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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 13, 2003
Filed:
Aug. 31, 1998
Warren K. Edwards, San Francisco, CA (US);
James P. Dourish, San Francisco, CA (US);
Anthony G. Lamarca, Redwood City, CA (US);
John O. Lamping, Los Altos, CA (US);
Karin Petersen, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Michael F. Salisbury, Mountain View, CA (US);
Douglas B. Terry, San Carlos, CA (US);
James D. Thornton, Redwood City, CA (US);
Xerox Corporation, Stamford, CT (US);
Abstract
A document management system is provided which organizes, stores and retrieves documents according to properties attached to the documents. A property attachment mechanism allows an application to attach arbitrary static and active properties to a document. The active properties include executable code which perform document management functions to control the state and behavior of the document in response to a triggering event. In this manner, the state and behavior of the document is provided to a user and is accurately maintained even when the application is not running.