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System for automatically embedding or incorporating contents added to a document

  • US 5,669,005 A
  • Filed: 10/11/1995
  • Issued: 09/16/1997
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/10/1993
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A system for controlling the addition of new material to a document having intrinsic contents that is stored in memory of a computer having a display, said system comprising:

  • means for selecting new material to be added to contents of a document and displaying said new material on said display;

    first means which identifies the new material as belonging to one of a plurality of categories of material;

    second means for identifying the intrinsic contents of the document as belonging to one of said categories;

    means for determining whether the category of the new material is the same as the category of the document'"'"'s intrinsic contents; and

    means responsive to said determining means for (a) causing the new material to become incorporated as part of the intrinsic contents of the document and displaying the new material as part of the document'"'"'s intrinsic contents, when the new material belongs to the same category as the document'"'"'s intrinsic contents, and for (b) establishing the new material as an object, embedding the object as a separate element in the document and displaying the document with the embedded object when the new material'"'"'s category is not the same as that of the document'"'"'s intrinsic contents.

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