Patent ID: 8719292

Claim:
An interactive method for information retrieval, said method comprising: in response to receiving, from a user, a URL that corresponds to a first web page, performing the steps of: based on the URL, obtaining the first web page from a server; after obtaining the first web page from the server, generating, by a system, one or more first questions that are not contained in the first web page that was received from the server, generating, by the system, a modified version of the first web page by adding the one or more first questions to the first web page, wherein the one or more first questions include a particular question, and sending the modified version of the first web page to the user; wherein the system is configured to: (a) cause the user to be redirected to a new web page that is different than the first web page in response to receiving a first answer to the particular question, and (b) cause the user to be presented with one or more additional questions in response to receiving a second answer to the particular question; in response to receiving, from the user, one or more first responses to the one or more first questions, the system determining, based on the one or more first responses, whether to: cause the user to be presented with the one or more additional questions, or cause the user to be redirected to the new web page that is different than the first web page; in response to the system determining that the one or more first responses correspond to the second answer, the system causing the user to be presented with the one or more additional questions; in response to the system determining that the one or more first responses correspond to the first answer, the system causing the user to be automatically redirected to the new web page; wherein the method is performed by one or more computing devices.