초록 ▼

A method of display as a user of the Internet uses a client machine during an Internet transaction (e.g., e-mail, file transfer, bulletin board, chat or browsing). The client machine supports a graphical user interface and mechanisms that provide such Internet services. The method locally stores inf

A method of display as a user of the Internet uses a client machine during an Internet transaction (e.g., e-mail, file transfer, bulletin board, chat or browsing). The client machine supports a graphical user interface and mechanisms that provide such Internet services. The method locally stores information content served during idle periods when the user's connection to the network is live. During a given Internet transaction, the information content is retrieved and displayed to provide entertainment or information as the user waits for the Internet transaction to be completed.

대표청구항 ▼

1. A display system operating in a computer network, comprising:a set of content pages, wherein the set of content pages includes at least one page of information formatted according to markup language instructions that enable a browser of a client machine connectable to the computer network to rece

1. A display system operating in a computer network, comprising:a set of content pages, wherein the set of content pages includes at least one page of information formatted according to markup language instructions that enable a browser of a client machine connectable to the computer network to receive and display the page of information on a display associated with the client machine; a server connectable to the computer network for hosting the set of content pages, the server having an HTTP service that is responsive to receipt of a given request from the browser of the client machine for serving to the browser the page of information; and a set of one or more information objects, wherein the set of information objects includes a given information object associated with the page of information and comprising content selected from a set of message content, graphic content, animation content, and combinations of message, graphic and animation content; wherein the given information object associated with the page of information is displayable by the browser independent of display by the browser of the page of information.