Method for generating a presentation for re-locating an information page that has already been called

• US 7,296,062 B2
• Filed: 03/28/2002
• Issued: 11/13/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 03/30/2001
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Recog IP LLC (IPValuation Partners, LLC)
• Original Assignee: Siemens AG
• Inventors: Kuth, Rainer, Bengi, Ali Nejat
• Primary Examiner(s): NGUYEN, THU HA T
• Application Number:
  US10/108,595
• Publication Number:
  US 20020143895A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,056 Days
• Field of Search: 709217-219, 709/227, 709/249, 709/203, 715/760, 715/833, 715853-855, 715/974, 715736-738, 345/760, 345/738, 713/151, 725/37
• US Class Current: 709/217
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/34 Browsing; Visualisation therefor
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/955 using information identifiers, e.g. uniform resource locators [URL]

Abstract

In a method for generating a presentation for re-locating an information page that was already called proceeding from a home page of an information vendor, and which has been exited in the meantime, the home page being able to be called via the Internet, and an intranet or an extranet, the user is registered when the home page is called. Further, the information pages of the information vendor called by the user directly and indirectly proceeding from the home page are registered; and set up on the home page, and a displayable presentation is generated from which the sequence of the information pages of the information vendor called by the user can be recognized.

Claims

1. A method for generating a presentation for re-locating an information page that has been called, via a network selected from the group consisting of the Internet, an intranet, and an extranet, from a home page of an information vendor having a vendor server and which has subsequently been exited, comprising the steps of:

when a user, via a user computer in communication with said vendor server, calls a home page, comprising home page contents, of an information vendor, registering said user at said vendor server;

at said vendor server registering information pages of said information vendor called by said user directly and indirectly proceeding from said home page; and

at said vendor server only temporarily generating a displayable presentation, for display at said user computer which visually identifies a sequence of said information pages of said information vendor called by said user, and deleting said presentation from said vendor server, with no storage of said presentation or said information pages at said vendor server, when said user exits an information session with said information vendor.

2. A method as claimed in claim 1 wherein the step of generating said displayable presentation comprises setting up said displayable presentation on the contents of said home page, with said sequence being graphically identified.

3. A method as claimed in claim 2 comprising graphically identifying said sequence with arrows.

4. A method as claimed in claim 2 comprising graphically identifying said sequence with numbers.

5. A method as claimed in claim 1 comprising including plain text descriptions of the respective contents of the called information pages in said presentation.

6. A method as claimed in claim 1 wherein said presentation comprises at least two displayable levels, and wherein the step of generating said displayable presentation comprises setting up a first of said displayable levels at said home page, and setting up a second of said levels at a branch page that can be called proceeding from said home page and which offers at least one information page that can be called, and including a visual identification in said first of said displayable levels that branching into said second of said levels has occurred.