Internet navigation using soft hyperlinks

专利名称：Internet navigation using soft hyperlinks发明人：Giovanni B. Marchisio申请号：US09533884申请日：20000322公开号：US06862710B1公开日：20050301

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摘要：A system for internet navigation using soft hyperlinks is disclosed, in connectionwith an illustrative information retrieval system with which it may be used. The navigationtool provides freedom to move through a collection of electronic documents

independent of any hyperlink which has been inserted within an HTML page. A user can

click on any term in a document page, not only those that are hyperlinked. For example,when a user clicks on an initial word within the document, the disclosed system employs asearch engine in the background to retrieve a list of related terms. In an illustrativeembodiment, a compass-like display appears with pointers indicating the first four termsreturned by the search engine. These returned terms have the highest degree ofcorrelation with the initial search term in a lexical knowledge base that the search engineconstructs automatically. The disclosed system allows the user to move from the currentdocument to one of a number of document lists which cover different associationsbetween the initial word clicked on by the user and other terms extracted from within theretrieved list of related terms. The disclosed system may further allow the user to moveto a document that is considered most related to the initial word clicked on by the user,or to a list of documents that are relevant to a phrase or paragraph selection indicatedby the user within the current page.

申请人：Giovanni B. Marchisio

地址：Kirkland WA US

国籍：US

代理机构：Seed IP Law Group PLLC

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