(57) ABSTRACT A rendering system is provided. The rendering system includes a rendering
component that receives a request to view a data set and provide output to drive a display …

2006-06-08 Assigned to APPLE COMPUTER, INC. reassignment APPLE COMPUTER, INC.
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNORS INTEREST (SEE DOCUMENT FOR DETAILS). Assignors …

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Techniques are provided for rendering media as layers. Logical units of media form a media
stream. The media stream as a whole is processed to divide components within the units …

US PATENT DOCUMENTS the cells. Moreover, a generic table is provided and repre sented
by one or more formatting commands, which are oper 4,503,515 A 3, 1985 Cuan et al. able …

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et al. 2004/0046788 A1 3f2004 Keane et al................... 345,748 2004, OO60. 005 A1 3/2004 …

A list control allows for a harmonized display of heterogeneous list element data by using at
least two templates. The templates define the layout for the list element data. The templates …

BACKGROUND When two or more adjacent elements on a page specify an intervening
margin, it is desirable that the margins be col lapsed to form a single common margin of a …

OTHER PUBLICATIONS Related US Application Data (63) Continuation of application No.
11/830, 086, filed on Jul. 30, 2007, now Pat. No. 9, 436, 667, which is a continuation-in-part …

BACKGROUND Document designers, when laying out pages of a docu ment, often use
frames to organize or compartmentalize elements (eg, text and images) of those pages. A …