Data processing: database and file management or data structures – Database design – Data structure types
Patent
1996-04-29
1998-10-06
Burwell, Joseph R.
Data processing: database and file management or data structures
Database design
Data structure types
707512, 707514, 707902, G06F 1700
Patent
active
058193022
ABSTRACT:
A method and apparatus are described for automatically converting documents from a first hypertext format that supports multi-layered backgrounds to a second hypertext format that does not support multi-layered backgrounds, such as HyperText Markup Language (HTML). According to the method, a target file is generated that stores all non-background elements of the document in the second hypertext format. A mechanism that reads the first hypertext format is used to display a current page of the document. A screen dump is made of the displayed page after removing or hiding the non-background elements. This process is repeated for all of the pages of the document. References to the graphics files generated by the screen dumps are embedded in the target file. The references cause the background elements of a page to be displayed behind non-background elements of the page when the document is displayed based upon the target file by a mechanism that reads the second hypertext format.
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Burwell Joseph R.
Sun Microsystems Inc.
Young John L.
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