| 6470364 |
Method and apparatus for generating text components |
| Oct-22-2002 |
A graphical user interface (GUI) application executed on a computer system is provided that generates a text component in a graphical user interface (GUI). Initially, a user interface style is selected... |
| 6470363 |
System and method for processing ordered sections having different file formats |
| Oct-22-2002 |
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... |
| 6466694 |
Document image processing device and method thereof |
| Oct-15-2002 |
A processing device performs region identification of an input image, and then performs an intra-region recognition process. The type code of each region and the individual code of a recognition result... |
| 6453233 |
Method of making update information of map data and differential data of map data updating system |
| Sep-17-2002 |
A differential update method for vehicular navigation apparatus, which can precisely update map data stored in a storage medium to up-to-date contents. When a provider of CD generates original map data... |
| 6446093 |
Document sharing management method for a distributed system |
| Sep-3-2002 |
In a distributed system comprising a document server and a plurality of clients which are connected to the document server via a network, each of the plurality of clients transmits, to the document server,... |
| 6438632 |
Electronic bulletin board system |
| Aug-20-2002 |
A message desired to be posted on an electronic bulletin board sent from a user's computer is checked with a posting-prohibited word list and a heed-required word list. In the posting-prohibited word list,... |
| 6434580 |
System, method, and recording medium for drafting and preparing patent specifications |
| Aug-13-2002 |
A client computer 100 enters with a draft preparation means 100 a piece of draft data prepared by an inventor, and transmits with a draft uploading means 103 the draft data and a piece of invention report... |
| 6424995 |
Method for displaying information contained in an electronic message |
| Jul-23-2002 |
A form for displaying an electronic message item includes an information object that highlights important information about the message. Test properties are defined based on the message type. The information... |
| 6419781 |
Index sticker print |
| Jul-16-2002 |
An index sticker print is created where small photographic images are printed on individual sticker blanks contained on a sticker blank carrier. The photographic images are derived from digital image data... |
| 6405226 |
System and method for taggable digital portfolio creation and report generation |
| Jun-11-2002 |
A visual metaphor is provided on a computer and/or network environment for tagging documents with various types of (education) commentary to an author's (student's) work and indications of (educational)... |
| 6397233 |
Document processing apparatus and computer program product therefor |
| May-28-2002 |
A document processing apparatus displays a created document on a display screen and carries out an editing process with respect to the created document in response to an instruction from pointing device... |
| 6377964 |
CAD system for team-based design for managing undo and redo functions |
| Apr-23-2002 |
A CAD system for team-based design provides an undo function and a redo function for execution by each designer during team-based design. A database server comprises a component DB and history DB provided... |
| 6377963 |
Method and system for attaching customized indexes to periodicals |
| Apr-23-2002 |
The present invention solves the problems of the prior art by providing customized content-sensitive indexes, created for each reader from previously supplied user profiles. Information is provided in... |
| 6374275 |
System, method, and media for intelligent selection of searching terms in a keyboardless entry environment |
| Apr-16-2002 |
The disclosed invention relates to a pick list generator which displays selectable terms for inclusion in a selection field. One embodiment of the pick list generator is in assisting an Internet user in... |
| 6366918 |
Computer-implemented optimization of publication layouts |
| Apr-2-2002 |
A computer-implemented method, apparatus, and article of manufacture optimizes publication layouts using a genetic algorithm approach. In a timely manner, the computer-implemented invention generates and... |
| 6363352 |
Automatic scheduling and formation of a virtual meeting over a computer network |
| Mar-26-2002 |
A method and system for scheduling a virtual meeting and automatically making the required connections near the time the virtual meeting is scheduled to take place between a meeting host's computer and... |
| 6353824 |
Method for dynamic presentation of the contents topically rich capsule overviews corresponding to the plurality of documents, resolving co-referentiality in document segments |
| Mar-5-2002 |
A method for the dynamic presentation of the contents of a plurality of documents on a display is disclosed. The method comprises receiving a plurality of documents and providing a plurality of topically... |
| 6345284 |
Extraction and tagging control palette |
| Feb-5-2002 |
A user-configurable control palette for the extraction and tagging of highlighted objects where the user performs any desired task upon the objects. A control palette library is provided for the user to... |
| 6338076 |
Method for preparing a document involving the use of finishing instructions |
| Jan-8-2002 |
In preparing a document, digital document data are generated which contain an information content (IC) and finishing instructions (FI), other than the information content (IC), for finishing the document.... |
| 6338034 |
Method, apparatus, and computer program product for generating a summary of a document based on common expressions appearing in the document |
| Jan-8-2002 |
A method of summarizing a document which comprises the steps of: extracting sentence-constituting-elements from the document; tabularizing the sentence-constituting-elements corresponding to categories... |
| 6330559 |
Merge sorting apparatus with comparison nodes connected in tournament tree shape |
| Dec-11-2001 |
A merge sorting apparatus includes a comparison tournament circuit including comparison nodes, and a comparison control circuit for supplying to the corresponding comparison nodes validity flag information... |
| 6327600 |
Determining copyright information based on overlapping information between portions of two documents |
| Dec-4-2001 |
A document management system is provided to manage electronic documents in connection with copyrights. Herein, copyright management information is set with respect to a constituent element of a document... |
| 6323853 |
Method, system and computer readable medium for addressing handling from a computer program |
| Nov-27-2001 |
A method, system and computer readable medium for providing for providing a function item, such as a key, button, icon, or menu, tied to a user operation in a computer, whereby a single click on the function... |
| 6315569 |
Metaphor elicitation technique with physiological function monitoring |
| Nov-13-2001 |
A process and apparatus for using a metaphor elicitation technique in conjunction with physiological function monitoring to elicit, organize and analyze data pertaining to a research topic. The metaphor... |
| 6311198 |
Method and system for threading documents |
| Oct-30-2001 |
In order to efficiently thread n chronologically ordered documents, a similarity among the n documents is calculated and the similarity is employed to create a similarity matrix using time constraints,... |
| 6311151 |
System, program, and method for performing contextual software translations |
| Oct-30-2001 |
A system, method, and program for providing language translators with contextual information for the text to be translated. The translator is presented with a graphical user interface in the base language,... |
| 6308188 |
System and method for building a web site with automated workflow |
| Oct-23-2001 |
A software tool is provided for use with a computer system for simplifying the creation of Web sites. The tool comprises a plurality of pre-stored templates, comprising HTML formatting code, text, fields... |
| 6308158 |
Distributed speech recognition system with multi-user input stations |
| Oct-23-2001 |
A central dictation system includes a central server computer and a plurality of voice input stations connected to the server computer. Speaker-dependent speech recognition capabilities are provided at... |
| 6304886 |
System and method for building a web site using specific interface |
| Oct-16-2001 |
A software tool is provided for use with a computer system for simplifying the creation of Web sites. The tool comprises a plurality of pre-stored templates, comprising HTML formatting code, text, fields... |
| 6295543 |
Method of automatically classifying a text appearing in a document when said text has been converted into digital data |
| Sep-25-2001 |
The text to be classified is compared with the contents of a relevance lexicon in which the significant words of the texts to be classified per text class and their relevance to the text classes is stored.... |
| 6272508 |
Guide builder for documentation management in computer applications |
| Aug-7-2001 |
An easy-to-use, user-specific documentation customized according to the local environment and needs of the end-user is disclosed. The environmental if-statement feature allows the user to specify the documentation... |
| 6263347 |
System for linking data between computer and portable remote terminal and data linking method therefor |
| Jul-17-2001 |
In a data linking method of extracting data of a host data base on a computer into a portable remote terminal, an item definition data base which defines a record attribute, an object storage data base... |
| 6260008 |
Method of and system for disambiguating syntactic word multiples |
| Jul-10-2001 |
A method and system are provided for disambiguating multiples of syntactically related words automatically using the notion of semantic similarity between words. Based on syntactically related words derived... |
| 6253220 |
Method of optimizing the filling of an editing medium with digital images of variable sizes, and with preservation of the size ratios |
| Jun-26-2001 |
The method comprises the steps of sorting the images according to a principal criterion (width or height) and a secondary criterion (height or width) and after having indexed these images, automatically... |
| 6253219 |
Method for utilizing the postal service address as an object in an object oriented environment |
| Jun-26-2001 |
The invention is a method and system for creating an address object, in an object oriented development environment of a data processing system. The address object is utilized during the creation of a document... |
| 6249835 |
System for converting print instruction into image data or print data based on whether a rasterization level is of a first level or a second level |
| Jun-19-2001 |
In order to improve the total print operation speed of a print system for printing data supplied from a host computer via a communications unit, with a printer, a rasterization level is determined in accordance... |
| 6247032 |
Automated system and method for approving web site content |
| Jun-12-2001 |
A software tool is provided for use with a computer system for simplifying the creation of Web sites. The tool comprises a plurality of pre-stored templates, comprising HTML formatting code, text, fields... |
| 6247011 |
Computerized prepress authoring for document creation |
| Jun-12-2001 |
Computerized prepress is disclosed. In one embodiment, a computerized prepress system includes three components: a server, a client and a printer. The server has stored thereon an authoring program to... |
| 6246976 |
Apparatus, method and storage medium for identifying a combination of a language and its character code system |
| Jun-12-2001 |
The present invention is directed to identifying a language represented by a character code and its character code system. An occurrence probability table describing for each character the probability... |
| 6243725 |
List building system |
| Jun-5-2001 |
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... |
| 6243708 |
Technique for accessing an item of interest within a stored representation of data |
| Jun-5-2001 |
A method for locating a particularly relevant position within a multimedia steam includes identifying a multimedia stream based upon a query. The locations relevant to the query within the multimedia stream... |
| 6236409 |
Method and apparatus for computer aided building specification generation |
| May-22-2001 |
A method and apparatus for producing a design document for a product, with the product having product elements arranged in a hierarchical manner and stored in a relational database, is described. A selection... |
| 6233571 |
Method and apparatus for indexing, searching and displaying data |
| May-15-2001 |
A computer research tool for indexing, searching and displaying data is disclosed. Specifically, a computer research tool for performing computerized research of data including textual objects in a database... |
| 6226631 |
Apparatus and methodology for submitting search queries |
| May-1-2001 |
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... |
| 6205342 |
User interface for text message creation |
| Mar-20-2001 |
Described are methods and apparatuses for composing text messages using wireless electronic devices, such as cellular telephones. Specifically, a word list including a set of pre-selected words and a set... |
| 6199034 |
Methods and apparatus for determining theme for discourse |
| Mar-6-2001 |
A content processing system determines content of input discourse. The content processing system includes a theme vector processor that determines themes in the input discourse. The theme vector processor... |
| 6189045 |
Data type conversion for enhancement of network communication systems |
| Feb-13-2001 |
A method of enhancing network communications that provides conversion of data type, including language translation, between data producing and data consumers desiring to collaborate in a language or other... |
| 6175846 |
Efficient imposition of arbitrary postscript files without preprocessing |
| Jan-16-2001 |
Pages described in a PostScript.RTM. file are interpreted by an interpreter and imposed and rendered on a flat by a raster output device. The PostScript.RTM. showpage operator is redefined (by redefining... |
| 6173288 |
System and method for building a data structure of converted values without keywords from an input string including keyword/text value pairs |
| Jan-9-2001 |
An application program interface (API) provides an interface for common gateway interface (CGI) programs to parse a CGI input string of keywords and their values, each keyword/value pair being all text... |
| 6169998 |
Method of and a system for generating multiple-degreed database for images |
| Jan-2-2001 |
Ranked database is generated for referring to images. The database contains references or key text to images, and the references are ranked for predetermined degrees of relevance to the images. |
