Patent Document ID: 6098081
Application ID: 08643330

Base Claim:
1. A method of resolving a hyperlink, comprising the following steps: receiving a hyperlinked document from a remote server, the hyperlinked document containing one or more hyperlinks, at least one of the hyperlinks containing a query formulation; in response to selection of said at least one of the hyperlinks by a user, reading a query formulation from the selected hyperlink; querying one or more database servers with the query formulation to locate one or more hyperlink targets that satisfy the query formulation, wherein at least some of the hyperlink targets specify hypermedia documents from servers other than the one or more database servers; retrieving a hypermedia document specified by one of the located hyperlink targets from a server other than the one or more database servers; rendering said retrieved hypermedia document.

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Claim 3:
3. A method as recited in claim 1, further comprising a step of selecting the database from a plurality of databases depending on search predicates specified in the query formulation.