Inventors:
Timothy Dan Greer - Endicott NY
William Francis Phillips - Owego NY
Will Joseph Roden - Apalachin NY
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY
International Classification:
G06F 1730
Abstract:
A guided tour of some portion of the World Wide Web (WWW) works as part of an ordinary web page, can be served by any web server, and can be used by web browsers without additional software. The system guides a user through a tour by displaying in sequence actual web pages in the tour along with a corresponding teaching web page. The teaching web page includes educational information about the current web page. The tour includes commentary, allowance for side trips, true visiting of the tour pages, not mere copies, maps, and "static" (user clicks for next page) and "dynamic" (a timer controls how long a tour page is on-screen) tours.