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Methods and apparatus for distributing and using metadata via the internet

  • US 6,665,659 B1
  • Filed: 02/01/2000
  • Issued: 12/16/2003
  • Est. Priority Date: 02/01/2000
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. The method of selectively distributing information via the Internet to a recipient which comprises, in combination,employing one or more computers located remotely from said recipient to perform the steps of:

  • (a) retrieving information via the Internet from a plurality of different resources, each of said resources being specified by a unique URL value, (b) processing said retrieved information to produce a collection of citations, each of said citations describing all or part of the information from a given one of said resources and each of said citations consisting of the combination of the URL value specifying said given one of said resources and one or more attribute values which characterize the information from said given one of said resources, and (c) transmitting said collection of citations via the Internet from a server computer to a client computer operated by said recipient, and employing a client computer operated by said recipient to perform the steps of;

    (d) storing said collection of citations at said client computer, (e) accepting a content specification from said recipient, (f) extracting a subset of citations from said the collection of citations stored at said client computer by matching said content specification against corresponding attribute values in said collection of citations, and (g) presenting information specified by said subset of citations to said recipient.

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