Patents by Inventor Dennis A. Brittain

Dennis A. Brittain has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • System and methods for easy-to-use periodic network data capture engine with automatic target data location, extraction and storage
    Patent number: 6810414
    Abstract: System and methods for automatically capturing and storing data from a network is disclosed. The system and methods include easy-to-use graphical user interfaces; integration with Web browsers; point-and-click selection of data targets; automatic input element parameter substitution to retrieve multiple pages from a single network address; periodic Web page retrieval from network servers at pre-specified intervals; dynamic tag string matching to locate text data on variable format HTML and XML pages; dynamic tree matching to locate data nodes in variable document object model representations of HTML and XML data; intelligent character recognition of graphical HTML or XML elements; graphical database, database table and table record creation; and automatic creation of formatted data files or direct storage to database.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2004
    Inventor: Dennis A. Brittain