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Details

Inventors: Jackel, Lawrence David; Muller, Urs A;
Assignee: AT&T Corp. (New York, NY)
Primary Examiner: Lim; Krisna
Assistant Examiner:
Attorney, Agent or Firm:

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.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION The present invention is a method for providing and displaying status information from multiple information providers, such as electronic mail servers and information content servers which may provide information related to any number of topics such as health and medicine, weather, entertainment, sports, etc.
In one embodiment of the present invention, the method for providing status information from multiple information servers includes receiving a request for status information from the multiple information servers, 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.
In another embodiment of the present invention, the method for providing a visual representation of information collected from a variety of information sources for display in a single Web page includes receiving a request for information from a plurality of information sources, processing the request for information from the plurality of information sources and displaying the information from each of the plurality of information sources, wherein the information is displayed in a plurality of status images, each of which represent a single information source.
In the present invention, a screen display may be provided to the user which contains a number of status images, each of which relates to a distinct information provider.
Each status image may provide the user with information specified by the user, such as in the case of electronic mail, the number of new messages the user has in each electronic mail account.
The status images may be updated automatically on a periodic basis or the status images may be updated as soon as a request for information from the user is received.

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