Document management systems for and methods of sharing documents
First Claim
1. A method of exchanging a document between at least two document management systems, comprising the steps of:
- placing at least a first document in a first predetermined serialized format at a first document management system to generate a serialized document;
transferring the serialized document from the first document management system to a second document management system;
receiving the serialized document at the second document management system; and
converting the serialized document into a second predetermined format at the second document management system to generate a converted serialized document.
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Abstract
The document management systems or modules generally have their unique requirements for the document formats and or the information that are stored for the management of documents. Because of the above requirements, the prior art document management systems or modules fail to exchange or share the documents. The document management systems and modules of the current invention overcome the above difficulties by converting the document data requirements from one system to another. The conversion includes a predetermined set of procedures where certain data is added, deleted or modified so that the documents are compatible among the document management systems, units or modules.
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1. A method of exchanging a document between at least two document management systems, comprising the steps of:
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placing at least a first document in a first predetermined serialized format at a first document management system to generate a serialized document;
transferring the serialized document from the first document management system to a second document management system;
receiving the serialized document at the second document management system; and
converting the serialized document into a second predetermined format at the second document management system to generate a converted serialized document. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19)
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20. A system for sharing a document between at least two document management units, comprising:
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a first document management unit for managing a first document;
a serialized document generation unit connected to said first document management unit for placing the first document in a first predetermined serialized format to generate a serialized document;
a first communication unit connected to said serialized document generation unit for transferring the serialized document;
a second communication unit connected to said first communication unit for receiving the serialized document;
a serialized document conversion unit connected to said second communication unit for converting the serialized document into a second predetermined format to generate a converted serialized document; and
a second document management unit operationally connected to said serialized document conversion unit for managing the converted serialized document. - View Dependent Claims (21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47)
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39. A storage medium for storing an interface program for document management modules, the interface program executing computer instructions to perform the following tasks of:
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placing at least a first document in a first predetermined serialized format at a first document management module to generate a serialized document;
transferring the serialized document from the first document management module to a second document management module;
receiving the serialized document at the second document management module; and
converting the serialized document into a second predetermined format at the second document management module to generate a converted serialized document.
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