Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

David Ornstein

Jerry Jay Dunietz

Oliver H Foehr

Andrey Shur

Daniel Emerson

Sarjana Sheth

Josh Pollock

Jean Paoli

Bruce A MacKenzie

Mike Hillberg

Brian M Jones

Wei Zhu

Sriram Subramanian

Joe King

Jason Matthew Cahill

Michael John Hillberg

Joseph Ternasky

Isaac E Nichols

Young Gah Kim

Joseph Spencer King

Joshua Michael Pollock

Michael Dean Stokes

James Morris Alkove

Robert Andrew Little

Greg D Schechter

Christopher L Anderson

Lauren Nicole Antonoff

Charles P Jazdzewski

David C Brown

Charles Scott Walker

Li Hua

Mikhail V Leonov

Mark John Walker

Daniel Browne Jump

Jean-Marie H Larcheveque

Kirk Shoop

Keith S Brintzenhofe

Pavel Kouznetsov

Ravishankar Shanmugam

Alexei Vopilov

Rob Relyea

Ilan S Sender

Charels S Walker

Roger Cheng

Daniel F Microsoft Corporation Emerson

Bruce Allan Mackenzie

Jean D Paoli

Modular content framework and document format methods and systems are described. The described framework and format define a set of building blocks for composing, packaging, distributing, and rendering document-centered content. These building blocks define a platform-independent framework for document formats that enable software and hardware systems to generate, exchange, and display documents reliably and consistently. The framework and format have been designed in a flexible and extensible fashion. In addition to this general framework and format, a particular format, known as the reach package format, is defined using the general framework. The reach package format is a format for storing paginated documents. The contents of a reach package can be displayed or printed with full fidelity among devices and applications in a wide range of environments and across a wide range of scenarios.

Method and apparatus for document processing

A relationship data structure associated with a source resource enables methods to discover and describe relationships between the source resource and a plurality of target resources. The relationships are stored in a format independent of the encoding of the source resource. Each relationship between the source resource and the plurality of target resources is stored in a content-neutral format, and the relationship data structure stores, a location of each target resource, a type of relationship with each target resource and an identifier to uniquely identify each relationship between the source resource and each target resource. Accordingly, the relationship data structure allows a decoder to directly discover the relationships between the source resource and the plurality of target resources without decoding the source resource or target resources.

Efficiently describing relationships between resources

Packages that contain pre-paginated documents

Method and apparatus for maintaining relationships between parts in a package

A color characterization profile format and data structure are provided for allowing a color management solution to convert colors into or out of a color space. The color characterization profile format contains a color management measurement data portion and a container that is configured to provide digital rights management capabilities over the color characterization profile format. The container can include linked and embedded objects and extensible markup language. Further, the container can be an advanced systems format container. The container can be configured to perform different functions, including enabling private data extensions, operating interface description language, storing a rendering intent separate from the color management measurement data portion, the ability to be edited by a text editor application, operability across a plurality of operating platforms, and preventing a user from tampering with the color characterization profile format.

Device color characterization profile format

Methods and systems for defining documents with selectable and/or sequenceable parts

A rights-managed document has protected content from an author thereof, whereby a recipient of the document can render the protected content with a corresponding license if the recipient satisfies terms set forth in the license. In the document, a storage portion has a message that the document is rights management protected, and a custom data portion has a section including the protected content. The recipient if enabled can render the protected content in the custom data portion and if not enabled can only review the storage portion having the message. An enabled recipient handles the received rights-managed document by recognizing that the document has the protected content in the custom data portion thereof, and discounting the storage portion of the document. Thus, the recipient examines the custom data portion of the document and proceeds based thereon to render the protected content in the custom data portion.

Organization-based content rights management and systems, structures, and methods therefor

Described is a system and method for applying transforms to multi-part files. A request is received to access a stream within a multi-part file. Upon receipt of the request, a list of transforms associated with the stream is identified. The list is also included within the multi-part file. The transforms specified in the list of transforms are performed on data before completing the request. If the request is a write, the transforms encode the data. If the request is a read, the transforms decode the data. The list of transforms is order dependent. The list of transforms includes a data structure having a first stream that includes a map that correlates the stream with a name for the list of transforms. A second stream that lists each of the transforms for the stream. A third stream for each of the transforms listed that identifies information associated with the transform.

Mechanism for applying transforms to multi-part files

Methods and systems for mapping between components of a packaging model and features of a physical representation of a package are provided. Components of a packaging model may include, by way of example only, a part name, a content type, the contents of a part, and/or a growth hint. Physical representations of a package may include, by way of example only, physical persistence formats and/or various transports, e.g., network-based protocols. Computer-readable media having computer-executable instructions for performing the disclosed methods, as well as computers programmed to perform the disclosed methods, are also provided.

Method and system for mapping between components of a packaging model and features of a physical representation of a package

Modular document format

Document mark up methods and systems

The present invention is directed to a system and method for providing access to individual resources stored within a package. The system enables a client to access the resources without having to access the entire package. The system allows a client to reference the different resources within the package through use of a URI scheme. The URI scheme of the present invention is composed through a method of combining the URI for the package and the URI for the resource. The URI scheme of the present invention is able to work with any scheme, thereby enabling the URI scheme to be universal and not protocol-specific.

Pack URI scheme to identify and reference parts of a package

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Seattle, WA, United States of America

David Ornstein