Patent ID: 9378190
Filing Date: 2016-06-28
CPC Classification: G06F,Y10S

Claim Text:
1. A computer-implemented method comprising: receiving, at a computer system, first information that describes first input provided to a user interface of an application displaying a word processing document; accessing, by the computer system, an edit table and a format table that are associated with the word processing document, wherein the edit table comprises entries that correlate portions of text to locations in the word processing document and the format table comprises format entries that each define a unique format to be applied to a portion of text in the word processing document; identifying, by the computer system, the first input as a first type of command to adjust textual content at a first location in the word processing document to have a particular format; selecting, in response to the identifying, a particular format entry from the format table that corresponds to the particular format; identifying an entry in the edit table that corresponds to the textual content; modifying the entry in the edit table to refer to the particular format entry selected from the format table for the textual content; and providing, by the computer system, a first indication that the edit table has been updated.