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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 14, 1998
Filed:
May. 05, 1995
Patrick A Holleran, Santa Cruz, CA (US);
John S Evans, Mountain View, CA (US);
Michael A Cleron, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Stephen Fisher, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Timo Bruck, Mountain View, CA (US);
Apple Computer, Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
A network-oriented component system facilitates development of customized user interfaces to computer networks by embedding entities that reference resources located on the networks into components of the system. The embedded entities are preferably manifested as visual objects displayed on a graphical user interface of a computer screen that a user may manipulate to effectuate the embedding process. The 'container' components are preferably compound documents having contents that include different data types and formats.