Automatic bibliographical information within electronic documents

• US 7,424,669 B2
• Filed: 01/16/2004
• Issued: 09/09/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 01/16/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Bhogal, Kulvir Singh, Ishmael, Nizamudeen Jr.
• Primary Examiner(s): RIES, LAURIE ANNE
• Application Number:
  US10/759,930
• Publication Number:
  US 20050160363A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,698 Days
• Field of Search: 715/530, 715/512, 715/230, 715/255
• US Class Current: 715/230
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/38 Retrieval characterised by using metadata, e.g. metadata not derived from the content or metadata generated manually

Abstract

A method that enables automatic retrieval and transfer of bibliographical information whenever content is copied from a web page. During creation of a web page, the meta data defining each independent portion of the content is linked via paired comments or meta tags to bibliographical information associated with the content. When a person accesses the web site and copies the content from the site, the bibliographical information is automatically appended to the content. If that content is then pasted into a different document, e.g., within a word processing application, the bibliographical information is automatically transferred to a location for such information within the document. Also, if the content is saved, the bibliographical information is saved along with the content.

Claims

1. In a data processing system having a processor and a memory with code residing therein and executed by the processor to implement a method for automatically providing bibliographical information associated with copied content, said method comprising:

associating bibliographical information with content on an electronic page;

responsive to a copy function performed on said content, creating a copy of said content and dynamically including the bibliographical information within the copy of said content, wherein said copy is created with the bibliographical information linked thereto;

associating a deletion of the bibliographical information to a concurrent deletion of the copy of the content, wherein the deletion of the bibliographical information triggers a concurrent deletion of the copy of the content; and

responsive to an output of the copy of the content to an output device, automatically outputting the bibliographical information along with the copy of said content.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

responsive to a later paste function performed on said copy of said content;

pasting said content within a document, and

concurrently with said pasting, inserting said bibliographical information into a bibliographical section within said document;

responsive to a later storage of said document having said copy of said content, saving said document along with said bibliographical information, wherein said copy of the content is stored with the bibliographical information linked thereto;

concurrently deleting the copy of the content in response to detection of a deletion of the bibliographical information.

3. The method of claim 2, further comprising:

requesting user selection of whether said bibliographical information should be inserted within the bibliographical section; and

in response to receiving a user selection to insert said information, updating a bibliographical section with said information, wherein when said user does not select insertion of said bibliographical information, said bibliographical section is not updated with said bibliographical information.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein said updating further comprises:

tagging the bibliographical information with an identifier;

displaying said identifier with said content, wherein the link between the bibliographical information and the content is indicated and selectable; and

in response to the identifier being selected by a user, displaying the bibliographical information associated with the content.

5. The method of claim 2, further comprising:

requesting user selection whether said bibliographical information is to be edited before insertion within the bibliographical section.

6. The method of claim 5, further comprising:

enabling the user to delete portions of said bibliographical information; and

when a specified portion of said bibliographical information is designed for non-deletion, disabling a delete option for that specified portion.

7. The method of claim 6, further comprising automatically deleting said content from said document when the specified portion of the bibliographical information is deleted.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein said associating step includes:

generating the content utilizing meta data; and

associating the bibliographical information as meta tags within said meta data.

9. The method of claim 1, said bibliographical information including one or more data from among name of author, source of content, publishing company, publication date, hot link to original article/document, and page and line numbering information.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein said associating step comprises:

generating the content utilizing meta data; and

respectively associating a beginning and an ending comment before and after said content;

wherein said beginning comment introduces and provides the bibliographical information for the content sequentially following in the source code and the ending comment terminates the section of overall content to which said bibliographical information belongs.

11. In a data processing system having a processor and program code residing in a memory and executing on the processor, a method for protecting online content the method comprising:

placing the content within a source file of a web page;

associating a bibliographic identifier with said content, wherein said bibliographic identifier is linked to said content such that a copying of said content when said web page is published copies said bibliographic identifier along with said content;

associating a deletion of the bibliographical identifier to a concurrent deletion of the content, wherein the deletion of the bibliographical identifier triggers a concurrent deletion of the content; and

responsive to an output of the content to an output device, automatically outputting the bibliographical information along with the content.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein said bibliographic identifier is a pair of comments comprising a first comment having the bibliographical identifier and a second comment indicating an end of the content to which said bibliographical identifier applies.

13. The method of claim 11, wherein said bibliographic identifier includes meta tags linked to bibliographical data, said method further comprising preventing a deletion of the bibliographical identifier without first deleting the content.

14. The method of claim 11, further comprising selecting at least one level of deletion capability for said bibliographic identifier, wherein a first level allows a copying entity to separate and delete bibliographical data from said content and a second level prevents removal of said bibliographical data by said copying entity.

15. The method of claim 11, further comprising enabling a copy tracking mechanism within said bibliographic identifier, wherein an internet identification (ID) of a copying entity that copies said content is recorded at a computer on which said web page is hosted.