Electronic note taking from network web pages
OwnerRobert J. Schmonseesinventor
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Abstract
An electronic note taking application is described in which a user may make check box selections on web pages such that certain portions of the web pages are cumulatively collected in a clipboard. As the user navigates through various web pages on a website, the user can make highlighted and checkmark selections in the web pages, which are cumulatively collected for later use and reporting. At the end of a session, the entire selection of selected materials from all web pages during the session can be displayed to the user as a single cohesive document.
Claims24
A web server, comprising:
- a web page facility to create web pages of predefined objects designed to be clipped and collected by a user and having check boxes associated with corresponding ones of a least some of the objects on said web pages;
- a storage resource to temporarily store portions of selected web pages identified via the user selection indicators as a cumulative list of objects captured while the selected web pages are displayed;
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- a compiler to send the user the cumulative list of objects for display in an organized fashion and to collect information associated with historical selection activity of said predefined objects by multiple ones of said users.
A method of clipboarding information from network web pages, comprising:
- displaying selected web pages;
- providing check boxes graphically associated with data objects displayed on said web pages;
- identifying a user entry associated with at least one of said check boxes of at least one of said web pages;
- collecting information associated with the identified user entries for each of said selected web pages into a common electronic clipboard;
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- displaying in an organized fashion all of the collected information associated with the identified user entries from the common electronic clipboard.
A method of clipboarding information from network web pages comprising:
- providing a web browser routine operatively associated with a browser displaying a selected one of said network web pages;
- graphically pre-identifying multiple discrete pre-defined portions of said at least one web page displayed with corresponding check boxes, said portions being graphically pre-identified prior to being displayed by said browser;
- recording user selections of said portions;
- collecting the selections into a common electronic clipboard;
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- displaying in an organized fashion all of the collected portions from the common electronic clipboard for a user for a session.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.