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Subject: Re: Multimedia has been patented [a bit more]
Posted-Date: Sat, 20 Nov 1993 14:51:22 -0500
From: tenney@netcom.com (Glenn S. Tenney)
I received the following info from srctran@world.std.com (Gregory
Aharonian). This is the basic information on this patent (including the
first claim).
If you don't understand the code letters, don't worry. The key ones are PN
for patent number, AP is date of application, AB for abstract, and MCLM is
the first claim. Actually, it should be self-explanatory.
IMHO (speaking for myself -- I'm not an attorney, but having been on the
IEEE Intellectual Property Committee for about a dozen years, I have much
more than a casual exposure to patent law), the first claim is a very good
description of level 3 videodiscs (to name just one example) which was
published and in use years before this patent application. This is
significant, well known, well published prior art. Again, IMHO, issuing
such a patent is pure and utter crap.
---
Glenn Tenney
tenney@netcom.com Amateur radio: AA6ER
Voice: (415) 574-3420 Fax: (415) 574-0546
--------------- forwarded message follows ---------------------
PN - 5241671
TI - Multimedia search system using a plurality of entry path means which
indicate interrelatedness of information
IN - Reed, Michael, Chicago; Bestick, Greg, Lacosta (CA) US;
Greenhalgh, Carol, Austin (TX) US; Bastin, Norman J., Chicago
Carlton, Ron, San Marcos (CA) US; Frank, Stanley D., Chicago
Good, Dale, Evanston (IL) US; Holman, Neil, Buffalo Grove IL
Holzman, Carl, Chicago (IL) US; Jensen, Ann, Austin (TX)
PA - Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc., Chicago, IL, US
PD - 93.08.31
AP - 89.10.26 89US-426917
NO - 41 CLAIMS, EXEMPLARY CLAIM 1, 20 DRAWINGS, 23 FIGURES
EXAMINER: Lee, Thomas C.; Von Buhr, Maria N.
ATTY/AGENT: Dickstein, Shapiro & Morin
PCL - 395600000, CROSS REFS: 364282100, 364282400, 364283300, 364283400,
364DIG100
IC - G06F-015/40
FLD - 364/200, 364/900, 364/DIG.100, 364/DIG.200, 395/600,
358/342
DT - INVENTION PATENT
FS - TO US COMPANY OR CORPORATION
CT - 4422158, 12/1983, Galie, 364/900.
4587635, 5/1986, Hashimoto et al., 364/900.
4685001, 8/1987, Martin, 358/342.
4717971, 1/1988, Sawyer, 358/342.
4729043, 3/1988, Worth, 358/342.
4757302, 7/1988, Hatakeyama et al., 340/407.
4758955, 7/1988, Chen, 364/419.
4774596, 9/1988, Hashimoto, 358/335.
4779080, 10/1988, Coughlin et al., 340/712.
4805134, 2/1989, Calo et al., 364/900.
4811217, 3/1989, Tokizane et al., 364/300.
4814972, 3/1989, Winter et al., 364/200.
4829169, 5/1989, Watanabe, 235/492.
4829423, 5/1989, Tennant et al., 364/200.
4831610, 5/1989, Hoda et al., 369/48.
4914586, 4/1990, Swinehart et al., 395/600.
4916655, 4/1990, Ohsone et al., 364/900.
4923314, 5/1990, Blanchard, Jr. et al., 400/63.
4931950, 6/1990, Isle et al., 364/513.
4939689, 7/1990, Davis et al., 395/600.
4945476, 7/1990, Bodick et al., 364/413.02.
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AB - A database search system that retrieves multimedia information in a
flexible, user friendly system. The search system uses a multimedia
database consisting of text, picture, audio and animated data. That
database is searched through multiple graphical and textual entry paths.
Those entry paths include an idea search, a title finder search, a topic
tree search, a picture explorer search, a history timeline search, a
world atlas search, a researcher's assistant search, and a feature
articles search.
MCLM- We claim: 1. A computer search system for retrieving information,
comprising:
means for storing interrelated textual information and graphical
information;
means for interrelating said textual and graphical information;
a plurality of entry path means for searching said stored
interrelated textual and graphical information, said entry path means
comprising:
textual search entry path means for searching said textual
information and for retrieving interrelated graphical information to said
searched text;
graphics entry path means for searching said graphical information
and for retrieving interrelated textual information to said searched
graphical information;
selecting means for providing a menu of said plurality of entry
path means for selection;
processing means for executing inquiries provided by a user in
order to search said textual and graphical information through said
selected entry path means;
indicating means for indicating a pathway that accesses information
related in one of said entry path means to information accessible in
another one of said entry path means;
accessing means for providing access to said related information in
said another entry path means; and
output means for receiving search results from said processing
means and said related information from said accessing means and for
providing said search results and received information to such user.
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