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US 8,429,522 B2Granted
Correlation, association, or correspondence of electronic forms
AssigneeMicrosoft Corporation
InventorsConstantin Stanciu, Patrick Halstead, Andrey Shur, Edward G. Essey
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Abstract
Determining correspondence, association, and/or correlation between nodes of electronic forms based on schemas of those forms is described. Importing, merging, and/or annotating data from one electronic form into another electronic form based on correspondence, association, and/or correlation between nodes is also described.
Claims20
A method comprising:
- determining a first schema of a first electronic form and a second schema of a second electronic form;
- finding a transformation file based on the first schema and the second schema;
- applying the transformation file on the first electronic form to annotate the first electronic form with instructions to aid in importing data from the first electronic form into the second electronic form;
- and
- importing data included within the first electronic form into the second electronic form based on the instructions.
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One or more computer-readable storage media comprising computer-executable instructions that perform the following when executed by a computer:
- determine, without user interaction, a first schema of a first electronic form and a second schema of a second electronic form;
- annotate, without user interaction, the first electronic form if the first schema and the second schema are dissimilar by applying a transformation file on the first electronic form to add instructions regarding how to make the data of the first electronic form compatible with the second schema of the second electronic form;
- make compatible the data of the first electronic form with the second schema of the second electronic form based on the instructions regarding how to make the data of the first electronic form compatible with the second schema of the second electronic form;
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- import the compatible data of the first electronic into the second electronic form.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.