Patent ID: 7249315

Claim:
A program tangibly embodied on a computer-readable medium for creating customized summaries of web pages, wherein the program operates on an Internet browser and is adapted to manage Internet research in a research session through use of the Internet browser, wherein navigation on the Internet by a user comprises automatically associating URLs accessed by the user with a pre-defined project name and wherein information regarding user-selected URLs, selected from at least the automatically-associated URLs, is stored in a computer storage medium, wherein said information comprises URL addresses and references to the predefined project name, the program comprising: a. instructions for activating one of said user-selected URLs; b. instructions for opening a tour dialog box for creating and/or editing a thematic tour of the user-selected URLs; and c. instructions for presenting a menu option enabling the user to identify an existing tour or to create a new tour with which the activated user-selected URL is associated, wherein: if the user identifies an existing tour, adding the activated user-selected URL into the existing tour; or if the user creates a new tour, presenting an input window to the user prompting the user to input a tour name and saving the new tour for later access through the browser, wherein the adding of the URL in an existing tour is accomplished using a link insert mechanism inserting the selected URL in a desired order among any already existing links in the tour, wherein the link insertion mechanism is a selected link insertion device interposed between adjacent links in a thematic link list.