Method, system and apparatus for data reuse

• US 8,370,734 B2
• Filed: 10/10/2006
• Issued: 02/05/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 04/15/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Nuance Communications, Inc. (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Dictaphone Corporation (Microsoft Corporation)
• Inventors: Boone, Keith W., Chaparala, Sunitha, Fordyce, Cameron, Gervais, Sean, Manoukian, Roubik, Ogrinc, Harry J., Titemore, Robert G., Hopkins, Jeffrey G.
• Primary Examiner(s): SYED, FARHAN M
• Application Number:
  US11/545,414
• Publication Number:
  US 20070038611A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,310 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 715/234
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/284 Relational databases
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/131 Fragmentation of text files, e.g. creating reusable text-blocks; Linking to fragments, e.g. using XInclude; Namespaces
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/14 Tree-structured documents parsing G06F40/205; validation G06F40/226
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/166 Editing, e.g. inserting or deleting
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 10/60 for patient-specific data, e.g. for electronic patient records
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 15/00 ICT specially adapted for medical reports, e.g. generation or transmission thereof
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/63 for local operation

Abstract

A system and method may be disclosed for facilitating the creation or modification of a document by providing a mechanism for locating relevant data from external sources and organizing and incorporating some or all of said data into the document. In the method for reusing data, there may be a set of documents that may be queried, where each document may be divided into a plurality of sections. A plurality of section text groups may be formed based on the set of documents, where each section text group may be associated with a respective section from the plurality of sections and each section group includes a plurality of items. Each item may be associated with a respective section from each document of the set of documents. A selected item within a selected section text group may be focused. The selected item may be extracted to a current document. The current document may be exported to a host application.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method of providing a graphical user interface (GUI), using a processor, that facilitates reusing information from one or more previous electronic documents in a new electronic document, the method comprising:

displaying a query interface having at least one data filter component that presents a plurality of query parameters;

receiving, via the query interface, at least one selected query parameter;

querying a database of computer electronic documents with the at least one selected query parameter;

grouping results of querying the database for display into a plurality of captioned sections, each of the plurality of captioned sections containing content from the electronic documents associated with the respective captioned section;

displaying the results of querying the database in a section viewer component, the section viewer component displaying the results in a tree structure comprising;

a section level component for displaying each of the plurality of captioned sections in association with a respective expand/collapse graphical component, each expand/collapse graphical component having a display state that is either in a collapsed state or an expanded state such that, when actuated, the section level component displays or hides content under the respective captioned section in accordance with the display state of the respective expand/collapse graphical component; and

a content level component that selectively displays one or more contents associated with each of the plurality of captioned sections in accordance with whether the respective expand/collapse graphical component is in the collapsed state or the expanded state, each of the one or more contents having an associated selection graphical component displayed therewith, each of the one or more displayed selection graphical components comprising information indicating whether it is m a selected state or a non-selected state;

in response to receiving input from a user via any one of the one or more displayed selection graphical components altering the state of that displayed selection graphical component; and

in response to receiving an input from the user via the graphical user interface indicating that the user has finished altering the states of the one or more displayed selection graphical components copying each of the contents having an associated selection graphical component that is in the selected state into the new electronic document.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

upon receiving the indication from the user via the graphical user interface, refraining from copying each of the contents that does not have an associated selection graphical component selected into the new electronic document.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein each of the previous electronic documents comprises a medical record.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the new electronic document comprises a medical record.

5. The method of claim 2, wherein the new electronic document comprises a medical record.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein each of the previous electronic documents comprises a medical record.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the new electronic document comprises a medical record.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the new electronic document comprises a medical record.