Patent ID: 6496849
Filing Date: 2002-12-17
Classification: G06Q,G07F,H04L

Abstract:
An electronic medium that is stored in a database of a server and that facilitates communicating information among participants, the electronic medium comprising:a transport envelope having a plurality of network addresses; a body comprising one or more elements of dynamic content, one or more elements of static content, and all updates thereto; an encoding layer contained in the transport envelope and identifying locations in the body of a plurality of content-types, wherein each of the plurality of content-types comprises one or more of the elements of dynamic and static content; an interface region; and an association to one or more sequences of instructions which, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to carry out the steps of: receiving input from at least one of a user of the electronic medium and an external source in data communication with the electronic medium; asynchronously dynamically updating one or more of the dynamic content elements based on the input from at least one of the user and the external source; communicating a message associated with the electronic medium to each of the participants from the server; in response to an open action by any of the participants receiving the message parsing the message received by each of the participants from the sever in response to the open action by any of the participants receiving the message; and serve the electronic medium with then current dynamic content stored in the server; and automatically providing the updated dynamic content to each of the participants.