Patent ID: 7949935

Claim:
A method for processing a web page, the method comprising: a computer receiving, a selection of a section of text in the web page to form selected text; the computer identifying, a set of text blocks in the web page containing the selected text; the computer identifying, for each text block in the set of text blocks containing at least a portion of the selected text, block boundaries of the text block that separate two or more sections of text within the web page, a distance from a block boundary of the text block to text in the selected text, and a number of characters that are present in the selected text located within the text block; the computer generating identification information for the selected text, wherein the identification information includes: an identification of the selected text, a location of the selected text in the web page; and, for each text block in the set of text blocks containing the at least a portion of the selected text, the distance from a block boundary of the text block to text in the selected text and the number of characters that are present in the at least a portion of the selected text within the text block; and the computer placing the identification information into a universal resource locator for presenting the web page in a browser at the location of the selected text.