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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 02, 2005
Filed:
Sep. 08, 2000
Loren G. Knutson, Allen, TX (US);
Kenneth D. Simone, Jr., Murphy, TX (US);
Nezar A. Gharbia, Richardson, TX (US);
John C. Zurawski, Allen, TX (US);
Loren G. Knutson, Allen, TX (US);
Kenneth D. Simone, Jr., Murphy, TX (US);
Nezar A. Gharbia, Richardson, TX (US);
John C. Zurawski, Allen, TX (US);
Corel Corporation, Ontario, CA;
Abstract
A number of items of data from a data source () can be processed, and then supplied to a data destination (). The data can include image data, text data, numeric data or some other type of data, or a combination of these types of data. The processing of the data is controlled by a project definition (), which includes a plurality of modules selected from a variety of available modules. The modules have input and output ports, and the project definition includes binding information which relates input ports to output ports. The binding information can include a conditional binding (), which supplies data to an input port from a selected one of two or more output ports, in dependence on a condition. A separate feature is that, if data obtained in a given format from an output port is being supplied to an input port which expects data in a different format, the data is automatically converted to the format expected by the input port.