Patent Document ID: 5526520
Application ID: 08125021

Base Claim:
1. A method of organizing and relating a plurality of documents including graphic drawings such as architectural drawings, the method including the steps of: storing a primary document including a primary graphic drawing representative of an object in a primary file; storing a secondary document including a plurality of secondary graphic drawings in a secondary file, each of the secondary graphic drawings further defining a portion of the object represented by the primary graphic drawing; selectively displaying the primary and secondary documents; defining a frame file of the secondary file by isolating one of the plurality of secondary graphic drawings from the other secondary graphic drawings; assigning a measurement scale to the one secondary drawing in the frame file; identifying a hotspot on the primary document for further definition; linking the hotspot with the frame file so that activation of the hotspot on the primary document causes display of the frame file without displaying the remaining portions of the secondary document so that analysis can be performed using the assigned measurement scale of the one secondary graphic drawing in the frame file; and wherein said storing of the primary document includes electronically scanning a blueprint drawing page and said storing of the secondary document includes electronically scanning a different blueprint drawing page.

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Claim 2:
2. A method as set forth in claim 1 further including assigning a name to the hotspot and assigning the same name to the frame file.