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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:
May. 25, 1999
Filed:
Nov. 24, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
707540 ;
Abstract
A document editing apparatus for editing a document in which document elements are in a nested structure. A portion appointing device appoints a portion of the document into which a document element is to be inserted, and an alternative element insertion process inserts an alternative element into the appointed portion of the document. An alternative element developing process substitutes an appointed document element for the alternative element, and the appoint document element is stored in a storage device.