| 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... |
| 6697825 |
Method and apparatus for generating and modifying multiple instances of element of a web site |
| Feb-24-2004 |
A technique for modifying a web site generated in accordance with received data entry by: determining at least one characteristic of at least one web site dimension of the web site based on the data entry;... |
| 6694357 |
Accessing, viewing and manipulation of references to non-modifiable data objects |
| Feb-17-2004 |
A method and apparatus are provided for accessing, viewing and manipulating data stored in a computer system. This is achieved by selecting one or more of the non-modifiable data objects stored in a computer... |
| 6683631 |
System and method for selecting and deselecting information in an electronic document |
| Jan-27-2004 |
A system and method processes selected regions in an electronic text to edit the selected region on a continuous basis, without destroying the original highlighting and forcing the user to re-bracket the... |
| 6681372 |
Information processing apparatus and method for making document |
| Jan-20-2004 |
An information processing apparatus and method capable of making a desired document using a simple operation based on highly object oriented features. In an embodiment, all writings in a source document... |
| 6681367 |
Objects with self-reflecting object relevance functions |
| Jan-20-2004 |
The invention relates to objects within a computer-system said objects comprise object data and the invention relates to a specification of an object-specific, self-reflecting relevance-function associated... |
| 6678867 |
Method and apparatus for providing a graphical user interface for creating and editing a mapping of a first structural description to a second structural description |
| Jan-13-2004 |
A method, apparatus, and computer program product for providing a graphical user interface for creating and editing a mapping of structured information to different structured information, which allows... |
| 6675356 |
Distributed document-based calendaring system |
| Jan-6-2004 |
A system and method for receiving, analyzing, and managing a database of calendar information obtained from a variety of source documents. Information derived and extracted from calendar documents is used... |
| 6671855 |
Outline information generating apparatus and computer-readable recording medium recording thereon outline information generating program |
| Dec-30-2003 |
A document outlining any work done on a workspace is to be automatically generated. A workspace history managing part holds the present and past states of a workspace together with history information... |
| 6668355 |
Text editing system |
| Dec-23-2003 |
The present invention relates to a text editing system with a line end line feed function and an indentation function. In particular, a line end position Pg is stored in advance in a line end position... |
| 6668354 |
Automatic display script and style sheet generation |
| Dec-23-2003 |
A system for automatically generating a style sheet includes a parser for generating a document type graph in accordance with an input structure, a graphical user interface tool for interactively mapping... |
| 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... |
| 6651219 |
System and method for generation of text reports |
| Nov-18-2003 |
An automated text generation system may be used to generate financial reports based on financial data. The text generation system uses decisional statements in conjunction with a base equation, and the... |
| 6651218 |
Dynamic content database for multiple document genres |
| Nov-18-2003 |
A system and method for receiving, analyzing, and managing key information extracted from input documents in multiple document genres. A document "genre" is the social environment that defines the document's... |
| 6647535 |
Methods and systems for real-time storyboarding with a web page and graphical user interface for automatic video parsing and browsing |
| Nov-11-2003 |
Systems and methods to enable real-time and near real-time storyboarding on the World Wide Web in addition to a graphical user interface for video parsing and browsing the of the storyboard. Specifically,... |
| 6638317 |
Apparatus and method for generating digest according to hierarchical structure of topic |
| Oct-28-2003 |
A digest generator apparatus calculates a lexical cohesion degree at each position in a document using a plurality of windows having different sizes, and calculates the candidate section of a topic boundary... |
| 6632251 |
Document producing support system |
| Oct-14-2003 |
Document producing support system including: input means like a keyboard or a mouse; display means; a user profile database storing user profiles; a logon/logoff module connected to the user profile database... |
| 6631499 |
Laser image connectable to medical modality of a workstation |
| Oct-7-2003 |
Files of acquired images are stored in a directory of computer tomography (CT) in the form of ACR/NEMA format file. For printing the images by a laser imager, application software stored in the laser imager... |
| 6631375 |
Administration and search and replace of computerized prepress |
| Oct-7-2003 |
Computerized client/server prepress using a downloadable document authoring program. A server has stored thereon a document authoring program. The program is adapted to download to a client computer and... |
| 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... |
| 6610106 |
Expression editor |
| Aug-26-2003 |
An expression editor for creating and editing mathematical formulas is implemented as a computer software program. Using the editor, a keyboard and mouse are used to perform actions that build and traverse... |
| 6610104 |
Method for updating a document by means of appending |
| Aug-26-2003 |
A method for updating a document by means of appending an updated file to the document comprises the steps of reading an original document; initializing the original document to have a name and an index... |
| 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.... |
| 6604683 |
Bar code registration of optically addressed photo-luminescent displays |
| Aug-12-2003 |
An optically addressed photo luminescent display having a printed bar code pixel identifier on an internal side for providing feedback of scanning beam to pixel registration. |
| 6601057 |
Method and apparatus for generating and modifying multiple instances of an element of a web site |
| Jul-29-2003 |
A technique for modifying a web site generated in accordance with received data entry by: determining at least one characteristic of at least one web site dimension of the web site based on the data entry;... |
| 6593947 |
Method and system for image rendering including polymorphic image data in a graphical user interface |
| Jul-15-2003 |
A system for providing polymorphic image data for images in a graphical user interface on a computer system includes an operating system, and an imaging object structure, the imaging object structure included... |
| 6592629 |
Remote document image storage and retrieval system for a multifunctional peripheral |
| Jul-15-2003 |
A document image storage system includes a control mechanism that automatically archives a document image in response to a document being produced by a peripheral device. The document image storage system... |
| 6574645 |
Machine for drafting a patent application and process for doing same |
| Jun-3-2003 |
A machine and method for drafting a patent application has a keyboard, mouse, display, printer, and a computer for receiving and transmitting data. The computer requests and stores information regarding... |
| 6571211 |
Voice file header data in portable digital audio recorder |
| May-27-2003 |
A portable audio recorder stores voice information files in the form of digital data. Header data is associated with each voice information file. The header data includes the name of the person who dictated... |
| 6562077 |
Sorting image segments into clusters based on a distance measurement |
| May-13-2003 |
A programming interface of document search system enables a user to dynamically specifying features of documents recorded in a corpus of documents. The programming interface provides category and format... |
| 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... |
| 6546400 |
Method and system for creating trading cards |
| Apr-8-2003 |
Statistical data relating to the performance of a person in an activity, such as a sporting activity, may be stored in a memory storage device. One or more digital images may also be stored in the memory... |
| 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.... |
| 6539405 |
Information cross referencing system |
| Mar-25-2003 |
An information cross referencing system facilitates the finding of various bits of information in a reference manual, textbook, computer tutorial, or other reference or educational work. The present system... |
| 6539116 |
Information processing apparatus and method, and computer readable memory therefor |
| Mar-25-2003 |
The structure of entered document image data is analyzed and a character string in a text block that has been analyzed is subjected to pattern recognition. Synonyms and equivalents of words obtained as... |
| 6537325 |
Apparatus and method for generating a summarized text from an original text |
| Mar-25-2003 |
A document comprehension support apparatus includes an original text analysis unit which divides an original text into significance paragraphs, the significance paragraphs being separated from each other... |
| 6533822 |
Creating summaries along with indicators, and automatically positioned tabs |
| Mar-18-2003 |
A method and a system for generating a document summary. The method and the system extract text along with corresponding position information from a document, provide the extracted text to a document summarizer... |
| 6532461 |
Apparatus and methodology for submitting search oueries |
| Mar-11-2003 |
An document image that is the source of Optical Character Recognition (OCR) output is displayed so that a user can select a region of the displayed document image. When the region is selected, text of... |
| 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... |
| 6526425 |
Digitized document circulating system with circulation history |
| Feb-25-2003 |
A digitized document circulating system includes a unit provided in a transmission source of a digitized document and for sending the digitized document, a unit for delivering the digitized document to... |
| 6516328 |
Digitized document circulating system with circulation history |
| Feb-4-2003 |
A digitized document circulating system includes a unit provided in a transmission source of a digitized document and for sending the digitized document, a unit for delivering the digitized document to... |
| 6505219 |
Process management system wherein process descriptions provide indices to document histories |
| Jan-7-2003 |
Process descriptions are formulated in a process management system to describe the flow of work and organizational responsibility in the performance of organizational processes. The process descriptions,... |
| 6502113 |
Negotiation manager incorporating clause modification and markers for tracking negotiation progress |
| Dec-31-2002 |
A method for managing negotiations between parties, comprising the steps of: storing a selected document having a plurality of negotiable clauses; creating a first retrievable display relating to the document;... |
| 6499043 |
Script character processing method and system |
| Dec-24-2002 |
A pen-based processor needs to be usable to input and edit script like a text-based computer but retain a resemblance to the user of a pad and pencil. The disclosed system and method implement input, editing... |
| 6493736 |
Script character processing method for opening space within text and ink strokes of a document |
| Dec-10-2002 |
A pen-based processor needs to be usable to input and edit script like a text-based computer but retain a resemblance to the user of a pad and pencil. The disclosed system and method implement input, editing... |
| 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... |
| 6493731 |
Document management system for recording and viewing the history of document use |
| Dec-10-2002 |
A document management system is adapted to operate with a process management system for recording and viewing metadata of a document. The document metadata is used to record resources referenced while... |
| 6487570 |
Script character processing method for automatically supplementing blank writing space |
| Nov-26-2002 |
A pen-based processor needs to be usable to input and edit script like a text-based computer but retain a resemblance to the user of a pad and pencil. The disclosed system and method implement input, editing... |
| 6487569 |
Method and apparatus for organizing notes on a limited resource computing device |
| Nov-26-2002 |
A notes organizer program is provided that allows a user to organize notes on a limited resource computing device. The notes are organized by associating a note, if desired, with a project. The user can... |
| 6487567 |
Method and system for manipulating page-breaks in an electronic document |
| Nov-26-2002 |
A system for manipulating page-breaks in an electronic document. A User Interface Process provides a graphical user interface allowing a user to select a page-break within an electronic document and then... |