Methods and systems for creating, interacting with, and utilizing a superactive document

• US 10,565,300 B2
• Filed: 06/30/2017
• Issued: 02/18/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 10/25/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Open Text Corporation
• Original Assignee: Open Text Corporation
• Inventors: Kloiber, Daniel J., Marksbury, Davis L., Heinz, Christopher J., Guckenberger, Robert C., Heiney, Ronald L., Gibbs, Kenneth E.
• Primary Examiner(s): Huynh, Thu V
• Application Number:
  US15/639,624
• Publication Number:
  US 20170300465A1
• Time in Patent Office: 963 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/93 Document management systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/958 Organisation or management of web site content, e.g. publishing, maintaining pages or automatic linking
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/103 Formatting, i.e. changing of presentation of documents automatic justification G06F40/189; automatic line break hyphenation G06F40/191
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/143 Markup, e.g. Standard Generalized Markup Language [SGML] or Document Type Definition [DTD]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/166 Editing, e.g. inserting or deleting

Abstract

A method of processing an interactive document is enclosed.

Claims

1. A non-transitory computer readable medium storing computer-executable instructions for processing an interactive document, comprising instructions for:

providing an interactive document, via a document manipulation process, including;

at least one component for providing user-perceptible information relating to content of the interactive document; and

at least one interactive interview component;

receiving user input via live interaction of a first user with the at least one presented interactive interview component of the interactive document in which the first user is queried to select the content or supply the content, wherein the live interaction includes capturing data based on a live person-to-person interaction, and the at least one interactive interview component arranged to provide variability in strict content of the provided interactive document;

in response to the user input received via the live interaction of the first user that is related to information stored in an asynchronous external data source, retrieving predetermined external data from the asynchronous external data source, wherein the external data source is separate and independent of the interactive document and the retrieved external data is live information;

modifying the strict content of the interactive document utilizing the received user input and the external data by altering the strict content of the interactive document utilizing the user input received via the first user'"'"'s interaction with the at least one presented interactive component to create modified strict content different from both the original strict content and the retrieved external data;

storing the modified strict content in the interactive document in place of the original strict content to enable collaborative interaction with subsequent users of the interactive document; and

in response to a second user access the interactive document independently of the first user, providing the interactive document including the modified strict content to the second user so the second user is presented with the modified strict content when the interactive document is displayed to the second user.

2. The computer readable medium of claim 1, comprising:

storing the interactive document in a document repository.

3. The computer readable medium of claim 1, comprising:

in response to a predetermined condition, retrieving information from an asynchronous data source;

modifying the interactive document using the retrieved asynchronous information; and

storing the modified interactive document in a document repository, the modified interactive document comprising composite information that includes the received user-input information, the retrieved external data, and the retrieved asynchronous information.

4. The computer readable medium of claim 3, wherein the information retrieved from the asynchronous data source is not stored as fixed information.

5. The computer readable medium of claim 4, wherein the asynchronous data source comprises at least one of:

an application service provider accessible via a network communication link;

a live person-to-person interaction providing written or verbal information; and

a live streaming input accessible via the network communication link.

6. The computer readable medium of claim 3, comprising:

automatically spawning, via the composite information of the stored updated interactive document, an utilization process that includes the composite information, wherein the utilization process comprises at least one of;

generating a second document including at least some of the composite information and communicating the second document to a customer having an identity related to the contents of the interactive document;

fulfilling an order for goods or services;

regulating manufacturing inventory; and

producing printed materials.

7. The computer readable medium of claim 1, comprising:

providing a first instance of the interactive document to include an implemented design that establishes a scope of the interactive document that is not changeable by the user during subsequent modification of the interactive document, the scope including at least one of;

a type of content;

which non-asynchronous external data sources are accessible during the document manipulation process;

when the non-asynchronous external data sources are accessible relative to selecting the content of the interactive document;

authentication rules regarding an ability, based on an identity of a user type, to change content elements or format elements of the interactive document; and

format of components forming graphical user interface.

8. A non-transitory computer readable medium storing computer-executable instructions for processing an interactive document, the instructions for:

providing an interactive document, via a document manipulation process, including;

at least one component for providing user-perceptible information; and

at least one interactive interview component, the at least one presented interactive interview component arranged to provide variability in strict content of the document;

receiving user input via live interaction of a first user with the at least one interactive interview component of the interactive document, wherein the live interaction includes capturing data based on a live person-to-person interaction;

in response to the user input received via the live interaction of the first user that is related to live information stored in an asynchronous external data source, retrieving predetermined external data from the external data source, wherein the retrieved external data is live information;

modifying strict content of the interactive document utilizing composite information aggregated from the received user input and the external data by altering the strict content of the interactive document utilizing the composite information aggregated from the received user input to create modified strict content different from both the original strict content and the retrieved external data;

storing the modified strict content in the interactive document in place of the original strict content to enable collaborative interaction with subsequent users of the interactive document;

automatically spawning, via the composite information of the stored interactive document, a utilization process that includes the composite information; and

in response to a second user access the interactive document independently of the first user, providing the interactive document including the modified strict content to the second user so the second user is presented with the modified strict content when the interactive document is displayed to the second user.

9. The computer readable medium of claim 8, comprising:

upon completion of aggregating the composite information, performing the automatic spawning in real time without additional user prompts.

10. The computer readable medium of claim 8, comprising:

after the automatic spawning, storing updated composite information from the interactive document in the external data source to cause updating of the predetermined external data in the external data source.

11. The computer readable medium of claim 8, wherein providing the interactive document includes:

providing the interactive document as an implemented design that establishes a scope of the interactive document that is not changeable by the user of the interactive document, the scope including at least one of;

a type of content;

which external data sources are accessible during the document manipulation process;

a format of the graphical user interface, and

allowable user actions during the document manipulation process.

12. The computer readable medium of claim 8, comprising:

in response to a predetermined condition, retrieving information from an asynchronous data source;

performing the modifying of the interactive document utilizing composite information including the received user input, the external data, and the information from the asynchronous data source; and

automatically spawning, via the composite information of the stored updated interactive document, an utilization process that includes the composite information.

13. A system, comprising:

a processor;

a data store comprising interactive documents; and

a non-transitory computer readable medium comprising instructions for;

providing an interactive document, via a document manipulation process, including;

at least one component for providing user-perceptible information relating to content of the interactive document; and

at least one interactive interview component;

receiving user input via live interaction of a first user with the at least one presented interactive interview component of the interactive document in which the first user is queried to select the content or supply the content, wherein the live interaction includes capturing data based on a live person-to-person interaction, and the at least one interactive interview component arranged to provide variability in strict content of the provided interactive document;

in response to the user input received via the live interaction of the first user that is related to information stored in an asynchronous external data source, retrieving predetermined external data from the asynchronous external data source, wherein the external data source is separate and independent of the interactive document and the retrieved external data is live information;

modifying the strict content of the interactive document utilizing the received user input and the external data by altering the strict content of the interactive document utilizing the user input received via the first user'"'"'s interaction with the at least one presented interactive component to create modified strict content different from both the original strict content and the retrieved external data;

storing the modified strict content in the interactive document in place of the original strict content to enable collaborative interaction with subsequent users of the interactive document; and

in response to a second user access the interactive document independently of the first user, providing the interactive document including the modified strict content to the second user so the second user is presented with the modified strict content when the interactive document is displayed to the second user.

14. The system of claim 13, wherein the instructions include instructions for:

storing the interactive document in a document repository.

15. The system of claim 13, wherein the instructions include instructions for:

in response to a predetermined condition, retrieving information from an asynchronous data source;

modifying the interactive document using the retrieved asynchronous information; and

storing the modified interactive document in a document repository, the modified interactive document comprising composite information that includes the received user-input information, the retrieved external data, and the retrieved asynchronous information.

16. The system of claim 15, wherein the information retrieved from the asynchronous data source is not stored as fixed information.

17. The system of claim 16, wherein the asynchronous data source comprises at least one of:

an application service provider accessible via a network communication link;

a live person-to-person interaction providing written or verbal information; and

a live streaming input accessible via the network communication link.

18. The system of claim 15, wherein the instructions include instructions for:

automatically spawning, via the composite information of the stored updated interactive document, an utilization process that includes the composite information, wherein the utilization process comprises at least one of;

generating a second document including at least some of the composite information and communicating the second document to a customer having an identity related to the contents of the interactive document;

fulfilling an order for goods or services;

regulating manufacturing inventory; and

producing printed materials.

19. The system of claim 13, wherein the instructions include instructions for:

providing a first instance of the interactive document to include an implemented design that establishes a scope of the interactive document that is not changeable by the user during subsequent modification of the interactive document, the scope including at least one of;

a type of content;

which non-asynchronous external data sources are accessible during the document manipulation process;

when the non-asynchronous external data sources are accessible relative to selecting the content of the interactive document;

authentication rules regarding an ability, based on an identity of a user type, to change content elements or format elements of the interactive document; and

format of components forming graphical user interface.