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User-controlled web browser table sorting

  • US 20060041834A1
  • Filed: 08/19/2004
  • Published: 02/23/2006
  • Est. Priority Date: 08/19/2004
  • Status: Abandoned Application
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1. A method for sorting data in a table of a web page comprising:

  • receiving the web page at a computer connected to the Internet;

    interrogating incoming hypertext markup languge in the web page for a table structure tag;

    responsive to finding a table structure tag, marking the table structure tag as a potentially sortable tag;

    determining whether the potentially sortable tag meets a criteria for sorting;

    responsive to determining that the potentially sortable tag meets the criteria, introducing a control into the potentially sortable tag to create a sortable tag;

    linking the control to a sorting alogorithm; and

    activating the control so that the data associated with the table structure tag is sorted.

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