发明授权
US07188342B2 Server controlled branding of client software deployed over computer networks
有权
通过计算机网络部署的客户端软件的服务器控制品牌
- 专利标题: Server controlled branding of client software deployed over computer networks
- 专利标题(中): 通过计算机网络部署的客户端软件的服务器控制品牌
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申请号: US09839784申请日: 2001-04-20
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公开(公告)号: US07188342B2公开(公告)日: 2007-03-06
- 发明人: Marco A. DeMello , Attila Narin , Christopher Robert Richard Madonna
- 申请人: Marco A. DeMello , Attila Narin , Christopher Robert Richard Madonna
- 申请人地址: US WA Redmond
- 专利权人: Microsoft Corporation
- 当前专利权人: Microsoft Corporation
- 当前专利权人地址: US WA Redmond
- 代理机构: Woodcock Washburn LLP
- 主分类号: G06F9/44
- IPC分类号: G06F9/44 ; G06F17/30
摘要:
This invention describes a system and method for branding software deployed over computer networks. A user contacts the distributor's web site and initiates a download of the software. When the user visits the download website, the identity of the particular web site from which the download was initiated is transmitted to a branding server and captured on the user's computer, preferably in the form of a cookie. Subsequently, the user contacts the branding server and branding instructions are provided to the user's computer in accordance with the cookie. Branding may take the form of featuring the distributor's web site more prominently in an “integrated shopping service” or in a directory, or it may perform other alterations to the software. Branding is controlled by the software manufacturer's branding server, and can be modified at any time after the software is released.