Interconnection of Document Preparation, Document Viewing, and Alert Processing in Structured Documents

摘要

A method and system for notifying a user to review a document stored on a computer. The method scans the document to identify and locate a citation in the document, where the citation is a link to a target document. The method stores the citation in a citations database. The method periodically compares the citations database to a changed documents database. When the comparison determines that the target document is a changed document, the method stores an entry in a hits database, where the entry identifies the document, the citation, and the target document. The method sends an alert message to the user to request that the user review the entry in the hits database.