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Abstract

An electronic document processing system is disclosed for a communications network, wherein the network protocol has the property of repeatingly breaking down each established communication connection between network nodes attempting to carry on a dialog session. Related document data is exchanged between a network server and a client node, wherein the network communication connection between the server and the client must be repeatedly re-established and the prior dialog session context must be reassociated with continued dialog session communications between the server and client. Accordingly, the server node embeds a dialog session identifier within each communication to the client so that a response from the client may return the identifier thereby allowing the server to associate new client input with previously stored input related to the dialog session. The present invention is useful in maintaining a dialog session on the World Wide Web network wherein the widely used hypertext transfer protocol is the network protocol. Further, the present invention allows the server to customize document templates for responding to a client node communication. For the World Wide Web, the document templates are encoded in an enhanced version of the hypertext mark-up language wherein portions of such templates are capable of being replaced with stored dialog session data for customizing a document (particularly, a fill-out form) to be used for responding to a client.

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