Patents by Inventor Z E. Smith

Z E. Smith 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).

  • Automatically generate and displaying metadata as supplemental information concurrently with the web page, there being no link between web page and metadata
    Patent number: 6282548
    Abstract: A method and apparatus that displays metadata about a web page currently being displayed by a browser. While the web browser is communicating with a web server to obtain the requested web page, client software communicates with a database metadata server to obtain metadata about the requested page. After the browser receives its requested information from the web server, it displays the requested web page in a conventional manner. The client concurrently displays its received metadata on the same computer as the web page, and concurrently with the web page. A preferred embodiment of the present invention opens a button bar in conjunction with the web page display. This button bar allows the user to view various portions of the metadata for the displayed web page.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 1997
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2001
    Assignee: Alexa Internet
    Inventors: Michael G. Burner, Bruce C. Gilliat, Eric W. Jaquith, David L. Marvit, Brewster Kahle, Niall O'Driscoll, Z E. Smith, Ronna C. Tanenbaum
  • Hardcopy lossless data storage and communications for electronic document processing systems
    Patent number: 5486686
    Abstract: Machine readable electronic domain definitions of part or all of the electronic domain descriptions of hardcopy documents and/or of part or all of the transforms that are performed to produce and reproduce such hardcopies documents are encoded in codes that are printed on such documents, thereby permitting the electronic domain descriptions of such documents and/or such transforms to be recovered more robustly and reliably when the information carried by such documents is transformed from the hardcopy domain to the electronic domain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 1992
    Date of Patent: January 23, 1996
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Frank Zdybel, Jr., Henry W. Sang, Jr., Jan O. Pedersen, Z. E. Smith, III, D. A. Henderson, Jr., David L. Hecht, Dan S. Bloomberg