Method and apparatus for performing a semantically informed merge operation
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1. A semantically informed merge operation, comprising:
- selecting a source region in a document and a target region in a document;
identifying a hi-directionally coupled surface region in said source region and a bi-directionally coupled surface region in said target region;
identifying a first semantic object coupled to said surface region in said source region and a second semantic object coupled to said surface region in said target region; and
combining said first semantic object with said second semantic object.
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Abstract
A method and apparatus for performing an informed semantic merge operation comprises selecting a source region in a document and a target region in the same or a different document. A bi-directionally coupled surface region is identified in the source region and a bi-directionally coupled surface region is identified in the target region. A first semantic object coupled to the surface region in the source region is identified and a second semantic object coupled to the surface region in the target region is identified. The subcomponents of the first semantic object are combined with the subcomponents of the second semantic object by merging.
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1. A semantically informed merge operation, comprising:
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selecting a source region in a document and a target region in a document; identifying a hi-directionally coupled surface region in said source region and a bi-directionally coupled surface region in said target region; identifying a first semantic object coupled to said surface region in said source region and a second semantic object coupled to said surface region in said target region; and combining said first semantic object with said second semantic object. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
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8. A semantically informed merge operation, comprising:
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selecting a plurality of regions from at least one document; identifying a plurality of semantic objects bi-directionally coupled to surface regions in said selected regions; combining said semantic objects; and displaying attributes and values of at least one of the semantic objections coupled to a surface region according to a presentation constraint. - View Dependent Claims (9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19)
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20. A semantically informed merge operation, comprising:
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selecting a source region in a document and a target region in a document; identifying semantic objects bi-directionally coupled to surface regions in said selected target region; making a list of said identified semantic objects; receiving from a user a type of merge to be performed between semantic objects in the source region and semantic objects on said list; and combining said semantic objects according to the user selected type of merge. - View Dependent Claims (21, 22, 23, 24)
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25. A computer readable medium storing a set of instructions for performing a semantically informed merge operation, comprising:
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selecting a source region in a document and a target region in a document; identifying a bi-directionally coupled surface region in said source region and a bi-directionally coupled surface region in said target region; identifying a first semantic object coupled to said surface region in said source region and a second semantic object coupled to said surface region in said target region; and combining said first semantic object with said second semantic object.
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26. A computer readable medium storing a set of instructions for performing a semantically informed merge operation, comprising:
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selecting a plurality of regions from at least one document; identifying a plurality of semantic objects bi-directionally coupled to surface regions in said selected regions; combining said semantic objects; and displaying attributes and values of at least one of the semantic objections coupled to a surface region according to a presentation constraint.
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27. A computer readable medium storing a set of instructions for performing a semantically informed merge operation, comprising:
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selecting a source region in a document and a target region in a document; identifying semantic objects bi-directionally coupled to surface regions in said selected target region; making a list of said identified semantic objections; receiving from a user a type of merge to be performed between semantic objections in the source region and semantic objects on said list; and combining said semantic objects according to the user selected type of merge.
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