Mobile content engine with enhanced features

• US 20050193325A1
• Filed: 11/12/2004
• Published: 09/01/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 11/12/2003
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: David Lawrence Epstein
• Original Assignee: David Lawrence Epstein
• Inventors: Epstein, David Lawrence
• Application Number:
  US10/987,449
• Publication Number:
  US 20050193325A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/230
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9577 Optimising the visualization of content, e.g. distillation of HTML documents
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/169 Annotation, e.g. comment data or footnotes

Abstract

A special tool for use in manipulating electronic information. A projects are manipulated on the computer, wherein each project may comprise one or more documents that are associated with one another. The contents of the documents can be annotated, in a way which makes that contents took different on viewing. The jumping between the different annotations either in the same documents, or in documents associated with the project, is enabled. When the project is closed, the positions of the frames within the project are saved to a single file, which enables that project to be reconstructed on a different computer. In addition, selection of anything within the document allows automatically sending that information to another program.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

storing annotations within a document, which annotations represent a signal of a change to a look of least one specified part of the document; and

detecting a jump command, and responsive to said jump command, determining a first annotation associated with said detecting a jump command, determining a next annotation associated with said first annotation, and changing a position of a display to a position of said next annotation associated with said jump command.

2. A method as in claim 1, wherein said annotations are stored as tags within the document, with a first tag representing a beginning of the location of the annotation and a second tag representing an end of the annotation.

3. A method as in claim 2, wherein said annotations within the document represent coloring of text within the document between the beginning of the annotation and the end of the annotation.

4. A method as in claim 3, wherein said annotations within the document comprise HTML tags.

5. A method as in claim 1, wherein said annotations comprise an indication of a desired annotation and an indication of a location for the annotation within the document, and wherein a location of said annotations are in a location of the document that is separate from a location of at least one annotation.

6. A method as in claim 5, wherein said annotations include a color for selected text, and further comprising displaying the text associated with the annotation, in the selected color.

7. A method as in claim 5, further comprising displaying the text in a way that is changed based on said annotations.

8. A method as in claim 1, wherein all objects within the document are serializable.

9. A method as in claim 8, further comprising storing information about a current user environment, including at least a content of the document, and a size and position of a frame storing the document.

10. A method as in claim 9, wherein said storing comprises storing all of said information into a single file.

11. A method as in claim 1, wherein said first annotation comprises an annotation that exists at a position of viewing when the jump command is executed.

12. A method as in claim 1, wherein said second annotation comprises a same kind of annotation type as the first annotation.

13. A method as in claim 11, wherein said second annotation comprises a next occurrence of the same type of annotation type as the first annotation.

14. A method as in claim 1, further comprising enabling text to be selected by a software tool, detecting actuation of the selected text, and automatically passing the selected text to another program based on said actuation.

15. A method as in claim 14, wherein said automatically passing comprises automatically determining said another program based on content of the selected text.

16. A method as in claim 1, wherein said first and second annotations are within the same file.

17. A method as in claim 1, wherein said first and second annotations are within different files.

28. A method as in claim 15, further comprising opening a project by using said single file to retrieve said information, and using said information to reconstruct the frames.

46. A system as in claim 1, wherein said first and second annotations are within the same file on said computer.

47. A system as in claim 1, wherein said first and second annotations are within different files on said computer.

18. A method, comprising:

determining, on a computer, current contents of frames that are displayed on the computer, where said current contents of frames include at least positions of each of a plurality of frames on the desktop, sizes of each of the plurality of frames, content of each of the plurality of frames, and history information for at least one of said plurality of frames;

producing data representing said current contents of said frames, and

forming a single file that represents said data as representing a current content of the computer.

19. A method as in claim 18 wherein at least one of said frames on said computer comprises a browser.

20. A method as in claim 19, wherein said browser is capable of allowing annotations to contents of a document being displayed in said browser, and further comprising detecting a command to jump annotations, and in response to said command, detecting a content of a current annotation, finding a next annotation having the same content within the document, and moving a current position of said display to said next annotation automatically.

21. A method as in claim 20, wherein said annotations include colors, and wherein said browser displays text associated with said annotations based on a color indicated by the annotation.

22. A method as in claim 19, further comprising allowing text to be selected, and automatically passing selected text to another program.

23. A method as in claim 18, wherein said forming a single file comprises compressing the data into the single file.

24. A method as in claim 18, further comprising using the single file on another computer to reconstitute said current content of said frames on said another computer.

25. A method, comprising:

storing a plurality of information associated with a project associated with other information associated with the project;

detecting a request to close a project;

determining information about locations and sizes of frames defining the project, as well as a file name associated with the frame; and

storing the information and filename into a single file for each of the plurality of frames, said single file representing the project information.

26. A method as in claim 25 wherein said information further includes a history of viewed web sites, and a position of current viewing within the history.

27. A method as in claim 25, wherein said information further includes e-mail information.

29. A method as in claim 25, wherein the project further allows annotations within the project, and a jumping selection which enables jumping from a first annotation in the project to a second annotation in the project.

30. A method as in claim 29, wherein said first annotation and said second annotation are the same kind of annotations.

31. A method as in claim 25, wherein the project further allows selecting text within the document, and automatically passing the text to another program.

32. A system, comprising:

a computer executing a first routine to allow viewing a document, said document having annotations within the document, which annotations represent a signal of a change to a look of least one specified part of the document; and

said computer detecting a jump command, and responsive to said jump command, determining a first annotation associated with said detecting a jump command, determining a next annotation associated with said first annotation, and changing a position of a display to a position of said next annotation associated with said jump command.

33. A system as in claim 32, wherein said computer stores said annotations as tags within the document, with a first tag representing a beginning of the location of the annotation and a second tag representing an end of the annotation.

34. A system as in claim 32, wherein said annotations within the document represent coloring of text within the document, and wherein said computer displays colored text between the beginning of the annotation and the end of the annotation.

35. A system as in claim 34, wherein said computer stores the annotations within the document comprise HTML tags.

36. A system as in claim 32, wherein said computer stores annotations as an indication of a desired annotation and an indication of a location for the annotation within the document, and wherein a location of said annotations are in a location of the document that is separate from a location of at least one annotation.

37. A system as in claim 36, wherein said computer stores annotations that represent a color for selected text, and further comprising a display which displays the text associated with the annotation, in the selected color.

38. A system as in claim 37, wherein the display displays the text in a way that is changed based on said annotations.

39. A system as in claim 32, wherein said computer determines information including at least a content of the document, and a size and position of a frame storing the document, and stores said information.

40. A system as in claim 39, wherein said computer stores all of said information into a single file.

41. A system as in claim 32, wherein said first annotation comprises an annotation that exists at a position of viewing when the jump command is executed.

42. A system as in claim 32, wherein said second annotation comprises a same kind of annotation type as the first annotation.

43. A system as in claim 41, wherein said second annotation comprises a next occurrence of the same type of annotation type as the first annotation.

44. A system as in claim 43, wherein said computer enables text to be selected by a software tool, and detects actuation of the selected text, and automatically passes the selected text to another program based on said actuation.

45. A system as in claim 44, wherein said computer automatically determines said another program based on content of the selected text.

48. A system, comprising:

a computer, including a display driver that produces an output indicative of display of a plurality of frames,

said computer detecting current contents of frames that are displayed, where said current contents of frames include at least positions of each of a plurality of frames on the desktop, sizes of each of the plurality of frames, content of each of the plurality of frames, and history information for at least one of said plurality of frames, produces data representing said current contents of said frames, and forms a single file that represents said data as representing a current content of the computer.

49. A system as in claim 48 wherein at least one of said frames on said computer comprises a browser.

50. A system as in claim 49, wherein said browser is capable of allowing annotations to contents of a document being displayed in said browser, and said computer detects a command to jump annotations, and in response to said command, detects a content of a current annotation, finds a next annotation having the same content within the document, and moves a current position of said display to said next annotation automatically.

51. A system as in claim 50, wherein said annotations include colors, and wherein said computer displays text associated with said annotations based on a color indicated by the annotation.

52. A system as in claim 49, further comprising a part on said computer that allows text to be selected, and said computer automatically passes selected text to another program.

53. A system as in claim 48, further comprising a port on said computer, allowing said single file to be stored on an external medium that is coupled to said port.

54. A system as in claim 48, further comprising another computer, reconstituting said current content of said frames based on said data.

55. A system, comprising:

a memory, storing a plurality of information associated with a project associated with other information associated with the project;

a user interface, enabling a request to close a project;

a computer, associated with said memory and said user interface, and determining information about locations and sizes of frames defining the project, as well as a file name associated with the frame, and storing the information and filename into a single file for each of the plurality of frames, said single file representing the project information.

56. A system as in claim 55 wherein said information further includes a history of viewed web sites, and a position of current viewing within the history.

57. A system as in claim 55, wherein said information further includes e-mail information.