Patent ID: 6295542
Filing Date: 2001-09-25
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
A computer readable medium for storing a computer executable software program for cross-referencing text within a document, the program including instructions for:locating a plurality of label strings within said document, each label string labelling an associated part of said document;converting each said located label string into a standard format such that the said associated parts of said document are each unambiguously labelled by said standard format;locating a plurality of cross-reference strings within said document, said cross-reference strings referring to parts of said document labelled by said label strings;converting each said cross-reference string into said standard format such that said converted cross-reference strings refer unambiguously to one or more labelled parts of said document;collating said standard format cross-reference strings with said standard format label strings; andproviding a program link between said cross-reference strings and those labelled parts of said document to which the cross-reference strings refer.