System for managing a compound document

Patent 5950215 Issued on September 7, 1999. Estimated Expiration Date:

February 7, 2016. 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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Inventor

Tabuchi, Masahiro

Assignee

NEC Corporation

Application

No. 598191 filed on 02/07/1996

US Classes:

715/515Compound document

Examiners

Primary: Fetting, Anton W.

Attorney, Agent or Firm

Foley & Lardner

Foreign Patent References

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International Class

G06F 017/27

Foreign Application Priority Data

1995-02-07 JP

Abstract

A compound document managing system includes a compound document managing unit for embedding or linking data produced by an application in or with data produced by other applications and managing the data as a compound document. The application includes a context information managing unit for setting or releasing context information indicative of semantics common among a plurality of applications, and includes data distribution ranges, data presentation targets and data production source information, and history information, to or from data embedded in or linked with the compound document. Tthe system also includes a selection unit for selecting specific context information set to data to specify data corresponding to the selected context information. The compound document managing unit includes a control unit responsive to a request for setting or selecting context information to or out of the data of the compound document for starting and controlling the context information managing unit and the selection unit of the application corresponding to the data.

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