Re-Usable Clauses
AssigneeBusiness Integrity Limited
InventorPhilip Vasey
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Abstract
The present invention relates to the generation of customised documents using document templates and in particular to the generation of different types of customised documents including clauses or other portions of document content which are common to two or more types of customised document.
Claims16
A document generation system for generating a customised document using predetermined elements of document content selected by rules operating on input information, in which the system is arranged to retrieve a portion of document content from a first file, the portion of document content comprising a first document element, the system being further arranged to substitute the first document element with a second document element, the second document element being defined in a second file.
A master document for use in a document generation system, comprising a reference to a portion of document content stored in a file, the portion of document content comprising a first document element, the master document further comprising information defining a substitution of the first document element with a second document element.
A clause document for use in a document generation system, the clause document comprising a portion of document content, the portion of document content comprising a first document element, the clause document being retrievable by the document generation system such that the first document element can be substituted for a second document element, the second document element being defined by information contained in a master document.
A method for generating a customised document comprising the steps of retrieving a portion of document content from a first file, the portion of document content comprising a first document element;
- and substituting the first document element with a second document element, the second document element being defined in a second file.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.