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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 23, 2004
Filed:
Nov. 16, 1999
Michael J. Calvillo, Sioux City, IA (US);
Joseph G. Richard, Sioux City, IA (US);
Glen J. Anderson, Sioux City, IA (US);
Russell F. McKnight, Sioux City, IA (US);
Gateway, Inc., Irvine, CA (US);
Abstract
A method is provided for locating and navigating to the site home of a network site in an information network such as the Internet, an Intranet, or the like from a site page within the network site. In an exemplary embodiment, the method includes the steps of receiving a request to navigate from a site page to the site home of the network site, determining a site home for the network site, and when a site home is found for the network site, navigating to the site home in response to the received request so information provided by the site home may be communicated to a user. The method may be implemented as a program of instructions storable on a medium readable by an information handling system for causing the information handling system to perform the steps of the method.