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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 16, 2017
Filed:
Jan. 11, 2012
William F. Stasior, Los Altos, CA (US);
Matthew W. Amacker, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Charles B. Pinkerton, Woodside, CA (US);
Asif Mansoor Ali Makhani, San Jose, CA (US);
William F. Stasior, Los Altos, CA (US);
Matthew W. Amacker, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Charles B. Pinkerton, Woodside, CA (US);
Asif Mansoor Ali Makhani, San Jose, CA (US);
A9.COM, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
Techniques are described for using electronic communications to enable users to supply data to an online service, such as a fee-based online search functionality service that provides user-specific data searching capabilities. The electronic communications may, for example, be email communications, and may be used to supply data in various manners, such as based on the communications' body contents and/or file attachments. In addition, users may configure various types of data analysis or manipulation operations to be performed on data supplied via electronic communications. After a user's data has been supplied to and optionally manipulated by the online service in a configured manner, that user (or others to whom that user provides access) may access that data from the online service in various manners, including by using one or more data retrieval access interfaces that are distinct from an electronic communication address used to supply the data.