Patent Document ID: 8190988
Application ID: 11855313

Base Claim:
1. A method comprising: receiving a selection of electronic form instances to be merged into a bundled electronic form instance, each electronic form instance including at least one named form field and at least one script referencing the at least one named form field; renaming at least one named form field in at least one of the electronic form instances of the selection to be unique across the selection of electronic form instances; renaming one or more references to the named form field in the at least one script in the at least one of the electronic form instances of the selection to match the renamed form field; merging the selection of electronic form instances into the bundled electronic form instance.

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Claim 8:
8. The method of claim 1 wherein the operation of renaming one or more references to the named form field comprises: renaming all references to the named form fields in a document-specific script and in a form-field-specific script of the at least one of the electronic form instances of the selection to match the renamed form fields.