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Acquiring web page information without commitment to downloading the web page

  • US 7,565,409 B2
  • Filed: 11/28/2006
  • Issued: 07/21/2009
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/28/2000
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A computer program product comprising one or more computer-readable media storing computer-executable instructions for implementing a method for a computing system displaying information from one or more linked web pages and without requiring user commitment to download the one or more linked web pages, and wherein the method comprises:

  • accessing and displaying a current web page that includes a displayed and selectable link to a corresponding linked web page;

    accessing summary information associated with the corresponding linked web page and for display with the current web page in response to a cursor hovering over the displayed link, wherein accessing the summary information comprises accessing a store of extracted summary data, the extracted summary data having been extracted from the linked web page by;

    identifying a plurality of paragraph headers on the linked web page; and

    storing the plurality of paragraph headers as extracted summary data;

    receiving user input that causes the cursor to hover over the displayed link; and

    in response to receiving the user input that causes the cursor to hover over the displayed link, displaying the summary information within an informational region that is displayed simultaneously with the display of the current web page, the summary data including up to a predefined maximum number of paragraph headers from the extracted summary data.

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