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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:
Feb. 26, 2002
Filed:
May. 07, 1999
Applicant:
Inventor:
Steve L. Flenniken, Seattle, WA (US);
Assignee:
Adobe Systems Incorporated, San Jose, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/730 ; G06F 7/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/730 ; G06F 7/00 ;
Abstract
A mechanism for locating a linked file is described. The mechanism retrieves a reference to a linked file linked to a document. The reference specifies an absolute pathname. The mechanism parses the absolute pathname into a plurality of relative pathnames and appends a first one of the relative pathnames to a current directory specification for the document to produce a new absolute pathname. Subsequent ones of the plurality of relative pathnames are appended to the current directory specification until the new absolute pathname points to the linked file.