| 6889220 |
Method and apparatus for electronic documents retrieving, displaying document clusters representing relationship with events |
| May-3-2005 |
A method and apparatus for document management including assigning labels to gaps in document production. The gaps may correspond to events that caused an individual to begin and/or cease production/modification... |
| 6883138 |
Methods and systems for generating enhanced thumbnails usable for document navigation |
| Apr-19-2005 |
A thumbnail is generated by generating a thumbnail of an original document, generating at least one selectable element, and associating the at least one selectable element with the thumbnail in a display... |
| 6880126 |
Controlling presentation of a GUI, using view controllers created by an application mediator, by identifying a destination to access a target to retrieve data |
| Apr-12-2005 |
A method and apparatus of an architectural pattern for creating applications for a data processing system. A graphical user interface is created in which the graphical user interface includes a plurality... |
| 6874123 |
Three-dimensional model to facilitate user comprehension and management of information |
| Mar-29-2005 |
A computer system and method of presenting information from a body of knowledge to a user utilize a three-dimensional model to facilitate user comprehension and management of both the specific information... |
| 6874122 |
Computer system, program product and method of adjusting the display positions of hypertext links to modify the relative alignment thereof |
| Mar-29-2005 |
A computer system, program product and method of displaying documents control the relative alignment of hypertext links by adjusting previously-determined display positions of selected hypertext links... |
| 6865715 |
Statistical method for extracting, and displaying keywords in forum/message board documents |
| Mar-8-2005 |
A group of documents in a forum/message board are stored as a document group database in a predetermined server computer. A document group analysis device analyzes a group of documents contained in each... |
| 6865714 |
Automatic generation of card-based presentation documents from multimedia data |
| Mar-8-2005 |
An automatic card-based presentation generation system programmatically creates card-based presentation documents from source documents by transforming a card layout style specification into presentation... |
| 6862711 |
Method and apparatus in a data processing system for providing an interface for non-intrusive observable debugging, tracing, and logging data from execution of an application |
| Mar-1-2005 |
A method and apparatus in a data processing system for providing an interface to an application for monitoring execution of the application. An event generated by a view controller is detected, wherein... |
| 6854087 |
Document editing apparatus |
| Feb-8-2005 |
The invention provides an apparatus for reproducing the state in which an editor has added and described a comment to a document while what description content the editor is viewing so that the intention... |
| 6845273 |
Method and system for replacing content in a digital version of a mass-produced printed paper |
| Jan-18-2005 |
A method performed by a computer system. The method includes storing a first version of a mass-produced printed paper, the first version having a first digital format. The method also includes replacing... |
| 6839411 |
Graphical user interface and method for displaying messages |
| Jan-4-2005 |
A graphical user interface is disclosed that displays messages to a user in a manner such that attached or embedded message (as well as attachments to the embedded messages) within a message can be easily... |
| 6820236 |
Click ahead browser function |
| Nov-16-2004 |
A method of accessing remote electronic documents, such as those stored on a network, by recording link information regarding one or more document links embedded in an electronic document, selecting the... |
| 6819443 |
Network printer |
| Nov-16-2004 |
A network printer comprises a network interface to be connected to a communication network, in addition to a parallel interface to be connected to a host computer through a dedicated cable in one to one... |
| 6799302 |
Low-fidelity document rendering |
| Sep-28-2004 |
Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for printing an electronic document. In one aspect, a method includes receiving an electronic document and usage rights, the usage rights permitting... |
| 6799300 |
Document processor |
| Sep-28-2004 |
A document processing apparatus that automatically carries out a transmission operation at the time of a link selection, which selects a telephone number described in the link information without carrying... |
| 6785867 |
Automatic application loading for e-mail attachments |
| Aug-31-2004 |
A system and method for automatically loading an application program associated with an e-mail application attachment file upon reception of the e-mail. Alternatively, the application program may be loaded... |
| 6782508 |
Relaying input from a GUI view controllers to application mediators which created the view controllers |
| Aug-24-2004 |
A method and apparatus in a data processing system for processing user input in a graphical user interface. A graphical user interface is presented using a view controller, wherein the view controller... |
| 6782507 |
Document size management method and data processing computer program |
| Aug-24-2004 |
A document size management method enables the configuration of a virtual document size from at least two standard document sizes. Virtual page dimensions are sent corresponding to maximum overlapping dimensions... |
| 6782423 |
Hypertext analyzing system and method |
| Aug-24-2004 |
For each page set contained in a hypertext and with reference to access history information, a hyperlink transition frequency acquiring unit calculates a transition frequency between the pages (i.e., a... |
| 6779155 |
Method and apparatus in a data processing system for the controlling and sequencing of graphical user interface components and mediating access to system services for those components |
| Aug-17-2004 |
A method and apparatus in a data processing system for displaying a graphical user interface. A container is displayed in a graphical user interface from a set of containers, wherein a display of the container... |
| 6772393 |
System and method for room decoration and inheritance |
| Aug-3-2004 |
Collaboration space object model provides for a Place consisting of rooms. A room is made up of pages. Folders are used to organize pages. Members belong to rooms, and are those users authorized to access... |
| 6772156 |
Method and apparatus for creating and displaying a table of content for a computer-generated report having page-level security |
| Aug-3-2004 |
Methods and computer program products are disclosed for generating and viewing a content listing or "table of contents" for a report with page-level security based in part on data breaks in the report.... |
| 6768999 |
Enterprise, stream-based, information management system |
| Jul-27-2004 |
Disclosed is a computer program product and method that operate an enterprise information system of at least one server and a number or personal computers communicating with each other and with the server.... |
| 6766322 |
Real estate disclosure reporting method |
| Jul-20-2004 |
A process for the full disclosure of potential detrimental conditions affecting property transactions organizes the spectrum of disclosure issues that are important to lenders and prospective buyers. The... |
| 6763501 |
Remote document serving |
| Jul-13-2004 |
An apparatus, method, and computer program product for instant remote document serving. In one implementation, referred to as "remote document serving," a remote file is converted to a "served document"... |
| 6763496 |
Method for promoting contextual information to display pages containing hyperlinks |
| Jul-13-2004 |
Contextual information concerning linked documents is promoted to display pages that contain hyperlinks to those documents. The contextual information can be immediately displayed, or it can be selectively... |
| 6763345 |
List building system |
| Jul-13-2004 |
A system implementable using a programmable processor includes a plurality of pre-stored commands for building an inventory of audio, musical, works or audio/visual works, such as music videos. A plurality... |
| 6751780 |
User interface for initiating the export of an optimized scanned document using drag and drop |
| Jun-15-2004 |
A user interface method for launching an optimized final scan of a selected region of interest selected from a preview scan of a document. A user may drag the selected region of interest, presented in... |
| 6751604 |
Method of displaying temporal and storage media relationships of file names protected on removable storage media |
| Jun-15-2004 |
A data protection system that integrates a database with Windows Explorer in the Microsoft Windows 9X and NT Environments that mimics the Windows Explorer user interface, enabling the user to apply already... |
| 6748570 |
Sending a view event, and a request event having a class name and a method name |
| Jun-8-2004 |
A method and apparatus for a data processing system for accessing classes and methods in an object oriented system. Responsive to receiving a selected user input to a container, a view event is sent from... |
| 6745227 |
Method, article of manufacture and apparatus for providing browsing information |
| Jun-1-2004 |
A method, article of manufacture, and apparatus for providing browsing information to a user browsing a plurality of network addresses using a browsing program. Specifically, the invention renders first... |
| 6735740 |
Document composite image display method and device utilizing categorized partial images |
| May-11-2004 |
One document image is divided according to attributes such as a character, a graphic, a table, etc., and the divided partial images are stored as one file. For example, each of the partial images is stored... |
| 6725427 |
Document stream operating system with document organizing and display facilities |
| Apr-20-2004 |
A document stream operating system and method is disclosed in which: (1) documents are stored in one or more chronologically ordered streams; (2) the location and nature of file storage is transparent... |
| 6721286 |
Method and apparatus for device interaction by format |
| Apr-13-2004 |
A method of passing information between two or more information handling devices is described. Such information handling devices might be a printer 342, a personal computer 343, or a scanner 344. Means... |
| 6718517 |
Methods of and computer readable media for automatically setting up page files for labels for compact disc media |
| Apr-6-2004 |
Methods and computer readable media generate a page file representing a compact disc label sheet having label blanks thereon for one or both of a compact disc case or a compact disc. The sheet may have... |
| 6715131 |
Method and system for providing resource access in a mobile environment |
| Mar-30-2004 |
Techniques that facilitate participation of mobile devices in accessing resources over a data network are disclosed. The data network can be wired, wireless or some combination thereof. In one aspect,... |
| 6714964 |
System, method and recordable medium for printing services over a network |
| Mar-30-2004 |
The invention generally relates to sending data (e.g. print data or a document), in a network environment, to a port monitor, and to upload the data to an upload manager for storing in a database. Relevant... |
| 6714829 |
Dual path scheduling method |
| Mar-30-2004 |
A method of scheduling a multi-task project includes identifying critical and para-critical tasks of the project. The critical tasks are ranked in a chronological order and displayed. The para-critical... |
| 6711583 |
System and method for detecting and repairing document-infecting viruses using dynamic heuristics |
| Mar-23-2004 |
A method for detecting document-infecting computer viruses in a computer system having a plurality of documents, comprises the steps of maintaining a database of information associated with program objects... |
| 6704733 |
Distributing electronic books over a computer network |
| Mar-9-2004 |
In general, in one aspect, the disclosure describes a method of processing content for distribution over a computer network. The method includes receiving submitted electronic content, accessing identification... |
| 6694486 |
Method and apparatus for presenting information in a display system using transparent windows |
| Feb-17-2004 |
A central processing unit (CPU) is provided and is coupled to a display for displaying graphic and other data in multiple overlapping windows. The CPU is further coupled to one or more input devices which... |
| 6678706 |
Hypertext marker and method for dynamically displaying help information in an interactive data processing system |
| Jan-13-2004 |
A hypertext network is provided for use in an interactive data processing system including a processor device, a memory, a user input device and a display. The hypertext network comprises a plurality of... |
| 6671689 |
Data warehouse portal |
| Dec-30-2003 |
The present invention is a data warehouse portal for providing a client with an overall view of one or more data warehouses to aid in the analysis of data in the warehouse(s). The portal allows the client... |
| 6668102 |
Document image data storing and controlling system |
| Dec-23-2003 |
A document image data storing and controlling system including a document image data storing unit for storing document image data as partial image data which are areas divided according to the attributes... |
| 6665841 |
Transmission of subsets of layout objects at different resolutions |
| Dec-16-2003 |
In a document search and retrieval system, document images are segmented into layout objects. Each layout object identifies different structural elements in a document image. In addition, the system computes... |
| 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... |
| 6665838 |
Web page thumbnails and user configured complementary information provided from a server |
| Dec-16-2003 |
A method for presenting content from the page in a distributed database. In a preferred embodiment, a server receives a request from a client for a page from the database wherein the page has a plurality... |
| 6658626 |
User interface for displaying document comparison information |
| Dec-2-2003 |
A user interface for use with a document comparison program that allows a user to efficiently and effectively examine results from the document comparison is described. The user interface has at least... |
| 6651221 |
System and methods for spacing, storing and recognizing electronic representations of handwriting, printing and drawings |
| Nov-18-2003 |
A system for spacing, storing and recognizing electronic representations of handwriting and printing comprises a central processing unit that couples with a display device, an input device, and a memory.... |
| 6651216 |
Efficiently navigating a workbook linked to a database |
| Nov-18-2003 |
A way to navigate efficiently among worksheets in a workbook linked to a database that involves double-clicking on a cell in a page showing totals and having the detail page associated with cell be displayed. |