EXTRACTING A PORTION OF A DOCUMENT, SUCH AS A WEB PAGE

A facility for extracting visual contents of a page is described. The facility renders a page including visual contents, the rendered page including an extraction control. In response to user input activating the extraction control, the facility (1) selects a proper subset of the visual contents of...

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Main Authors MONTGOMERY THOMAS J, PASCALE GREGORY T, DAWSON MARK R, PERKINS KENNETH J, FLAKE GARY W
Format Patent
LanguageEnglish
Published 31.10.2013
Subjects
CALCULATING
COMPUTING
COUNTING
ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING
PHYSICS
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Summary:A facility for extracting visual contents of a page is described. The facility renders a page including visual contents, the rendered page including an extraction control. In response to user input activating the extraction control, the facility (1) selects a proper subset of the visual contents of the page that are specified by a publisher on the page for extraction using the extraction control, and (2) transmits a representation of the selected subset of visual contents for storage independent of the page.
Bibliography:Application Number: US201213460632