66 results about "Virtual document" patented technology

A system and method of managing virtual documents is described. In this approach, a user database is set up on a network-connected computer. There are a number of virtual documents that are created by on other network-connected computers. These virtual documents have associated with them an attribute file having known header and field information. The virtual documents and their associated attribute files are sent from the other network-connected computers to the network-connected computer, which then categorizes and stores information from the virtual documents according to the contents of the attribute file.

A system and method of managing virtual documents is described. These virtual documents have associated with them an attribute file having known header and field information. By using the attribute file information, a network-connected computer can categorize and store virtual documents in a database corresponding to a particular user of the system. According to one aspect, the system is designed so that it can interface with an interactive television computer system so that a user can select virtual documents that he wishes to retain while viewing a television program. The selected virtual documents are then categorized and stored in the database corresponding to the user. According to another aspect, virtual documents can be downloaded from network-connected computer to a user's computer and then transferred to a smart card device. Specifically, a merchant coupon may be downloaded to the smart card device so that it may be redeemed at a merchant's store.

A computer implemented method, apparatus and software for automatically transforming data between Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) formats. For generating EDI documents or messages, a source data model with EDI related data is received. Data is transferred from metadata elements of the source data model to variables of a virtual document, based on a mapping that has been previously made. Data assigned to the variables of the virtual document are then transferred to metadata elements of a target data model. An EDI document or message corresponding to the target data model is automatically created as a result, which includes data from the source document or message.

A system for managing large quantities of business related documents stored electronically requires little or no reliance on the corresponding hardcopy versions. The management system data includes a processing approach that allows for the creation of documents electronically, i.e., by virtual documents the system users in concert with their everyday business activities-thus overcoming the previous difficulty in implementing paperless office environments. In particular, essentially all documents are stored as system available image files on a central image server. Organization of these image based virtual documents are created during initial document review by the users having review responsibilities in the first instance. During the review process, the system provides a highly intelligent user interface which permits the creation of indexing values corresponding to the document in a highly simplified and intuitive manner. This permits the rapid and burden free preparation of document indices to support useful interaction with the image based virtual document-thus eliminating the need for any supporting hardcopy.

A method for publishing relational data as XML by translating XML queries into queries against an relational database. Conversion of the relational database into an XML database is not required. Each relational table is mapped to a virtual XML document, and XML queries are issued over these virtual documents. An XML query is parsed and transformed into a language-neutral intermediate representation, which is a sequence of operations describing how the output document is derived from the underlying relational tables. The intermediate representation is then translated into an SQL query over the underlying relational tables and into instructions for a tagger. The SQL query is executed, and the SQL query results are then fed into the tagger, which follows tagger instructions to generate the marked up output.

The various embodiments herein provide a method and system for personalizing information retrieval in a communication network. The method comprising receiving one or more inputs from a plurality of sources, processing information present in the one or more inputs received from the plurality of sources, performing a contextual and personalized search based on the inputs received and displaying one or more results in support of the information in the communication network. The system herein comprising an application server for receiving one or more inputs from a plurality of sources, a processor for performing at least one of processing an information present in the inputs received from the plurality of sources, generating one or more virtual documents based on the processing of the information present in the one or more inputs, performing a search based on the virtual documents generated and a display unit for displaying one or more results.

A virtual online document management system wherein an original document is broken down into logical pages before uploading into the document repository in a network environment. Each logical page is converted into a separate electronic image file. Each logical page is an addressable unit within the computer's storage. A virtual document consists of a sequence of pointers to the corresponding logical pages. These virtual documents can also be organized into virtual folders, again by the use of a sequence of pointers. The pointers to the logical pages that designate the virtual documents and the virtual folders are maintained in a computer software program practicing the disclosed method. The user operates on the logical pages with the program to create new virtual documents, retrieve the pages over the network, and to aggregate virtual documents to form virtual folders.

Apparatus and methods of revealing the hierarchical structure of a document having content of a characteristic type of content are described (100). The hierarchical structure may be expressed, independently of document content type, as a tree structure of one or more nodes (126) A semantic representation for interpreting the tree structure may also be provided, document description files are used to encapsulate structural and meta information associated with a document stored on a computer-readable medium (156). Document description files are external to native application files and have a set of required fields. Document description files point to the referenced document data using uniform resource locators (URLS) and serve as virtual documents. In addition to the required fields, applications can choose to encode additional structural information in the document description files.

In one embodiment, the invention regards a method for providing formatted print pages of electronic material in response to a request initiated by a user. The method includes providing to the user a virtual document that includes at least one formatting instruction which affects the appearance of the virtual document. Further, an electronic request is received from the user for the formatted print pages, and the electronic request includes electronic order information, and the formatted print pages are based on the virtual document. The electronic order information is preferably processed to provide electronic production information that represents instructions for fulfilling the request. The electronic production information is preferably transmitted to a fulfillment facility, generating the formatted print pages by the fulfillment facility and providing the formatted print pages to the user from the fulfillment facility.

A method and apparatus for providing a view of a document in a database of documents. The method includes receiving a request to crawl the documents, identifying a format for the document view, and providing the document view based on the identified format using components of the document.

The invention relates to the technical field of information display, and specifically discloses a document loading method and device. The document loading method comprises that an Open XPS original document is divided into three kinds of document blocks, the document blocks comprise an application-required document block, an image resource document block and a content carrier document block, the byte stream of the application-required document block is obtained first, the byte stream of the image resource document block is obtained in parallel at the same time, after the byte stream of the application-required document block is obtained, a virtual document is packaged, the virtual document obtains the byte stream of the content carrier document block in the page from a remote server according to the page required by a client, the virtual document can obtain the byte streams of the completed three document blocks and can directly position the byte streams, and the packaged virtual document is provided to the client as a complete document. According to the invention, the documents are provided to a reader in order in a manner that document blocks are separated in types and are obtained in parallel, the document loading time is shortened, and the user reading experience is improved.

A system and method of managing virtual documents is described. In this approach, a user database is set up on a network-connected computer. There are a number of virtual documents that are created by on other network-connected computers. These virtual documents have associated with them an attribute file having known header and field information. The virtual documents and their associated attribute files are sent from the other network-connected computers to the network-connected computer, which then categorizes and stores information from the virtual documents according to the contents of the attribute file.

The invention relates to a system and a method for error reporting in software applications. A system in accordance with an embodiment includes: a dummy document generating unit for generating a dummy document from an original document, wherein the dummy document maintains a skeleton of the original document and contains dummy data as its content; and a dummy document reporting unit for sending the generated dummy document in an error report.

The invention discloses a method and a system for describing an extensible marking language of a document. The method comprises the following steps of: converting an input document into a portable document format at first; extracting page size information and a preview image of each page of the document to generate an information unit taking page as a unit; and on the basis of pages, organizing a plurality of pages into virtual pages by using the extensible marking language, and organizing the virtual pages to form a virtual document, wherein only one new virtual document is generated aiming at folding and assembling operations of the document. The method and the system are mainly used in the field of digital printing.

The invention provides a Linux embedded system-based dynamic power management method, which is implemented by a dynamic power management frame. The dynamic power management frame comprises a script layer, a virtual document interface layer, an equipment dynamic power management strategy layer and an equipment driving layer, wherein the script layer provides a script for controlling the dynamic power management frame; dynamic power management on specific equipment can be enabled/disabled through the script provided by the script layer; or the script layer acquires the relevant information about the equipment power management; the virtual document interface layer provides interfaces corresponding to script commands, and the interfaces are called by the script and comprise a virtual document interface of the whole dynamic power management frame and document interfaces of each power management equipment; the equipment dynamic power management strategy layer provides strategy interfaces of each power management equipment for the virtual document interface layer to call; and the equipment driving layer provides drive related to the dynamic power management of each power management equipment.

An apparatus and a method for displaying a digitised document to an audience. A memory (20) is provided for storing of at least one digitised document in a computer readable file format, wherein a processing unit (10) is adapted to retrieve documents and process it into a near-identical document replica. Moreover, a display (30) visualises document and animation of the document, such as the turning of a layer, being controlled by the audience. The function of the apparatus is characterised by the audience indicating when real-time animation of a layer (51, 52) is about to begin or revert to its initial state, and the indication is governed by crossing a dividing line with an indicating element substantially in lateral direction.

Embodiments of the invention provide a page rendering method, apparatus and device. The method comprises the steps of receiving a page content switching command for a current page; switching a state of a first route node in a virtual document object model corresponding to the current page to an activation state, switching a second route node in a virtual document object to be in a non-activation state, and updating the states of the first route node and the second route node recorded in a route node state list, wherein the route node state list is used for storing states of route nodes in the virtual document object; and performing page rendering on the current page according to the virtual document object model subjected to route node state switching, and displaying switched page contents in the current page. The page rendering is performed by applying the scheme provided by the page rendering method, apparatus and device, so that the page switching efficiency is improved and the user experience is improved.

The invention relates to a multi-user-version hierarchical document mapping method. By the method, starting from providing all users with basic fully shared document collection, document data of each user is stored hierarchically according to different document modification made by different users, an independent personal document system version is maintained for each user via a mapping function; high redundancy removal in a shared document system is realized while multi-user sharing of document data and applications is guaranteed; once a complicated operating environment is built up and configured, all the users can use the operating environment and modify configurations at will; complex and burdensome consistency maintenance of data in an ordinary shared document system is avoided; each user can customize a security protection mechanism for his or her personal virtual document system and set different security levels for each hierarchical storage level, and accordingly, a secure access control more reliable and flexible than other document systems is provided.

The embodiment of the invention discloses a user interface test method and device, and the method comprises the steps of generating a test case according to the recording of a user interface test process of a target business, and enabling the test case to be used for identifying an action event generated in the user interface test process, wherein the target business obtains a corresponding relationship between a data state and a virtual document object model by responding to the action event. If the user interface of the target service is tested, obtaining a test case; triggering an action event identified by the test case for a user interface of the target service, and obtaining a corresponding to-be-determined data state and a to-be-determined virtual document object model; and determining a test result according to a comparison result of the to-be-determined data state and the to-be-determined virtual document object model with the data state and the virtual document object model determined according to the corresponding relationship. According to the method, the technical requirements on testers are reduced, points do not need to be buried in the target service, and the test cost is further reduced.

The invention relates to a method for realizing flow-medium servo to support long-distance storage. The said servo comprises four modules: fluidizing transmission module, virtual document module, data request module and data receiving module. The method includes the steps: reorganize film document and store them respectively in local servo and content distribution servo; when user orders these film document, the virtual document module takes over the specific catalog to virtualize the document and requests film data to the content distribution servo in real time to provide service to users. Advantages: the fluidizing transmission module and the virtual document module are independent each other.

The invention discloses a method, device and system for dynamically updating user interfaces and relates to the communication field. A desktop client parses a received user interface file into a virtual document object model element after receiving the user interface file from a desktop server, matches a virtual document object model element with a corresponding user interface component and sendsmatching results to a rendering engine for rendering to achieve dynamic update to the user interface. The invention realizes the dynamic configuration of the user interface through componentization, which not only improves the deployment speed, but also reduces the operation and maintenance pressure caused by the client upgrading.

The invention provides a content distribution mechanism-based rapid document accessing system and method. The system comprises a plurality of document server nodes that are respectively arranged in a plurality of zones; each document server node comprises a document server, a reverse proxy server and a buffer memory server; the plurality of document server nodes form a virtual document server cluster, and an area to which one document server node belongs to is used as a central area; when no document in the document server nodes of an area of a user needs to be accessed, a document access request is directed to a document server node of an area to which a document belongs via the document server node of the central area; a reverse proxy server of the area to which the document belongs is used for distributing the document that needs to be accessed to reverse proxy servers of other areas. Via the content distribution mechanism-based rapid document accessing system and method disclosed in the invention, document data access efficiency can be improved while network bandwidth is not excessively occupied.