SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MANAGING FEATURES AND ATTRIBUTES IN A DIGITAL DOCUMENT

摘要

In many environments such as municipal, military and construction the use of digital and paper systems permits end users to create or modify features on digital document, attributes associated with those features, or attribute values associated with those features. The attribute value management system includes a digital pen, at least one digital document, one or more computing devices, and a number of software programs for creating data relationships between the digital documents (e.g., features on maps and their underlying attribute values), interpreting voice or handwritten data, validating the interpreted data, and uploading the validated data to a geo-database. The attribute value management system functions to create, update or otherwise change the attribute values associated with the features by a temporal association method; a linked identification method; or a direct handwriting method.

主权项

1. A method for managing attributes associated with features using a digital pen and digital document system, the method comprising:
with the digital pen, generating a feature on a digital document using feature icon located in a legend visible on the digital document, wherein during a time period of less than or equal to about ten seconds the digital pen sequentially contacts the feature icon and then contacts a different portion of the digital document to generate the feature; further sequentially in time and within about less than or equal to ten seconds from generating the feature, modally associating an attribute with the feature, wherein the attribute operates to modify the feature, and wherein modally associating the attribute with the feature includes linking the attribute to a digital paper spreadsheet using a linking icon in the legend on the digital document; interpreting the attribute; and validating the interpreted attribute.