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Document processing apparatus and method for inputting the requirements of a reader or writer and for processing documents according to the requirements

  • US 5,835,922 A
  • Filed: 09/29/1997
  • Issued: 11/10/1998
  • Est. Priority Date: 09/30/1992
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A document information processing apparatus in which document information is generated, referenced, and re-constructed according to the intentions of a writer of the original document information, said intentions including at least one of validity, future characteristic, interest, relationship, analogy, rarity value, synonymy, and concept level, and in which the original document information is referenced and re-constructed according to the intentions of a reader of the original document information, comprising:

  • a reader terminal including means for inputting the intentions of the reader of the original document information, and means for outputting, for display, document information referenced and re-constructed according to the intentions of the reader, wherein the reader terminal includes first means for inputting an attribute state of the reader, said attribute state including at least one of the following items;

    official title, age, language used, and output device; and

    second means for determining a configuration of a document to be referenced or to be re-constructed according to the attribute state of the reader by identifying each item constituting said attribute state;

    a writer terminal for inputting the intentions of the writer of the original document information and thereby generating document information; and

    a document processing unit connected to the reader terminal and to the writer terminal, including means for storing document information representing an original document created by the writer, said document information being generated by the writer terminal, means for storing an attribute table uniquely identified with a reader, the attribute table being consulted by said second means to determine the document configuration to be referenced or re-constructed according to the attribute state of the reader, and processing means for automatically processing, in response to a document information request from the reader terminal and according to the configuration of the document determined by the reader terminal, the stored document information representing the original document information created by the writer, thereby converting the original document according to the document configuration matching the attribute state of the reader.

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