| 6370270 |
System and method for sampling and/or placing objects using low discrepancy sequences |
| Apr-9-2002 |
A system and method for improved image characterization, object placement, and mesh design utilizing Low Discrepancy sequences. The Low Discrepancy sequence is designed to produce sample points which maximally... |
| 6363395 |
Method and system for browsing data on a storage device |
| Mar-26-2002 |
An information processing system for creating a search data for an application-specific data is proposed. An application processing section inputs or edits data on the basis of an application program.... |
| 6363179 |
Methodology for displaying search results using character recognition |
| Mar-26-2002 |
Document texts are produced by recognizing characters in document images by an Optical Character Recognition (OCR) process. When such a document text matches one or more search terms of a query, the corresponding... |
| 6360236 |
Computer product for integrated document development |
| Mar-19-2002 |
A computer product for developing documents which allows simultaneously displaying the document being developed, changes to the document and a history of changes made during development. The product is... |
| 6339786 |
Terminal device |
| Jan-15-2002 |
A data broadcasting station transmits a multiplexed signal in which multimedia data encoded in a prescribed coding system are at least multiplexed in a broadcasting form. A file manager stores the multimedia... |
| 6339780 |
Loading status in a hypermedia browser having a limited available display area |
| Jan-15-2002 |
Described herein is a portable computer having a limited display area. An Internet or other hypermedia browser executes on the portable computer to load and display content in a content viewing area. During... |
| 6339767 |
Using hyperbolic trees to visualize data generated by patent-centric and group-oriented data processing |
| Jan-15-2002 |
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... |
| 6332150 |
Integrated document development method |
| Dec-18-2001 |
A method for developing documents which allows simultaneously displaying the document being developed, changes to the document and a history of changes made during development. The method is practiced... |
| 6327586 |
System method and computer program product to automate the management and analysis of heterogeneous data |
| Dec-4-2001 |
System, Method and Computer Program Product for automating the collection, management and analysis of data. Research is performed according to a methodology based on four phases: Requirements; Collection;... |
| 6320671 |
Web browser printing enhancements |
| Nov-20-2001 |
A method and system for printing web pages from an intra- or internet source with a client computer. The client computer is capable of accessing and viewing a web page from an intra- or internet source... |
| 6308187 |
Computer system and method for abstracting and accessing a chronologically-arranged collection of information |
| Oct-23-2001 |
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... |
| 6289364 |
Transparency processing in a page description language |
| Sep-11-2001 |
A raster image processor receives a file of instructions and images in any convenient page description language and blends the images in accordance with the specified blending mode and, possibly, opacity... |
| 6279016 |
Standardized filtering control techniques |
| Aug-21-2001 |
A standard user interface enables a user to filter an arbitrary unfamiliar data set intuitively and effectively. The illustrated interface includes a header control presenting labels, filters, and pulldown... |
| 6256651 |
Time management workflow software |
| Jul-3-2001 |
A workflow system and program for organizing the time and priorities of a user, wherein the information input by a user into a spreadsheet is generated by the program into a bar graph. It is possible for... |
| 6253218 |
Three dimensional data display method utilizing view point tracing and reduced document images |
| Jun-26-2001 |
When the user directs to change the view point within a virtual 3-D coordinate space having thereon displayed reduced images as a list of data by successively inputting a view point moving in an arbitrary... |
| 6252594 |
Method and system for aiding a user in scrolling through a document using animation, voice cues and a dockable scroll bar |
| Jun-26-2001 |
A system and method for aiding a user in scrolling through a multiple-page are disclosed. The system and method include providing visual and/or audio cues in a graphical user interface (GUI) environment... |
| 6247031 |
Image filing system for memorizing images read from a given document together with small characterizing image |
| Jun-12-2001 |
An image filing system which uses, in addition to main document identification data in the form of a keyword assigned to a given document, auxiliary document identification data formulated to be representative... |
| 6243724 |
Method and apparatus for organizing information in a computer system |
| Jun-5-2001 |
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... |
| 6226659 |
Method and apparatus for processing reports |
| May-1-2001 |
A method and apparatus are provided for processing reports. Upon system startup, a report server automatically starts one or more report processes. As client report commands are received from one or more... |
| 6216144 |
Data processing system with means for display of reduced images and method for the reduction of images |
| Apr-10-2001 |
In a data processing system a large number of reduced images of documents are shown simultaneously on the screen of a visual display unit. The images are reduced in a two-step process. The first step includes... |
| 6216143 |
Apparatus and method for generating animated color coded software traces |
| Apr-10-2001 |
Apparatus and method for illustrating an order of execution of software code. At least portions of software code are presented on a display device with the software code representing instructions for operation... |
| 6212564 |
Distributed application launcher for optimizing desktops based on client characteristics information |
| Apr-3-2001 |
A method, system and program product are described which allow a dynamically constructed desktop to be optimized for the capabilities of the browser in the target device. This enables a server to manage... |
| 6209010 |
Computer implemented method for wrapping data to an arbitrary path defined by a page description language |
| Mar-27-2001 |
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... |
| 6198480 |
Object-oriented tag browser |
| Mar-6-2001 |
A system and method for displaying representations of tag sources representative of corresponding component devices is disclosed herein. The present system includes a tag dictionary for defining the tag... |
| 6195653 |
System and method for selectively preparing customized reports of query explain data |
| Feb-27-2001 |
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... |
| 6189020 |
Document processing method and apparatus using batch process |
| Feb-13-2001 |
A document processing apparatus for inputting, type-setting and displaying the document information includes a type-setting section for type-setting a document information in a batch process, by receiving... |
| 6185590 |
Process and architecture for use on stand-alone machine and in distributed computer architecture for client server and/or intranet and/or internet operating environments |
| Feb-6-2001 |
An image viewer process views at least one document image including an electronic document image, and performs viewing operations to the electronic document image. The process includes the step of selecting,... |
| 6182098 |
Next/current/last ticker graphical presentation method |
| Jan-30-2001 |
A method for displaying a group of headlines from a headline stream across the bottom of a computer graphical user interface display provides a solid polygon shaped display which displays a headline, its... |
| 6182097 |
Method for characterizing and visualizing patterns of usage of a web site by network users |
| Jan-30-2001 |
A system is disclosed for displaying information pertaining to the usage of Web pages. The system comprises first and second Web sites. The first Web site comprises plural Web-component files, each having... |
| 6182073 |
Integrated information browsing and multiple-participant application with a persistency control configured to monitor and to prevent attempts to replace data within the information browser |
| Jan-30-2001 |
In an integrated information browsing and video conferencing interface, a conferencing application is executed and displayed in a first portion of a web browser window. |
| 6169547 |
Method for displaying an icon of media data |
| Jan-2-2001 |
An information processing system for creating a search data for an application-specific data is proposed. An application processing section inputs or edits data on the basis of an application program.... |
| 6154755 |
Index imaging system |
| Nov-28-2000 |
An index imaging system includes: a scanner for scanning a plurality of photographic images to produce a corresponding plurality of digital images; a computer connected to the scanner for receiving the... |
| 6144963 |
Apparatus and method for the frequency displaying of documents |
| Nov-7-2000 |
A document display apparatus, method, and storage medium for realizing the apparatus and method extract data information relevant to each document of a plurality of electronic documents, count the number... |
| 6137906 |
Closest word algorithm |
| Oct-24-2000 |
A reading system includes a computer and a mass storage device including software comprising instructions for causing a computer to accept an image file generated from optically scanning an image of a... |
| 6134568 |
Previewing an assembled document |
| Oct-17-2000 |
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... |
| 6134567 |
High resolution alphanumeric character generation |
| Oct-17-2000 |
A printer device driver system includes a relatively simplistic kernel mode device driver, KM.sub.-- DRIVER. KM.sub.-- DRIVER supplies limited functionality for basic Device Driver Interface, DDI, operations... |
| 6134566 |
Method for controlling an electronic mail preview pane to avoid system disruption |
| Oct-17-2000 |
A message viewing program displays a preview pane that is controlled to avoid previewing messages with disruptive message content. Before the body of a message is previewed in the preview pane, an identifier... |
| 6133899 |
Printing device for displaying a title of a stored text |
| Oct-17-2000 |
An electronic apparatus includes storage units capable of storing a plurality of texts and a plurality of titles corresponding to each text. A display indicates whether a text has been stored in the storage... |
| 6128634 |
Method and apparatus for facilitating skimming of text |
| Oct-3-2000 |
The electronic document reading and skimming system presents a document using a variable emphasis attribute. The emphasis varies based on a degree with which each term in the document represents the overall... |
| 6115724 |
Method and apparatus for displaying a double-sided graphic image |
| Sep-5-2000 |
Electronic paper which has two sides, reverse of one another, which can be flipped over in response to user generated flip commands is described. When a piece of electronic paper is flipped over, a number... |
| 6115706 |
Information retrieval based on use of subdocuments |
| Sep-5-2000 |
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... |
| 6115024 |
Image display device |
| Sep-5-2000 |
There is provided an image display device which is capable of clearly displaying the use of each fixed format for forming an image and the image formed according to the fixed format on a small-sized display... |
| 6108637 |
Content display monitor |
| Aug-22-2000 |
The invention can enable monitoring of the display of content by a computer system. Moreover, the invention can enable monitoring of the displayed content to produce monitoring information from which conclusions... |
| 6105045 |
Image processing apparatus and image attribute altering method |
| Aug-15-2000 |
Data for use in specifying an image to be registered and data indicative of processing contents to be executed are listed in list structure and registered in a "reference list to image storage unit" and... |
| 6098084 |
Method and apparatus for visually indicating status of a dataset when presenting portions of the dataset |
| Aug-1-2000 |
Methods, systems, apparatus and computer program products are disclosed that provide users of programmed applications with a visual indication of a state relating to the datasets accessed by the application.... |
| 6088712 |
Method of automating the manipulation and displaying of sets of wafer yield data using a user interface smart macro |
| Jul-11-2000 |
An intelligent, state-based macro facility is provided (as opposed to the unintelligent keystroke macro facilities typical of the prior art). Instead of a record time and an end time, an intelligent, state-based... |
| 6085199 |
Method for distributing a file in a plurality of different file formats |
| Jul-4-2000 |
A method and implementing computer system is provided in which a network file system is operable to report multiple virtual files in various formats for a single native file in storage. When one of the... |
| 6085031 |
Method and system for segmenting an audio object according to a specified profile into a folder structure |
| Jul-4-2000 |
A method and apparatus for automatically decomposing an audio object into a relational structure develops a hierarchically arranged folder. A user defines a characteristic of interest and the system locates... |
| 6081817 |
Document edit system which concurrently displays and edits documents at the page unit level |
| Jun-27-2000 |
A document edit system that performs page unit editing. The pages of a selected document are displayed in a stacked reduced offset overlapped position and are available for immediate editing independent... |
| 6078314 |
Mobile information terminal and operating method thereof |
| Jun-20-2000 |
An apparatus and a method for retrieving information in a mobile information terminal are provided. The device includes a display, a position detector and a controller. The display displays a data display... |
