Patent ID: 6647534
Filing Date: 2003-11-11
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
A method, used in a computer system that includes a user input device coupled to a processor, a display and a memory, for viewing at least one of a plurality of documents in a non directed arrangement including a document selected as a current document displayed in a first display area of the display, said method comprising the steps:(a) fetching into memory documents associated by at least one of a plurality of links to said current document, forming a plurality of pre-fetched documents; (b) displaying a representation of content of at least one of said plurality of pre-fetched documents in a second display area of the display in response to a first signal from the user input device, without selecting said at least one of said plurality of pre-fetched documents as said current document; (c) selecting a document as said current document from said plurality of pre-fetched documents in response to a second signal from the user input device; (d) displaying said current document in said first display area of the display; (e) displaying a representation of content of said document previously selected as said current document in a third area of the display; and (f) repeatedly performing said steps (a), (b), (c), (d), and (e), re-using said first, second, and third display areas of the display, as the user browses documents in said plurality of documents.