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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:
Sep. 24, 2013
Filed:
Jul. 13, 2009
Applicants:
Alma W. Whitten, Walnut Creek, CA (US);
Joseph K. O'sullivan, San Francisco, CA (US);
Inventors:
Alma W. Whitten, Walnut Creek, CA (US);
Joseph K. O'Sullivan, San Francisco, CA (US);
Assignee:
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 7/00 (2006.01); G06F 17/30 (2006.01); G06F 21/62 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/62 (2013.01); G06F 21/6209 (2013.01); G06F 2221/2141 (2013.01);
Abstract
A software module is presented that enables a person to determine the relevance of a document while preventing the person from making a copy of the entire document. In one embodiment, this is accomplished by programmatically controlling which portions of a document will be presented to a user and which portions will not be presented to the user. In one embodiment, the software module is used in conjunction with a search engine to present a document search result.