HYPERLINK WITH GRAPHICAL CUE

• US 20140298149A1
• Filed: 03/24/2014
• Published: 10/02/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 03/20/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Aloft Media, LLC (Oso IP, LLC)
• Original Assignee: Boadin Technology LLC (Oso IP, LLC)
• Inventors: Arav, Gal
• Granted Patent: US 10,042,823 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/205
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/134 Hyperlinking
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/107 Computer-aided management of electronic mailing [e-mailing]

Abstract

A system, method, and computer program product are provided for causing display of a first set of representations of a first set of hyperlinks. In operation, a first input from a user is received indicating a selection of one of the first set of hyperlink representations and causes, in response to receiving the first input, display of a second set of representations of a second set of hyperlinks. Further, a second input from the user is received indicating a selection of one of the second set of hyperlink representations, and causes, in response to receiving the second input, navigation to a destination specified by the selected one of the second set of hyperlink representations.

Claims

1. A computer program product embodied on a non-transitory computer-readable medium, comprising:

computer code for causing display of a first set of representations of a first set of hyperlinks;

computer code for allowing receipt of a first input from a user indicating a selection of one of the first set of hyperlink representations;

computer code for causing, in response to receiving the first input, display of a second set of representations of a second set of hyperlinks;

computer code for allowing receipt of a second input from the user indicating a selection of one of the second set of hyperlink representations; and

computer code for causing, in response to receiving the second input, navigation to a destination specified by the selected one of the second set of hyperlink representations.

2. The computer program product of claim 1, wherein the first set of representations is a set of textual representations.

3. The computer program product of claim 1, wherein the computer code for allowing receipt of the first input comprises computer code for allowing receipt of the first input from the user indicating a mouse click on the selected one of the first set of hyperlink representations.

4. The computer program product of claim 1, wherein the computer code for allowing receipt of the first input comprises computer code for allowing receipt of the first input from the user indicating a mouse cursor hovering over the selected one of the first set of hyperlink representations.

5. The computer program product of claim 1, wherein the second set of representations is a set of graphical representations.

6. The computer program product of claim 1, wherein the computer code for allowing receipt of the second input comprises computer code for allowing receipt of the second input from the user indicating a mouse click on the selected one of the second set of hyperlink representations.

7. The computer program product of claim 1, wherein the computer code for allowing receipt of the second input comprises computer code for allowing receipt of the second input from the user indicating a mouse cursor hovering over the selected one of the second set of hyperlink representations.

8. The computer program product of claim 1, wherein the computer code for causing, in response to receiving the first input, display of the second set of representations comprises computer code for causing display of the second set of representations of the second set of hyperlinks substantially immediately after receiving the first input.

9. The computer program product of claim 1, wherein the first set of representations is specified by the user before displaying the first set of representations.

10. The computer program product of claim 1, wherein the second set of representations is specified by the user before displaying the second set of representations.