Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Realnetworks Gmbh

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Michael Ari Cohen

Arnold Neil Blinn

Michael S Lorton

Gregory J Stein

Jeffrey Martin Chasen

Todd Oquist

John Schussler

Niall Smart

Yunus Mohammed

Joseph A Kennebec

Disclosed is software which enables a service which allows users to load screen-shots of webpages to boards as clipped content, which preserves 'live' links to the webpages from the clipped content, which identifies the content which was clipped, and which preserves links and other dynamic content in the clipped content.

System for clipping webpages by traversing a dom, and highlighting a minimum number of words

A strategy is described for alerting a user when an Internet domain becomes active. The strategy includes receiving a domain change request and logging this request in a domain table. The domain change request can instruct a registrar to create a new domain, or modify an existing domain (such as by transferring or re-delegating an existing domain). Monitoring logic is configured to use the domain table to perform periodic checks to determine whether the domain has become active. If the domain has become active, notification logic is configured to send a recipient a message which alerts the recipient to the activation of the Internet domain. The notification logic can send this message using electronic mail or some other communication mechanism.

Providing notifications for domain registration changes

The present invention provides a merchant system for online shopping and merchandising. The merchant system architecture provides great flexibility for a merchant to adapt the merchant system to their existing business practices, promotions and databases. The merchant system includes a dynamic page generator, a configurable order processing module and a database module capable of retrieving data from the database without regard to its schema. The present invention enables merchants to create electronic orders which are easily adaptable for different sales situations. The order processing module includes multiple configurable stages to process a merchant's electronic orders. The merchant system is capable of generating pages dynamically using templates having embedded directives. The database module and the dynamic page generator allow merchants to modify their databases and page displays without having to reengineer the merchant system.

Electronic shopping and merchandising system accessing legacy data in a database independent schema manner

A computer-implemented system is designed to assist a merchant in setting up an electronic online storefront that is customized to the merchant's business, without requiring the merchant to program. The system employs a store builder wizard to guide a merchant through a series of questionnaires designed to extract information pertaining to the merchant's business. The system further employs a page generator to create active server pages (ASPs) that form the customized storefront. The page generator creates the active server pages from a set of templates that are generic to formation of an online storefront. The templates are written as an extension to the active server page technology in a combination of hypertext language and scripting language. The active server templates specify an additional, higher order scripting level that distinguishes a second level of code by a new delimiter. During creation of the storefront, the page generator reads each active server template file and converts it to a scripting program having executable lines of code derived from the higher-order level of instructions denoted by the new delimiters. The page generator then executes the scripting program using the merchant data as input to produce a customized set of active server pages. The resulting active server pages contain the hypertext language and the lower-order level of instructions in the scripting language denoted by the original delimiters. The active server pages are stored together to form an active server application customized to the merchant's storefront.

Automated web site creation using template driven generation of active server page applications

The present invention provides a method and system for processing electronic sales transactions. In a preferred embodiment, an electronic merchandising system allows merchants to create electronic orders which are easily adaptable for different sales situations. The preferred electronic order comprises flexible blackboards which allow merchants to add sales information with what are called key-value pairs. In the preferred embodiment, the order is an object which contains at least one order blackboard and one or more item blackboards. In addition, the preferred embodiment contains an order processing module with multiple stages which process the order. The preferred stages include a product information stage, a merchant information stage, a shopper information stage, an order initialization stage, an order check stage, an item price adjust stage, an order price adjust stage, a shipping stage, a handling stage, a tax stage, an order total stage, an inventory stage, a payment stage and an accept stage.

System and method for processing electronic order forms

An electronic promotion system apparatus and method provide promotions across a computer network. The promotion system includes a shopper browser communicating with a merchant server. A shopper places an order using the shopper browser. The order is received by the merchant server. A purchasing pipeline executing in the merchant server process the order. The purchasing pipeline includes a promotion component. The promotion component determines the eligibility of the shopper for each one of multiple promotions using information stored in a promotion table. Furthermore, the eligibility of each item on the shopper order to trigger each one of the multiple promotions is determined. Additionally, the eligibility of each item on the shopper order to receive an award is determined. The awards are then applied appropriately. Each item may be used to trigger only one promotion where awards were granted. Furthermore, each item may only receive one award. Thus, a merchant may offer multiple promotions while ensuring the promotions are applied as intended.

Electronic promotion system for an electronic merchant system

An application, such as an online merchant system, provides a name for a query stored in a database. The database accesses the query using the name provided by the application. The database next executes the query to produce an access object having the query results. The application then processes the access object to obtain a selected result. Storing queries in the database provides a level of indirection and flexibility enabling applications to access databases without prior knowledge of their schemas. Thus, applications can access data in a wide variety of existing databases having different schemas and data sublanguages. Modification of the database schema does not require corresponding modification or recompilation of the application accessing the database.

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Michael Ari Cohen