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• Still other schemes for providing custom information views or displays involve a technique known as "web scraping.”
• web scraping In general, such schemes allow a user to specify particular portions of unique Internet Web pages, i.e., source web pages, to be displayed on a single customized web page. Consequently, while such schemes provide for information retrieval and display, they do not provide for communications capability.
• one web scraping scheme allows users to "clip" relevant data and content from various Internet web sites and pull it all together in one dynamic browser page, called a "view.” This view is effectively a composite web page. Thus, as any of the source web pages are changed, the composite web page is automatically updated.
• an exemplary system 100 for implementing the invention includes a general purpose-computing device in the form of a computer 110 including a processing unit 120, a system memory 130, and a system bus 121 that couples various system components including the system memory to the processing unit 120.
• FIG. 2B, 2C, and 2D illustrate the process by which the application 210 appears and disappears from the sidebar in accordance with an embodiment of the invention.
• FIG. 2B illustrates procedures implemented from a user perspective for minimization of the application 210.
• the user minimizes the application 210.
• the application upon receiving a command from the user in step A10, the application becomes hidden..
• the sidebar tile becomes visible to the user.
• FIG. 2C further illustrates the process from a system perspective.
• the operating system environment is Microsoft Windows.
• the system and method of the present invention could be implemented within other tools and other operating environments without departing from the scope contemplated herein.
• Examples of tools in which the present invention can be practiced include Direct X and Macromedia. While particular embodiments of the invention have been illustrated and described in detail herein, it should be understood that various changes and modifications might be made to the invention without departing from the scope and intent of the invention. The embodiments described herein are intended in all respects to be illustrative rather than restrictive. Alternate embodiments will become apparent to those skilled in the art to which the present invention pertains without departing from its scope.

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