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Rendering web content with a brush

  • US 8,312,365 B2
  • Filed: 06/11/2010
  • Issued: 11/13/2012
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/11/2010
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A computer-implemented method for exposing web content through a user interface brush, the method comprising:

  • receiving a request to create a web brush that displays web content, wherein web content is a web page available from the internet and wherein the web brush is a programmatic data type that can used by application program code to paint the content of the brush on a rendered surface;

    identifying web content to be displayed by the web brush;

    rendering the web content to prepare the content for display;

    capturing a snapshot of the rendered web content;

    receiving a request from a user interface element that paints with a brush for the captured snapshot of the rendered web content; and

    providing the captured snapshot of the rendered web content in response to the brush request,wherein the preceding steps are performed by at least one processor.

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