Patent ID: 8225195

Claim:
A computer-implemented method for affecting a display of links in a computing system having resources with links to other resources, comprising: under control of instructions that are executed by one or more computing devices: for each link path in a set of link paths, receiving information concerning user interaction with the link path by one or more users, wherein: the set of link paths contains two or more link paths, each link path comprises a collection of links that collectively provide a traversable path to a final resource such that, in the collection of links, each link is at an intermediate resource and each link leads to another link in the collection of links until a final link in the collection of links leads to the final resource, wherein the collection of links is defined according to user interaction with the collection of links, and wherein at least two links in the collection of links are not otherwise pre-associated, and prominence data is associated with each link path, the prominence data reflecting user interaction with the link path; automatically modifying a display of each link path in the set of link paths so that the link paths in the set of link paths that experience more user interaction are displayed with greater prominence than the link paths in the set of link paths that experience less user interaction; and configuring the prominence data to automatically decay.