Patent 05181162 - Document management and production system > Summary

Patent No. US 05181162

Published on Jan 19, 1993

Application No. 7/446937

Filed on Dec 6, 1989

Priority Date -

Ting, David M. T. - Sudbury, MA (212)

An object-oriented document management and production system in which documents are represented as collections of logical components, or "objects", that may be combined and physically mapped onto a page-by-page layout. Stored objects are organized, accessed and manipulated through a database management system. At a minimum, objects contain basic information-bearing constituents such as text, image, voice or graphics. Objects may also contain further data specifying appearance characteristics, relationships to other objects, and access restrictions.