Document management and production system

Patent 5181162 Issued on January 19, 1993. Estimated Expiration Date:

January 19, 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

Application

No. 446937 filed on 12/06/1989

US Classes:

715/530, Edit, composition, or storage control707/104.1, Application of database or data structure (e.g., distributed, multimedia, image)715/513, Structured document (e.g., HTML, SGML, ODA, CDA)715/517Layout

Examiners

Primary: Hayes, Gail O.
Assistant: Bodendorf, A.

Attorney, Agent or Firm

Dudley; Mark Z.

International Classes

G06F 001/00
G06F 015/20

Abstract

An object-oriented document management and production system in which documents are represented as collections of logical components, or "objects", that may be combined and physically mapped onto a page-by-page layout. Stored objects are organized, accessed and manipulated through a database management system. At a minimum, objects contain basic information-bearing constituents such as text, image, voice or graphics. Objects may also contain further data specifying appearance characteristics, relationships to other objects, and access restrictions.