| 5983246 |
Distributed document classifying system and machine readable storage medium recording a program for document classifying |
| Nov-9-1999 |
A service provider registers information of some documents, including an identifier of each document and a bibliographic item constituting the document content, in a storage section in a database section... |
| 5978801 |
Character and/or character-string retrieving method and storage medium for use for this method |
| Nov-2-1999 |
A character and/or character-string retrieving method with retrieves a plurality of patterns at a time by using a single deterministic finite automaton prepared from a plurality of different patterns.... |
| 5953525 |
Multi-tier view project window |
| Sep-14-1999 |
A method, apparatus, and article of manufacture for providing a programming development environment that supports the development of Internet and Intranet applications. More specifically, a visual representation... |
| 5950206 |
Method and apparatus for searching and tracking construction projects in a document information database |
| Sep-7-1999 |
A method and an apparatus for searching for and tracking construction projects includes a mass data storage device (12, 19, 26, 44) for storing as databases project information and document information... |
| 5946682 |
Document retrieval system and method employing a preloading procedure |
| Aug-31-1999 |
A document retrieval system is disclosed that improves a database system's response time so that a user's request to view new information is serviced quickly. During the time the user spends viewing the... |
| 5937419 |
Page turning apparatus for use with computer system |
| Aug-10-1999 |
Symbols of a plurality of page turning buttons and one guide display button are displayed on a screen of a computer system. A page turning apparatus for use with a computer system has a screen data table... |
| 5937163 |
Method and system at a host node for hierarchically organizing the links visited by a world wide web browser executing at the host node |
| Aug-10-1999 |
A host node is provided with an I/O port and a display monitor. The I/O port transmits packets to a specific one of the remotely accessible server nodes containing a request for information. In response,... |
| 5933842 |
Method and system for compressing publication documents in a computer system by selectively eliminating redundancy from a hierarchy of constituent data structures |
| Aug-3-1999 |
A method and system for compressing publication documents in a computer system is provided. In a preferred embodiment, one or more computer documents are initially represented in a data structure. The... |
| 5930792 |
Monitoring and directing flow of HTML documents for security and access |
| Jul-27-1999 |
A computer server that stores a HTML document, receives a request via a global network from a user for the document and sends the document to the user. The computer server uses a state machine to examine... |
| 5926823 |
Document generic logical information editing apparatus |
| Jul-20-1999 |
A document editing apparatus edits document generic logical information in accordance with a set of restrictions. The document generic logical information defines a document generic logical structure.... |
| 5911145 |
Hierarchical structure editor for web sites |
| Jun-8-1999 |
A method and apparatus for a structure editor implementing a "top-down" approach to designing a Web page. The user uses a "drag and drop" interface to add, delete, and move display elements to define the... |
| 5911141 |
On-line hierarchical form records identification |
| Jun-8-1999 |
An on-line records identification system for users in a multiple-level hierarchy. The system provides a record origin identifier associated with each record, wherein a unique record origin identifier is... |
| 5905992 |
Document display system for organizing and displaying documents as screen objects organized along strand paths |
| May-18-1999 |
A system for displaying documents on a computer controlled display device is disclosed. The disclosed system supports displaying documents as strands, such that documents in a strand follow a strand path.... |
| 5895474 |
Interactive, tree structured, graphical visualization aid |
| Apr-20-1999 |
An interactive, tree structured, graphical visualization aid enables a user to better understand and interpret underlying structures in collections of digitally stored data elements, such as documents,... |
| 5872640 |
Facsimile form generation system |
| Feb-16-1999 |
Document generation and delivery system that allows a user to download a plurality of sets of data to a document preparation system. The document preparation system has a memory that stores pre-defined... |
| 5864858 |
Method for data retrieval in a data-string set by extracting related link-information from a parent node |
| Jan-26-1999 |
A data retrieval method in a data-string set including a plurality of data strings, each data string having a data identification name storage area, a parent data storage area storing link-information... |
| 5864848 |
Goal-driven information interpretation and extraction system |
| Jan-26-1999 |
A proactive interface management system for ascertaining a computer user's goals and automatically extracting untagged data from one or more source objects and applying the data to one or more target objects.... |
| 5859966 |
Security system for computer systems |
| Jan-12-1999 |
A security system for a computer system imposes specific limitations on who has access to the computer system and to exactly what operations and data. Viruses are securely contained and prevented from... |
| 5842218 |
Method, computer program product, and system for a reorienting categorization table |
| Nov-24-1998 |
A method computer program product, and system for a reorienting categorization table is provided. A control interface is used to select the hierarchy of categorization levels for a categorization table... |
| 5819040 |
Image processing system for transferring electronic document and paper document as single mail |
| Oct-6-1998 |
An image processing system has a scanner for reading image information of a sheet, on which a first instruction for transferring image information of an electronic document and image information of a paper... |
| 5812995 |
Electronic document filing system for registering and retrieving a plurality of documents |
| Sep-22-1998 |
A plurality of documents and a plurality of types of classifications are registered on a plurality of hierarchy stages of a hierarchy structure. In each of the documents, a plurality of document files... |
| 5802531 |
Method and system for embedding parts of documents and synchronizing multiple views thereof |
| Sep-1-1998 |
The embedding of parts within one another, and synchronization of their various views, is implemented by means of a data structure consisting of two major components. One component, a display list, comprises... |
| 5794236 |
Computer-based system for classifying documents into a hierarchy and linking the classifications to the hierarchy |
| Aug-11-1998 |
A computer system uses a legal hierarchy annotated with seed citations to generate a control file, and then using the control file, permits legal documents to be classified automatically into the legal... |
| 5778401 |
Insertion bar |
| Jul-7-1998 |
A computer implemented method, computer system, and article of manufacture embodying computer readable program means direct a computer system to create in a window an insertion bar for inserting hierarchical... |
| 5768580 |
Methods and apparatus for dynamic classification of discourse |
| Jun-16-1998 |
A dynamic classification system determines content of input discourse. The dynamic classification system includes a dynamic classification system that generates a detailed and comprehensive knowledge catalog... |
| 5765176 |
Performing document image management tasks using an iconic image having embedded encoded information |
| Jun-9-1998 |
Encoded data embedded in an iconic, or reduced size, version of an original text image is decoded and used in a variety of document image management applications to provide input to, or to control the... |
| 5765177 |
Document processing method and apparatus for searching documents having a graph based document logic structure |
| Jun-9-1998 |
A method and an apparatus for processing documents expressed in terms of the graph based on the graph theory. Grouped constituent description series as the contents of a predescribed document are stored... |
| 5765006 |
Method and system to process external entities in a document processing language |
| Jun-9-1998 |
A method and apparatus for processing external inclusions in a document processing language. The external inclusions can have varying formats and each of these varying formats are handled efficiently.... |
| 5749080 |
Data retrieval method and link-information adding method |
| May-5-1998 |
A data retrieval method in a data-string set including a plurality of data strings, each data string having a data identification name storage area, a parent data storage area storing link-information... |
| 5732403 |
Method and apparatus for transferring page construction data according to hierarchical page data |
| Mar-24-1998 |
A reproduction process system is provided for executing a variety of reproduction-related processes without individually specifying page construction data each time, thus improving working efficiency of... |
| 5715445 |
Document retrieval system employing a preloading procedure |
| Feb-3-1998 |
A document retrieval system is disclosed that improves a database system's response time so that a user's request to view new information is serviced quickly. During the time the user spends viewing the... |
| 5708806 |
Data processing system and method for generating a representation for and for representing electronically published structured documents |
| Jan-13-1998 |
A data processing system and method for generating a representation of an electronic document, for indexing the electronic document, for navigating the electronic document using its representation and... |
| 5708767 |
Method and apparatus for video browsing based on content and structure |
| Jan-13-1998 |
A new technique for extracting a hierarchical decomposition of a complex video selection for browsing purposes, combines visual and temporal information to capture the important relations within a scene... |
| 5706503 |
Method of clustering multi-dimensional related data in a computer database by combining the two verticles of a graph connected by an edge having the highest score |
| Jan-6-1998 |
A method of clustering multi-dimensional related data performed by identifying features from a collection of data, each of said features being represented by a vertex, selecting pairs of features that... |
| 5675753 |
Method and system for presenting an electronic user-interface specification |
| Oct-7-1997 |
A method is disclosed for preparing an interactive user-interface specification. The method is for use with a computer system including a processor, a memory, a display device and an input device. The... |
| 5673217 |
Idea processor |
| Sep-30-1997 |
In an idea processor, a plurality of sentences are managed in a hierarchical structure having a plurality of levels. Eight or less sentences are developed from a key sentence, and these nine or less sentences... |
| 5666503 |
Structured image (SI) image editor and method for editing structured images |
| Sep-9-1997 |
An editing process and device for modifying images in the structured image (SI) format. The image editor can perform image processing operations, transparency and geometric transform to objects. The underlying... |
| 5606654 |
Computer screen and memory organization enabling presentation of a tree |
| Feb-25-1997 |
A method for displaying a n-ary tree graph (30) on a display screen (100) is disclosed. The method comprises a first step of dividing the display screen (100) into one or more equally sized portions, a... |
| 5579519 |
Extensible electronic document processing system for creating new classes of active documents |
| Nov-26-1996 |
An improved document processing system for creating computer procedures (i.e., methods) and associating them with an electronic document structured as a nested hierarchy of constituent objects. The system... |
| 5535318 |
Debugging system for a hierarchically structured page description language |
| Jul-9-1996 |
A method and apparatus for debugging a hierarchically structure page description language document. As a hierarchically structured page description language is being processed, a picture/pageset stack... |
| 5499330 |
Document display system for organizing and displaying documents as screen objects organized along strand paths |
| Mar-12-1996 |
A system for displaying documents on a computer controlled display device is disclosed. The system displays documents either in a completely free-form, user controlled configuration or as strands, such... |
| 5483629 |
Method and system to handle dictionaries in a document processing language |
| Jan-9-1996 |
A method and apparatus for handling various types of dictionaries while processing a document which is written in a hierarchically structured page description language. As each hierarchical level of the... |
| 5469538 |
Mathematical document editor and method performing live symbolic calculations for use with an electronic book |
| Nov-21-1995 |
A mathematical document editor that can perform live symbolic calculations. The mathematical document editor is capable of placing mathematical expressions at any position on a computer screen, that represents... |
| 5446837 |
Method and system to process resources in a document processing language |
| Aug-29-1995 |
A method and apparatus for processing resources in a hierarchically structured page description language. The resource must first be defined before it can be used. The definition of a resource is contained... |
| 5442795 |
System and method for viewing icon contents on a video display |
| Aug-15-1995 |
A data processing system provides a folder icon for holding representations of sheets of information in user desired order. The folder has a closed position in which a user generated label is viewable.... |
| 5432897 |
Method and an apparatus for editing tree structures in display |
| Jul-11-1995 |
A method and an apparatus for editing displayed tree structures allows movement and connection of a moving object in the tree structure to an aimed object with a reduced number of operational steps and... |
| 5430831 |
Method of packing rectangular objects in a rectangular area or space by determination of free subareas or subspaces |
| Jul-4-1995 |
A method of optimally packing, either intermittently or continuously, a storage or transportation area or space with rectangular parallelepiped objects, e.g. parcels, comprises two main steps of complex... |
| 5418946 |
Structured data classification device |
| May-23-1995 |
When a retrieval condition designating unit designates "data to be retrieved" and "retrieval condition" as data on retrieval of a document, and a classification attribute designating unit designates a... |
| 5416896 |
Command definition dictionary handling and context declaration in a document publishing page description language (PDL) |
| May-16-1995 |
An apparatus for controlling printing or display of documents represented in a structured hierarchal page description language. Documents are provided as a document data stream which can include references... |
| 5388196 |
Hierarchical shared books with database |
| Feb-7-1995 |
A representation of a shared structured container type data object with related data bases can be used to present information in a hierarchy or multi-level mode about the activities and status relating... |