Patent Document ID: 6023701
Application ID: 08937452

Base Claim:
1. A method for enabling a computer terminal user to locate material on network pages related to a subject being perused on a network, said network pages including a plurality of different types of displayed items in a plurality of formats, said method comprising: presenting a selection screen to the user whereby the user may make a selection to provide a skeleton listing of only designated types of displayed items; displaying said skeleton listing to the user in response to an appropriate selection by the user, wherein said skeleton listing of designated types of displayed items comprises a listing of hyperlinks present on at least one selected network page; and enabling a user to select a level value representative of a level of linked pages to be perused in providing said listing of hyperlinks.

---

Claim 3:
3. The method as set forth in claim 1 and further including: enabling a user to change said selected level value to a new value after said display of said hyperlinks; assembling a new set of hyperlinks in accordance with said changed level value; and displaying a new listing of hyperlinks to the user based upon a changed level value.