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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 11, 1999
Filed:
Apr. 30, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:
Eric M Hoffert, San Francisco, CA (US);
Karl Cremin, Mountain View, CA (US);
Adnan Ali, London, CA;
Stephen R Smoot, San Francisco, CA (US);
Assignee:
Magnifi, Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
707 10 ; 707-2 ; 707104 ; 345327 ;
Abstract
A method and apparatus for searching for multimedia files in a distributed database and for displaying results of the search based on the context and content of the multimedia files.