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Method for promoting contextual information to display pages containing hyperlinks
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Inventors: Hennings, Eric; Angiulo, Michael A.; Smith, Michael D.;
Assignee: Microsoft Corporation (Redmond, WA)
Primary Examiner: Feild; Joseph
Assistant Examiner: Nguyen; MaiKhanh
Attorney, Agent or Firm: Anderson; Ronald M.
Contextual information concerning linked documents is promoted to display pages that contain hyperlinks to those documents. The contextual information can be immediately displayed, or it can be selectively displayed in response to a user selecting a text hyperlink anchor or a picture icon hyperlink anchor. Furthermore, the contextual information can include a variety of information about the linked document, including whether it has been modified within a predefined time period, such as the last 24 hours, a comment by the author concerning recent changes, and the size of the document. Preferably, the contextual information is automatically generated by a data promotion engine based on meta-data that is associated with the document and stored on a web site for the document. The contextual information may be either added to the document that corresponds to a display page at the time the document page is saved, or it may be dynamically uploaded to a browser when the display page is rendered by a browser. One of the types of contextual information stored in the meta-data is a manually defined category for a hyperlink in the display page. |
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DETAILED DESCRIPTION The invention in which an exclusive right is claimed is defined by the following: 1.
A method for promoting contextual information pertaining to a linked document to a display page containing a hyperlink to the linked document, wherein the contextual information comprises more information pertaining to the linked document than the hyperlink contained in the display page and the display page being viewable on a browser, which is capable of displaying the contextual information, comprising the steps of: (a) editing the linked document so that at least one parameter of the linked document has been changed, producing an edited linked document; (b) storing the edited linked document on a server; (c) generating meta-data that references said at least one changed parameter of the linked document; (d) storing the meta-data on the server; (e) determining the contextual information from the stored meta-data, wherein the contextual information comprises more information pertaining to the linked document than the hyperlink contained in the display page; and (f) automatically generating instructions for displaying in the display page the contextual information pertaining to the linked document, the instructions thus generated defining a part of the display page and being uploaded from the server to the browser so as to enable display of the contextual information pertaining to the linked document on the display page when the display page is viewed on the browser.
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The method of claim 1, wherein the contextual information indicates that the linked document has been changed within a predefined time interval prior to the display page being viewed on the browser.
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The method of claim 1, wherein the hyperlink has an anchor, further comprising the step of selectively displaying at least a portion of the contextual information in response to a user interaction with the anchor.
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The method of claim 1, further comprising the steps of: (a) displaying an icon on the browser when the display page is viewed, said icon representing a portion of the contextual information; and (b) selectively displaying another portion of the contextual information on the browser while the display page is being viewed, in response to a user interaction with the icon
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