Patent ID: 7130879

Claim:
A method for accessing web pages on a network, wherein the network is coupled to a server computer and a user computer operated by a user, the user computer including a user input device and a display device, the method comprising: transferring a portion of a web page from the server computer to the display device over the network, wherein the portion of the web page includes a selector allowing the user to concurrently select respective values for two or more dimensions; detecting a user's choice by receiving information generated in response to signals from the user input device to indicate the value selected for each dimension chosen by the user; detecting a user's choice by receiving information generated in response to signals from the user input device to indicate a filtering methodology selected by the user for each dimension chosen by the user, wherein the filtering methodology is selected by the user from a plurality of filtering methodologies; identifying one or more web pages associated with information that meets all the respective values for the chosen dimensions in accordance with the corresponding filtering methodologies selected for the chosen dimensions; sending information about the identified web pages to the user computer, wherein at least one of the identified web pages includes a plurality of sections; detecting a user's choice by receiving information generated in response to signals from the user input device indicating a web page selected by the user from the identified web pages; sending to the user computer only sections of the web page selected by the user that meet the respective values for the chosen dimensions and the corresponding filtering methodologies; accepting signals provided by a document creator via the user input device to create a document, the document having a plurality of sections; and accepting signals provided by the document creator via the user input device to assign a value for at least one dimension to each section of the document, wherein a first section of the document and a second section of the document are associated with different values for the same dimension, and wherein the user is given access to the plurality of sections of the document based on the values assigned to the corresponding dimensions by the document creator.