Seen this before? Web Site Mapping - Bogus #Patent Application #Intellectual Ventures #priorartrequest
AN OVERBROAD PATENT ON organizing and displaying information about Internet web pages on web maps - This application from Intellectual Ventures seeks to patent the idea of...A server system receiving, from a client system, a search request specifying a set of search criteria, the server system performing a search based on the search criteria to obtain a plurality of search results, and the server system providing, to the client system, one or more of the plurality of search results.! 10 minutes of your time can help narrow US patent applications before they become patents. Follow @askpatents on twitter to help.
QUESTION - Have you seen anything that was published before 4/15/1999 that discusses:
- Organising and displaying web pages information on web maps
If so, please submit evidence of prior art as an answer to this question. We welcome multiple answers from the same individual.
EXTRA CREDIT - Web maps may include a graphical representation of information contained on another Web page.
TITLE: Web Site Mapping on a Wide Area Network
Summary: [Translated from Legalese into English] Receiving, by a server system, a search request specifying a set of criteria from a client system, performing, by a server system, a search based on the search criteria to obtain a plurality of results, providing, to the client system, one or more of the plurality of search results, and one or more search results include a result that specifies a corresponding web page as well as at least one other web page referenced by the corresponding web page.
- Publication Number: US 20140052778 A1
- Application Number: US 14/065,308
- Assignee: Intellectual Ventures
- Prior Art Date: Seeking prior Art predating 4/15/1999
- Open for Challenge at USPTO: Open through 8/19/2014
- Link to Google Prior Art Search - "Find Prior Art"
Claim 1 requires each and every step below:
A method, comprising:
a server system receiving, from a client system, a search request specifying a set of search criteria;
the server system performing a search based on the search criteria to obtain a plurality of search results; and
the server system providing, to the client system, one or more of the plurality of search results, wherein provided ones of the search results include a result that specifies a corresponding web page as well as at least one other web page referenced by the corresponding web page.
In English this means:
A method comprising:
Receiving, by a server system, a search request specifying a set of criteria from a client system;
Performing, by a server system, a search based on the search criteria to obtain a plurality of results; and
3a. Providing, to the client system, one or more of the plurality of search results, and
3b. One or more search results include a result that specifies a corresponding web page as well as at least one other web page referenced by the corresponding web page.
Good prior art would be evidence of a system that did each and every one of these steps prior to 4/15/1999
You're probably aware of ten pieces of art that meet this criteria already... separately, the applicant is claiming The web page referenced by the corresponding web page includes a block of text, and the result further specifies phrases extracted from the block of text
"Web pages information through Web Maps" from the Applicant
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