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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 13, 2001
Filed:
Jan. 14, 1998
Marion Michael Byrd, Bellevue, WA (US);
Paul Christian David, Redmond, WA (US);
Michael Irvin Hyman, Seattle, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
An extensible set of commands to be executed in an ordered manner, such as a series of vector graphics commands, is provided in a Web page written in a markup language. The commands are embedded in statements in the Web page in a format that is conventionally used to define property variables. In each of such statements with embedded commands, the command and its associated data are included as the value specified for the property variable of that statement. The names of the property variables of the statements are provided according to a predetermined naming convention such that they indicate the sequence in which their associated commands as specified by their respective values are to be executed. When a Web control reads the Web page, it extracts the commands and their associated data from the values of the property variables of the statements, and executes the commands according to the sequence indicated by the names of the property variables.