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US 7,801,951 B2Granted
Process for referencing, prioritizing, accessing, and displaying marginalia in digital media
AssigneeReframe-It, Inc.
InventorsRobert Edward Fisher Fishkin, Brian Todd McKinney
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Abstract
A system and method for providing information over a communication network among a group of computer users. Computer users are able to provide information that relates to information downloaded from the communication network. User-provided information is displayed adjacent to the relevant information from the communication network and is viewable by other computer users utilizing the system.
Claims19
A system for providing information via a communication network, comprising:
- a server;
- a non-transitory computer-readable storage accessible by the server, including:
- a plurality of user data, wherein each user data corresponds to a user of the system;
- and
- at least one comment data comprising a comment created by a user of the system;
- at least one user interface in communication with the server, each user interface including:
- a web browser for accessing webpages via the communication network;
- wherein:
- a first user of the system enters a plurality of comments corresponding to one or more webpages through at least one user interface, said plurality of comments are then processed by the server and stored in the storage as comment data;
- comment data stored by the storage is transmitted by the server via the communication network to at least one user interface such that the plurality of comments are displayed on at least one user interface in an area of a web browser proximate to the webpage to which said comments correspond when the webpage is loaded by the web browser;
- a plurality of additional users of the system provide a plurality of comment ratings corresponding to said plurality of comments displayed on a user interface and said plurality of comment ratings are processed by the server and stored in the storage as comment data;
- and
- the server creates reputation data corresponding to the first user of the system, stores the reputation data in the storage, and uses the reputation data to sort comments for display on the at least one user interface, wherein the reputation data is based on the plurality of comment ratings corresponding to the plurality of comments made by the first user.
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A method for providing information via a communication network, comprising the steps of:
- receiving a plurality of user data via a communication network corresponding to a first computer user and a plurality of additional computer users;
- receiving a plurality of comments created by the first computer user from at least one user interface via the communication network, wherein said comments correspond to one or more webpaqes;
- storing said plurality of comments as comment data in a storage;
- transmitting comment data to at least one user interface for display on said at least one user interface in an area of a web browser proximate to the webpage to which a comment corresponds when the webpage is loaded by a web browser;
- receiving a plurality of comment ratings that correspond to said plurality of comments from said plurality of additional computer users;
- storing said plurality of comment ratings as comment data;
- creating at least one reputation data corresponding to said first computer user based on the plurality of comment ratings that correspond to the plurality of comments made by said first computer user;
- sorting said comment data stored in the storage according to said at least one reputation data to create a comment hierarchy;
- and
- displaying comment data corresponding to a webpage in an order determined by the comment hierarchy.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.