Integrated media management and processing system

• US 20020040373A1
• Filed: 03/30/2001
• Published: 04/04/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 10/04/2000
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Boheads Cross Media GmbH
• Original Assignee: Boheads Cross Media GmbH
• Inventors: Hirtsiefer, Bodo, Wichert, Wolfgang, Schuba, Marian
• Application Number:
  US09/823,779
• Publication Number:
  US 20020040373A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/515
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/258 Data format conversion from or to a database
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/93 Document management systems

Abstract

The invention relates to a system for managing and processing digital media by means of an electronic data processing installation. The system consists of a data bank, in which digital media such as pictures, texts, charts, product data etc. are filed and managed in a standardized, neutral data bank format. The different digital media can be converted into the data bank format by means of suitable input and output filters. The media are managed in the data bank in the form of linked data objects. The linkages of the data objects define the layout of documents which can be output for publication purposes by means of suitable output routines in different output formats such as, for example Postscript and HTML.

Claims

1. A system for managing and processing digital media (9) by an electronic data processing installation, comprising:

a data bank (1), having data objects (14, 17) filed in a media-neutral data bank format;

at least one program module (5) for converting the digital media (9) into said data objects (14, 17) in the media-neutral data bank format;

at least one program module for linking said data objects (14, 17) filed in said data bank (1) to documents (16); and

at least one program module (3) for outputting the documents in at least one output format.

2. The system for managing and processing digital media according to claim 1, comprising a program module for extracting data objects from documents.

3. The system for managing and processing digital media according to claim 1, wherein said program module is rule-based for automatically linking data objects filed in said data bank into documents.

4. The system for managing and processing digital media according to claim 1, comprising a user interface for linking said data objects filed in said data bank.

5. The system for managing and processing digital media according to claim 1, wherein the documents can be output in a page written language.