Method of presenting contents based on a common relationship
A method is disclosed for providing a requested contents and associated contents to a user of a client computer system. A provider's server receives a request from the client computer system to send a first object in an HTML page for display on the client computer system. The provider examines the requested first object and includes a related second object in the HTML page. The HTML page with both objects is then sent to the client computer system for display. In an alternative embodiment, the HTML page is sent to the user with code to receive and display one or more objects sent independently from a second server to the user based on the first content or on user action within the first content.
1. A method of providing a plurality of contents to a user of a client computer system, the method comprising the steps of:
providing a server computer;
retrieving the third-party-supplied content comprising first objects describing a product or service, wherein retrieving is from a third-party-hosting server, said retrieving is performed by the server computer;
hosting on the server computer said third-party-supplied content, said hosting comprises reading said third-party supplied content and making said third-party supplied content available for access by the user;
transmitting a web page for display on the client computer system in response to a request from the client computer system, the web page comprising the third-party-supplied content;
selecting guiding means from said third-party-supplied content for use in identifying related second content;
identifying the related second content using the guiding means, wherein the related second content comprises an object that is related to an object within the first objects of the third-party-supplied content;
including the second content in the web page to form a second web page, said including is performed by the server computer; and
sending the second web page to the client computer system for display on the client computer system with the web page previously transmitted.
2. The method according to claim 1 wherein the third-party-supplied content is selected from a group consisting of text; audio; video; an image; a form; and
a link.
3. The method according to claim 1 wherein the third-party-supplied content is in a category selected from a group consisting of: auction; car sales; realty; sports; news; weather; personal information; personal preferences; user's preferences; user's location; user's pre-set information; user previously visited web page; login information; and user previously viewed products page.
4. The method according to claim 1 wherein the first object is selected from a group consisting of: matching words in the third-party-supplied content and the second object; presence of a common embedded information in the third-party-supplied content and the second object; presence of a common encoded information in the third-party-supplied content and the second content object; and presence of information that matches with information that was previously viewed by the user.
5. The method according to claim 1 wherein the third-party-supplied content and the second object reside at the same location.
6. The method according to claim 1 wherein the third-party-supplied content and the second object are at locations selected from a group consisting of a URL address, a folder, a database and a database table.
7. The method according to claim 1 further comprising the step of indexing the third-party-supplied content for later retrieval.
8. The method according to claim 1 further comprising the step of storing the third-party-supplied content for later retrieval.