| 6792475 |
System and method for facilitating the design of a website |
| Sep-14-2004 |
A system and method for designing web pages that enables web designers to place hyperlinks to web pages independent of any hierarchical relationship between the pages of the website. A link bar element... |
| 6785682 |
Data processing system, method and computer program product |
| Aug-31-2004 |
The present invention relates to a data processing system, method and computer program product for improving the operation of, for example, a message broker. By not constructing messages from stored data... |
| 6772165 |
Electronic document processing system and method for merging source documents on a node-by-node basis to generate a target document |
| Aug-3-2004 |
A target document (25) is generated by merging four source documents (2-5). There are three merge operations, an operation (10) for two source documents (2, 13), an operation (13) for an intermediate target... |
| 6769095 |
Hierarchically structured control information editor |
| Jul-27-2004 |
The first process provides a context sensitive editor to create, modify and display hierarchically structured control information. The editor provides action choices appropriate to the immediately current... |
| 6766329 |
Dynamic personalized information organizer |
| Jul-20-2004 |
A dynamic and personalized system for organizing data is disclosed. The system provides users the ability to organize addressable information by creating associations between the information independent... |
| 6763343 |
Preventing duplication of the data in reference resource for XML page generation |
| Jul-13-2004 |
A method and computer program product for generating XML documents that include data content and style information from a plurality of data sources. A first file includes control statements that reference... |
| 6760732 |
Method and system for viewing a record of an organization having a hierarchy of departments |
| Jul-6-2004 |
A method and system for viewing a record of an organization having a hierarchy of departments is provided. Specifically, under the present invention, a record having data, a record department label and... |
| 6754873 |
Techniques for finding related hyperlinked documents using link-based analysis |
| Jun-22-2004 |
Techniques for finding related hyperlinked documents using link-based analysis are provided. Backlink and forwardlink sets can be utilized to find web pages that are related to a selected web page. The... |
| 6754798 |
Method and an apparatus for volume creation in the presence of multiple aggregators |
| Jun-22-2004 |
A method and apparatus to dynamically order features and manage features, especially aggregators, during creation of a logical volume is provided. The method and apparatus make use of a partition/aggregate... |
| 6754648 |
Method for storing and managing data |
| Jun-22-2004 |
A method for storing and managing data on a storage medium connected to a computer system, wherein the data consists of a plurality of data elements and a plurality of tags, wherein each of the data elements... |
| 6751793 |
System and method for growing a hierarchical structure with new virtual base classes while preserving release-to-release binary compatibility |
| Jun-15-2004 |
In accordance with the method of invention, a class hierarchy is derived which maintains release-to-release binary compatibility. Leftmost classes of the class hierarchy are ordered in top down order with... |
| 6751719 |
Method and an apparatus to dynamically order features and to resolve conflicts in a multiple-layer logical volume management environment |
| Jun-15-2004 |
A method and apparatus to dynamically order features and resolve conflicts in a logical volume management environment is provided. The method and apparatus classifies features of a logical volume into... |
| 6744934 |
Method, apparatus and recording medium for generating an image file having hierarchical image data representing a plurality of still images having different display dimensions |
| Jun-1-2004 |
When a group of still images are reproduced interactively, reproduction wait time to confirm the content of the images can be shortened. Image data representing the group of still images including the... |
| 6738080 |
Message management system for a user interface of a multifunctional printing system |
| May-18-2004 |
A document processing control system with a graphical user interface having a display is provided. The document processing system further includes a memory manager for determining whether the information... |
| 6732330 |
Scripting language blocks to support multiple scripting languages in a single web page |
| May-4-2004 |
Different scripting languages may reside side-by-side or nested within each other on the same web page. Thus, a new author may add code to the page, and he or she is not tied to any given subset of languages... |
| 6732192 |
Disc recording scheme for enabling quick access to disc data |
| May-4-2004 |
A system for recording data to a disc shaped record medium. The data is recorded according to a universal disc format employing a hierarchical file system, and data within the hierarchical structure is... |
| 6725224 |
Controller system for interfacing with a work flow management system |
| Apr-20-2004 |
A work flow system (15) comprises a controller (20) and a work flow processor (40). An indexing user interface (21) and a work flow processing user interface (22) interact with work flow processor interface... |
| 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... |
| 6718516 |
Method for verifying context between multiple related XML tags in document object model (DOM) |
| Apr-6-2004 |
A method for processing a Document Object Model (DOM) tree to verify context between multiple related XML tags. One or more of these related XML tags are custom tags. According to the invention, contextual... |
| 6717694 |
Data transmission apparatus, system and method, and recording medium |
| Apr-6-2004 |
In data transmission between a host device and a target device connected by a serial bus, when commands and data use the same register area, and only the transmission result of the data is to be returned,... |
| 6715130 |
Software requirements metrics and evaluation process |
| Mar-30-2004 |
A system and method for estimating a metric of a proposed product from a document describing the product in an arbitrary degree of detail provides accuracy comparable to a function point assessment of... |
| 6704015 |
Methods and apparatus for providing a quality control management system |
| Mar-9-2004 |
A process control management and quality navigation are described which provides an intranet based approach to providing management with run and control charts for more effective tracking and management... |
| 6697821 |
Content development management system and method |
| Feb-24-2004 |
A system and method for content development management is provided which increases the speed, quality control and accuracy of the content generation process and reduces the cost of the content generation... |
| 6694509 |
Automated regression testing of workstation software |
| Feb-17-2004 |
A workstation includes a regression testing program which tests application programs developed on the workstation using stored test scripts. A test directory tree is maintained to mirror a source code... |
| 6691282 |
Method and apparatus for displaying and navigating containment hierarchies |
| Feb-10-2004 |
A method for use in a computer system for displaying a containment group such as file folder hierarchy. The method displays a direct containment hierarchy for the selected containment group or file folder,... |
| 6684370 |
Methods, techniques, software and systems for rendering multiple sources of input into a single output |
| Jan-27-2004 |
A computer-implemented template provides a structure for a document. The template may provide zero or more region definitions and zero or more placeholders. Region definitions may be associated with data... |
| 6681370 |
HTML/XML tree synchronization |
| Jan-20-2004 |
The HTML/XML tree synchronization module synchronizes a document with a view or multiple views, after a change has been made to the document. First, the tree synchronization module receives a document... |
| 6681221 |
Method and system for achieving directed acyclic graph (DAG) representations of data in XML |
| Jan-20-2004 |
Method and system aspects for achieving directed acyclic graph (DAG) representations of data in XML are described. The aspects include augmenting a document type definition (DTD) for allowing description... |
| 6678692 |
Hierarchy statistical analysis system and method |
| Jan-13-2004 |
A search technique based on classification of database records in accordance with a predominant concept or feature, to facilitate searching of the database by specifying a concept rather than detailed... |
| 6675370 |
System and method for imbedding hyperlinked language grammar notation in a "literate" programming environment |
| Jan-6-2004 |
Documentation of a software application is automatically generated for the classes, written in an object oriented-language, which comprise the application. The classes within the application are typically... |
| 6671853 |
Method and system for selectively streaming markup language documents |
| Dec-30-2003 |
A method, system, and computer-readable code for a technique with which documents encoded according to the Extensible Markup Language (XML) notation or a derivative thereof can be more efficiently processed... |
| 6671693 |
System for effectively collecting and disseminating data |
| Dec-30-2003 |
A method for effectively collecting and disseminating information. In use, data is retrieved from multiple users in a plurality of categories. To disseminate the information, access is provided to the... |
| 6671692 |
System for facilitating the navigation of data |
| Dec-30-2003 |
A method for facilitating the navigation of application specific data on a data page, i.e. web page, during use of a data browser, i.e. Netscape.TM., MS Explorer.TM., etc. Included on the data page are... |
| 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... |
| 6662237 |
System for documenting application interfaces and their mapping relationship |
| Dec-9-2003 |
A documentation system for improving the efficiency of maintaining the records of mapping among applications is described. The method of documenting linkage of applications to each other includes displaying... |
| 6661919 |
Method and apparatus for producing a hybrid data structure for displaying a raster image |
| Dec-9-2003 |
A system for producing a raster image derived from coded and non-coded portions of a hybrid data structure from an input bitmap including (1) a data processing apparatus, (2) a recognizer which performs... |
| 6658624 |
Method and system for processing documents controlled by active documents with embedded instructions |
| Dec-2-2003 |
An improved document processing system is provided by virtue of the present invention, wherein documents and processing associated with those documents are combined by structuring documents according to... |
| 6654734 |
System and method for query processing and optimization for XML repositories |
| Nov-25-2003 |
A computer program product is provided as a system for querying a repository of XML documents. The data in the XML documents are viewed by a query system as a graph that allows queries on content, structure,... |
| 6647380 |
Production and inventory control system and computer program product for controlling production and inventory |
| Nov-11-2003 |
A production and inventory control system, comprises a first business application system for executing a first business application, a second business application system for executing a second business... |
| 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... |
| 6633893 |
File management system and method, and storage medium |
| Oct-14-2003 |
A file management system provided with an improved operability by arranging attribute information of recorded files, file search result information, and index information of files and listing the information... |
| 6631497 |
Binding data from data source to cells in a spreadsheet |
| Oct-7-2003 |
A method including importing data objects from different data sources to define a data source model, associating each data object with one or more cells in a spreadsheet, and binding data from the data... |
| 6625620 |
Method and apparatus for the management of file attachments in a groupware oriented system |
| Sep-23-2003 |
A method and network for managing attachments in applications. The method comprises the steps of creating a plurality of attachment databases to contain said attachments; and embedding an attachment engine... |
| 6606633 |
Compound document management system and compound document structure managing method |
| Aug-12-2003 |
A compound document management system comprises a compound document object holding unit for holding a compound document object and a schema object generating unit for generating a schema object and applying... |
| 6604068 |
System and method for concurrently modeling any element of a model |
| Aug-5-2003 |
A system and method are described for concurrently modeling of any element of a geometric model. The geometric model is stored in a database as a number of model objects. The model objects are loaded into... |
| 6585776 |
Computer system and method of displaying hypertext documents with internal hypertext link definitions |
| Jul-1-2003 |
A computer system and method display internal and external hypertext link definitions in different representations to simplify a user's recognition of the external/internal status of each hypertext link... |
| 6584480 |
Structured documents in a publishing system |
| Jun-24-2003 |
An authoring environment for producing content for an on-line system is described. This environment includes a story editor which can save files in a Multimedia Document Format (MDF) file. A MDF file is... |
| 6560620 |
Hierarchical document comparison system and method |
| May-6-2003 |
A hierarchical document comparison system comprises a document server computer remotely accessible by a user computer. The document server computer includes a database which stores the contents of a first... |
| 6557040 |
Providing for the omission of root information from depth-related requests according to standard request/response protocols |
| Apr-29-2003 |
Depth-related requests without root-level information or actions according to standard request-response protocols such as HTTP are disclosed. For example, in one embodiment, a method specifies a request,... |
| 6549302 |
Image forming apparatus capable of changing parameters of document file data |
| Apr-15-2003 |
An image forming apparatus having a reading function of reading the images of manuscripts, an attribute judging function of judging types of the attributes of the read-out images, a memory area for storing... |
