Patents by Inventor Joshua Edwin Phillips

Joshua Edwin Phillips 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).

  • Method and apparatus for allowing one bookmark to replace another
    Patent number: 6928616
    Abstract: A method, system and apparatus for managing a bookmark folder are provided. In an embodiment of the invention, when a user accesses a Web page using an embedded link from a displayed bookmarked Web page, the user may, if so desires, replace the bookmarked Web page by simply bookmarking the accessed Web page. The replacement is done automatically. In another embodiment of the invention, when a user wants to bookmark a Web page, the URL of the Web page is compared with the URLs of all bookmarked Web pages. If the URL of one of the bookmarked Web pages is similar with the URL of the Web page to be bookmarked, the user may, again if so desires, replace the bookmarked Web page by the bookmark of the new page. Similarity may be determined by user defined rules such as subject matter or differences in URL branches.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2005
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Jacqueline Claire Drane, Nyralin Novella Kline, Jessica Kelley Murillo, Joshua Edwin Phillips, Johnny Meng-Han Shieh
  • Apparatus and method for printing multiple related web pages
    Publication number: 20040205639
    Abstract: An apparatus and method of printing multiple related Web pages are provided. The apparatus and method may be a print plug-in module which when invoked generates a visual representation of Web pages related to a displayed Web page. The display of the pages is in a tree structure whereby the root of the tree is the displayed page. Displaying the pages in a tree structure provides an order in which the Web pages relate to each other. The printing of the Web pages is user-selectable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2001
    Publication date: October 14, 2004
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Jacqueline Claire Drane, Nyralin Novella Kline, Jessica Kelley Murillo, Joshua Edwin Phillips, Johnny Meng-Han Shieh
  • Method and apparatus for allowing one bookmark to replace another
    Publication number: 20030052918
    Abstract: A method, system and apparatus for managing a bookmark folder are provided. In an embodiment of the invention, when a user accesses a Web page using an embedded link from a displayed bookmarked Web page, the user may, if so desires, replace the bookmarked Web page by simply bookmarking the accessed Web page. The replacement is done automatically. In another embodiment of the invention, when a user wants to bookmark a Web page, the URL of the Web page is compared with the URLs of all bookmarked Web pages. If the URL of one of the bookmarked Web pages is similar with the URL of the Web page to be bookmarked, the user may, again if so desires, replace the bookmarked Web page by the bookmark of the new page. Similarity may be determined by user defined rules such as subject matter or differences in URL branches.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2001
    Publication date: March 20, 2003
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Jacqueline Claire Drane, Nyralin Novella Kline, Jessica Kelley Murillo, Joshua Edwin Phillips, Johnny Meng-Han Shieh