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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 26, 2006
Filed:
Jun. 30, 2000
Warren Keith Edwards, San Francisco, CA (US);
Anthony George Lamarca, Redwood City, CA (US);
Warren Keith Edwards, San Francisco, CA (US);
Anthony George LaMarca, Redwood City, CA (US);
Xerox Corporation, Stamford, CT (US);
Abstract
A document management method and system for representing entities as documents. The entities include tasks, persons, devices such as phones, printers, cameras, computational processes, and workflow applications such as trip approval processes and hiring processes. Various data sources are used. A data source generally has an associated property and content information related to the entity. A bit provider is configured to identify the data source having the associated property, retrieve the content information, and provide the retrieved content information as at least a portion of the document. Application interfaces are configured to provide the document to various applications.