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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 29, 2008
Filed:
Mar. 31, 2003
Applicant:
Kenneth Shirriff, Redwood City, CA (US);
Inventor:
Kenneth Shirriff, Redwood City, CA (US);
Assignee:
Sun Microsystems, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A computer system having a user specified web browsing system for selectively retrieving content from a variety of web sites is disclosed. The web browser of the present invention is configured to track multiple web sites at any given time to determine content updates in these web sites. In one embodiment of the present invention, the web browser automatically periodically checks user specified web sites, detects changes to content at these web sites, filters out unimportant changes and delivers a summary of the changes to the user.