Customizable web site access system and method therefore

• US 20050055643A1
• Filed: 10/31/2003
• Published: 03/10/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 10/20/2000
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Adaptive Avenue Associates, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Adaptive Avenue Associates, Inc.
• Inventors: Quimby, David H.
• Granted Patent: US 7,428,707 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/763
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/954 Navigation, e.g. using categorised browsing

Abstract

The web site access system comprises an auto composer including the components of a composer and performer. The composer composes a web slide show presentation through automatic extraction of web page details from a desired web page. The web page details includes one or more of the following: a plurality of hyperlinks found within the desired web page that provides a plurality of URLs; a presentation/rendition text file within the desired web page that provides a plurality of URLs; and a meta tag within the desired web page that provides a plurality of URLs. The performer display the web slide show presentation in order of the plurality of URLS provided by the extracted web page details.

Claims

1. An auto-composing web site access system, comprising;

a composer, wherein said composer composes a web slide show presentation through automatic extraction of web page details from a desired web page, wherein said web page details include one or more of the following;

a plurality of hyperlinks found within the desired web page that provides a plurality of URLs, a presentation/rendition text file within the desired web page that provides a plurality of URLs, a meta tag within the desired web page that provides a plurality of URLs; and

a performer, wherein said performer displays said web slide show presentation in order of the plurality of URLs provided by the extracted web page details.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein said presentation/rendition text file is found within the root directory of a web site containing said desired web page.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein said meta tag or said text file includes display parameters defining presentation of each of said plurality of URLs.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein said performer provides a control panel, wherein said control panel controls the manner of presentation of each of said plurality of URLs.

5. The system of claim 4, wherein said control panel is presented in the foreground or in the background of the presentation.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein said system is invocable via hyperlink to a web site wherein said system is maintained as an active server page.

7. A method for auto composing a web site, the method comprising the steps of:

composing a presentation for a desired web page by creating a list of URLs, wherein said step of composing comprises one or more of the following;

automatically extracting a plurality of hyperlinks from said desired web page, wherein said plurality of hyperlinks provide said URLs;

automatically extracting a presentation/rendition text file from said desired web page, wherein the text file provides said URLs; and

automatically extracting a meta tag from the desired web page, wherein said meta tag provides said URLs; and

automatically displaying said presentation, wherein said presentation is presented in order of the created list of URLs.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein said presentation/rendition text file is found within the root directory of a web site containing said desired web page.

9. The method of claim 7, wherein said meta tag or said text file includes display parameters defining presentation of each of said plurality of URLs.

10. The method of claim 7, further comprising the step of providing a control panel, wherein said control panel controls the manner of presentation of each of said plurality of URLs.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein said step of providing a control panel comprises providing a control panel in a foreground or a background of the presentation.

12. A screen saver system for a computer display monitor, comprising:

an activator configured as a screen saver file, wherein said activator activates a composer to create a presentation wherein said presentation comprises a list of a plurality of URLs and a performer to automatically display the created presentation in a slide show format according to said list.

13. The system of claim 12, wherein said performer provides a control panel.

14. The system of claim 13, wherein said control panel enables the pausing and stopping of said presentation.

15. The system of claim 13, wherein said control panel enables a user change to a desired sequence or a user change to a display duration.

16. A method for presenting a screen saver, said method comprising the steps of:

activating composition upon initiation of an activator screen saver file;

automatically composing a list of URLS; and

automatically displaying the list of URLs on a computer display in a slide show format according to said list.

17. The method of claim 16, further comprising the steps of:

determining a display sequence of said list of URLs and determining a duration of display for said list of URLs.

18. The method of claim 16, further comprising the step of displaying a control panel.

19. The method of claim 18, further comprising the step of utilizing said control panel to pause or stop the created presentation being displayed.

20. The method of claim 18, further comprising the step of utilizing said control panel to change said display sequence or to change said duration of display.