| 6647534 |
Method and system for organizing document information in a non-directed arrangement of documents |
| Nov-11-2003 |
A graphical user interface that presents information about documents organized in a non-directed arrangement to the user is provided by the present invention. In an exemplary embodiment, methods and systems... |
| 6647392 |
Method and apparatus for the request brokering of standardized reports |
| Nov-11-2003 |
A report catalog tool and a method for selecting and requesting a report from a catalog of standardized reports. The catalog tool comprises a distributable database having one or more documents, each said... |
| 6643825 |
Methods, systems, and computer program products for applying styles to host screens based on host screen content |
| Nov-4-2003 |
Screens generated by a host application are reformatted for viewing by applying styles to the host screens in response to recognized components included therein. In particular, a style defines a desired... |
| 6638313 |
Document stream operating system |
| Oct-28-2003 |
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... |
| 6633316 |
Method and apparatus for implementing direct link selection of cached, previously visited links in nested web pages |
| Oct-14-2003 |
A pointer is added to each web page identifier which points to the previous linking web page in the navigational path. Another pointer maybe added to each web page identifier which points to the next linking... |
| 6616703 |
Character input apparatus with character string extraction portion, and corresponding storage medium |
| Sep-9-2003 |
An operation such as changing the coordinates of a specified position is performed on a two-dimensional display screen 103 of a display unit 5 by using an input pen 102, a touch-panel, etc., as an operation... |
| 6616702 |
Previewing an assembled document |
| Sep-9-2003 |
A system which enables a user to preview a document by providing a user interface and inputting, via the user interface, information specifying an arrangement of components to create the document, the... |
| 6615234 |
System and method for network-based document delivery |
| Sep-2-2003 |
A system and method for delivering an electronic document over a network, printing in hard copy form at a remote destination, and delivery of the hard copy document to a recipient. A user sends the electronic... |
| 6613101 |
Method and apparatus for organizing information in a computer system |
| Sep-2-2003 |
A method and apparatus for organizing information in a computer filing system. The method and apparatus include the creation of a pile comprising a collection of documents and displaying a graphical representation... |
| 6613100 |
Method and apparatus for displaying miniaturized graphical representations of documents for alternative viewing selection |
| Sep-2-2003 |
An apparatus for displaying miniaturized graphical representations (i.e., thumbnails) of documents for alternative viewing selection by a user. A current document is displayed on a display panel of a graphical... |
| 6602299 |
Flexible synchronization framework for multimedia streams |
| Aug-5-2003 |
A flexible framework for synchronization of multimedia streams synchronizes the incoming streams on the basis of the collaboration of a transmitter-driven and a local inter-media synchronization module.... |
| 6602298 |
Methods of storing and retrieving communications, information, and documents |
| Aug-5-2003 |
In one aspect, the invention encompasses a method of storing and retrieving a communication. A communication is stored in a database, and comprises a plurality of sub-components. The communication is stored... |
| 6599325 |
Method and system for flowing data to an arbitrary path defined by a page description language |
| Jul-29-2003 |
A method for flowing data, such as text data, into an arbitrary path defined by a page description language specification ("PDL specification") generally comprises the steps of: identifying a path defined... |
| 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... |
| 6572662 |
Dynamic customized web tours |
| Jun-3-2003 |
An interactive and dynamically customizable guided tour of some portion of the World Wide Web monitors and dynamically adapts in response to like-minded users as well as provides recommendations during... |
| 6560621 |
World wide web formatting for program output through print function |
| May-6-2003 |
A method of creating a Web page comprising the steps of: (a) using an application to create a file not formatted for Web viewing referred to as a source file; and (b) transmitting said source file to a... |
| 6556724 |
Methods and apparatus for resolution independent image collaboration |
| Apr-29-2003 |
An image collaboration system conducts resolution independent image collaboration among a host computer and participating client computers. The subject of the image collaboration involves at least one... |
| 6549935 |
Method of distributing documents having common components to a plurality of destinations |
| Apr-15-2003 |
A method of distributing documents, via a communications network, to a plurality of receiving stations associated with a plurality of users. At least one document layout is pointcast to each receiving... |
| 6549894 |
Computerized docketing system for intellectual property law with automatic due date alert |
| Apr-15-2003 |
A computerized docketing system for legal matters, comprising a database operatively arranged to store information related to the legal matters, including actions to be taken with respect to the legal... |
| 6547831 |
Method of generating documents having variable data fields |
| Apr-15-2003 |
Disclosed is a method of converting documents described by a stream of lexographic language statements to allow the use of variable data fields and variable symantic attributes, where the data used to... |
| 6546523 |
High speed first pass yield report program and method |
| Apr-8-2003 |
A method and software macro are disclosed for generating a first pass yield report, which may be employed in the manufacture and testing of semiconductor products. The method comprises obtaining raw data... |
| 6544294 |
Method and apparatus for creating, editing, and displaying works containing presentation metric components utilizing temporal relationships and structural tracks |
| Apr-8-2003 |
The invention comprises a computer-based system for creating, editing, and displaying works such as, for example, books, screenplays, speeches, or multimedia works, that include textual components that... |
| 6542938 |
Mechanism and apparatus for adaptive quality performance control in 3D based PC applications |
| Apr-1-2003 |
A mechanism for adaptive quality performance control in three-dimensional (3D) based personal computer applications is provided. The mechanism adaptively controls multiple application programming interface... |
| 6542912 |
Tool for building documents for commerce in trading partner networks and interface definitions based on the documents |
| Apr-1-2003 |
Machine readable documents connect businesses with customers, suppliers and trading partners. The self defining electronic documents, such as XML based documents, can be easily understood amongst the partners.... |
| 6529942 |
System and method for providing recipient specific formats for electronic mail |
| Mar-4-2003 |
An electronic mail system and method which allows an originating user to customize text for a specific recipient in a multiple recipient electronic mail system. The system recognizes embedded processing... |
| 6526184 |
Error-tolerant image computer terminal |
| Feb-25-2003 |
Today, increased efforts are made to provide users with people-machine data-processing interfaces which are as simple and comfortable as possible. Inputting is currently carried out in data-processing... |
| 6523048 |
Computer system and method for abstracting and accessing a chronologically-arranged collection of information |
| Feb-18-2003 |
A computer system and method concurrently present multiple development threads represented by a collection of chronologically-arranged information. An abstraction stack is used to access a body of knowledge... |
| 6523043 |
System and method for updating, monitoring and analyzing measurements |
| Feb-18-2003 |
A system and method of tracking the performance characteristics of an organization including storing a plurality of measurements in a database and organizing the plurality of measurements into packages... |
| 6505209 |
Poly vectoral reverse navigation |
| Jan-7-2003 |
This invention includes a method of navigating a collection of nodes by selecting a first node, generating a context list and displaying first node and context list. Each context of the context collection... |
| 6502105 |
Region-based image archiving and retrieving system |
| Dec-31-2002 |
The system disclosed herein builds a database of image-related data by inputting a plurality of images, and for each image: dividing the image into N.sub.1 (N.sub.1.gtoreq.1) regions which are substantially... |
| 6499026 |
Using hyperbolic trees to visualize data generated by patent-centric and group-oriented data processing |
| Dec-24-2002 |
A system, method, and computer program product for processing data are described herein. The system maintains first databases of patents, and second databases of non-patent information of interest to a... |
| 6496844 |
Method, system and computer program product for providing a user interface with alternative display language choices |
| Dec-17-2002 |
A user control is provided to selectively display and/or edit the contents of any field within a multi-field text string object having separate fields each containing a different representation of a text... |
| 6496843 |
Generic object for rapid integration of data changes |
| Dec-17-2002 |
Disclosed is a system for performing online data queries. The system for performing online data queries is a distributed computer system with a plurality of server nodes each fully redundant and capable... |
| 6493734 |
System and method to efficiently generate and switch page display views on a portable electronic book |
| Dec-10-2002 |
The present invention provides a system and method to efficiently generate and switch page display views on a portable electronic book. The method includes generating an ebook binary file including a plurality... |
| 6487568 |
Method and system for flowing data to an arbitrary path defined by a page description language |
| Nov-26-2002 |
A method for flowing data, such as text data, into an arbitrary path defined by a page description language specification ("PDL specification") generally comprises the steps of: identifying a path defined... |
| 6477538 |
Data display apparatus and method for displaying data mining results as multi-dimensional data |
| Nov-5-2002 |
A data display apparatus and method for displaying the result of a data mining process as multi-dimensional data. In one embodiment, the multi-dimensional data is displayed on a parallel coordinate axis.... |
| 6473755 |
Overlapping subdocuments in a vector space search process |
| Oct-29-2002 |
The present invention is a method and apparatus for retrieving information from a database. Initially, the documents within the database are divided into mutually exclusive subdocuments that generally... |
| 6470352 |
Data display apparatus and method for displaying data mining results as multi-dimensional data |
| Oct-22-2002 |
A data display apparatus and method for displaying the result of a data mining process as multi-dimensional data. In one embodiment, the multi-dimensional data is displayed on a parallel coordinate axis.... |
| 6466955 |
Information processing apparatus and method for displaying same shared data in different formats among different terminals |
| Oct-15-2002 |
An information processing apparatus comprises a first terminal device and a plurality of second terminal devices. The first terminal device includes a data processing device for processing input information... |
| 6462756 |
System and method for visual representation of pages in a production printing workflow |
| Oct-8-2002 |
A system and method for managing production printing workflow is disclosed. The system includes workflow management software which manages and facilitates the procedural stages of the workflow including... |
| 6460060 |
Method and system for searching web browser history |
| Oct-1-2002 |
A Web browser having search capabilities, automatically generates a search list from URLs in the browser's bookmark and/or history files and automatically accesses and searches each URL on the Internet... |
| 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... |
| 6421694 |
System and method for displaying data items in a ticker display pane on a client computer |
| Jul-16-2002 |
A system and method for dynamically displaying data items on a client computer. In one aspect of the invention, the client computer displays a graphical user interface having a windowing environment and... |
| 6418426 |
Enhanced tree control for multiple item selection |
| Jul-9-2002 |
The present invention discloses a method, apparatus, and article of manufacture for selecting multiple items in a hierarchy having two or more levels. Preferably, the hierarchy comprises at least one replication... |
| 6415316 |
Method and apparatus for implementing a web page diary |
| Jul-2-2002 |
A method and apparatus to create a "diary" containing multimedia references to contents of Websites. These references (also called addresses) can be to, for example, text, bookmarks, images, programs,... |
| 6411314 |
System and method for representing and controlling a production printing workflow |
| Jun-25-2002 |
A system and method for managing production printing workflow is disclosed. The system includes workflow management software which manages and facilitates the procedural stages of the workflow including... |
| 6405225 |
Integrating email functionality into a word processor by incorporating an email GUI within the word processor |
| Jun-11-2002 |
An Envelope provides the integration of the functionality of an electronic mail (email) application program and the functionality of a document editor. Users can more easily generate and edit sophisticated... |
| 6397207 |
System and method for selectively preparing customized reports of query explain data |
| May-28-2002 |
A method for selectively preparing customized reports of query explain data comprises selectively retrieving from the database subsets of the query explain data for the at least one query statement; formatting... |
| 6377947 |
Information retrieval based on using and locating subdocuments |
| Apr-23-2002 |
In a novel approach for retrieving information a set of sub-documents first is established based upon a set of documents. A query is processed which operates on the set of sub-documents, causing a score... |
| 6377259 |
Presenting node-link structures with modification |
| Apr-23-2002 |
A sequence of steps presents node-link representations on a display. The sequence includes a first step, a last step, and at least one intermediate step. The first step presents a first representation... |
