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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 13, 2006
Filed:
Jan. 22, 1998
Mark Hamburg, Scotts Valley, CA (US);
Glenn G. Gilley, Mountain View, CA (US);
Andrei M. Herasimchuk, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Katja Rimmi, Half Moon Bay, CA (US);
Robert J. Pappas, Apple Valley, MN (US);
Eric A. Scouten, St. Paul, MN (US);
Mark Hamburg, Scotts Valley, CA (US);
Glenn G. Gilley, Mountain View, CA (US);
Andrei M. Herasimchuk, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Katja Rimmi, Half Moon Bay, CA (US);
Robert J. Pappas, Apple Valley, MN (US);
Eric A. Scouten, St. Paul, MN (US);
Adobe Systems Incorporated, San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods and apparatus embodying techniques useful in systems for creating and modifying documents. A state history of a document for storing document states is maintained; and, whenever an interesting operation has occurred, the state of the document is automatically captured as it exists after the operation. The captured state is added to the state history. In another aspect, the techniques identify for a user on a display device a set of states that the document has been in by operation of the system; and enable the user to designate any arbitrary one of the identified states for further operations. The techniques may provide both linear and non-linear history.