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(12) Unlted States Patent (10) Patent N0.2 US 7,660,868 B1 Kembel et a]. (45) Date of Patent: *Feb. 9, 2010

(54) APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR (51) Int, Cl, INTERACTING WITH INTERNET CONTENT G06F 15/16 (2006.01) VIA ONE OR MORE APPLICATIONS THAT G06F 3/00 (200601) DO NOT INCLUDE NATIVE WEB BROWSING (52) us. Cl. ..................................... .. 709/217; 715/745

NAVIGATION CONTROL FEATURES (58) Field of Classi?cation Search ............... .. 209/217,

_ _ 209/219; 345/74(L744, 850*855, 745; 707/10; (76) Inventors: John Albert Kembel, 2334 W1ll1ams St., 709 017*219; 715/745i747

Palo Alto’ CA (Us) 94306; George See application ?le for complete search history. Andrew Kembel, 1045 Santa Cruz Ave., Apt. F, Menlo Park, CA (US) 94025; (56) References Cited Daniel S. Kim, 408 Pepper Ave., Palo Alto, CA (US) 94306; John Russell, 605 US' PATENT DOCUMENTS Colorado Ave., Palo Alto, CA (US) 5,599,756 A 2/1997 Matsuo 94306; Jake Wobbrock, 1091 Tanland _ Dr., #201, P2110 A110, CA (Us) 94303; (Commued) Geoffrey S. Kembel, 1045 Santa CruZ FOREIGN PATENT DOCUMENTS Ave., Apt. F, Menlo Park, CA (US) 94025; Jeremy L. Kembel, 213 Fulton W0 W0 (II/80°86 A2 * 10/2001

Gabbay, 1249 Lakeside Dr., #1064, Sunnyvale, CA (Us) 94085 Morrison, Michael: XML Unleashed; Sams Publishing Dec. 21,

1999.*

* Notice: Sub'ect to an disclaimer, the term of this - ( ) pateJnt is extended or adjusted under 35 (Connnued)

U.S.C. 154(b) by 0 days. Primary ExamineriBenjamin R Bruckart

This patent is subject to a terminal dis- (57) ABSTRACT claimer.

The invention includes a method of presenting distributable computer readable media to a user in response to a user

(21) Appl. No.: 09/558,925 request. The method comprises the steps of identifying a de?nition of a Networked Information Monitor (NIM). A

(22) Filed? APT- 26: 2000 NIM frame is de?ned for the NIM using the de?nition. Con tent is then retrieved for the NIM. Then, the content is placed

Related U-s- Application Data in a NIM vieWer de?ned by the frame. The invention also

(60) Provisional application No. 60/ 131,083, ?led on Apr. includes a methOd Of altering a NeTWOTked InfOTmatiOn 26, 1999, provisional application No. 60/131,115, ?led on Apr. 26, 1999, provisional application No. 60/131,114, ?led on Apr. 26, 1999, provisional appli cation No. 60/176,687, ?led on Jan. 18, 2000, provi sional application No. 60/176,699, ?led on Jan. 18, 2000.

Monitor (N 1M). The method includes the step of receiving a message at a NIM. The message speci?es a con?gurable feature of the NIM. The NIM is altered in accordance With the con?gurable feature of the message.

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Cline et al. Ferguson Sposato et al. ............ .. 715/716

Reilly et al. ................ .. 705/14

Dasan Horadan et al. MacNaughton et al. Davis et al. Dolan et al. Vidovic Doyle et al. .............. .. 709/219

Beer et al. ................ .. 709/229

Borman et al. Hunt et al. ................... .. 707/3

Merriman et al. Sonnenreich et al. Williams et al. .......... .. 345/721

NaZem et al. ............... .. 707/10

Prithviraj et al. Hermann Wolfe ....................... .. 709/203

Chung et al. .............. .. 709/219

Bayeh et al. .............. .. 709/246

Harada et al. D’Arlach et al. Ogasawara Straub et al. .............. .. 715/747

Stone Johnston et al. ........... .. 715/745

BuksZar et al. Cragun et al. Cragun Ferrel et al. Ferrel et al. ............... .. 715/513

Adams et al. ............. .. 709/218

Bruck et al. Himmel et al. Ko et al. ................... .. 715/763

Furst ........................ .. 709/203

Landsman et al. ........ .. 709/203

Wolfe Barnett et al.

Middleton, III et al. Srinivasan et al. Kuo et al. Pasquali et al. ............. .. 707/ 10

Fries et al.

Jammes et al.

Sundaresan ............... .. 707/513

Tabata et al. Maslov ..................... .. 345/853

Gifford et al. Dan et al.

Peterson et al.

Kawabata .............. .. 715/501.1

Kawasaki et al. . 707/102

Fries et al. Dobronsky et al. ....... .. 345/744

Strandberg et al. ........ .. 709/217

NishiZawa ................ .. 715/757

Abbott et al. ............. .. 715/744

Dang Huang et al.

2002/0161879 A1* 10/2002 Richard .................... .. 709/223

OTHER PUBLICATIONS

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