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Data processing system using versioned documents having temporary links

  • US 5,680,613 A
  • Filed: 01/19/1993
  • Issued: 10/21/1997
  • Est. Priority Date: 01/17/1992
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A data processing system utilizing a computer process, the system comprising:

  • a plurality of document control registers, wherein each document control register comprises at least one of;

    versioned documents, wherein each versioned document is a confined and comprehensive type of tables/lists maintaining initially inputted data,at least one ledger, wherein a ledger is a table/list maintaining data having variable input information, andat least one other document control register, wherein a document control register is a kind of a ledger,wherein each said document control register has indexes for identifying and controlling records and the versioned documents and ledger that are the object of control, each said document control register having indexes for referencing the versioned documents, said ledger and said document control register when controlled by at least one of said document control register and other document control registers, said document control register having a change control portion for records, said versioned documents, said at least one ledger, and said at least one other document control register that are the object of control, and a portion for controlling use conditions and a state of the records, said versioned documents, said at least one ledger and said at least one other document control register that are the object of control, said document control register enabling access to all the versioned documents concerned; and

    an internal table register mechanism for finding, by searching only said plurality of document control registers and only upon receiving a request, specified ones of plural versioned documents, ledgers, document control registers and records with a same index and stored in an external storage device, for transferring the specified ones to an internal storage device, and for relating elements of the specified ones together by links if the specified ones comprise plural elements, wherein said links are temporary.

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