Patent ID: 9292479
Filing Date: 2016-03-22
CPC Classification: G06F

Claim Text:
1. A method comprising: receiving, at a computer system, a user request to access an electronic document collection that integrates a plurality of electronic sub-documents that are each of one of a plurality of defined document types; accessing information regarding the electronic document collection, the information identifying a first sub-document from the plurality of electronic sub-documents using a first non-address identifier that does not provide access to the first sub-document and that can be used to locate the first sub-document within a data repository; identifying a first document type from the plurality of defined document types for the first sub-document based on the first non-address identifier; accessing the first sub-document using the first non-address identifier via a first software application that is configured to provide access for the first document type; identifying a dynamic link in the first sub-document to a second sub-document from the plurality of electronic sub-documents, the dynamic link using a second non-address identifier that does not provide access to the second sub-document and that can be used to locate the second sub-document within the data repository; identifying a second document type from the plurality of defined document types for the second sub-document based on the second non-address identifier; accessing the second sub-document using the second non-address identifier via a second software application that is configured to provide access for the second document type; receiving a user selection that identifies at least part of the second sub-document as an indicated portion of the second sub-document; and integrating only the indicated portion of the second sub-document into the first sub-document wherein the first sub-document is a map sub-document that includes a depiction of a geographic area and integrating only the indicated portion of the second sub-document includes causing geographic locations to be displayed in the first sub-document based on only the indicated portion of the second sub-document, wherein causing geographic locations to be displayed in the first sub-document includes interpreting the second sub-document using the second software application to provide interpreted data to the first software application and wherein integrating only the indicated portion of the second sub-document into the first sub-document includes integrating the interpreted data into the first sub-document.