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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 06, 1998
Filed:
Nov. 04, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:
Akihiro Kohno, Yokohama, JP;
Tadashi Yamakawa, Yokohama, JP;
Assignee:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
707511 ; 707513 ; 707530 ;
Abstract
A document processing apparatus capable of clearly indicating, to each user, the information changed since the last reference by the user, by storing the last referred document information for each user. At the end of each system function, the referred structured document is registered as past document information for each user in an auxiliary memory device, and, when the user refers again to this document information, the document information at the last reference is compared with the current document information in order to clarify the changes.