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US 2012/0233676 A1Published application
Grouping personal accounts to tailor a web service
AssigneeMicrosoft Corporation
InventorsJoshua C. Zana, David R. Reed, Matthew J. Pope, Shyam S. Habarakada, Boyd Cannon Multerer, Nir Nice, Todd R. Manion, Melissa W. Dunn
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Abstract
This document describes grouping personal accounts to tailor a web service. By grouping personal accounts, a service provider may tailor a web service to multiple people based on information about those people.
Claims20
A computer-implemented method comprising:
- enabling secure selection to group a first account with a second account, the first account of a first unique person and having first information indicating preferences of the first unique person and the second account of a second unique person and having second information indicating preferences of the second unique person;
- and
- responsive to secure selection, causing a web-enabled service provider to provide a tailored web service to the first unique person and the second unique person, the tailored web service tailored based on both the first information and the second information.
A computer-implemented method comprising:
- receiving an indication of a grouping of two or more unique persons, each of the unique persons having his or her own information;
- tailoring a web service to the two or more unique persons based on the information of the unique persons;
- and
- providing the tailored web service to the two or more unique persons.
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A computer-implemented method comprising:
- enabling two or more unique persons to login to respective accounts associated with a web service, the logins explicitly or implicitly indicating grouping of the two or more unique persons;
- and
- providing a tailored web service to the two or more unique persons, the tailored web service tailored to preferences of at least two of the two or more unique persons.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.