6 3) ay oO ey Gn 2) 8) 60) United States Patent Huang WEB-BASED OUTPUT WRI EDITOR RAND Inventor: Welshl Huang, Chapel Ill, NC (US) Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc, San Jose, CA (vs) Notice: Subject to any disclaimer, the term ofthis patent is extended or adjusted under 35 USC. 154(b) by 815 days. Appl. No 09/737,524 Filed: Dee. 13, 2000 Int. C17 Go06K 17/00 US. Cl. TISIS13; 715/530, 715/526 Fleld of Search 715/513, 526, ‘715/530, 512, 500.1, 501.1, 516; 345/751, 753 References Cited US. PATENT DOCUMENTS. 51571428 A * 9/1997 Muranag ct S751 © 121997 ‘Tanigawn ot a BS753 + 1068 Ivanov MSL 21995 Kraft IV Tissont SSO0177 A * 311999 Moody et 715i 6OO0ML_A. © 121900 Mathieu eta 75516 GOMLITL BL © “5/2001 Pact etal mss 05 FIRST WINDOW 310 RULER 4 (WEB-BASED INFORMATION) US006907S65B5L US 6,907,565 BL Jun. 14, 2005, (10) Patent No. 5) Date of Patent 0,360,256 BL * euseset BL + 6571205 BL yan 200. S208 Khon ot Morton otal Sidann (OTHER PUBLICATIONS Browning, “JISC TechWatch Report: Through the Web (TTW) Atthoring Tools”, 2003, wsed for bckgrownd infor Primary Examiner-—oseph Feild “Assistant Examiner—James H. Blackwell on ABSTRACT ‘A method and system for creating, viewing and editing an electronic document (e, 1 Web page) using a Web-based {ool (@ Web browser). A user copies a section of the clecimnie dacument into a window, and the copied infor ‘mation is submited to the browser, The browser returs the information in a window now having a reference scheme (eas 4 rier) that can be used 10 spocify & position or cchircler string within the document. The ser identifies 2 Tocation within the document and enters remarks associated with that location. The user input is submited to the browser, which returns anedited version ofthe document. At each location identified by tbe user, the edited document includes an index providing a reference to the user's remarks. The user's remarks ae provided as footnotes to the edited document 24 Claims, 9 Drawing Sheets ‘SECOND WINDOW 920 (COPY OF WEB-BASED INFORMATION)U.S. Patent Jun. 14,2005 Sheet 1 of 9 WEB BROWSER 195 US 6,907,565 BL PROCESSOR tot ron U NON-VOLATILE 108 RAM VOLATILE we DATA STORAGE DEVICE 08 Figure 1 ALPHA- CURSOR NETWORK DISPLAY DEVICE | | yyenic INPUT conta. || wrenrace caro 105 106 107 l 108 t TONETWORKU.S. Patent Jun. 14,2005 Sheet 2 of 9 CLIENT COMPUTER ‘SYSTEM 190a COMMUNICATION LINES 17a, 173b US 6,907,565 BL CLIENT COMPUTER: SYSTEM 190b SERVER COMPUTER SYSTEM 190¢ I DATABASE 240 Figure 2