Patent ID: 7752541
Filing Date: 2010-07-06
Classification: G06F,G09G

Abstract:
1. A method for displaying pages in a viewer program on a computer display monitor, wherein the viewer program displays an application window, comprising: downloading a first and second pages of contents from one of multiple servers over a network; automatically concurrently displaying the first page in a first pane and the second page in a second pane in the application window according to predefined settings specifying how pages are to be displayed in the first and second panes; downloading a third page from one of multiple servers over the network; automatically concurrently displaying the third page in one of the first and second panes and one of the first and second pages in the other pane according to the predefined settings; downloading a fourth page from one of multiple servers over the network; automatically concurrently displaying the third and fourth pages in the first and second panes according to the predefined settings; receiving user selection of a hypertext link within one of the displayed pages in one of the panes; accessing the page addressed by the hypertext link; and automatically concurrently displaying the page addressed by the hypertext link in the pane opposite the pane displaying the page from which the hypertext link was selected the page from which the link was selected in its current pane.