US Patent Issued to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING on March 17 for "Bidirectional mapping between applications and network content" (California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,979, issued on March 17, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Bidirectional mapping between applications and network content" was invented by Zhaowei Charlie Jiang (Palo Alto, Calif.), Steven William Macbeth (Redmond, Wash.), Syed Muhammad Mujahid Hasan (Bellevue, Wash.) and Jacob Sabulsky (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bidirectional mapping is established between network content and application programs, based on declarations at both the network content and at the application. Additionally, bidirectional mapping can provide for deep links, which can associate specific network cont...