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Interactive computerized document assembly system and method

  • US 5,893,914 A
  • Filed: 03/17/1997
  • Issued: 04/13/1999
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/11/1990
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A document assembly system for use in assembling a document including at least a substantially textual portion comprising:

  • means for storing a model template formed of a sequence of sections and having decisional options including textual clause repeats and conditional clauses and questions to be answered for assembling a document;

    means for indicating the location in said model template of said decisional options to identify the sequence of sections constituting said model template;

    means for storing answers to questions posed in said template, each said question having a unique identifier; and

    means for merging and outputting with each section or part thereof, the answer corresponding to each section in said sequence and for contemporaneously assembling an at least partly textual document when answers are supplied for said preselected section;

    means operable by a user to select a desired section and to change any answer appearing therein while displaying the desired section, andmeans for recreating the document text of a section in response to said change, as at least part of the document section is displayed or outputted, said recreating including, as required, re-executing any decisional options dependent upon the content of said answer.

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