US 2008O195483A1 (19) United States (12) Patent Application Publication (10) Pub. No.: US 2008/0195483 A1 M00re (43) Pub. Date: Aug. 14, 2008 (54) WIDGET MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS AND sional application No. 60/680,879, filed on May 13, ADVERTISING SYSTEMIS RELATED 2005, provisional application No. 60/684,092, filed on THERETO May 23, 2005, provisional application No. 60/685, 904, filed on May 31, 2005, provisional application (76) Inventor: James F. Moore, Lincoln, MA (US) No. 60/686,630, filed on Jun. 2, 2005, provisional application No. 60/688,826, filed on Jun. 9, 2005, pro Correspondence Address: visional application No. 60/694,080, filed on Jun. 24. STRATEGIC PATENTS PC. 2005, provisional application No. 60/695,029, filed on C/O PORTFOLIOIP, P.O. BOX52050 Jun. 28, 2005, provisional application No. 60/699,631, MINNEAPOLIS, MN 55402 (US) filed on Jul. 15, 2005, provisional application No. 60/700,122, filed on Jul. 18, 2005, provisional appli (21) Appl. 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C. Continuation-in-part of application No. 1 1/750,301, G06Q 30/00 (2006.01) filed on May 17, 2007, Continuation-in-part of appli G06F 3/4 (2006.01) cation No. 1 1/828,949, filed on Jul. 26, 2007. (52) U.S. Cl. ........................................... 705/14; 715/273 (60) Provisional application No. 60/649,311, filed on Feb. 1, 2005, provisional application No. 60/649.312, filed on Feb. 1, 2005, provisional application No. 60/649. ABSTRACT 504, filed on Feb. 2, 2005, provisional application No. (57) 60/649,502, filed on Feb. 2, 2005, provisional applica Systems and methods disclosed herein Support use, re-use, tion No. 60/657,840, filed on Mar. 1, 2005, provisional and recomposition of widgets and other web content, Such as application No. 60/594,298, filed on Mar. 26, 2005, by providing a user interface for controlling the interrelation provisional application No. 60/594,416, filed on Apr. ship and display of widgets and the like. In one aspect, an 6, 2005, provisional application No. 60/669,666, filed OPML-based system expresses relationships among discrete on Apr. 8, 2005, provisional application No. 60/594, components of web content through an OPML outline. In 456, filed on Apr. 10, 2005, provisional application No. another aspect, a URL-based service dynamically creates 60/594.478, filed on Apr. 12, 2005, provisional appli composite web content according to functional calls posted to cation No. 60/673,661, filed on Apr. 20, 2005, provi a web-accessible URL. SERVICE 102 SERVICE 220 22O y & L 102 f L 2 08 a. ASPECT ASPCT ASCT ASPECT 216 216 216 216 N 108 OPERATIONAL KERNEL212 OPERATIONAL KERNEL212 APPLICATION PROTOCOLAYER APPLICATIONPROTOCOLLAYR 210 210 TRANSPORT PROTOCOLLAYER TRANSPORT PROTOCOLLAYER 208 208 NETWORKPROTOCOLLAYER NETWORKPROTOCOLLAYER 204 204 LINKPROTOCOLLAYER LINKPROTOCOLLAYER 202 202 -- - - - - - H - - - - - OBJECT NETWORK OBJECT -REP - - 222 14 ulREP.222 US 2008/01.95483 A1 Page 2 Related U.S. Application Data sional application No. 60/777,444, filed on Feb. 27. 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