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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:
Jun. 12, 2001
Filed:
Apr. 16, 1998
Applicant:
Inventor:
Gary P. Rheaume, Barrington, NH (US);
Assignee:
Platinum Technology IP, Inc., Oakbrook Terrace, IL (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/730 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/730 ;
Abstract
A method for automatically processing a file, such as a web page or an ASCII file, is provided to treat the file as a database with one or more database tables. An HTML page is retrieved from a user specified URL or from a disk file and is parsed for any HTML tables or text blocks that are translated into a database table in a database representation of the HTML page. ASCII files can also be parsed to identify data blocks to be represented as a database table.