SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR WEB-BASED CONTROL OF DESKTOP APPLICATIONS

摘要

The present inventors devised, among otherthings, systems, methods, and software that allow users to readilyaccess online legal research tools, while using other applications,such as word processors. One exemplary computer-implementedsystem provide an add-on software framework that integrates intoa host word-processing application on a client access device. Theadd-on software framework allows users to select from anex-pandable listing of one or more web applications on a webserv-er, with each of the web application capable of controllingopera-tion of the host word processing application. The webapplica-tions facilitate extraction and access to information from thein-formation-retrieval services and incorporation of the informationin the document or in metadata associated with the document.