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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:
Jun. 05, 2012
Filed:
Sep. 26, 2008
David W. Law, Seattle, WA (US);
Jeffrey Craig Kunins, Seattle, WA (US);
Eric Zappa, Seattle, WA (US);
Brian M. Perrin, Redmond, WA (US);
Archana M. Gadkari, Bellevue, WA (US);
Dan Wu, Lynnwood, WA (US);
Joseph Andrew Bono, Kirkland, WA (US);
Jeffrey Earl Steinbok, Redmond, WA (US);
David W. Law, Seattle, WA (US);
Jeffrey Craig Kunins, Seattle, WA (US);
Eric Zappa, Seattle, WA (US);
Brian M. Perrin, Redmond, WA (US);
Archana M. Gadkari, Bellevue, WA (US);
Dan Wu, Lynnwood, WA (US);
Joseph Andrew Bono, Kirkland, WA (US);
Jeffrey Earl Steinbok, Redmond, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A visitor to a profile page is invited to modify a user profile associated with the profile page. If the visitor elects to provide a suggested modification to the profile page, a message is transmitted to the user that owns the profile page requesting authorization to perform the suggested modification. In response to the message, the user can accept the suggested modification to the user profile, decline the suggested modification to the user profile, or edit the suggested modification to the user profile. If the user accepts or edits the suggested modification to the user profile, the user profile is modified accordingly. In this manner, a visitor to a profile page can assist in the creation of a user profile.