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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 06, 1998
Filed:
Jun. 07, 1995
Robert G Atkinson, Woodinville, WA (US);
Andrew L Bliss, Bellevue, WA (US);
Philip J Lafornara, Bellevue, WA (US);
Philip Ljubicich, Seattle, WA (US);
Alexander G Tilles, Seattle, WA (US);
Antony S Williams, Redmond, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A method and system for interfacing an application program with a compound document storage system. The present invention provides an interface which an application program uses to manipulate compound documents. In a preferred embodiment, this interface is implemented in a multilayered architecture. The first layer provides methods which an application program uses to access a compound document using the functions of the second layer. The second layer maps requests to store data in the compound document to a storage format using the functions of the third layer. The third layer maps requests to write to a file to an arbitrary storage medium.