System and method for comprising manual function for managing a form

• US 20030192008A1
• Filed: 10/29/2002
• Published: 10/09/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 09/16/2000
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Hong_Kyu Lee
• Original Assignee: Hong_Kyu Lee
• Inventors: Lee, Hong_Kyu
• Application Number:
  US10/258,903
• Publication Number:
  US 20030192008A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/224
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/174 Form filling; Merging

Abstract

The present invention relates to system and method for comprising manual function for filling in a form. More particularly, the present invention relates to an electronic file is composed of a form and at least one manual fo filling in the form, which file can be made by one user and provided to the other users. According to user'"'"'s ‘open’ command, a user terminal displays a requested form comprising manual function on the screen. Afterwards, if a cursor is located in a pre-designated range (such as blank in a sentence, cell in a table, etc.) for automatically executing a manual function, the user terminal automatically searches for a manual corresponding to the pre-designated range. And the user terminal displays the searched manual on the pre-designated area of the screen. Thereby the form can be filled out easily without any other information or other people'"'"'s assistance.

Claims

1. A method for generating a form comprising manual function by using a form management program, wherein the form management program is installed in a user terminal and executed according to a execution command of a user, said method comprising the steps of:

displaying a working document on a screen of the user terminal;

displaying a manual-inserting area corresponding to the manual-inserting command on the screen, when a manual-inserting command is inputted by the user;

linking a position information to a manual information, when the manual information is inputted in the manual-inserting area, wherein the position information is equivalent to the cursor position in case that the manual-inserting command is inputted in a working document; and

saving the manual information in a storage device.

2. The method according to claim 1, further comprising the step of inserting at least one subsidiary form in the manual-inserting area, wherein the subsidiary form comprises at least one selected from the group consisting of a table, a text and a figure.

3. The method according to claim 2, further comprising the steps of:

displaying the manual-inserting area corresponding to the manual-inserting command on the screen, when the manual-inserting command is inputted at a position in the subsidiary form by user;

linking a position information to a manual information, when the manual information is inputted in the manual-inserting area, wherein the position information is equivalent to the cursor position in case that the manual-inserting command is inputted in the working document; and

saving the manual information in the storage device.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein said form management program comprises a manual-addition function in the form.

5. The method according to claim 1, wherein said user terminal is at least one selected from the group consisting of a computer, a mobile phone and a personal digital assistant (PDA).

6. The method according to claim 1, wherein said form management program is at least one selected from the group consisting of a word processor, a spreadsheet, a web site creation and management tool, a mapping program, a diagramming program and an image editing program.

7. The method according to claim 1, wherein the position information corresponding to the manual-inserting command is a range information comprising a cursor position of at least one selected from the group consisting of a table, a text and a figure in the working document.

8. A method for using a form comprising manual function by using a form management program, wherein the form management program is installed in a user terminal and executed according to a execution command of a user, said method comprising the steps of:

displaying the form comprising manual function on a screen of the user terminal, when an ‘

open’

command for displaying the form comprising manual function is inputted by user;

determining whether a cursor is located in a pre-designated range or not, wherein the pre-designated range is designated for automatically executing a manual function;

retrieving a manual corresponding to the pre-designated range, when the cursor is located in the pre-designated range; and

displaying the manual on the screen.

9. The method according to claim 8, said step of displaying the manual on the screen is at least one selected from the group consisting of a step of splitting the display into two, a step of using a dialog box and a method of using a alarm message so as to display the manual and the form on the screen.

10. The method according to claim 8, further comprising the steps of:

displaying a manual corresponding to the subsidiary form, when the manual comprises at least one subsidiary form, wherein the subsidiary form can be selectively inserted in the form by user;

retrieving the subsidiary form in a storage device, when the selection information of a subsidiary form is inputted by user; and

inserting the subsidiary form in the form.

11. The method according to claim 10, further comprising the steps of:

retrieving a manual corresponding to the pre-designated range, when the subsidiary form comprises a manual and the cursor is located in the pre-designated range for automatically executing a manual function; and

displaying the manual on the screen.

12. A method for generating a form comprising manual function by using a network comprising the steps of:

receiving a document-generating request from a user terminal;

receiving a manual-inserting request at a position in a working document from the user terminal;

sending a manual-inserting area corresponding to the manual-inserting request to the user terminal;

receiving a manual information from the user terminal, wherein the manual information is inputted in the manual-inserting area;

linking a position information to the manual information, when the manual information is inputted in the manual-inserting area, wherein the position information is equivalent to a cursor position in case that the manual-inserting request is inputted in a working document; and

saving the manual information in a storage device.

13. The method according to claim 12, further comprising the step of inserting at least one subsidiary form in the manual-inserting area, wherein the subsidiary form comprises at least one of a table, a text and a figure.

14. The method according to claim 13, further comprising the steps of:

receiving the manual-inserting request at a position in the subsidiary form from user terminal;

sending a manual-inserting area corresponding to the manual-inserting request to user terminal;

receiving a manual information which is inputted in the manual-inserting area;

linking a position information to the manual information, when the manual information is inputted in the manual-inserting area, wherein the position information is equivalent to the cursor position in case that the manual-inserting request is inputted in the working document; and

saving the manual information in the storage device.

15. The method according to claim 12, wherein said network is a wireless communication or a cable communication.

16. The method according to claim 12, wherein said user terminal is at least one selected from the group consisting of a computer, a mobile phone and a personal digital assistant (PDA).

17. A method for using a form comprising manual function by using a network comprising the steps of:

receiving an ‘

open’

request for displaying a form from a user terminal;

retrieving a form corresponding to the ‘

open’

request in a storage device;

sending the form to the user terminal;

retrieving a manual corresponding to the pre-designated range, when the form comprises manual function and a cursor is located in the pre-designated range for automatically executing a manual function; and

sending the manual to the user terminal.

18. The method according to claim 17, further comprising the steps of:

sending a manual corresponding to a subsidiary form, when the manual comprises at least one subsidiary form, wherein the subsidiary form can be selectively inserted in the form by user;

retrieving the subsidiary form in a storage device, when the selection information of a subsidiary form is received from the user terminal; and

inserting the subsidiary form in the form.

19. The method according to claim 18, further comprising the steps of:

retrieving a manual corresponding to the pre-designated range in the storage device, when the subsidiary form comprises corresponding manual and the cursor is located in the pre-designated range for automatically executing a manual function; and

sending the retrieved manual to user terminal.

20. A system for generating a form comprising manual function by using a network, said system comprising:

means for receiving a document-generating request, a manual-inserting request or a manual information from a user terminal;

means for sending a manual-inserting area corresponding to the manual-inserting request to user terminal;

means for linking a position information to the manual information, when the manual information is inputted in the manual-inserting area, wherein the position information is equivalent to a cursor position in case that the manual-inserting request is inputted in a working document; and

means for saving the manual information.

21. A system for providing a form comprising manual function by using a network, said system comprising:

means for receiving an ‘

open’

request for displaying a form from a user terminal;

means for retrieving a form or manual corresponding to the user'"'"'s ‘

open’

request;

means for sensing a cursor position; and

means for sending the form or manual to the user terminal.

22. An apparatus for generating a form comprising manual function, said apparatus comprising:

a storage device; and

a processor coupled to said storage device,

wherein said storage device storing a program for controlling said processor; and

said processor operative with said program to receive a document-generating request from a user terminal;

receive a manual-inserting request at a position in a working document from the user terminal;

send a manual-inserting area corresponding to the manual-inserting request to the user terminal;

receive a manual information from the user terminal, wherein the manual information is inputted in the manual-inserting area;

set a position information to be linked the manual information, when the manual information is inputted in the manual-inserting area, wherein the position information is equivalent to the cursor position in case that the manual-inserting command is inputted in the working document; and

save the manual information in a storage device.

23. The apparatus according to claim 22, said processor further operative with said program to comprise at least one subsidiary form in the manual-inserting area wherein the subsidiary form comprises at least one selected from the group consisting of a table, a text and a figure.

24. The apparatus according to claim 23, said processor further operative with said program to receive the manual-inserting request at a position in the subsidiary form from user terminal;

send a manual-inserting area corresponding to the manual-inserting request to user terminal;

receive a manual information from the user terminal, wherein the manual information is inputted in the manual-inserting area;

set a position information to be linked the manual information, when the manual information is inputted in the manual-inserting area, wherein the position information is equivalent to the cursor position in case that the manual-inserting command is inputted in the working document; and

save the manual information in the storage device.

25. An apparatus for using a form comprising manual function, said apparatus comprising:

a storage device; and

a processor coupled to said storage device,

wherein said storage device storing a program for controlling said processor; and

said processor operative with said program to receive an ‘

open’

request for displaying a form from a user terminal;

retrieve a form corresponding to the ‘

open’

request in a storage device;

send the form to the user terminal;

retrieve a manual corresponding to the pre-designated range, when the form comprises manual function and a cursor is located in the pre-designated range for automatically executing a manual function; and

send the manual to the user terminal.

26. The apparatus according to claim 25, said processor further operative with said program to send a manual corresponding to a subsidiary form, when the manual comprises at least one subsidiary form, wherein the subsidiary form can be selectively inserted in the form by user;

retrieve the subsidiary form in a storage device, when the selection information of a subsidiary form is received from the user terminal; and

insert the subsidiary form in the form.

27. The apparatus according to claim 26, said processor further operative with said program to retrieve a manual corresponding to the pre-designated range in the storage device, when the subsidiary form comprises corresponding manual and the cursor is located in the pre-designated range for automatically executing a manual function;

and

sending the retrieved manual to user terminal.

28. A computer-readable medium having stored thereon computer-executable instructions and realized in concrete by program of instructions, which could be executable by digital processing unit, for generating a form comprising manual function, the method for generating the form comprising the steps of:

displaying a working document on a screen of a user terminal;

displaying a manual-inserting area corresponding to the manual-inserting command on the screen, when a manual-inserting command is inputted from the user;

linking a position information to a manual information, when the manual information is inputted in the manual-inserting area, wherein the position information is equivalent to the cursor position in case that the manual-inserting command is inputted in a working document; and

saving the manual information in a storage device.

29. The computer-readable medium of claim 28, wherein said instructions further perform the step of inserting at least one subsidiary form in the manual-inserting area wherein the subsidiary form comprises at least one selected from the group consisting of a table, a text and a figure.

30. The computer-readable medium of claim 29, wherein said instructions further perform the steps of:

displaying the manual-inserting area corresponding to the manual-inserting command on the screen, when the manual-inserting command is inputted at a position in the subsidiary form by user;

linking a position information to a manual information, when the manual information is inputted in the manual-inserting area, wherein the position information is equivalent to the cursor position in case that the manual-inserting command is inputted in the working document; and

saving the manual information in the storage device.

31. A computer-readable medium having stored thereon computer-executable instructions and realized in concrete by program of instructions, which could be executable by digital processing unit, for using a form comprising manual function, the method for using the form comprising the steps of:

displaying the form comprising manual function on a screen of a user terminal, when an ‘

open’

command for displaying the form comprising manual function is inputted by user;

determining whether a cursor is located in a pre-designated range or not, wherein the pre-designated range is designated for automatically executing a manual function;

retrieving a manual corresponding to the pre-designated range, when the cursor is located in the pre-designated range; and

displaying the manual on the screen.

32. The computer-readable medium of claim 31, wherein said instructions further perform the steps of:

displaying a manual corresponding to a subsidiary form, when the manual comprises at least one subsidiary form, wherein the subsidiary form can be selectively inserted in the form by user;

retrieving the subsidiary form in a storage device, when the selection information of a subsidiary form is inputted by user; and

inserting the subsidiary form in the form.

33. The computer-readable medium of claim 32, wherein said instructions further perform the steps of:

retrieving a manual corresponding to the pre-designated range, when the subsidiary form comprises a manual and the cursor is located in the pre-designated range for automatically executing a manual function; and

displaying the manual on the screen.