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`Presented for filing is a new continuation patent application of:
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`Applicant: MICHAEL DE ANGELO
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`Title:
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`SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CREATING AND MANIPULATING
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`INFORMATION CONTAINERS WITH DYNAMIC REGISTERS
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`The prior application is assigned of record to Pattern Intelligence, Inc.,
`a Delaware corporation, by virtue of an assignment submitted to the Patent and
`I Trademark Office and recorded on June 9, 2005 at 016675/0763.
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`This application is a continuation (and claims the benefit of priority under 35 USC
`120) of US. application serial no. 09/284,113, filed April 7, 1999 and claims the
`benefit of PCT/US99/01988 filed January 28, 1999 and of US. Patent Application
`No. 60/073,209, filed January 30, 1998. The disclosure of the prior application is
`considered part of (and is incorporated by reference in) the disclosure of this
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`APPLICATION
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`TITLE:
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`SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CREATING AND
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`MANIPULATING INFORMATION CONTAINERS WITH
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`DYNAMIC REGISTERS
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`SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CREATING AND MANIPULATING
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`INFORMATION CONTAINERS WITH DYNAMIC REGISTERS
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`CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS
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`[0001]
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`The present application is a continuation of US. Patent Application No.
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`09/284,] 13, entitled System And Method For Creating AndManipulating Information
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`Containers With Dynamic Registers, filed on April 7, 1999, which is incorporated herein in
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`its entirety, and claims the benefit of PCT/US99/01988 filed January 28, 1999 and of US.
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`Patent Application No. 60/073,209, filed January 30, 1998.
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`BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
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`[0002]
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`1. Field of the Invention
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`The present invention relates generally to computer systems in a multi-user mainframe
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`or mini computer system, a client server network, or in local, wide area or public networks,
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`and in particular, to computer networks for creating and manipulating information containers
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`with dynamic interactive registers in a computer, media or publishing network, in order to
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`manufacture information on, upgrade the utility of, and develop intelligence in, a computer
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`network by offering the means to create and manipulate information containers with dynamic
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`registers.
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`[0003]
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`2. Description of the Related Art
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`In the present day, querying and usage of information resources on a computer network
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`is accomplished by individuals directing a search effort by submitting key words or phrases
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`to be compared to those key words or phrases contained in the content or description of that
`information resource, with indices and contents residing in a fixed location unchanging
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`except by human input. Similarly, the class of storage medium upon which information
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`resides, it class and subclass organizational structures, and its routes of access all remain
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`fundamentally unaltered by ongoing user queries and usage. Only the direct and intended
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`intervention of the owner of the information content or computer hosting site changes these
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`parameters, normally accomplished manually by programmers or systems operators at their
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`own discretion or the discretion of the site owner.
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`[0004]
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`There exists currently in the art a limited means of interfacing a computer
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`user with the information available on computer networks such as the world wide web.
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`Primarily, these means are search engines. Search engines query thousands or tens of
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`thousands of index pages per second to suggest the location of information while the user
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`waits. While factual information can be accessed, the more complex, particular or subtle the
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`inquiry, the more branches and sub-branches need to be explored in a time consuming
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`fashion in order to have any chance of success. Further, there are no such automatic devices
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`that reconstruct the information into more useful groupings or makes it more accessible
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`according to factors attached to the content by the content creator such as the space or time
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`relevancy of its content, or factors attached to the content by the system’s compilation and
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`analysis of the accumulated biography of that specific content’s readership.
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`[0005]
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`The utility of wide area and public computer networks is thus greatly
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`limited by the static information model and infiastmcture upon which those networks
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`operate.
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`[0006]
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`One problem is that on a wide area or public network, specific content
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`such as a document remains inert, except by the direct intervention of users, and is modified
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`neither by patterns or history of usage on the network, or the existence of other content on the
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`network.
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`[0007]
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`Another problem is that content does not reside in an information
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`infrastructure conducive to reconstruction by expert rule-based, fuzzy logic, or artificial
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`intelligence based systems. Neither the intelligence of other information users nor the expert
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`intelligence of an observant network computer system can be utilized in constructing, or re-
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`constructing inforrnation resources. Where content resides in a fixed location and structure,
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`“information” becomes something defined by the mind of the information provider rather
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`than the mind of the information user, where the actual construction and utility of
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`information exists. Information remains, like raw ore, in an unrefined state.
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`[0008]
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`Another problem is that the class of storage medium upon which data
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`resides cannot be system or user managed and altered according to the actual recorded and
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`analyzed hierarchically graded usage of any given information resource residing on that
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`storage medium except by statistical analysis of universal, undefined “hits” or visits to that
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`page or site.
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`[0009]
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`Another problem is that information resource groupings remain fixed on
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`the given storage medium location according to the original installation by the resource
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`author, not altered according to the actual recorded and analyzed hierarchically graded usage
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`of that given information resource. Content itself remains inert, with no possibility of
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`evolution.
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`[0010]
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`A further problem with the prior art is that neither the search templates
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`generated by those more knowledgeable in a given field of inquiry, nor the search strategies
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`historically determined to be successfiJl, or system-constructed according to analyses of
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`search strategies historically determined to be successful, are available to inquiring users. A
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`search template is here defined as one or more text phrases, graphics, Video or' audio bits,
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`alone or in any defined outline or relational format designed to accomplish an inquiry.
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`Internet or wide area network search may return dozens of briefs to a keyword or key phrase
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`inquiry sometimes requiring the time-consuming examination of multiple information
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`resources or locations, with no historical relation to the success of any given search strategy.
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`[0011]
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`A further problem is that there is limited means to add to, subtract from, or
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`alter the information content of documents, databases, or sites without communicating with
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`the owners or operators of those information resources, e.g., contacting, obtaining
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`permission, negotiating and manually altering, adding or subtracting content. Additionally,
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`once so altered, there is not a means to derive a proportionate value, and thereby a
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`proportionate royalty as the information is used.
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`[0012]
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`A final problem is that the physical residence of albody of data or‘ its
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`cyberspace location may not serve its largest body of users in the most expedient manner of
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`access. Neither the expert intelligence of other information users nor the expert intelligence
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`of an observant computer system is presently utilized by inherent network intelligence to
`analyze, re—design and construct access routes to information medium except by statistical
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`analysis of universal, undefined “hits” or Visits to that page or site.
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`[0013]
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`Therefore, there is a need for a system and methods for creating and
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`manipulating information containers with dynamic interactive registers defining more
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`comprehensive information about contained content in a computer, media or publishing
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`network, in order to manufacture information on, upgrade the utility of, and develop
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`intelligence in, a computer network by providing a searching user the means to utilize the
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`searches of other users or the historically determined and compiled searches of the system, a
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`means to containerize information with multiple registers governing the interaction of that
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`container, a means to re—classify the storage medium and location of information resources
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`resident on the network, a means to allow the reconstruction of content into more useful
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`formations, and a means to reconstruct the access routes to that information.
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`SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
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`[0014]
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`The present invention is a system and methods for manufacturing
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`information on, upgrading the utility of, and developing intelligence in, a computer or digital
`network, local, wide area, public, corporate, or digital-based, supported, or enhanced physical
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`media form or public or published media, or other by offering the means to create and
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`manipulate information containers with dynamic registers.
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`[0015]
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`The system of the present invention comprises an input device, an output
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`device, a processor, a memory unit, a data storage device, and a means of communicating
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`with other computers, network of computers, or digital-based, supported or enhanced
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`physical media forms or public or published media. These components are preferably
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`coupled by a bus and configured for multi-media presentation, but may also be distributed
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`throughout a network according to the requirements of highest and best use.
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`[0016]
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`The memory unit advantageously includes an information container made
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`interactive with dynamic registers, a container editor, a search interface, a search engine, a
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`search engine editor, system-wide hierarchical container gateways interacting with dynamic
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`container registers, a gateway editor, a register editor, a data collection means with editor, a
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`data reporting means with editor, an analysis engine with editor, an executing engine with
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`editor, databases, and a means of communicating with other computers as above. These
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`components may reside in a distributed fashion in any configuration on multiple computer
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`systems or networks.
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`[0017]
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`The present invention advantageously provides a container editor for
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`creating containers, containerizing storing information in containers and defining and altering
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`container registers. A container is an interactive nestable logical domain configurable as both
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`subset and superset, including a minimum set of attributes coded into dynamic interactive
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`evolving registers, containing any information component, digital code, file, search string,
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`set, database, network, event or process, and maintaining a unique network-wide lifelong
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`identity.
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`[0018]
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`The container editor allows the authoring user to create containers and
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`encapsulate any information component in a container with registers, establishing a unique
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`network lifelong identity, characteristics, and parameters and rules of interaction. The
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`authoring user defines and sets the register with a starting counter and/or mathematical
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`description by utilizing menus and simple graphing tools or other tools appropriate to that
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`particular register. The registers determine the interaction of that container with other
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`containers, system components, system gateways, events and processes on the computer
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`, network.
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`[0019]
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`Containers and registers, upon creation, may be universal or class-specific.
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`The editor provides the means to create system-defined registers as well as the means to
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`create other registers. The editor enables the register values to be set by the user or by the
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`system, in which case the register value may be fixed or alterable by the user upon creation.
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`Register values are evolving or non-evolving for the duration of the life of the container on
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`the system. Evolving registers may change through time, space, interaction, system history
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`and other means.
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`[0020]
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`System—defined registers comprise: (1) an historical container register,
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`logging the history of the interaction of that container with other containers, events and
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`processes on the network, (2) an historical system register, logging the history of pertinent
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`critical and processes on the network, (3) a point register accumulating points based upon a
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`hierarchically rated history of usage, (4) an identity register maintaining a unique network
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`wide identification and access location for a given container, (5) a brokerage register
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`maintaining a record of ownership percentage and economic values, and others.
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`[0021]
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`The present invention also includes user-defined registers. User defined
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`registers may be created wholly by the user and assigned a starting value, or simply assigned
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`value by the user when that register is pre—existent in the system or acquired from another
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`user, and then appended to any information container, or detached from any container.
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`[0022]
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`Exemplary user—defined registers comprise (l) a report register, setting
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`trigger levels for-report sequences, content determination and delivery target, (2) a triple time
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`register, consisting of a range, map, graph, list, curve or other representation designating time
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`relevance, actively, assigning the time characteristics by which that container will act upon
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`another container or process, passively, assigning the time characteristics by which that
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`container be acted upon by another container or process, and neutrally, assigning the time
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`characteristics by which that container will interact with another container or process, (3) a
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`triple space register,‘consisting of a range, map, graph, list, curve or other representation
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`designating the domain and determinants of space relevance, actively, assigning the space
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`characteristics by which that content will act upon another container or process, passively,
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`assigning the space, characteristics by which that content will be acted upon by another
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`container or process, and neutrally, assigning the space characteristics by which that container
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`will interact with another container or process, (4) a domain of influence register,
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`determining the set, class and range of containers upon which that container will act, (5) a
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`domain of receptivity register, determining the set, class and range of containers allowed to
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`act upon that container, (6) a domain of neutrality register, determining the set, class and
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`range of containers with which that container will interact, (7) a domain of containment
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`register, determining the set, class and range of containers which that container may logically
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`encompass, (8) a domain of inclusion register, determining the set, class and range of
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`containers by which that container might be encompassed, (9) an ownership register,
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`recording the original ownership of that containers, (10) a proportionate ownership register,
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`determining the proportionate ownership of that containers, (11) a creator profile register,
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`describing the creator or creators of that container, (12) an ownership address register,
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`maintaining the address of the creator or creators of that container, (13) a value register,
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`assigning a monetary or credit value to that container, and (14) other registers created by
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`users or the system.
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`[0023]
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`Containers are nestable and configurable as both subset and superset and
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`may be designated hierarchically according to inclusive range, such as image component,
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`image, image file, image collection, image database, or if text, text fragment, sentence,
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`paragraph, page, document, document collection, document, database, document library, or
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`any arrangement wherein containers are defined as increasingly inclusive sets of sets of
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`digital components.
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`[0024]
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`The present invention also includes, structurally integrated into each
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`container, or strategically placed within a network at container transit points, unique
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`gateways, nestable in a hierarchical or set and class network scheme. Gateways gather and
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`store container register information according to system-defined, system-generated, or user
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`determined rules as containers exit and enter one another, governing how containers system
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`processes or system components interact within the domain of that container, or afier exiting
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`and entering that container, and governing how containers, system components and system
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`processes interact with that unique gateway, including how data collection and reporting is
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`managed at that gateway. The gateways record the register information of internally nested
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`sub and superset containers, transient containers and search templates, including the grade of
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`access requested, and, acting as an agent of an analysis engine and execution’engine, govern
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`the traffic and interaction of those containers and searches with the information resource of
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`which they are the gateway and other gateways. The gateways’ record of internally nested and
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`transient container registers, and its own interaction with those containers, is made available,
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`according to a rules-based determination, to the process of the analysis engine by the data
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`collection and/or data reporting means.
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`[0025]
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`The present invention also includes a means of data storage at any given
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`gateway.
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`[0026]
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`The present invention also includes a data collection means, residing
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`anywhere on the network, or located at one or more hierarchical levels of nestable container
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`gateways for gathering information from other gateways and analysis engines according to
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`system, system-generated or user determined rules. The data collection means manages the
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`gathering of data regarding network-wide user choices, usage and information about
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`information, by collecting it from container and gateway registers as those containers and
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`gateways pass through one another. Such statistics as frequency, pattern, and range of time,
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`space and logical class is collected as directed by the analysis engine, and made that data
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`available to the analysis engine by advancing it directly to the analysis engine, or
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`incrementally, to the next greater hierarchically inclusive collection level. The rules of data
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`collection may be manually set or altered by the system manager, or set by the system and
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`altered by the system in its evolutionary capacity.
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`[0027]
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`The present invention also includes a data reporting means, located at one
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`or more hierarchical levels of nestable container gateways for submitting information to other
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`gateways and analysis engines according to system, system-generated or user determined
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`rules. The data reporting means manages the sending of data from the registers, gateways and
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`search templates in a frequency, pattern, and range of time, space and logical class as directed
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`by the analysis engine, and makes that data available to the analysis engine by advancing it
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`directly to the analysis engine, or incrementally to the next greater hierarchically inclusive
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`reporting level. The rules of data collection may be manually set or altered by the system
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`manager, or set by the system and altered by the system in its evolutionary capacity. The data
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`reporting means may be established to work in concert, in redundancy, or in contiguous or
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`interwoven threads of hierarchically nested containers.
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`[0028]
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`The present invention also includes an analysis engine that receives,
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`reports and collects information regarding the interaction of user searches with gateways and
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`container registers, as well as container registers with other container registers, and container
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`registers with gateways. The analysis engine analyzes the information submitted by the
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`gateways and instructs the execution engine to create new information containers, content
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`assemblages, storage schemes, access routes, search templates, and gateway instructions. The
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`analysis engine includes an editor that provides a system manager with a means of editing the
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`operating principles of that engine, governing data reporting, data collection, search template
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`loading, gateway instructions, and other.
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`[0029]
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`The present invention also includes an execution engine, fulfilling the
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`instructions of the analysis engine, to create new information containers, content sun and
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`superset assemblages, storage schemes, access routes, search templates, and gateway
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`instructions. The execution engine includes an editor that provides a system manager with a
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`means of editing the operating principles of thatengine, governing data reporting, data
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`collection, search template loading, gateway instructions, and other.
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`[0030]
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`The present invention also includes a search interface or browser. The
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`search interface provides a means for a searching user to submit, record and access search
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`streams or phrases generated historically by himself, other users, or the system. Search
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`streams or phrases of other users are those that have been historically determined by the
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`system to have the highest probability of utility to the searching user. Search streams or
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`phrases generated by the system are those that have been constructed by the system through
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`the analysis engine based upon the same criteria.
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`BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
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`[0031]
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`FIG. 1 is a block diagram of a first and preferred embodiment of a system
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`constructed according to the present invention.
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`[0032]
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`FIG. 2 A is block diagram of a preferred embodiment of the memory unit.
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`[0033]
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`FIG. 2 B is an exemplary embodiment of a computer network showing
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`computer servers, personal computers, workstations, Internet, Wide Area Networks, Intranets
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`in relationship with containers and gateways.
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`[0034]
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`FIG. 2B1 is an exemplary embodiment of a computer network showing
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`computer servers, personal computers, workstations, Internet, Wide Area Networks, Intranets
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`in relationship with containers and gateways and exemplary locations of gateway storage in
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`proximity to one or more of the various sites.
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`[0035]
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`FIGS. 2C through 2H are exemplary embodiments in block diagram form
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`of computer network components showing a possible placement of nested containers,
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`computer servers, gateways, and the sofiware components named in Fig. 2 A on a network.
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`[0036]~
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`FIG. '3A is a graphical representation for one embodiment of a container
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`having a plurality of containers nested within that container.
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`[0037]
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`FIG. 3C is a drawing showing elements that might be logically
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`encapsulated by a container. FIG. 4 is a drawing of an information container showing a
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`gateway and registers logically encapsulating containerized elements.
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`[0038]
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`FIG. 5 is a flowchart showing a preferred method for the containerization
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`process and container editor operating on the communication device.
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`[0039]
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`FIG. 6 is a flowchart showing a preferred method for searching for
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`containers within a node.
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`[0040] A
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`FIG. 7 is a flowchart further showing a preferred method for searching for
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`containers over one or more gateways.
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`[0041]
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`FIG. 8 is a flowchart showing a method for performing the data collection
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`and reporting on containers.
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`FIG. 9 is a flowchart showing the operation of the analysis engine.
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`[0043]
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`FIG. 10 is a flowchart showing the operation of the execution engine.
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`[0044]
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`FIG. 11 is a flowchart showing the operation of the gateway editor.
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`[0045]
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`FIG. 12 is a flowchart showing the operation of the gateway process.
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`[0046]
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`FIG. 13A is a drawing showing an example of nested containers,
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`gateways, registers, analysis engines and an execution engine prior to container
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`reconstruction as depicted in 13 B, 13 C and 13 D.
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`FIG. 13B is a drawing showing the reconstructed nested containers of
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`Figure 13A.
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`[0048]
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`FIG. 13C is a drawing showing further reconstruction of nested containers,
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`with a container relocated to reside within another container.
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`[0049]
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`FIG. 13D is a drawing showing a flowchart of the reconstruction process
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`[0050]
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`FIG. 14 is a drawing showing the screen interface of the container editor.
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`[0051]
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`FIG. 15 is a drawing showing the screen interface of the gateway editor.
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`[0052]
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`FIG. 16 is a drawing showing the screen interface of the search interface.
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`[0053]
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`FIG. 17 is a drawing of a generic application program showing a drop-
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`down menu link, and a button link to the containerization process or container editor.
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`DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENT
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`[0054]
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`THE SYSTEM
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`[0055]
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`Referring now to FIG. 1, a preferred embodiment of a system 10 for
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`creating and manipulating information containers with dynamic interactive registers in a
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`computer, media, or publishing network 201 in order to manufacture information on, upgrade
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`the utility of, and develop intelligence in that network 201, is shown. The system 10
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`preferably comprises an input device 24, an output device 16, a processor 18, a memory unit
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`22, a data storage device 20, and a communication device 26 operating on a network 201.
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`The input device 24, an output device 16, a processor 18, a memory unit 22, a data storage
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`device 20, are preferably coupled together by a bus 12 in a von Neumann architecture. Those
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`skilled in the artwill realize that these components 24, 16, 18, 22, 20, and 26 may be coupled
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`together according to various other computer architectures including any physical distribution
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`of components linked together by the communication device 26 without departing from the
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`spirit or scope of the present invention, and may be infinitely nested or chained, both as
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`computer systems within-a network 202, and as networks within networks 201.
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`The output device 16 preferably comprises a computer monitor for
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`displaying high-resolution graphics and speakers for outputting high fidelity audio signals.
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`The output device 16 is used to display various user interfaces 110, 125, 210, 300, 510, 610,
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`710, as will be described below, for searching for and containerizing information, and editing
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`the container gateways, containers, container registers, the data reporting means and the data
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`collection means, and the search, analysis and execution engines. The author uses the input
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`device 24 to manipulate icons, text, charts or graphs, or to select objects or text, in the
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`process of packaging, searching or editing in a conventional manner such as in the Macintosh
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`of Windows operating systems.
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`The processor 18 preferably executes programmed instruction steps,
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`generates commands, stores data and analyzes data configurations according to programmed
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`instruction steps that are stored in the memory unit 22 and in the data storage device 20. The
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`processor 22 is preferably a microprocessor such as the Motorola 680(x)0, the Intel 80(x)86
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`or Pentium, Pentium H, and successors, or processors made by AMD, or Cyrix CPU of the
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`any class.
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`[0058]
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`The memory unit 22 is preferably a predetermined amount of dynamic
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`random access memory, a read-only memory, or both. The memory unit 22 stores data,
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`operating systems, and programmed instructions steps, and manages the operations of all
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`hardware and software components in the system 10 and on the network 201, utilizing the
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`communication device 26 whenever necessary or expeditious to link multiple computer
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`systems 202 within the network 201.
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`[0059]
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`The data storage device 20 is preferably a disk storage device for storing
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`data and programmed instruction steps. In the exemplary embodiment, the data storage
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`device 20 is a hard disk drive. Historical recordings of network usage are stored on
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`distributed and centralized data storage devices 20.
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`[0060]
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`The preferred embodiment of the input device 24 comprises a keyboard,
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`microphone, and mouse type controller. Data and commands to the system 10 are input
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`through the input device 24.
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`[0061]
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`The present invention also includes a communication device 26. The
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`communication device 26 underlies and sustains the operations of, referring now also to Fig 2
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`the analysis 400 and execution 500 engines, the data reporting 600 and collection 700 means,
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`the container editor 110, the search interface 300, and the search engine 320, providing the
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`means to search, access, move, copy, utilize or otherwise perform operations with and on
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`data. The communication device 26 utilizes one or more of the following technologies:
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`modem, infrared, microwave, laser, photons, electrons, wave phenomena, cellular carrier,
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`satellite, laser, router hub, direct cabling, physical transport, radi