PORTAL SYSTEM AND METHOD

摘要

The present invention is a system and method for providing a portal interface to information and services accessible over a communication network. A portal system (102) stores one or more portal definitions. Each portal definition defines a portal interface which is configured to be displayed in a browser (302) while the browser accesses different web objects. A user computer (104) transmits a subscriber identification to the portal system (102). The subscriber identification identifies a portal definition stored on the portal system (102). The portal system (102) receives the subscriber identification transmitted from the user computer (104) and retrieves the portal definition identified by the subscriber identification. The portal system (102) then transmits the retrieved portal definition to the user computer (104), and the portal interface (304) defined by the portal definition is displayed within the browser on the user computer. In one embodiment, the portal interface (304) is persistently displayed in the browser (302).