Automatic editing method

Claim 3

Method for automatically editing a message according to claim 1 in which said second record contains edit marks at message element space locations corresponding to and correlated with message space locations on said first record, said edit marks indicating where editing changes are desired.

Claim 4

Method of editing a message at a message element location arbitrarily selectable subsequent to the original generation of said message, in accordance with claim 1 in which said step of providing an edit location and edit instruction machine readable second record includes manual keyboarding the message elements of said second record, automatically generating a man readable hardcopy record in response to said keyboarding, automatically generating said second record in response to said keyboarding, and manually inputting said second record into a reader; and which also includes the additional step of automatically associating appropriate formatting signals with said message element train to permit page formatting.

Claim 5

Method of editing a message according to claim 1 in which said first record and said second record are man-machine readable records.

Claim 6

Method of editing a message at a message element location arbitrarily selectable subsequent to the original generation of said mEssage comprising the steps of; providing a first message element train; providing editing indicia specifying said arbitrarily selectable message element location where editing is desired subsequent to the original generation of said message and the desired editing changes in said first message element train; and generating a revised message element train containing the intelligence of said first message element train as modified in accordance with the desired editing changes specified by said editing indicia.

Claim 7

Method of editing a message at a message element location arbitrarily selectable subsequent to the original generation of said mEssage comprising the steps of; providing a first message element train; providing editing indicia specifying said arbitrarily selectable message element location where editing is desired subsequent to the original generation of said message and the desired editing changes in said first message element train; and generating a revised message element train containing the intelligence of said first message element train as modified in accordance with the desired editing changes specified by said editing indicia.

Claim 8

Method of editing a message at a message element location arbitrarily selectable subsequent to the original generation of said message, according to claim 5 in which said step of providing editing indicia comprises providing an edit location and edit instruction second message element train specifying said arbitrarily selectable message element location and the desired editing changes in said first message element train; and in which said step of generating a revised message element train comprises automatically generating a third message element train containing the intelligence of said first message element train as modified in accordance with the desired editing changes specified by said second message element train.

Claim 9

Method of editing a message in accordance with claim 6 which also includes the additional step of automatically associating appropriate formatting signals with said third message element train to permit page formatting and in which said step of providing an edit location and edit instruction second message element train includes the step of proofreading a man readable page format of said message to be edited to determine said desired editing changes.

Claim 10

Method of editing a message in accordance with claim 5 in which said step of providing a first message element train comprises providing a man-machine readable first record containing said first message recorded thereon; and said step of providing editing indicia includes the steps of visually proofreading said record subsequent to its original generation, entering said record into a manually operated record generator, and entering editing symbols on said record utilizing said manually operated generator at message element locations arbitrarily selectable subsequent to the original generation of said message.

Claim 11

Method of editing a message in accordance with claim 5 in which said step of providing a first message element train comprises providing a man-machine readable first record containing said first message recorded thereon; and said step of providing editing indicia includes the step of entering editing symbols upon said first record.

Claim 12

Method of editing a message in accordance with claim 9 in which said step of generating a revised message element train comprises machine reading said first message on said man-machine readable record by a reader under the control of a manual control means and said editing symbols, providing first electrical signals from said reader representative of said message, impressing said first electrical signals onto a message revising means, machine reading said editing symbols, automatically stopping the reader upon the detection of each of said editing symbols, deleting message elements from said first message by manually inhibiting said first electrical signals from said reader between machine reading of two editing symbols, manually disinhibiting said first electrical signals in response to the reader stopping at the second of said two editing symbols, inserting a desired message insert by manually keyboarding said insert on a keyboard of said manual control means, providing second electrical signals from said manual control means representative of said message insert, impressing said second electrical signals onto said message revising means, said message reviser generating a message element train containing the intelligence of said First record as modified in accordance with the desired editing changes.

Claim 13

Method of editing a message in accordance with claim 9 in which said step of generating a revised message element train includes the steps of machine reading said first message on said man-machine readable record, machine reading said editing indicia, machine interpreting said editing indicia, and machine generating a revised message element train containing the intelligence of said first record as modified in accordance with the desired editing changes specified by said editing indicia.

Claim 14

Method of editing a message in accordance with claim 11 in which said step of generating a revised message element train also includes the steps of automatically associating appropriate formatting signals with said revised message element train to permit page formatting, and automatically generating a man-readable record containing said revised message thereon in page format.

Claim 15

Method of editing a message in accordance with claim 12, in which said step of automatically generating a man readable record is performed by automatically generating a man-machine readable record containing said revised message thereon in page format.

Claim 16

Method of editing a message in accordance with claim 11 in which said step of providing editing indicia also includes the step of providing a man-machine readable second record, said second record including the message elements of a desired insert to be made to said first message element train; and in which said step of generating a revised message element train includes the step of inserting said message elements of said message insert to form said revised message element train in accordance with the interpretation of said editing indicia.

Claim 17

Method of editing a message in accordance with claim 14 which also includes the additional steps of machine reading said insert on said second record prior to reading said first record; machine storing the message elements of said insert in a message element store; and in which said step of automatically generating a revised message element train includes the step of machine retrieving the message elements of said insert at the required time to include said insert elements in the edited message being synthesized.