Method for the automatic generation of an interactive electronic equipment documentation package
AssigneeASM International N.V.
InventorMarinus A. van Driel
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Abstract
An interactive electronic equipment document production system is disclosed. Documents from different sources are standardized in a conversion process, provided with tags in a tagging process that provides information connecting an initial locating with another location and are evaluated in a building process where tags and tag information are evaluated. Though the use of associated files, CAD files and generic pictures can be provided with tags and links without modifying the actual CAD file or generic picture.
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A method to produce an interactive electronic equipment documentation package, the package comprising multiple documents with hyperlinks, the method comprising:
- receiving input documents;
- providing tags to the input documents, each of the tags including tag information defining a request for the formation of a link and the formation of a click-button relating to the link;
- storing the tagged documents in a storage medium;
- providing a project definition;
- selecting, based on the project definition, a first set of tagged documents from the tagged documents in the storage medium;
- selecting a second set of tagged documents from the tagged documents in the storage medium, wherein the selecting of the second set of tagged documents is based on the tag information for one or more tags in the first set of tagged documents;
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- creating links and click-buttons for the selected tagged documents based on the tag information associated with each tag.
A method for producing an electronic documentation package comprising:
- receiving a plurality of source documents;
- tagging the plurality of source documents with tags comprising information defining requests for forming the locations of click-buttons and hyperlinks to produce a plurality of tagged documents;
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- processing the plurality of tagged documents to determine whether documents and destinations defined in one or more of the requests for forming are available and, when available, forming the requested hyperlinks and click-buttons to produce a plurality of final documents that include the requested click-buttons and hyperlinks.
An apparatus for producing an electronic documentation package comprising:
- a tagging processor operable to provide tags to one or more input documents with one or more known file formats to produce a collection of tagged documents, each of the tags including tag information defining a request for the formation of a link and the formation of a click-button relating to the link;
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- a building processor operable to produce the electronic documentation package by:
- (i) selecting specific tagged documents from the collection of tagged documents based on a project definition, (ii) selecting additional tagged documents based on the tag information of the previously selected tagged documents to meet the requests, and (iii) forming between one or more of the selected documents one or more of the links and one or more of the click-buttons.
An electronic documentation package assembler comprising:
- conversion means for converting one or more input documents into one or more standardized input documents with one or more predefined standardized file formats;
- tagging means for providing tags to the one or more standardized documents to produce a collection of standardized tag documents, each of the tags including tag information defining a request for the formation of a link and the formation of a click-button relating to the link;
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- building means for producing the electronic documentation package by:
- (i) selecting specific standardized documents from the collection of standardized tag documents based on a project definition, (ii) selecting additional standardized tagged documents based on the tag information of the previously selected standardized tagged documents to meet the requests, and (iii) forming between one or more of the selected documents one or more of the links and one or more of the click-buttons.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.