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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 23, 2005
Filed:
Mar. 22, 2001
Thomas Andrew Brunet, Round Rock, TX (US);
Elliott Woodard Harris, Austin, TX (US);
Lawrence Frank Weiss, Round Rock, TX (US);
Guido Dante Corona, Austin, TX (US);
Thomas Andrew Brunet, Round Rock, TX (US);
Elliott Woodard Harris, Austin, TX (US);
Lawrence Frank Weiss, Round Rock, TX (US);
Guido Dante Corona, Austin, TX (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method, program, and apparatus for providing a description of current position in an electronic document are provided. The invention first comprises parsing the electronic document into a parse tree. When the system receives a command from the user requesting current position in the electronic document, an algorithm performs a walk up the parse tree, from the current position to the root of the document. A position response, containing nodes in the walk up the parse tree, is constructed by the algorithm and reported to the user.