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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 08, 1996
Filed:
Apr. 15, 1994
John M Pratt, Atkinson, NH (US);
Wang Laboratories, Inc., Billerica, MA (US);
Abstract
A mechanism and a method for integrating first data created by a first application program and residing in a first data object belonging to the first application into a second data object where the first data is result data generated by operation of the first application program upon source data of the first application program. A computer system includes an integrated operating environment. A user creates and stores a script identifying the source data and directing the operation of the application program to generate the result data from the source data and inserts a reference to the script in the second data object, wherein the reference identifies the script, the application program and an operation of the application program to execute the script. The user may then invoke the reference to indicate that a current version of the result data derived by operation upon a current version of the source data is to be provided to the second data object, whereupon the system resolves the reference to identify the script, the application program and the operation of the application program to execute the script and invokes the application program to execute the script to generate the result data from the source data and to provide the result data to the second data object.