METHOD, SYSTEM, AND APPARATUS FOR DATA REUSE
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Abstract
A system and method may be disclosed for facilitating the creation or modification of a document by providing a mechanism for locating relevant data from external sources and organizing and incorporating some or all of said data into the document. In the method for reusing data, there may be a set of documents that may be queried, where each document may be divided into a plurality of sections. A plurality of section text groups may be formed based on the set of documents, where each section text group may be associated with a respective section from the plurality of sections and each section group includes a plurality of items. Each item may be associated with a respective section from each document of the set of documents. A selected item within a selected section text group may be focused. The selected item may be extracted to a current document. The current document may be exported to a host application.
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40 Claims
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26. A method for a using at least one processor to provide a graphical user interface that enables the creation of a new electronic document from an existing electronic document, comprising acts of:
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displaying excerpts from the existing electronic document on a computer display; for each of the displayed excerpts, displaying at least one corresponding indicator on the computer display, each displayed indicator including information indicating whether the indicator is in a selected state or an unselected state; enabling a user to operate the graphical user interface so as to selectively alter the states of the displayed indicators; and in response to receiving an input from the user indicating that the user has finished altering the states of the displayed indicators, for each displayed excerpt for which a corresponding indicator is in the selected state, copying a portion of the existing document corresponding to that displayed excerpt into the new document. - View Dependent Claims (27, 28, 29, 30)
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- 31. A system for providing a graphical user interface that enables the creation of a new electronic document from an existing electronic document, the system comprising at least one processor configured to cause excerpts from the existing electronic document to be displayed on a computer display, and, for each of the displayed excerpts, to cause at least one corresponding indicator to be displayed on the computer display, each displayed indicator including information indicating whether the indicator is in a selected state or an unselected state, the at least one processor being further configured to enable a user to operate the graphical user interface so as to selectively alter the states of the displayed indicators, and, for each displayed excerpt for which a corresponding indicator is in the selected state, to copy a portion of the existing document corresponding to that displayed excerpt into the new document in response to receiving an input from the user indicating that the user has finished altering the states of the displayed indicators.
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36. A non-transient, computer-readable medium encoded with instructions that, when executed by at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to perform a method for providing a graphical user interface that enables the creation of a new electronic document from an existing electronic document, the method comprising acts of:
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displaying excerpts from the existing electronic document on a computer display; for each of the displayed excerpts, displaying at least one corresponding indicator on the computer display, each displayed indicator including information indicating whether the indicator is in a selected state or an unselected state; enabling a user to operate the graphical user interface so as to selectively alter the states of the displayed indicators; and in response to receiving an input from the user indicating that the user has finished altering the states of the displayed indicators, for each displayed excerpt for which a corresponding indicator is in the selected state, copying a portion of the existing document corresponding to that displayed excerpt into the new document. - View Dependent Claims (37, 38, 39, 40)
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