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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 31, 2012
Filed:
Feb. 19, 2008
Christopher M. White, San Francisco, CA (US);
Phillip Y. Goldman, Los Altos, CA (US);
David R. Anderson, Cupertino, CA (US);
Keith R. Ohlfs, San Jose, CA (US);
Bruce A. Leak, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Christopher M. White, San Francisco, CA (US);
Phillip Y. Goldman, Los Altos, CA (US);
David R. Anderson, Cupertino, CA (US);
Keith R. Ohlfs, San Jose, CA (US);
Bruce A. Leak, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A system for accessing the World Wide Web or other information sources using the Internet incorporates scaled-down versions of images associated with recently-viewed documents or documents designated as favorites into a recent menu or a favorites menu, respectively. As a user accesses a Web page, a scaled-down version of the Web page is inserted into a recent menu. The user can view the recent menu and visually determine the identity of the recently-viewed Web pages, which allows the user to conveniently select Web pages to access. This recent menu also enables the user to access recently-viewed documents in any order, which does not need to be in the chronological order in which the pages were originally viewed or in a reverse chronological order. Scaled-down versions of Web pages designated as favorites are stored in the favorites menu, thereby assisting the user in recalling the content of the favorite documents.