Method to automatically fill entry items of documents, recording medium and system thereof

• US 6,421,693 B1
• Filed: 10/15/1998
• Issued: 07/16/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 04/20/1998
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Inventors: Nishiyama, Soichi, Murakami, Koichi, Yasukawa, Takeo
• Primary Examiner(s): Hong, Stephen S.
• Application Number:
  US09/172,767
• Publication Number:
  US 20020023102A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,370 Days
• Field of Search: 707/505, 707/506, 707/507, 707/508
• US Class Current: 715/226
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/174 Form filling; Merging

Abstract

An item data entry method by detecting a constituent element which represents an entry item from among received Internet documents, based on the document structure data of a document such as an HTML document containing the entry item key, comparing the entry item key of the detected entry item with the entry item key registered in a database, thereby automatically entering in the entry item the user'"'"'s name, address, phone number, and the like corresponding to the entry item key registered in the database which has been matched as a result of comparison.

Claims

1. A method of entering specific data in an entry item of a document received for data entry, constituent element of the entry item attached with document structure data, which contains an entry item key indicating an attribute of the specific data to be entered in the entry item, said method comprising:

receiving and storing a document containing said entry items;

entering and setting a transmission time for a document which has been restructured from the received document;

registering specific data and entry item keys in a one-to-one or one-to-many correspondence in a database or updating contents registered in said database;

detecting at the set transmission time in the document a constituent element which indicates an entry item based on said document structure data;

comparing an entry item key of the detected entry item with the entry item keys registered in said database;

restructuring said document for data entry by attaching to said entry item specific data corresponding to the registered entry item keys in said database which has been matched with the entry item key of the detected entry item as a result of the comparison; and

executing the detecting, the comparing, and the restructuring according to said set transmission time and transmitting the restructured document at said set transmission time.

2. The method according to claim 1, further comprising:

storing data on transmission results of a document and data on an entry item in which specific data has not been entered; and

outputting the stored data responsive to a request to refer to the stored contents.

3. The method according to claim 2, further comprising extracting a feature of identification data of a transmitting destination contained in data related to transmission results of a document and/or a feature of stored identification data of a transmitting destination when the data to identify the transmitting destination of the document is stored, and wherein

in the receiving and the storing a document is selectively stored which agrees with the extracted feature among the received documents.

4. The method according to claim 1, further comprising:

receiving and storing in a server a document containing said entry item; and

transmitting the document to a client.

5. The method according to claim 4, further comprising:

receiving in the server the identification data of a transmitting destination contained in the data related to the transmission results of the document and/or registered identification data of the transmitting destination from the client when identification data to identify a transmitting destination of a document is registered at a client and data related to transmission results of the document is stored at the client;

extracting in the server a feature contained in said identification data; and

transmitting from the server to the client a document which agrees with the extracted feature from among documents containing entry items received and stored by the server.

6. The method according to claim 4, further comprising the server allowing the client to browse the stored document in response to the client'"'"'s request.

7. The method according to claim 5, further comprising the server allowing the client to browse the stored document in response to the client'"'"'s request.

8. A computer readable recording medium causing a computer to receive a document for entering data in an entry item of the document with a constituent element attached with document structure data, which contains an entry item key indicating an attribute of specific data to be entered in the entry item and causing said computer to enter said specific data in said entry item of the document for item data entry, said recording medium comprising:

a database registering said specific data correspondingly to entry item keys in a one-to-one or one-to-many correspondence or updating contents registered in said database;

program code means for entering and setting a transmission time for a document which has been restructured from the received document, program code means for causing said computer to detect in the received document a constituent element which indicates an entry item based on said received document structure data;

program code means for causing said computer to compare an entry item key of the detected entry item with the entry item keys registered in said database; and

program code means for causing said computer to restructure said received document for item data entry by attaching to said entry item specific data corresponding to each entry item key in the database which has been matched as a result of the comparison; and

program code means for executing the detection, the comparison, and the restructuring according to said set transmission time and transmitting the restructured document at said set transmission time.

9. A communication device used to enter specific data in entry item of a structured document received by the communication device, constituent element of the entry item attached with document structure data, which contains an entry item key indicating an attribute of the specific data to be entered in the entry item, the communication device storing a process comprising:

entering and setting a transmission time for a document which has been restructured from the received structured document;

registering keywords and specific data associated with each keyword;

detecting in the received document a constituent element which indicates an entry item based on the document structure data;

comparing an entry item key of a detected entry item with the keywords;

restructuring the received document for data entry by attaching to the entry item specific data corresponding to a keyword matched with the entry item key of the detected entry item in the comparing; and

executing the detecting, the comparing, and the restructuring according to said set transmission time and transmitting the restructured document at said set transmission time.