Method and apparatus for generating linking means and updating text files on a wide area network
OwnerGregory A. Piccionelliinventor
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Abstract
Embodiments of the instant invention are directed to methods for automatically generating a link in E-mail, web pages and other documents and files presented to users of wide area computer networks, and for automatically updating text and other types of files on a wide area network with links to data desired to be presented to such users. In embodiments of the present invention, selected key words are stored in a memory location or key word file. A comparison is made between the words in a downloaded text file and the key words stored in the key word file. If a word is detected in the textual data and the key word file or files, the key word displayed to the user is converted into a link.
Claims17
A method for converting, at a client computer in communication with the Internet, a textual word in a document, received from the Internet, having a plurality of textual words, into a linking means directed to information pertaining to an advertising process remote from the client computer, the method comprising:
- identifying at least one textual word as a key word pertaining to the advertising process;
- storing the key word in a key word file;
- associating the key word with the linking means, wherein the linking means is associated with predefined data pertaining to the advertising process;
- receiving, at the client computer, a file related to the key word file via the Internet;
- comparing, at the client computer, the textual words in the document received from the Internet with the key word in the key word file;
- and
- converting the textual word in the document received from the Internet into the linking means corresponding to the key word.
A method for generating linking means to information pertaining to an advertising process, the method comprising:
- identifying a key word pertaining to the advertising process, where the key word is a textual word;
- storing the key word in a key word file;
- associating the key word with the linking means, where the linking means is associated with predefined data pertaining to the advertising process;
- transmitting a file related to the key word file to a client computer;
- and
- transmitting a key word comparison and word to hypertext transformation program (“HTP”) to the client computer, where the HTP is configured to
- compare a textual word in a document, received at the client computer from the Internet, having a plurality of textual words with the key word in the key word file, and
- convert the textual word in the document received from the Internet into the linking means corresponding to the key word.
A method for generating linking means to information pertaining to an advertising process, the method comprising:
- receiving a file related to a key word file having at least one key word;
- receiving a key word comparison and word to hypertext transformation program (“HTP”);
- receiving a document from the Internet having a plurality of textual words;
- comparing the plurality of textual words in the received document with the at least one key word in the key word file;
- and
- converting the textual word to the linking means corresponding to the at least one key word, wherein
- the at least one key word is a textual word that pertains to the advertising process,
- the at least one key word is also associated with the linking means, and
- the linking means is associated with predefined data pertaining to the advertising process.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.