Module specification for a module to be incorporated into a container document

• US 20070136337A1
• Filed: 12/12/2005
• Published: 06/14/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 12/12/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Google LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Google Inc. (Alphabet Inc.)
• Inventors: Sah, Adam, Rohrs, Christopher, Parker, Dylan, Ewing, Jessica
• Granted Patent: US 8,185,819 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/958 Organisation or management of web site content, e.g. publishing, maintaining pages or automatic linking
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/146 Coding or compression of tree-structured data
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising

Abstract

A computer readable medium, an electronic document or a system that uses on of these that includes code that specifies a module for a container document using a content type element, a content element and one or more preference elements.

Claims

1. A computer-readable medium comprising:

code that specifies a module for a container document using a content type element, a content element and one or more preference elements.

2. The medium of claim 1 wherein the code specifies a module using user preferences.

3. The medium of claim 1 wherein the code specifies a module using module preferences.

4. The medium of claim 1 wherein the content type element specifies the module as an HTML type module.

5. The medium of claim 1 wherein the content type element specifies the module as a URL type module.

6. The medium of claim 1 wherein the content type element specifies the module as an xslt type module.

7. The medium of claim 1 wherein the code specifies data regarding appearance of the module in the container document.

8. The medium of claim 1 wherein the code specifies data regarding size of the module in the container document.

9. The medium of claim 1 wherein the code specifies data regarding appearance of the container document.

10. The medium of claim 1 wherein the code specifies data regarding appearance of another module associated with the container document.

11. The medium of claim 1 wherein the code specifies data regarding use by the module in the container document.

12. The medium of claim 1 wherein the code specifies data regarding module content in the container document.

13. The medium of claim 1 wherein one or more preference elements specify one or more user preferences.

14. The medium of claim 13 wherein the user preferences indicate values a user may provide for use by the content to generate user-specific data.

15. The medium of claim 1 wherein one or more preference elements specify one or more module preferences.

16. The medium of claim 15 wherein the module preferences indicate values for a module for use with a container document.

17. The medium of claim 1 wherein the code is specified based on a protocol established for a container document.

18. The medium of claim 17 wherein the container document comprises a personalized homepage.

19. The medium of claim 1 wherein the code further comprises one or more predetermined attributes for specifying one or more preferences.

20. The medium of claim 19 wherein the attributes comprise user preference attributes.

21. The medium of claim 19 wherein the attributes comprise one or more of a predetermined type of attribute.

22. A method of specifying a module for use with a container document comprising:

specifying a content type in a content type element of a predetermined markup language document;

specifying content of the module in a content element of the markup language document; and

specifying one or more preferences in one or more preference elements of the markup language document.

23. The method of claim 22 wherein the one or more preferences comprise user preferences.

24. The method of claim 22 wherein the one or more preferences comprise module preferences.

25. A system for enabling a user to specify a module for a container document comprising:

an input server that enables a user to specify a content type, content, one or more preferences and values for the one or more preferences; and

a module specification creation server that receives the user inputs and generates a module specification in a markup language format for use with a container document.

26. The system of claim 25 wherein the input server enables the user to input one or more user preferences.

27. The system of claim 25 wherein the input server enables the user to input one or more module preferences.

28. An electronic document stored on a computer memory, the electronic document comprising:

code that specifies a module for a container document using a content type element, a content element and one or more preference elements.

29. An electronic document stored on a computer memory, the electronic document comprising:

code that specifies a module for a container document using a content type element, a content element, and one or more preference elements in an extensible markup language;

wherein the content type is specified from a list of predetermined types;

wherein the content is specified using coding in a markup language;

wherein user preferences are specified using one or more of a plurality of predetermined attributes; and

wherein module preferences are specified using one or more of a plurality of predetermined attributes.