Method and system for generating materials for presentation on a non-frame capable web browser

• US 6,275,833 B1
• Filed: 01/10/2000
• Issued: 08/14/2001
• Est. Priority Date: 07/15/1997
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Nakamura, Lee Evan, Tate, Stewart Eugene
• Primary Examiner(s): Maung, Zarni
• Assistant Examiner(s): EL HADY, NABIL M
• Application Number:
  US09/480,000
• Time in Patent Office: 582 Days
• Field of Search: 707/501, 707/513, 709/203, 709/219
• US Class Current: 715/234
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9577 Optimising the visualization of content, e.g. distillation of HTML documents

Abstract

A method and system are disclosed for managing Internet presentation materials in a single file format for ease of administration while presenting to an Internet requestor only those portions of the file requested, for maximum performance. Also disclosed is a system and method for presenting Internet materials using borderless presentation areas, where the background specification is decoupled from the presentation area specification. The invention also relates to a system and method for using a dynamic web page builder to generate and manage multiple instances of information to be simultaneously displayed in multiple presentation areas, in which one of the presentation areas contains table of contents information listing various selectable web pages stored in a single file. The table of contents information is continuously displayed on-screen when any of the items listed in the table of contents is selected for ease of navigation through a web site.

Claims

1. A method for presenting internet information, comprising:

receiving a request from a client for presentation of first and second information wherein the second information is based on selection of an item in a generated list presenting the first information and presented to the client;

dynamically generating, in response to the request, a presentation page for presenting information on a browser, the generated presentation page including said first and second information and background information and not including third information,

wherein simultaneously said first information is presented in a first presentation area and indicates a list of other selectable items relating to other presentation information, said second information is presented in a second information area and said background is uniformly presented in both said first and second presentation areas, wherein and said first, second and third information are recorded in a single file.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein said presentation page is a World Wide Web page for display on a web browser.

3. The method according to claim 2, wherein said web browser does not support a hypertext markup language (HTML) Fame tag.

4. The method according to claim 1, where said request includes a uniform resource locator (URL).

5. A system for presenting internet information, comprising:

a server which receives a request from a client for presentation of first and second information wherein the second information is based on selection of an item in a generated list presenting the first information and presented to the client;

a computer-readable file connected to the server and including data for generating first and second presentation information and background information;

a dynamic presentation page generator generating, in response to the request, a presentation page for presenting information at the client, the generated presentation page including said first and second information and said background information,

wherein simultaneously said first information is presented in a first presentation area and indicates a list of other selectable items relating to other presentation information, said second information is presented in a second information area and said background is decoupled from said first and second information and is uniformly presented in both said first and second presentation areas.

6. The system according to claim 5, wherein said first and second information are recorded in a single file.

7. The system according to claim 5, wherein said computer-readable file includes third information recorded in the single file, wherein said third information is not included in the presentation page generated by said dynamic presentation page generator.

8. The system according to claim 5 wherein said presentation page is comprised on hypertext markup language (HTML).

9. The system according to claim 8, wherein said presentation page is interpreted by a web browser which does not recognize an HTML frame tag.