Patent Document ID: 5544285
Application ID: 08444326

Base Claim:
1. In a system for providing a graphical user interface for the entry of text data in a data store, the graphical user interface including a graphical document display having plural data entry fields, a method for replicating groups of said data entry fields, said method comprising the steps of: providing user-selected control inputs representing commands to said graphical user interface; generating a replication function indicator in said document display separate from but adjacent to said data fields; generating a pointer in said document display; positioning said pointer in said document display at said replication function indicator in response to a first control input; and in response to said positioning step and to a second control input representing a data field replicating command, replicating a group of said data fields in said document display.

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Claim 18:
18. The method of claim 1 further including the steps of: generating a removal function indicator in said document display separate from but adjacent to said data fields; and in response to said positioning step and to a third control input representing a data field removal command, removing a group of said data fields in said document display.