Document composition system and method
First Claim
1. A document composition system for creating and delivering communications, said document composition system comprising:
- a graphical user interface adapted to allow a plurality of users to define design components required to create and design documents;
a centralized database adapted to store and to allow use and re-use of said design components in multiple documents, wherein said centralized database is accessible by said plurality of users to allow said plurality of users to access and share said design components to create and design documents;
a document archival database for storing documents which are created by users;
a processing engine adapted to allow the creation and delivery of communications through the acquisition and merger of data from at least one of a plurality of records systems and customer data files with documents created by users which include design components from said centralized database; and
a configuration management component adapted to control user access to functions and capabilities on said graphical user interface, wherein said configuration management component is adapted to allow a plurality of levels of permission to be assigned for exposing different sets of said functions and capabilities on said graphical user interface.
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Abstract
A method and system for cross-organizational targeted document creation is disclosed which provides a tool for cross-organizational targeted document creation. The document composition system is implemented based on multi-layer architecture, and provides a configuration management component adapted to control user access to the available functionalities. The document composition system further comprises a collaboration support attribute and workflow functions adapted for project collaboration, and provides practical advantages such as a thin client application. The document composition system uses a platform-independent transfer mechanism and provides check image statement capabilities.
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59 Claims
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1. A document composition system for creating and delivering communications, said document composition system comprising:
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a graphical user interface adapted to allow a plurality of users to define design components required to create and design documents;
a centralized database adapted to store and to allow use and re-use of said design components in multiple documents, wherein said centralized database is accessible by said plurality of users to allow said plurality of users to access and share said design components to create and design documents;
a document archival database for storing documents which are created by users;
a processing engine adapted to allow the creation and delivery of communications through the acquisition and merger of data from at least one of a plurality of records systems and customer data files with documents created by users which include design components from said centralized database; and
a configuration management component adapted to control user access to functions and capabilities on said graphical user interface, wherein said configuration management component is adapted to allow a plurality of levels of permission to be assigned for exposing different sets of said functions and capabilities on said graphical user interface. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16)
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17. A document composition system for creating and delivering communications, said document composition system comprising:
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a graphical user interface adapted to allow a plurality of users to define design components required to create and design documents for communications;
a centralized database adapted to store and to allow use and re-use of said design components in multiple documents, wherein said centralized database is accessible by a plurality of users to allow said plurality of users to access and share said design components to create and design documents;
a processing engine adapted to allow the creation and delivery of communications through the acquisition and merger of data from at least one of a plurality of records systems and customer data files with documents created by users which include design components from said centralized database; and
a platform-independent transfer mechanism to facilitate communications between the components of the document composition system, including Extensible Markup Language (“
XML”
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29. A multi-layered document composition system, comprising:
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a presentation layer, wherein said presentation layer comprises a graphical user interface adapted to allow a plurality of users to define design components required to create and design documents for communications;
a database layer, wherein said database layer comprises a centralized database adapted to store and to allow use and re-use of said design components in multiple documents, wherein said centralized database is accessible by said plurality of users to allow said plurality of users to access and share said design components to create and design documents;
an application layer, wherein said application layer comprises rules for defining said presentation layer, said application layer being optimized to map data from a plurality of records systems and customer data files with documents created by users which include design components from said centralized database; and
a user support component is arranged and configured to selectively grant access to all or portions of said presentation layer and said application layer. - View Dependent Claims (30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40)
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41. A method for composing documents, comprising the steps of:
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defining design components required to create and design documents via a graphical user interface;
storing said design components in a centralized database, wherein said centralized database is accessible by a plurality of users to allow said plurality of users to access and share said design components to create and design documents;
storing documents which are created by users;
acquiring and merging data with said documents from at least one of a plurality of records systems and customer data files with documents created by users;
establishing a universal format for structured documents and data, wherein said universal format is extensible and platform-independent; and
storing application code at an application server to provide thin client access for accessing said application code remotely. - View Dependent Claims (42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49)
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50. A method for composing documents, comprising the steps of:
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defining design components required to create and design documents via a graphical user interface;
storing said design components in a centralized database, wherein said centralized database enables a plurality of users to access and share said design components to create and design documents;
acquiring and merging data with said documents from a plurality of systems of records to thereby create merged documents;
establishing a universal format for structured documents and data, wherein said universal format is extensible and platform-independent;
generating a plurality of check images, including extracting a sequence key from at least one of said records systems and generating a sequence key file;
retrieving at least one image based on said sequence key file; and
aggregating said sequence key file with said retrieve image; and
creating a statement with a plurality of check images. - View Dependent Claims (51, 52, 53, 54, 56, 57, 58, 59)
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55. A method for composing documents as defined in
tracking the activities of said plurality of users to create a layout for said graphical user interface for said plurality of users based on said tracked activities.
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