Method and apparatus for supporting of making formatted document

Patent 5144555 Issued on September 1, 1992. Estimated Expiration Date:

November 13, 2010. Estimated Expiration Date is calculated based on simple USPTO term provisions. It does not account for terminal disclaimers, term adjustments, failure to pay maintenance fees, or other factors which might affect the term of a patent.

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Inventors

Assignee

Application

No. 613166 filed on 11/13/1990

US Classes:

715/530, Edit, composition, or storage control715/517Layout

Examiners

Primary: Shaw, Dale M.
Assistant: Bodendorf, Andrew

Attorney, Agent or Firm

Fay, Sharpe, Beall, Fagan, Minnich & McKee

Foreign Patent References

61-194532 JP. 08/13/1986

International Class

G06F 001/00

Foreign Application Priority Data

1989-11-16 JP

Abstract

A support method of and apparatus for making/editing a formatted document including a plurality types of formatted documents having a mutual relation therebetween. An input device inputs beforehand a relation between document forms before a formatted document is made, the inputted relation is stored in a storage device, and a relation between formatted documents is automatically generated by referring to the relation stored in the storage device.

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