Apparatus and method for computer-assisted document generation

Patent 5267155 Issued on November 30, 1993. Estimated Expiration Date:

March 6, 2012. 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

Medical Documenting Systems, Inc.

Application

No. 847292 filed on 03/06/1992

US Classes:

715/540, Replacement of element715/522, Format information in separate file715/530, Edit, composition, or storage control715/539Block control

Examiners

Primary: Envall, Roy N. Jr.
Assistant: Hazard, Jennifer L.

Attorney, Agent or Firm

Merchant, Gould, Smith, Edell, Welter & Schmidt

Foreign Patent References

0216063 EP. 04/13/1987

International Class

G06F 015/21

Abstract

A document generation system for enhancing or replacing the dictation and transcription process. More particularly, a computer-based documentation system is provided which processes document templates in conjunction with pre-defined character strings to generate user-defined reports or documents. Each document template is composed of "boiler plate" text and "holes". A system and method are described for controlling, via a relational database, the selection of pre-defined character strings to be inserted into document template "holes". A second method is described for inserting user-defined or concatenated character strings into selected document template "holes".

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