Method and apparatus for viewing electronic commerce-related documents

• US 9,262,388 B2
• Filed: 10/15/2013
• Issued: 02/16/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 02/27/2001
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Open Invention Network LLC
• Original Assignee: Open Invention Network LLC
• Inventors: Schwarzhoff, Kelly Lane, Herri, Gunawan, Zhu, Changyi, Krish, Ari, Lee, Sun Keun, Davidson, Andrew Everett, Sulistio, Mulijadi
• Primary Examiner(s): Dam, Tuan Q.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Wei, Zheng
• Application Number:
  US14/054,777
• Publication Number:
  US 20140095983A1
• Time in Patent Office: 854 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9577 Optimising the visualization of content, e.g. distillation of HTML documents
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/117 Tagging; Marking up details of markup languages G06F40/143; Designating a block; Setting of attributes style sheets, e.g. eXtensible Stylesheet Language Transformation [XSLT], G06F40/154
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/143 Markup, e.g. Standard Generalized Markup Language [SGML] or Document Type Definition [DTD]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/151 Transformation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/154 Tree transformation for tree-structured or markup documents, e.g. XSLT, XSL-FO or stylesheets
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99936 Pattern matching access

Abstract

The present invention includes a method of providing users with formatted access to XML and similar documents received from trading partners using a general purpose viewer or browser. Particular aspects of the present invention are described in the claims, specification and drawings.

Claims

1. A method of making tagged documents viewable including:

receiving a document having a plurality of tagged fields that contain transaction data;

storing the document in machine readable memory and creating an index for retrieval of the document;

notifying a user of receipt of the document;

responding to a request by the user to view the document by applying rules for selecting one of a plurality of style sheets based on content of one or more of the tagged fields of the document that contain transaction data, applying the selected style sheet to the document to generate a result, and outputting the result for display.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the tagged fields include a document type and the document type is used for selecting.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein:

the tagged fields include a document type and an identification of an organization originating the document; and

the document type and the identification of an organization originating the document are used for selecting.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein:

the tagged fields include a document type, identification of an organization originating the document, and an identification of an addressee; and

the document type, the identification of the organization originating the document, and the identification of the addressee are used for selecting.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein:

a schema exists associated with the tagged fields; and

an identity of the schema is used for selecting.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the tagged fields have types that conform to a schema, at least one of the tagged fields has a particular type that is not used in the style sheet, and applying the selected style sheet further includes accessing the schema to determine a supertype of the particular type and using the supertype to format the tagged fields.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein notifying includes posting a message at a location accessed by the user.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the tagged fields deliver content independent of display format.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the user is using a browser and the request is for a browser-compatible view of the document.

10. A method of making tagged documents available for viewing by a user, including:

receiving a document having a plurality of tagged fields;

storing the document to machine readable memory and creating an index for retrieval of the document;

notifying a user of receipt of the document; and

responding to a request by the user to view the document by applying a style sheet to the document to generate a result, and outputting the result for display;

wherein the tagged fields have types that conform to a schema, one or more of the tagged fields has a particular type that is not used in the selected style sheet, and applying the selected style sheet further includes accessing the schema to determine a supertype of the particular type.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein responding further includes selecting one of a plurality of style sheets based on content of one or more of the tagged fields of the document.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein:

the tagged fields include a document type and an identification of an electronic commerce marketplace where the document originated; and

the document type and the identification of the electronic commerce marketplace where the document originated are used for selecting.