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“Limit formatting to a selection of styles” option
MICROSOFT WORD LOCKED FOR EDITING CANNOT FREAKING SAVE CODE
Does it mean a separate file, or just a separate area in memory while code is executing? Here's what seems to be the heart of Microsoft's appeal:īecause i4i's own experts admitted that Word does not store a metacode map in a separate file from content, and does not allow for independent manipulation of a metacode map and mapped content, the jury's infringement verdict should be reversed. That sounds like treating the content and metacodes separately as a way of processing the document. This becomes a serious problem for documents which are revised often, especially if the older revisions need to be kept.Īccordingly, in its broadest aspect the invention provides a computer system for the manipulation of the architecture and content of a document having a plurality of metacodes and content by producing a first map of metacodes and their addresses of use in association with mapped content the system comprising metacode map distinct storage means means for providing a menu of metacodes to the metacode storage means and means for compiling the metacodes of said menu by locating, detecting and addressing the metacodes to constitute the map and storing the map in the metacode storage means. Since document content is inextricably enmeshed with its format, each change to either the content or the format requires either that a whole new copy of the document be created, or that the original be overwritten. Similarly if the structure remains identical but the content changes slightly.Further, current procedures are inefficient. This is true even if the content does not differ in any way from the original. This new copy can either be saved independently resulting in two versions of the document, or it can be saved over the original-effectively destroying it.
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To make changes to the original document structure a new copy of the document must be created. Changes to either the structure or the content of the document require a complete new copy of the document.
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The content is locked into one structure embodied by the embedded codes. In fact, in the description of the invention in the patent itself, i4i wrote the following:ĭocuments combining structure and content are inflexible because they tie together structure and content into a single unit which must be modified together. That would seem to suggest that the patent covers handling the content and formatting metacodes in separate files.
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Means for resolving the content and the metacode map into the document. Means for providing a menu of metacodes to said metacode storage means Īnd means for compiling said metacodes of the menu by locating, detecting and addressing the metacodes in the document to constitute the map and storing the map in the metacode storage means and The i4i patent in question has as its first claim the following:Ī computer system for the manipulation of the architecture and content of a document having a plurality of metacodes and content by producing a first map of metacodes and their addresses of use in association with mapped content said system comprising:metacode map distinct storage means The whole concern seems to pivot around a single word: distinct. And the arguments in Microsoft's brief underscore how widely the i4i patent might be interpreted. A quick reminder: the cases is about whether the i4i patent governs how Microsoft implements XML open standards in Word as a method of formatting documents through using "metacodes." I had mentioned before how a number of companies, including Google and Apple could ultimately feel the sting.