Document Archival System

• US 20110153572A1
• Filed: 01/17/2011
• Published: 06/23/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 10/07/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Don L. Stauffer, Martin Milner, Sean A. Mcelroy
• Original Assignee: Don L. Stauffer, Martin Milner, Sean A. Mcelroy
• Inventors: Stauffer, Don L., McElroy, Sean A., Milner, Martin
• Granted Patent: US 8,185,503 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/661
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/93 Document management systems

Abstract

An archival computer system for receiving digital documents from document source computers, archiving such digital documents, and providing the digital documents to client computer systems. The archival computer system is provided with a document database, a supplemental digital media database, a document input device, an archival computer, and a server. The document input device receives digital documents from the document source computers. The digital documents include non-pixalated, non-rastered digital documents, and supplemental media. The archival computer receives the digital documents, and archives data from the non-pixalated, non-rastered digital documents in the document database, and data from the supplemental media in the supplemental digital media database. The server, upon request, outputs a composite document including data stored in the document database and the supplemental digital media database.

Claims

1. An archival computer system for receiving digital documents from document source computers, archiving such digital documents, and providing the digital documents to client computer systems, the archival computer system comprising:

a document database including a text field;

a supplemental digital media database;

a document input device receiving digital documents from the document source computers, the digital documents including non-pixalated, non-rastered digital documents, and supplemental media;

an archival computer receiving the digital documents, and archiving data from the non-pixalated, non-rastered digital documents in the document database, and data from the supplemental media in the supplemental digital media database, the non-pixalated, non-rastered digital documents containing information identifying particular supplemental media as well as specifying how the supplemental media are to be used within a composite document including both the data within the non-pixalated, non-rastered digital document and the supplemental media, the archival computer processing the non-pixalated, non-rastered digital documents to embed unique references to the supplemental media and stores the embedded references in the text field of the document database; and

a server, upon request, outputting the composite document including data stored in the document database and the supplemental digital media database.

2. The archival computer system of claim 1, wherein the document input device receives a data file associated with one or more non-pixalated, non-rastered digital documents, the data file including information that identify particular supplemental media to be associated with the non-pixalated, non-rastered digital documents.

3. The archival computer system of claim 1, wherein the supplemental digital media database includes a binary large objects field, and wherein the supplemental media are stored in the binary large objects field.

4. The archival computer system of claim 3, wherein the supplemental digital media database is a relational database.

5. The archival computer system of claim 1, wherein the composite document includes instructions for rendering at least one of the supplemental media by overlaying the supplemental media.

6. The archival computer system of claim 1, wherein the composite document is in a vectorized format.

7. A method, comprising the steps of:

receiving a request for a composite document formed by a document having embedded identifiers stored in a text field within a document database, the embedded identifiers identifying supplemental media stored in a supplemental digital media database;

retrieving the document having embedded identifiers of the supplemental media;

retrieving the supplemental media identified in the document; and

outputting the document and the supplemental media in a format to be rendered into a composite document by a document rendering code of a client computer system.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein the document includes information setting an order of precedence for supplemental media at the same context.

9. The method of claim 7, further comprising the step of automatically inserting supplemental media into the composite document.

10. The method of claim 7, wherein the composite document is an online financial institution statement.

11. The method of claim 7, wherein in the step of outputting the document and the supplemental media references, at least one of the supplemental media is output with instructions to overlay the supplemental media.

12. The method of claim 7, wherein the supplemental digital media database includes a binary large objects field, and wherein the supplemental media are stored in the binary large objects field.