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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 24, 2001
Filed:
Aug. 31, 1998
Anthony G. LaMarca, Redwood City, CA (US);
James P. Dourish, San Fransisco, CA (US);
Warren K. Edwards, San Fransisco, CA (US);
John O. Lamping, Los Altos, CA (US);
Karin Petersen, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Michael P. Salisbury, Mountain View, CA (US);
Douglas B. Terry, San Carlos, CA (US);
James D. Thornton, Redwood City, CA (US);
Xerox Corporation, Stamford, CT (US);
Abstract
A mechanism is provided which allows a user to enhance the functionalities of system operations in a computer system that were traditionally encapsulated within the computer system, and outside the control of the user. The user is provided with the ability to build arbitrary, extensible behaviors and to have those behaviors executed on low level computer system processes after the user issues an operation request through a known input device. The mechanism may be implemented as properties which are integrated on a content and/or property read write path of the computer system.