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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 21, 2009
Filed:
Nov. 28, 2006
Lisa Heilbron, Bellevue, WA (US);
John C. Platt, Bellevue, WA (US);
Patrice Y. Simard, Bellevue, WA (US);
Bernhard Schoelkopf, Cambridge, GB;
Lisa Heilbron, Bellevue, WA (US);
John C. Platt, Bellevue, WA (US);
Patrice Y. Simard, Bellevue, WA (US);
Bernhard Schoelkopf, Cambridge, GB;
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
What is disclosed is acquiring information regarding a web page, without having to commit to downloading that page. In one embodiment, after a current web page is downloaded from one source, and information regarding web pages linked to by links in the current web page are downloaded from a second source, when a user hovers a cursor over a link on a current web page, an informational region is displayed by the link that includes the information from the second source. The informational region may include, for example, a text box that apparently floats by the link. The information in the region can include, for example, keywords in the meta tags of the web page; paragraph headings of the web page; links on the web page to other pages; etc.