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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 24, 1998
Filed:
Oct. 04, 1996
Timothy Leo Becker, Endicott, NY (US);
Philip David Heinlein, Binghamton, NY (US);
James Allen Martin, Jr, Endicott, NY (US);
Richard Daniel Orth, Owego, NY (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A network application for automatically formatting and printing documents to be used as planning manuals by company personnel to produce quality products designed to satisfy customer preferences. Output documents can also be used as educational manuals and for dispersing among organizational personnel common information for integrated strategic planning and decision making for engineering and marketing teams. Facilitated collaborative work sessions among work groups inputting and sharing comments and ideas provide starting data to the network application.