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Date of Patent:
Mar. 06, 2012

Filed:

Jun. 23, 2006
Applicants:

Aidan N. Low, Redmond, WA (US);

Paul A. Gusmorino, Redmond, WA (US);

Scott Hysom, Redmond, WA (US);

Jon Rosenberg, Redmond, WA (US);

Mike Sheldon, Redmond, WA (US);

Inventors:

Aidan N. Low, Redmond, WA (US);

Paul A. Gusmorino, Redmond, WA (US);

Scott Hysom, Redmond, WA (US);

Jon Rosenberg, Redmond, WA (US);

Mike Sheldon, Redmond, WA (US);

Assignee:

Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A system, apparatus, method, and computer-readable media are provided for generating a document preview. According to one method, a preview handler is provided that exposes interfaces that may be called by a host application to generate a document preview without launching the application program that created the document. The interfaces exposed by the preview handler provide a common framework that may be utilized by both operating system and application program hosts to provide document previews.


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