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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 12, 1999
Filed:
Jul. 17, 1995
Patrick J Ferrel, Seattle, WA (US);
Matthew W Gertz, Redmond, WA (US);
Robert F Meyer, Redmond, WA (US);
Stephen J Millet, Seattle, WA (US);
Kevin M Schofield, Bellevue, WA (US);
John P Shewchuk, Seattle, WA (US);
Walter W Smith, Seattle, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
The use of style sheets in an electronic publishing system is described. A style sheet is a collection of formatting information, such as font and tabs in a textual document. The style sheets described herein are applied to individual display regions (controls) on a page. Unlike previous systems, the display regions in this system do not contain any text at the time the style sheet is applied. Rather, the text, or other media such as graphics, is poured into the display region when the title is rendered on the customer's computer.