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`c12) United States Patent
`DeAngelo
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`(10) Patent No.:
`(45) Date of Patent:
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`US 7, 702,682 B2
`Apr. 20, 2010
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`(54) SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CREATING
`AND MANIPULATING INFORMATION
`CONTAINERS WITH DYNAMIC REGISTERS
`
`(75)
`
`Inventor: Michael De Angelo, Palm Springs, CA
`(US)
`
`(73) Assignee: Incandescent, Inc., San Rafael, CA
`(US)
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`( *) Notice:
`
`Subject to any disclaimer, the term of this
`patent is extended or adjusted under 35
`U.S.C. 154(b) by 579 days.
`
`(21) Appl. No.: 11/280,700
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`(22) Filed:
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`Nov. 14, 2005
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`(65)
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`Prior Publication Data
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`US 2006/0122987 Al
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`Jun. 8,2006
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`FOREIGN PATENT DOCUMENTS
`wo 98/02831
`wo 99/39285
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`111998
`8/1999
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`wo
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`(63) Continuation of application No. 09/284,113, filed as
`application No. PCTIUS99/01988 on Jan. 28, 1999,
`now Pat. No. 7,010,536.
`
`(60) Provisional application No. 60/073,209, filed on Jan.
`30, 1998.
`
`(51)
`
`Int. Cl.
`G06F 17130
`(2006.01)
`(52) U.S. Cl. ....................................... 707/758; 707/768
`(58) Field of Classification Search . ... ... ... ... .. .. 70717 51,
`707/755, 758, 768
`See application file for complete search history.
`
`(56)
`
`References Cited
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`U.S. PATENT DOCUMENTS
`5,493,677 A * 2/1996 Baloghetal. ............ 707/104.1
`
`* cited by examiner
`Primary Examiner-Cam-Linh Nguyen
`(74) Attorney, Agent, or Firm-Orrick, Herrington &
`Sutcliffe LLP
`
`(57)
`
`ABSTRACT
`
`A search query may be run against a plurality of container
`registers encapsulated and logically defined in a plurality of
`containers to identifY one or more container registers respon(cid:173)
`sive to the search query. Thereafter, a list characterizing the
`identified containers may be provided. Related methods,
`apparatus, computer program products, and computer sys(cid:173)
`tems are also described.
`
`23 Claims, 30 Drawing Sheets
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`Petitioner Apple Inc. - Exhibit 1001, p. 1
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`FIG. 1
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`Sheet 2 of 30
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`Input· Select Container
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`Input • Select Colection or
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`Petitioner Apple Inc. - Exhibit 1001, p. 19
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`Petitioner Apple Inc. - Exhibit 1001, p. 20
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`EXECUTION ENGINE
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`Petitioner Apple Inc. - Exhibit 1001, p. 21
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`GATEWAY EDITOR
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`Petitioner Apple Inc. - Exhibit 1001, p. 22
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`GATEWAY PROCESS
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`Petitioner Apple Inc. - Exhibit 1001, p. 23
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`Petitioner Apple Inc. - Exhibit 1001, p. 25
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`Petitioner Apple Inc. - Exhibit 1001, p. 27
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`Petitioner Apple Inc. - Exhibit 1001, p. 28
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`Petitioner Apple Inc. - Exhibit 1001, p. 29
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`SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CREATING
`AND MANIPULATING INFORMATION
`CONTAINERS WITH DYNAMIC REGISTERS
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`CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED
`APPLICATIONS
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`The present application is a continuation of U.S. patent
`application Ser. No. 09/284,113, entitled System And Method
`For Creating And Manipulating Information Containers With
`Dynamic Registers, filed on Apr. 7, 1999, now U.S. Pat. No.
`7,010,536 which is incorporated herein in its entirety, and
`claims the benefit ofPCT /US99/01988 filed Jan. 28, 1999 and
`of U.S. Patent Application No. 60/073,209, filed Jan. 30,
`1998.
`
`BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
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`1. Field of the Invention
`The present invention relates generally to computer sys(cid:173)
`tems in a multi-user mainframe or mini computer system, a
`client server network, or in local, wide area or public net(cid:173)
`works, and in particular, to computer networks for creating
`and manipulating information containers with dynamic inter(cid:173)
`active registers in a computer, media or publishing network,
`in order to manufacture information on, upgrade the utility of,
`and develop intelligence in, a computer network by offering
`the means to create and manipulate information containers
`with dynamic registers.
`2. Description of the Related Art
`In the present day, querying and usage of information
`resources on a computer network is accomplished by indi(cid:173)
`viduals directing a search effort by submitting key words or
`phrases to be compared to those key words or phrases con(cid:173)
`tained in the content or description of that information
`resource, with indices and contents residing in a fixed loca(cid:173)
`tion unchanging except by human input. Similarly, the class
`of storage medium upon which information resides, it class
`and subclass organizational structures, and its routes of
`access all remain fundamentally unaltered by ongoing user
`queries and usage. Only the direct and intended intervention
`of the owner of the information content or computer hosting
`site changes these parameters, normally accomplished manu(cid:173)
`ally by programmers or systems operators at their own dis(cid:173)
`cretion or the discretion of the site owner.
`There exists currently in the art a limited means of inter(cid:173)
`facing a computer user with the information available on
`computer networks such as the world wide web. Primarily,
`these means are search engines. Search engines query thou(cid:173)
`sands or tens of thousands of index pages per second to 50
`suggest the location of information while the user waits.
`While factual information can be accessed, the more com(cid:173)
`plex, particular or subtle the inquiry, the more branches and
`sub-branches need to be explored in a time consuming fash(cid:173)
`ion in order to have any chance of success. Further, there are
`no such automatic devices that reconstruct the information
`into more useful groupings or makes it more accessible
`according to factors attached to the content by the content
`creator such as the space or time relevancy of its content, or
`factors attached to the content by the system's compilation
`and analysis of the accumulated biography of that specific
`content's readership.
`The utility of wide area and public computer networks is
`thus greatly limited by the static information model and infra(cid:173)
`structure upon which those networks operate.
`One problem is that on a wide area or public network,
`specific content such as a document remains inert, except by
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`the direct intervention of users, and is modified neither by
`patterns or history of usage on the network, or the existence of
`other content on the network.
`Another problem is that content does not reside in an infor(cid:173)
`mation infrastructure conducive to reconstruction by expert
`rule-based, fuzzy logic, or artificial intelligence based sys(cid:173)
`tems. Neither the intelligence of other information users nor
`the expert intelligence of an observant network computer
`system can be utilized in constructing, or re-constructing
`10 information resources. Where content resides in a fixed loca(cid:173)
`tion and structure, "information" becomes something defined
`by the mind of the information provider rather than the mind
`of the information user, where the actual construction and
`utility of information exists. Information remains, like raw
`15 ore, in an unrefined state.
`Another problem is that the class of storage medium upon
`which data resides carmot be system or user managed and
`altered according to the actual recorded and analyzed hierar(cid:173)
`chically graded usage of any given information resource
`20 residing on that storage medium except by statistical analysis
`of universal, undefined "hits" or visits to that page or site.
`Another problem is that information resource groupings
`remain fixed on the given storage medium location according
`to the original installation by the resource author, not altered
`25 according to the actual recorded and analyzed hierarchically
`graded usage of that given information resource. Content
`itself remains inert, with no possibility of evolution.
`A further problem with the prior art is that neither the
`search templates generated by those more knowledgeable in a
`30 given field of inquiry, nor the search strategies historically
`determined to be successful, or system-constructed according
`to analyses of search strategies historically determined to be
`successful, are available to inquiring users. A search template
`is here defined as one or more text phrases, graphics, video or
`35 audio bits, alone or in any defined outline or relational format
`designed to accomplish an inquiry. Internet or wide area
`network search may return dozens of briefs to a keyword or
`key phrase inquiry sometimes requiring the time-consuming
`examination of multiple information r