Patent 7984379 was granted and assigned to Microsoft on July, 2011 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Various embodiments provide a standardized schema that can be used by site developers to define a site map and its associated hierarchy. In at least some embodiments, a corresponding user interface can be created within an application such as, for example, a Web browser, to allow the user to specify locations at which they wish to see the site map.