System and method for grouping and organizing pages of an electronic document into pre-defined categories

• US 7,636,886 B2
• Filed: 04/24/2003
• Issued: 12/22/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 04/24/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: SurePrep, LLC
• Original Assignee: SurePrep, LLC
• Inventors: Wyle, David A., Karkare, Makarand
• Primary Examiner(s): Pillai; Namitha
• Application Number:
  US10/422,133
• Publication Number:
  US 20040216057A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,434 Days
• Field of Search: 715/522, 715/525, 715/537, 715/708, 715/730, 715/739, 715/511, 715/513, 715/517, 715/222, 715/277, 715/223, 715/776, 715/251
• US Class Current: 715/277
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/40 of multimedia data, e.g. slideshows comprising image and additional audio data retrieval of still image data G06F16/50; retrieval of audio data G06F16/60; retrieval of video data G06F16/70
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/93 Document management systems

Abstract

A system and method for rearranging a plurality of pages of an electronic document is disclosed. The method might include the steps of providing a bookmark profile that includes a plurality of categories, receiving a description pertaining to one of the plurality of categories, associating a page of the plurality of pages with the description, inserting the description into the bookmark profile, and arranging the plurality of pages according to the bookmark profile.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method for organizing a plurality of pages of an electronic tax document based on a plurality of tax preparation categories, comprising:

defining a bookmark profile comprising a plurality of tax preparation categories listed in a predefined bookmark order;

defining a first bookmark and a second bookmark, the first bookmark and the second bookmark each containing at least one tax preparation category;

associating the first bookmark with a first page of the electronic tax document;

associating the second bookmark with a second page of the electronic tax document, the second page subsequent in order to the first page in the electronic tax document;

associating the first bookmark with a first plurality of pages corresponding to all pages of the electronic tax document between the first page and the second page;

associating the second bookmark with a second plurality of pages corresponding to all pages of the electronic tax document subsequent to the second page;

displaying the first bookmark and the second bookmark; and

arranging the first and second plurality of pages of the electronic tax document into the predefined bookmark order based on the plurality of tax preparation categories, the predefined bookmark order different than a previous order of the pages of the electronic tax document.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising receiving the electronic tax document having a plurality of pages wherein the electronic tax document is selected from a group consisting of a PDF file, a TIFF file and a JPEG file.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving a subsequent page;

combining the subsequent page with the plurality of pages; and

inserting a tag on the subsequent page.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising inserting a description into one of the plurality of tax preparation categories.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the bookmark profile includes a plurality of subcategories.

6. The method of claim 5, further comprising:

displaying the plurality of subcategories;

receiving a selected subcategory from the plurality of subcategories; and

displaying a description adjacent to the selected subcategory.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein associating the first bookmark with a first page of the electronic tax document comprises:

assigning a description identifier to the first page; and

inserting the description identifier into the first page.

8. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

generating a table of contents using a bookmark profile;

determining the number of pages of the table of contents;

shifting the plurality of pages to accommodate for the table of contents; and

inserting the table of contents before the plurality of pages.

9. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

displaying the plurality of tax preparation categories;

receiving a selected category from the plurality of categories; and

displaying a description adjacent to the selected category.

10. The method of claim 3, further comprising scanning in and concatenating the subsequent pages of the electronic tax document, and inserting a tag on each subsequent page indicating that the page has been added.

11. The method of claim 1, further comprising activating a rearranger button that causes the computer to rearrange the pages, insert the bookmarks, add page numbers and insert a table of contents into the electronic tax document, based on the ordering dictated by a bookmark profile.

12. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

generating a table of contents using a bookmark profile;

determining the number of pages of the table of contents;

shifting the plurality of pages according to the number of pages of the table of contents to accommodate for the table of contents; and

inserting the table of contents before the plurality of pages and at the top of the plurality of pages.