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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.

Date of Patent:
Nov. 06, 2007

Filed:

Feb. 23, 2004
Applicants:

Ismail Cem Paya, Seattle, WA (US);

Gilbert M. Mcquillan, Seattle, WA (US);

Inventors:

Ismail Cem Paya, Seattle, WA (US);

Gilbert M. McQuillan, Seattle, WA (US);

Assignee:

Microsoft Coporation, Redmond, WA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/30 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

Enabling dynamic aggregation of content from a plurality of content providers. The invention stores references associated with specific display areas in a document for a particular data source. Responsive to a request for the document, the invention retrieves the references associated with the data source and dynamically inserts the references into the appropriate display area of the document. A client renders the document by obtaining the content associated with the references. In an embodiment, the invention includes a web service for cobranding a login user interface for a user authentication system. The web service places cobranding content provided by an affiliate content provider and sign-in user interface content provided by a user authentication service into different frames of a single web page.


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