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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 03, 2012
Filed:
Jun. 17, 2004
Ashok Kuppusamy, Bellevue, WA (US);
James N. Helfrich, Redmond, WA (US);
John David Griffin, Seattle, WA (US);
Joe K. Yap, Redmond, WA (US);
Ashok Kuppusamy, Bellevue, WA (US);
James N. Helfrich, Redmond, WA (US);
John David Griffin, Seattle, WA (US);
Joe K. Yap, Redmond, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A self-updating frameset having a target document in one frame and a Table-of-Contents (TOC) document in another frame hyperlinked to the target document. A reference document (RD) field is inserted into the TOC document to identify the target document as the target of the TOC. A TOC field in the TOC document scans the target document to identify selected headings as entries in the TOC document. When the selected headings are identified, the TOC field creates hyperlink entries in the TOC document, each hyperlink entry having a corresponding anchor at a selected heading in the target document. The hyperlink entries in the TOC document can be automatically updated each time the fields in the TOC document are recalculated.