Patent ID: 6948116

Claim:
A computer-implemented method for creating a meta-document comprising the steps of: collecting at least one hyperlinked document based on a seed document, the seed document comprising at least one hyperlink to the at least one hyperlinked document; organizing the collected document and the seed document comprising defining a document with the largest number of connections as an anchor of a first level, defining any document pointed to by the anchor and pointing back to the anchor as a first level node, ordering the first level nodes based on the number of nodes each first level node points to, defining at least a second level including documents pointed to by the first level and not yet pointed to by another node, completing the organization upon determining that all documents are assigned a level, defining a document with the largest number of connections as an anchor of a first level upon determining that no document was assigned to last defined level, and defining an additional level including documents pointed to by a next higher level and not yet pointed to by another node upon determining that a document was assigned to last defined level; resolving an anchor in the seed document and an object in the at least one hyperlinked document; referencing the anchor and the object based on respective locations within a meta-document, wherein the meta-document is a collection of the seed document and the at least one hyperlinked document; and publishing the meta-document.