CA2045907C - A method for storing and retrieving annotations and redactions in final form documents - Google Patents
A method for storing and retrieving annotations and redactions in final form documentsInfo
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Abstract
This invention is a method for annotating and redacting a final-form document archived in a computerized system where it is important that the fidelity of the final form document is preserved. More particularly, this method allows final-form documents containing objects such as texts, graphics and images to be annotated or redacted by other objects carried in the same data stream without compromising the integrity of the original document.
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-' ~ A r~~ FOR STO~I~G AND RE~RIEVING
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?~AC~GRO~ND 0~ THE INVE~TIO~
Archiving documents electronically in a computer system is becoming widely accepted as an alternative to archiving documents in a paper based system. With an electronic system, an image of the information is captured and stored in digital form by scanning a paper copy of a document or by inputting the information ~,rough a keyboard. Once the information is stored, an l~e of it can be accessed for editing, reviewing or merginq with other similar images, or overlaid by oth~l~ informat~o. Such systems therefore may make redundant t?~e need to ~ore, handle and process paper documents.
As with a ~ er based system, one req~irement of electronic document archiving systems i8 that they must be able to store documents containing texts, graphics or images in a form that must not be altered once the documents have been proces8ed to a certain state. Such documents are called final form documents, examples of which include insurance policies, credit card statements and cancelled cheques.
After these documents have achieved final form and are stored in the computer system, it is often necessary to be able to review them either on a computer screen or on paper.
During reviews it may be desirable to add an annotation to the docume~t or, prior to the review, blank out certain sections (rédaction). In both instances, complete fidelity of the original document must be maintained without the inefficiency of making a copy of the document.
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changing the contents of the original document. In the prior art, systems which allow changes, such as annotations or redactions, are of two types. First, those systems which have a facility to edit the document i.e add or delete information or, second, systems which allow the merging of two files where one file contains the unchanged final form document and the other file contains the annotation. As a result of the merge, the annotation is overlaid on the original document.
In systems which allow editing, the reviewer is changing the document and saving t~r changes with the original document. In this method tl,~ original information may be altered and it may not be ~A~y to distinguish the original information from the added information. Consequently, the objective of cr~ting and ~nlntaining the integrity of a final form docum~nt is defeat~d. In the alternative method, using merging ~s~l overlays, annotation is achieved by linking the fin~l form document to another file containing the added inform,~tion. With this method, while the final form document is unchanged, there is a need to manage a database containing the annotations separate from the final form document as well as to maintain the links. As the size of the archive increases, managing this system can become a problem. Hence, neither editing nor maintaining a system with a separate data base and links will provide an efficient and cost effective means to annotate or blank out sections of final form documents when large numbers of documents are involved.
Annotation and redaction requirements for digital final form documents are analogous to those found in paper based systems. Common forms of annotating and redacting paper documents are: i) Writing directly on a copy of the document, ii) attaching a note to a page using, for example, a Post-It~ type note or iii) highlighting areas of a copy of the page with a transparent or opague marker. If an annotation is attached to the page overlaying the document, the reviewer may not be able to see the underlying part of ~- , . ~, ~
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the document unless the annotation can be lifted up.
Similarly, if an opaque highlighter is used, that section of the document may be obscured. Further, in some documents, a review~ may wish to annotate a previous annotation, or different reviewers may add multiple annotations. Or, where many reviewers are involved, it may be desirable to hide some of the annotations or restrict access to view certain annotations. The end result is that an annotated final form document may have a series of annotations to which there is a hierarchy of access to each annotation.
SUMMARY OF T~E INVENTION
The present invention ~1 dies a method to store and retrieve final form document~ which not only maintains the document s integrity but al~ vercomes the difficulties and inconvenience en~o~lntered ir~ ing an editor or merging and overlaying two fi]es using llnks to an external file. With this invention, ~ concept ol overlaying is applied but is extended to al] ~ objects representing an annotation or redaction on a fit~a] form documenl to be merged in the same data stream as ~he final form document. As a result, there is no need for external data links as the information is in the same data stream. Multiple annotations using various . ;~
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relatively easy to assign a hierarchy of access to different annotations and annotations can be selectively added or peeled back to reveal the final form page and selective redactions can be applied either to the final form text or to an annotation.
With this invention, the reviewer may add notes or comments to the document at specific locations and save the annotations for a subsequent review at the same location where it was originally placed. With redaction, portions of the original document may be masked either as it is being reviewed or before it was received for review. With both annotation and redaction, the contents of the original, underlying document as archived is not changed. However, a ~ CA9-91-003 4 ~ 7 : reviewer may see either the original document or the document with the annotations or redacted sections included.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
Figure 1 illustrates a document as structured in the Prior Art Figure 2A illustrates a page of a Final Form document Figure 2B shows the representation of a Final Form document with its associated data stream Figure 3A illustrates a p~ge of a Final Form document with one annotation Figure 3B show~ an annot~ l Final Form Document with its associated data ~ ream ~ Figure 4 show~ ~ document wlth two annotations ~ Figure 5 is ~ control Flow Chart of the Overlay Processing Routine ~-"
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This invention uses the overlay function but has added a ~- ~ "conditional processing" structure to allow annotation offinal form objects without changing the contents. It consists of two pieces: first the overlay part containing -'~ the annotation and the redaction and, second~ the use of an ;~ . "include structure" for every referenced object that has to ~, ~ ' ' t be brought into the document.
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In the IBM publication titled: Data Strearn and Object Al-,Lite-,lu,~s, ~ixed O~ject Do~l-ment Content Architecture Reference, Publication Number SC3 1-68002, documents are structured as shown in Figure 1. In this ar.,lfile.,lu~e, each document is identified with a begin and an end co.,ll,land. Within the docl~mPnt each page is id~ntified by a begin and an end comm~n~l and within each page, an object is itlPntified by a begin and an end command. The objects in each page may be of various kinds, for example text, graphics, image, a bar code or audio images. The location of each object within the page is defined by a grid system. An "include page control" co",l"and is loc$ed within each page to identify the location of any additional objects that have been added to the original page.
Figure l illustrates how a document is structured in the prior art. As shown in Figure 1, the first element of the page command defin~l~ an active e~lvhunnlental group. This group provides some general information on how ~he objects are to be prese,lled. For example, one part of the active environ.,.el-~al group i~ a Map Code font which indicates the type font that is to be used on the page. As thc ~( live en~i~ol"lle"l~l group forrns no part ofthe present invention, it will not be further dcscribed. However, a full description of the document Architecture u) far described can be found in the IBM Publication Number SC3l-6802 lèrel~"lced aho~e Within the data stream as shown in Figure l, the page structure is further defined. In the specific example shown in Figure l, the page consists of an Image Object, a P,es~ ion Object and a Graphics Object. Each of these objects is defined within the data stream as is further shown with respect to the Graphics Object in Figure 1.
The present invention builds upon this data stream by adding an include structure within the page portion of the data stream. On the include structure there is a conditional processing triplet which idPntifies and classifies the object as either an annotation or a redaction object. When , .
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an image replese..l;ng a page of the document is to be aMotated, a reference to the overlay is created in the include structure and there may be more than one include structure per page as one include structure i5 required for each ~nn~t~tion Wlth the current final form overlays, each anno~alion is stored as a separate data object in a library which is r~felenced from within the final form doc~ When the final form docllmPnt is pl.,s~ ed, the .crelcnced object is retrieved and merged with the specific data page.
Overlays are then positioned on the page based on coordinate data c~nl~ ed in the overlay I crerence~
Each co..l,~)ol1ei.l of a mixed object document is explicitly defined and delimited in the data stream that ll~ll5~ s it. This is accomplished through the use of a data structure called slr~clur~d fields that reside in the data stream. Structured fields are used to envelope document components and to provide commands and hlru~lllalion to applications using the data stream. Structured fields r~y contain one or more parameters. Each pal ~IllclcL provides one value from a set of ~ Alues defined by the a. cllileclllre.
Triplets appear aRcr all fixed param~t~rs in a structured field. Repeating groups of triplets may be contained ~ithin a single slmc~ured field.
The triplet itself is a self-identifyin~ pa~ ei and contains three components.
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The first to---poncill spc~ i fics the length of the triplet, the second component identifies the : ~ - triplet and the third com~onent identifies the pa.a.. clcl~ associated with the triplet. For , . , . page overlay conditional processing which is the subject of the present invention, the ~ ~ ~ triplet identifies the intcnded use of the page overtay as it is produced by an overlay gcn~l alor. The triplet also can define an overlay level that determines whether the overlay ~: ~ is to be plotessed. The syntax of a suitable conditional overlay might be as follows:
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Tid X'~6' Identifies the triplet as the Page Overlay Conditional Processing Triplet Pg Ov Specifies the page overlay Type type X'00' Type 0 - Normal X'01' Type 1 - Annotation X'02 Type 2 - Redaction Level X'01'-X'FE' The level ofthe overlay With this triplet, the overlay can be conditionally processed which enables the advantage of the present invention to be attained. The Page Overlay Type (Pg Ov Type) specifies how the overlay is to be used. In the example, two overlay types are indicated, Type 0 and Type 1. If no conditional processing is intended then Type 0 would be selected and the page overlay would be processed as a normal overlay. If conditional processing were required then Type 1 would be selected to indicate that the page overlay is an annotation or redaction overlay used to indicate changes or annotations or redactions to the contents of the page to which it applies.
The le~/el portion of the triplet specifies the processing level of the overlay. The overlay level determines whether a particular application is to process the overlay. The level triplet is compared to one contained within the application being invoked and, if it is equal or lower than the application level, the overlay is processed. Otherwise, the overlay is not performed.
Figure 5 is a control flowchart of a system designed to implement a preferred embodiment of the invention. The portion of the system illustrated in Figure 5 is the overlay processing routine. Block 1 is the entry point to the routine. At block 1, which is a decision block, the system searches the data stream for additional overlays; if the data stream does contain additional ovel:lays, the system ~, . ~.,~
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~ CA9-91-003 8 moves to block 2. In action block 2, the system gets the next overlay. The system then proceeds to decision block 3, in which the system checks for a conditional pluce~,~,ing triplet which is found at the beginning of the overlay. If the triplet is a cnn~itinn~l . ~ processillg triplet, the system searches for the next byte which i~Pntifies whether the overlay is an annotation or a redaction in decision block 4. If the overlay is an annotation, the systelr moves to decision block 5 to d~t~,.,;"e whether the user has pressed a key ;,ldic~.Lng that he wishes to view the annotations. If the user has pressed the key, the system skips to block 7. If the user has not pressed a key, the system p,( ceeds to decision block 6. In decision block 6, the system .;.~n~ f..c the default value that the user has established to determine whether he wishes to view annotations or not. If the user wishes to view annotations, his default value will so indicate and the system will proceed to block 7. If the user does not wish to view annotations, then the system will skip past block 7.
In action block 7, the system applies the annotation to the document as will be understood by the person skilled in the art.
Returning to decision block 4, if thc (lverlay is a redaction, the system proceeds to decision block 8. In dccision block 8, ~he system e, ~,ni~lf,s the security level of the redaction and co.llpa, es i~ to the security le~ cl of the user, which is already known to the ~ system. If the redaction ~ curity level exceeds that of the user, the system deLellllines that ~; the user does not have ~hc authority to view the document prior to the redaction and proceeds to action block 9, in which the system spplies the redaction to the document. If, on the other hand, the security level of the redaction does not exceed the security level of the user, then the system skips block 9 and does not apply the redaction to the document.
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redaction, the system proceeds to block 10 and applies the overlay in a manner known to a person skilled in the art.
At this point, the system returns to block 1 in order to process any additional overlays that may be found in the current page of the document. When there are no additional overlays to be processed, the system exits the overlay processing routine. It then proceeds to handle the next portion of the document in a manner known to a person skilled in the art.
It will be apparent to the person skilled in the art that in one implementation, block 6 in Figure S can be a state register which contains a particular value if the user default is set to view annotations, and which contains a different value if the user default is set not to view annotations.
Further, in one preferred embodiment, block 1 of Figure S can be a ripple-through buffer, enabled to process overlay items individually and sequentially. Alternatively, block 1 can be implemented in another preferred embodiment of the invention as a step in a software program.
Further, it will be clear to the person skilled in the art that the invention can be implemented entirely in either a hardware embodiment or a software embodiment. The skilled person will choose the type of embodiment according to considerations that are common in computer systems, for example cost and ability to modify the system at a future date.
The method of the invention uses the forms overlay structures in order to store the data. The reference structure within the document is extended to contain specific information describing the referenced object as an annotation object, and providing an annotation level associated with this object. The overlay object is extended to provide the control information specifying whether this overlay is to be merged in a transparent or opaque manner when applying the page. Since annotation overlays usually apply to a single page, as opposed to form overlays which are typically applicable to all instances of a particular CA 0204~907 1998-07-09 page type, the overlays are contained within the structure of the page to which they apply, removing the need to manage the annotation.
An example of how this invention works may be seen by comparing Figure 2A, 2B and Table 1, with Figure 3A, 3B and Table 2, and with Figure 4 and Table 3. Assume in Figure 2A, we have a page consisting of a text object (a description of Dallas and Texas), an image object (the Dallas skyline) and a graphics object (the Texas map). Assume also that this is a final form page on which we wish to add an annotation without ch~nging the objects in the document.
Considering only the text object, the data stream representation of the text object is shown in Table 1 (the data stream representation of the other two objects are omitted). Suppose now that a reviewer wishes to add the annotation "We should get a better map." as shown in the box. To do this, the software application program which allows the reviewer to access and view the document will, through a command entry or a pull down menu, give the user the option to specify the characteristics and content of the annotation. This may include font, location, size or orientation of the annotation on the final form document. Once this is specified and entered into the system, the annotation will be as shown on Figures 3A and 3B and the corresponding data stream will be as shown in Table 2. In Table 2, the data stream for the unannotated text from Table 1 is included from the location of Offset number 149. The key difference between the data streams in Table 1 and that shown in Table 2 is that from the location of Offset number 149 onwards in Table 2,a pointer, "Map Page Overlay", is included as Offset number 151. The Map Page Overlay is the instruction to include the annotation previously created at the desired location on the final form document.
To add a second annotation to the page, for example "This needs a nice color picture", while retaining the :~lrst annotation, the process described above is repeated and the data stream is modified in a similar manner. The result is CA 0204~907 1998-07-09 Figure 4 which shows the additional annotation and Table 3 which shows the modified data stream. In Table 3, the addition to the data stream is shown above Offset number 131. The relative location of the objects in the data stream is determined by the architecture of the data stream as described in the IBM Publication Number SC3 1-68002 referred to above.
In a similar lnanner, other annotations and objects may be added to the data stream. The result is that the data stream for the final form object remains unchanged, however the file cont~inin~
the final form document and the annotations is exr~n(lecl as each annotation is added. With this invention there is no requirement to edit the final form document, nor to merge annotations using different linked files.
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: Offset Len Format Name Description ' '~ 0 ld d3a8a8000000 MODCA BDT Begln document : ld 8 d3a8afO00000 MODCA BPG Begin page Z5 8 d3a8c6000000 MODCA BRG Begin Resource Group 2d 10 d3a8dfO00000 MCDCA BMO Begin Overlay 3d 8 d3a8c9000000 MODCA BAG Begin Actlve Environment la d3ab8fl000000 MODCA MCF Map Coded Font Sf 1l d3a6afO00000 MODCA PGD Page Descriptor 79 t6 d3bl9bO00000 MODCA PTD Presentation Text Datfl Descriptor 8f 8 d3a9c9000000 MODCA EAG End Active Envi.ronment 97 8 d3a89bO00000 MODCA BPT Begin Presentation Text 9f 8a d3ee9bO00000 MODCA PTX PresentAtion Text Data 129 8 d3a99bO00000 MODCA EPT End Presentation Text 131 l0 d3a9dfO00000 MODCA EMO End Overlay 141 8 d3a9c6000000 MODCA ERG End Resource Group ; 1498 ~d3a8c9000000 MODCA BAG Begin Active Environment lSlla d3abd8000000 MODCA MPn Mflp Page Overlay 16b17 d3a6afO00000 Mnnr,A 1~;l Pn~e l)escriptor 1828 d3a9c90nn0n0 MnrlCA EA(: End Active Envi.ronment 18a 8 d3a8fbnnnnnn Mnr)cA P I ~1 BeRi.n Image 192 8 d3a8c7nr~nor)o MnnCA P"( begin ObJect envlronment group l9a lc d3a66hnr~r'onr) MODCA O~!~ Object Area Descrlptor lb6 20 d3ac6bnf'~ ))n MODCA O~l' Ob~ect Area Position ld6 15 d3a6fbn~ ~rl MODCA InD Imflge nata Descriptor leb 8 d3a9c7onr'onn M()nCA EOG en.l nbject environment group lf3 lffe d3eefbonn()r)o MODCA IPD Image Picture Data 21eflf85 d3eefb000~)n0 MODCA IPD Image Picture Data 4174 8 d8a9fb000n00 MODCA EIM End Image ~ 417cle d3afd8000000 MODCA IPO Tnclude Page Overlay . 419a 8 d3a9afO00000 MODCA EPG End page :, ~
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ANNOTA~ONS AND REDACTIONg I~ FI~L ~O~M DO~ S
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Archiving documents electronically in a computer system is becoming widely accepted as an alternative to archiving documents in a paper based system. With an electronic system, an image of the information is captured and stored in digital form by scanning a paper copy of a document or by inputting the information ~,rough a keyboard. Once the information is stored, an l~e of it can be accessed for editing, reviewing or merginq with other similar images, or overlaid by oth~l~ informat~o. Such systems therefore may make redundant t?~e need to ~ore, handle and process paper documents.
As with a ~ er based system, one req~irement of electronic document archiving systems i8 that they must be able to store documents containing texts, graphics or images in a form that must not be altered once the documents have been proces8ed to a certain state. Such documents are called final form documents, examples of which include insurance policies, credit card statements and cancelled cheques.
After these documents have achieved final form and are stored in the computer system, it is often necessary to be able to review them either on a computer screen or on paper.
During reviews it may be desirable to add an annotation to the docume~t or, prior to the review, blank out certain sections (rédaction). In both instances, complete fidelity of the original document must be maintained without the inefficiency of making a copy of the document.
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changing the contents of the original document. In the prior art, systems which allow changes, such as annotations or redactions, are of two types. First, those systems which have a facility to edit the document i.e add or delete information or, second, systems which allow the merging of two files where one file contains the unchanged final form document and the other file contains the annotation. As a result of the merge, the annotation is overlaid on the original document.
In systems which allow editing, the reviewer is changing the document and saving t~r changes with the original document. In this method tl,~ original information may be altered and it may not be ~A~y to distinguish the original information from the added information. Consequently, the objective of cr~ting and ~nlntaining the integrity of a final form docum~nt is defeat~d. In the alternative method, using merging ~s~l overlays, annotation is achieved by linking the fin~l form document to another file containing the added inform,~tion. With this method, while the final form document is unchanged, there is a need to manage a database containing the annotations separate from the final form document as well as to maintain the links. As the size of the archive increases, managing this system can become a problem. Hence, neither editing nor maintaining a system with a separate data base and links will provide an efficient and cost effective means to annotate or blank out sections of final form documents when large numbers of documents are involved.
Annotation and redaction requirements for digital final form documents are analogous to those found in paper based systems. Common forms of annotating and redacting paper documents are: i) Writing directly on a copy of the document, ii) attaching a note to a page using, for example, a Post-It~ type note or iii) highlighting areas of a copy of the page with a transparent or opague marker. If an annotation is attached to the page overlaying the document, the reviewer may not be able to see the underlying part of ~- , . ~, ~
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the document unless the annotation can be lifted up.
Similarly, if an opaque highlighter is used, that section of the document may be obscured. Further, in some documents, a review~ may wish to annotate a previous annotation, or different reviewers may add multiple annotations. Or, where many reviewers are involved, it may be desirable to hide some of the annotations or restrict access to view certain annotations. The end result is that an annotated final form document may have a series of annotations to which there is a hierarchy of access to each annotation.
SUMMARY OF T~E INVENTION
The present invention ~1 dies a method to store and retrieve final form document~ which not only maintains the document s integrity but al~ vercomes the difficulties and inconvenience en~o~lntered ir~ ing an editor or merging and overlaying two fi]es using llnks to an external file. With this invention, ~ concept ol overlaying is applied but is extended to al] ~ objects representing an annotation or redaction on a fit~a] form documenl to be merged in the same data stream as ~he final form document. As a result, there is no need for external data links as the information is in the same data stream. Multiple annotations using various . ;~
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relatively easy to assign a hierarchy of access to different annotations and annotations can be selectively added or peeled back to reveal the final form page and selective redactions can be applied either to the final form text or to an annotation.
With this invention, the reviewer may add notes or comments to the document at specific locations and save the annotations for a subsequent review at the same location where it was originally placed. With redaction, portions of the original document may be masked either as it is being reviewed or before it was received for review. With both annotation and redaction, the contents of the original, underlying document as archived is not changed. However, a ~ CA9-91-003 4 ~ 7 : reviewer may see either the original document or the document with the annotations or redacted sections included.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
Figure 1 illustrates a document as structured in the Prior Art Figure 2A illustrates a page of a Final Form document Figure 2B shows the representation of a Final Form document with its associated data stream Figure 3A illustrates a p~ge of a Final Form document with one annotation Figure 3B show~ an annot~ l Final Form Document with its associated data ~ ream ~ Figure 4 show~ ~ document wlth two annotations ~ Figure 5 is ~ control Flow Chart of the Overlay Processing Routine ~-"
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This invention uses the overlay function but has added a ~- ~ "conditional processing" structure to allow annotation offinal form objects without changing the contents. It consists of two pieces: first the overlay part containing -'~ the annotation and the redaction and, second~ the use of an ;~ . "include structure" for every referenced object that has to ~, ~ ' ' t be brought into the document.
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In the IBM publication titled: Data Strearn and Object Al-,Lite-,lu,~s, ~ixed O~ject Do~l-ment Content Architecture Reference, Publication Number SC3 1-68002, documents are structured as shown in Figure 1. In this ar.,lfile.,lu~e, each document is identified with a begin and an end co.,ll,land. Within the docl~mPnt each page is id~ntified by a begin and an end comm~n~l and within each page, an object is itlPntified by a begin and an end command. The objects in each page may be of various kinds, for example text, graphics, image, a bar code or audio images. The location of each object within the page is defined by a grid system. An "include page control" co",l"and is loc$ed within each page to identify the location of any additional objects that have been added to the original page.
Figure l illustrates how a document is structured in the prior art. As shown in Figure 1, the first element of the page command defin~l~ an active e~lvhunnlental group. This group provides some general information on how ~he objects are to be prese,lled. For example, one part of the active environ.,.el-~al group i~ a Map Code font which indicates the type font that is to be used on the page. As thc ~( live en~i~ol"lle"l~l group forrns no part ofthe present invention, it will not be further dcscribed. However, a full description of the document Architecture u) far described can be found in the IBM Publication Number SC3l-6802 lèrel~"lced aho~e Within the data stream as shown in Figure l, the page structure is further defined. In the specific example shown in Figure l, the page consists of an Image Object, a P,es~ ion Object and a Graphics Object. Each of these objects is defined within the data stream as is further shown with respect to the Graphics Object in Figure 1.
The present invention builds upon this data stream by adding an include structure within the page portion of the data stream. On the include structure there is a conditional processing triplet which idPntifies and classifies the object as either an annotation or a redaction object. When , .
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an image replese..l;ng a page of the document is to be aMotated, a reference to the overlay is created in the include structure and there may be more than one include structure per page as one include structure i5 required for each ~nn~t~tion Wlth the current final form overlays, each anno~alion is stored as a separate data object in a library which is r~felenced from within the final form doc~ When the final form docllmPnt is pl.,s~ ed, the .crelcnced object is retrieved and merged with the specific data page.
Overlays are then positioned on the page based on coordinate data c~nl~ ed in the overlay I crerence~
Each co..l,~)ol1ei.l of a mixed object document is explicitly defined and delimited in the data stream that ll~ll5~ s it. This is accomplished through the use of a data structure called slr~clur~d fields that reside in the data stream. Structured fields are used to envelope document components and to provide commands and hlru~lllalion to applications using the data stream. Structured fields r~y contain one or more parameters. Each pal ~IllclcL provides one value from a set of ~ Alues defined by the a. cllileclllre.
Triplets appear aRcr all fixed param~t~rs in a structured field. Repeating groups of triplets may be contained ~ithin a single slmc~ured field.
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Tid X'~6' Identifies the triplet as the Page Overlay Conditional Processing Triplet Pg Ov Specifies the page overlay Type type X'00' Type 0 - Normal X'01' Type 1 - Annotation X'02 Type 2 - Redaction Level X'01'-X'FE' The level ofthe overlay With this triplet, the overlay can be conditionally processed which enables the advantage of the present invention to be attained. The Page Overlay Type (Pg Ov Type) specifies how the overlay is to be used. In the example, two overlay types are indicated, Type 0 and Type 1. If no conditional processing is intended then Type 0 would be selected and the page overlay would be processed as a normal overlay. If conditional processing were required then Type 1 would be selected to indicate that the page overlay is an annotation or redaction overlay used to indicate changes or annotations or redactions to the contents of the page to which it applies.
The le~/el portion of the triplet specifies the processing level of the overlay. The overlay level determines whether a particular application is to process the overlay. The level triplet is compared to one contained within the application being invoked and, if it is equal or lower than the application level, the overlay is processed. Otherwise, the overlay is not performed.
Figure 5 is a control flowchart of a system designed to implement a preferred embodiment of the invention. The portion of the system illustrated in Figure 5 is the overlay processing routine. Block 1 is the entry point to the routine. At block 1, which is a decision block, the system searches the data stream for additional overlays; if the data stream does contain additional ovel:lays, the system ~, . ~.,~
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In action block 7, the system applies the annotation to the document as will be understood by the person skilled in the art.
Returning to decision block 4, if thc (lverlay is a redaction, the system proceeds to decision block 8. In dccision block 8, ~he system e, ~,ni~lf,s the security level of the redaction and co.llpa, es i~ to the security le~ cl of the user, which is already known to the ~ system. If the redaction ~ curity level exceeds that of the user, the system deLellllines that ~; the user does not have ~hc authority to view the document prior to the redaction and proceeds to action block 9, in which the system spplies the redaction to the document. If, on the other hand, the security level of the redaction does not exceed the security level of the user, then the system skips block 9 and does not apply the redaction to the document.
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redaction, the system proceeds to block 10 and applies the overlay in a manner known to a person skilled in the art.
At this point, the system returns to block 1 in order to process any additional overlays that may be found in the current page of the document. When there are no additional overlays to be processed, the system exits the overlay processing routine. It then proceeds to handle the next portion of the document in a manner known to a person skilled in the art.
It will be apparent to the person skilled in the art that in one implementation, block 6 in Figure S can be a state register which contains a particular value if the user default is set to view annotations, and which contains a different value if the user default is set not to view annotations.
Further, in one preferred embodiment, block 1 of Figure S can be a ripple-through buffer, enabled to process overlay items individually and sequentially. Alternatively, block 1 can be implemented in another preferred embodiment of the invention as a step in a software program.
Further, it will be clear to the person skilled in the art that the invention can be implemented entirely in either a hardware embodiment or a software embodiment. The skilled person will choose the type of embodiment according to considerations that are common in computer systems, for example cost and ability to modify the system at a future date.
The method of the invention uses the forms overlay structures in order to store the data. The reference structure within the document is extended to contain specific information describing the referenced object as an annotation object, and providing an annotation level associated with this object. The overlay object is extended to provide the control information specifying whether this overlay is to be merged in a transparent or opaque manner when applying the page. Since annotation overlays usually apply to a single page, as opposed to form overlays which are typically applicable to all instances of a particular CA 0204~907 1998-07-09 page type, the overlays are contained within the structure of the page to which they apply, removing the need to manage the annotation.
An example of how this invention works may be seen by comparing Figure 2A, 2B and Table 1, with Figure 3A, 3B and Table 2, and with Figure 4 and Table 3. Assume in Figure 2A, we have a page consisting of a text object (a description of Dallas and Texas), an image object (the Dallas skyline) and a graphics object (the Texas map). Assume also that this is a final form page on which we wish to add an annotation without ch~nging the objects in the document.
Considering only the text object, the data stream representation of the text object is shown in Table 1 (the data stream representation of the other two objects are omitted). Suppose now that a reviewer wishes to add the annotation "We should get a better map." as shown in the box. To do this, the software application program which allows the reviewer to access and view the document will, through a command entry or a pull down menu, give the user the option to specify the characteristics and content of the annotation. This may include font, location, size or orientation of the annotation on the final form document. Once this is specified and entered into the system, the annotation will be as shown on Figures 3A and 3B and the corresponding data stream will be as shown in Table 2. In Table 2, the data stream for the unannotated text from Table 1 is included from the location of Offset number 149. The key difference between the data streams in Table 1 and that shown in Table 2 is that from the location of Offset number 149 onwards in Table 2,a pointer, "Map Page Overlay", is included as Offset number 151. The Map Page Overlay is the instruction to include the annotation previously created at the desired location on the final form document.
To add a second annotation to the page, for example "This needs a nice color picture", while retaining the :~lrst annotation, the process described above is repeated and the data stream is modified in a similar manner. The result is CA 0204~907 1998-07-09 Figure 4 which shows the additional annotation and Table 3 which shows the modified data stream. In Table 3, the addition to the data stream is shown above Offset number 131. The relative location of the objects in the data stream is determined by the architecture of the data stream as described in the IBM Publication Number SC3 1-68002 referred to above.
In a similar lnanner, other annotations and objects may be added to the data stream. The result is that the data stream for the final form object remains unchanged, however the file cont~inin~
the final form document and the annotations is exr~n(lecl as each annotation is added. With this invention there is no requirement to edit the final form document, nor to merge annotations using different linked files.
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Claims (10)
1. A method for storing documents and information associated with said documents, said method comprising the steps of:
converting a document to a document data stream, said document data stream comprised of document data and a plurality of structured fields;
converting information associated with said document to an information data stream;
combining said document data stream with said information data stream to form a combined data stream, leaving said document data in said combined data stream unchanged;
modifying at least one of said structured fields in said combined data stream by adding an include structure to indicate that said information data stream has been included in said combined data steam; and storing said combined data stream.
converting a document to a document data stream, said document data stream comprised of document data and a plurality of structured fields;
converting information associated with said document to an information data stream;
combining said document data stream with said information data stream to form a combined data stream, leaving said document data in said combined data stream unchanged;
modifying at least one of said structured fields in said combined data stream by adding an include structure to indicate that said information data stream has been included in said combined data steam; and storing said combined data stream.
2. A method as in claim 1 wherein a first of said structured fields is associated with a first portion of said information data stream, and said first structured field indicates whether said first portion of said information data stream is an annotation of said document data stream or a redaction of said document data stream.
3. A method as in claim 1 wherein:
a first group of said plurality of structured fields comprises a plurality of "begin flags", each of said flags indicating the beginning of a portion of said document data stream corresponding to the beginning of a portion of said document;
a second group of said plurality of said structured fields comprises a plurality of "end flags", each of said end flags indicating the end of a portion of said document data stream corresponding to the end of a portion of said document;
a third group of said plurality of structured fields being "indicator flags", each of said indicator flags being associated with one of said beginning flags and one of said end flags, said indicator flags indicating specific conditions; and said modification of at least one of said structured fields comprising modifying a first of said indicator flags, said first indicator flag being associated with a first of said beginning flags and a first of said end flags, said modified indicator flags indicating that a first portion of said information data stream is to be associated with said portion of said document data stream corresponding to said first beginning flag and said first end flag.
a first group of said plurality of structured fields comprises a plurality of "begin flags", each of said flags indicating the beginning of a portion of said document data stream corresponding to the beginning of a portion of said document;
a second group of said plurality of said structured fields comprises a plurality of "end flags", each of said end flags indicating the end of a portion of said document data stream corresponding to the end of a portion of said document;
a third group of said plurality of structured fields being "indicator flags", each of said indicator flags being associated with one of said beginning flags and one of said end flags, said indicator flags indicating specific conditions; and said modification of at least one of said structured fields comprising modifying a first of said indicator flags, said first indicator flag being associated with a first of said beginning flags and a first of said end flags, said modified indicator flags indicating that a first portion of said information data stream is to be associated with said portion of said document data stream corresponding to said first beginning flag and said first end flag.
4. A method as defined in claim 3 wherein said modified first indicator flag additionally indicates a security level of said first portion of said information data stream.
5. A method as defined in claim 3 wherein said modified indicator flags additionally indicate the location of said associated information within said first portion of said information data stream.
6. An apparatus for associating information with a stored document, said apparatus comprising:
means for converting a document to a document data stream, said document data stream comprised of document data and a plurality of structured fields;
means for converting information associated with said document to an information data stream;
means for combining said document data stream with said information data stream to form a combined data stream, leaving said document data in said combined data stream unchanged;
means for modifying at least one of said structured fields in said combined data stream by adding an include structure to indicate that said information data stream has been included in said combined data steam; and means for storing said combined data stream.
means for converting a document to a document data stream, said document data stream comprised of document data and a plurality of structured fields;
means for converting information associated with said document to an information data stream;
means for combining said document data stream with said information data stream to form a combined data stream, leaving said document data in said combined data stream unchanged;
means for modifying at least one of said structured fields in said combined data stream by adding an include structure to indicate that said information data stream has been included in said combined data steam; and means for storing said combined data stream.
7. An apparatus as in claim 6 wherein a first of said structured fields is associated with a first portion of said information data stream and said first structured field indicates whether said first portion of said information data stream is an annotation of said document data stream or a redaction of said document data stream.
8. An apparatus as in claim 6 wherein:
a first plurality of structured fields comprises a plurality of "begin flags", each of said begin flags indicating the beginning of a portion of said document data stream corresponding to the beginning of a portion of said document:
a second group of said plurality of said structured fields comprises a plurality of "end flags", each of said end flags indicating the end of a portion of said document data stream corresponding to the end of a portion of said document;
a third group of said plurality of structured fields being "indicator flags", each of said indicator flags being associated with one of said beginning flags and one of said end flags, said indicator flags indicating specific conditions; and said modification of at least one of said structured fields comprising modifying a first of said indicator flags, said first indicator flag being associated with a first of said beginning flags and a first of said end flags, said modified indicator flags indicating that a first portion of said information data stream is to be associated with said portion of said document data stream corresponding to said first beginning flag and said first end flag.
a first plurality of structured fields comprises a plurality of "begin flags", each of said begin flags indicating the beginning of a portion of said document data stream corresponding to the beginning of a portion of said document:
a second group of said plurality of said structured fields comprises a plurality of "end flags", each of said end flags indicating the end of a portion of said document data stream corresponding to the end of a portion of said document;
a third group of said plurality of structured fields being "indicator flags", each of said indicator flags being associated with one of said beginning flags and one of said end flags, said indicator flags indicating specific conditions; and said modification of at least one of said structured fields comprising modifying a first of said indicator flags, said first indicator flag being associated with a first of said beginning flags and a first of said end flags, said modified indicator flags indicating that a first portion of said information data stream is to be associated with said portion of said document data stream corresponding to said first beginning flag and said first end flag.
9. An apparatus as in claim 8 wherein said modified indicator flags additionally indicate the security level of said information.
10. An apparatus as in claim 8 wherein said modified indicator flags additionally indicate the location of said associated information within said first portion of said document.
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