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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:
Aug. 31, 2004
Filed:
Mar. 16, 2000
Alice Chiang, Portola Valley, CA (US);
John C. Hurd, Portola Valley, CA (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A system for automatically initiating an Internet-based search from within a document displayed by a document viewer includes a search term designation module configured to receive a user designation of at least one word of the document; a search engine access module configured to automatically access a search engine; a search engine interfacing module configured to automatically provide the search engine with the at least one designated word; and a search initiation module configured to automatically direct the search engine to perform the Internet-based search using the at least one designated word as a search term.
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