Patent ID: 6223189
Filing Date: 2001-04-24
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
A charting metalanguage for defining a chart comprising:one or more tokens;at least one primary keyword that specifies a characteristic of a chart, each primary keyword being preceded by at least one token, the primary keyword being selected from the group consisting of domaintitle, rangetitle, legendtitle, title, and subtitle; anda text string following at least one primary keyword, wherein the primary keyword domaintitle, if used, contains a title in the text string that describes domain elements, the primary keyword rangetitle, if used, describes a Y-axis title in the text string, the primary keyword legendtitle, if used, contains a title for a legend box in the text string, the primary keyword title, if used, contains a main title of a chart in the text string, and the primary keyword subtitle, if used, contains a title that appears under the main title in the text string, and wherein the presence of one of the one or more tokens indicates that one of the primary keywords follows the token.