Method, apparatus and computer program product for providing document user role indication

• US 6,385,627 B1
• Filed: 11/24/1997
• Issued: 05/07/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 11/24/1997
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Cragun, Brian John
• Primary Examiner(s): Feild, Joseph H.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Bashore, William L.
• Application Number:
  US08/976,631
• Time in Patent Office: 1,625 Days
• Field of Search: 345/335, 345/347, 379/265, 455/4.2, 707/515, 707/500, 709/201, 709/246, 709/225
• US Class Current: 715/273
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management

Abstract

An intelligent method, apparatus and computer program product are provided for providing a digital document user role indication. A user role profile for a user is stored. Selecting rules are utilized for identifying one of the plurality of roles from the stored user role profile. Responsive to the applying the selecting rules, a selected user role indication is appended to a digital document. The user role indication can be selected based upon document content, a time of day value, and/or send lists for the digital document. Multiple user selected settings can be selected for the role from a group of enviromental values including name, icon, selection sound, header, footer, opening, closing, background, encryption, signature key, and priority.

Claims

1. A computer program product for providing a digital document user role indication comprising:

a recording medium;

means, recorded on the recording medium, for storing a user role profile;

said user role profile including a set of roles;

said user role profile storing a role list including a role record including a word list, a use count, a role score, and a word score;

said means, recorded on the recording medium, for storing said user role profile including means, recorded on the recording medium, for receiving a user selection for modifying a role;

means, recorded on the recording medium, for applying selecting rules for identifying a role from said set of roles from said user role profile; and

means, recorded on the recording medium, responsive to said applied selecting rules for appending the selected user role indication to a digital document.

2. A computer program product for providing a digital document user role indication as recited in claim 1 wherein said means, recorded on the recording medium, for storing said user role profile includes means, recorded on the recording medium, for receiving a user selection for setting a user selected role.

3. A computer program product for providing a digital document user role indication as recited in claim 1 further include means, recorded on the recording medium, for selecting multiple settings for said role from a group of environmental values including name, icon, selection sound, header, footer, opening, closing, background, encryption, signature key, and priority.

4. A computer program product for providing a digital document user role indication as recited in claim 1 wherein said means, recorded on the recording medium, for applying selecting rules for identifying said role from said set of roles from said user role profile include means, recorded on the recording medium, for determining said role from word frequency use.

5. A computer program product for providing a digital document user role indication as recited in claim 1 wherein said means, recorded on the recording medium, for applying selecting rules for identifying said role from said set of roles from said user role profile include means, recorded on the recording medium, for identifying a predefined user selection and for confirming said selected user role indication.

6. A computer program product for providing a digital document user role indication as recited in claim 1 wherein said means, recorded on the recording medium, for applying selecting rules for identifying said role from said set of roles from said user role profile include means, recorded on the recording medium, for determining said role from a send-list including a send to list and a copy list.

7. A computer program product for providing a digital document user role indication as recited in claim 6 wherein said means, recorded on the recording medium, for determining said role from said send to list and said copy list include means, recorded on the recording medium, for comparing each send to list sendee and each copy list sendee with stored values in said user role profile.

8. A computer program product for providing a digital document user role indication as recited in claim 1 wherein said means, recorded on the recording medium, for applying selecting rules for identifying said role from said set of roles from said user role profile include means, recorded on the recording medium, for determining said role from a time of day value.

9. A computer-implemented method for providing a digital document user role indication in a computer system, said method comprising the steps of:

storing a user role profile;

said user role profile including a set of roles;

said user role profile storing a role list including a role record including a word list, a use count, a role score, and a word score;

receiving a user selection for modifying a role;

applying predefined selecting rules to automatically select a role from said set of roles from said user role profile; and

appending the selected user role indication to a digital document.

10. A computer-implemented method for providing a digital document user role indication as recited in claim 9 wherein said step of storing said user role profile includes the steps of storing user selected entries.

11. A computer-implemented method for providing a digital document user role indication as recited in claim 9 wherein said step of storing said user role profile includes the steps of identifying predetermined historical values from digital documents and storing said identified predetermined historical values in said user role profile.

12. A computer-implemented method for providing a digital document user role indication as recited in claim 9 wherein said step of applying predefined selecting rules to automatically select said role from said set of roles from said user role profile includes the steps of identifying a predefined user selection and confirming said selected user role indication.

13. A computer-implemented method for providing a digital document user role indication as recited in claim 9 wherein said step of applying predefined selecting rules to automatically select said role from said set of roles from said user role profile includes the steps of determining said role from word frequency use in the digital document.

14. A computer-implemented method for providing a digital document user role indication as recited in claim 9 wherein said step of applying predefined selecting rules to automatically select said role from said set of roles from said user role profile includes the steps of determining said role utilizing a time of day value.

15. A computer-implemented method for providing a digital document user role indication as recited in claim 9 wherein said step of applying predefined selecting rules to automatically select said role from said set of roles from said user role profile includes the steps of determining said role utilizing send-lists including a send to list and a copy list from the digital document.

16. A computer-implemented method for providing a digital document user role indication as recited in claim 9 further includes the steps of receiving multiple user selected settings for said role selected from a group of environmental values including name, icon, selection sound, header, footer, opening, closing, background, encryption, signature key, and priority;

and displaying selected ones of said multiple user selected settings for said role with the digital document.

17. Apparatus for providing a digital document user role indication in a computer system comprising:

means for storing a user role profile;

said user role profile including a set of roles;

said user role profile storing a role list including a role record including a word list, a use count, a role score, and a word score;

said means for storing said user role profile including means for receiving a user selection for modifying a role;

means for applying selecting rules to identify a role from said set of roles from said user role profile; and

means responsive to said applied selecting rules for appending the selected user role indication to a digital document.

18. Apparatus for providing a digital document user role indication as recited in claim 17 wherein said means for storing said user role profile include means for receiving a user selections for adding and modifying role values and means for identifying predetermined values from the digital document and for storing said identified predetermined values in said user role profile.

19. Apparatus for providing a digital document user role indication as recited in claim 17 wherein said means for applying selecting rules to identify said role from a set of roles include means for identifying word frequency values and send lists from the digital document and determining said role utilizing said identified values.