Document management systems and methods
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1. A method for managing documents in a computer implemented document management system, comprising:
- creating a document profile that comprises fields of attributes of a document for each of the documents;
generating a unique identifier for each of the documents, the unique identifier comprising at least a first portion including information descriptive of a distinguishing characteristic of the document and at least a second portion including an automatically generated number, the unique identifiers being viewable by users of the document management system so that a group of the unique identifiers comprising a common first portion can be identified by the common first portion and distinguished from other unique identifiers comprising a different first portion; and
storing the document profile for each of the documents.
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Abstract
A computer implemented method for managing documents includes the steps of: creating a document profile that includes fields of attributes of a document and generating a unique identifier for the document. The unique identifier includes at least a first portion including information descriptive of an attribute of the document and at least a second portion including an automatically generated number. The method preferably further includes the step of storing the document profile for the document.
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21 Claims
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1. A method for managing documents in a computer implemented document management system, comprising:
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creating a document profile that comprises fields of attributes of a document for each of the documents; generating a unique identifier for each of the documents, the unique identifier comprising at least a first portion including information descriptive of a distinguishing characteristic of the document and at least a second portion including an automatically generated number, the unique identifiers being viewable by users of the document management system so that a group of the unique identifiers comprising a common first portion can be identified by the common first portion and distinguished from other unique identifiers comprising a different first portion; and storing the document profile for each of the documents. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11)
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12. A method for managing documents in a computer implemented document management system, comprising:
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creating a document profile that comprises fields of attributes of the document; storing the document profile; and creating an email message via a messaging system external to the document management system comprising a link to the document profile using a selector within the document management system so that a recipient of the message can access the document associated with the document profile. - View Dependent Claims (13)
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14. A method for managing documents in a computer implemented document management system, comprising:
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creating a document profile that comprises fields of attributes of the document; storing the document profile; and creating an email message via a messaging system external to the document management system comprising a copy of the document using a selector within the document management system so that a recipient of the message can access the copy of the document.
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15. A method for managing documents in a computer implemented document management system comprising:
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for each document, creating a document profile that comprises fields of attributes of an associated document content; storing the document profile in a database; creating document content associated with the document profile; storing the document content external to the database in a file system of a first storage device upon activating a save function; setting in the document management system a system variable for at least a second storage to which the document content is to be automatically written when the save function is activated to provide redundancy; automatically writing the document content to the second storage device upon activating a save function.
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16. A computer implemented document management system, the computer including a processing unit and a storage device, the document management system comprising:
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a module to create a document profile to be stored in a database in the storage device for a plurality of documents, the document profile comprising fields of attributes of an associated document; a module to generate a unique identifier for each of the documents, the unique identifier comprising at least a first portion comprising information descriptive of a distinguishing characteristic of the associated document and at least a second portion comprising a number generated by the unique identifier generation module, the unique identifier being viewable by users of the document management system so that a group of the unique identifiers comprising a common first portion can be identified by the common first portion and distinguished from other unique identifiers comprising a different first portion. - View Dependent Claims (17, 18, 19, 20, 21)
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