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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 11, 2017
Filed:
Sep. 17, 2012
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Karen K. Wong, Seattle, WA (US);
Scott A. Sherman, Seattle, WA (US);
Dawn Wright, Seattle, WA (US);
Matthew J. Kotler, Kenmore, WA (US);
Ilan Berker, Seattle, WA (US);
Brent Gilbert, Woodinville, WA (US);
Cynthia C. Shelly, Seattle, WA (US);
Gary A. Pritting, Issaquah, WA (US);
Kim Tapia St. Amant, Seattle, WA (US);
Richard J. Wolf, Seattle, WA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A method and system for rendering graphics based on user customizations in a computer graphics application are disclosed. The customizations relate to various properties of one or more graphical elements in the graphic. Such properties include positioning, size, formatting and other visual attributes associated with the graphical elements. These properties may be defined as either semantic properties or presentation properties. Semantic properties are persistent across all graphic definitions. Presentation properties are specific to the graphic definition to which each particular graphic belongs. Thus, a customization to a semantic property of a displayed graphic is preserved in memory for application not only to the currently displayed graphic, but also to all other graphic definitions that may be displayed in the future. In contrast, a customization to a presentation property is only preserved for the currently displayed graphic, and thus not preserved for all other graphic definitions.