Patent ID: 6862710

Claim:
A computer-implemented method for navigating through a set of electronic documents, comprising: capturing an indication of an initial term displayed in connection with a document, wherein the initial term is one of a plurality of terms displayed in connection with the document, wherein the plurality of terms includes hyperlinked and non-hyperlinked terms; issuing an initial search request of the set of electronic documents, via a search engine, using an initial search query consisting of the initial term, the initial search request causing the search engine to perform a correlation analysis of the set of documents compared with the initial search query; receiving a plurality of related terms from the search engine as an initial search result, the related terms determined from the correlation analysis of the set of documents; selecting a predetermined number of the received plurality of related terms and presenting the selected related terms graphically; capturing an indication of at least one of the plurality of related terms; and issuing, responsive to the indication of the at least one of the related terms, at least one secondary search request, wherein a secondary search query associated with the secondary search request includes the indicated related term and the initial term; storing a plurality of secondary search result document weights; and retrieving an information file associated with a first one of the document weights and displaying a portion of the retrieved information file containing a first occurrence of the initial term.