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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 19, 2006
Filed:
May. 02, 2001
David K. Peck, San Francisco, CA (US);
Eliot S. Greenfield, San Francisco, CA (US);
Jesse G. Kocher, San Francisco, CA (US);
Matthew R. Lerner, San Francisco, CA (US);
Michael S. Morearty, San Francisco, CA (US);
David K. Peck, San Francisco, CA (US);
Eliot S. Greenfield, San Francisco, CA (US);
Jesse G. Kocher, San Francisco, CA (US);
Matthew R. Lerner, San Francisco, CA (US);
Michael S. Morearty, San Francisco, CA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A method for editing Web-based documents and a software package for implementing the method is provided. The method can include receiving from a user an indication of a selected portion of a Web-based document to be edited and of a desired editing function to be performed on the selected portion and inserting immediately prior to the selected portion a first editing tag corresponding to the desired editing function. Also, the method may include detecting object tag elements within the selected portion, inserting immediately prior to each object tag element within the selected portion a second editing tag corresponding to the desired editing function and inserting the second tag at the end of the selected portion, and inserting immediately after each object tag element within the selected portion the first editing tag, wherein the first and second editing tags are distinguishable from the object tag elements.