Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm Banner & Wilcoff, Ltd.
  • Method for creating structured documents in a publishing system
    Patent number: 6230173
    Abstract: An authoring environment for producing content for an on-line system is described. This environment includes a story editor which can save files in a Multimedia Document Format (MDF) file. A MDF file is an OLE storage wherein one storage object holds text of the content in a Multimedia Publishing Markup Language. Other parts of the MDF file include storages for holding content search terms and storages for embedded objects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 1995
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2001
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Patrick J. Ferrel, Robert F. Meyer, Stephen J. Millet, John P. Shewchuk, Walter W. Smith