World wide web document distribution system with a plurality of alternate user-interface formats selectively available for each bookmarked web document
First Claim
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 standard display interface format of Web documents bookmarked at one of said receiving display stations, comprising:
- means for bookmarking a received Web document;
means for predetermining at least one alternate display interface format for said standard display interface format of said bookmarked Web documents;
a document folder associated with each said alternate display interface format, each said document folder providing each of said bookmarked Web documents put into said document folder with a set of predetermined characteristics and values defining said alternate display interface format;
means, responsive to said bookmarking means, for enabling a user to put each said bookmarked Web documents into the document folder associated with the corresponding alternate display interface format; and
means for displaying the bookmarked documents in each said document folder in said corresponding alternate display interface format.
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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.
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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 standard display interface format of Web documents bookmarked at one of said receiving display stations, comprising:
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means for bookmarking a received Web document; means for predetermining at least one alternate display interface format for said standard display interface format of said bookmarked Web documents; a document folder associated with each said alternate display interface format, each said document folder providing each of said bookmarked Web documents put into said document folder with a set of predetermined characteristics and values defining said alternate display interface format; means, responsive to said bookmarking means, for enabling a user to put each said bookmarked Web documents into the document folder associated with the corresponding alternate display interface format; and means for displaying the bookmarked documents in each said document folder in said corresponding alternate display interface format. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
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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 standard display interface format of Web documents bookmarked at one of said receiving display stations, comprising:
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bookmarking a received Web document; predetermining at least one alternate display interface format for said standard display interface format of said bookmarked Web documents; providing a document folder associated with each said alternate display interface format, each said document folder providing each of said bookmarked Web documents put into said document folder with a set of predetermined characteristics and values defining said alternate display interface format; enabling a user to put each said bookmarked Web documents into the document folder associated with an alternate display interface format; and displaying the bookmarked documents in each said document folder in said corresponding alternate display interface format. - View Dependent Claims (9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14)
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15. A computer readable medium having stored thereon, a computer program for selectively customizing the standard display interface format of Web documents bookmarked at a receiving Web 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, wherein the computer program when executed on a computer causes the computer to:
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bookmark a received Web document; predetermine at least one alternate display interface format for said standard display interface format of said bookmarked Web documents; provide a document folder associated with each said alternate display interface format, each said document folder providing each of said bookmarked Web documents put into said document folder with a set of predetermined characteristics and values defining said alternate display interface format; enable a user to put each said bookmarked Web documents into the document folder associated with an alternate display interface format; and display the bookmarked documents in each said document folder in said corresponding alternate display interface format. - View Dependent Claims (16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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