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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.

Date of Patent:
Dec. 15, 2009

Filed:

Nov. 21, 2006
Applicants:

Gina Danielle Venolia, Bellevue, WA (US);

Andrew Brian Begel, Seattle, WA (US);

Inventors:

Gina Danielle Venolia, Bellevue, WA (US);

Andrew Brian Begel, Seattle, WA (US);

Assignee:

Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/44 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

In one embodiment of this invention, a computer system performs a method for colorizing concept keywords within program identifiers in source code. A computer system decomposes each identifier in the source code into one or more concept keywords The computer system determines a numerical value for each concept keyword based on the sequence of characters included in each concept keyword. The computer system assigns a color to each concept keyword based on the numerical value determined for each concept keyword.


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