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US 7,010,754 B2Granted
Method, system and user interface for inputting and manipulating tokenized strings
AssigneeSun Microsystems, Inc.
InventorMatthias Breuer
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AssigneeSun Microsystems, Inc.
InventorMatthias Breuer
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A computer-based method of interactively generating an index page displays a window including a list of index page types. Upon selection of one index page type in the list of index page types, a window including a list of index line types is displayed. Upon selection of one index line type in the list of index line types, a token string including a plurality of tokens is displayed. The plurality of tokens includes only tokens appropriate for the one index line. Upon selection of one token, or alternatively a window for entering content associated with the one token, user selectable attributes for the content associated with the at least one token are displayed.
A computer-based method of interactively generating an index page comprising:
A computer system comprising:
A computer program product for interactively generating an index page dialogue window, the computer program product comprising program code embodied in a tangible medium wherein execution of said program code results in a method comprising:
A system comprising:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.
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Editing, e.g. inserting or deleting: annotation, e.g. comment data or footnotes
Text processing: formatting, i.e. changing of presentation of documents
Parsing: parsing markup language streams
Database or file accessing: query processing, i.e. searching
Term ended 15 Sep 2021 (estimated)
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1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates generally to computer generated documents and in particular to computer generated index documents.
2. Description of Related Art
FIG. 1 is an illustrative example of a prior art index page.
FIG. 2 is a block diagram of a computer system that includes the method of this invention.
FIG. 3 is a schematic illustration showing an exemplary dialog window displayed on a display screen according to an embodiment of the present invention.
A method 230 (FIGS. 2 and 5), according to the present invention, allows a user to easily and conveniently generate each index line on an index page using a single user interface 295 that is displayed on monitor 216 of a computer system 200. Not only does each index line generated using interface 295 have a correct syntax, but also, the user is not required to use multiple different interfaces, e.g., a first interface to generate the index line and a second interface to edit portions of the index line.
Herein, an index page comprises a plurality of index lines, which have different functions and are formatted differently. An index page may include one or more physical pages of a document.
Although, the phrase “index line” is used here, an index line is not limited to a single line on the index page. In the sense of the present embodiment, an index line can actually comprise two or more physical lines of text that form a paragraph.