# US 2008/0189604 A1 · Derivative blog-editing environment > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 2008/0189604 A1 - Document ID: US20080189604A1 - Status: Published application - Kind: A1 - Application number: 11/627,732 - Filed: 2007-01-26 - Published: 2008-08-07 - Earliest claimed: 2007-01-26 - Assignees: Microsoft Corporation - Inventors: Donald "Spike" Arthur Washburn; Joseph James Allaire - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US20080189604A1 ## CPC - G06F 40/166: Editing, e.g. inserting or deleting - G06F 16/958: Organisation or management of web site content, e.g. publishing, maintaining pages or automatic linking - G06F: ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING (computer systems based on specific computational models G06N) ## 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 ### Claim 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. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) 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. ### Claim 3 (depends on 1) The media of claim 1, wherein the blog-rendering code includes a variation of a markup language source code. ### Claim 4 (depends on 3) The media of claim 3, wherein the variation of a markup language source code includes HTML (hypertext markup language). ### Claim 5 (depends on 1) 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. ### Claim 6 (depends on 5) The media of claim 5, wherein the portion of the formatting code includes CSS (cascading style sheet) code. ### Claim 7 (depends on 1) 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. ### Claim 8 (depends on 1) 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. ### Claim 9 (depends on 8) 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. ### Claim 10 (depends on 1) 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. ### Claim 11 (depends on 10) 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. ### Claim 12 (depends on 1) A blog post composed by utilizing the computer-readable media of claim 1. ### Claim 13 (depends on 9) An editing template composed by utilizing the computer-readable media of claim 9. ### Claim 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. ### Claim 15 (depends on 14) 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. ### Claim 16 (depends on 15) The media of claim 15, wherein the blog-rendering information includes one or more of: blog-rendering source code; formatting information; and media components. ### Claim 17 (depends on 16) 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. ### Claim 18 (depends on 16) The media of claim 16, wherein the media components include one or more of: a picture; a sound; a video; and combinations thereof. ### Claim 19 (depends on 14) 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. ### Claim 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.