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US5838906:
Distributed hypermedia method for automatically invoking external application providing interaction and display of embedded objects within a hypermedia document
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US United States of America
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| Inventor: |
Doyle, Michael D.; Alameda, CA
Martin, David C.; San Jose, CA
Ang, Cheong S.; Pacifica, CA
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The Regents of the University of California, Oakland, CA
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| Published / Filed: |
1998-11-17
/ 1994-10-17
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| Application Number: |
US1994000324443
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| IPC Code: |
Advanced:
G06F 9/46;
G06F 9/50;
G06F 17/30;
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IPC-7:
C06F 9/44;
C06F 15/16;
C06F 17/30;
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| ECLA Code: |
G06F17/30W9; G06F9/50A6S;
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| U.S. Class: |
Current:
715/205;
345/419;
345/427;
345/619;
345/638;
345/649;
345/653;
345/654;
345/655;
345/656;
707/E17.119;
709/202;
709/218;
709/219;
715/738;
715/760;
715/777;
715/804;
718/106;
719/310;
719/315;
Original:
395/200.32;
395/200.28;
395/680;
395/685;
345/326;
345/346;
707/501;
707/513;
707/515;
707/516;
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| Field of Search: |
395/157,200.03,161,118,144,145,146,147,148,683,777,778,762,326,333,334,335,676,682,685,684,200.32,200.33,200.47-200.49
707/501,513,515,516
345/326,343,346
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| Priority Number: |
| 1994-10-17 |
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| Abstract: |
A system allowing a user of a browser program on a computer connected to an open distributed hypermedia system to access and execute an embedded program object. The program object is embedded into a hypermedia document much like data objects. The user may select the program object from the screen. Once selected the program object executes on the user's (client) computer or may execute on a remote server or additional remote computers in a distributed processing arrangement. After launching the program object, the user is able to interact with the object as the invention provides for ongoing interprocess communication between the application object (program) and the browser program. One application of the embedded program object allows a user to view large and complex multi-dimensional objects from within the browser's window. The user can manipulate a control panel to change the viewpoint used to view the image. The invention allows a program to execute on a remote server or other computers to calculate the viewing transformations and send frame data to the client computer thus providing the user of the client computer with interactive features and allowing the user to have access to greater computing power than may be available at the user's client computer.
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| Attorney, Agent or Firm: |
Townsend and Townsend and Crew LLP ;
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| Primary / Asst. Examiners: |
Dung, Dinh C.;
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C2 Re-examined
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First Claim:
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What is claimed is:
1. A method for running an application program in a computer network environment, comprising:
- providing at least one client workstation and one network server coupled to said network environment, wherein said network environment is a distributed hypermedia environment;
- executing, at said client workstation, a browser application, that parses a first distributed hypermedia document to identify text formats included in said distributed hypermedia document and for responding to predetermined text formats to initiate processing specified by said text formats; utilizing said browser to display, on said client workstation, at least a portion of a first hypermedia document received over said network from said server, wherein the portion of said first hypermedia document is displayed within a first browser-controlled window on said client workstation, wherein said first distributed hypermedia document includes an embed text format, located at a first location in said first distributed hypermedia document, that specifies the location of at least a portion of an object external to the first distributed hypermedia document, wherein said object has type information associated with it utilized by said browser to identify and locate an executable application external to the first distributed hypermedia document, and wherein said embed text format is parsed by said browser to automatically invoke said executable application to execute on said client workstation in order to display said object and enable interactive processing of said object within a display area created at said first location within the portion of said first distributed hypermedia document being displayed in said first browser-controlled window.
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| Other Abstract Info: |
DERABS C1999-023910
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