Decoupled mechanism for managed copy client applications and e-commerce servers to interoperate in a heterogeneous environment

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-8965950-B2
Application number	US-76476707-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 18, 2007
Priority date	Jun 18, 2007
Publication date	Feb 24, 2015
Grant date	Feb 24, 2015

Abstract

Request data is generated at a client device having at least one managed copy client application. The request data includes an identifier (e.g., a uniform resource locator, class ID, etc.) for an integration control (e.g., an ActiveX control, Java applet, etc.) installable on the client device. The request data is transmitted and, in response to the request data, response data (e.g., an object element in an HTML page) is received from a server (e.g., an e-commerce server). The response data facilitates installation of the integration control on the client device, and the integration control provides an interface to facilitate communication between the server and the managed copy client application.

First claim

We claim:

1. A method comprising:
at a client device having a managed copy client application, generating, by the managed copy client application, managed copy request data comprising an identifier for an integration control installable on the client device, wherein the integration control includes a standardized interface comprising a callable integration control method to be called when a commercial transaction on a server has been completed;
transmitting, from the client devi…

Assignees

• Clinick Andrew John
• Simmons John Carl
• Microsoft Corp

Inventors

• Clinick Andrew John
• Simmons John Carl

Classifications

• H04L67/1095 Primary

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