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US5937417:
Tooltips on webpages
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US United States of America
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| Inventor: |
Nielsen, Jakob; Atherton, CA
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| Assignee: |
Sun Microsystems, Inc., Palo Alto, CA
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| Published / Filed: |
1999-08-10
/ 1996-05-07
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| Application Number: |
US1996000643893
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| IPC Code: |
Advanced:
G06F 17/24;
G06F 17/30;
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IPC-7:
G06F 15/00;
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| ECLA Code: |
G06F17/24; G06F17/30G4;
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| U.S. Class: |
Current:
715/207;
707/E17.013;
715/234;
715/711;
Original:
707/513;
707/501;
345/337;
345/338;
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| Field of Search: |
395/337,338,762,774
345/337,338
707/501,513
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| Priority Number: |
| 1996-05-07 |
US1996000643893 |
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| Abstract: |
A method and apparatus that allows a Web page designer to specify tooltips for his Web page. Tooltips are text areas that display automatically when the user places the cursor over predetermined text on a display device. The invention also enables Web browser software to display the tooltips specified by the designer. The HTML format extension allows a Web page designer to specify the text over which the user must place the cursor to activate tooltips. The HTML extension also allows the designer to specify the tooltip text that will be displayed when the cursor reaches the specified text. Using the present invention, the designer only needs to specify tooltips for any given information once per page, even though the displayed information may appear multiple times on the Web page.
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| Attorney, Agent or Firm: |
Graham & James LLP ;
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| Primary / Asst. Examiners: |
Zimmerman, Mark K.; Good-Johnson, Motilewa A.
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First Claim:
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What is claimed is:
1. A method of specifying tooltips for text on a web page, comprising the steps of:
- determining a location on the web page for the information for which the tooltip is to be displayed;
- storing in a memory of a data processing system a tooltip tag having the format:
where the tooltip tag is stored in the memory in a location associated with the location of the text on the web page and includes an EVERYWHERE attribute, indicating that the tooltip should be displayed for every occurrence of the displayed info on the web page.
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| Other Abstract Info: |
DERABS G1999-457829
DERABS G1999-457829
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| Other References: |
Harvey, David A., "Working on the Web: HTML authoring tools.", Computer Shopper , pp. 1-8, Nov. 1995.
Gonzalex, Sean, "NCSA Mosaic (National Center for Supercomputing Applications' Internet Browser, version 2.0)", PC Magazine , pp. 191-192, Feb. 7, 1995.
McKinstry, Christopher, "tooltips (in client side image maps)", Web Page (cmckin@clickable.com), Nov. 2, 1995.
McKinstry; "tooltips (in client side image maps)"; http://www.acl.lanl.gov/HTML-- WG/html-wg-95q4.messages/0462.html; (p. 1), Nov. 1995.
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