| 6606633 |
Compound document management system and compound document structure managing method |
| Aug-12-2003 |
A compound document management system comprises a compound document object holding unit for holding a compound document object and a schema object generating unit for generating a schema object and applying... |
| 6605122 |
Computer system integrating different data types into a single environment |
| Aug-12-2003 |
A system for viewing and manipulating information of various data types within a single document in an integrated computer system environment is disclosed. Each data type is maintained within a dataset.... |
| 6592628 |
Modular storage method and apparatus for use with software applications |
| Jul-15-2003 |
A method and system is provided that processes the content of a document separately from information used to describe the structure of the content in the document. Content can be text, alphanumeric data,... |
| 6562076 |
Extending application behavior through active properties attached to a document in a document management system |
| May-13-2003 |
A document management system is provided which organizes, stores and retrieves documents according to properties attached to the documents. A property attachment mechanism allows an application to attach... |
| 6542913 |
Integrated document output management in a hybrid environment |
| Apr-1-2003 |
A customer document management system, which includes customer information store on a mainframe computer, said customer information being updateable from multiple sources. A data consolidator operates... |
| 6539387 |
Structured focused hypertext data structure |
| Mar-25-2003 |
A structured focused hypertext data structure in which hypertext nodes store identifying information about source and target documents or pages so that their relative positions in a hierarchy and other... |
| 6527812 |
Method and system for undoing multiple editing operations |
| Mar-4-2003 |
A method and system for undoing interactive editing operations enables efficient undoing of multiple non-invertable editing operations such as digital painting strokes. During the editing process, a plurality... |
| 6526410 |
Method and apparatus for structured document difference string extraction |
| Feb-25-2003 |
A document difference extraction method and apparatus which is used for extracting the difference between structured documents properly meeting the sense of a document editor taking the logical meaning... |
| 6526406 |
Database access system to deliver and store information |
| Feb-25-2003 |
An elementary data type definition table storage 11 stores the data types of various data stored in a database. A complex data type definition table storage 12 stores definitions of various data masses... |
| 6507858 |
System and method for storing ordered sections having different file formats |
| Jan-14-2003 |
Ordered binder document sections having different file formats stored within a binder file. The binder file maintains the order of binder document sections in an index structure. The binder document sections... |
| 6499040 |
Document and task coordination system for a computer |
| Dec-24-2002 |
A computer system operation method for allowing a user to work on interrelated documents includes forming groups of software tools. Different groups of software tools are used to perform different tasks... |
| 6476828 |
Systems, methods and computer program products for building and displaying dynamic graphical user interfaces |
| Nov-5-2002 |
Systems, methods and computer program products are provided for building and displaying dynamic graphical user interfaces (GUIs) that can be updated automatically without requiring code-level modification... |
| 6473892 |
Data driven, dynamic language document assembly system |
| Oct-29-2002 |
A document assembly system assembles and prints one or more documents in response to input data describing the nature and circumstances of a transaction to be documented and describing the parties to the... |
| 6469716 |
System and method for processing data for a graphical object |
| Oct-22-2002 |
A system for processing data for a graphical object includes a processor coupled to an input device, an output device, a memory, and a data retrieval device. The processor executes an application that... |
| 6469715 |
System and method for controlling the operation of a graphical object using a project |
| Oct-22-2002 |
A system for controlling the operation of a graphical object includes a processor coupled to an input device, an output device, a memory, and a data retrieval device. The processor executes an application... |
| 6466983 |
Systems and methods for controlling access to data maintained in a repository |
| Oct-15-2002 |
Systems and methods for controlling the dissemination of data from a repository based on request mechanisms that are transparent to the requestor and the connection conveying the requests. The systems... |
| 6457029 |
Computer method and system for same document lookup with different keywords from a single view |
| Sep-24-2002 |
A method and system for organizing documents in a database into categories within a single view. The method comprises the steps of providing a database having one or more documents storing data in one... |
| 6453328 |
Model tracking object-oriented system for collaborative data editing with non-compatible computer peripheral devices |
| Sep-17-2002 |
A method and apparatus for an object-oriented framework system. The system uses an innovative framework architecture to provide concurrent access to a framework application by multiple users. The users... |
| 6446256 |
Extension of parsable structures |
| Sep-3-2002 |
A bilateral interface may comprise an object interface and, optionally, a language interface. The object interface comprises at least an object-side object interface to be included in an external object,... |
| 6430551 |
Vocabulary and/or language model training |
| Aug-6-2002 |
A system includes means for creating a vocabulary and/or statistical language model from a textual training corpus. The vocabulary and/or language model are used in a pattern recognition system, such as... |
| 6404445 |
Method and system for modeling data |
| Jun-11-2002 |
A method and system for processing data are described. In one embodiment, a constraint-based configuration file is generated from a pre-defined data configuration domain at a server. In addition, the constraint-based... |
| 6397231 |
Virtual documents generated via combined documents or portions of documents retrieved from data repositories |
| May-28-2002 |
A virtual document generated within the environment of a document management system. The document management system provides for the separation of the document content from properties which describe the... |
| 6380947 |
Method and apparatus for displaying and tree scrolling a hierarchical data structure |
| Apr-30-2002 |
Methods and apparatus to display and scroll hierarchical data. A plurality of parent nodes can be displayed within a first display area, with each displayed parent node of the plurality of parent nodes... |
| 6377962 |
Software program for routing graphic image data between a source located in a first address space and a destination located in a second address space |
| Apr-23-2002 |
A system for connecting a video object to various multimedia objects to enable an object-oriented simulation of a multimedia presentation using a computer with a storage and a display. A plurality of multimedia... |
| 6341290 |
Method and system for automating the communication of business information |
| Jan-22-2002 |
One aspect of the invention is a system for automating the communication of business information. The system comprises a server (20) operable to capture business information from a plurality of sources,... |
| 6331860 |
Method and apparatus for stitching scanned image segments together to form an oversized document |
| Dec-18-2001 |
An oversize document, one that is larger than the platen of the scanner, can be scanned in several segments then stitched together electronically. A method is described to analyze the scan segments to... |
| 6295058 |
Method and apparatus for creating multimedia electronic mail messages or greeting cards on an interactive receiver |
| Sep-25-2001 |
A user composes a multimedia greeting card or multimedia email message by selecting a design template, which has previously been created and stored on the system. The design template contains one or more... |
| 6289363 |
Navigation editor framework for building mulitmedia titles |
| Sep-11-2001 |
A technique for permitting the creation of multimedia titles in the form of flip books or stories comprising individual scenes includes simplified techniques for establishing navigation both internal and... |
| 6266058 |
Apparatus and method for linking browser bars with active documents for a browser |
| Jul-24-2001 |
An apparatus and method provides for active documents to be linked with the standard browser bar. This linkage allows for software components contained by the browser to work together and feel like an... |
| 6247066 |
Compound document processing method |
| Jun-12-2001 |
A document processing method, upon preparing or editing a compound document, eliminate the need for repeating such operations as to start one of application programs associated with one of child documents... |
| 6237011 |
Computer-based document management system |
| May-22-2001 |
A computer-based electronic document and/or paper-based document management application program. The program provides an efficient way to automatically import, index, categorize, store, search, retrieve,... |
| 6229541 |
Use of templates for cost-effective secure linking of video stream objects |
| May-8-2001 |
A video system comprises a screen. Interactive linking is provided based on a representative set of region-based templates. Each template can be associated with said screen. The template comprises a set... |
| 6185588 |
Method and apparatus for printing worldwide web pages in accordance with operator selected formatting |
| Feb-6-2001 |
A method and apparatus prints copies of internet pages from the worldwide web, in accordance with operator-selected formatting instructions. A plurality of internet page record locators are selected and... |
| 6182095 |
Document generator |
| Jan-30-2001 |
The invention features computer-based methods and apparatuses to automate document generation. The methods include user interaction to identify a collection of available modifiable text segments and user... |
| 6178417 |
Method and means of matching documents based on text genre |
| Jan-23-2001 |
A method for matching documents based on spatial layout of regions based on a shape similarity model for detecting similarity between general 2D objects. The method uses the shape similarity model to determine... |
| 6173297 |
Dynamic object linking interface |
| Jan-9-2001 |
An object-linking interface for a computer system dynamically links a selected target object within an host application with a second user application. The operating environment includes a plurality of... |
| 6148294 |
System and method for computer directory updating and presentation based on frequency of access |
| Nov-14-2000 |
A computer system 200 having a hierarchical file directory system in which a user's patterns of use are analyzed when the user calls a file access routine such that the system tracks 904 which directories... |
| 6108674 |
Image output devices which automatically selects and outputs a stored selected image in correspondence with input data |
| Aug-22-2000 |
An image output device includes an image memory for storing image data in correspondence to each of a plurality of image identification data; an image classification data memory for storing a plurality... |
| 6098071 |
Method and apparatus for structured document difference string extraction |
| Aug-1-2000 |
A document difference extraction method and apparatus which is used for extracting the difference between structured documents properly meeting the sense of a document editor taking the logical meaning... |
| 6097382 |
Method and apparatus for building an application interface |
| Aug-1-2000 |
Embodiments of the invention comprise a design tool for designing an application interface. The design tool includes a graphical user interface (GUI) that visually represents a hierarchy of data and the... |
| 6057854 |
System and method of providing interactive vector graphics over a network |
| May-2-2000 |
An interactive vector object (56, 76, 102) operable to be downloaded over a network (16) may comprise data (58, 104) to render an image of the vector object (56, 76, 102) and an active area defined by... |
| 6052514 |
Distributed publication system with simultaneous separate access to publication data and publication status information |
| Apr-18-2000 |
A publication system is disclosed for coordinating access to publication data and related information. The publication data typically includes text, image data and layout data. The related information... |
| 6031989 |
Method of formatting and displaying nested documents |
| Feb-29-2000 |
A new reference tag is provided as an extension to the HyperText Markup Language (HTML). The new reference tag allows nesting of HTML and other electronic documents within a main HTML document obtained... |
| 6028603 |
Methods and apparatuses for presenting a collection of digital media in a media container |
| Feb-22-2000 |
Methods and apparatuses for presenting a collection of digital media in a media container. In one example of a method, a plurality of pages in a media container is defined. Each page has at least one location... |
| 6026416 |
System and method for storing, viewing, editing, and processing ordered sections having different file formats |
| Feb-15-2000 |
Ordered binder document sections having different file formats stored within a binder file. The binder file maintains the order of binder document sections and the native file format of each section. The... |
| 5991756 |
Information retrieval from hierarchical compound documents |
| Nov-23-1999 |
A search query is applied to documents in a document repository wherein the documents are organized into a hierarchy. A search engine searches the hierarchy to return documents which match a query term... |
| 5991514 |
Method and apparatus for printing a hyperspacial document |
| Nov-23-1999 |
A method and apparatus for printing a hyperspacial document with multiple pages. Each of the pages is composed in a markup language, and a respective printing element is included in each of the pages.... |
| 5974431 |
Document composition system and method for composing a document by using vector data |
| Oct-26-1999 |
A document composition system comprises a first database 4 for use in managing vector graphic data, a second database 5 for use in managing image graphic data, a registering unit 12 for cutting out graphic... |
| 5966441 |
Method and apparatus for creating a secure autonomous network entity of a network component system |
| Oct-12-1999 |
A technique is provided for creating an autonomous network entity that stores sensitive information in a cryptographically secure manner. The autonomous entity comprises a data structure that encapsulates... |
| 5950216 |
Method and system for marking and subsequently retrieving a collection of objects within a multipage compound document utilizing selectable page numbered dialog boxes |
| Sep-7-1999 |
A method and system for marking and subsequently retrieving a collection of objects contained within a compound document. The compound document is displayed within a graphical user interface within a data... |
