METHOD, SYSTEM, AND APPARATUS FOR DATA REUSE

• US 20130191737A1
• Filed: 12/21/2012
• Published: 07/25/2013
• 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.
• Granted Patent: US 9,251,129 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/256
• 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

1-25. -25. (canceled)

26. A method for a using at least one processor to provide a graphical user interface that enables the creation of a new electronic document from an existing electronic document, comprising acts of:

displaying excerpts from the existing electronic document on a computer display;

for each of the displayed excerpts, displaying at least one corresponding indicator on the computer display, each displayed indicator including information indicating whether the indicator is in a selected state or an unselected state;

enabling a user to operate the graphical user interface so as to selectively alter the states of the displayed indicators; and

in response to receiving an input from the user indicating that the user has finished altering the states of the displayed indicators, for each displayed excerpt for which a corresponding indicator is in the selected state, copying a portion of the existing document corresponding to that displayed excerpt into the new document.

27. The method of claim 26, further comprising an act of:

in response to receiving the input from the user indicating that the user has finished altering the states of the displayed indicators, for each displayed excerpt for which a corresponding indicator is in the unselected state, refraining from copying a portion of the existing document corresponding to that displayed excerpt into the new document.

28. The method of claim 26, further comprising act of:

displaying on the computer display at least one indicator corresponding to two or more of the displayed excerpts; and

in response to receiving user input causing the at least one indicator corresponding to the two or more of the displayed excerpts to be put in the selected state, causing respective indicators for the two or more displayed excerpts to be put in the selected state.

29. The method of claim 26, further comprising acts of:

receiving a query identifying one or more search parameters via the graphical user interface; and

retrieving the existing document in response to determining the existing document satisfies the one or more search parameters identified in the query.

30. The method of claim 26, further comprising an act of:

automatically segmenting the existing document into the portions corresponding to the displayed excerpts.

31. A system for providing a graphical user interface that enables the creation of a new electronic document from an existing electronic document, the system comprising at least one processor configured to cause excerpts from the existing electronic document to be displayed on a computer display, and, for each of the displayed excerpts, to cause at least one corresponding indicator to be displayed on the computer display, each displayed indicator including information indicating whether the indicator is in a selected state or an unselected state, the at least one processor being further configured to enable a user to operate the graphical user interface so as to selectively alter the states of the displayed indicators, and, for each displayed excerpt for which a corresponding indicator is in the selected state, to copy a portion of the existing document corresponding to that displayed excerpt into the new document in response to receiving an input from the user indicating that the user has finished altering the states of the displayed indicators.

32. The system of claim 31, wherein the at least one processor is further configured so that, for each displayed excerpt for which a corresponding indicator is in the unselected state, the at least one processor refrains from copying a portion of the existing document corresponding to that displayed excerpt into the new document in response to receiving the input from the user indicating that the user has finished altering the states of the displayed indicators.

33. The system of claim 31, wherein the at least one processor is further configured to cause at least one indicator corresponding to two or more of the displayed excerpts to be displayed on the computer display, and to, in response to receiving user input causing the at least one indicator corresponding to the two or more of the displayed excerpts to be put in the selected state, cause respective indicators for the two or more displayed excerpts to be put in the selected state.

34. The system of claim 31, wherein the at least one processor is further configured to receive a query identifying one or more search parameters via the graphical user interface, and to cause the existing document to be retrieved in response to determining the existing document satisfies the one or more search parameters identified in the query.

35. The system of claim 31, wherein the at least one processor is further configured to cause the existing document to be automatically segmented into the portions corresponding to the displayed excerpts.

36. A non-transient, computer-readable medium encoded with instructions that, when executed by at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to perform a method for providing a graphical user interface that enables the creation of a new electronic document from an existing electronic document, the method comprising acts of:

displaying excerpts from the existing electronic document on a computer display;

for each of the displayed excerpts, displaying at least one corresponding indicator on the computer display, each displayed indicator including information indicating whether the indicator is in a selected state or an unselected state;

enabling a user to operate the graphical user interface so as to selectively alter the states of the displayed indicators; and

in response to receiving an input from the user indicating that the user has finished altering the states of the displayed indicators, for each displayed excerpt for which a corresponding indicator is in the selected state, copying a portion of the existing document corresponding to that displayed excerpt into the new document.

37. The computer-readable medium of claim 36, encoded with additional instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to perform a further act of:

in response to receiving the input from the user indicating that the user has finished altering the states of the displayed indicators, for each displayed excerpt for which a corresponding indicator is in the unselected state, refraining from copying a portion of the existing document corresponding to that displayed excerpt into the new document.

38. The computer-readable medium of claim 36, encoded with additional instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to perform further acts of:

displaying on the computer display at least one indicator corresponding to two or more of the displayed excerpts; and

in response to receiving user input causing the at least one indicator corresponding to the two or more of the displayed excerpts to be put in the selected state, causing respective indicators for the two or more displayed excerpts to be put in the selected state.

39. The computer-readable medium of claim 36, encoded with additional instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to perform further acts of:

receiving a query identifying one or more search parameters via the graphical user interface; and

causing the existing document to be retrieved in response to determining the existing document satisfies the one or more search parameters identified in the query.

40. The computer-readable medium of claim 36, encoded with additional instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to perform a further act of:

causing the existing document to be automatically segmented into the portions corresponding to the displayed excerpts.