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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 06, 2012
Filed:
Dec. 08, 2005
Timothy Pressler Clark, Rochester, MN (US);
Zachary Adam Garbow, Rochester, MN (US);
Richard Michael Theis, Rochester, MN (US);
Brian Paul Wallenfelt, Rochester, MN (US);
Timothy Pressler Clark, Rochester, MN (US);
Zachary Adam Garbow, Rochester, MN (US);
Richard Michael Theis, Rochester, MN (US);
Brian Paul Wallenfelt, Rochester, MN (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
The present invention enables users to dynamically manage historical data within documents bearing one or more links, and retain the relationships defined by the links. The present invention tracks the links not just from source documents to destination documents, but also from destination documents back to the source documents, organizes the links in a hierarchical manner based on the content/naming of the links, and displays the link information to the user in a real-time and meaningful way.