WEB BROWSER WITH MULTILEVEL FUNCTIONS

• US 20100199206A1
• Filed: 04/13/2010
• Published: 08/05/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 02/24/2000
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: RPX Corporation
• Original Assignee: Rpx-Nw Acquisition LLC (RPX Corporation)
• Inventors: Dowling, Eric Morgan
• Application Number:
  US12/759,452
• Publication Number:
  US 20100199206A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/771
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/951 Indexing; Web crawling techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/143 Markup, e.g. Standard Generalized Markup Language [SGML] or Document Type Definition [DTD]
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99933 Query processing, i.e. searching
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99934 Query formulation, input preparation, or translation
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99935 Query augmenting and refining, e.g. inexact access

Abstract

A architecture is provided to enable a client web browser to conduct and manage a multilevel search. The browser includes an application layer interface. The application layer interface is for coupling to network via a protocol stack. The browser also includes a markup language parser. The parser receives information from the application layer interface. The browser also includes a graphical user interface for interacting with a user. The graphical user interface allows a user to specify a set of multilevel search parameters. The browser also includes a markup language processor that receives input from the markup language parser and multilevel search parameters from the graphical user interface. The markup language processor conducts and manages a multilevel search to find specified information on a current web page or a web page referenced by the current web page in accordance with a parameterized search tree. The present invention also enables an automatic processes to print sets of linked web pages and to generate sitemaps, filtered sitemaps, filtered results pages in accordance with user specifications.

Claims

1. An apparatus comprising:

means for obtaining information from an application layer interface;

means for obtaining at least one of;

a first parameter that is related to content, and/or a second parameter that identifies a linked set of documents;

means for obtaining, via a single selectable feature of a user interface, user input associated with a desire to advance to a next location within the linked set of documents that includes an instance of the content related to the first parameter;

means for setting the next location to correspond to at least a portion of the currently open document in which the content is present;

means for identifying a next document within the linked set of documents in which the content is present;

means for setting the next location to correspond to at least a portion of the next document in which the content is present in; and

means for initiating display of the next location via a computer display monitor.