System for processing objects for storage in a document or other storage system

• US 20030061229A1
• Filed: 09/06/2002
• Published: 03/27/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 09/08/2001
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Cerner Innovation, Inc. (Oracle Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Siemens Medical Solutions Health Services Corporation (Siemens AG)
• Inventors: Racis, Frank W., Flamma, Bruce M., Lusen, William D.
• Granted Patent: US 6,999,972 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/102
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/258 Data format conversion from or to a database
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/93 Document management systems
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 30/20 for handling medical images, e.g. DICOM, HL7 or PACS
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/955 Object-oriented
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99942 Manipulating data structure, e.g. compression, compaction, compilation
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99943 Generating database or data structure, e.g. via user interface
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99944 Object-oriented database structure
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99945 Object-oriented database structure processing
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99948 Application of database or data structure, e.g. distributed, multimedia, or image

Abstract

The invention is directed to a system for processing data to be stored in a document-imaging system that includes a posting processor programmed for receiving at least one object containing the data; a bursting processor programmed for bursting the object to create at least one bursted object; an index extraction processor programmed for extracting indexing information on the bursted object; and a communication processor programmed for transmitting the transformed bursted object and the indexing information to the document-imaging system. The invention may further include a transformation processor for transforming the bursted object and a user interface for configuring the system.

Claims

1. A system for processing an input document for storage, comprising:

an input processor for receiving an input document;

a document processor for dividing said input document to create one or more objects and for organizing said one or more objects into output documents;

an index extraction processor for extracting indexing information associated with said one or more objects; and

a communication interface for providing an output of said output documents and said indexing information.

2. The system of claim 1, further comprising a transform processor for conditionally transforming said one or more objects into alternative objects.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein said index extraction processor extracts indexing information including at least one of, (a) document type identification information and (b) file format identification information, for use in identifying desired output document characteristics.

4. The system of claim 3, wherein said document processor organizes said one or more objects by accumulating objects of said one or more objects having said desired output document characteristics into a particular target output document.

5. The system of claim 3, wherein said document processor iteratively divides and organizes a document in response to document type identification information.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein said document processor, examines said input document to identify input document type and divides said input document to create one or more objects and organizes said one or more objects into said output documents using predetermined rules selected based on said identified input document type.

25. The method of claim 3, further comprising the step of iteratively dividing and organizing a document in response to document type identification information.

26. The method of claim 1, further comprising the step of examining said input document to identify input document type and divides said input document to create one or more objects and organizes said one or more objects into said output documents using predetermined rules selected based on said identified input document type.

7. A user interface system supporting processing an input document for storage, comprising the steps of:

initiating generation of at least one displayed image including image elements supporting user entry of information associating an input document type and document management rules;

passing said user entry information to a data processor for identifying an input document type;

determining document managing rules in response to said identified input document type;

dividing an input document to create one or more objects and organizing said one or more objects into output documents in response to said determined document management rules;

extracting indexing information associated with said one or more objects; and

providing an output of said output documents and said indexing information.

8. A system for processing data to be stored in a document-imaging system comprising:

a posting processor for receiving at least one object containing said data;

a bursting processor for bursting said object to create at least one bursted object;

an index extraction processor for extracting indexing information on said bursted object; and

a communication processor for transmitting said bursted object and said indexing information to said document-imaging system.

9. The system of claim 8, wherein said object received by said posting processor is in XML format and further comprising a transformation processor programmed to transform said bursted object to create a transformed bursted object.

10. The system of claim 9, wherein said index information for said transformed bursted object is read from an associated tag file.

11. The system of claim 8, wherein said posting processor incorporates posting rules having one or more attributes selected from the group consisting of report name, report extension, hospital region code, report type, and forced hospital region.

12. The system of claim 8, wherein said bursting processor incorporates bursting rules having one or more attributes selected from the group consisting of report type, document type, file format, bursting type, and supporting information.

13. The system of claim 12, wherein said bursting type comprises one or more types selected from the group consisting of constant bursting, last page bursting, first page bursting, key bursting, variable bursting, XML element bursting, bulk bursting, and bypass bursting.

14. The system of claim 8, wherein said bursting processor is further programmed to perform one or more functions selected from the group consisting of pre-bursting preparation by repaginating said object received from said posting processor, processing with the report'"'"'s header and trailer pages, ignoring carriage returns and line feeds near form feeds, support for tag files, ghost posting, and backing off of said object received from said posting processor.

15. The system of claim 9, wherein said transformation processor incorporates transformation rules having one or more attributes selected from the group consisting of report type, new document type, and a file name.

16. The system of claim 8, wherein said index extraction processor incorporates index extractions rules having one or more attributes selected from the group consisting of document type, file format, owner type, index level, index XPath, extraction type, index part value, index default value, and supporting information.

17. The system of claim 16, wherein said index level comprises a value base upon one or more indexes selected from the group consisting of a rule defaulted index, a passed index, header/trailer index, and a first document index.

18. The system of claim 8, wherein said index extraction processor incorporates one or more index extraction methods selected from the group consisting of no extraction, row/column extraction, column extraction, fixed from string extraction, variable from string extraction, variable extraction, from previous index extraction, XML element extraction, window extraction, default extraction,

19. The system of claim 8, wherein said index extraction processor is further programmed to perform one or more functions selected from the group consisting of ignoring carriage returns and line feeds near form feeds, multiprocessing, data adjustment, no adjustment, numeric adjustment, date adjustment, literal month adjustment, text adjustment, and mapping.

20. The system of claim 8, further comprising a user interface programmed for configuring said system.

21. A method of processing an input document for storage comprising the steps of:

receiving an input document;

dividing said input document to create one or more objects and for organizing said one or more objects into output documents;

extracting indexing information associated with said one or more objects; and

providing an output of said output documents and said indexing information.

22. The method of claim 21, further comprising the step of conditionally transforming said one or more objects into alternative objects.

23. The method of claim 21, wherein said indexing information includes at least one of (a) document type identification information and (b) file format identification information, for use in identifying desired output document characteristics.

24. The method of claim 23, further comprising the step of organizing said one or more objects by accumulating objects of said one or more objects having said desired output document characteristics into a particular target output document.