Method and apparatus for sharing a web page
First Claim
1. A method for sharing a WWW page between users, comprising the steps of:
- having a WWW page that a first user wants to share with at least one other user which is resident in a first client system;
generating an event-action announcement;
transmitting said event-action announcement to a server running an event-action program which can understand said event-action announcement;
said server receiving said announcement;
said server compares a subject matter of the announcement with interests of other users in the subject matter of said WWW page for a match; and
after said comparison, said server triggers the respective actions specified to be taken by said server for each of the other users who were matched, said comparison enabling sharing of the WWW page to be concurrent or non-concurrent as selected by any of the users.
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Abstract
A method and apparatus for one user of the World Wide Web (WWW) to share an interesting WWW page with other users who have interest in the subject matter thereof. The user offers to share this WWW page by transmitting an announcement thereof. The other users have pre-arranged specifications stored in memory of their server(s) of what subject matter announcements will be accepted from which announcing users. Thus, the recipients can limit or filter the announcements of the URL'"'"'s that they receive from others. If there is a match between the announcer'"'"'s subject matter, perhaps the announcer'"'"'s identity and/or employer'"'"'s identity, and the recipient'"'"'s specified acceptance criteria, then the server performing match up will take the action specified by the other user to be taken. Actions to be taken include load URL into WWW browser and download announced WWW page immediately for viewing, and store URL for later review.
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13 Claims
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1. A method for sharing a WWW page between users, comprising the steps of:
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having a WWW page that a first user wants to share with at least one other user which is resident in a first client system; generating an event-action announcement; transmitting said event-action announcement to a server running an event-action program which can understand said event-action announcement; said server receiving said announcement; said server compares a subject matter of the announcement with interests of other users in the subject matter of said WWW page for a match; and after said comparison, said server triggers the respective actions specified to be taken by said server for each of the other users who were matched, said comparison enabling sharing of the WWW page to be concurrent or non-concurrent as selected by any of the users. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11)
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12. An apparatus for sharing WWW pages among a plurality of users, comprising:
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a first client system having a WWW page resident therein that is to be shared with at least one other client system; said WWW page having a URL; a server running an event-action program which can process an event-action announcement including said URL; said client system generating an event-action announcement announcing said WWW page and transmitting said event-action announcement to said server; said server receives said announcement and compares a subject matter of said announcement with information from a set of other users that have interests in the subject matter of said announcement; and upon a true comparison, said server taking the respective action specified for each of the other users, said comparison enabling sharing of the WWW page to be concurrent or non-concurrent as selected by any of the users. - View Dependent Claims (13)
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