User interface for interacting with online message board

USO0RE41754E

(19) United States (12) Reissued Patent Knight (54)

(10) Patent Number: US (45) Date of Reissued Patent:

USER INTERFACE FOR INTERACTING

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FOREIGN PATENT DOCUMENTS

WITH ONLINE MESSAGE BOARD

(76) Inventor:

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Timothy O. Knight, 658 High St., Palo Alto, CA (US) 94301

WO WO WO

WO9948011 WO0008573 WO0062223

9/1999 2/2000 10/2000

OTHER PUBLICATIONS

(21) App1.N0.: 11/052,017

Kirsner, Scott “Making Money in the Net’s Yaketeria,” May

(22) Filed:

business/story/12037.html, pp. 143.

1, 1998, [Online:] Available http://www.wired/com/news/

Feb. 4, 2005 Related US. Patent Documents

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Reissue of:

Issued:

Feb. 4, 2003

Primary ExamineriTadeese Hailu (74) Attorney, Agent, or FirmiFitch, Even, Tabin &

Appl. No.: Filed:

09/309,714 May 11, 1999

(57)

(64) Patent No.:

(51)

6,515,681

Int. Cl. G06F 3/00

Flannery ABSTRACT

A program and graphical user interface is provided for facili

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tating user interactions with an online message board sys

tem. The interface provides multiple levels of ?ltering and (52) (58)

US. Cl. ...................... .. 715/751; 715/752; 715/758;

screening capability with query parameters presented within

707/1; 707/3; 707/ 102

a ?rst portion of the interface to permit comprehensive and

Field of Classi?cation Search ................ .. 715/751,

?exible selection of message entries of interest to a user. The message entries are compiled into intelligent sets corre

715/738, 760, 968, 739, 752, 753, 758; 707/3, 707/4, 6, 104.1; 709/205 See application ?le for complete search history. (56)

for reviewing messages to locate relevant subject matter is substantially eliminated. After the user speci?ed message entries are retrieved, they can be displayed in list form in a

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second portion of the interface, and then reviewed in depth in yet a third portion of the interface. [The query and review ing operations by the user can all take place therefore, within

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