Patent ID: 7353246

Claim:
A method of enabling information associations, said method being performed in conjunction with at least one client system and at least one server system, said method comprising the steps of: in a first accessing step, accessing, at said client system, at least one document, said document containing informational content and having an associated address for use in accessing said informational content, wherein said first accessing step includes accessing said informational content using said address, said informational content including parsable data; in a parsing step, parsing, on one of said client system and said server system, said parsable data included in said informational content to identify a number of objects included in said document; in a second accessing step, accessing, from at least one database, information related to those of said identified objects included in said document for which related information is available; in a first displaying step, displaying, on a display of said client system, at least some of those of said identified objects for which related information is available; in a detecting step, detecting, on said client system, a selection, by a user, of one of said objects displayed on said display; and in a second displaying step, displaying, on said display, information from said at least one database related to said selected one of said objects.