System and method for document driven actions
AssigneeOpen Text Corporation
InventorSimon Dominic Copsey
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Abstract
A system and method are disclosed for tracking documents in a computing environment, including documents stored locally on computing devices. A monitoring module stored on a computing device may determine that a user is trying to open a document stored locally on the computing device and communicate a signature associated with the document to a document tracking system. A document tracking system may compare the signature with a set of stored signatures to see if the document corresponds to a document already being tracked. If the document is not being tracked already, the document tracking system may upload the document into the system, send a link to a newer version or determine one or more actions to be performed on the document based on the signature.
Claims20
A method for document driven actions, comprising:
- maintaining a set of signatures corresponding to documents tracked by a document tracking system and a set of associated actions, each action in the set of associated actions associated with a signature in the set of signatures;
- receiving, at the document tracking system, a document signature associated with a document from a client computing device;
- determining, at the document tracking system, that the document signature matches one of the set of signatures;
- determining, at the document tracking system, an action associated with the document signature;
- sending a message to a monitoring module including information about the action;
- and
- performing the action at the monitoring module.
A system for document driven actions, comprising:
- a client computing device comprising a monitoring module;
- and
- a document tracking system in communication with the client computing device, wherein:
- the monitoring module configured to:
- monitor the client computing device to detect attempts to open documents at the client computing device;
- and
- in response to detecting an attempt to open a document, send a document signature for the document to the document tracking system;
- perform an action specified in a message from the document tracking system;
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- the document tracking is configured to:
- maintain a set of signatures corresponding to tracked documents and a set of associated actions, each action in the set of associated actions associated with a signature in the set of signatures;
- receive the document signature from the monitoring module;
- in response to determining that the document signature matches a signature in the set of signatures, determine if there is an action associated with the document signature;
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- in response to determining that there is the action associated with the document signature, send the message to the monitoring module specifying the action.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.