Melanie Starr Bleyler

US Patent:

20010056463, Dec 27, 2001

Filed:

Mar 21, 2001

Appl. No.:

09/812865

Inventors:

James Grady - Palo Altos CA, US
Gregory Whittemore - San Jose CA, US
Pratik Wadher - Sunnyvale CA, US
Mark Painter - Fremont CA, US
Melanie Bleyler - San Jose CA, US
Kurt Shaver - San Jose CA, US

International Classification:

G06F015/16

US Classification:

709/203000, 709/217000

Abstract:

The present invention provides a system and method for relating physical documents to electronic documents. A code on a physical document identifying the document is identified and an electronic address, or link (e.g., a hyperlink) is provided that corresponds to the code. The electronic address identifies an electronic file that is an electronic version of the physical document. A graphical user interface (GUI) is also provided, whereby a user may organize and manipulate electronic documents or electronic addresses. A publisher and/or advertiser may publish documents associated with keyword information encoded in the form of meta information. The meta information may be encoded within the document in the form of XML tags. User statistics and other preference information is maintained in a user profile.