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Sidebar photos

a technology of sidebars and photos, applied in the field of sidebar photos, can solve the problem that sidebars do not fully utilize the potential of udb

Inactive Publication Date: 2007-07-05
OATH INC
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Present sidebars do not fully utilize the potential of the UDB, however.

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[0048] There will now be shown and described in connection with the attached drawing figures several embodiments of a sidebar and methods for providing the same.

[0049] The term Internet as used herein, unless otherwise specified expressly or by context, is intended to have a broad non-limiting definition, and refers, without limitation, to a global computer network and / or any other group or subgroup of computers or other computing devices communicatively coupled together.

[0050] The term sidebar as used herein unless otherwise specified expressly or by context, is intended to have a broad non-limiting definition, and refers, without limitation, to a software program that can be displayed to a user in a plurality of different states, and appears as, for example, a vertical stack, as a floating toolbar, a deskbar, a system tray icon and other forms, and that serves as a browser-independent resource through which a user can interact with sidebar specific applications and / or other appl...

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Abstract

A sidebar can be used to display images stored on a local computer and / or retrived from the Internet. In one embodiment, a slidesheet of a photo application module of a sidebar provides a sidebar user with a search field, so that the user can search an Internet photo sharing website for photos to display in their sidebar. If the user likes the results of the search, the user can select a subscription button to add the photos to their list of photos displayed in the sidebar.

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CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS [0001] This continuation-in-part application claims the benefit of application Ser. No. 11 / 326,137, filed Jan. 4, 2006, entitled NETWORK USER DATABASE FOR A SIDEBAR, which is hereby incorporated herein by reference.FIELD OF THE INVENTION [0002] This disclosure is directed to computers and computer applications and, more particularly, to methods and systems for providing photo and other” services through a software tool that acts as an application aggregator for access to existing applications and that also adds additional features and functions, which in one embodiment, can be presented as a sidebar, the sidebar comprises a plurality of applications, such as, for example, Internet services and other computer applications. BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION [0003] Many Internet content providers, such as, for example, Yahoo!, Inc. of Sunnyvale, Calif., offer a large number of Internet services, such as, for example, searching, email, news, photo shari...

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Patent Type & Authority Applications(United States)
IPC IPC(8): G06F9/00G06F17/00
CPCH04L67/36G06F3/04842H04L67/02H04L67/75G06F3/0485H04L65/40
Inventor BISHOP, MARC
Owner OATH INC
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