System, method, and computer program product for processing a markup document

• US 9,262,383 B2
• Filed: 05/28/2015
• Issued: 02/16/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 05/21/1999
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: e-Numerate Solutions, Inc.
• Original Assignee: e-Numerate Solutions, Inc.
• Inventors: Davis, Russell T
• Primary Examiner(s): STORK, KYLE R
• Application Number:
  US14/724,792
• Publication Number:
  US 20150261727A1
• Time in Patent Office: 264 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/94 Hypermedia Hyperlinking G06F40/134
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9558 Details of hyperlinks; Management of linked annotations
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/117 Tagging; Marking up details of markup languages G06F40/143; Designating a block; Setting of attributes style sheets, e.g. eXtensible Stylesheet Language Transformation [XSLT], G06F40/154
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/146 Coding or compression of tree-structured data

Abstract

A system, method, and computer program product are provided for identifying a first markup document including first numerical values and first tags reflecting first characteristics of the first numerical values associated with a first unit of measure, and a second markup document including second numerical values and second tags reflecting second characteristics of the second numerical values associated with a second unit of measure. The first characteristics of the first numerical values associated with the first unit of measure are different from the second characteristics of the second numerical values associated with the second unit of measure. At least a portion of the numerical values of at least one of the first markup document or the second markup document are automatically transformed, so that the at least some of the first numerical values of the first markup document and at least some of the second numerical values of the second markup document have a common unit of measure. Further, at least a part of the first markup document and at least a part of the second markup document are processed, resulting in a single markup document, for display.

Claims

1. A computer program product embodied on a non-transitory computer-readable medium comprising:

code for identifying a first markup document including first numerical values and first tags reflecting first characteristics of the first numerical values associated with a first unit of measure, and a second markup document including second numerical values and second tags reflecting second characteristics of the second numerical values associated with a second unit of measure, wherein the first tags and the second tags each include computer-readable semantic tags that describe a semantic meaning of a corresponding one of at least one of the first numerical values or the second numerical values, via a computer-readable tagging association therebetween, where the first characteristics of the first numerical values associated with the first unit of measure are different from the second characteristics of the second numerical values associated with the second unit of measure;

code for causing automatic transformation of at least a portion of the first or second numerical values of at least one of the first markup document or the second markup document, so that at least some of the first numerical values of the first markup document and at least some of the second numerical values of the second markup document have a common unit of measure;

code for processing at least a part of the first markup document and at least a part of the second markup document, resulting in a single markup document; and

code for causing a display of at least a portion of the single markup document.

2. The computer program product of claim 1, wherein the computer program product is configured for allowing a user to edit a mapping of one or more of the computer-readable semantic tags to a corresponding one of the at least one of the first numerical values or the second numerical values.

3. The computer program product of claim 1, wherein the computer program product is operable such that the first unit of measure includes a first currency and the second unit of measure includes a second currency.

4. The computer program product of claim 1, and further comprising code for manipulating the display of the single markup document using at least one of the first tags reflecting the first characteristics of the first numerical values associated with the first unit of measure, or the second tags reflecting the second characteristics of the second numerical values associated with the second unit of measure.

5. The computer program product of claim 1, wherein the computer program product is configured such that the first markup document and the second markup document each include a XML-compliant data document that includes multiple hierarchical relationships between two line items of corresponding numerical values, and is further capable of including computer-readable semantic tags that each describe a semantic meaning of one or more of corresponding numerical values.

6. The computer program product of claim 5, wherein the computer program product is configured such that the computer-readable semantic tags are each computer-readably coupled to the one or more of the corresponding numerical values.

7. The computer program product of claim 1, wherein the computer program product is configured such that the single markup document includes a XML-compliant data document that includes multiple hierarchical relationships between two line items of corresponding numerical values, and is further capable of including computer-readable semantic tags that each describe a semantic meaning of one or more of corresponding numerical values.

8. The computer program product of claim 1, wherein the computer program product is operable such that the single markup document includes a XML-compliant data document that is capable of including at least one of:

multiple hierarchical relationships between two line items of corresponding numerical values, or computer-readable semantic tags that each describe a semantic meaning of one or more of corresponding numerical values.

9. The computer program product of claim 8, wherein the computer program product is configured for utilizing a plurality of computer-readable rules for processing the XML-compliant data document, the computer-readable rules including:

a computer-readable datatype rule for validation of a value type,

a computer-readable calculation rule for validation of a value calculation, and

a computer-readable unit rule for validation of a value unit.

10. The computer program product of claim 8, wherein the computer program product is configured for validating the XML-compliant data document by:

identifying at least a subset of a plurality of computer-readable rules including at least one of;

a computer-readable datatype rule for validation of a value type,

a computer-readable calculation rule for validation of a value calculation, or

a computer-readable unit rule for validation of a value unit; and

processing at least a portion of the XML-compliant data document, utilizing the at least subset of the computer-readable rules.

11. The computer program product of claim 8, wherein the computer program product is configured such that the XML-compliant data document includes an extensible semantic tag-equipped markup language component and a hypertext markup language (HTML) component.

12. The computer program product of claim 11, wherein the computer program product is configured such that at least one XML-compliant data document is capable of being displayed utilizing a network browser for allowing review of the HTML component in addition to access the extensible semantic tag-equipped markup language component.

13. The computer program product of claim 1, wherein the computer program product is configured for storing at least one object including at least one reference to an original value of at least one of the first numerical values or the second numerical values.

14. The computer program product of claim 13, wherein the computer program product is configured for outputting a presentation or report that is based on at least a portion of the at least one object, the presentation or report capable of including at least one of the first numerical values or the second numerical values, including the original value, such that, based on the at least one reference of the at least one object, a change to the original value results in a corresponding change in an instance of the presentation or report.

15. The computer program product of claim 13, wherein the computer program product is configured such that the single markup document includes a XML-compliant data document that includes multiple hierarchical relationships between two line items of corresponding numerical values, and is further capable of including computer-readable semantic tags that each describe a semantic meaning of one or more of the corresponding numerical values, wherein the computer program product is further configured for outputting the XML-compliant data document based on at least a portion of the at least one object, the XML-compliant data document capable of including at least a portion of at least one of the first numerical values or the second numerical values, including the original value, such that, based on the at least one reference of the at least one object, a change to the original value results in a corresponding change in an instance of the XML-compliant data document.

16. The computer program product of claim 1, wherein the computer program product is configured such that at least one of:

said code for causing the automatic transformation is capable of automatically transforming the at least portion of the numerical values of the first markup document the second markup document;

said identifying includes receiving;

said first tags or second tags result from tagging;

said characteristics include at least one of a magnitude, scale, modifier, unit, and measurement;

said tags reflect structure;

said processing includes merging or combining;

said processing results in a single data set, and said code for causing the display causes display of the single data set;

said single markup document is caused to be displayed on a single graphical display;

said single markup document includes an RDML document;

said single markup document is caused to be displayed without requiring a user to make manual adjustments;

or

said at least portion of the single markup document includes the numerical values thereof.

17. A method comprising:

identifying a first markup document including first numerical values and first tags reflecting first characteristics of the first numerical values associated with a first unit of measure, and a second markup document including second numerical values and second tags reflecting second characteristics of the second numerical values associated with a second unit of measure, wherein the first tags and the second tags each include computer-readable semantic tags that describe a semantic meaning of a corresponding one of at least one of the first numerical values or the second numerical values, via a computer-readable tagging association therebetween, where the first characteristics of the first numerical values associated with the first unit of measure are different from the second characteristics of the second numerical values associated with the second unit of measure;

automatically transforming at least a portion of the first or second numerical values of at least one of the first markup document or the second markup document, so that at least some of the first numerical values of the first markup document and at least some of the second numerical values of the second markup document have a common unit of measure;

processing at least a part of the first markup document and at least a part of the second markup document, resulting in a single markup document; and

causing a display of at least a portion of the single markup document.

18. An apparatus, comprising:

means for identifying a first markup document including first numerical values and first tags reflecting first characteristics of the first numerical values associated with a first unit of measure, and a second markup document including second numerical values and second tags reflecting second characteristics of the second numerical values associated with a second unit of measure, wherein the first tags and the second tags each include computer-readable semantic tags that describe a semantic meaning of a corresponding one of at least one of the first numerical values or the second numerical values, via a computer-readable tagging association therebetween, where the first characteristics of the first numerical values associated with the first unit of measure are different from the second characteristics of the second numerical values associated with the second unit of measure;

means for automatically transforming at least a portion of the first or second numerical values of at least one of the first markup document or the second markup document, so that at least some of the first numerical values of the first markup document and at least some of the second numerical values of the second markup document have a common unit of measure;

means for processing at least a part of the first markup document and at least a part of the second markup document, resulting in a single markup document;

means for causing a display of at least a portion of the single markup document.