Patent ID: 6976210

Claim:
A method of creating a personal Web view comprising: creating a plurality of Web clippings, the personal view comprising a plurality of Web clippings, each Web clipping containing information from an associated one of a corresponding plurality of Web pages, each Web page being selected by a user from essentially any accessible Web page on any Web server, each of the plurality of Web clippings being created by: generating an access script to automatically retrieve the Web page associated with the Web clipping; generating an extraction expression to extract one or more user-selected information elements from the Web page associated with the Web clipping; and incorporating the access script and the extraction expression into a specification of the associated Web clipping; incorporating the specification of each Web clipping into a specification of the Web view; and storing the specification of the Web view, wherein when the stored specification of the Web view is later replayed and active, the plurality of Web pages are automatically retrieved and the selected one or more information elements from each Web page are extracted and incorporated into each associated Web clipping and the plurality of Web clippings are combined for display in a browser, wherein the extraction expression generated for at least one Web clipping includes redundancy to insure that when the Web view is later replayed information contained in the at least one Web clipping is information originally selected by the user to be included in the Web view when the Web view was created.