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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 17, 2002
Filed:
Oct. 25, 1999
Mike Hanson, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Graham Miller, San Francisco, CA (US);
Brian Axe, San Francisco, CA (US);
Zaplet, Inc., Redwood Shores, CA (US);
Abstract
An electronic medium is described that can be used to communicate information among a group of participants. The electronic medium includes a transport envelope having a plurality of network address. An encoding layer may be contained in the transport envelope to support a plurality of content-types. Each of the plurality of content-types may include a plurality of dynamic and static content. An interface region may be configured in the electronic medium to accept input from at least a user of the electronic medium or from an external source in data communication with the electronic medium. The dynamic content may be dynamically asynchronously updated based on the input from at least the user or the external source.