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US 11,144,932 B2Granted
System and method for providing continued access to user related information
AssigneeW.W. Grainger, Inc.
InventorsPaul Miller, Jason Brownewell, Rosa Manfredi, Geoffry A. Westphal
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Abstract
An account ribbon of a website has a plurality of message fields each having a link activatable to cause a display of a type of user related information. Continued access to the user related is provided by causing the account ribbon to be persisted across plural webpages of the website.
Claims16
A non-transitory computer-readable medium having stored thereon computer executable instructions that, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to perform steps comprising:
- causing an account ribbon, having a plurality of message fields each having a unique link selected from a predetermined plurality of links, to be persisted across a plurality of webpages of a website as a component part of a graphical user interface that is provided by each of the plural webpages, wherein each of the unique links is also persisted with the account ribbon across the plurality of webpages of the website, wherein each of the unique links is activatable to cause a display of a menu having at least one menu link, wherein each menu link is activatable to access a type of user related information, wherein the unique links are selected from the predetermined plurality of links when a first one of the plural webpages of the website is caused to be presented to a user that has logged into the website, wherein the type of user related information that is accessible via activation of a one of the menu links is determined when each of the unique links is activated, and wherein the unique links are selected and the menu items are determined considering at least one characteristic of the user.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.