Patent ID: 7168034
Filing Date: 2007-01-23
Classification: G06F,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A method for automatically generating hyperlinks in a referring hypertext markup language (HTML) document to other HTML documents that are stored on a server, each of the other HTML documents having a server address, the method comprising the steps of: (a) assigning at least one category to at least one of the other HTML documents stored on the server; (b) storing document category information on the server for each of the other HTML documents that has been assigned a category, the document category information being stored in contextual information files, such that a separate contextual information file is produced for each other HTML document assigned a category, the document category information associating each of said other HTML documents with: (c) inserting a category list component in a design page of the referring HTML document, the category list component being associated with a selected category by an author of the referring HTML document; (d) identifying other HTML documents that have been assigned a category matching the selected category by parsing through the document category information; (e) generating computer instructions in the referring HTML document to automatically create hyperlinks to the documents identified in step (d), each hyperlink being based on address of the other HTML document identified thereby; and (f) automatically generating a hyperlink to a new document in the referring HTML document, when the new HTML document is created and is assigned a category that matches a selected category in the referring HTML document.