XML-Embedded Image Bookmarking for Frameset Data Sharing
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current bookmarking technologies cannot save or share the combination of frame URLs within a frameset or filled form data across multiple PCs, limiting user flexibility and collaboration.
Innovation Solution
A system that uses an XML structure embedded within an image file, such as XML.JPG, to store and retrieve frame URLs and form data, enabling sharing and restoring the original website display, including filled form data, across different PCs.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If traditional bookmarking technology is used to save frame URLs, then individual URLs can be bookmarked, but the combination of frame URLs within a frameset cannot be saved together
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges multiple frame URLs and form data into a single bookmark entry by storing them in an XML file associated with the frameset URL. This allows the entire frameset configuration to be saved as one unit rather than requiring separate bookmarks for each frame, directly resolving the information loss problem while maintaining simple user interaction.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces an XML file as an intermediary between the browser and the bookmarking system. This XML file serves as a mediator that stores the complex relationship between frameset URL and individual frame URLs, allowing traditional bookmarking mechanisms to handle sophisticated frameset information without increasing user-facing complexity.
2Adaptability or versatility
If form data is saved on a local PC, then the data can be reused on the same PC, but the data cannot be shared among multiple users on multiple PCs
Solution Approach 1:
The patent makes form data universal by storing it in an XML file that can be accessed from multiple PCs. The same XML file containing form data can be opened on different computers, allowing any user with the file to access and reuse the form data, transforming locally-bound data into universally accessible data without requiring complex distributed storage systems.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent enables form data to be copied across multiple PCs through the XML file. When the XML file is transferred to another computer, the form data is automatically available on that system as well, allowing easy distribution and sharing of form data without requiring centralized server storage or complex synchronization mechanisms.
3Ease of operation
If frame data and form data are stored separately, then simple URL-image relationships are maintained, but selective capture of specific frames or form data is not possible
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the data storage structure by separating the frameset URL reference from the individual frame URLs and form data within the XML file. This segmentation allows selective capture and manipulation of specific components - users can reference the entire frameset or extract individual frame information and form data as needed, providing ease of selective capture while organizing data in a structured manner.
Data Source
AI summary
A method, medium and implementing processing system are provided for book marking a combination of frame URLs within a frameset and allowing the sharing on multiple PCs the saved form data that may have been filled in. The system uses an image as a hotspot, containing a complex target destination in the form of an XML structure with multiple URLs for multiple frames as well as captured form data. This system combines file types such as XML and JPG, e.g. as in sample file name ‘MyCapturedFramesAndFormData.XML.JPG’ or ‘MyCapturedFramesAndFormData.XML.GIF’. This combination provides a surprising effect compared to the prior systems, namely, launching the image in an enhanced web browser or in a web browser containing a new plug-in displays the frame just as it was when saved.