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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.:

US 7890744 B1

PDFFull Text
Date of Patent:
Feb. 15, 2011

Filed:

Apr. 07, 2004

Activating content based on state

Applicants:

Sridhar Chandrashekar, Redmond, WA (US);

Dale E. Rogerson, Seattle, WA (US);

J. Shane Mcroberts, Seattle, WA (US);

Wenlong Dong, Redmond, WA (US);

Andrew D. Reddish, Seattle, WA (US);

Inventors:

Sridhar Chandrashekar, Redmond, WA (US);

Dale E. Rogerson, Seattle, WA (US);

J. Shane McRoberts, Seattle, WA (US);

Wenlong Dong, Redmond, WA (US);

Andrew D. Reddish, Seattle, WA (US);

Assignee:

Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);

Attorney:

Woodcock Washburn LLP

Primary Examiner:

Nasser Moazzami

Assistant Examiner:

Oscar A Louie

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 7/04 (2006.01); G06F 17/30 (2006.01); G06F 9/00 (2006.01); G06F 9/24 (2006.01); G06F 15/177 (2006.01); G06F 1/24 (2006.01); G06F 17/00 (2006.01); G06F 17/20 (2006.01); G06F 17/21 (2006.01); G06F 17/22 (2006.01); G06F 17/24 (2006.01); G06F 17/25 (2006.01); G06F 17/26 (2006.01); G06F 17/27 (2006.01); G06F 17/28 (2006.01); G06F 3/00 (2006.01); H04N 7/16 (2006.01); B41K 3/38 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A content author provides content to be displayed, including some content elements for which display is conditional on the state of the machine in which the content will be viewed. The conditional statements controlling the display of these content elements, in one embodiment refer to states provided by a state monitor. The state may refer to the state of any aspect of the viewing environment, including hardware, software, firmware, user preferences, software operating modes, and any other detectable state. The resulting content is optionally combined with other similar content via a structural transform. This content is transformed with a presentation transform. One of the transforms checks the states and resolves the conditional statements included by the content author. The result of the transforms is presentation data. A display of this presentation data includes the content which, according to the conditional statements and the state of the viewing environment is appropriate for display.

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