Patent ID: 6785670
Filing Date: 2004-08-31
Classification: G06F,Y10S

Abstract:
A system for automatically initiating a network-based search from within a document displayed by a document viewer, the document comprising one or more objects, the system comprising:a search term designation module configured to receive a user designation of at least one object of the document; a search engine access module configured to automatically provide a search engine address and a query command to a browser in response to the user designation of the at least one object; a search engine interfacing module configured to automatically provide the browser with the at least one designated object; wherein the browser automotically submits the query command and the at least one designated object to a search engine corresponding to the search engine address; and wherein the document comprises an image, the search term designation module comprising: an image partitioning module configured to receive a user selection of a portion of the image; and an optical character recognition (OCR) module configured to perform optical character recognition on the selected portion of the image to recognize therein the at least one designated object.