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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:
Nov. 20, 2001
Filed:
Feb. 06, 1998
B J Fogg, Stanford, CA (US);
Jakob Nielsen, Atherton, CA (US);
Sun Microsystems, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
Techniques are discussed whereby hyperlinks that exist in an on-line document can be automatically updated (re-linked) when the location of the document to which a link points changes. In one embodiment, the administrator of the on-line document is notified by E-mail when a link destination pointed to by that document has changed. Comparison of the old document content to the new content, if any, is used to facilitate a determination whether to automatically re-link or remove the appropriate hyperlink. In alternate embodiments, receiving sites or trusted third parties are authorized to update links to documents on the receiving site contained in documents on a feeding site.