Patent Document ID: 4460975
Application ID: 06420182

Base Claim:
1. A process for electronically generating a format for a computer printout according to commands of a user communicating with a processor, the processor having a memory and further communicating with a long-term memory, the long-term memory storing a set of generic default format commands, the process comprising the steps of: (a) reproducing the default format commands in the processor memory; (b) modifying the default format commands reproduced in the processor memory according to prompted user format commands to create a set of custom default format commands; (c) recording data in the processor memory; (d) converting the custom default format commands and data recorded in the processor memory into electrical impulses to direct a printer to represent the data according to the format specified by the commands.

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Claim 8:
8. The process of claim 1 wherein the data is recorded in the processor memory directly by the user.