Laying out markup language paragraphs independently of other paragraphs

Patent 6725423 Issued on April 20, 2004. Estimated Expiration Date:

December 29, 2018. Estimated Expiration Date is calculated based on simple USPTO term provisions. It does not account for terminal disclaimers, term adjustments, failure to pay maintenance fees, or other factors which might affect the term of a patent.

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Inventors

Application

No. 09222325 filed on 12/29/1998

US Classes:

715/513, Structured document (e.g., HTML, SGML, ODA, CDA)715/517Layout

Examiners

Primary: Hong, Stephen S.
Assistant: Paula, Cesar B

Attorney, Agent or Firm

Staas & Halsey llp

International Class

G06F 700

Abstract

A display process is carried out in high speed without changing a structure of a structured document.Within structural information of a structured document, a paragraph-forming element is obtained in which forming of a paragraph is designated in style definition information corresponding thereto. When the display information of the obtained paragraph-forming element is matched, a program for determining a relative layout of the respective display information within the paragraph is performed independent from a layout routine of another paragraph-forming element. Another program for visually outputting such display information of the paragraph-forming element whose layout routine is accomplished is carried out after the layout routines for all of the paragraph-forming elements located up-rank from the current paragraph-forming element have been accomplished.