Appeal No. 2002-0799
Application No. 08/947,435
The invention is directed to a computer based document management system.
The invention seeks to automatically import, store, organize and manipulate a
document collection with minimal user interaction in an efficient manner. In particular, a
document is imported into the computer system, that document is then stored in a
memory location, attribute data is automatically extracted from that document and a
data structure is generated for that document, wherein the data structure contains the
attribute data in a standardized format regardless of document type or document
format.
1. A method for managing a document collection in a computer
system, said method comprising the steps of:
importing a document having a first format into a collection of
documents in the computer system, wherein the collection of documents
is organized within the computer system in accordance with a hierarchy of
electronic folders;
storing the document in a memory location;
automatically extracting attribute data from the document;
generating a data structure for the document, wherein said data
structure contains the attribute data in a second format independent of
said first format, and wherein said data structure is stored and maintained
in memory separate from the imported document and;
linking the imported document to a first electronic folder if the
attribute data contained in said data structure matches a set of predefined
criteria corresponding to the first electronic folder.
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