Patent ID: 7533337

Claim:
A method for composing messages each comprising a document of a particular type, comprising: A) providing layout instructions identical for each of said documents, B) providing a first data source with machine-readable data; C) providing selection instructions for selecting data from a the first data source for at least one prescribed position in each of said documents; D) providing instructions for handling of the selected data read from the data source for the prescribed position; E) automatically composing document-defining document data for each of said documents, comprising: E1) selecting and reading data from said first data source for the prescribed position in each of said documents in accordance with the selection instructions, E2) forming, from said data selected and read from said first data source, a second data source of data selected for the prescribed position in each of said documents: E3) reading said data selected for the prescribed position from said second data source: E4) processing said data read from said second data source in accordance with layout instructions, into documents; E5) processing said data, read from said second data source for the prescribed position in accordance with said handling instructions, into message data other than said document data; and F) finishing said documents in an inserter system in accordance with instructions for controlling the inserter system included in said message data.