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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 04, 2001
Filed:
Oct. 08, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:
Jeffrey Eric Larsson, Seattle, WA (US);
Joel Wayne Downer, Redmond, WA (US);
Assignee:
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/445 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/445 ;
Abstract
Creating and maintaining user data using an installation file that includes features and user data components. A user data component is associated with two features (or subfeatures), an application feature and a user settings feature. The application feature is used to create user data for the user that installs the application program and the user settings feature is used to create user data for another user that initiates the application program.