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Window overlay for online collaboration platform

  • US 8,060,828 B2
  • Filed: 08/08/2008
  • Issued: 11/15/2011
  • Est. Priority Date: 08/08/2008
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. Logic encoded in one or more non-transitory media for execution and when executed operable to:

  • receive a login that identifies a user as a user allowed access to an account maintained by an online advertising management platform, wherein the account comprises data relating to an order for advertising provided by an ad network affiliated with the online advertising management platform;

    display a view in a graphical user interface including a window displaying some or all of the data relating to the order and a toolbar in a standardized location relative to the window, wherein the toolbar further comprises a labeled tab;

    display a tabbed window after the user clicks the labeled tab, wherein the tabbed window includes a list of each informational message which relates to the displayed data and which has not been dismissed by the user and wherein the ordered list visually emphasizes each information message which the user has not read, regardless of whether the informational message has been read or dismissed by another user allowed access to the account;

    display a control in the tabbed window, wherein the control allows the user to navigate to a view that lists informational messages for all accounts to which the user has access; and

    locate the tabbed window contiguous to the toolbar over some but not all of the view displaying the data relating to the order so that the user can see both the tabbed window and the view at the same time.

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