Patent ID: 7971147

Claim:
A method for organizing and presenting information to a user in a browser plug-in for navigating to web pages within a web site, the method comprising the steps of: a. downloading a web page in a web browser, the web page being downloaded by the user; b. determining a category for the web page; c. obtaining a menu template for the web page from a central repository, based on the category of the web page, wherein the menu template is obtained by the steps of: (i) creating the menu template in the central repository for each category for navigating web sites; (ii) specifying labels and images as menu items for one or more categories; (iii) organizing the menu template to have standard menu items for a category, and specific menu items for a web site; (iv) specifying a rank order for presenting the menu items; (v) editing the menu items for a graphical user interface, wherein the standard menu items for a web site are edited by an editor and the specific menu items for a web site are edited by a merchant after proper authentication; (vi) pre-assigning web links to the standard menu items; (vii) marking web links that are broken; and (viii) marking web links for allowing overriding of automatic assignment of information from the downloaded web page; d. capturing web links included in the web page based on the category of the web page; e. mapping the web links for the web page to the menu template; and f. presenting the web links to the user, wherein the web links are presented on the browser plug-in of the user.