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COMPUTER FORM ACTION ZONE SUMMARY SYSTEM AND METHOD

  • US 20110093769A1
  • Filed: 10/20/2010
  • Published: 04/21/2011
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/21/2009
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. Method for facilitating the entry by a user, of information into a scaffold electronic document, wherein the scaffold electronic document includes content displayable to a user as text and/or graphics on one or more pages, and m groups of information entry fields U1, . . . , Ui, . . . , Um, each group being associated with a distinct user, and wherein the ith group of information entry fields includes ni information entry fields Fi1, . . . , Fiji, . . . , Fini, wherein the information entry fields are adapted to receive information entered therein by an ith user, comprising the steps of:

  • by a document summary server,A. for the scaffold electronic document, establishing a group index i for each of the m groups of information entry fields where 1≦

    i≦

    m, and establishing a subgroup index ji for the ith group of information entry fields Fiji of the respective m groups where 1≦

    i≦

    m and where 1≦

    ji

    ni, wherein i and ji for the ith user have initial values equal to 1 for the scaffold electronic document, and i and ji have maximum values equal to m and ni respectively for the scaffold electronic document,B. making available over a network for display to the user, the scaffold electronic document,C. in response to receipt over the network of data indicative of entry by the ith user of information into the iith information entry field of the ith group, modifying the scaffold electronic document to include the entered information in the iith information entry field, and incrementing the subgroup index j for the Fijith subgroup, andD. making available for display in relation to the ith user, a steps-to-go display representative of the difference between the maximum value of the subgroup index ji for the ith user and the current value of the subgroup index ji for the ith user.

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