Method and apparatus for viewing electronic commerce-related documents

• US 9,785,624 B2
• Filed: 02/11/2016
• Issued: 10/10/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 02/27/2001
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Open Invention Network LLC
• Original Assignee: Open Invention Network LLC
• Inventors: Davidson, Andrew Everett, Schwarzhoff, Kelly Lane, Herri, Gunawan, Zhu, Changyi, Krish, Ari, Sulistio, Muljadi, Lee, Sun Keun
• Primary Examiner(s): DAM, TUAN QUANG
• Assistant Examiner(s): Wei, Zheng
• Application Number:
  US15/042,082
• Publication Number:
  US 20160162453A1
• Time in Patent Office: 607 Days
• 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;

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 the method further comprises notifying a user of receipt of the document by 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 method further comprises notifying a user of receipt of the document;

the applying of the rules is performed in response to a request by the user to view the document;

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

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 the applying of the selected style sheet further includes accessing the schema to determine a supertype of the particular type.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein:

the applying of the style sheet to the document is performed in response to a request by the user to view the document; and

the request by the user 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.