Patent Document ID: 9323720
Application ID: 12396168

Base Claim:
1. A method for unifying a fragmented document comprising: identifying structural information elements of a root document, wherein the structural information elements comprise at least one reference to a discrete document other than the root document; presenting to a user, the identified structural information elements within a rapid selection interface for selective acquisition of content from the discrete document; receiving at the rapid selection interface, a user initiated unification command including a user selection of one or more of the presented structural information elements; responsive to said unification command, acquiring content represented by the at least one reference from the discrete document without presenting the discrete document within a user interface window; and adding the acquired content to the root document.

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Claim 2:
2. The method of claim 1 , when adding the acquired content, replacing the reference with the acquired content at a location in the root document where the reference was previously positioned.