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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 11, 2002
Filed:
Jul. 31, 1998
Bruce Votipka, Fort Collins, CO (US);
Hewlett-Packard Co., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
A web site navigation technique is presented wherein each web page along at least one link-traversable path of a web site presents a drop down link selection list activator. Upon activation, event handler script displays a drop down link selection list in a pop-up frame overlaid over a web page currently being displayed. The drop down link selection list presents a plurality of predefined links to most frequency accessed web pages associated with the web site, indicating hierarchical relationships between the links. Upon selection of one of the predefined links from the drop down link selection list, the web page associated with the selected link is loaded and displayed.