Patent ID: 9471557
Filing Date: 2016-10-18
CPC Classification: G06F

Claim Text:
1. A method comprising: receiving, at a computer system, a request from a client to obtain data that is to be imported into an electronic document at the client, the electronic document having a predetermined format that defines an appearance of the electronic document that is independent of a device used to present the electronic document; producing, at the computer system, data corresponding to the client request; generating, by the computer system, instructions to modify the electronic document, wherein the generated instructions (a) specify one or more operations to modify the electronic document's predetermined format at the client so as to accommodate importation of the produced data into the electronic document, (b) are performed at the client to effect the one or more operations, and (c) include a tag that indicates a temporal order in which (i) the produced data is to be imported into the electronic document and (ii) the operations to modify the electronic document's predetermined format are to be performed; and transmitting the produced data and the generated instructions to the client, wherein the tag is a before tag or an after tag, wherein the before tag indicates that the produced data is to be imported into the electronic document before the operations to modify the electronic document's predetermined format are performed, and wherein the after tag indicates that the produced data is to be imported into the electronic document after the operations to modify the electronic document's predetermined format are performed.