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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 21, 2012
Filed:
Sep. 18, 2008
Richard Brindley, Buckinghamshire, GB;
Craig Allen Gooding, London, GB;
Anna Kassoway, New York, NY (US);
Richard Brindley, Buckinghamshire, GB;
Craig Allen Gooding, London, GB;
Anna Kassoway, New York, NY (US);
Vibrant Media, Inc., London, GB;
Abstract
Embodiments of the present disclosure include methods (and corresponding systems and computer program products) that augment content in web pages with resources and provide the resources based on user interaction with the augmented content in the web pages. The disclosed embodiments analyzes a web page to identify a keyword, locates a piece of reference data matching the identified keyword, generates an association of the located piece of reference data and the keyword, and embeds the association in an augmented web page. Upon receiving a request from a client computer corresponding to a pointer being positioned over the keyword in the augmented web page, the disclosed embodiments determines relevant resources, and transmits the resources to the client computer for display in a multi-layered dialog box, such that a viewer can access the plurality of resources by interacting with the multi-layered dialog box without leaving the augmented web page.