Prompted form filling mechanism
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1. A method of populating a data field in an electronic document comprising:
- locating a data field in the document to be populated;
associating a visual indication with the data field;
providing a wallet capable of having a plurality of data fields; and
, populating the data field in the document with data from a data field in the wallet.
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Abstract
A prompting form-fill mechanism is provided which interactively populates data fields on electronic forms or other documents from prestored data fields. The first data field to be populated is determined and hi-lighted, then a user selects a prestored data field to copy into the first data field. The form-fill mechanism then automatically copies the information from one data field to the other. After populating the first data field, the form-fill mechanism hi-lights the next data field to be populated. This procedure is continued until all data fields are populated.
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1. A method of populating a data field in an electronic document comprising:
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locating a data field in the document to be populated;
associating a visual indication with the data field;
providing a wallet capable of having a plurality of data fields; and
,populating the data field in the document with data from a data field in the wallet. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
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7. Apparatus for populating a data field in an electronic document comprising:
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locating means for locating a data field in the document to be populated;
indicating means for associating a visual indication with the data field;
a wallet capable of having a plurality of data fields; and
,populating means for populating the data field in the document with data from a data field in the wallet. - View Dependent Claims (8, 9, 10, 11, 12)
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13. Apparatus for populating a data field in an electronic document comprising:
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a wallet capable of having a plurality of data fields; and
,software capable of visually indicating the data field in the electronic document and of copying data from at least one data field in the wallet to the data field in the electronic document. - View Dependent Claims (14)
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15. A method for populating a data field in an electronic document comprising:
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populating at least one data field in a wallet with information;
locating an empty data field in an electronic document;
visually indicating the empty data field;
selecting the at least one data field from the wallet;
automatically populating the empty data field with the information from the at least one data field;
locating another empty data field in the electronic document; and
,visually indicating the another empty data field.
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