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Encapsulation of extracted portions of documents into objects

  • US 5,897,650 A
  • Filed: 10/10/1996
  • Issued: 04/27/1999
  • Est. Priority Date: 04/26/1993
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. In a data processing system having a video display, a memory holding objects and at least one processor for running an object-oriented operating system, a method comprising the steps of:

  • (a) displaying a portion of a document on the video display;

    (b) selecting information to be extracted from the portion of the document that is displayed on the video display;

    (c) extracting the selected information from the document; and

    (d) encapsulating the selected information into an object stored in the memory that was created automatically by the system to encapsulate the selected information in response to the extracting.

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