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`Background of the Invention (cid:9)
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`F. Additional Details (cid:9)
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`II. A Particular User, User Interface, and Client on the Network (cid:9)
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`III. A Particular Service and/or Information Request and Associated Service and/or
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`B. The Server PS (18) (cid:9)
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`D. Formulating Query Information Groups (cid:9)
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`I. Grouping the Queries and Sorting/Grouping Criteria (cid:9)
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`Client-Server Multitasking
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`HARVEY LUNENFELD
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`BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
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`FIELD OF THE INVENTION
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`The present invention relates generally to clients and servers and more particularly to
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`client-server multitasking.
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`BACKGROUND ART
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`15 Clients, servers, and client-server systems have been known. However there is a need
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`for client-server multitasking. A client-server multitasking system and process are
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`needed, which are capable of information and/or service retrieval from the same and/or
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`different ones of servers substantially simultaneously and on-the-fly, using the same
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`and/or different ones of queries, and sorting, grouping, and/or organizing responses
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`therefrom substantially on-the-fly.
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`A requestor and/or user should be capable of making substantially multiple
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`simultaneous same and/or different requests of same and/or different servers. The
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`client server-multitasking system and process should be capable of organizing
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`responses from the servers into service and/or information responses, and
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`communicating the service and/or information responses to the requestors and/or users
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`substantially simultaneously, and on-the-fly.
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`The requestors and/or users should be capable of making substantially simultaneous
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`service and/or information requests of the same and/or different ones of servers and/or
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`clients, using the same and/or different queries, and/or the same and/or different
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`instructions. The client-server multitasking system and process should be capable of
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`to retrieving substantially multiple simultaneous services and/or information having the
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`same and/or different criteria from the same and/or different servers, sorting, grouping,
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`and/or organizing the responses from the servers and/or the clients into information
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`and/or services responses, and communicating the service and/or information responses
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`to the requestors and/or the users substantially simultaneously. The same and/or
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`different ones of uniform resource locators, target resources, and/or paths may be used.
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`The requestors and/or the users should be capable of making multiple simultaneous
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`searches. The searches should be capable of having at least one or a plurality of same
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`or different queries of the same and/or different servers and/or clients. The responses
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`from the servers and/or the clients should be capable of being organized into the service
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`and/or information response in a variety of formats. It should be possible to sort the
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`responses within the service and/or information response, such as, for example, by
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`category, query, group, page, order of importance, ascending and/or descending order,
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`alphabetically and/or numerically, or other characteristics, as determined by the
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`requester, and/or the user, and/or the client-server multitasking system, or to combine
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`the responses within the service and/or information response, such as, for example,
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`interleaving the responses one with the other, such as, for example, by order of
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`relevance or other parameters. The responses should be capable of being grouped by
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`search criteria, server, order of impedance, or by numerical factors such as value, price,
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`or other numerical quantifier. For example, the responses should be presentable, for
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`example, in ascending or descending order in interleaved format, such as top ones,
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`twos, threes, and so on, or presentable separately to the requestor and/or the user. The
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`10 order may be order of importance or relevance related, or, for example, numerically
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`valued, such as price or stock market value.
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`The client-server multitasking system and process should be capable of information
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`and/or service retrieval from the same and/or different ones of the servers substantially
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`simultaneously and on-the-fly, using the same and/or different ones of the queries, and
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`sorting, grouping, and/or organizing responses therefrom substantially on-the-fly.
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`The client-server multitasking system and process should be capable of substantially
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`multiple simultaneous searching, using the same and/or different ones of queries of the
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`same and/or different ones of the clients and/or servers, which may be search engines,
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`and/or sites, and/or servers, and/or locations on the network, and additionally and/or
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`alternatively building a client-server multitasking search engine and/or database. The
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`client-server multitasking search engine and/or database should be capable of storing
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`the information and/or services retrieved therefrom the search engines, and/or sites,
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`and/or servers, and/or locations being queried on the network therein, and building the
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`client-server search engine and/or database. The client-server multitasking search
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`engine should also be capable of being queried either directly and/or in combination
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`therewith the substantially simultaneous searching, using the same and/or different
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`queries of the same and/or different search engines, sites, servers, and/or databases.
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`The client-server multitasking search engine and/or database should also be capable of
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`updating information and/or services stored therein by querying sites, servers, search
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`engines, and/or databases containing information and/or services referenced in client-
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`10 server multitasking search engine and/or database.
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`The client-server multitasking system and process should also be capable of use on a
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`variety of networks, such as global area networks, and in particular the intemet,
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`metropolitan area networks, wide area networks, and local area networks.
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`The client-server multitasking system and process should be capable of substantially
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`simultaneous searching of the same and/or different ones of search engines and/or sites
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`on the network substantially on-the-fly, with the same and/or different ones of the
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`queries, and sorting, grouping, and/or organizing responses therefrom substantially on-
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`the-fly.
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`The client-server multitasking system and process should also be capable of sorting,
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`grouping, and/or organizing results therefrom the servers, search engines, and/or sites,
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`in accordance with instructions from the requestors, and/or the users, and/or instructions
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`resident within the client-server multitasking system and/or process. The client-server
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`multitasking system and process should also be capable drilling down and/or up to
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`different levels within the search engines, sites, and/or servers being queried.
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`The client-server multitasking system and process should be capable of providing
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`manual and/or timed updates. Such timed updates should allow for motion related
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`presentation to the requestor and/or the user.
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`The client-server multitasking system and process should be capable of incorporating
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`information and/or services thereinto a variety of user interfaces at different locations
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`therein the user interfaces, grouping, and/or organizing the information and/or services,
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`and optionally eliminating duplicate information and/or services.
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`The client-server multitasking system and process should be capable of incorporating
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`links, graphics, video, text, and audio, and/or combinations thereof, and selective
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`advertising, according to selectable search, query, sorting, and/or grouping criteria,
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`and/or combinations thereof thereinto the information and/or services to be delivered
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`thereto the user interfaces. The user should also be capable of placing orders, such as
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`purchases, and/or other types of orders, payments, confirmations thereof, and/or
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`combinations thereof, either directly and/or therethrough servers and/or sites thereon the
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`network.
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`The client-server multitasking system should be capable of use in a variety of
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`applications, and be capable of information comparison and/or trend analysis of
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`information from the same and/or different sources substantially simultaneously. The
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`client-server multitasking system should be capable of, for example, determining best
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`query results, with respect to a plurality of search engine results; purchasing and/or
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`price comparisons, viewing and/or reviewing prices/values and trends for different sites,
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`determining lowest costs and lowest cost analyses for wholesale and retail purposes;
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`product availability, e.g., airline tickets, pricing, and ticket availability, from different
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`airlines to the same and/or different locations; purchasing of commodities and/or stocks
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`10 form the same and/or different sites with updates every few seconds and/or minutes;
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`obtaining prices and/or values in different stock markets substantially simultaneously;
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`and searching for jobs on the same and/or different job sites, using the same and/or
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`different job criteria, for example, on a daily basis, the job sites having changing job
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`availability; and/or a combination thereof, all substantially simultaneously. The client-
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`server multitasking system should be capable of presenting information and/or services
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`for review and/or updating from the same and/or different ones of sites, servers, and/or
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`applications substantially simultaneously, and trend analysis thereof, using a variety of
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`sorting, grouping and/or organizing criteria, according to the needs of the requestor,
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`and/or the user, and/or resident within the client-server multitasking system.
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`A client server-multitasking system and process are needed, which are capable of
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`service and/or information retrieval from at least one server, organization,
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`communication, and presentation of such services and/or information to at least one
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`requestor, and/or the user, and/or optional storage, and/or retrieval of such services
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`and/or information from the optional storage. The client-server multitasking system
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`and process should be capable of building a client-server multitasking system search
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`engine and/or database therefrom responses returned from the servers, search engines,
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`and/or sites being queried and/or searched, and/or having requests made thereof. The
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`client-server multitasking system search engine and/or database having stored
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`information and/or services therein should also be searchable, be capable of full text
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`searches thereof, and be searchable by the servers and/or the clients on the network,
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`either separately and/or in combination therewith the substantially simultaneous
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`10 multiple same and/or different searches and/or queries of the same and/or different
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`servers on the network. Information therein the client-server multitasking system
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`search engine and/or database should also be searchable and/or retrievable, and should
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`be capable of being incorporated therein the service and/or information responses
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`delivered thereto the user interfaces, according to search criteria, selectively and/or
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`automatically, by the requestor, and/or the user. The client-server multitasking system
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`search engine and/or database should also be capable of spidering, and/or roboting,
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`and/or querying sites, services and/or information to be stored therein and/or stored
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`therein the client-server multitasking system search engine and/or database, and
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`updating the services and/or information to be stored and/or stored therein the client-
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`server multitasking system search engine and/or database.
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`The client-server multitasking system and process should be capable of retrieving,
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`parsing, processing, formatting, organizing, grouping, sorting, and consolidating
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`services and/or information therefrom the same and/or different ones of the servers
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`and/or clients having the same and/or different structures, formats, organizations,
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`groupings, and/or data structures, and incorporating the parsed, processed, formatted,
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`organized, grouped, sorted, and consolidated services and/or information thereinto user
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`responses for delivery to and use by the requestors and/or users.
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`For the foregoing reasons, there is a need for a client-server multitasking system and
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`process capable of information and/or service retrieval from the same and/or different
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`ones of servers substantially simultaneously and on-the-fly, using the same and/or
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`10 different ones of queries of the same and/or different ones of the servers, and sorting,
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`grouping, and/or organizing responses therefrom substantially on-the-fly, and
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`communicating service and/or information responses to the requestors and/or users
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`substantially simultaneously and on-the-fly. The client-server multitasking system and
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`process should be capable of use on a variety of networks, such as global area networks,
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`and in particular the internet, metropolitan area networks, wide area networks, and local
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`area networks, and be capable of searching search engines and/or other sites
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`substantially simultaneously and on-the-fly. The client-server multitasking system and
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`process should be capable of sorting, grouping, and/or organizing results therefrom the
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`servers, search engines, and/or sites, in accordance with instructions from the
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`requestors, and/or the users, and/or instructions resident within the client-server
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`multitasking system and/or process. The client-server multitasking system should also
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`be capable of use in a variety of applications, and capable of information comparison
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`and/or trend analysis of information from the same and/or different sources
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`substantially simultaneously. The client-server multitasking system and process should
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`also be capable of building a client-server multitasking system search engine and/or
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`database therefrom responses returned from the servers, search engines, and/or sites
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`being queried and/or searched, and/or having requests made thereof, be capable of being
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`searched and/or queried, querying sites referenced therein the client-server multitasking
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`system search engine and/or database, and updating information and/or services stored
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`therein. The client-server multitasking system and process should be capable of
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`retrieving, parsing, processing, formatting, organizing, grouping, sorting, and
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`consolidating services and/or information therefrom the same and/or different ones of
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`the servers and/or clients having the same and/or different structures, formats,
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`organizations, groupings, and/or data structures, and incorporating the parsed,
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`processed, formatted, organized, grouped, sorted, and consolidated services and/or
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`information thereinto user responses for delivery to and use by the requestors and/or
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`SUMMARY
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`The present invention is directed to a client-server multitasking system and process
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`capable of information and/or service retrieval from the same and/or different ones of
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`servers substantially simultaneously and on-the-fly, using the same and/or different ones
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`of queries of the same and/or different ones of the servers, and sorting, grouping, and/or
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`organizing responses therefrom substantially on-the-fly, and communicating service
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`and/or information responses to the requestors and/or users substantially simultaneously
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`and on-the-fly. The client-server multitasking system and process is capable of use on a
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`I t) variety of networks, such as global area networks, and in particular the intemet,
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`metropolitan area networks, wide area networks, and local area networks, and be
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`capable of searching search engines and/or other sites substantially simultaneously and
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`on-the-fly.
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`The client-server multitasking system and process is capable of retrieving substantially
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`multiple simultaneous services and/or information having the same and/or different
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`criteria from the same and/or different servers, sorting, grouping, and/or organizing the
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`responses from the servers and/or the clients into information and/or services responses,
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`and communicating the service and/or information responses to the requestors and/or
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`the users substantially simultaneously. The requestors and/or the users may make
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`substantially simultaneous service and/or information requests of servers and clients,
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`using the same and/or different queries, and/or the same and/or different instructions.
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`The same and/or different uniform resource locators, target resources, and/or paths may
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`be used.
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`The client-server multitasking system and process is capable of making multiple
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`substantially simultaneous same and/or different requests of same and/or different
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`servers, organizing responses from the servers into service and/or information
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`responses, and communicating the service and/or information responses to the
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`requestors and/or the users substantially simultaneously.
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`10 The client-server multitasking system and process is also capable of sorting, grouping,
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`and/or organizing results therefrom the servers, search engines, and/or sites, in
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`accordance with instructions from the requestors and/or the users, and/or instructions
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`resident within the client-server multitasking system and/or process. The client-server
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`multitasking system is capable of use in a variety of applications, and is capable of
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`information comparison and/or trend analysis of information from the same and/or
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`different sources substantially simultaneously. The client-server multitasking system
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`and process is also be capable of building a client-server multitasking system search
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`engine and/or database therefrom responses returned from the servers, search engines,
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`and/or sites being queried and/or searched, and/or having requests made thereof, be
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`capable of being searched and/or queried, querying sites referenced therein the client-
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`server multitasking system search engine and/or database, and updating information
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`and/or services stored therein.
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`The client-server multitasking system and process are capable of information and/or
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`service retrieval from the same and/or different ones of servers substantially
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`simultaneously and on-the-fly, using the same and/or different ones of queries, and
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`sorting, grouping, and/or organizing responses therefrom substantially on-the-fly.
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`A requestor and/or user is capable of making substantially multiple simultaneous same
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`and/or different requests of same and/or different servers. The client server-
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`multitasking system and process is capable of organizing responses from the servers
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`into service and/or information responses, and communicating the service and/or
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`information responses to the requestors and/or the users substantially simultaneously,
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`and on-the-fly.
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`The requestors and/or users are capable of making substantially simultaneous service
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`and/or information requests of the same and/or different ones of servers and/or clients,
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`using the same and/or different queries, and/or the same and/or different instructions.
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`The client-server multitasking system and process is capable of retrieving substantially
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`multiple simultaneous services and/or information having the same and/or different
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`criteria from the same and/or different servers, sorting, grouping. and/or organizing
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`responses from the servers and/or the clients into information and/or services responses,
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`and communicating the service and/or information responses to the requestors and/or
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`the users substantially simultaneously. The same and/or different ones of uniform
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`resource locators, target resources, and/or paths may be used.
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`The requestors and/or users are capable of making multiple simultaneous searches. The
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`searches may have at least one or a plurality of same or different queries of the mime
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`and/or different servers and/or clients. The responses from the servers and/or the clients
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`may be of being organized into the service and/or information response in a variety of
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`formats. The responses may be sorted within the service and/or information response,
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`such as, for example, by category, query, group, page, order of importance, ascending
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`and/or descending order, alphabetically and/or numerically, or other characteristics, as
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`determined by the requestor, and/or the user, and/or the client-server multitasking
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`system, and/or the responses may be combined within the service and/or information
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`response, such as, for example, interleaving the responses one with the other, such as,
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`for example, by order of relevance or other parameters. The responses may also be
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`capable of being grouped by search criteria, server, order of importance, or by
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`numerical factors such as value, price, or other numerical quantifier. For example, the
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`responses may be presentable, for example, in ascending or descending order in
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`interleaved format, such as top ones, twos, threes, and so on, or presentable separately
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`to the requestor and/or the user. The order may be order of importance or relevance
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`related, or, for example, numerically valued, such as price or stock market value.
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`The client-server multitasking system and process is be capable of information and/or
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`service retrieval from the same and/or different ones of the servers substantially
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`simultaneously and on-the-fly, using the same and/or different ones of the queries, and
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`sorting, grouping, and/or organizing responses therefrom substantially on-the-fly.
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`The client-server multitasking system and process is capable of substantially multiple
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`simultaneous searching, using the same and/or different ones of queries of the same
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`and/or different ones of the clients and/or servers, which may be search engines, and/or
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`sites, and/or servers, and/or locations on the network, and additionally and/or
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`alternatively building a client-server multitasking search engine and/or database. The
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`client-server multitasking search engine and/or database is capable of storing the
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`information and/or services retrieved therefrom the search engines, and/or sites, and/or
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`servers, and/or locations being queried on the network therein, and building the client-
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`server search engine and/or database. The client-server multitasking search engine
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`the substantially simultaneous searching, using the same and/or different queries of the
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`same and/or different search engines, sites, servers, and/or databases. The client-server
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`multitasking search engine and/or database should is also capable of updating
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`information and/or services stored therein by querying sites, servers, search engines,
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`and/or databases containing information and/or services referenced in client-server
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`multitasking search engine and/or database.
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`The client-server multitasking system and process is also capable of use on a variety of
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`networks, such as global area networks, and in particular the interne, metropolitan area
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`networks, wide area networks, and local area networks.
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`The client-server multitasking system and process are capable of substantially
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`simultaneous searching of the same and/or different ones of search engines and/or sites
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`on the network substantially on-the-fly, with the same and/or different ones of the
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`queries, and sorting, grouping, and/or organizing responses therefrom substantially on-
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`the-fly.
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`The client-server multitasking system and process are also capable of sorting, grouping,
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`and/or organizing results therefrom the servers, search engines, and/or sites, in
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`accordance with instructions from the requestors, and/or instructions resident within the
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`client-server multitasking system and/or process. The client-server multitasking system
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`and process are also capable drilling down and/or up to different levels within the
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`search engines, sites, and/or servers being queried.
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`The client-server multitasking system and process are capable of providing manual
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`and/or timed updates. Such timed updates allow for motion related presentation to the
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`requestor and/or the user.
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`The client-server multitasking system and process are capable of incorporating
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`information and/or services thereinto a variety of user interfaces at different locations
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`therein the user interfaces, grouping, and/or organizing the information and/or services,
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`and optionally eliminating duplicate information and/or services.
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`The client-server multitasking system and process are capable of incorporating links,
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`graphics, video, text, and audio, and/or combinations thereof, and selective advertising,
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`according to selectable search, query, sorting, and/or grouping criteria, and/or
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`combinations thereof thereinto the information and/or services to be delivered thereto
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`the user interfaces. The requestor and/or the user may place orders, such as purchases,
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`and/or other types of orders, payments, confirmations thereof, and/or combinations
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`thereof, either directly and/or therethrough servers and/or sites thereon the network.
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`The client-server multitasking system is capable of use in a variety of applications, and
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`is capable of information comparison and/or trend analysis of information from the
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`same and/or different sources substantially simultaneously. The client-server
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`multitasking system is capable of, for example, determining best query results, with
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`10 respect to a plurality of search engine results; purchasing and/or price comparisons,
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`viewing and/or reviewing prices/values and trends for different sites, determining
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`lowest costs and lowest cost analyses for wholesale and retail purposes; product
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`availability, e.g., airline tickets, pricing, and ticket availability, from different airlines to
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`the same and/or different locations; purchasing of commodities and/or stocks form the
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`same and/or different sites with updates every few seconds and/or minutes; obtaining
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`prices and/or values in different stock markets substantially simultaneously; and
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`searching for jobs on the same and/or different job sites, using the same and/or different
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`job criteria, for example, on a daily basis, the job sites having changing job availability;
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`and/or a combination thereof, all substantially simultaneously. The client-server
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`and/or updating from the same and/or different ones of sites, servers, and/or
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`applications substantially simultaneously, and trend analysis thereof, using a variety of
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`sorting, grouping and/or organizing criteria, according to the needs of the requestor,
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`and/or the user, and/or resident within the client-server multitasking system.
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`The client server-multitasking system and process are capable of service and/or
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`information retrieval from at least one server, organization, communication, and
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`presentation of such services and/or information to at least one requestor and/or user,
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`and/or optional storage, and/or retrieval of such services and/or information from the
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`optional storage. The client-server multitasking system and process are capable of
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`building a client-server multitasking system search engine and/or database therefrom
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`to responses returned from the servers, search engines, and/or sites being queried and/or
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`searched, and/or having requests made thereof. The client-server multitasking system
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`search engine and/or database having stored information and/or services therein are also
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`searchable, are capable of full text searches thereof, and are searchable by the servers
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`and/or the clients on the network, either separately and/or in combination therewith the
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`substantially simultaneous multiple same and/or different searches and/or queries of the
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`same and/or different servers on the network. Information therein the client-server
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`multitasking system search engine and/or database are also searchable and/or
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`retrievable, and are capable of being incorporated therein the service and/or information
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`responses delivered thereto the user interfaces, according to search criteria, selectively
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`and/or automatically, by the requestor ancUor the user. The client-server multitasking
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`system search engine and/or database are capable of spidering, and/or roboting, and/or
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`querying sites, services and/or information to be stored therein and/or stored therein the
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`client-server multitasking system search engine and/or database, and updating the
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`services and/or information to be stored and/or stored therein the client-server
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`multitasking system search engine and/or database.
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`The client-server multitasking system and process are capable of retrieving, parsing,
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`processing, formatting, organizing, grouping, sorting, and consolidating services and/or
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`information therefrom the same and/or different ones of the servers and/or clients
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`having the same and/or different structures, formats, organizations, groupings, and/or
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`data structures, and incorporating the parsed, processed, formatted, organized, grouped,
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`sorted, and consolidated services and/or information thereinto user responses for
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`The client-server multitasking system and process, then, are capable of information
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`and/or service retrieval from the same and/or different ones of servers substantially
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`simultaneously and on-the-fly, using the same and/or different ones of queries of the
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`same and/or different ones of the servers, and sorting, grouping, and/or organizing
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`responses therefrom substantially on-the-fly, and communicating service and/or
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`information responses to the requestors and/or users substantially simultaneously and
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`on-the-fly. The client-server multitasking system and process are capable of use on a
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`variety of networks, such as global area networks, and in particular the internet,
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`capable of searching search engines and/or other sites substantially simultaneously and
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`on-the-fly. The client-server multitasking system and process are capable of sorting,
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`grouping, and/or organizing results therefrom the servers, search engines, and/or sites,
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