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Incremental bottom-up construction of data documents

  • US 7,231,394 B2
  • Filed: 03/28/2002
  • Issued: 06/12/2007
  • Est. Priority Date: 07/17/2001
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A computerized method of constructing a data document represented as a tree from an existing data document and a document fragment comprising:

  • receiving, from a transmitting system, a navigation path, an update command and the document fragment to construct the data document, wherein the navigation path, the update command and the document fragment are sent by the transmitting system instead of a copy of the data document stored on the transmitting system;

    identifying an update location using the navigation path, wherein the update location is one of a join node in the existing data document and a merge node in the document fragment; and

    attaching a set of child nodes at the update location in accordance with the update command, wherein the set of child nodes is selected from at least one of the existing data document and the document fragment.

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