Patents Assigned to Browse3D, Inc.
  • Patent number: 7624348
    Abstract: A system and method for web browsing contemporaneously displays multiple web pages, preferably within a single window, for a user to view. In a preferred embodiment, a current web page, a past web page, and a future web page are contemporaneously displayed in a single window. In this embodiment, the present invention tracks a past web page and renders it in a first panel, renders the current web page in a second panel, and identifies a hyperlink in the current web page to retrieve and render the future web page in a third panel. Preferably, all of these panels are embedded within a single window. In this manner, the user contemporaneously views the current web page, the past page, and the future web page in the single window. Preferably, a web browsing room is implemented in a three-dimensional space where walls of the rooms correspond to various ones of the aforementioned panels. The user can view the web pages in the browsing room using various three-dimensional navigation techniques.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2009
    Assignee: Browse3D, Inc.
    Inventors: David T. Shuping, William R. Johnson