Method and apparatus for creating and filing forms
First Claim
1. A data processing system for designing, creating, and importing data into, a viewable form viewable by the user of the data processing system, comprising:
- (a) a form file that models the physical representation of a form and having fields that establish the calculations and rule conditions required to fill in the viewable form;
(b) a form file creation program that creates the form file;
(c) a data file containing data imported from a user application; and
(d) a viewer program operating on the form file and the data file, to merge data from the data file into the form file, perform calculations, allow the user of the data processing system to review and change the data, and create viewable forms and reports.
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Abstract
A data processing system for designing, creating, and importing data into, a viewable form viewable by the user of the data processing system, including: a form file that models the physical representation of a form and establishes the calculations and rule conditions required to fill in the viewable form; a data file containing data for populating the viewable form; and a form viewer program operating on the form file and the data file to perform calculations, allow the user of the data processing system to review and change the data, and create viewable forms and reports.
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36 Claims
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1. A data processing system for designing, creating, and importing data into, a viewable form viewable by the user of the data processing system, comprising:
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(a) a form file that models the physical representation of a form and having fields that establish the calculations and rule conditions required to fill in the viewable form;
(b) a form file creation program that creates the form file;
(c) a data file containing data imported from a user application; and
(d) a viewer program operating on the form file and the data file, to merge data from the data file into the form file, perform calculations, allow the user of the data processing system to review and change the data, and create viewable forms and reports. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16)
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17. A method for designing, creating, and importing, on a digital computer having a memory and a processor executing a stored program, data into, a viewable form viewable by the user of a data processing system, comprising the steps of:
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executing the stored program to create a form file that models the physical representation of the form and having fields that establish the calculations and rule conditions required to fill in the viewable form;
executing the stored program to import data from another application program into the form file thereby populating data fields in the form file with the imported data;
executing the stored program to manipulate the data in the data fields in the form file, allow the user of the data processing system to review and change the data, and create viewable forms and reports; and
printing the form. - View Dependent Claims (18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28)
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29. A method for designing, creating, and importing, on a digital computer having a memory and a processor executing a stored program, data into, a viewable form viewable by the user of a data processing system, comprising the steps of:
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a form designer executing a forms designer program in the digital computer, the forms designer program allowing the form designer to create a form file that models the physical representation of the form and having fields that establish the calculations and rule conditions required to fill in the viewable form;
executing a data file importing program in the digital computer, the data file importing program importing data from an end user application program into a data file; and
subsequently an end user executing a viewer program, merging data in the data file with specific fields in the form file, allowing the user of the data processing system to review and change the data, performing calculations on the data, and generating the form. - View Dependent Claims (30, 31, 32)
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33. A data processing system for designing, creating, and importing, on a digital computer having a memory and a processor executing a stored program, data into, a viewable form viewable by the user of a data processing system, comprising:
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a computer having a memory and a processor;
a form designer program executing in the memory and directing the processor to create a form file that models the physical representation of a form and having fields that establish the calculations and rule conditions required to fill in the viewable form;
a program executing in the memory and directing the processor to import data from an end user application program into a data file; and
a program executing in the memory, directing the processor to generate a viewable form by merging data in the data file with specific fields in the form file, allow a user of the data processing system to review and change the data perform calculations on the data, and generate a form. - View Dependent Claims (34, 35, 36)
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