Patent Document ID: 7818660
Application ID: 11444140

Base Claim:
1. A method of comparing compound documents, wherein a compound document comprises a primary document and an OLE object, comprising: copying a first OLE object from a first compound document to a document of a type corresponding to an application that created the OLE object, creating a first OLE object comparison document; copying a second OLE object from a second compound document to a second OLE object comparison document; initiating a comparison engine to compare the first OLE object comparison document with the second OLE object comparison document, wherein the comparison engine generates a comparison output OLE object document; placing the comparison output OLE object document in a comparison output document; and initiating a primary document comparison engine to compare a first primary document and a second primary document, wherein the output of the comparison is included in the comparison output document.

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Claim 4:
4. The method of claim 1 , wherein placing the comparison output OLE object document in the comparison output document is performed in accordance with OLE object location information retrieved from the first compound document or the second compound document.