Document Collaboration And ConsolidationTools And Methods Of Use

• US 20170220546A1
• Filed: 01/27/2017
• Published: 08/03/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 02/02/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: ActiveWrite Inc.
• Original Assignee: ActiveWrite Inc.
• Inventors: Codrington, David F., Kennedy, III, Vernon W., Koneru, Rajani
• Granted Patent: US 10,346,532 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/2282 Tablespace storage structures; Management thereof
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/93 Document management systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0484 for the control of specific functions or operations, e.g. selecting or manipulating an object, an image or a displayed text element, setting a parameter value or selecting a range
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/186 Templates

Abstract

Methods and systems for elemental document generation and for storing a plurality of items based upon a logical identification of objects of a document in a centralized active document database and utilizing the items for a streamlined document collaboration of the document across one or more computing devices and for viewing on a graphical user interface (GUI) one or more associated revisions of the items of the document that are searchable within the document over a period of time such that revisions of the document from points over the period of time are also viewable as the document on the GUI.

Claims

1. A structural design data processing system for a logical ordering of items in a relational database for elemental document creation, the system comprising:

one or more processors;

one or more memory modules communicatively coupled to the one or more processors;

a graphical user interface (GUI);

the relational database; and

machine readable instructions stored in the one or more memory modules that cause the system to perform at least the following when executed by the one or more processors;

create an item for a document;

store the item in a table of the relational database;

link the item to a document identification number;

store the document identification number linked to the item in the table;

create a series of stored items linked to the document identification number in the table;

generate an elemental document based on combining the series of stored items linked to the document identification number; and

display the elemental document on the GUI.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the machine readable instructions further comprises instructions to:

enable collaboration on the elemental document across one or more computing devices, each comprising a GUI;

receive one or more revisions made to at least one item of the elemental document through at least one GUI of a computing device of the one or more computing devices; and

store the one or more revisions to at least one item of the elemental document as one or more corresponding items in the relational database linked to the document identification number.

3. The system of claim 2, wherein the machine readable instructions further comprises instructions to:

link the at least one item in the elemental document a set of linked elemental documents;

consume at least a portion of the one or more revisions to the at least one item in the elemental document to the set of linked elemental documents.

4. The system of claim 2, wherein the machine readable instructions further comprises instructions to:

receive a plurality of votes with respect to at least two revisions of a revision chain of the one or more revisions; and

rank the plurality of votes in order of a number of votes received per revision in the revision chain.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the item is one of created as a separated object inserted into a template of the document and parsed from an imported document.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the series of stored items linked to the document identification number in the table are stored in a logical order.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein each item comprises at least one of tables lists, images and text boxes.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein the relational database is associated with a at least one of a relational database management system and an object-relational database management system and comprises at least one of a structured query language (SQL) database, an SQL including database, or a non-SQL database.

9. The system of claim 8, wherein the relational database is part of a database environment including an analytics engine comprises at least one of Hadoop, NoSQL, and Cassandra.

10. The system of claim 1, wherein the machine readable instructions further comprises instructions to:

search the elemental document for a revision at a point in time over a period of time; and

view the revision as a snapshot at the point in time in the elemental document on the GUI.

11. The system of claim 10, wherein the snapshot is part of a series of snapshots comprising a series of captured points of time associated with the elemental document that comprises a dynamic, living document.

12. The system of claim 11, wherein the machine readable instructions further comprises instructions to:

enable a revisions control portion of the GUI to playback through the series of snapshots through one or more controls comprising at least one of;

a backward button to display a revision from a previous point in time;

a forward bottom to advance forward from a revision from a previously displayed time;

a now button to display the elemental document at a current time;

a backward snapshot button to display a previously snapshot marked point in time; and

a forward snapshot button to advance forward to a snapshot marked point in time.

13. The system of claim 1, wherein the elemental document is part of at least one of a presentation system, a spreadsheet system, a document form system, and an email system.

14. The system of claim 1, wherein the elemental document comprises a parent document as a dynamic, living document, and the machine readable instructions further comprises instructions to:

create a static elemental document as a child document of the parent document; and

store a plurality of items of the child document in a table of the relational database linked to a child document identification number.

15. A system comprising:

one or more processors;

one or more memory modules communicatively coupled to the one or more processors;

a graphical user interface (GUI);

a relational database; and

machine readable instructions stored in the one or more memory modules that cause the system to perform at least the following when executed by the one or more processors;

link an item of a document to a document identification number;

store the item in the relational database as linked to the document identification number to create a series of stored items linked to the document identification number;

generate an enhancement to the document via creation of an elemental document based on combining the series of stored items linked to the document identification number;

receive one or more revisions made to at least one item of the elemental document through at least one GUI of one or more computing devices;

store the one or more revisions to at least one item of the elemental document as one or more corresponding items in the relational database linked to the document identification number;

search the elemental document for a revision at a point in time over a period of time; and

view the revision at the point in time in the elemental document on the GUI.

16. The system of claim 15, wherein the machine readable instructions further comprises instructions to:

generate a snapshot of the elemental document, wherein the snapshot is part of a series of snapshots comprising a series of captured points of time associated with the elemental document that comprises a dynamic, living document as the enhancement to the document; and

view the revision as the snapshot at the point in time in the elemental document on the GUI.

17. The system of claim 16, wherein the machine readable instructions further comprises instructions to:

enable a revisions control portion of the GUI to playback through the series of snapshots through one or more controls comprising at least one of;

a backward button to display a revision from a previous point in time;

a forward bottom to advance forward from a revision from a previously displayed time;

a now button to display the elemental document at a current time;

a backward snapshot button to display a previously snapshot marked point in time; and

a forward snapshot button to advance forward to a snapshot marked point in time.

18. A system comprising:

one or more processors;

one or more memory modules communicatively coupled to the one or more processors;

a relational database; and

machine readable instructions stored in the one or more memory modules that cause the system to perform at least the following when executed by the one or more processors;

parse a document into a series of items linked to a document identification number;

store each item in the relational database as linked to the document identification number to create a series of stored items linked to the document identification number;

generate an enhancement to the document via creation of an elemental document based on combining the series of stored items linked to the document identification number;

enable collaboration on the elemental document across one or more computing devices, each comprising a graphical user interface (GUI);

receive one or more revisions made to at least one item of the elemental document through at least one GUI of a computing device of the one or more computing devices; and

store the one or more revisions to at least one item of the elemental document as one or more corresponding items in the relational database linked to the document identification number.

19. The system of claim 18, wherein the instructions to parse a document into a series of items linked to a document identification number comprises instructions to:

import the document for the enhancement, wherein the document is one of a presentation system, a spreadsheet system, a document form system, and an email system.

20. The system of claim 18, wherein the machine readable instructions further comprises instructions to:

link the at least one item in the elemental document a set of linked elemental documents;

consume at least a portion of the one or more revisions to the at least one item in the elemental document to the set of linked elemental documents.