Patent ID: 6651091
Filing Date: 2003-11-18
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
In a World Wide Web communication network with user access via a plurality of data processor controlled interactive receiving display stations for displaying received hypertext documents of at least one display page containing text, images and a plurality of embedded hyperlinks, each hyperlink being user selectable to access and display a respective linked hypertext document, a system for precluding repetitive accessing of documents linked to hyperlinks in a plurality of hypertext documents comprising:means at a receiving display station for activating hyperlinks to linked documents, means responsive to said activating means for accessing said linked documents, user interactive means for discounting hyperlinks in received Web documents, means for keeping track of each discounted hyperlink in each received or accessed document, and means for precluding the accessing of any document linked to a previously discounted hyperlink in a subsequently accessed another Web document not previously received.