System and method for providing status information from multiple information sources in a single display
AssigneeAT&T Corp.
InventorsLawrence David Jackel, Urs A Muller
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Abstract
The present invention is a system and method for providing and displaying information collected from a variety of information providers such as an electronic mail server or an information content server. Each of the variety of information providers provides information updates which are captured and rendered in a variety of status images which are provided to a user via a Web page or similar facility. The display of information on the Web page is robust against displays from one or more of the information providers since each of the status images and the remainder of the Web page content are rendered independently.
Claims20
A method for providing status information from multiple electronic mail accounts, the method comprising:
- accessing account information from a plurality of electronic mail accounts;
- and
- rendering status images related to the account information received from the electronic mail accounts, wherein the rendering of any one of the status images is not affected by any delay in acquiring status information from any one of the other electronic mail accounts.
A method for providing status information from multiple information servers, the method comprising:
- acquiring status information from each of the multiple information servers;
- and
- rendering status images related to the status information received from each of the multiple information servers, wherein the rendering of any one of the status images is not affected by any delay in acquiring status information from any one of the other multiple information servers.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.