Method for mining data and automatically associating source locations

• US 20030009489A1
• Filed: 05/29/2002
• Published: 01/09/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 05/29/2001
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Single Precision Technologies Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Single Precision Technologies Incorporated
• Inventors: Griffin, Steven K.
• Application Number:
  US10/159,731
• Publication Number:
  US 20030009489A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/500
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/955 using information identifiers, e.g. uniform resource locators [URL]

Abstract

The present invention provides a method and software for organizing data selected from electronic documents by automatically associating citation information to the selected data. In one embodiment, the source location, such as the URL, is associated with the selected data to reference the source for the data. In another embodiment, desired data is selected from an electronic document, data and citation attributes are collected for the selected data and automatically associated.

Claims

1. A method of appending a URL address to data copied from an electronic document stored on a global computer network, comprising the steps of:

storing the URL address;

storing the selected data; and

concatenating the URL address to the stored data.

2. A method of organizing data comprising the steps of:

selecting data in an electronic document having a source address;

copying the selected data; and

automatically associated the source address to the selected data.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein step of automatically associating the source address to the selected data further comprises appending the source address to the selected data at the destination.

4. The method of claim 2, wherein the step of automatically associating the source address to the selected data further comprises storing data and citation attributes in an instantiated object.

5. A method of organizing data comprising the steps of:

selecting desired data from an electronic document stored on a computer network;

collecting data and citation attributes for the selected data; and

automatically associating the data and citation attributes.

6. The method of claim 5 wherein the data and citation attributes are automatically associated by storing them in an instantiated object.