Patent ID: 6779026
Filing Date: 2004-08-17
Classification: G06F,G06Q,H04L,H04N

Abstract:
A method of navigating a linear Web tour comprising information obtained on the World-Wide Web, the linear Web tour including a plurality of Web pages from websites at respective remote information nodes, the plurality of Web pages cached at a common remote information node and associated by a series of exclusive forward links, each website having a plurality of individual media elements, the method comprising the steps of:downloading from the common remote information node to a user location a first of the plurality of Web pages cached at the common remote information node, the first Web page associated with a first website of the linear Web tour; displaying the first Web page 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 website of the linear Web tour on the display device, the first Web page having an exclusive forward link to a second of the plurality of Web pages of the linear Web tour cached at the common remote information node; displaying a forward link button on the display device; in response to a user activation of the forward link button, downloading from the common remote information node to the user location the second Web page of the linear Web tour, the second Web page associated with a second website of the linear Web tour on the display device, wherein the forward link button activates the exclusive forward link regardless of which individual media element is displayed at the user location.