Computer-based document management system
AssigneeCaere Corporation
InventorsDavid R. Ferguson, An N. Hong, Dani Suleman, Gregory L. Whittemore, Roland Borges
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Abstract
A computer-based electronic document and/or paper-based document management application program. The program provides an efficient way to automatically import, index, categorize, store, search, retrieve, manipulate and archive electronic documents. The program is also capable of managing documents regardless of document type or document format.
Claims39
In a computer-based document management system, a method for maintaining a collection of electronic documents comprising the steps of:
- creating a clipped document data structure and an associated storage file;
- generating a link between the clipped document data structure and each of a plurality of electronic component documents stored in memory, wherein each of the plurality of electronic component documents have an associated storage file;
- storing a link between the clipped document data structure and each of the storage files associated with the plurality of electronic component documents in the storage file associated with the compound document data structure;
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- maintaining a sequential order in which each of the plurality of electronic component documents are linked to the clipped document data structure.
A computer-readable storage medium having stored therein an electronic document management program which executes the steps of:
- generating a clipped document data structure and an associated storage file;
- linking each of a plurality of electronic component documents, stored in memory, to the clipped document data structure, regardless of document type and document format, wherein each of the plurality of electronic component documents have an associated storage file;
- storing a link between the clipped document data structure and each of the storage files associated with the plurality of electronic component documents in the storage file associated with the compound document data structure;
- maintaining the sequential order in which each of the plurality of component documents were linked to the clipped document data structure;
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- displaying a computer generated representation of the clipped document data structure.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.