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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 11, 2003
Filed:
Jun. 26, 1996
Applicant:
Inventors:
Bruce Tognazzini, Woodside, CA (US);
Jakob Nielson, Atherton, CA (US);
Bob Glass, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Assignee:
Sun Microsystem, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/700 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/700 ;
Abstract
Advertising displays such as found in mass transit vehicles or stations or in electronic newspapers are provided with user directed search capabilities. Selected text, dragged and dropped onto an image space, serves to initiate a query. If the advertising display is networked, an external search of network resources, such as those of the World Wide Web, can be undertaken and the results utilized to initiate one or more local searches.