US Patent:
20130054316, Feb 28, 2013
Inventors:
Chad Estes - Woodinville WA, US
Michael Kunz - Seattle WA, US
Walter Harp - Mercer Island WA, US
Wook Chung - Sunnyvale CA, US
Assignee:
MICROSOFT CORPORATION - Redmond WA
International Classification:
G06Q 30/00
Abstract:
Commercial communications, such as advertisements or promotions, are collected from multiple channels and presented in a consistent format. Using metadata associated with or derived from such communications, they can be searched, sorted, displayed and otherwise managed in a way that allows them to be persistent instead of ephemeral.