Patent ID: 7702684

Claim:
A computer system, comprising: one or more content file computers having recorded thereon a plurality of digital content material items, and a plurality of digital graphical image files comprising graphical images associated with the content material items; wherein each of the content material items comprises one or more data files of digitized electronic printed, audio, or video content material; one or more navigation page computers each comprising: one or more storage devices having recorded thereon a plurality of navigation page templates; a database comprising stored descriptive information about the content material items, including hierarchical and other relationships both between different content material items and between different subcomponents of content material items; logic encoded on the one or more storage devices and when executed on the one or more navigation page computers operable to perform: receiving a request to view a navigation page; selecting one of the navigation page templates based on the request; creating and sending to the database, one or more queries for the descriptive information about content material items relating to the navigation page; receiving one or more results to the queries; generating, based on the one or more results, a particular navigation page conforming to the selected navigation page template, the particular navigation page comprising the descriptive information about one or more of the content material items, portions thereof, or abstract collections thereof; a plurality of links to other such navigation pages; and zero or more links to particular content material items or portions thereof; sending only the particular navigation page to a client computer.