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Method and system for automatically generating logical structures of electronic documents

  • US 5,434,962 A
  • Filed: 05/24/1994
  • Issued: 07/18/1995
  • Est. Priority Date: 09/07/1990
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A method of generating a logical document structure for a new electronic document,wherein the new electronic document is to have a plurality of logically-connected document-parts;

  • wherein a generic logical structure corresponds to a configuration of document-parts and is expressed by a tree-like logical connection of nodes; and

    wherein each of multiple generic logical structures includes restrictions for the connection of nodes therein;

    the method comprising the steps of;

    storing a plurality of the generic logical structures;

    storing a plurality of electronic documents, each having a logical document structure corresponding to one of the stored generic logical structures;

    storing a plurality of sets of rules, each defining a relationship between logical document structures corresponding to one of the stored generic logical structures and logical document structures corresponding to another of the stored generic logical structures;

    receiving at least one of the stored electronic documents and the stored generic logic structure corresponding thereto, at least one stored generic logical structure restricting the logical document structure of the new electronic document, and at least one of the stored sets of rules defining the relationship between logical document structures corresponding to the received generic logical structures; and

    establishing and interconnecting nodes to generate the new logical document structure of the new electronic document, according to restrictions of the received generic logical structure restricting the logical structure of the new electronic document and according to the received set of rules.

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