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To: CHRIS AMATO who wrote (1245)	1/14/1999 1:05:00 PM
From: schweitz	Respond to of 5300

Description of Brigham Young professor's patent out of US Patent Office database: Method and system for synchronization of simultaneous displays of related data sources Abstract A method and system for synchronizing the presentation of data from different, but related, sources in different windows of a computer display. Data is positioned using duplicate sectional names that are in each of the data sources that are being synchronized. Even though the sectional names in each data source are the same, the contents of the sections can be different, independent, and unrelated. Multiple views of a single data source in different windows can be synchronized, showing data from many different locations within each data source. This allows authors and content experts to simultaneously show data from dissimilar data sources that have a logical connection, such as footnotes or commentary to a text, translations of a text, or updates to a read-only file.

To: CHRIS AMATO who wrote (1245)	1/14/1999 1:06:00 PM
From: Daevious	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 5300

This is US Patent 5345551. Sounds like the one. Also, patents 5802531, 5740455, 5664208, 5628010, and 5537587 from 1996-1998 reference this one. (btw- you can search patents at patents.ibm.com -D Inventor(s): Shelley; Monte F. , Orem, UT Rosenvall; James S. , Provo, UT Applicant(s): Brigham Young University, Provo, UT Issued/Filed Dates: Sept. 6, 1994 / Nov. 9, 1992 Application Number: US1992000973780 IPC Class: G06F 003/14; G06F 009/46; G06F 015/40; Class: 395/157; 395/650; 395/144; 395/145; 364/419.19; Field of Search: 395/157,155,158,144,145,148,146,650 364/419.17,419.18,419.19,419.07 Abstract: A method and system for synchronizing the presentation of data from different, but related, sources in different windows of a computer display. Data is positioned using duplicate sectional names that are in each of the data sources that are being synchronized. Even though the sectional names in each data source are the same, the contents of the sections can be different, independent, and unrelated. Multiple views of a single data source in different windows can be synchronized, showing data from many different locations within each data source. This allows authors and content experts to simultaneously show data from dissimilar data sources that have a logical connection, such as footnotes or commentary to a text, translations of a text, or updates to a read-only file.