Method of providing duplicate original file copies of a searched topic from multiple file types derived from the web

Patent 6938083 Issued on August 30, 2005. Estimated Expiration Date:

July 21, 2020. 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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Inventor

Teague, Tommy Kay

Application

No. 09620615 filed on 07/21/2000

US Classes:

709/225, Computer network access regulating707/101, Manipulating data structure (e.g., compression, compaction, compilation)715/501.1, Hypermedia715/523, Format transformation707/104.1, Application of database or data structure (e.g., distributed, multimedia, image)715/513, Structured document (e.g., HTML, SGML, ODA, CDA)707/5, Query augmenting and refining (e.g., inexact access)707/2, Access augmentation or optimizing715/525, Pagination707/4Query formulation, input preparation, or translation

Examiners

Primary: Cuchlinski, William A. Jr.
Assistant: Phan, Nhat D.

Attorney, Agent or Firm

International Classes

G06F015/173
G06F007/00
G06F015/00

Abstract

Many document files in different formats can be downloaded from websites which can be selected for their specific content using search items as a Verity Search Engine and Web Server. After downloading into a user-workstation, a topic search would not be ordinarily feasible to search files of different formats. The present system and method enables topic searching by converting the different file formats into a common format such as PDF which then can easily be topic-searched by a browser such as an Adobe Acrobat program.

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