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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. 14, 2002
Filed:
Apr. 09, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:
Kevin G. Rivette, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Irving S. Rappaport, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Adam Jackson, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Don Ahn, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Michael P. Florio, Atherton, CA (US);
Deborah Kurata, Pleasanton, CA (US);
Assignee:
Aurigin Systems, Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/721 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/721 ;
Abstract
Systems, methods, and computer program products for annotating documents are described herein, wherein in some embodiments the documents are immutable. The method operates by enabling a user to place an application in an annotation mode. An annotation is created, and then linked to a portion of an immutable data object. Location information is displayed proximate to the annotation mode location information indicates a location of the linked portion in the data object.