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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 03, 2004
Filed:
Jan. 31, 2001
Regis Lucien Francis Brid, Bothell, WA (US);
Shanku Shivabrata Niyogi, Bellevue, WA (US);
Greg Schechter, Seattle, WA (US);
David Joshua Kurlander, Seattle, WA (US);
John D. Rinaldo, Jr., Bellevue, WA (US);
Chun-Fu Ricky Yeung, Issaquah, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A system retrieves a first template associated with data identified in a data request. A second template is generated using the first template and a device description, which is associated with a device generating the data request. The first template is device independent and the second template is associated with the specific device generating the data request as well as the first template. The second template defines a data presentation format for displaying the requested data on the type of device that generated the data request. The second template is stored in a cache, which allows the second template to be used with multiple sets of data without regenerating the template. The requested data is retrieved from a data source and formatted based on the second template. The formatted data is then transmitted to the device generating the data request.