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Research-Desk Technology
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Introduction
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Research-Desk leverages the familiar capabilites of Microsoft Windows and Office, with its own
unique and proprietary technologies, to create the world's first professional web browser™
and the premier Microsoft Office integration tool.
This page highlights some of the unique patent pending technologies underlying
Research-Desk.
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Application Hosting (This patent-pending technology is only available in
Research-Desk)
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Research-Desk's features are of two types - those native to Research-Desk and those provided
by hosted and cooperating applications. Hosted and cooperating applications include
Microsoft Office, McAfee VirusScan, and others. Because Research-Desk communicates
with the hosted applications at a lower level than the end-user, and because it
has intimate knowledge of the hosted applications' features, it can export
functionality from one application to another. For example, one can save a web
page as a Word document, or search across all documents - spreadsheets, web pages,
Word documents, etc. - all at once.
Research-Desk seamlessly assembles and extends the functionality of hosted applications -
Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc. - with its own, so the end-user does not have
to think about where each feature originates. All the user is required to do is
have the hosted applications licensed and installed on their computer. Most common
desktop environments already have many of the hosted applications installed. Even
if specific applications are missing from the computer, Research-Desk still functions
properly, and its menus and toolbars accurately reflect the available features. For
example, if only Microsoft Word is installed (Excel and PowerPoint are not), the user
has full access to Research-Desk's Word related functionality - edit Word documents,
save web pages as Word documents, etc. The menus and toolbar options that correspond to
functionality provided by Excel and PowerPoint are not shown - but are shown if Excel
or PowerPoint is installed at a later time.
The end result is that Research-Desk can open, edit and save Microsoft Excel, Word and
PowerPoint documents when Office 2000, 2003, XP or newer is installed. The full
capabilities of the individual Microsoft Office applications - including all menus and
toolbars and associated commands, Print and Print Preview, VBA, and the Visual Basic
Editor are available in Research-Desk.
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ActiveX Adapter™
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Research-Desk's patent pending ActiveX Adapter technology™ "converts" certain
web page elements - such as text areas in web forms - into embedded Microsoft Word
documents. This enables the user to enjoy the full editing capabilities (incl. grammar/spelling
checks) of Microsoft Word when entering text in web pages. Users can easily
save the text as a Word document, or insert text from a previously saved Word
document into the web form.
As with other Research-Desk technologies, this works with a minimum of hassle or
user direction.
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PageSnap™
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Current techniques for saving web pages are so finicky and unreliable that many
users either, do not use them or, copy and paste the contents of the web page (for
example to the Microsoft Word document) instead of saving the web page.
Research-Desk's patent pending PageSnap™ technology enables the user to save
web pages in their entirety with a minimum of hassle. The only input required of
the user is to invoke the "File, Save" command. PageSnap is significantly more
advanced than Microsoft Internet Explorer's web page saving technology - it works
up to 10 times faster, saves framed web pages, and even saves secure server (HTTPS)
web pages. All elements of the page (html, images, links, style sheets, frames) are
saved into a single file.
The end result is that the user can archive important web based content and online
transaction receipts with a minimum of hassle.
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PopSmart™
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Currently available browser popup blocking software generally operates on one or more
of the following techniques:
- Block popup browser windows based on exclusion or inclusion in lists of URLs
or domains
- Filter out certain HTML elements of Java Script from the page - for example
the "window.open" command
- Block popup windows based on the window size and content - for example a
small popup window containing mostly graphics would be considered an advertisement
and would therefore be blocked.
Each of the aforementioned techniques suffers from significany weaknesses: high
maintenance (updating lists of URLs or domains), rigidity (filtering out bits of
HTML and Java), and unreliability (blocking based on size and content).
Research-Desk's patent pending PopSmart™ technology intelligently distinguishes
between "desirable" and "undesirable" browser popup windows by analyzing the HTML
elements and Java Scripts that constitute the web page. Based on that analysis,
Research-Desk makes a good guess (98% or better accuracy in our testing) whether to
allow the popup.
So, if the user clicks on an advertising banner on a web page, and it wants to popup
in a new window, Research-Desk will allow it. But if the web page automatically
pops open an advertisement banner in a new window, Research-Desk will block the popup.
The end result is that the user gets more done, without interruptions, or hassles (no
configuration or maintenance is necessary).
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