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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:
Jan. 10, 2006
Filed:
Sep. 29, 2000
John D. Roper, Redmond, WA (US);
Steven D. Copson, Seattle, WA (US);
Daniel B. Cook, Seattle, WA (US);
Peter H. Brussard, Seattle, WA (US);
Mark Ugar, Seattle, WA (US);
Arnold N. Blinn, Bellevue, WA (US);
Kathryn L. Sparr, Seattle, WA (US);
John A. Dunning, Jr., Seattle, WA (US);
John D. Roper, Redmond, WA (US);
Steven D. Copson, Seattle, WA (US);
Daniel B. Cook, Seattle, WA (US);
Peter H. Brussard, Seattle, WA (US);
Mark Ugar, Seattle, WA (US);
Arnold N. Blinn, Bellevue, WA (US);
Kathryn L. Sparr, Seattle, WA (US);
John A. Dunning, Jr., Seattle, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A method for balancing the allocation of available display slots on a Web page among a plurality of different sources of display items comprises (a) defining for each source a set of candidate items to be displayed, (b) selecting items from a pool of all candidate sets, in a manner that normalizes the probability that the items of any one candidate set will be selected in relation to the items of the other candidate sets, and (c) inserting the selected items into the available display slots of the Web page.
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