Method for associating fixed and flexible layout modes for reading documents

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2016253289-A1
Application number	US-201514634293-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Feb 27, 2015
Priority date	Feb 27, 2015
Publication date	Sep 1, 2016
Grant date	—

Abstract

A method for generating electronic documents (EDs) includes reading an input ED from storage, specifying in the input ED a predetermined element that defines a region comprising a content, storing the content in connection with the predetermined element, generating a fixed-layout ED having a fixed layout and comprising a content corresponding to the content of the input ED, generating a flexible-layout ED having a flexible layout and comprising a content corresponding to the content of the input ED, linking the content of the fixed-layout ED to a position of the content of the flexible-layout ED, linking the content of the flexible-layout ED to a position of the content of the fixed-layout ED, and outputting one or both of the fixed-layout ED and the flexible-layout ED to a user device.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . A method for generating electronic documents (EDs), comprising:
reading an input ED from storage; specifying in the input ED a predetermined element that defines a region comprising a content; storing the content in connection with the predetermined element; generating a fixed-layout ED having a fixed layout and comprising a content corresponding to the content of the input ED; generating a flexible-layout ED having a flexible layout and comprising a content corresponding to the content of the input ED; linking the content of the fixed-layout ED to a position of the content of the flexible-layout ED; linking the content of the flexible-layout ED to a position of the content of the fixed-layout ED; and outputting one or both of the fixed-layout ED and the flexible-layout ED to a user device.

2 . The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
assigning an element number to the predetermined element in a page, wherein the contents of the fixed-layout ED and the flexible-layout ED are linked using the element number and a page number.

3 . The method of claim 1 , wherein
the input ED has an XML-based file format, and the predetermined element is selected from a group of a tag for a paragraph and a tag for a drawing.

4 . The method of claim 3 , wherein
the input ED has a file format selected from a group of Open Office XML (OOXML) and Open Document Format (ODF), and the fixed-layout ED and the flexible-layout ED have a file format that is HyperText Markup Language (HTML).

5 . The method of claim 4 , wherein
the fixed-layout ED is generated using Scalable Vector Graphics commands, and the flexible-layout ED is generated using HTML text commands.

6 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the outputting of one or both of the fixed-layout ED and the flexible-layout ED to the user device comprises:
accepting from the user device a request to output one or both of the fixed-layout ED and the flexible-layout ED via a network; and outputting one or both of the fixed-layout ED and the flexible-layout ED to the user device based on the request.

7 . The method of claim 1 , wherein
the one or both of the fixed-layout ED and the flexible-layout EDs are stored at different locations over a network.

8 . The method of claim 6 , further comprising:
retrieving the fixed-layout ED or the flexible-layout ED stored at a remote location via the network.

9 . A system for generating electronic documents (EDs), comprising:
a parser that:
specifies a predetermined element that defines a region in an input ED read from storage; and
stores a content included in the region in connection with the predetermined element; and
a generator that:
generates a fixed-layout ED having a fixed layout and comprising a content corresponding to the content of the input ED;
generates a flexible-layout ED having a flexible layout and comprising a content corresponding to the content of the input ED;
links the content of the fixed-layout ED to a position of the content of the flexible-layout ED; and
links the content of the flexible-layout ED to a position of the content of the fixed-layout ED, wherein
one or both of the fixed-layout ED and the flexible-layout ED are output to a user device.

10 . The system of claim 9 , wherein
the generator assigns an element number to the predetermined element in a page, wherein the contents of the fixed-layout ED and the flexible-layout ED are linked using the element number and a page number.

11 . The system of claim 9 , wherein
the input ED has an XML-based file format, and the predetermined element is selected from a group of a tag for a paragraph and a tag for a drawing.

12 . The system of claim 11 , wherein
the input ED has a file format selected from a group of Open Office XML (OOXML) and Open Document Format (ODF), and the fixed-layout ED and the flexible-layout ED have a file format that is HyperText Markup Language (HTML).

13 . The method of claim 12 , wherein
the fixed-layout ED is generated using Scalable Vector Graphics commands, and the flexible-layout ED is generated using HTML text commands.

14 . The system of claim 9 , further comprising:
a receiver that accepts from the user device a request to output one or both of the fixed-layout ED and the flexible-layout ED via a network; and a transmitter that outputs one or both of the fixed-layout ED and the flexible-layout ED to the user device based on the request.

15 . The system of claim 9 , wherein:
the fixed-layout ED and the flexible-layout ED are stored at different locations over a network.

16 . The system of claim 14 , wherein:
the receiver retrieves the fixed-layout ED or the flexible-layout ED stored at a separate location via the network.

17 . A non-transitory computer readable medium (CRM) storing instructions for generating electronic documents (EDs), the instructions comprising functionality for:
reading an input ED from storage; specifying a predetermined element that defines a region in the input ED; storing a content included in the region in connection with the predetermined element; generating a fixed-layout ED having a fixed layout and comprising a content corresponding to the content of the input ED; generating a flexible-layout ED having a flexible layout and comprising a content corresponding to the content of the input ED; linking the content of the fixed-layout ED to a position of the content of the flexible-layout ED; linking the content of the flexible-layout ED to a position of the content of the fixed-layout ED; and outputting one or both of the fixed-layout ED and the flexible-layout ED to a user device.

18 . The non-transitory CRM of claim 17 , wherein the instructions further comprises functionality for:
assigning an element number to the predetermined element in a page, wherein the contents of the fixed-layout ED and the flexible-layout ED are linked using the element number and a page number.

19 . The non-transitory CRM of claim 17 , wherein
the input ED has an XML-based file format, and the predetermined element is selected from a group of a tag for a paragraph and a tag for a drawing.

20 . The non-transitory CRM of claim 17 , wherein
the input ED has a file format selected from a group of Open Office XML (OOXML) and Open Document Format (ODF), and the fixed-layout ED and the flexible-layout ED have a file format that is HyperText Markup Language (HTML).

Assignees

• Konica Minolta Laboratory Usa Inc

Inventors

• Grams Jason
• Guarnieri Stuart

Classifications

• G06F40/103

  Formatting, i.e. changing of presentation of documents (automatic justification G06F40/189; automatic line break hyphenation G06F40/191) · CPC title

• G06F40/154 Primary

  Tree transformation for tree-structured or markup documents, e.g. XSLT, XSL-FO or stylesheets · CPC title

• G06F17/272

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06F17/212 Primary

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06F17/2247

  Physics · mapped topic