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US 7,032,170 B2Granted
Creating data structures from a form file and creating a web page in conjunction with corresponding data structures
AssigneeGeneral Electric Company
InventorsAsha Poulose, Rajasekhar Kalahasthi, Neeraj Bharti, Michael Steven Olle
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Abstract
The invention provides a system and method for creating a form. The method includes providing a graphical user interface including a plurality of selectable components and a design space; a creator selecting at least one of the selectable components and disposing each of the selected selectable components in the design space to generate a form layout; converting the form layout to data information; and saving the data information to a form file, the form file being output to a database over a network.
Claims23
A method for creating a form comprising:
- providing a graphical user interface including a plurality of selectable components and a design space;
- a creator selecting at least one of the selectable components and disposing each of the selected selectable components in the design space to generate a form layout;
- converting the form layout to data information using JSP processing;
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- saving the data information to a form file, the form file being output to a database over a network;
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- further including retrieving the form file from the database, the data information in the form file including text information and coordinate information;
- reading the form file and creating corresponding data structures based on reading the form file;
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- reading the form file and creating a web page, the web page created in conjunction with linking the web page with the corresponding data structures;
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- wherein reading the form file and creating corresponding data structures based on reading the form file is performed by a database parser in a web server;
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- reading the form file and creating the web page, the web page created in conjunction with linking the web page with the corresponding data structures, is performed by a language parser.
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A system for creating a form comprising:
- a web browser, the web browser providing a graphical user interface including a plurality of selectable components and a design space, the graphical user interface providing for a user to select at least one of the selectable components and to dispose each of the selected selectable components in the design space to generate a form layout that represents the form, the web browser converting the form layout to data information;
- a web server, the web server saving the data information to a form file;
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- a database, the form file being output to the database over a network;
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- wherein the form file is read by a database parser and corresponding data structures are created based on reading the form file;
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- the form file is read by a language parser and a web page is created, the web page created in conjunction with linking the web page with the corresponding data structures.
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A method for creating a form comprising:
- providing a graphical user interface including a plurality of selectable components and a design space;
- a creator selecting at least one of the selectable components and dragging each of the selected selectable components into the design space to generate a form layout, the user selecting a property of at least one of the selected selectable components;
- converting the form layout to data information;
- saving the data information to a form file, the form file being output to a database over a network, the saving the data information to a form file including providing the form file to a web server, the web server outputting the form file to the data base;
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- retrieving the form file from the database, the data information in the form file including text information and coordinate information;
- reading the form file and creating corresponding data structures based on reading the form file;
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- reading the form file and creating a web page, the web page created in conjunction with linking the web page with the corresponding data structures.
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A system for creating a form comprising:
- a web browser, the web browser providing a graphical user interface including a plurality of selectable components and a design space, the graphical user interface providing for a user to select at least one of the selectable components and to dispose each of the selected selectable components in the design space to generate a form layout that represents the form, the web browser converting the form layout to data information;
- a web server, the web server saving the data information to a form file;
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- a database, the form file being output from the web server to the database over a network;
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- wherein the data information includes text information and coordinate information;
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- wherein the form file is read by a database parser and corresponding data structures are created based on reading the form file;
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- the form file is read by a language parser and a web page is created, the web page created in conjunction with linking the web page with the corresponding data structures;
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- wherein the providing for a user to select at least one of the selectable components and to dispose each of the selected selectable components in the design space includes dragging a selected selectable component into the design space.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.