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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:
Aug. 17, 2010
Filed:
May. 19, 2004
Joseph D. Ternasky, Mountain View, CA (US);
Robert L. C. Parker, San Jose, CA (US);
Michael M. Byrd, Bellevue, WA (US);
Adam Eversole, Redmond, WA (US);
Joseph King, Seattle, WA (US);
Michael Stokes, Eagle, ID (US);
Oliver H. Foehr, Mercer Island, WA (US);
Joseph D. Ternasky, Mountain View, CA (US);
Robert L. C. Parker, San Jose, CA (US);
Michael M. Byrd, Bellevue, WA (US);
Adam Eversole, Redmond, WA (US);
Joseph King, Seattle, WA (US);
Michael Stokes, Eagle, ID (US);
Oliver H. Foehr, Mercer Island, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A system and related techniques generate printing and other output operations via a resolution-independent visual tree object. According to embodiments the operating system or other resource may receive the visual tree object and related data from applications or other sources, and perform logic to scale or process the visual output for resolution, effects or other purposes directly from that object. The operating system or other resource itself may be configured to receive the componentized visual tree object and condition or render that object for output to a printer, facsimile machine, copy machine or other output device. The operating system may serialize or spool that object from the source object in native form, relieving applications of the need to prepare documents or other output objects to generate specified resolutions, effects or to adapt the output to specific output drivers.