METHOD OF APPROXIMATE DOCUMENT GENERATION

• US 20090249181A1
• Filed: 03/31/2008
• Published: 10/01/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 03/31/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Bloom, Bard
• Granted Patent: US 8,656,267 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/209
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/186 Templates

Abstract

A method and system of approximate document generation, in one aspect, analyzes a document generation template, identifies one or more elements in the document generation template that have processing time that is longer than a threshold value and modifies said one or more elements identified as having processing time that is longer than a threshold value. One or more elements are modified so that the elements can terminate before completion of processing and produce at least a partial result and/or brief summary from processing of said one or more elements.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method of approximate document generation, comprising:

analyzing a document generation template;

identifying one or more elements in the document generation template that have processing time that is longer than a threshold value;

modifying said one or more elements identified as having processing time that is longer than a threshold value, said modifying including at least;

enabling said one or more elements to terminate before completion of processing of said one or more elements; and

establishing one or more new rules to produce at least a partial result from processing of said one or more elements.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein said one or more elements includes one or more control elements in the document generation template.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein said one or more control elements include database queries.

4. The method of claim 2, wherein said one or more control elements include loops.

5. The method of claim 2, wherein said one or more control elements include fetching a command from a web site.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein said one or more elements includes one or more text elements in the document generation template.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein said steps are performed before a document generation of said document generation template is started.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein said steps are performed in response to a command stopping document generation of said document generation template while in progress.

9. A system for approximate document generation, comprising:

a processor;

means executable on the processor for analyzing a document generation template;

means for identifying one or more elements in the document generation template that have processing time that is longer than a threshold value;

means for modifying said one or more elements identified as having processing time that is longer than a threshold value, said modifying including at least;

enabling said one or more elements to terminate before completion of processing of said one or more elements; and

establishing one or more new rules to produce at least a partial result from processing of said one or more elements.

10. The system of claim 9, wherein said one or more elements includes one or more control elements in the document generation template.

11. The system of claim 10, wherein said one or more control elements include database queries.

12. The system of claim 10, wherein said one or more control elements include loops.

13. The system of claim 10, wherein said one or more control elements include fetching a command from a web site.

14. The system of claim 9, wherein said one or more elements includes one or more text elements in the document generation template.

15. A program storage device readable by a machine, tangibly embodying a program of instructions executable by the machine to perform a method of approximate document generation, comprising:

analyzing a document generation template;

identifying one or more elements in the document generation template that have processing time that is longer than a threshold value;

modifying said one or more elements identified as having processing time that is longer than a threshold value, said modifying including at least;

enabling said one or more elements to terminate before completion of processing of said one or more elements; and

establishing one or more new rules to produce at least a partial result from processing of said one or more elements.

16. The program storage device of claim 15, wherein said one or more elements includes one or more control elements in the document generation template.

17. The program storage device of claim 16, wherein said one or more control elements include database queries.

18. The program storage device of claim 16, wherein said one or more control elements include loops.

19. The program storage device of claim 16, wherein said one or more control elements include fetching a command from a web site.

20. The program storage device of claim 15, wherein said one or more elements includes one or more text elements in the document generation template.