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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:
Aug. 20, 2013

Filed:

Jun. 25, 2012
Applicants:

J. Craig Hally, Sammamish, WA (US);

Kenneth A. Koch, North Bend, WA (US);

Mark R. Ligameri, Everett, WA (US);

Jason R. Moore, Kirkland, WA (US);

Shaun A. Kaasten, Kirkland, WA (US);

Richard M. Banks, Kirkland, WA (US);

Michael Sheldon, Seattle, WA (US);

David G. DE Vorchik, Seattle, WA (US);

Zeke B. Odins-lucas, Seattle, WA (US);

Patrice L. Miner, Kirkland, WA (US);

Inventors:

J. Craig Hally, Sammamish, WA (US);

Kenneth A. Koch, North Bend, WA (US);

Mark R. Ligameri, Everett, WA (US);

Jason R. Moore, Kirkland, WA (US);

Shaun A. Kaasten, Kirkland, WA (US);

Richard M. Banks, Kirkland, WA (US);

Michael Sheldon, Seattle, WA (US);

David G. De Vorchik, Seattle, WA (US);

Zeke B. Odins-Lucas, Seattle, WA (US);

Patrice L. Miner, Kirkland, WA (US);

Assignee:

Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 13/00 (2006.01); G06F 15/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A virtual address bar user interface control is presented. The virtual address bar comprises one or more interactive address segments and one or more conventional address segments. Each interactive address segment corresponds to a predefined filter comprising selection criteria applied to content stored on a storage device. Selection of the one or more interactive address segments navigates a user to content satisfying the predefined filters of the one or more selected interactive address segments. Each conventional address segment references content at the content's particular location on the storage device. Selection of the one or more conventional address segments navigates the user to content at the content's particular location.


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