Patent ID: 6145000
Filing Date: 2000-11-07
Classification: G06F,G06Q,H04L,H04N

Abstract:
A method of navigating a linear Web program at a user location in a distributed hypermedia data network, the distributed hypermedia network including a plurality of hypermedia resources at respective remote information nodes, each hypermedia resource having a plurality of individual media elements, including a base media element, associated by a indexed tree, the linear Web program comprising selected ones of the plurality of hypermedia resources associated by a series of exclusive forward links, the method comprising:downloading and displaying a first base media element of a first hypermedia resource of the linear Web program on a display device at the user location;responding to commands of a user to download and display selected individual media elements of the first hypermedia resource of the linear Web program on the display device, the first hypermedia resource having an exclusive forward link to a second hypermedia resource of the linear Web program;displaying a forward link button on the display device;receiving a first signal in response to an action of the user indicating an activation of the forward link button;downloading and displaying a second base media element of the second hypermedia resource on the display device; andresponding to commands of a user to download and display selected individual media elements of the second hypermedia resource of the linear Web program on the display device at the user location, the second hypermedia resource having an exclusive forward link to a third hypermedia resource of the linear Web program.