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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:
Aug. 03, 1999
Filed:
May. 23, 1996
Applicant:
Inventor:
Benjamen Eric Ross, Seattle, WA (US);
Assignee:
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
707514 ; 707101 ; 707104 ;
Abstract
A method and system for compressing publication documents in a computer system is provided. In a preferred embodiment, one or more computer documents are initially represented in a data structure. The data structure is made up of a number of constituent data structures connected by links. In order to compress the data structure, two or more constituent data structures that match are identified. All but one of the identified constituent data structures are then deleted. Finally, links to the deleted constituent data structures are replaced with links to the selected constituent data structure.