Electronic note taking from network web pages

Abstract

An electronic note taking application is described in which a user may make check box selections on web pages such that certain portions of the web pages are cumulatively collected in a clipboard. As the user navigates through various web pages on a website, the user can make highlighted and checkmark selections in the web pages, which are cumulatively collected for later use and reporting. At the end of a session, the entire selection of selected materials from all web pages during the session can be displayed to the user as a single cohesive document.

Description

FIELD OF THE INVENTION[0001]The present invention relates to information capturing and storage and more particularly to data retrieval, capturing, formatting, storage, display, and reporting on selected data and information from multiple web pages by a user.BACKGROUND AND SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION[0002]The present invention addresses the problems associated with conveniently retrieving and storing information from web pages such as may be retrieved from the Internet. Currently, one can go on to the World Wide Web and retrieve information in the form of web pages (which is commonly formatted in the so-called HTML data format). It is common for a user who is investigating a particular subject on the World Wide Web to encounter a website having multiple web pages, describing, each depicting, and illustrating multiple and various aspects of the chosen subject matter. A common problem arises in that the user who is researching the subject matter finds the information available to them bot...

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Benefits of technology

[0005]The present invention provides a cumulative note taking feature, sometimes referred to herein by the nomenclature eNotes, which allows a user to identify portions of a web page that the user wishes to collect, and automa

Problems solved by technology

A common problem arises in that the user who is researching the subject matter finds the information available to them both overwhelming and not organized the way the user wants.

A common method of navigating the World Wide Web when doing subject matter research is unfortunately to printoutprint out all web pages encountered so the user can, after the navigation session ends, sort and organize the various web pages printed out into some sort of coherent structure for use in the research.

This process is time consuming and unnecessarily paper consuming.

There isare, however, a variety of different problems associated with that procedure.

First, the procedure is extremely tedious and cumbersome in highlighting, clipboarding, and pasting so many different portions of so many different web pages since the user must constantly flip back and forth between the web page browser, and local word processing application to cut and paste the various portions of the web pages desired.

In addition, the portions of the web pages may not necessarily be in formats conducive to pasting into the particular application (such as the word processing application or other such application) being employed.

Third, the highlight, cut and paste procedure is not simple and user friendly.

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