US 2003/0115116 A1 · Publishing information on the internet

Abstract

A method of publishing information on the Internet, includes the step of a publishing service provider establishing an Internet publishing site. A person who wishes to publish information accesses the Internet publishing site and registers as a client. During the registration process, the client chooses: (a) to provide details of the client's existing Internet site; and/or (b) to request the publishing service provided to provide an Internet site for the client, or (c) not to utilize a “traditional” Internet web site. The information to be published is transferred from the client to the Internet publishing site. Software on the Internet publishing site automatically converts the information into a content item in a format suitable for placing on an Internet site, automatically allocates a URL (uniform resource locater) to the content item, and automatically enables the content item to be visible on the Internet.

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Dependent claims

A method of publishing information on the Internet, comprising the following steps:

(a) an Internet publishing site is established by a publishing service provider;
(b) a person who wishes to publish information accesses the Internet publishing site and registers as a client;
(c) during the registration process, the client chooses:
(i) to provide details of the client's existing Internet site;
and/or
(ii) to request the publishing service provider to provide an Internet site for the client;
or
(iii) to not utilize a “traditional” Internet web site
(d) the information to be published is transferred from the client to the Internet publishing site;
(e) software on the Internet publishing site automatically converts the information into a content item in a format suitable for placing on an Internet site, automatically allocates a URL (uniform resource locater) to the content item, and automatically enables the content item to be visible on the Internet.

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A method of publishing a content item on the Internet, comprising the following steps:

(a) a person who wishes to publish the content item establishes an Internet connection with an Internet publishing site;
(b) the person registers the content item with the Internet publishing site, providing information concerning categories and/or key words, and uploads the content item to the site;
(c) the Internet publishing site automatically translates the content item into HTML (Hyper Text Mark-up Language) and inserts meta-tags and creates an indexing file using information concerning categories and/or key words provided by the person during the registration step and/or information extracted automatically from the content item;
(d) the content item is automatically indexed into a database associated with the Internet publishing site;
(e) hypertext and/or graphical links are inserted into the content item;
(f) the content item is automatically allocated a URL, with the content item or part of it or a link to it optionally being forwarded to one or more of the following:
(i) one or more websites associated with clients and alliances of the person;
(ii) a list of email addresses;
(iii) the submission area of one or more Internet search engines or directories;
(iv) one or more industry portals or other resource locaters.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Publishing information on the internet

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Abstract

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