatus for publishing hypermedia documents over wide area networks

• US 20030041117A1
• Filed: 03/15/2002
• Published: 02/27/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 03/28/1995
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Oath Inc. (Verizon Communications Inc.)
• Original Assignee: America Online Inc. (Warner Bros. Discovery, Inc.)
• Inventors: Williams, George W. V, Brady, Karen, Davidson, James G., Dozier, Linda T., Long, Dave, McKee, Douglas M.
• Granted Patent: US 7,139,812 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/217
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/10 File systems; File servers
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/958 Organisation or management of web site content, e.g. publishing, maintaining pages or automatic linking

Abstract

The present invention addresses the critical needs of publishers seeking to create and publish hypermedia content in electronic form across the wide area networks (“WAN'"'"'s”) such as the World Wide Web. Toward this end, a client-server development platform is provided for handling the important functions of document authoring, content-based indexing and retrieval of documents, management and control of proprietary assets, and a support for developing form-driven interactive services, all in a manner that is uniquely and seamlessly WAN-integrated.

Claims

1. A computer program, residing on a computer-readable medium, for publishing electronic documents comprising one or more servers, said computer program for use by a user having a client computer operably coupled to a first server, said computer program comprising instructions for causing a computer to:

access a source document located on a source server, the source document including at least one link addressing a target document located on a target server;

access the target document by signaling the link using a cursor control device;

edit the target document; and

save the target document as modified on a destination server,

wherein the foregoing instructions are performed regardless of whether the first, source, target, and destination servers are the same or different servers.