Patent Document ID: 7698647
Application ID: 11699885

Base Claim:
1. A portable dataport for document retrieving, inter-relating, annotating and management comprising: an electronic document storage device associated with said dataport, for storing a population of coded electronic documents; and, a view manager, having three dimensional grid for project document loading and retrieval, wherein a user selects a document in the grid for loading, said three dimensional grid corresponding to electronic document fields for navigation to related documents, wherein said view manager is electronically linked to said electronic document storage device to retrieve, inter-relate, annotate and manage said documents, wherein as an individual project document is loaded for viewing, said document is loaded within a main scrollable image viewer and related documents are loaded in the background, in their own scrollable image viewers to navigate to related project documents and project documents are accessible via cardinality keys, and wherein said view manager, in connection with document loading and retrieval; retrieves all coded documents associated with a project from said electronic document storage device; creates a data structure that contains coordinate data and navigations keys for each coded project document; creates scrollable image viewers for an identified project document and all related projects documents based upon the coordinate data for said project documents: creates a hash map for containing said scrollable image viewers; and creates a hash map for containing cardinality keys corresponding to the coordinate data for said identified and related project documents.

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Claim 18:
18. The dataport of claim 1 , wherein said view manager, in connection with the loading an individual project document for viewing: identifies an individual project document for viewing; loads the coordinate data and navigation key for the individual project document from the data structure; uses the navigation key of the individual project document to identify related project documents based upon review of the document coordinates for all project documents; creates a background thread for each related project document to facilitate the loading of said related project documents from the data structure into the background scrollable image viewers; loads the individual project document selected for viewing into the main scrollable image viewer; populates a properties panel on said portable dataport with information about the individual project document identified for viewing; updates the status of navigation buttons on said portable dataport based upon the identified related project documents; loads the related project documents into the background, in their own scrollable image viewers, and displays the currently viewed document.