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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 03, 2015
Filed:
Mar. 15, 2013
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Kenneth S. Orr, Cupertino, CA (US);
Giulia M. Pagallo, Cupertino, CA (US);
Geppy Parziale, San Francisco, CA (US);
Other;
Abstract
Methods and apparatus are provided to access and present data from a process executing on a separate device, with the data being presented in a form suitable for the type of data, such as a graphical structure that represents the data. The methods include receiving a request to display a first data object stored in a memory of a second computing device, wherein the first object is of a first data type in a process configured to execute on the second computing device, generating an expression configured to convert the first data object to a defined data format, sending the expression to the process, executing the expression in the process to produce intermediate data that represents the first object in the defined format, receiving the intermediate data, creating a second object of a second data type based upon the intermediate data, and displaying a graphical structure of the second object.