Patent ID: 9600801
Date: 2017-03-21
CPC Classifications: G06F,G06Q

Claim:
1. A method for integrating research and incorporation of information into an information-rich construction specification document, the method comprising: providing by a computer device a template document having a plurality of updatable and modifiable data sections and one or more computer links for each of the sections corresponding to locations in a database of up-to-date potential customized template data; receiving by the computer device a selection of one of the computer links; retrieving by the computer device a plurality of up-to-date items of the customized template data from the database for possible inclusion in the template document as a customization thereof, the items corresponding to the selected computer link; determining by the computer device when one or more of the items that were previously accepted or previously rejected for inclusion in the template document during a prior edit of the template document have been updated in the database subsequent to the prior edit of the template document; providing by the computer device each of the items along with an associated indication of a user designation or a default designation of the items, wherein the default designation comprises an indication of the update for the one or more of the items, when the one or more of the items are determined to have been updated in the database subsequent to the prior edit; and automatically modifying by the computer device the template document to include or exclude customized template data based on the indication associated with each of the items comprising excluding the one or more of the items determined to have been updated in the database subsequent to the prior edit of the template document until the one or more of the items are designated as accepted for inclusion in the template document.