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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. 30, 2001
Filed:
Jun. 30, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:
Scott David Mastie, Longmont, CO (US);
Christopher Brian Hirsch, Arvada, CO (US);
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/721 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/721 ;
Abstract
A method and apparatus for creating a highly portable output file is described. For one embodiment of the present invention, the output file is PostScript file that includes DSC comments. Document comments are created in the output file to reflect the document framework. Page comments are created in the output file to reflect one or more pages within the document framework. Inappropriate comments are removed from one or more pages within the output file.