Implementation for determining user interest in the portions of lengthy received web documents by dynamically tracking and visually indicating the cumulative time spent by user in the portions of received web document
First Claim
1. In a World Wide Web (Web) communication network with user access via a plurality of data processor controlled interactive receiving display stations for displaying received hypertext documents having a plurality of display pages containing text, images and media, a system for dynamically tracking and indicating a user'"'"'s interest in the portions of a received lengthy document comprising:
- means enabling a user to interactively navigate in a received Web document;
means for tracking the cumulative time that said user spends in each of a plurality of document portions during the navigation of the received Web document; and
means for visually indicating within the received Web document said tracked cumulative time spent in each of said portions.
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Abstract
An implementation for dynamically tracking received lengthy Web documents containing text, images, media and hyperlinks to other documents to determine the user interests in the various document portions with little or no effort on the part of novice computer users to carry out such tracking. The cumulative time that said user spends in each of a plurality of document portions during the navigation via scrolling of the received Web document is tracked, and the tracked cumulative time spent in each of said portions is visually indicating within the received Web document.
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1. In a World Wide Web (Web) communication network with user access via a plurality of data processor controlled interactive receiving display stations for displaying received hypertext documents having a plurality of display pages containing text, images and media, a system for dynamically tracking and indicating a user'"'"'s interest in the portions of a received lengthy document comprising:
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means enabling a user to interactively navigate in a received Web document;
means for tracking the cumulative time that said user spends in each of a plurality of document portions during the navigation of the received Web document; and
means for visually indicating within the received Web document said tracked cumulative time spent in each of said portions. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
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11. In a Web communication network with user access via a plurality of data processor controlled interactive receiving display stations for displaying received hypertext documents having a plurality of display pages containing text, images and media, a method for dynamically tracking and indicating a user'"'"'s interest in the portions of a received lengthy document comprising:
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enabling a user to interactively navigate in a received Web document;
tracking the cumulative time that said user spends in each of a plurality of document portions during the navigation of the received Web document; and
visually indicating within the received Web document said tracked cumulative time spent in each of said portions. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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21. A computer program having code recorded on a computer readable medium for dynamically tracking and indicating a user'"'"'s interest in the portions of a received lengthy Web document in a Web communication network with user access via a plurality of data processor controlled interactive receiving display stations for displaying received hypertext documents having a plurality of display pages containing text, images and media, said computer program comprising:
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means enabling a user to interactively navigate in a received Web document;
means for tracking the cumulative time that said user spends in each of a plurality of document portions during the navigation of the received Web document; and
means for visually indicating within the received Web document said tracked cumulative time spent in each of said portions. - View Dependent Claims (22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30)
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31. In a Web communication network with user access via a plurality of data processor controlled interactive receiving display stations for displaying received hypertext documents having a plurality of display pages containing text, images and media, an implementation for dynamically tracking and indicating a user'"'"'s interest in the portions of a received lengthy document comprising:
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an implement enabling a user to interactively scroll the pages of a received Web document on a display screen;
a counting device for tracking the cumulative time that said user spends in each of a plurality of document portions during the scrolling of the received Web document; and
an implement for visually indicating within the received Web document said tracked cumulative time spent in each of said portions. - View Dependent Claims (32, 33, 34, 35)
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