Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Zhigu Holdings Limited

Young Gah Kim

Jerry Jay Dunietz

Andrey Shur

David Ornstein

Oliver H Foehr

Sarjana Sheth

Brian M Jones

Jason Matthew Cahill

Joseph Spencer King

Jean Paoli

Daniel Emerson

Jesse D McGatha

Robert A Relyea

David C Brown

Arthur Charles Leonard

Josh Pollock

Mikhail V Leonov

Joshua Michael Pollock

Zhenbin Xu

Jean-Marie H Larcheveque

Bruce A MacKenzie

Keith S Brintzenhofe

Mike Hillberg

Kevin J Boske

Alexei Vopilov

Ilan S Sender

Igor Belianski

Ilan Sender

David B Ornstein

Joseph King

This document describes tools capable of validating and enabling validation of a package's structure. To do so, constraint grammar is provided that is capable of enabling a person to build a set of machine-readable constraints for a package's structure. Based on this set of constraints, a package validator module may accurately and automatically validate that a package's structure meets these constraints.

Validating and enabling validation of package structures

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.

Modular document format

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

Methods for filtering a file written in Extensible Application Markup Language (XAML) and incrementally returning the logical content contained therein to the environment, e.g., a search engine, are provided. Additionally provided are methods for extracting logical content contained in a XAML file to facilitate searching and/or indexing thereof. The methods provided permit the filtering of files containing only flow-format elements, files containing only elements representing fixed-format pages, and/or files containing both flow-format and elements representing fixed-format pages.

Methods and systems for filtering an Extensible Application Markup Language (XAML) file to facilitate indexing of the logical content contained therein

Described is a mechanism for providing a single file that includes multiple representations of the same document content. Each of the representations may be optimized to provide a superior presentation for a particular device or application. The mechanism of the invention is preferably based on a compound file format that allows multiple renditions of the same content to be stored in a single document. Meta information is included within the single document that describes each of the multiple renditions together with any supporting files that may be used with those renditions. The inventors have determined that the Object Linking and Embedding (OLE) compound file format is especially well suited to implementations of the invention.

System and method for providing multiple renditions of document content

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Young Gah Kim