World wide web document distribution system with a plurality of alternate user-interface formats selectively available for each bookmarked web document

• US 20050060274A1
• Filed: 09/11/2003
• Published: 03/17/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 09/11/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Burkes, Philip Bernard, Awada, Faisal M., Espinoza, Victor Jr., Brown, Joe Nathan
• Granted Patent: US 7,523,386 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9562 Bookmark management

Abstract

A user at a receiving Web station is provided with several alternate Web page display interface formats, from which the user may select the appropriate format for each Web document that he bookmarks. Thus, each time that a bookmarked Web document will be displayed subsequently, it will have this optimum presentation interface format. The implementation comprises bookmarking a received Web document, predetermining at least one display interface format alternate to said standard display interface format for bookmarked Web documents, providing a document folder associated with each alternate display interface format, enabling a user to put a bookmarked Web document into a document folder associated with an alternate display interface format and displaying bookmarked documents in said document folder in said alternate display interface format.

Claims

1. In a World Wide Web (Web) communication network with user access via a plurality of data processor controlled interactive receiving Web display stations for displaying, in a standard display interface format, received hypertext Web documents of at least one display page containing text and images accessible from sources on the Web and hyperlinks to other Web documents, a system for selectively customizing the display interface format of Web documents bookmarked at a receiving display station comprising:

means for bookmarking a received Web document;

means for predetermining at least one display interface format alternate to said standard display interface format for bookmarked Web documents;

means for providing a document folder associated with each alternate display interface format;

means, responsive to said bookmarking means, for enabling a user to put a bookmarked Web document into a document folder associated with an alternate display interface format; and

means for displaying bookmarked documents in said document folder in said alternate display interface format.

2. The Web system of claim 1 further including:

means for further bookmarking a hyperlink in a bookmarked Web document in a document folder associated with an alternate display interface format; and

means, responsive to said means for further bookmarking, for putting the Web document accessed through further bookmarked hyperlink into the document folder associated with said alternate display interface format, whereby said further bookmarked Web document may also be displayed in said same alternate display interface format.

3. The Web system of claim 1 further comprising:

Web browsing means at said receiving display station including;

said means for bookmarking a received Web document;

said means for predetermining at least one display interface format alternate to said standard display interface format for bookmarked Web documents;

said means for providing a document folder associated with each alternate display interface format;

said means for enabling a user to put a bookmarked Web document into a document folder associated with an alternate display interface format; and

said means for displaying bookmarked documents in said document folder in said alternate display interface format.

4. The Web system of claim 3 wherein said browsing means further comprise:

means for further bookmarking a hyperlink in a bookmarked Web document in a document folder associated with an alternate display interface format; and

means, responsive to said means for further bookmarking, for putting the Web document accessed through further bookmarked hyperlink into the document folder associated with said alternate display interface format, whereby said further bookmarked Web document may also be displayed in said same alternate display interface format.

5. The Web system of claim 1 wherein said means for predetermining provides a plurality of said alternate display interface formats;

and

said means for providing respectively provides a document folder associated with each of said alternate display interface formats.

6. The Web system of claim 5 wherein said means for enabling a user to put a bookmarked Web document into a document folder permits the user to put the bookmarked document into a plurality of folders respectfully associated with a plurality of alternate display interface formats.

7. The Web system of claim 5 wherein said means for displaying simultaneously displays said plurality of Web documents having said alternate formats in respective separate windows.

8. In a World Wide Web (Web) communication network with user access via a plurality of data processor controlled interactive receiving Web display stations for displaying, in a standard display interface format, received hypertext Web documents of at least one display page containing text and images accessible from sources on the Web and hyperlinks to other Web documents, a method for selectively customizing the display interface format of Web documents bookmarked at a receiving display station comprising:

bookmarking a received Web document;

predetermining at least one display interface format alternate to said standard display interface format for bookmarked Web documents;

providing a document folder associated with each alternate display interface format;

enabling a user to put a bookmarked Web document into a document folder associated with an alternate display interface format; and

displaying bookmarked documents in said document folder in said alternate display interface format.

9. The method of claim 8 further including the steps of:

further, bookmarking a hyperlink in a bookmarked Web document in a document folder associated with an alternate display interface format; and

putting the Web document accessed through further bookmarked hyperlink into the document folder associated with said alternate display interface format, whereby said further bookmarked Web document may also be displayed in said same alternate display interface format.

10. The method of claim 8 further comprising:

a Web browsing process at said receiving display station including said steps of;

bookmarking a received Web document;

predetermining at least one display interface format alternate to said standard display interface format for bookmarked Web documents;

providing a document folder associated with each alternate display interface format;

enabling a user to put a bookmarked Web document into a document folder associated with an alternate display interface format; and

displaying bookmarked documents in said document folder in said alternate display interface format.

11. The Web method of claim 10 wherein said Web browsing process further comprises said steps of:

further bookmarking a hyperlink in a bookmarked Web document in a document folder associated with an alternate display interface format; and

putting the Web document accessed through said further bookmarked hyperlink into the document folder associated with said alternate display interface format, whereby said further bookmarked Web document may also be displayed in said same alternate display interface format.

12. The method of claim 8 wherein said step of predetermining provides a plurality of said alternate display interface formats;

and

said step of providing respectively provides a document folder associated with each of said alternate display interface formats.

13. The method of claim 12 wherein said user is enabled to put a bookmarked Web document into a document folder to permit the user to put the bookmarked document into a plurality of folders respectfully associated with a plurality of alternate display interface formats.

14. The method of claim 12 wherein said means for displaying simultaneously displays said plurality of Web documents having said alternate formats in respective separate windows.

15. A computer program having code recorded on a computer readable medium for selectively customizing the display interface format of Web documents bookmarked at a receiving display station in a World Wide Web (Web) communication network with user access via a plurality of data processor controlled interactive receiving Web display stations for displaying, in a standard display interface format, received hypertext Web documents of at least one display page containing text and images accessible from sources on the Web and hyperlinks to other Web documents, said computer program comprising:

means for bookmarking a received Web document;

means for predetermining at least one display interface format alternate to said standard display interface format for bookmarked Web documents;

means for providing a document folder associated with each alternate display interface format;

means, responsive to said bookmarking means, for enabling a user to put a bookmarked Web document into a document folder associated with an alternate display interface format; and

means for displaying bookmarked documents in said document folder in said alternate display interface format.

16. The computer program of claim 15 further including:

means for further bookmarking a hyperlink in a bookmarked Web document in a document folder associated with an alternate display interface format; and

means, responsive to said means for further bookmarking, for putting the Web document accessed through further bookmarked hyperlinks into the document folder associated with said alternate display interface format, whereby said further bookmarked Web document may also be displayed in said same alternate display interface format.

17. The computer program of claim 15 further comprising:

Web browser program at said receiving display station including;

said means for bookmarking a received Web document;

said means for predetermining at least one display interface format alternate to said standard display interface format for bookmarked Web documents;

said means for providing a document folder associated with each alternate display interface format;

said means for enabling a user to put a bookmarked Web document into a document folder associated with an alternate display interface format; and

said means for displaying bookmarked documents in said document folder in said alternate display interface format.

18. The computer program of claim 17 wherein said Web browser program further comprises:

means for further bookmarking a hyperlink in a bookmarked Web document in a document folder associated with an alternate display interface format; and

means, responsive to said means for further bookmarking, for putting the Web document accessed through further bookmarked hyperlinks into the document folder associated with said alternate display interface format, whereby said further bookmarked Web document may also be displayed in said same alternate display interface format.

19. The computer program of claim 15 wherein said means for predetermining provides a plurality of said alternate display interface formats;

and

said means for providing respectively provides a document folder associated with each of said alternate display interface formats.

20. The computer program of claim 19 wherein said means for displaying simultaneously displays said plurality of Web documents having said alternate formats in respective separate windows.