METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MERGE PROCESSING IN A TEXT PROCESSING SYSTEM

Patent №

US 4,445,795

Granted

1984-05-01

Filed 1981

Owner

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION, A CORP. OF NY

AI components

1

hardware

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

06305252

An improved method and apparatus in an interactive text processing system for creating documents by selectively merging text data from two or more text records by signalling the location in a document at which the insert of text data is to be added, displaying a Merge Tasks Menu which provides an option for executing a merge operation in response to either Switch Code or Named Variable control codes, specifying the identification and location of the text data comprising the Shell Document and the Fill-In Document, and executing the Merge operation based on the specified data and Merge control mode.

AI classification

AI hardware0.95
Natural language0.44
Knowledge representation0.29
Planning0.07
Vision0.00
Speech0.00
Evolutionary computation0.00
Machine learning0.00

Ownership

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION, A CORP. OF NY

assignment · 39330508

Assignors

LEVINE, LEWIS J., SHIPP, KENNETH O. JR.

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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