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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 28, 2012
Filed:
Jun. 15, 2004
Brendan Mckeon, Seattle, WA (US);
Michael Edward Dulac Winser, Westport, CT (US);
Patricia Mary Wagoner, Redmond, WA (US);
Brendan McKeon, Seattle, WA (US);
Michael Edward Dulac Winser, Westport, CT (US);
Patricia Mary Wagoner, Redmond, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A method, apparatus, and medium are provided for providing a custom view of a set of user-interface elements (UI elements) to a requesting component. The method includes representing the UI elements as a raw tree structure composed of a set of nodes, which correspond to the UI elements; identifying a subset of the nodes that satisfy the condition(s); and communicating to the requesting component a representation of all or some of the identified nodes. The apparatus includes a request-transmission component for submitting to an interface component instructions and a transmission-reception component for receiving from the interface component the information associated with one or more UI elements that satisfy the one or more conditions.