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Roger Wolff

Jeff Reynar

Tuan Huynh

Ziyi Wang

Michael H Ammerlaan

Nobuya Higashiyama

Clinton Dee Covington

Andrew Robert Miller

Paul Maybee

Brian Robert Crawford

Gregg Bernard Miskelly

Kevin Blaine Gjerstad

John A Cunningham

Greg S Lindhorst

Jay L Massena

Feng Yuan

Johan Marien

Andrew M Warden

A debugger enhancement provides a debug-task-provider interface whose implementation includes routines designed to support debugging of programs that contain tasks written for a specific programming model. Task creation hierarchies, individual task properties, resource dependencies, synchronization dependencies, and other information can be made accessible during debugging, through a model-independent interface. In a multithreaded environment, a mapping between tasks and threads is also available.

Debugging support for tasks in multithreaded environments

A method for recognizing strings and annotating, or labeling, the strings with a type label. After the strings are annotated with a type label, application program modules may use the type label to provide users with a choice of actions. If the user's computer does not have any actions associated with a type label, the user may be provided with the option to surf to a download Uniform Resource Locator (URL) and download action plug-ins for that type label. One or more recognizer plug-ins perform the recognition of particular strings in an electronic document. The recognizer plug-ins may be packaged with an application program module or they may be written by third parties to recognize particular strings that are of interest. One or more action plug-ins provide possible actions to be presented to the user based upon the type label associated with the string.

Method and system for semantically labeling strings and providing actions based on semantically labeled strings

Application program interfaces (API) are provided for labeling strings while a user is creating a document and providing user actions based on the type of semantic label applied to the string. A recognizer API is provided and includes properties and methods or instructions which allow recognizer plug-ins to semantically label strings of text or cells or information. An action API is provided and includes properties and methods that are called upon when a user initiates particular actions such as opening a web browser, going to a particular URL, or opening an instance of a word processing or spreadsheet program. After the strings are annotated with a type label, application program modules may use the type label to provide users with a choice of actions. If the user's computer does not have any actions associated with a type label, the user may be provided with the option to surf to a download Uniform Resource Locator (URL) and download action plug-ins for that type label. One or more recognizer plug-ins perform the recognition of particular strings in an electronic document. The recognizer plug-ins may be packaged with an application program module or they may be written by third parties to recognize particular strings that are of interest. One or more action plug-ins provide possible actions to be presented to the user based upon the type label associated with the string.

Application program interfaces for semantically labeling strings and providing actions based on semantically labeled strings

A method for recognizing data, including strings and media objects, and annotating, or labeling, the data with a type label. After the data is annotated with a type label, application program modules may use the type label to provide users with a choice of actions. If the user's computer does not have any actions associated with a type label, the user may be provided with the option to surf to a download Uniform Resource Locator (URL) and download action plug-ins for that type label. One or more recognizer plug-ins perform the recognition of particular strings or media objects in an electronic document. The recognizer plug-ins may be packaged with an application program module or they may be written by third parties to recognize particular data that is of interest. One or more action plug-ins provide possible actions to be presented to the user based upon the type label associated with the data in an electronic document.

Method and system for semantically labeling data and providing actions based on semantically labeled data

A page is accessed that contains at least one computer-based module. The computer-based module can present information obtained from one or more sources. The computer-based module includes properties, such as properties that affect the appearance of the computer-based module and the format of the information displayed by the computer-based module. The properties of the computer-based module can be stored in a database that is separate from the page. The properties of the computer-based module can be modified in a shared mode, accessible to all users of the page, or a personal mode, accessible by one user.

Method and system for customizing and personalizing page control content

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