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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 28, 2001
Filed:
Jun. 21, 1997
Michael G. Burner, Half Moon Bay, CA (US);
Bruce C. Gilliat, Alameda, CA (US);
Eric W. Jaquith, San Francisco, CA (US);
David L. Marvit, San Francisco, CA (US);
Brewster Kahle, Seattle, WA (US);
Niall O'Driscoll, San Francisco, CA (US);
Z E. Smith, San Francisco, CA (US);
Ronna C. Tanenbaum, San Francisco, CA (US);
Alexa Internet, San Francisco, CA (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus that displays metadata about a web page currently being displayed by a browser. While the web browser is communicating with a web server to obtain the requested web page, client software communicates with a database metadata server to obtain metadata about the requested page. After the browser receives its requested information from the web server, it displays the requested web page in a conventional manner. The client concurrently displays its received metadata on the same computer as the web page, and concurrently with the web page. A preferred embodiment of the present invention opens a button bar in conjunction with the web page display. This button bar allows the user to view various portions of the metadata for the displayed web page.