Data column management system and method

• US 20050160106A1
• Filed: 12/29/2004
• Published: 07/21/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 12/31/2003
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: VIA Technologies Incorporated (VIA Technologies)
• Original Assignee: VIA Technologies Incorporated (VIA Technologies)
• Inventors: Tsai, Stanley
• Application Number:
  US11/023,578
• Publication Number:
  US 20050160106A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/177 of tables; using ruled lines

Abstract

A data column management system could be used for receiving an adding data column request to add a data column to an electronic document, and for receiving deleting data column request to delete a data column of the electronic document. The data column management system comprises a column data accessing module, an adding module, and a deleting module. The column data accessing module is used for accessing the serial number of a last data column of the electronic document to get a last serial number, and for accessing the format of the data column to get a format data. The adding module is used for adding an adding data column into the electronic document according to the adding data column request, the format data, and the last serial number. The format of the adding data column is the same with the data column. The serial number of the adding data column is the last serial plus one. The deleting module is used for deleting any one of the data columns of the electronic document according to the deleting request. The serial numbers of the data columns after the deleted data column are subtracted one.

Claims

1. A data column management system for receiving an adding/deleting data column request to add/delete data columns on an electronic document which has at least one data column, comprising:

a column data accessing module for accessing a last data column of the data columns of the electronic document to get a last serial number and accessing a format of the last data column to get a format data;

an adding module for adding an adding data column to the electronic document according to the adding data column request, the format data and the last serial number, the adding data column having a format conforming to the format data and a serial number being the last serial number plus one; and

a deleting module for deleting a data column according to the deleting data column request and subtracting the serial number of a data column after the deleted data column by one.

2. The data column management system of claim 1, wherein the data column comprises a plurality of sub-data columns, each of the sub-data column being allowed to receive entering data.

3. A data column management system for processing data input of an electronic document which has at least one data column which in turn has at least one sub-data column, comprising:

a column data accessing module for accessing a sub-data column serial number of a selected sub-data column and a data column serial number of a selected data column which the selected sub-data column belongs to get a mother serial number when the selected sub-data column of the electronic document is chosen; and

a linking module for linking with a database which contains a plurality of entering data when the selected sub-data column of the electronic document is chosen to get a selected entering data, and filling the selected entering data into the selected sub-data column according to the sub-data column serial number and the mother serial number.

4. The data column management system of claim 3, wherein the linking module converts the format of the selected entering data to a corresponding format of the sub-data column before filling the selected sub-data column.

5. The data column management system of claim 3, wherein the linking module accesses at least one corresponding additional entering data during accessing the entering data and fills both the entering data and the additional entering data into the selected data column.

6. The data column management system of claim 5, wherein the linking module converts the format of the additional entering data to the format of the corresponding selected data column before filling into the selected data column

7. The data column management system of claim 5, wherein the linking module rearranges the sequence of the entering data and the additional entering data according to the sequence of corresponding items of each sub-data column of the corresponding data column before filling into the selected data column.

8. The data column management system of claim 5, wherein the linking module selects data of a plurality of items from data of multiple items in the database linked to the corresponding sub-data column before filling into the data column corresponding to the sub-data column.

9. A data column management method for receiving an adding data column request to add data columns on an electronic document which has at least one data column and a deleting data column request to delete data columns from the electronic document, comprising the steps of:

accessing a serial number of a last data column from the data columns of the electronic document to get a last serial number and accessing a format of the last data column to get a format data;

adding an adding data column to the electronic document according to the adding data column request, the format data and the last serial number, the adding data column having a format conforming to the format data and a serial number being the last serial number plus one; and

deleting a data column from the data columns according to the deleting data column request and subtracting the serial number the data column after the deleting data column by one.

10. The method of claim.9, wherein the data column contains a plurality of sub-data columns, each of the sub-data columns being allowed to receive entering data.

11. A data column management method for processing data input of an electronic document which comprises at least one data column which in turn contains at least one sub-data column, comprising the steps of:

choosing a selected sub-data column on the electronic document;

accessing a sub-data column serial number of the sub-data column and a serial number of a data column which the sub-data column belongs to get a mother serial number;

linking a database which contains a plurality of entering data to get a selected entering data; and

filling the selected entering data into the selected sub-data column according to the sub-data column serial number and the mother serial number.

12. The method of claim 11 further comprising converting the format of the selected entering data corresponding to the format of the sub-data column before filling the selected sub-data column.

13. The method of claim 11 further comprising accessing at least one corresponding additional entering data during accessing the entering data and filling the entering data and the additional entering data into the selected data column.

14. The method of claim 13 further comprising converting the format of the additional entering data to the format of a corresponding selected data column before filling into the selected data column.

15. The method of claim 13 further comprising rearranging the sequence of the entering data and the additional entering data according to the sequence of corresponding items of each sub-data column of the corresponding data column before filling into the selected data column.

16. The method of claim 13 further comprising selecting data of a plurality of items from data of multiple items in the database linked to the corresponding sub-data column before filling into the data column corresponding to the sub-data column.