Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Microsoft Corporation

David M Silver

John L Beezer

Marco A Demello

Leroy B Keely

Vikram Madan

Jerry Jay Dunietz

William Hill

Darryl Ellis Rubin

Michael J Duggan

Attila Narin

Charles Patrick Thacker

Geraldine G Wade

Yoram Yaacovi

Yung-Shin Lin

Susan D Woolf

Pavel Zeman

Jean Pierre De Vries

Kathryn E Hughes

Christopher Robert Richard Madonna

Marco M DeMello

Jeffrey A Alger

Zeman Pavel

John R Windsor

Embodiments are described for capturing, displaying, and navigating annotations in an electronic document. In some embodiments, a selection of an object in the electronic document is received, and an annotation associated with the selected object is received. The annotation is maintained in a list of annotations. The annotation can also be displayed. In some embodiments, a selection of the annotation is received and in response to the selection of the annotation being received, a user may be navigated to a location of the selected object in the electronic document.

Annotations for electronic content

Embodiments are described for capturing, displaying, and navigating text annotations in a non-modifiable document. In some embodiments, a determination is made that a text annotation is to be created and a system determines the file position of the selected object. The file position of the selected object can be stored along with the created text annotation in another file or a non-read only portion of a file storing the document. Using the file position, the text annotation may be identified with the selected object without modifying the non-modifiable document. In some embodiments, once a text annotation is displayed a user may easily navigate among the captured annotations.

An architecture for an integrated shopping service that enables electronic shopping from within a software application. The software application includes web browsing functionality, with the capability to navigate to a limited set of web sites. The client machine on which the software runs maintains a local list of the limited set of web sites that can be accessed from within the software application. A directory server maintains a list of retail web sites that can be added to the client's local list of accessible web sites. Each client machine that runs the software application connects to the directory server in order to add web sites to the locally-maintained list of sites that can be accessed from within the integrated shopping service.

Architecture for an electronic shopping service integratable with a software application

A system and method for capturing, displaying, and navigating text annotations in a non-modifiable document is disclosed. Once it is determined that a text annotation is to be created, the system determines the file position of the selected object. The file position of the selected object is stored along with the created text annotation in another file or a non-read only portion of a file storing the document. Using the file position, the text annotation may be properly identified with the selected object without modifying the non-modifiable document. Once a text annotation is displayed a user may easily navigate among the captured annotations.

Method and apparatus for capturing and rendering text annotations for non-modifiable electronic content

An apparatus and method for presenting electronic documents to users in the form of immersive reading pages. Immersive reading pages mimic the presentation that is provided by printed paper documents. There are no traditional user interface features displayed to the user, yet the user has access to the enhanced functionality that can be provided by computer-implemented documents. In an illustrative embodiment, the user has access to intrabook (or inside-the-book), interbook (or outside-the-book) navigational features, and content interactive features, such as highlighting, annotating, drawing or looking up definitions or synonyms of words in the document. Enhanced functionality is transparently associated with elements on the immersive reading page such that the immersive reading page is without visible indicators of the association. A training mode for permitting the user to learn the transparent association behind the immersive reading pages provides visual guides to the user. The guides may be turned off after the user learns the association.

Method and apparatus for fostering immersive reading of electronic documents

A system, method, and user interface for interacting with electronically displayed content is disclosed. In response to a selection of an object, a list of menu options is displayed close to the selected object. In one embodiment, the list of menu options is displayed in a font larger than that used to display the selected object. Through the use of the invention, a user is provided with a technique for actively reading displayed content with minimal distractions from the user interface.

System, method and user interface for active reading of electronic content

A method and apparatus for invoking system resources directly from within a mark-up language document. Links referencing a pre-defined system command to be invoked may be embedded within the document. The specific system command may be identified in the link by an alias, such as, for example, a numeric code. By clicking on the link, the system will analyze the contents of the link. If the link calls for invoking a system command, the system will extract the alias, determine the appropriate pre-defined system command referred to by the alias, and execute the system command.

Techniques for invoking system commands from within a mark-up language document

At least a portion of a plurality of formatting variables associated with an electronic document are modified based in part upon optimized formatting values. A user may specify values for one or more user-modifiable formatting variables. Based on the user data thus specified, at least a portion of the plurality of formatting variables are modified according to corresponding optimized formatting values. The electronic document is then formatted in accordance with the modified formatting variables and provided for display. The user-modifiable variables may comprise a font reference variable and/or a display form factor variable. In this manner, the present invention optimizes readability of electronic documents while still accommodating user preferences for displaying such documents.

Document formatting based on optimized formatting values

A system and method for capturing annotations for a non-modifiable document is disclosed. Once it is determined that an annotation is to be created, the system determines the file position of the selected object. The file position of the selected object is stored along with the created annotation in another file or a non-read only portion of a file storing the document. Using the file position, the annotation may be properly identified with the selected object without modifying the non-modifiable document.

Method and apparatus for capturing and rendering annotations for non-modifiable electronic content

System method and user interface for active reading of electronic content

A JAVA-based virtual machine that supports input method editor (IME) functionality in three contexts: (1) using JAVA-based IMEs with a JAVA virtual machine; (2) writing JAVA-based IMEs; and (3) integrating a JAVA virtual machine to system IMEs. The virtual machine includes a windows manager, an input method manager, one or more IMEs and/or keyboard drivers (KBDs), and a component. The virtual machine may also include an IME bridge for integrating the virtual machine with a system IME. The windows manager serves as a gateway between the operating system and the virtual machine. The input method manager (IMM) serves as a router between the windows manager and a plurality of IMEs and keyboards driver (KBDs). The IME includes a look-up table of composed characters that are indexed by Unicode keyboard commands. The component typically renders a user interface that allows the user to manipulate the composed characters returned by the IME. The functionality of the IME and the component may vary from platform to platform, and from user to user. The virtual machine can implement a predefined set of interfaces that allow the IME and the component to communicate with each other and with the windows manager and the input method manager. These predefined interfaces allow users to modify the functionality of the IME and component and integrate these modified elements with the virtual machine.

Method for integrating a virtual machine with input method editors

An operating system includes standard resources in a number of different natural languages. The standard resources are utilized to display window elements in windows. The operating system and application programs run on the operating system may utilize the standard resources to generate windows. The application programs may choose the language of the standard resources they use independently of the language of resources the operating system uses.

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David M Silver