Patent ID: 6330596
Filing Date: 2001-12-11
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 data 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 individual media elements in 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 user-selected individual media elements of the first hypermedia resource of the linear Web program on the display device, the first base media element having an exclusive forward link to a preselected individual media element within the first 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; anddownloading and displaying the preselected individual media element of the first hypermedia resource on the display device.