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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. 24, 2009
Filed:
Oct. 22, 2004
Herbert P Sutter, Bellevue, WA (US);
Jeffrey J Peil, Redmond, WA (US);
Brandon R Bray, Redmond, WA (US);
Mark L Hall, Redmond, WA (US);
Jonathan E Caves, Bellevue, WA (US);
Herbert P Sutter, Bellevue, WA (US);
Jeffrey J Peil, Redmond, WA (US);
Brandon R Bray, Redmond, WA (US);
Mark L Hall, Redmond, WA (US);
Jonathan E Caves, Bellevue, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
The present invention provides a system and/or method that facilitates expanding keywords within an existing computer programming language by employing a whitespace keyword containing embedded whitespace. A whitespace component can receive code, and create a whitespace keyword based at least upon a successive comparison of adjacent tokens. The whitespace component creates a whitespace keyword by replacing more than one token with a single token containing embedded whitespace. Moreover, the whitespace component can utilize a lexical analyzer to group code into tokens and a parser component to parse the code.