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US 10691874
Hyperlink with graphical cue
Current assignee: Aloft Media LLC
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Patent Overview — US 10,691,874 B2
Title: Hyperlink with graphical cue
Patent number: US 10,691,874 B2
Application number: US 16/056,487
Inventor: Gal Arav
Original/current assignee: Aloft Media LLC
Priority date: 2006-03-20 (stated in the source as an assumption, not a legal conclusion)
Filing date: 2018-08-06
Publication date (grant): 2020-06-23
Legal status shown: Active; adjusted expiration 2026-08-04 (source states legal status is an assumption, not a legal conclusion)
Other version: US 2019/0034391 A1
Source: https://patents.google.com/patent/US10691874/en
Purpose. The text states the invention "relates to computer-implemented techniques for improving the usefulness of hyperlinks in web pages." It identifies drawbacks of textual hyperlinks — e.g., text such as "here" does not convey the link's destination — and of graphical hyperlinks, which can require significant visual "real estate." The disclosed approach is said to provide a first set of representations (e.g., textual) of a first set of hyperlinks, display a second set of representations (e.g., graphical) of a second set of hyperlinks, and navigate to a hyperlink's destination when the user selects one of the second set of representations. Examples given include company logos linking to company web sites.
Plain-language scope. In the described embodiment, a message board aggregation system (system 100) aggregates messages from multiple external and internal message boards into an aggregation web page (300), which contemporaneously displays a message table (302) and message content (304) from a source web page (306), with a user selecting source message boards (e.g., via drop-down list 316). The excerpt also lists figures covering a text input control (FIGS. 4A–4C) and displayed web page hyperlinks (FIGS. 5A–5B).
What the excerpt does not establish. It does not include the claims, so the precise claimed scope is not established here; it expressly omits portions of the specification ("[Excerpt only; consult the source for omitted text.]"). It also does not establish the details of FIGS. 4A–5B, the full aggregation workflow, or any litigation, ownership, validity, or prior-art conclusions. Per stated operating rules, no litigation, transfer, validity, or prior-art research was performed.
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