DALLAS, TX– The Internet conglomerate and holding company, Collectrix LLC, was granted patent 5,960,411 this past week from the U.S. Patent Office.
“This is the first in a series of key pieces designed to boost our start-up dotcom into prominence,” Tim Swanson, spokesman for Collectrix LLC told press at a news meeting earlier today.
The patent is for the method and system of placing a weblog post via a content-management system onto the World Wide Web.
Abstract
The weblog is placed by an author at a client system and received by a server system. The server system receives author information including identification of the author, weblog information, and date-time information from the client system. The server system then assigns a client identifier to the client system and associates the assigned client identifier with the received author information. The server system sends to the client system the assigned client identifier and an HTML document identifying the item and including a publish button. The client system receives and stores the assigned client identifier and receives and displays the HTML document. In response to the selection of the publish button, the client system sends to the server system a request to post the identified item. The server system receives the request and combines the author information associated with the client identifier of the client system to generate a weblog to post the item in accordance with the billing and storage information whereby the author effects the posting of the weblog by selection of the posting button.
“The future of our company is now rooted in a firm foundation with this and other intellectual property and we look forward in doing business with the community as a whole,” Swanson said.
patent 5,960,411 ？Method and system for placing a purchase order via a communications network
Inventors: Hartman; Peri (Seattle, WA); Bezos; Jeffrey P. (Seattle, WA); Kaphan; Shel (Seattle, WA); Spiegel; Joel (Seattle, WA)
Assignee: Amazon.com, Inc. (Seattle, WA)
Appl. No.: 928951
Filed: September 12, 1997
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Posted by: Tim at June 30, 2003 01:16 AM