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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. 05, 2007
Filed:
Feb. 27, 2001
Ravi Shankarnarayan Adapathya, Durham, NC (US);
David Frederick Champion, Durham, NC (US);
Alan Joseph Happ, Raleigh, NC (US);
Brad Michael Lawrence, Durham, NC (US);
Kevin Laverne Schultz, Raleigh, NC (US);
Ravi Shankarnarayan Adapathya, Durham, NC (US);
David Frederick Champion, Durham, NC (US);
Alan Joseph Happ, Raleigh, NC (US);
Brad Michael Lawrence, Durham, NC (US);
Kevin Laverne Schultz, Raleigh, NC (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A system and method in accordance with the present invention allows blind and visually impaired users to quickly identify links to relevant material when 'viewing' web pages that consist primarily of either plain text or images. By generating an aural or visual index to the links on the page being 'viewed', blind and visually impaired users can quickly jump to interesting sites that are linked from the current page without having to wait for the entire page to be voiced by a screen reader application.