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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 01, 2011
Filed:
Jun. 01, 2005
Parichay Saxena, Bellevue, WA (US);
Todd Abel, Redmond, WA (US);
Ricard Roma I Dalfó, Redmond, WA (US);
Parichay Saxena, Bellevue, WA (US);
Todd Abel, Redmond, WA (US);
Ricard Roma i Dalfó, Redmond, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods for enabling a host application and uses thereof access to otherwise inaccessible information configured solely for use by other types of applications. The information may be exposed for use by the host application as information elements (e.g., metadata). During execution the host application may dynamically access these information elements using references specifying the information elements. These references may be used to retrieve pieces of information for display and/or modification by users. The content provided by the application may have an associated smart tag or uniform resource locater that specifies the reference. Further, for particular content, references may be generated from a structural abstraction representing the structure of the content. The structural abstraction may have one or more nodes corresponding to one or more respective sections of the content. A mapping table may be applied to map nodes of the structural abstraction to references that specify exposed information.