Real time data management apparatus, system and mehtod
First Claim
1. A data-management system to be provided to a digital computer terminal for generating a link in real time between an electronic document opened in a computer application and a target document, said digital computer terminal comprising a computer readable memory and a data-capture device, said data-management system comprising:
- data-capture logic for controlling capture of electronic data by said data-capture device;
target-document logic for generating said target document from said electronic data; and
link-generating logic for substantially simultaneously storing said target document in said computer readable memory and generating said link to said target document in said electronic document in real time.
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Abstract
A data-management system and method to be provided to a digital computer terminal for generating a link in real time between an electronic document opened in a computer application and a target document. The digital computer terminal includes a computer readable memory and a data-capture device, and the data-management system includes data-capture logic for controlling capture of electronic data by the data-capture device, target-document logic for generating the target document from the electronic data, and link-generating logic for substantially simultaneously storing the target document in the computer readable memory and generating the link to the target document in the electronic document in real time.
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56 Claims
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1. A data-management system to be provided to a digital computer terminal for generating a link in real time between an electronic document opened in a computer application and a target document, said digital computer terminal comprising a computer readable memory and a data-capture device, said data-management system comprising:
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data-capture logic for controlling capture of electronic data by said data-capture device;
target-document logic for generating said target document from said electronic data; and
link-generating logic for substantially simultaneously storing said target document in said computer readable memory and generating said link to said target document in said electronic document in real time. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19)
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20. A computer application for linking a portion of an electronic document to a target document stored as electronic data representing an information object in a computer accessible memory, said computer application comprising:
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link-generating logic for generating a link to said target document in said electronic document; and
data-management logic for transmitting said electronic document and said target document to a data storage device, wherein said data-management logic automatically updates a path of said link to render said link operable following said transmission. - View Dependent Claims (21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26)
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27. A data-management system for generating a plurality of links to target documents in an electronic document, said data-management system comprising:
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means for creating and editing said electronic document;
means for generating a plurality of target documents from electronic data captured by a data-capture device;
means for assigning a sequential identifier to each of said plurality of target documents as said target documents are generated;
means for storing said plurality of captured target documents in a computer readable memory; and
means for generating a link at a plurality of user-selected locations in said electronic document to said plurality of captured target documents. - View Dependent Claims (28, 29, 30, 31)
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32. A system for linking a target document to a portion of an electronic document in real time, said system comprising:
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a computer application for generating and editing said electronic document;
link-generating logic operable with said computer application for generating a link to said target document, wherein said target document is an electronic reproduction of a hardcopy document and is to be generated by scanning said hardcopy document with an optical data-capture device, further wherein said link is to be generated at approximately the same time as said captured target document is to be saved, and further wherein said computer application is one of a group consisting of a spreadsheet, word processor, database, presentation application, and any combination thereof.
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33. A data-management system for linking a portion of an electronic document to a target document, said data-management system comprising:
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a data-capture device for capturing electronic data representing an information object;
means for generating said target document from said electronic data;
a computer readable memory to store said target document; and
means for substantially simultaneously storing said target document in said computer readable memory and generating a link to said target document in said electronic document. - View Dependent Claims (34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39)
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40. An electronic-document management method for creating and managing an electronic document having a link to a target document in a computer application, said method comprising the steps of:
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generating said target document from electronic data representing an information object captured by a data-capture device; and
substantially simultaneously storing said target document in a computer readable memory and generating said link at said user-selected location in said electronic document. - View Dependent Claims (41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46)
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47. An electronic-document management method for creating and managing an electronic document having a plurality of links to target documents in a computer application, said method comprising the steps of:
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generating a plurality of target documents from electronic data representing one or more information objects captured by a data-capture device;
sequentially assigning each of said plurality of target documents an identifier and storing said target documents in an order according to said identifier in a computer readable memory; and
generating one or more links to the target documents in said electronic document. - View Dependent Claims (48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55)
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56. A data-management system for generating a hyperlink in real time between a portion of an electronic document opened in a computer application and a target document, said system comprising:
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a digital computer terminal comprising a computer readable memory and a data-capture device;
data-capture logic in communication with said digital computer terminal for controlling capture of electronic data by said data-capture device;
target-document logic in communication with said digital computer terminal for generating said target document from said electronic data; and
link-generating logic in communication with said digital computer terminal for substantially simultaneously storing said target document in said computer readable memory and generating said link to said target document in said electronic document in real time.
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