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Apparatus and method for filtering downloaded network sites

  • US 6,883,020 B1
  • Filed: 06/26/1997
  • Issued: 04/19/2005
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/26/1997
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A method of downloading into memory of a local computer system documents from nodes on a remote network site, the nodes being in a hierarchical tree structure with a plurality of levels, the tree structure having a highest node level, the method comprising:

  • designating one of the nodes in the tree structure as a root node;

    designating an intermediate node level of the tree structure, the intermediate node level being the same as or below the level of the root node and less than a deepest node level; and

    downloading, into the memory of the local computer system, documents in the nodes on levels that are in and between the root node and the intermediate node level, comprising;

    filtering documents in the nodes on levels that are between the root node and the intermediate node level; and

    preventing preselected parts of the documents from being downloaded.

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