DERIVATIVE BLOG-EDITING ENVIRONMENT

• US 20080189604A1
• Filed: 01/26/2007
• Published: 08/07/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 01/26/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Allaire, Joseph James, Washburn, Donald "Spike" Arthur
• Application Number:
  US11/627,732
• Publication Number:
  US 20080189604A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/255
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/958 Organisation or management of web site content, e.g. publishing, maintaining pages or automatic linking
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/166 Editing, e.g. inserting or deleting

Abstract

Methods are described for editing a remote blog that has a certain appearance and includes identifying a remote location of the blog includes blog-rendering code (which may also include or be associated with formatting code), automatically creating a local instance of the blog-rendering code, and automatically utilizing the local instance to present an editing environment that substantially mirrors the appearance of the remote blog.

Claims

1. One or more computer-readable media having computer-useable instructions embodied thereon for performing a method of editing a remote blog that has a certain appearance, the method comprising:

identifying a remote location associated with the blog that includes blog-rendering code that includes formatting code;

automatically creating a local instance of the blog-rendering code and a local instance of the formatting code; and

automatically utilizing the local instance of the blog-rending code and the local instance of the formatting code to present a local instance of an editing environment that substantially mirrors the appearance of the remote blog.

2. The media of claim 1, wherein the remote location includes one or more of:

a blog home page;

a wiki;

a website page that includes a blog; and

a portion of a website that includes at least one blog entry.

3. The media of claim 1, wherein the blog-rendering code includes a variation of a markup language source code.

4. The media of claim 3, wherein the variation of a markup language source code includes HTML (hypertext markup language).

5. The media of claim 1, wherein the formatting code includes one or more of:

a portion of the blog-rendering code; and

one or more formatting files accessible by the blog-rendering code.

6. The media of claim 5, wherein the portion of the formatting code includes CSS (cascading style sheet) code.

7. The media of claim 1, wherein the automatically creating includes copying to a user'"'"'s machine:

at least a portion of the blog-rendering code; and

at least a portion of the formatting code.

8. The media of claim 1, wherein automatically utilizing comprises:

parsing the blog-rending code to identify structured regions associated with blog editing; and

recreating at least a portion of the structured regions in the editing environment to receive user input.

9. The media of claim 8, wherein to present a local instance of an editing environment includes:

locally replicating the appearance of the remote location;

or

removing extraneous items from the remote location and presenting an editing environment that retains the formatting of the remote location.

10. The media of claim 1, further comprising:

utilizing the editing environment to receive user edits that create a blog post;

receiving an indication to publish the blog post to a user'"'"'s remote blog service; and

automatically facilitating the posting of the blog post to the user'"'"'s remote blog service.

11. The media of claim 10, further comprising:

receiving one or more indications to publish the blog post to multiple blog services; and

automatically facilitating the posting of the blog post to the multiple blog services.

12. A blog post composed by utilizing the computer-readable media of claim 1.

13. An editing template composed by utilizing the computer-readable media of claim 9.

14. One or more computer-readable media having computer-useable instructions embodied thereon for performing a method of editing a remote blog that has a certain appearance, the method comprising:

deriving an editing environment from the remote blog'"'"'s appearance; and

automatically presenting the editing environment to a user such that user edits may be received and presented as they will appear when posted consistent with the certain appearance.

15. The media of claim 14, wherein deriving an editing environment from the remote blog'"'"'s appearance comprises:

posting a temporary blog post to a user'"'"'s remote blog service that includes one or more identifiable tokens inserted into one or more structured regions;

downloading blog-rendering information associated with the remote blog service;

utilizing the identifiable tokens to determine from the blog-rendering information, one or more structured regions associated with the blog post;

reproducing the structured regions in the editing environment; and

utilizing the downloaded blog-rendering information to format the editing environment to match the remote blog'"'"'s appearance.

16. The media of claim 15, wherein the blog-rendering information includes one or more of:

blog-rendering source code;

formatting information; and

media components.

17. The media of claim 16, wherein the formatting information includes one or more selections from the following:

paragraph formatting information;

font formatting information;

structured-list formatting information including bulleted lists and numbered lists;

page formatting information; and

combinations thereof.

18. The media of claim 16, wherein the media components include one or more of:

a picture;

a sound;

a video; and

combinations thereof.

19. The media of claim 14, wherein deriving an editing environment from the remote blog'"'"'s appearance comprises:

requesting that a user'"'"'s blog service retrieve information associated with a remote blog post;

identifying from the information, identifiers respectively associated with structured regions of the post; and

utilizing the identifiers to identify the structured regions; and

recreating the structured regions locally.

20. One or more computer-readable media having computer-useable instructions embodied thereon for performing a method of editing a remote blog that has a certain appearance, the method comprising:

identifying a remote blog site, the remote blog site having an appearance;

determining what information blog-rendering code is associated with presenting the blog site in such a way to have the appearance; and

utilizing the information to present an editing environment with a format that substantially corresponds to the appearance.