America Online, Inc.

George W Williams, V

Linda T Dozier

Dave Long

James G Davidson

Karen Brady

Douglas M McKee

The present invention addresses the critical needs of publishers seeking to create and publish hypermedia content in electronic form across the wide area networks (&ldquo;WAN's&rdquo;) such as the World Wide Web. Toward the end, a client-server development platform is provided for handling the important functions of document authoring, content-based indexing and retrieval of documents, management and control of proprietary assets, and a support for developing form-driven interactive services, all in a manner that is uniquely and seemlessly WAN-integrated.

Method and apparatus for publishing hypermedia documents over wide area networks

The present invention addresses the critical needs of publishers seeking to create and publish hypermedia content in electronic form across wide area networks ('WAN's') such as the World Wide Web. Toward this end, a client-server development platform is provided for handling the important functions of document authoring, content-based indexing and retrieval of documents, management and control of proprietary assets, and support for developing form-driven interactive services, all in a manner that is uniquely and seamlessly WAN-integrated.

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George W Williams, V