METHOD OF COMPUTERIZED PRESENTATION OF A DOCUMENT SET VIEW FOR AUDITING INFORMATION AND MANAGING SETS OF MULTIPLE DOCUMENTS AND PAGES

• US 20170235705A1
• Filed: 02/13/2017
• Published: 08/17/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 02/12/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Bluebeam, Inc. (Nemetschek SE)
• Original Assignee: Bluebeam Software Incorporated (Nemetschek SE)
• Inventors: WEZOREK, JOSEPH W., CHENAULT, ELLIOT
• Granted Patent: US 10,387,010 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0483 Interaction with page-structured environments, e.g. book metaphor
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/106 Display of layout of documents; Previewing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/166 Editing, e.g. inserting or deleting
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/279 Recognition of textual entities
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/00 Administration; Management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/101 Collaborative creation, e.g. joint development of products or services
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/103 Workflow collaboration or project management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/16 Real estate

Abstract

A method of computerized presentation of a document set view for auditing information of a set of documents. The method includes the initial step of receiving on a computer a selection of an original document. The original document has multiple pages with each of the pages of the original document having corresponding page content. A selection is received from the user of a first region a page of the original document. This process is repeated to retrieve a text string from all of the pages. An addendum document with multiple pages is received. A text string is retrieved from the pages of the addendum document without user intervention. A document set view is provided using the retrieved text stings and displayed for the user to update the associated information and thus allowing for the user to perform a data audit of the automated portion of the process.

Claims

1. A method of computerized presentation of a document set view, the method comprising:

receiving on a computer a selection of an original document, the original document having multiple pages, each of the pages of the original document having corresponding page content;

receiving, from a user, a selection of a first region within a first one of the pages of the original document, the first region being defined by a set of first boundaries relative to the page content of first one of the pages of the original document and including a first base selection page content;

retrieving, without user intervention, a text string of the first base selection page content from the first one of the pages of the original document;

assigning, without user intervention, the retrieved text string of the first base selection page content to a page location index of the first one of the pages of the original document;

retrieving, without user intervention, a text string of a first replicated selection page content from a second one of the pages of the original document, the first replicated selection page content being included in the same first region defined by the set of first boundaries relative to the page content of second one of the pages of the original document;

assigning, without user intervention, the retrieved text string of the first replicated selection page content to a page location index of the second one of the pages of the original document;

receiving on the computer a selection of an addendum document, the addendum document having multiple pages, each of the pages of the addendum document having corresponding page content, at least one of the pages of the addendum document being respectively correlated to a page of the original document;

retrieving, without user intervention, a text string of an addendum replicated selection page content from each page of the addendum document, the addendum replicated selection page content being included in the same first region defined by the set of first boundaries relative to each page of the addendum document;

assigning, without user intervention, the retrieved text string of the addendum replicated selection page content to a page location index of each page of the addendum document;

generating a document set using the original document and the addendum document;

displaying on a computer a document set view from the document set, the document set view being generated from document set information based upon the page location index of each page of the original document and the addendum document;

receiving, from the user, updated information corresponding to a portion of the document set information displayed on the document set view; and

updating the page location index of each page of the original document and the addendum document corresponding to the received updated information.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein the text string of the first base selection page content corresponds to a page number.

3. The method of claim 1 wherein the text string of the addendum replicated selection page content corresponds to a page number.

4. The method of claim 3 wherein the displaying of the document set view includes sorting the document set view based upon one of alphanumeric and numeric values of the page location index of the pages of the original document and the addendum document.

5. The method of claim 1 wherein the retrieving of the text string of the first base selection page content is via detection of embedded data from the first one of the pages of the original document.

6. The method of claim 1 wherein the retrieving of the text string of the first base selection page content is via optical character recognition (OCR).

7. The method of claim 1 further including:

receiving, from a user, a selection of a second region within a first one of the pages of the original document, the second region being defined by a set of second boundaries relative to the first one of the pages of the original document and including a second base selection page content;

retrieving, without user intervention, a text string of the second base selection page content from the first one of the pages of the original document;

assigning, without user intervention, the retrieved text string of the first base selection page content to a page location index of the first one of the pages of the original document;

retrieving, without user intervention, a text string of a second replicated selection page content from a second one of the pages of the original document, the second replicated selection page content being included in the same second region defined by the set of second boundaries relative to the second one of the pages of the original document; and

assigning, without user intervention, the retrieved text string of the second replicated selection page content to a page location index of the second one of the pages of the original document.

8. The method of claim 7 wherein the text string of the second base selection page content corresponds to a page name.

9. The method of claim 8 wherein the displaying of the document set view includes sorting the document set view based upon one of alphanumeric and numeric values of the page location index of the pages of the original document and the addendum document.

10. The method of claim 1 wherein the displaying of the document set view is in tabular form.

11. The method of claim 1 wherein the displaying of the document set view includes sorting the document set view based upon one of alphanumeric and numeric values of the page location index of the pages of the original document and the addendum document.

12. The method of claim 1 includes retrieving, without user intervention, a text string from all pages of the original document using same first region defined by the set of first boundaries relative to the page content of each of the pages of the original document.