US 8,788,469 B2Granted

Systems and methods for organizing and validating data in documents

AssigneeJuniper Networks, Inc.

InventorNorman Ken Ouchi

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Abstract

The invention relates to information exchange when a design organization sends a design document to a manufacturer. The design documents may have errors and, once detected, the errors may not be corrected by the design organization. The documents may be resent with a small number of changes or perhaps no changes at all, but may have errors that have been seen before. The documents may have many items that are not important to the receiving organization. A dictionary is used to validate and correct the documents. Changes in the dictionary may require changes in the information used by the manufacturer. The invention provides a system and method for use with a computer that aids in the validation and correction of the information contained in the document, in that it detect changes in the document when resent so that the changes are validated or corrected, filters the document so that only relevant information is processed, detects changes in the dictionary so that only changes are processed, and filters the dictionary so that only relevant information in the dictionary is processed. In addition, the invention provides means to initialize the information that are in use and assumed to be valid to avoid the validation and correction of the information.

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Dependent claims

A computer-implemented method, comprising:

storing the data of a first version of a design document in a first version table within a memory of a computer associated with a second entity, the first version of the design document being sent from a computer associated with a first entity, the first version of the design document being produced at the computer associated with the first entity before the first version of the design document is sent from the computer associated with the first entity;
storing the data of a second version of the design document in a second version table within the memory of the computer associated with the second entity, the second version of the design document being received from the computer associated with the first entity after first version of the design document was received from the computer associated with the first entity;
and
comparing the data of the second version table with the data of the first version table to detect a change in the data between the first version of the design document and the second version of the design document,
if a change in the data is detected, setting the first version table to the second version table;
using, at the computer associated with the second entity, a dictionary with correct data for the design document to correct and validate the data of the second version table to produce a corrected and validated internal version table;
and
storing the corrected and validated internal version table within the memory of the computer associated with the second entity such that the memory of the computer associated with the second entity includes the corrected and validated internal version table and the first version table at a given time.

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A processor-readable medium storing code representing instructions that when executed by a processor cause the processor to perform a process, the code comprising code to:

store a past version of a design document sent from a computer associated with a first entity within a memory of a computer associated with a second entity;
store a new version of the design document sent from the computer associated with the first entity, the new version of the design document being sent from the computer associated with the first entity after the past version of the design document was sent;
store a dictionary within the memory of the computer associated with the second entity, contents of the dictionary being accessible to the second entity and not accessible to the first entity;
and
set the past version of the design document to the new version of the design document when the new version of the design document and the past version of the design document differ, and
after the past version of the design document is set to the new version of the design document, correct, at the computer associated with the second entity, the data that has changed between the past version of the design document and new version of the design document using the dictionary to produce a new design document with data-to-use, the new version of the design document with data-to-use being accessible to the second entity and not accessible to the first entity.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 11/245,717Filed 8 Oct 2005 · continuation
Priority: 21 Dec 2001
Published: US 2006/0047676 A12 Mar 2006
Granted: 22 Jul 2014
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification5 codes

G06Q 10/06
Administration; Management: resources, workflows, human or project management; Enterprise or organisation planning; Enterprise or organisation…
Y10S 707/99945
Object-oriented database structure: object-oriented database structure processing
Y10S 707/99954
Coherency, e.g. same view to multiple users: version management
G06Q
Information and communication technology [ict] specially adapted for administrative, commercial, financial, managerial

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Application10/037,544Parent of this continuation · filed 21 Dec 2001
US 2006/0047676 A1Pre-grant publication · published 2 Mar 2006
US 6,954,766 B2Parent of this continuation
US 2003/0182321 A1Published application
US 8,788,469 B2This patent

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