System and method for updating a table-of-contents in a frameset

• US 20050010865A1
• Filed: 06/17/2004
• Published: 01/13/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 06/24/1998
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Kuppusamy, Ashok, Yap, Joe K., Griffin, John David, Helfrich, James N.
• Granted Patent: US 8,091,020 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/205
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/94 Hypermedia Hyperlinking G06F40/134

Abstract

A self-updating frameset having a target document in one frame and a Table-of-Contents (TOC) document in another frame hyperlinked to the target document. A reference document (RD) field is inserted into the TOC document to identify the target document as the target of the TOC. A TOC field in the TOC document scans the target document to identify selected headings as entries in the TOC document. When the selected headings are identified, the TOC field creates hyperlink entries in the TOC document, each hyperlink entry having a corresponding anchor at a selected heading in the target document. The hyperlink entries in the TOC document can be automatically updated each time the fields in the TOC document are recalculated.

Claims

1-23. -23. cancel.

24. A method for creating a frameset that includes a table-of-contents (“

TOC”

) linked to a directly editable target document, comprising;

creating the frameset that includes a TOC document in a first frame and the target document in a second frame, wherein at least a portion of the TOC document and at least a portion of the target document are visible;

creating an entry in the TOC document that includes a link to a selected part of the target document;

presenting at least a portion of the selected part of the target document when the link is selected; and

updating the entry in the TOC document in response to a user action.

37. A computer readable medium having computer executable instructions for creating a hyperlinked table-of-contents in a frameset, comprising:

creating a first frame and a second frame within the frameset, the first frame comprising a TOC document and the second frame comprising a target document, the target document being directly editable and having a selected heading identifying a section in the target document;

scanning the target document to locate the selected heading;

creating a hyperlink entry in the TOC document that includes a link that is associated with an anchor in the target document, wherein the anchor is positioned proximate to the selected heading, and wherein triggering the link causes the target document to reveal at least a portion of the selected heading in the second frame; and

updating the hyperlink entry in the TOC document in response to an update event without direct manual intervention

45. A computer readable medium having computer executable instructions for creating a hyperlinked table-of-contents in a frameset, comprising:

creating the frameset having a TOC document and a target document, the target document being directly editable and including a preselected heading indicating a section in the target document;

inserting a reference document field into the TOC document that is operative to set a pointer to the target document;

inserting a TOC field into the TOC document that is operative to;

scan the target document identified by the pointer to identify the preselected heading,

create a hyperlink entry in the TOC document that corresponds to the preselected heading, and

insert a bookmark into the target document at a location proximate to the preselected heading, wherein the bookmark is associated with the hyperlink entry; and

updating the hyperlink in the TOC document without direct manual intervention to reflect an edit in the preselected heading in response to an update event.

47. A computer readable medium having an HTML frameset stored thereon, comprising:

a first frame including an editable target document comprising a preselected heading; and

a second frame comprising a TOC document comprising a hyperlink entry to a selected part of the target document;

wherein when the hyperlink entry is triggered causes an anchor in the target document in the first frame to come into focus, the hyperlink entry capable of being recreated without manual intervention in response to an update event.

48. The computer readable medium of claim 47, wherein the update event comprises opening the TOC document.