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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 22, 2012
Filed:
Mar. 18, 2004
Glenn C. Forrester, Piedmont, CA (US);
Glenn C. Forrester, Piedmont, CA (US);
Other;
Abstract
A method for retrieving information is provided. The method uses a server system coupled to a centralized database and at least one client system. The method includes selecting an object from an electronic document displayed on a client system, displaying a function menu on the client system to prompt a user to select a desired function, transmitting the selected object and a selected function from the client system to the server system, processing the selected object by applying the selected function at the server system, communicating with a vendor web server to complete the processing of the selected object, and transmitting at least one of a resulting web page and other output to the client system.