Patent ID: 7831920

Claim:
A hypermedia browsing apparatus, comprising: a display; a user input apparatus; digital data storage containing data establishing at least one hypermedia navigation action type, and associating each hypermedia navigation action type with multiple different prescribed user inputs performable with the user input apparatus; and a computer coupled to the display and the user input apparatus and the storage, the computer programmed to perform operations to resolve a user's opinion as to hypermedia content presented on the display, the operations comprising: via the display, presenting hypermedia content from a remote website; responsive to occurrence of any of the prescribed user inputs associated with a particular one of the hypermedia navigation action types to execute a given hypermedia navigation action of said particular type, conducting the given hypermedia navigation action without regard to which of the prescribed user inputs occurred; independent of the given hypermedia navigation action, distinguishing as to which of the prescribed user inputs occurred in order to locally determine a user opinion of presented hypermedia content, withholding the determined user opinion from the remote website; and initiating storage of a machine-readable record of the determined opinion.