| 6687878 |
Synchronizing/updating local client notes with annotations previously made by other clients in a notes database |
| Feb-3-2004 |
A system for collaborative document annotation whereby notes (i.e. annotations) associated with a document, such as an image or text document, are stored in a notes database on a central notes server.... |
| 6687877 |
Web-based call center system with web document annotation |
| Feb-3-2004 |
A web-based call center and a method for its operation include multiple agent and customer terminals connected to a web server. The agent terminals and the customer terminals include a web browser for... |
| 6687876 |
Method and system for maintaining freeform ink annotations on changing views |
| Feb-3-2004 |
The method and system of the invention maintains the indication of the logical relationship of freeform digital ink annotations to objects in an electronic display even as the view changes. The invention... |
| 6675370 |
System and method for imbedding hyperlinked language grammar notation in a "literate" programming environment |
| Jan-6-2004 |
Documentation of a software application is automatically generated for the classes, written in an object oriented-language, which comprise the application. The classes within the application are typically... |
| 6675352 |
Method of and apparatus for editing annotation command data |
| Jan-6-2004 |
An annotation command data for annotating a displayed image is in the form of an original data block having a first data area holding an initial state for the displayed image and a second data area holding... |
| 6665840 |
System and method for run time generation of potential label positions |
| Dec-16-2003 |
A system and method for generating multiple potential label positions for a polygon at run time, rather than selecting from pre-configured label positions. The present invention analyzes the visible portion... |
| 6658623 |
Displaying in a first document a selectable link to a second document based on a passive query |
| Dec-2-2003 |
The document reading system passively analyzes a document to generate margin or end notes of references to other documents that relate to annotated passages in the document or to the entire document. The... |
| 6658402 |
Web client controlled system, method, and program to get a proximate page when a bookmarked page disappears |
| Dec-2-2003 |
A system, method and program of the invention enables an alternate page to be received by a client when the desired page is not found at a Web server. Other pages that were close to the desired page in... |
| 6654765 |
Method and apparatus for providing plug-in media decoders |
| Nov-25-2003 |
A method and apparatus for providing plug-in media decoders. Embodiments provide a "plug-in" decoder architecture that allows software decoders to be transparently downloaded, along with media data. User... |
| 6650344 |
Method and system for displaying computer documents |
| Nov-18-2003 |
A method of and a system for displaying computer documents. The method comprises the steps of identifying a base document a plurality of times in a view, each of said plurality of times being associated... |
| 6628285 |
Intelligent drawing redlining and commenting feature |
| Sep-30-2003 |
A method, apparatus, and system provides an integrated viewer with one user interface and one API provides the ability to view, program, redline, and measure DWF and DWG files. In accordance with one or... |
| 6624826 |
Method and apparatus for generating visual representations for audio documents |
| Sep-23-2003 |
A method and apparatus for generating visual representations for audio documents. A dynamically adjustable audio gauge is used to visually represent an audio narration that may optionally describe an electronic... |
| 6584479 |
Overlay presentation of textual and graphical annotations |
| Jun-24-2003 |
A primary body of data is displayable on a screen and a supporting body of data is relatable to an annotation tag present in the primary body of textual data. An annotation tag having a predetermined size... |
| 6582475 |
Automatic adaptive document printing help system |
| Jun-24-2003 |
An automatic printing assistant application for documents in electronic form is provided by virtue of the present invention. In certain embodiments, an elongated thumbnail image of all or part of an electronically... |
| 6573907 |
Network distribution and management of interactive video and multi-media containers |
| Jun-3-2003 |
Interactive interfaces to video information provide a displayed view of a quasi-object called a root image. The root image consists of a plurality of basic frames selected from the video information, arranged... |
| 6571295 |
Web page annotating and processing |
| May-27-2003 |
A general purpose system and method for associating annotations, modifications, or other information with a web-viewable document is disclosed. An embodiment of the system and method includes the use of... |
| 6571241 |
Multilingual patent information search system |
| May-27-2003 |
There is provided an information search system that can be easily used by a foreigner. A client terminal is connected to an information search apparatus through a network. The information search apparatus... |
| 6567830 |
Method, system, and program for displaying added text to an electronic media file |
| May-20-2003 |
Provided are a method, system, and program for receiving and displaying text inserted into a text document. The program displays lines of text from the document and receives user inputted text. The program... |
| 6567550 |
Video retrieval method and apparatus |
| May-20-2003 |
A method of characterizing a video includes the steps of extracting frame images from an input video, calculating a time length between each of the frame images and a next one of the frame images, assigning... |
| 6565611 |
Automatic index creation for handwritten digital ink notes |
| May-20-2003 |
A system for automatically generating indexes for handwritten notes captured as digital ink in a computer is disclosed. Ink words are identified, and features of the ink words are computed. Pairwise distances... |
| 6564319 |
Technique for compressing digital certificates for use in smart cards |
| May-13-2003 |
A technique for compressing certificate information for use in portable credit instruments having limited storage capacity. An end user certificate typically actually comprises a chain of certificates,... |
| 6551357 |
Method, system, and program for storing and retrieving markings for display to an electronic media file |
| Apr-22-2003 |
Disclosed is a method, system, and program for displaying markings to electronic media, such as text, images, video clips, audio clips, etc., in an electronic media file. A marking file includes markings... |
| 6549922 |
System for collecting, transforming and managing media metadata |
| Apr-15-2003 |
An extensible framework for the automatic extraction and transformation of metadata into logical annotations. Metadata imbedded within a media file is extracted by a type-specific parsing module which... |
| 6546405 |
Annotating temporally-dimensioned multimedia content |
| Apr-8-2003 |
A human viewing temporally-dimensioned content of a multimedia document through use of a computer can add substantive content to temporally-dimensioned content of the multimedia document to thereby annotate,... |
| 6542165 |
System, apparatus and method of relating annotation data to an application window |
| Apr-1-2003 |
A system, apparatus and method for generating a transparent window on an application window designated by an operator. An annotation is drawn in the transparent window depending on the kind of message... |
| 6529920 |
Multimedia linking device and method |
| Mar-4-2003 |
A multimedia linking device automatically links user notations (e.g., handwritten notes) made on a page to time-varying data (e.g., audio). Consequently, a user can take notes while observing a multimedia... |
| 6529215 |
Method and apparatus for annotating widgets |
| Mar-4-2003 |
Widgets are annotated with freeform digital ink. Rather than annotating the data displayed by widgets, annotations are made "on" the widgets themselves and stored in relation to the application and/or... |
| 6526424 |
Browser image display bookmark system |
| Feb-25-2003 |
An image display bookmark system is disclosed. The image display bookmark system comprises a bookmark processing unit and a data storing unit. The bookmark processing unit is disposed in a processing unit.... |
| 6518976 |
Graphics container |
| Feb-11-2003 |
A method of setting a graphics container in a graphics device wherein a child application draws graphics within a parent application's graphics context. A parent application begins a graphics container,... |
| 6507726 |
Computer implemented education system |
| Jan-14-2003 |
A curriculum scheduling method includes receiving input data identifying target subject matter, processing the input data to determine an educational standard associated with the target subject matter,... |
| 6496841 |
Techniques for identifying and manipulating quoted or reproduced material using a quote bar |
| Dec-17-2002 |
The handling of quoted material in an electronic environment is enhanced by using one or more quote bars. Quote bars permit quoted material to be treated as a single object and permit information about... |
| 6457026 |
System to facilitate reading a document |
| Sep-24-2002 |
An automatic reading assistance application for documents available in electronic form. An automatic annotator is provided which finds concepts of interest and keywords. The operation of the annotator... |
| 6457024 |
Wearable hypermedium system |
| Sep-24-2002 |
A wearable hypermedium information retrieval system for displaying predetermined digitized data, having a computer having an I/O port; a large capacity information storage and retrieval device interfaced... |
| 6452615 |
System and apparatus for notetaking with digital video and ink |
| Sep-17-2002 |
Media input streams are retrieved by a notetaking device and referenced for playback. The media streams are from microphones, video cameras, and media players present during a notetaking session. Facilities... |
| 6449653 |
Interleaved multiple multimedia stream for synchronized transmission over a computer network |
| Sep-10-2002 |
The production of an interleaved multimedia stream for servers and client computers coupled to each other by a diverse computer network which includes local area networks (LANs) and/or wide area networks... |
| 6438566 |
Document processing method and apparatus which can add comment data added to an original document to a revised document |
| Aug-20-2002 |
A comment added to a certain portion in a first document can be automatically re-added to an equivalent position in a second document, and comment transfer processing between documents is automatically... |
| 6424744 |
Video retrieval method and apparatus |
| Jul-23-2002 |
A method of characterizing a video includes the steps of extracting frame images from an input video, calculating a feature of each of the frame images, assigning index information determined by the calculated... |
| 6418457 |
Document storage and processing system for inventors that utilize timestamps and digital signatures |
| Jul-9-2002 |
A computerized document storage system for use by inventors to store their work on an invention and to secure their claim to a date of invention, the system comprising a document creator to enable the... |
| 6411973 |
Method for facilitating user access to stored information in an electronic text |
| Jun-25-2002 |
A technique for providing simplified and more flexible text recovery in an electronically stored text. The text storage device is of the hand-held type and may accommodate the text of the entire bible,... |
| 6401105 |
Adaptive textual system for associating descriptive text with varying data |
| Jun-4-2002 |
An interpretive text system implemented in a host computer system. The host computer system, which may include multiple computers coupled together, includes one or more processors, memory, a fixed disk... |
| 6389435 |
Method and system for copying a freeform digital ink mark on an object to a related object |
| May-14-2002 |
Freeform digital ink marks on an object are copied onto other objects that are related to the object. An embodiment of the invention copies freeform digital ink mark on terms in an index to corresponding... |
| 6389434 |
System, method, and computer program product for creating subnotes linked to portions of data objects after entering an annotation mode |
| May-14-2002 |
Systems, methods, and computer program products for annotating documents are described herein, wherein in some embodiments the documents are immutable. The method operates by enabling a user to place an... |
| 6388681 |
Apparatus for making recording media with audio code images |
| May-14-2002 |
An apparatus for making recording media with audio code images by combining visual images converted from image information and audio code images encoded to be optically readable from audio information... |
| 6385629 |
System and method for the automatic mining of acronym-expansion pairs patterns and formation rules |
| May-7-2002 |
A computer program product is provided as an automatic mining system to identify a set of related information on the World Wide Web using the duality concept. The mining system addresses iteratively refines... |
| 6370551 |
Method and apparatus for displaying references to a user's document browsing history within the context of a new document |
| Apr-9-2002 |
An electronic document reader supplements a new document with selectable links that reference portions of previously read documents that have content similar to a passage of the new document. The portions... |
| 6369811 |
Automatic adaptive document help for paper documents |
| Apr-9-2002 |
A reader's annotation assistant application for documents in paper form is provided by virtue of the present invention. In certain embodiments, an elongated thumbnail image of all or part of an electronically... |
| 6356923 |
Document information management system |
| Mar-12-2002 |
The document information management system according to the present invention comprises data base with a plurality of document files previously stored therein, a medium form having a document information... |
| 6356922 |
Method and system for suggesting related documents |
| Mar-12-2002 |
The method and system of this invention analyzes a document to generate margin or end notes of references to portions of other documents and other portions of the same documents that relate to annotated... |
| 6342906 |
Annotation layer for synchronous collaboration |
| Jan-29-2002 |
Effective real-time collaboration across remote sites in which any type of data can be shared in a common work space in a consistent manner is made possible by an annotation layer having multiple distinct... |
| 6339436 |
User defined dynamic help |
| Jan-15-2002 |
The present invention provides a method for providing user-defined dynamic help text which is displayed integrally with the application. The method includes utilizing a monitoring program to monitor a... |
