Patent ID: 7035837
Filing Date: 2006-04-25
Classification: G06F,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A document component management system for automatically generating customized documents for a plurality of individuals, each customized document being customized according to an applicable set of rules, said document component management system comprising: a presentation layer, users interfacing with said document component management system through said presentation layer; a data layer containing a plurality of repositories, ones of said repositories storing document components and published documents in one or more formats; and an application layer interfacing said presentation layer with said data layer to create and maintain document components, user requests entered at said presentation layer being fulfilled by said application layer, said application layer retrieving document components responsive to user requests and assembling documents therefrom, assembled documents being published to respective ones of a plurality of individuals, a copy of published documents being stored in said data layer, wherein the application layer issues database calls to the data and receives data from the data layer through an application program interface; and a batch file handler receiving batch order requests and automatically selecting variable data and document rules from said data layer responsive to received said batch order requests, documents being generated from selected variable data and rules.