Data processing: database and file management or data structures – Database design – Data structure types
Reexamination Certificate
1997-11-26
2001-03-27
Alam, Hosain T. (Department: 2771)
Data processing: database and file management or data structures
Database design
Data structure types
C707S793000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06209007
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to computer programs and in particular to software for creating a customized web page containing information from other web pages accessible by a client computer from an inter- or intra-net.
2. Description of Related Art
Web pages are typically made up of HyperText Markup Language (HTML) tags displaying HTML source files containing the headings, data, text, footings and hyperlinks to other web pages. In many instances, the user at a client computer desires to see only a small portion of the total web page, Many web pages span several screens which require the user to move up and down in order to view all of the desired information. This becomes tedious and counterproductive when the web page on which the desired information is consulted often. The prior art provides no method of providing individual customization to include only the subset of data that a particular user finds of interest and still retain the basic structure of the web page from the original document.
Existing web search engines usually search data from many sources and not a single web document. Since they search for data from many sources, there is no single web page with a basic structure to preserve. Search engines such as Yahoo and Alta Vista, available on the Internet and intra-net applications currently are not useful for customizing a particular web page by retaining the basic structure of the web page and presenting a subset of the data in the page. All that such search engines do is to present rows of lines that have the requested search items.
Moreover, such web pages containing desired information may change on a periodic basis, so that any information copied from such pages quickly becomes outdated. The prior art does not provide the ability of a user to easily build a customized web page from a series of unrelated web pages and to have the customized web page updated with changes as changes take place in the series of original web pages. There is a further need to have the changes to the web pages addresses (URLs) automatically be included in the customized web page if the changes occur anywhere in the series of web pages to data used in a customized web page.
Bearing in mind the problems and deficiencies of the prior art, it is therefore an object of the present invention to provide a process and system for creating a customized web page from other web pages accessible by a client computer from an inter- or intra-net.
It is another object of the present invention to provide to a user only a subset of data from a web page that a user desires, while still retaining the original structure of the web page from the original document.
Yet another object of the present invention is to provide a customized web page from one or more other web pages of documents which retains a header, footer and optionally other original structure from at least one of the web pages from the original documents.
A further object of the invention is to easily build a customized web page from a series of unrelated web pages, and to have the customized web page updated with changes as the changes take place in the original unrelated web pages.
Still other objects and advantages of the invention will in part be obvious and will in part be apparent from the specification.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The above and other objects and advantages, which will be apparent to one of skill in the art, are achieved in the present invention which is directed to, in a first aspect, a process for creating a customized web page containing information from other web pages accessible by a client computer from an inter- or intra-net. First, there is provided the parameters for a search of desired information from web pages on a network. A search is initiated from a client computer and the desired information on the network is retrieved. The client computer then views the desired information retrieved from the search on the network, and at least one original web page on the network from which the desired information was retrieved in the search. The search may be optionally modified, and the above steps repeated. The customized web page is then created, for example, on a program storage device accessible by the client computer, and contains: 1) the desired information retrieved in the search and 2) other structure, not retrieved in the search, of at least one original web page. The process may further include updating the information retrieved in the search on the customized web page when a change in the retrieved information is made in the original web page.
The desired information retrieved from the search may include lists, tables and text, and the desired information retrieved from the search may be in the form of source code such as HTML, Java and javascript.
Normally, the original web page on the network from which the desired information was retrieved in the search is accessed through a network server. The process also may include providing in a program storage device of the network server a database listing of the original web pages containing information retrieved in the search and, for each such original web page in the database listing, a corresponding listing of customized web pages containing the information retrieved in the search from the original web page. The network server then determines if a change has been made to the information retrieved in the search in an original web page; and updates the information on the customized web page when a change in the retrieved information is made in the original web page.
Before the network server updates the information, the client computer may send a notification to the network server that the customized web page should be updated when a change in the retrieved information is made in the original web page.
The other structure not retrieved in the search but included in the customized web page may include headings, footings, imbedded javascript code, text other than the desired information, and any links to other web pages therein.
The desired information may be retrieved from a plurality of original web pages, in which case the customized web page includes 1) the desired information retrieved in the search from the plurality of original web pages and 2) other structure, not retrieved in the search, of one of the original web pages.
In another aspect, the present invention provides a system for creating a customized web page containing information from other web pages accessible by a client computer from an inter- or intra-net. The system includes means for initiating a search from a client computer of desired information from web pages on a network and retrieving the desired information from the search, as well as means for viewing on the client computer the desired information retrieved from the search on the network and at least one original web page on the network from which the desired information was retrieved in the search. The system also includes means for creating on a program storage device accessible to the client computer a customized web page containing: 1) the desired information retrieved in the search and 2) other structure, not retrieved in the search, of at least one original web page. The other structure may include headings, footings, imbedded javascript code, text other than the desired information, and any links to other web pages therein.
There may also be included on the system means for updating the information retrieved in the search on the customized web page when a change in the retrieved information is made in the original web page.
Since the original web page on the network from which the desired information was retrieved in the search is normally accessed through a network server, the system may further include a program storage device accessible by the network server. The program storage device has a database listing of the original web pages containing information retrieved in the search and, for each such original web page in the database listing, a corresponding listing of c
Cartier Christopher E.
Dauerer Norman J.
Kelley Edward E.
Knickerbocker John U.
Ahsan Aziz M.
Alam Hosain T.
DeLio & Peterson LLC
International Business Machines - Corporation
Peterson Peter W.
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