Facsimile and static presentation processing – Static presentation processing – Emulation or plural modes
Reexamination Certificate
1999-01-05
2001-12-25
Williams, Kimberly A. (Department: 2622)
Facsimile and static presentation processing
Static presentation processing
Emulation or plural modes
C358S400000, C358S403000, C707S793000, C707S793000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06333787
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to a hypertext information acquisition system and a computer-readable recording medium storing a hypertext information acquisition program, and more particularly to a hypertext information acquisition system and a computer-readable recording medium storing a hypertext information acquisition program which is capable of acquiring desired document contents by following hypertext links.
2. Description of the Related Art
In the Internet, the WWW (world wide Web) is constructed based on hypertext, and many of the WWW pages (Web page contents) are written in a hypertext document format HTML (hypertext markup language). The HTML pages are linked by link information added to the pages. Link information is formatted by using a predetermined tag to define a link from one page to another. The user can select and designate a link information item in a displayed page to thereby access another page referenced by the link information item. Consequently, the user can access desired information easily by repeating this operation.
In general, a computer, such as a personal computer or a workstation, is used for access to information on the WWW. Hypertext information on the Internet can be accessed by connecting the computer to a network and activating a WWW browser. Recently, an apparatus designed for dedicated use for browsing the WWW, a television set having the capability of browsing the WWW, etc. have been developed and placed in commercial use. Further, even a portable intelligent terminal which is capable of browsing the WWW has been invented.
However, the problem is that since WWW browsing requires an apparatus having at least WWW browsing capability, such as the above-mentioned apparatuses, a person having no such apparatus at hand cannot access any WWW page. Moreover, if a personal user wants to have access to the Internet, it is required to make a contract with an internet service provider and posses a communication device such as a modem, which may be an excessive burden to a user who rarely utilizes the Internet.
A facsimile (hereinafter referred to as the “FAX”) is a device for transmitting and receiving image information by using a telephone line. The FAX is widely used, so that it will be very convenient if the FAX can be used for receipt of WWW pages. However, since the WWW is constructed by the hypertext, it is required to provide some means for following links even when WWW pages are browsed by FAX. In conventional methods of accessing linked Web page contents, a pointing device or the like is used to designate a link (tagged link information) of contents linked to other Web page contents. However, to receive Web page contents by FAX, there has been no means for designating such a link to other Web page contents, which makes it impossible to acquire Web page contents referenced by a link within other Web page contents.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
It is an object of the present invention to provide a hypertext information acquisition system which enables a user to designate a portion of document contents in a hypertext format linked to other document contents by entering numerical values indicative of the portion, to thereby access the linked document contents.
It is an another object of the invention to provide a computer-readable recording medium storing a hypertext information acquisition program for causing a computer to execute hypertext information acquisition processing which enables a user to designate a portion of a document contents linked to other document contents by entering numerical values indicative of the portion, to thereby follow hypertext links.
To attain the above objects, the present invention provides a hypertext information acquisition system for acquiring document contents in a hypertext form. This hypertext information acquisition system comprises contents acquisition means for acquiring document contents in response to a request, linked contents request means for outputting to the contents acquisition means a request for acquisition of linked document contents referenced by a link within link-embedded document contents, a location of the link being indicated by coordinates on an image generated from the link-embedded document contents, in response to inputting of a link coordinate value indicative of the coordinates, and image generation means for generating an image from document contents acquired by the contents acquisition means, the image having matrix coordinate scales added thereto.
The above and other objects, features and advantages of the present invention will become apparent from the following description when taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings which illustrate preferred embodiments of the present invention by way of example.
REFERENCES:
patent: 5781914 (1998-07-01), Stork et al.
patent: 9-321894 (1997-12-01), None
Fujitsu Limited
Staas & Halsey , LLP
Williams Kimberly A.
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