Distribution mechanism for filtering, formatting and reuse of web based content

Patent 6128655 Issued on October 3, 2000. Estimated Expiration Date:

July 10, 2018. Estimated Expiration Date is calculated based on simple USPTO term provisions. It does not account for terminal disclaimers, term adjustments, failure to pay maintenance fees, or other factors which might affect the term of a patent.

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Inventors

Application

No. 113678 filed on 07/10/1998

US Classes:

709/219, Accessing a remote server709/225, Computer network access regulating715/501.1Hypermedia

Examiners

Primary: Vu, Viet D.

Attorney, Agent or Firm

LaBaw; Jeffrey S.

Foreign Patent References

WO9726729 EP. 12/12/1996
WO9727553 EP. 01/12/1997

International Class

G06F 013/00

Abstract

The invention provides an automated system for replicating published web content and associated advertisements in the context of a hosting web site. At the hosting web site, the invention includes the process of brokering a client browser's request for a web page, analyzing the returned content and splitting it into component elements, extracting the desired component elements, recasting the desired elements in the look and feel of the hosting site and sending the recast content to the requesting client as a web page. Once the reformatted file is received at the client, the client browser interprets the HTML in the web page, presenting the content in the context of the hosting web site. On the content provider's web site, the details of the transaction in the web server logs are preserved, proxying a direct page view and ad impression.

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