Patent ID: 9361288
Filing Date: 2016-06-07
CPC Classification: G06F

Claim Text:
1. A computer-implemented method for processing templates using separate template processing instructions, the method performed by at least one computer processor, the method comprising: providing a template and a separate collection of processing instructions for the template, the processing instructions including first instructions for merging the template with a first data set stored at a first computing device and including second instructions for merging the template with a second data set stored at a second computing device, and wherein the template comprises one or more annotations indicating that the first instructions are available for execution at the first computing device and that the second instructions are available for execution at the second computing device; executing the first instructions at the first computing device to update the template with the first data set; updating the processing instructions to exclude the first instructions, wherein updating the processing instructions to exclude the first instructions comprises at least one of: deleting the first instructions from the collection of processing instructions; and designating the first instructions as inactive within the collection of processing instructions so that the first instructions are not executed by the second computing device; and providing the updated template and the updated processing instructions to the second computing device for execution of the second instructions at the second computing device to update the updated template with the second data set.