Method and apparatus to display paper-based documents on the internet

• US 20040199874A1
• Filed: 04/01/2003
• Published: 10/07/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 04/01/2003
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Stephen C. Larson
• Original Assignee: Stephen C. Larson
• Inventors: Larson, Stephen C.
• Application Number:
  US10/404,499
• Publication Number:
  US 20040199874A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/249
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/103 Formatting, i.e. changing of presentation of documents automatic justification G06F40/189; automatic line break hyphenation G06F40/191

Abstract

An on-line publishing system is set forth that causes search engines to direct Internet users to a digital image replica of a paper-based publication as a result of a search of using keywords, said keywords appearing to users only in the digital image replica of a paper-based publication.

Claims

1. An on-line publishing system that causes search engines to direct users to a digital image replica of a paper-based publication as a result of a search of using keywords, said keywords appearing to users only in the digital image replica of a paper-based publication, comprising:

a) means for receiving a paper-based publication file whose file contents contain formatting information representative of the formatting of the paper version of the publication and containing associated text;

b) a computer program that creates a digital image replica of a paper-based publication using the formatting information of the paper-based publication file and the associated text and;

c) a web content server providing browser-readable code representing a web page, wherein the code instructs the browser to create a full page frame within the browser and next to display a page within the frame defined by a link to a second page containing a digital image replica of a paper-based publication and third provides text relating to the keywords describing the paper-based publication within a NOFRAMES tag.

2. The on-line publishing system of claim 1 wherein the paper-based publication is a newspaper.

3. The on-line publishing system of claim 2 wherein the digital image replica of a paper-based publication is a newspaper display ad.

4. The on-line publishing system of claim 1 wherein the paper-based publication is a magazine.

5. The on-line publishing system of claim 4 wherein the digital image replica of a paper-based publication is a magazine display ad.

6. The on-line publishing system of claim 1 wherein the paper-based publication file is in pdf format.

7. The on-line publishing system of claim 1 wherein the paper-based publication file is in Quark Xpress format.

8. The on-line publishing system of claim 1 wherein the paper-based publication file is in Adobe PageMaker format.

9. The on-line publishing system of claim 1 wherein the paper-based publication file is in Indesign format.