Method, a hypermedia communication system, a hypermedia server, a hypermedia client, and computer software products for accessing, distributing and presenting hypermedia documents

Abstract

The present invention relates to accessing, distributing, and presenting hypermedia documents ( 5, 6 ). In particular the invention relates to a method for a hypermedia communication system comprising the steps of generating a hypermedia by presenting the hypermedia in a hypermedia description at a hypermedia server, requesting the hypermedia at a hypermedia client, deploying the hypermedia description from the server to said hypermedia client, presenting the hypermedia by translating the hypermedia description, where said hypermedia description comprising expression means for a reference ( 70 ) from an atemporal hypermedia object to a referred hypermedia object, where said method comprises the steps of generating, requesting, deploying, and presenting hypermedia, uniformly, using a hypermedia description comprising further expression means for a reference from a temporal hypermedia object ( 5 ) to a referred hypermedia object ( 5,6 ). The invention also relates to a hypermedia communication system, a hypermedia server, a hypermedia client, and computer software products therefor.

1 . A computer software product for authoring, wherein said computer software product comprises programming means for creating a hypermedia description, the hypermedia description comprising expression means for a reference from a temporal hypermedia object to a hypermedia object.