Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Eric S Askilsrud

Kristofer Noel Iverson

Robert E Corrington

Don Gillett

Kathryn G Rasmussen

Embodiments of the invention encompass a system for simplified implementation of adaptable/flexible user interfaces. The system may include: one or more frameworks; zero or more navigation modules; zero or more content modules; and a set of standardized flexible formatting specifications. The framework may include containers that zero or more navigation modules and/or content modules may be inserted into. The standardized formatting specifications may be used to specify how framework containers, and components inserted into containers, are to appear. The visual characteristics of the user interface may be changed by setting different attributes of the formatting specifications and/or inserting content and/or navigation modules into different framework containers.

Simplified implementation of adaptable user interfaces

An online commerce architecture enables merchants to setup online stores that are hosted by third party Internet service providers (ISPs). The architecture provides secure storage of the merchant's commerce information at the ISP-hosted store, based upon a private/public key pair owned by the merchant. When a purchase request is received from a customer, the ISP encrypts all or part of the request using a newly generated session key, and then encrypts that session key with the merchant's public key. The purchase request is stored at the ISP in its encrypted form. The merchant routinely accesses the ISP and retrieves the purchase requests in their encrypted form. The merchant decrypts the session key using the merchant's private key and then decrypts the purchase request using the recovered session key. Since only the merchant knows its private key, no one else (including the ISP) can decrypt the session key to decrypt the purchase requests for the merchant.

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Eric S Askilsrud