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Method and apparatus for extending an on-line internet search beyond pre-referenced sources and returning data over a data-packet-network (DPN) using private search engines as proxy-engines

  • US 6,278,993 B1
  • Filed: 02/03/2000
  • Issued: 08/21/2001
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/08/1998
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A method for extending an on-line Internet search beyond pre-referenced sources, comprising steps of:

  • (a) entering a first search criteria in a first search function;

    (b) initiating the first search function;

    (c) returning in the first search function a pre-referenced first document having data associated with the first search criteria;

    (d) testing the first document for an embedded second search function;

    (e) on finding a second search function in the first document, automatically entering at least a form of the first search criteria in the second search function; and

    (f) returning addresses in the first search function for documents found through the second search function.

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