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US 7529795
Message board aggregator
Current assignee: Aloft Media LLC
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Patent summary
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Patent Overview: US7529795B2 — "Message board aggregator"
Title: Message board aggregator
Patent number: US7529795B2
Inventor: Gal Arav
Application number: US11/384,957
Priority/filing date: 2006-03-20
Publication date (grant): 2009-05-05
Earlier publication: US20060155809A1 (published 2006-07-13)
Current assignee (as listed; Google notes assignees may be inaccurate): Aloft Media LLC; Stragent LLC. Original assignee listed as Stragent LLC.
Legal status (as listed): Expired – Fee Related; adjusted expiration 2026-10-31.
Classifications: G06F40/134 (Hyperlinking); G06F3/04842; G06Q10/107.
Purpose. The excerpt states the invention "relates to aggregation of electronic messages and, more particularly, to aggregation of messages posted to online financial message boards." It describes limitations of email (poor many-to-many and archiving), newsgroups (text-limited, sparse interfaces), and notes web-based interfaces can combine communication features with graphical content and advertising revenue.
Plain-language scope. In a window of a computer program, web content representing a first message posted to an online forum is displayed, while, in the same window and contemporaneously, message summaries are displayed. Those summaries include first information derived from the first message and second information derived from a second message among the posted messages. The web content may appear in one frame and the derived information in another frame of the same window. The online forum may be a web-based financial message board. One claimed aspect is a computer-implemented method with these two displaying steps; another aspect involves receiving, over a network, message data units each derived from a corresponding posted message, then displaying in a frame.
Source: https://patents.google.com/patent/[US7529795](/patent/US7529795)/en
What the excerpt does not establish. It does not provide the full claim set, complete specification, drawings, or prosecution history; the second method aspect is truncated mid-sentence. It does not establish validity, enforceability, claim construction, or the accuracy of the listed assignees or legal status. No independent verification of dates or classifications is possible from this excerpt alone.
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