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US5659729:
Method and system for implementing hypertext scroll attributes
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| Country: |
US United States of America
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| Inventor: |
Nielsen, Jakob; Atherton, CA
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| Assignee: |
Sun Microsystems, Inc., Mountain View, CA
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| Published / Filed: |
1997-08-19
/ 1996-02-01
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| Application Number: |
US1996000595477
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| IPC Code: |
Advanced:
G06F 17/30;
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IPC-7:
G06F 17/30;
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| ECLA Code: |
G06F17/30W7S;
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| U.S. Class: |
Current:
707/003;
707/009;
707/100;
707/101;
707/102;
707/103.R;
707/104.1;
707/E17.118;
715/208;
Original:
395/603;
395/610;
395/611;
395/774;
395/762;
395/793;
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| Field of Search: |
395/611,603,610,774,762,793
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| Priority Number: |
| 1996-02-01 |
US1996000595477 |
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| Abstract: |
Embodiments of the present invention use a new extension to the HTML language to support remotely specified named anchors. A remotely specified named anchor, when embedded within a source document, instructs a browser program to access a portion of a destination document indicated in the remotely specified named anchor. When the browser program reads a remotely specified named anchor such as
from the source document, the browser program performs the following steps: 1) the browser retrieves the destination file "bar.html" from the server "foo.com", 2) the browser searches the file bar.html for "Some Text", and 3) if the browser finds the character swing being searched for, then the browser displays the file bar.html, scrolled to the line containing the first character of the character string being searched for.
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| Attorney, Agent or Firm: |
Crean, Timothy J. ;
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| Primary / Asst. Examiners: |
Kulik, Paul V.; Lintz, Paul K.
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| Maintenance Status: |
C1 Re-examined
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None
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First Claim:
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What is claimed is:
1. A method executed in a network computer system for facilitating access to a specified portion of data stored at a remote location, the method comprising the steps of:
- retrieving a source document, the source document including hypertext links to other data on the network;
- displaying the source document;
- receiving input entered on the source document;
- determining whether the input comprises selection of a remotely specified named anchor;
- when the input comprises selection of a remotely specified named anchor, retrieving data indicated in the remotely specified named anchor and displaying a portion of the data specified in the remotely specified named anchor, wherein the specified portion of the data does not have a position marker associated with it.
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Article entitled "As We May Think", Vannevar Bush, Atlantic Monthly, Jul. 1945, reprinted with updated commentary Mar. 1996, pp. 35-67.
"A Brief History of HTML", http://www.fcs.uga.edu/ca/web- seminar/publishing/history.html, 3 Mar. 1997, pp. 1-4. Mar. 1997.
"Extensions to HTML 2.0", http://www.mcom.com/assist/net- sites/html- extensions.html, 3 Mar. 1997, pp. 1-4. Mar. 1997.
"Extensins to HTML 3.0", http://www.mcom.com/assist/net- sites/html- extensions3.html, 3 Mar. 1997, pp. 1-4. Mar. 1997.
"Publication History", http://www.bikent.edu.tr/pub/WWW/MarkUp/HTML.html, 3 Mar. 1997, pp. 1-2. Mar. 1997.
"Paul Lintz's Homepage", http://www.erols.com/plimtz/, p1, Document Source, p. 2., 3 Mar. 1997. Mar. 1997.
"Tools for creating Web Pages.(World Wide Web Home Page Creation)", Seybold Report on Publishing Systems, vol. 24, No. 17, 1 May 1995, pp. S14-S19. May 1995.
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