Systems, Methods, and Apparatuses to Write on Web Pages
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1. notes section of a webpage in accordance with one embodiment of the present invention 0016 FIG 4 is a screenshot of a user completing his her notes in accordance with the embodiment of FIG 3 0017 FIG 5 is a screenshot depicting real time comment ing chat hooks for specific parts of a page in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention 0018 FIG 6 is a screenshot depicting real time comment ing chat hooks and a chat window for specific part of a page in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention and 0019 FIG 7 is flowchart depicting a data processing sys tem in accordance with an embodiment of the present inven tion DETAILED DESCRIPTION 0020 The embodiments of the present invention are described more fully hereinafter with reference to the accom panying drawings which form a part hereof and which show by way of illustration specific exemplary embodiments by which the invention may be practiced This invention may however be embodied in many different forms and should not be construed as limited to the embodiments set forth herein rather these embodiments are provided so that this disclosure will be thorough and complete and will fully convey the scope ofthe invention to those skilled in the art Among other things the present invention may be embodied as systems methods or devices The following detailed description should not to be taken in a limiting sense US 2012 02. web pages In one embodiment a user annotates any web page content writ ten in HTML or any other mark up language by attaching scribbles to specific sections of a web page 0007 In another embodiment scribbles for a web page may be overlay elements that attach to the underlying Docu ment Object Model DOM structure of the document DOM being across platform and language independent convention for representing and interacting with objects in HTML XHTML and XML documents Aspects of the DOM such as its Elements lt the basic or aggregate unit of the overall document may be addressed and manipulated within the syntax of the programming language in use The public inter face of a DOM is specified in its application programming interface API Accordingly in one embodiment the scribbles may show up on the actual web page itself and not copied version of the web page or alias URLs In such an embodiment the original web page may optionally be embed ded within an iframe whose top most window frame may be loaded from source other than the original web page Although referred to herein as web pages the intent is not to be limited and does not mean merely pages displayed on computer browsers and such reference includes any type of page represented by a mark up language Aug 2 2012 0008 In one embodiment scribbles may be attached to very specific web elements on the web page including a user scribbling a specific link a paragra
3. 198324 Al 0021 Throughout the specification and claims the fol lowing terms take the meanings explicitly associated herein unless the context clearly dictates otherwise The phrase in one embodiment as used herein does not necessarily refer to the same embodiment though it may Furthermore the phrase in another embodiment as used herein does not necessarily refer to a different embodiment although it may Thus as described below various embodiments of the inven tion may be readily combined without departing from the scope or spirit of the invention 0022 Inaddition as used herein the term or is an inclu sive or operator and is equivalent to the term and or unless the context clearly dictates otherwise The term based on is not exclusive and allows for being based on additional factors not described unless the context clearly dictates oth erwise In addition throughout the specification the meaning of a an and the include plural references The meaning of in includes in and on The term coupled implies that the elements may be directly connected together or may be coupled through one or more intervening elements Fur ther reference may be made to an embodiment where a com ponent is implemented and multiple like or identical compo nents are implemented 0023 While the embodiments are described with respect to note and commenting on webpages
4. US 20120198324A1 a2 Patent Application Publication 0 Pub No US 2012 0198324 Al as United States Mahajan et al 43 Pub Date Aug 2 2012 54 SYSTEMS METHODS AND APPARATUSES TO WRITE ON WEB PAGES 76 Inventors Ruchi Mahajan Sunnyvale CA US Pratik Bansal Sunnyvale CA US 21 Appl No 13 360 654 22 Filed Jan 27 2012 Related U S Application Data 60 Provisional application No 61 436 974 filed on Jan 27 2011 Publication Classification 51 Int Cl GO6F 17 00 2006 01 2 IS ODE oed aede n mci ies 715 230 57 ABSTRACT The embodiments of the present invention provide novel sys tems and methods for providing notation of webpages and implementing real time communication mechanisms around such notations The embodiments enable a user to comment of webpages and share such content with other users US 2012 0198324 A1 Aug 2 2012 Sheet 1 of 7 uius T Meet Patent Application Publication Aug 2 2012 Sheet 2 of 7 US 2012 0198324 A1 Patent Application Publication E E E A A A MEAE eee TE E fe zs ESSEN NE ll ll EIER EIER EIER METER i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i Ae S zo S n SS S ze nona NER NENNT ESSE NUNT ENTE nona nano nas s US 2012 0198324 A1 TE E E Dain i a 2 soc scene a e E d a a fe ester a son c
5. art would want to see the content being scribbled on directly at the source This not only helps in reducing content duplication but also gives the users the full context around the content being discussed 0065 In the example link above using iscribbled anchor http www xyz com iScribbledAnchor xethh23j rxe45dxe 0066 The link http www xyz comfiScribbledAnchor xethh23j belongs to the website operator while the link http www xyz comfiScribbled Anchor xethh23j rxe45dxe belongs to the scribble contributor 0067 In another embodiment the dynamic anchors are embedded on other web pages that reference these dynamic anchors In sucha case the specific content being referenced along with accompanying annotation if any can be dis played on the referencing page This display could happen automatically or on mouse over or any triggered event using embedded javascript or other programming languages mechanisms 0068 For example a blogger throws an anchor on some page http www being referenced com iScribbledAnchor abc def The text being scribbled in this case corresponds to a div element say lt div gt I am being scribbled lt div gt the comment text by blogger being I am the comment text The blogger then uses this link which contains dynamic anchor Aug 2 2012 in one of her blog pages When a mouse over happens on that link on the blog page a text bubble box could appear that would show
6. ase users will tend to notattach scribbles to such portions ofthe web page Further the aggregation of scribbles from various sources can be done for HTML elements More relevant portions ofthe web page will tend to be heavily scribbled and vice versa for lesser useful parts ofthe web page Such scribbling can be a useful source of information that can help software programs like search engines in filtering out useful content on a web page Conceptually the note scribble is affixed to the page directly and could optionally be made public or private by the author or by the page provider While the present embodiment does not include a duplicate copy of the page this is not intended to bealimitation on the embodiments ofthe present invention and duplicate copes of the page could be stored or otherwise maintained Although referred to herein and throughout the Aug 2 2012 embodiments are not limited to HTML and it is intended and contemplated within the scope that such references could refer to any mark up language now known or hereinafter embodied 0028 In another embodiment of the present invention the bookmarking capabilities of the browser are enhanced Although the term browser is used herein it is not too be understood in the limiting sense such as just web based or mobile based but broadly and unlimited For example current bookmarking features in a browser can be done only for a particular URL While there is a general concept
7. dow is attached to 0080 FIG 7 is an exemplary pictorial representation of a data processing system which may be implemented in accor dance with an embodiment of the present invention FIG 7 is exemplary in nature and is not intended to be an architectural limitation of the processes of the embodiments of present invention 0081 Data processing system 700 is a network of com puters in which embodiments of the present invention may be implemented Data processing system 700 comprises a net work 702 which is the medium used to provide communica tions links between various devices and computers connected within data processing system 700 Network 702 may include permanent connections such as wire or fiber optic cables or temporary connections made through telephone connections or make be coupled through various connections as now know or hereinafter known 0082 In the depicted example server 704 is coupled to network 702 along with storage unit 706 In addition clients 708 710 and 712 are also coupled to network 702 Clients 708 710 and 712 may be for example personal computers or network computers For purposes of the present embodi Aug 2 2012 ment a network computer is any computer coupled to a network which receives a program or other application from another computer coupled to the network In the depicted example server 704 provides data such as boot files operat ing system images and applications to client
8. e case of a plug in or in any other appropriate locale 0035 In one embodiment any user can post to any webpage which has enabled the software module The user could also optionally control the posting by limiting access and visibility Alternatively the host of the webpage could control which users and or what users can post In the latter embodiment the host could also control the posting by for example limiting the content de publishing or further com menting as such In contrast to community style websites which allow for co authoring and editing embodiments of the present invention allow users to comment add amend etc content without actually modifying the existing content itself 0036 In another embodiment a user can choose not to view any comments by using the menu on the overlay mod ule In another embodiment the host may deactivate any user menu control 0037 In another embodiment the owner of a webpage can optionally enable the module to implement its features Alternatively a user may individually have a plug in module that enables the user to access all features of the overlay module However in such instances the information is not automatically overlayed on the webpage but instead is only available to additional users the original user provides access to US 2012 0198324 Al 0038 In one embodiment the user can choose to share or send the anchor to another user Once the other user clicks on this sp
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10. ecial URL various scenarios including but not limited to the following may occur 0039 0040 the other user already has the browser add on In this case the browser add on checks the URL for scribbled anchors If it finds one then the add on opens the URL http www xyz com pulls the scribble from the server attaches the scribble to the specific element on the web page and scrolls the page to center the scribbled element in this case abc gif This enhances the link sharing capabilities tremen dously as specific web elements scribbles can be shared across thru social media like Facebook or Twitter There can be multiple scribbles in a scribble anchor URL For example more than one scribble can be attached on a web page and share the corresponding scribbled URL e g http www xyz com iScribbledAnchor xethh23j rxe45dxe rtyrngh66 yuui47j3hu In case of multiple scribbles all the scribbles for the corresponding page are loaded and the page scrolls to the scribbled element which is visually the first one from top down as the user scrolls the page This will provide bloggers writers ability to attach comments to the original page and link to it from their web pages instead of copying over specific sections of the content and then putting in their thoughts 0041 Ifthe other user doesn t have the browser add on but the website operator has embedded iscribbled widget embedded JavaScript to his page the results will be
11. ely be used to categorize a web page content for the search engine This will be a tool to capture people s collective emotions for a web page 0060 In another embodiment a user can connect indi vidual scribbles together using Scribble Connectors Scribble Connectors enable a user to connect similar web elements together as described below This further expands the capability of scribble tags 0061 As a non limiting example A user is reading some thing about apples which the user finds very interesting on www goodtextapple com However on another URL www goodimageapple com the user finds a good image of apple The user can scribble the text on www goodtextapple com and connect it to image at www goodimageapple com This will help the user prepare personal notes 0062 There are reasons to not just copy over the entire content to another web page instead of implementing scrib bling 0063 There are several advantages to implementing the novel systems and methods herein including but not limited to enabling users to view links as pointers to information at the source By providing an original link the user attributes the information to the original source 0064 Further scribbling the original content is important because this enables a user to always see the current most updated content directly from the source Many blogs have active comments being updated on the original web page Users for most p
12. esent invention 0075 FIG 2 is a screenshot of an exemplary representa tion ofthe HTML element being highlighted is selected after a single click of the mouse The user then drags the mouse in down position and finally leaves the expanded note at the desirable position The dragging action of mouse is not nec essary The note could just expand on single click or any other variation may be present Again FIG 2 is intended as an example and not as a limitation for the present invention 0076 FIG 3 shows a screenshot of an exemplary repre sentation of a user double clicking on the Notes section As a result the area becomes editable The user is then able to type her notes 0077 FIG 4 shows a screenshot of an exemplary repre sentation of a user completing his her notes As shown after the notes are completed the user clicks anywhere outside of Notes area 0078 FIG 5 is a screenshot of an exemplary representa tion showing real time commenting chat hooks for specific parts of a page Optionally there may be an indicator of the number of comments as shown herein as the number dis played within the orange circles 0079 FIG 6 is a screenshot of an exemplary representa tion showing real time commenting chat hooks and a chat window for specific parts of a page The user can type his her comment in the text area and post comment to the chat stream The comment is relevant only to the part of web page chat win
13. her aspects of the present invention are implemented by central processing units CPU in the server and client computers executing sequences of instructions stored in a memory The memory may be random access memory RAM read only memory ROM a persis tent store such as a mass storage device or any combination of these devices Execution of the sequences of instructions causes the CPU to perform steps according to embodiments of the present invention 0072 The instructions may be loaded into the memory of the server or client computers from a storage device or from one of more other computer systems over a network connec tion For example a client computer may transmit a sequence of instructions to the server computer in response to a mes sage transmitted to the client over a network by the server As the server receives the instructions over the network connec tion it stores the instructions in memory The server may store the instructions for later execution or it may execute the instructions as they arrive over the network connection In some cases the instructions may not be directly executable by the CPU and may instead be executed by an interpreter that interprets the instructions In other embodiments hardwired circuitry may be used in place of or in combination with software instructions to implement the present invention Thus the present invention is not limited to any specific combination of hardware circuitry and sof
14. in class could attach scribbles to specific part of mark up based lec ture notes say he she has a question or needs clarification on some or whole part These scribbles can then display on other students and professors browser in real time during the lec ture time This can result in opening up a chat session for that part of the lecture note for other people viewing the same page and they can chime in 0057 The above provided examples are non limiting are various other embodiments of the use of chatting is contem plated within the scope of the present embodiments including but not limited to discussions on specific parts of politically sensitive web page to doctors discussing a case on a HTML document via chat part by part US 2012 0198324 Al 0058 Conceptually and practically these chat sessions are individual scribbles aggregated and displayed in a chat like window The usual scribble rules described herein apply to individual chat comments 0059 Currently web pages may lack human emotions or feelings In one embodiment scribbles can be used to express what the user thinks or feels about specific parts of a page For example a user could attach a humorous scribble to a web element that the user finds humorous and share it on social media Similarly a user can scribble sad if some images make him feel sad A plagiarized useful or original content can be scribbled accordingly All this information can collec tiv
15. nual page xxx The user is not clear about certain text in one of the paragraphs The user is then able to scribble a question on that paragraph The question may be published to other people say experts on the subject and they can choose to provide answers better explanation This is different from the way question answer websites operate today where the source of the question i e the user the subject oracle user manual and the subject experts meet at another venue e g question answer website The commenting also referred to as scribble enables the user to raise questions and brings the source of question and the subject experts to the subject instead of the other way around 0054 In one embodiment real time commenting chatting is provided wherein the chat applies optionally to only that marked up element The web page may have multiple of such chat sessions each one relevant to the DOM element it is attached to 0055 Inanon limiting example one application is a game of cricket where a real time chat window opens for every ball being bowled Users following the cricket commentary can place their comments by clicking on chat icon next to ball or by attaching note to the DOM element holding the commen tary for the ball Here every ball for instance can display in its own div span element In essence the users would be discussing the game ball by ball in this example 0056 In another non limiting example a student
16. nvention Smartphones PDAs netbooks electronic tablets mobile devices and any other device capable of communica tion is contemplated within the scope of embodiments of the present invention Similarly the network is not limited and includes any system capable of communication 0085 As noted previously the forgoing descriptions of the specific embodiments are presented for purposes of illustra tion and description They are not intended to be exhaustive or to limit the invention to the precise forms disclosed and obvi ously many modifications and variations are possible in view of the above teachings The embodiments were chosen and described in order to explain the principles of the invention and its practical applications to thereby enable those skilled in the art to best utilize the invention and various embodi ments thereof as suited to the particular use contemplated It is intended that the scope of the invention be defined by the claims and their equivalents What is claimed is 1 A method for providing annotations on a webpage com prising enabling a user to compose text posting the text to a webpage and saving the posted text 2 The method of claim 1 further comprising attaching the posted text to a specific element on the webpage 3 The method of claim 1 further comprising displaying the posted text to other users 4 The method of claim 2 wherein the posted text is placed in a chat window 5 The meth
17. od of claim 1 further comprising saving the posted text to a database 6 A system for providing annotations on a webpage com prising US 2012 0198324 Al Aug 2 2012 6 a server the client accessing a software module which enables a a database user to compose text and post said text to a webpage wherein the posted text is saved a network at least one client in communication with the server mom kk
18. of HTML anchor still such is embodied in only static links predefined by the author of the web page 0029 Anchor scribbling provides an option to bookmark dynamically specific sections of a web page For example a user can attach a scribble say a note to an image say abc gif or a specific comment way down the page www xyz com Once the scribble is added and saved the scribbling system generates an anchor scribble URL which may look something like http www xyz comiliScribbledAnchor xethh23j rxe45dxe 0030 where 0031 xethh23j rxe45dxe is the iscribbled anchor id 0032 xethh23j represents the unique web element for the URL that has been anchored 0033 rxe45dxe represents the unique id to the scribble written by the user 0034 A software module that provides for an overlay that enables a user to add comments view comment delete com ments add emphasis etc may reside on the server described below inconjunction with FIG 7 A webpage owner may then access the software module and activate its features Alterna tively the host of a webpage may locally install such a mod ule also referred to herein as a local plug in Optionally the overlay may display a menu for example a tool bar style menu that enables users to access the features of the software module The content added by a user may be hosted on the sever with the software module or on the webpage host or locally on by the user in th
19. orated herein by reference in its entirety for all purposes FIELD OF THE INVENTION 0002 The present invention relates to webpage content and more particularly to providing tools for writing to a webpage BACKGROUND 0003 Technical innovation brought the concept of web pages Users used printed pages to read or write the content Currently there exists standard browser support for reading web pages similar to printed pages however there is no support for actually writing to a webpage or as referred to herein scribbling As a result there is a need for systems methods and apparatuses for writing to a webpage Embodi ments of the present invention provide novel non obvious mechanisms to comment on content and enable communica tion between users SUMMARY 0004 A method for providing annotations on a webpage comprising enabling a user to compose text posting the text to a webpage and saving the posted text 0005 A system for providing annotations on a webpage comprising a server a database a network at least one client in communication with the server the client accessing a soft ware module which enables a user to compose text and post said text to a webpage wherein the posted text is saved 0006 Inone embodiment aspects of the present invention provide support thru browser add on widget bookmarklet embedded javascript or HTML or CSS or other browser sup ported technologies that enables scribbling the
20. ph an HTML div element an image a bold underline text span elements i e any HTML element 0009 The scribbles on the page can then be saved This will result in a scribble which includes scribble layout infor mation corresponding comments associated tags and HTML element information on the corresponding URL to be saved to servers These scribbles can then be loaded back on the original web page if the users requests to do so 0010 Other objects advantages and applications of the embodiments of the present invention will be made clear by the following detailed description of a preferred embodiment of the present invention The description makes reference to drawings in which BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS 0011 Non limiting and non exhaustive embodiments of the present invention are described with reference to the fol lowing drawings In the drawings like reference numerals refer to like parts throughout the various figures unless oth erwise specified 0012 For a better understanding of embodiments of the present invention reference is made to the following Detailed Description which is to be read in association with the accompanying drawings wherein 0013 FIG 1 is an embodiment of a screenshot of a user attaching a note to a webpage 0014 FIG 2 is an embodiment of a screenshot depicting an exemplary representation of an HTML element being highlighted 0015 FIG 3 is a screenshot of a user accessing a
21. s 708 712 Cli ents 708 710 and 712 are clients to server 704 Data process ing system 700 may include additional servers clients and other devices not shown 0083 Inthe present embodiment data processing system 700 is the Internet with network 702 representing a world wide collection of networks and gateways that use the TCP IP suite of protocols to communicate with one another Although described as a TCP IP protocol this is not intended to be a limitation on the embodiments of the present invention and other protocols are contemplated within the scope At the heart of the Internet is a backbone of high speed data com munication lines between major nodes or host computers consisting of thousands of commercial government educa tion and other computer systems that route data and mes sages Distributed data processing system 700 also may be implemented as a number of different types of networks such as for example an intranet or a local area network 0084 Although the data processing system 700 is depicted as having a server a database and three clients acting through asingle network this is not intended to be a limitation on the embodiments ofthe present invention Multiple servers data bases networks and clients are contemplated within the scope of the embodiments of the present inventions Further although the client is described as a computer such is not intended to be a limitation on the embodiments of the present i
22. same as above The rendering notes may happen thru any mechanism and is not so limited to JavaScript HTMLS CSS and such are contemplated within the scope of the embodiments Java Script is used merely as a reference mechanism 0042 Scenario 2 0043 The other user doesn t have the add on installed nor the website operator embedded iscribbled widget or JavaS cript In this case the browser just ignores the URL section after and opens up the URL www xyz com This is cur rently the best you can achieve today with regular book marking tools 0044 In another instance 0045 The other user types in the URL http www xyz com iScribbledAnchor xethh23j i e enabling direct access to the comments by including missing anchor portion after In this case all the scribbles or the most voted scribbles attached to the web element are loaded The decision making can be based on various factors including but not limited to popularity randomly all scribbles and is up to the page provider to decide 0046 0047 In another example the URL generated can point to another URL which embeds an iframe that opens the original URL and overlays these scribbles on it In this case the iscribbled anchor URL can be of form www abc com origURL www xyz comfiScribbled Anchor xethh23j rxe45dxe The browser will open www abc com which may embed the original URL www xyz com in an iframe fol lowing which the script on www abc com can r
23. the context I am being scribbled orig source http www being referenced com along with some meta information author name date created etc followed by the author s comments I am the comment text This will help the web page linking using dynamic anchor to original source to show a quick snapshot of specific content being referenced 0069 Ifthe dynamic anchor contains Multiple scribbles all contexts e g I am being scribbled along with attached comments are shown in any defined order or unordered Ifone element is attached to multiple comments then the element context appears just once followed by comments in any predefined order or unordered 0070 Embodiments of the present invention also take into consideration web page changes In one embodiment if the page changes then scribble links become invalid The situa tion is similar to bookmarks that become invalid once the page URL changes However while not preferred the content may be maintained in an Internet archive such as the way back machine or an internal server 0071 Aspects of the present invention may be imple mented on one or more computers executing software instruc tions According to one embodiment of the present invention server and client computer systems transmit and receive data over a computer network or a fiber or copper based telecom munications network The steps accessing downloading and manipulating the data as well as ot
24. this is not intended to be a limitation on the embodiments of the present invention It s scope is equally applicable to any software or coding in which enabling user comments is desirable For example aspects of the present invention may also be applied to videos movies and text and graphics on a display 0024 In accordance with the embodiment of the present invention the structure of the Document Object Model DOM can be manipulated so that it is useful to a user 0025 The DOM structure is enabled to divide the data in a way that makes sense to a user For example a paragraph written within lt p gt some text lt p gt is a unit of information that a user understands and is able to read to make sense of 0026 In another example lt p gt some text lt b gt important text lt b gt lt p gt provides for adding emphasis In this example the important text is in bold which has a different meaning as compared to rest of the paragraph Here the author of the document wants you to read the paragraph as a block how ever she wants to also emphasize important text so that it is not missed 0027 As another example attaching overlays herein after also referred to as scribbles to an HTML element as a unit can provide a good way of attaching meaningful annotations to the web pages Some HTML units may not make much sense to users as they may have been placed by authors of the web page for convenience In such a c
25. tware or to any particular source forthe instructions executed by the server or client computers In some instances the client and server functionality may be implemented on a single computer plat form 0073 Aspects of the present invention can be used in a distributed electronic commerce application that included a client server network system that links one or more server computers to one or more client computers The client and server computers may be implemented as desktop personal computers workstation computers mobile computers por US 2012 0198324 Al table computing devices personal digital assistant PDA devices cellular telephones digital audio or video playback devices or any other similar type of computing device For purpose of the following description the terms computer network and online may be used interchangeably and do not imply a particular network embodiment or topography In general any type of network e g LAN WAN or Internet may be used to implement the online or computer networked implementation of the software 0074 With reference now to the figures and in particular FIG 1 FIG 1 is a screenshot depicting a representation of a user trying to attach a note on a webpage As shown a small notes box moves along with mouse The HTML element to which the scribble will be attached is highlighted The note hasn t attached yet FIG 1 is exemplary only and not as a limitation for the pr
26. un and embed the scribble on www xyz com 0048 0049 In another example the URL being scribbled upon is already having a static HTML anchor In such a case the Scenario 1 Scenario 3 Scenario 4 Aug 2 2012 generated dynamic anchor will displace or remove the origi nal static anchor from the URL and attach the dynamic anchor instead 0050 Sharing can be completed by either the author of the scribble initiating the sharing via dynamic anchors or alter natively the web page provider may like the comment and choose to automatically display it on his her page 0051 Scribble Tags 0052 In one embodiment users tag scribbles with key words to help categorize search scribbles later Scribble tags can be useful source of information for web crawlers Adver tisers to categorize or rate specific sections of any web page For example if a user scribbled an image xyz gif with tag Apple then the web crawlers can use this tag to categorize the image appropriately Currently the only mechanism available to do this is via Alt tags for image or using Al algorithms to match image to set of known images Alt tags are pretty much static and based on what the author of HTML page has written The scribbling will provide a mean to dynamically attach tags to specific web elements 0053 In another embodiment users can scribble ques tions on specific parts of a web page For example a user is reading oracle database user ma
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