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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:
May. 03, 2011

Filed:

Apr. 08, 2005
Applicants:

Karim M. T. Farouki, Seattle, WA (US);

Yevgeny Zarakhovsky, Seattle, WA (US);

Inventors:

Karim M. T. Farouki, Seattle, WA (US);

Yevgeny Zarakhovsky, Seattle, WA (US);

Assignee:

Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/173 (2006.01); G06F 15/16 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

The present invention allows for the downloading of content regardless of a computing device's configuration. Computer software is executed on the computing device to accommodate multiple download protocols and techniques. The present invention also works through problems associated with proxies, firewalls, and internet accelerators to download content from the internet.


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