Patent ID: 7127670
Filing Date: 2006-10-24
Classification: G06F,G06Q,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A method for managing documents in a computer implemented document management system, comprising the steps of: creating a document profile that includes fields of attributes of a document for each of the documents; requiring selection of a predefined document template from a set of predefined document templates for the document during creation of the document profile, the document template defining the format of the document and a software application to use for generation of the document; generating a unique identifier for each of the documents, the unique identifier including at least a first portion including information descriptive of an attribute of the document and at least a second portion including an automatically generated number, the unique identifier being visible to users of the document management system and providing information about the corresponding document to the users so that each of the documents can be identified from the corresponding unique identifier among a group including unique identifiers corresponding to other documents; and storing the document profile for each of the documents.