Creation of component templates

• US 10,552,107 B2
• Filed: 12/02/2015
• Issued: 02/04/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 12/02/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Open Text Corporation
• Original Assignee: Open Text Corporation
• Inventors: Downs, James Matthew, Kidwell, Billy R., Wiley, Anthony
• Primary Examiner(s): Lam, Andrew H
• Application Number:
  US15/780,698
• Publication Number:
  US 20180364960A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,525 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1204 resulting in reduced user or operator actions, e.g. presetting, automatic actions, using hardware token storing data
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1257 by using pre-stored settings, e.g. job templates, presets, print styles
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/131 Fragmentation of text files, e.g. creating reusable text-blocks; Linking to fragments, e.g. using XInclude; Namespaces
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/186 Templates
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/194 Calculation of difference between files
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 30/248 involving plural approaches, e.g. verification by template match; Resolving confusion among similar patterns, e.g. "O" versus "Q" G06V30/242 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 30/414 Extracting the geometrical structure, e.g. layout tree; Block segmentation, e.g. bounding boxes for graphics or text
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/233 according to characteristics of the data to be reproduced, e.g. number of lines

Abstract

In one example of the disclosure, a set of electronic document templates is accessed and instances of duplicated document content are identified. Display of a user notice for first duplicated document content is caused. Responsive to receipt of data indicative of a user instruction to create a component template for the first duplicated content, the component template is created and stored.

Claims

1. A system for creation of component templates, comprising:

an identification engine, to access a set of electronic document templates and identify instances of duplicated document content contained in two or more electronic document templates of the set of electronic document templates;

a notice engine, to cause display of a user notice for first duplicated document content; and

a component template engine, to, responsive to receipt of data indicative of a user instruction to create a component template for the first duplicated content, create the component template corresponding to the two or more electronic document templates of the set of electronic document templates, wherein the component template contains the duplicated content identified in the two or more electronic document templates and is configured to enable new documents to be generated therefrom, and store the component template.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the first duplicated document content is duplicated text or a duplicated image identified in a first document and a second document of the set of electronic document templates.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the first duplicated document content is a duplicated document structure identified in a first document and a second document of the set of electronic document templates.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the first duplicated content is identical content identified in a first document and a second document of the set of electronic document templates.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the first duplicated content is content of a first document of the set of electronic document templates that is determined to be within a pre-defined degree of similarity of content of a second document of the set of electronic document templates.

6. The system of claim 5, wherein the component template engine is to identify a comprehensive version of the first duplicated content that includes the greatest number of display elements as between the first duplicated content and the second duplicated content.

7. The system of claim 5, wherein the component template engine into create the component template to include a user-selected version of the first duplicated content that was selected by a user as between the first duplicated content and the second duplicated content.

8. The system of claim 1, further comprising a dead content engine to analyze a plurality of component templates stored in a component template library to identify as dead content included in content templates and not utilized by a subject application within a specified time period, and to delete the dead content from the component templates.

9. The system of claim 8, wherein the dead content engine is to cause display of a user alert descriptive of the dead content, and is to delete the dead content from the component templates responsive to receipt of data indicative of a user instruction to delete.

10. The system of claim 1, further comprising a design rule test engine to run a design rule test upon the component template and to, responsive to a determination of violation or failure of the design rule, cause provision of user notice indicative of the violation or failure.

11. The system of claim 1, wherein the set of electronic document templates is a first set, and further comprising a performance rule test engine to run a performance rule test of incorporation of the component template into a second set of electronic document templates, and to, responsive to receipt of data indicative of a violation of a design rule that was caused by the incorporation, cause provision of a user notice indicative of the design rule violation.

12. The system of claim 1, wherein the created component template is a first created component template and is stored in a database, and further comprising a document analysis engine to analyze a subject document to identify a set of subject document sections, to search the database to determine that the first component template is a duplicate to a first subject document section, and to create and store component templates for the set of identified subject document sections except for the first subject document section.

13. A memory resource storing instructions that when executed cause a processing resource to create component templates, the instructions comprising:

an identification module that when executed causes the processing resource to access a set of electronic document templates, and to identify as duplicated document content instances where content of a first document template of the set of electronic document templates is determined to be within a pre-defined degree of similarity relative to content of a second document template of the set of electronic document templates;

a notice module that when executed causes the processing resource to cause display of a user notice for first duplicated document content; and

a component template module that when executed causes the processing resource to, responsive to receipt of data indicative of a user instruction to create a component template for the first duplicated content, create the component template corresponding to the two or more electronic document templates of the set of electronic document templates, wherein the component template contains the duplicated content identified in the two or more electronic document templates and is configured to enable new documents to be generated therefrom, and store the component template.

14. The memory resource of claim 13, wherein the component template module when executed causes the processing resource to store the component template at a database, and further comprising a document analysis module that when executed causes the processing resource to scan a hard copy version of a first document to identify a set of document sections, to search the database to determine that a first component template in the database is a duplicate to a first document section of the set of document sections, and to create and store at the database component templates for the set of identified document sections excepting the first document section.

15. A method to create component templates, comprising:

accessing a set of electronic document templates;

identifying instances of duplicated document content in two or more electronic document templates of the set of electronic document templates;

displaying a user notice for first duplicated document content;

creating a component template in response to receiving data indicative of a user instruction to create the component template for the first duplicated content;

storing the created component template at a database;

analyzing a subject document to identify a set of subject document sections;

searching the database to determine that a first component template in the database is a duplicate to a first subject document section; and

creating and storing component templates for the set of identified subject document sections except for the first subject document section.