Google's Modular Personalized User Page Patent Applications

By Bill Slawski, on June 26, 2007, at 7:13 am

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Google has come out with four patent applications on the customizable personalized user pages that they offer, with modular applications and informational pieces as the centerpoint of those pages.

The document discuss the use of different approaches, such as iframes, Ajax, RSS feeds, and other ways of presenting information on that page.

Perhaps the most interesting aspect of these is the idea of a software development Kit (SDK) that third parties can use to create additional modules for users of this service.

Creating something interesting and unique, and making it available for people to use on their personalized page might be a nice way of getting yourself noticed.

Here are the patent applications:

• Customized container document modules using preferences
• Remote module incorporation into a container document
• Module specification for a module to be incorporated into a container document
• Proxy server collection of data for module incorporation into a container document

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1 comment to Google’s Modular Personalized User Page Patent Applications

• Victor

  06/26/2007 at 8:41 am

  Very interesting… it makes me think of all the third party myspace tools there are – but of course, this is different.

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