| US 7,590,934 B2 | ||
| Meta-document and method of managing | ||
| Laurence Hubert, Saint Bernard du Touvet (France); and Michel Gastaldo, Montbonnot (France) | ||
| Assigned to Xerox Corporation, Norwalk, Conn. (US) | ||
| Filed on Jan. 27, 2004, as Appl. No. 10/766,675. | ||
| Application 10/766675 is a continuation of application No. 09/404174, filed on Sep. 24, 1999, abandoned. | ||
| Prior Publication US 2004/0194025 A1, Sep. 30, 2004 | ||
| Int. Cl. G06F 17/00 (2006.01); G06F 17/30 (2006.01); G06F 15/177 (2006.01) | ||
| U.S. Cl. 715—234 [715/205; 715/255; 715/751; 707/10; 707/E17.008] | 13 Claims |
| 1. A computer-readable storage medium encoded with data for processing by a data processing system, said data comprising:
a meta-document for tracking and storing all information pertaining to actions performed by an application program on a document
comprising document information during its entire lifetime, comprising a file structure including:
an object conveying document information,
processing information, and
metadata for indexing and retrieving the processing information; wherein all of which are stored on the meta-document and
retrievable from the meta-document;
wherein the processing information comprises all information pertaining to each time the meta-document is processed by the
application program being executed by the data processing system and any results of the processing during the entire life
of the meta-document, the processing information being stored on the meta-document each time the meta-document is processed
and being retrievable from the meta-document;
wherein the metadata comprises all associated metadata pertaining to each time the meta-document is processed by the application
program being executed by the data processing system during the entire life of the meta-document, the metadata being stored
on the meta-document each time the meta-document is processed and being retrievable from the meta-document;
wherein the meta-document is transmitted to a source and parsed at the source for extracting stored processing information
and metadata;
wherein processing information is stored pertaining to transmitting and parsing at the source and associated metadata stored
on the meta-document;
wherein the meta-document further comprises a first instruction, embedded on the object, responsive to processing of the meta-document,
for generating and storing processing information and associated metadata on the meta-document, wherein the parsing is performed
by the first instruction; and
wherein the meta-document further comprises a second instruction, embedded on the object, for parsing and extracting selected
processing information stored on the meta-document, parsing the meta-document for extracting the selected processing information
and associated metadata, and
distributing the extracted selected processing information to the source.
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