Patent 7334099 was granted and assigned to Microsoft on February, 2008 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A method and system for managing image files is provided. The image files include a plurality of streams such as a control stream, a data stream, a bitmap stream, and a cluster map stream. An audit trail stream, properties stream and fix-up stream may also be provided. An image driver translates requests from the operating system so that the image can be read, edited or otherwise manipulated.