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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 25, 2009
Filed:
Sep. 24, 2004
David Ross Ferguson, El Dorado Hills, CA (US);
John Joseph Jerger, Oakland, CA (US);
David Ross Ferguson, El Dorado Hills, CA (US);
John Joseph Jerger, Oakland, CA (US);
Google, Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods and apparatuses for formatting web pages through categorizing properties and values for specifying the appearance of web pages. In one aspect, a method includes: grouping styles into a set of scheme groups, one or more of the styles being capable of specifying an aspect of appearance of an element of a web page; defining a plurality of combinations of styles to create a plurality of schemes respectively for the scheme groups; assigning one scheme from one of the scheme groups to a first web page; and generating a second web page to contain content of the first web page and styles of the schemes assigned to the first web page.