Web page thumbnails and user configured complementary information provided from a server
View Patent ↗A method for presenting content from the page in a distributed database. In a preferred embodiment, a server receives a request from a client for a page from the database wherein the page has a plurality of links to linked pages in the database. The server retrieves the page and generates a set of thumbnails of the linked pages in the database. The server then sends the page and the set of thumbnails to the client.
1. A computer implemented method of processing pages on the Internet, the computer implemented method comprising:
receiving negative preferences and a request for a requested web page from a requestor, wherein the negative preferences indicate unwanted material or unwanted characteristics;
parsing the requested web page for a set of links to a set of web pages associated with the requested web page;
fetching the set of linked web pages found by parsing the requested web page;
parsing the set of linked web pages for the negative preferences;
responsive to a presence of the negative preferences on a linked page, modifying the requested page to indicate the presence of the negative preferences on the linked page; and
sending the modified requested page to the requestor.
2. The computer implemented method of claim 1 , further comprising:
receiving positive preferences from the requestor;
parsing the set of linked pages for the positive preferences;
responsive to finding the positive preferences on the linked page within the set of linked pages, modifying the requested page to indicate a presence of the positive preferences on the linked page.
3. The computer implemented method of claim 2 , wherein the modified page contains modifications to the requested page that indicate a presence of positive preferences and negative preferences found on the linked pages associated with the requested page.
4. The computer implemented method of claim 1 , wherein the modified page contains modifications to the requested page that indicate a presence of negative preferences found on the set of the linked pages associated with the requested page.
5. The computer implemented method of claim 4 , wherein all the linked pages within the set of linked pages associated with the requested page are parsed for negative preferences.
6. The computer implemented method of claim 1 , further comprising:
listing details as to which preferences are present on a particular link when a pointer is proximate to the particular link.
7. The computer implemented method of claim 1 , wherein negative preferences are not received from a requester, and further comprising:
parsing the set of linked web pages for preferences included in a default setting; and
modifying the requested page to indicate the presence of the preferences on a linked page in the set of linked web pages.
8. The computer implemented method of claim 1 , wherein the requested page is modified in different manners responsive to finding different preferences on respective linked pages.
9. The computer implemented method of claim 1 , further comprising:
modifying the requested page to indicate the absence of the negative preferences on the linked page.
10. The computer implemented method of claim 1 , further comprising:
generating a thumbnail of each of the linked pages in the set of linked web pages, wherein a thumbnail associated with a particular linked page is modified to indicate the presence of negative preferences on the linked page.
11. The computer implemented method of claim 10 , further comprising:
modifying a thumbnail associated with a linked page to indicate an absence of the negative preferences on the linked page.
12. The computer implemented method of claim 10 , further comprising:
placing an indicator on the requested page proximate to each link to an inactive site, wherein the indicator indicates that the link is inactive.
13. A computer program product recorded in a computer readable, recordable-type medium for processing requests for pages on the Internet, said computer program product comprising:
instructions for receiving negative preferences and a request from a requestor for a requested web page, wherein the negative preferences indicate unwanted material or unwanted characteristics;
parsing the web page requested by the requestor for a set of linked web pages associated with the page;
fetching the set of linked web pages found by parsing the requested web page;
parsing the set of linked web pages for the negative preferences;
responsive to a presence of the negative preferences on a linked page in the set of linked pages, modifying the requested page to indicate the presence of the negative preferences on the linked page; and
sending the modified requested page to the requestor.
14. The computer program product of claim 13 , wherein the modified page contains modifications to the requested page that indicate a presence of negative preferences found on the set of the linked pages associated with the requested page.
15. The computer program product of claim 13 , further comprising:
instructions for receiving positive preferences from the requestor;
instructions for parsing the set of linked pages for the positive preferences;
instructions for responsive to finding the positive preferences on the linked page within the set of linked pages, modifying the requested page to indicate a presence of the positive preferences on the linked page.
16. The computer program product of claim 13 , wherein negative preferences are not received from a requester, and further comprising:
instructions for parsing the set of linked web pages for preferences included in a default setting; and
instructions for modifying the requested page to indicate the presence of the preferences on a linked page in the set of linked web pages.
17. The computer program product of claim 13 , further comprising:
instructions for listing details as to which preferences are present on a particular link when a pointer is proximate to the particular link.
18. The computer program product of claim 13 , further comprising:
instructions for modifying the requested page to indicate the absence of the negative preferences on the linked page.
19. The computer program product of claim 13 , further comprising:
instructions for generating a thumbnail of each of the linked pages in the set of linked web pages, wherein a thumbnail associated with a particular linked page is modified to indicate the presence of negative preferences on the linked page.
20. A system for processing requests for pages on the Internet, said system comprising:
a storage device coupled to a bus, wherein the storage device contains a computer readable instructions;
a communications unit coupled to the bus; and
a processor unit coupled to the bus, wherein the processor unit executes the computer readable instructions to receive negative preferences and a request from a requestor for a requested web page, wherein the negative preferences indicate unwanted material or unwanted characteristics; parse the web page requested by the requestor for a set of linked web pages associated with the page; fetch the set of linked web pages found by parsing the requested web page; parse the set of linked web pages for the negative preferences; modify the requested page to indicate the presence of the negative preferences on the linked page in response to a presence of the negative preferences on a linked page in the set of linked pages; and send the modified requested page to the requestor.