Method and apparatus for document processing using agents to process transactions created based on document content
US6012083A · kind A · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Sep 24, 1996 |
| Grant date | Jan 4, 2000 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Sep 24, 2016 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
- CPC primaryY10S707/99945
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A Web agency is interposed between a Web client and a Web server to transform the requests from the Web client prior to sending the requests on to the Web server, to transform the document returned from the Web server prior to sending the document on to the Web client, and to store state information about the user of various Web clients connected to the Web agency. The Web agency can be transparent to, and independent of, the Web client and the Web server. The Web agency might be used as a peripheral agency, a personal service agency or a document server. One such Web agency is a printer server which transparently renders documents. For hypertext documents, the rendering process includes generating machine-readable link references.
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