| 5915256 |
Multimedia method and apparatus for presenting a story using a bimodal spine |
| Jun-22-1999 |
A multimedia method and apparatus for presenting to a user a story using a bimodal spine is disclosed. The first mode is substantially passive and relates the story in a narrative presentation of synchronized... |
| 5907850 |
Method and system for manipulating construction blueprint documents with hypermedia hotspot reference links from a first construction document to a related secondary construction document |
| May-25-1999 |
A system (10) allows the storing of construction drawings or blueprints in a plurality of computer files (32). The system (10) allows automatic determinations of lengths, areas and count of dimensions... |
| 5905991 |
System and method providing navigation between documents by creating associations based on bridges between combinations of document elements and software |
| May-18-1999 |
A method and system are provided for managing digital documents by using links to allow navigation between documents and to create associations based on bridges between various combinations of document... |
| 5905863 |
Finding an e-mail message to which another e-mail message is a response |
| May-18-1999 |
Current tools for processing e-mail and other messages do not adequately recognize and manipulate threads, i.e., conversations among two or more people carried out by exchange of messages. The present... |
| 5903901 |
Message transmission scheme and page processing scheme for hypermedia document processing system |
| May-11-1999 |
A message transmission and page processing scheme for a hypermedia document processing system, in which the source information which contains a source server identifier for identifying a source server... |
| 5897622 |
Electronic shopping and merchandising system |
| Apr-27-1999 |
The present invention provides a merchant system for online shopping and merchandising. The merchant system architecture provides great flexibility for a merchant to adapt the merchant system to their... |
| 5895468 |
System automating delivery of professional services |
| Apr-20-1999 |
A device for automatically delivering professional services to a client is provided. The device includes a computer and a database containing a plurality of client reminders. The device also includes software... |
| 5893122 |
Hyper-media system including plural application processors which execute navigation processing for hyper-media document |
| Apr-6-1999 |
A hyper-media system includes a storage device for storing a hyper-media document. The system includes a plurality of application processing units (APU) for conducting individualized processing in reference... |
| 5893070 |
System and method for developing and/or maintaining a workplace respiratory protection program |
| Apr-6-1999 |
A respiratory program is disclosed which fully integrates the development and maintenance of a workplace respiratory protection program. The respiratory program (i) provides the forms which are useful... |
| 5890173 |
Information print apparatus and method |
| Mar-30-1999 |
There is provided a print apparatus which prints a plurality of pieces of linked document information of those that are distributed to and stored in a plurality of external document servers. The apparatus... |
| 5890172 |
Method and apparatus for retrieving data from a network using location identifiers |
| Mar-30-1999 |
A computer implemented method and system for retrieving information through a browser connected to a network. A first file of information is received which includes a first mark-up language to identify... |
| 5890171 |
Computer system and computer-implemented method for interpreting hypertext links in a document when including the document within another document |
| Mar-30-1999 |
A method for rewriting document references such as URLs located in an included document, when an include operation is performed. The include operation may be performed by the server at any time, for example,... |
| 5890170 |
Method and apparatus for publishing documents in a hypertextural network environment |
| Mar-30-1999 |
A method, apparatus and system for allowing a user to create and add information to his World Wide Web home page, or a private home page. In the present invention, a user drags and drops icons representing... |
| 5890158 |
Method, apparatus, and program storage device for sharing objects with a network server and a database server using a common object model |
| Mar-30-1999 |
A method, apparatus, and program storage device for sharing objects with a network server and a database server using a common object model. A first set of objects is stored in a common file accessible... |
| 5890152 |
Personal feedback browser for obtaining media files |
| Mar-30-1999 |
A Personal Feedback browser and Personal Profile database is provided for obtaining media files from the internet. A Personal Feedback browser selects media files based on user-specified information stored... |
| 5877757 |
Method and system for providing user help information in network applications |
| Mar-2-1999 |
A method and system are disclosed for providing help-data in association with applications launched from a network, such that the applications are displayed within a window of a graphical user interface.... |
| 5873107 |
System for automatically retrieving information relevant to text being authored |
| Feb-16-1999 |
Text entry and information retrieval are combined in such a way as to automatically offer an author continuous retrieval of information potentially relevant to the text he is authoring. The author enters... |
| 5870769 |
Internet access system and method with active link status indicators |
| Feb-9-1999 |
An Internet access system and method includes active link status indicators that give a user control over when a document is loaded into a cache. The system and method notifies a user of the presence or... |
| 5870768 |
Expert system and method employing hierarchical knowledge base, and interactive multimedia/hypermedia applications |
| Feb-9-1999 |
An expert system and processing method employing a three level hierarchical knowledge base that has a plurality of nodes coupled together. An uppermost level comprises a behavioral knowledge level, a middle... |
| 5870767 |
Method and system for rendering hyper-link information in a printable medium from a graphical user interface |
| Feb-9-1999 |
A method and system for rendering in a printable medium hyper-link information contained in a document displayed within a graphical user interface within a data processing system linked to other data processing... |
| 5870552 |
Method and apparatus for publishing hypermedia documents over wide area networks |
| Feb-9-1999 |
The present invention addresses the critical needs of publishers seeking to create and publish hypermedia content in electronic form across wide area networks ("WAN's") such as the World Wide Web. Toward... |
| 5864866 |
Apparatus and method for providing externalization in an object-oriented environment |
| Jan-26-1999 |
According to the present invention, an externalization service method for managing objects and state data related to the objects is disclosed. The present invention provides a method whereby objects with... |
| 5864843 |
Method and apparatus for extending a database management system to operate with diverse object servers |
| Jan-26-1999 |
A method and apparatus for extending a database management system to operate with diverse object servers. The apparatus comprises a federated coordinator for accepting client commands and translating client... |
| 5859636 |
Recognition of and operation on text data |
| Jan-12-1999 |
Text of a predetermined class is recognized in a body of text. After recognition, operations relevant to the recognized text may be performed. For example, text such as telephone numbers, telefax numbers,... |
| 5855015 |
System and method for retrieval of hyperlinked information resources |
| Dec-29-1998 |
A system and method for adaptively traversing a network of linked textual or multi-media information utilizes one or more heuristics to explore the network and present information to a user. An exploration... |
| 5854750 |
System and method for processing transactions in an environment containing a number of object oriented applications |
| Dec-29-1998 |
A computer implemented transaction processing system is presented for processing transactions between an application and one or more transaction processors. The system utilizes a first communication link... |
| 5848424 |
Data navigator interface with navigation as a function of draggable elements and drop targets |
| Dec-8-1998 |
A hypertext browser displays hypertext pages and indicates draggable elements on the page being viewed. The browser also displays drop targets and detects when a user selects a draggable element and drops... |
| 5842206 |
Computerized method and system for qualified searching of electronically stored documents |
| Nov-24-1998 |
A computerized method for searching one or more electronically stored documents is disclosed. The method comprises four steps. The first step searches each document for a search expression. The second... |
| 5842018 |
Method and system for referring to and binding to objects using identifier objects |
| Nov-24-1998 |
A method and system for referring to and binding to objects using a moniker object is provided. In a preferred embodiment, a moniker object contains information to identify linked source data and provides... |
| 5835724 |
System and method for communication information using the internet that receives and maintains information concerning the client and generates and conveys the session data to the client |
| Nov-10-1998 |
In a system (10) for communicating information using the Internet, a client (12) establishes a first connection with a session server (24) using the Internet (18) to initiate a communications session.... |
| 5832232 |
Method and apparatus for providing user-based flow control in a network system |
| Nov-3-1998 |
A method and apparatus for providing user-based flow control in a network system receives a request for data from a client system and determines a period of time based on an expected user processing time... |
| 5812769 |
Method and apparatus for redirecting a user to a new location on the world wide web using relative universal resource locators |
| Sep-22-1998 |
A method and apparatus for redirecting a user from a first location on the WWW to a second location on the WWW, wherein relative URL addressing is used during the redirecting process. A signal is received... |
| 5812134 |
User interface navigational system & method for interactive representation of information contained within a database |
| Sep-22-1998 |
A system for interactive, dynamic, three-dimensional presentation of a database's structure allows the user to efficiently navigate through the database to examine the desired information. The present... |
| 5809317 |
Creating and maintaining hypertext links among heterogeneous documents by the establishment of anchors and connections among anchors |
| Sep-15-1998 |
A method and apparatus for relating (called hyperlinking) a region of one document to one or more regions of other documents. This is provided by using a mechanism for linking and embedding objects to... |
| 5809248 |
Method and apparatus for front end navigator and network architecture for performing functions on distributed files in a computer network |
| Sep-15-1998 |
The present invention provides methods and apparatus for a front end navigating tool that may access and manipulate files distributed across different physical machines and platforms. The front end navigating... |
| 5808613 |
Network navigator with enhanced navigational abilities |
| Sep-15-1998 |
A browser for allowing a user to navigate in a three-dimensional world having a plurality of objects provides enhanced navigational capabilities. The browser allows the user to seek to an object or location... |
| 5806077 |
Hypertext display system |
| Sep-8-1998 |
A hypertext display system is described in which displayed hypertext links contain a marker indicating whether or not the unit of information to which the link leads has previously been visited by the... |
| 5805815 |
Method and apparatus for providing interim data displays while awaiting of retrieval linked information |
| Sep-8-1998 |
In the context of global hypertext, a new solution to the human interface problem of waiting for the content of a next page to arrive and be displayed by a WWW browser. Small amounts of relevant content... |
| 5802299 |
Interactive system for authoring hypertext document collections |
| Sep-1-1998 |
A network based hypertext display system employing a supervisory computer interconnected with one or more information display units and one or more remote document servers via a network, such as the Internet.... |
| 5801713 |
Data browsing apparatus and method therefor including automatic page-turning |
| Sep-1-1998 |
A data browsing apparatus displays data automatically in an automatic page-turning mode. The data browsing apparatus has dynamic picture display parameters comprising a frame display time (w), a frame... |
| 5799292 |
Adaptive hypermedia presentation method and system |
| Aug-25-1998 |
In a computer system comprising a hypermedia computing environment, the presentation of hypermedia objects is adapted to usage of the system. The frequency with which hypermedia objects are used is tracked... |
| 5799063 |
Communication system and method of providing access to pre-recorded audio messages via the Internet |
| Aug-25-1998 |
A communication system and methods for establishing pages with pre-recorded audio messages as additions to Web sites containing standard/multimedia Web pages (or alone at Web sites with no other Web pages).... |
| 5796393 |
System for intergrating an on-line service community with a foreign service |
| Aug-18-1998 |
A system and method are disclosed for integrating an on-line service community with a foreign service such as the Internet World Wide Web. To take advantage of the present invention, on-line service subscribers... |
| 5794257 |
Automatic hyperlinking on multimedia by compiling link specifications |
| Aug-11-1998 |
A link specification and an electronic manual is provided to an auto linker which in conjunction with a run-time media engine provides hyperlinked manuals. The auto linker comprises a link generator for... |
| 5794210 |
Attention brokerage |
| Aug-11-1998 |
A system provides for the immediate payment to computer and other users for paying attention to an advertisement or other "negatively priced" information distributed over a computer network such as the... |
| 5790793 |
Method and system to create, transmit, receive and process information, including an address to further information |
| Aug-4-1998 |
A method and system for sending and receiving Uniform Resource Locators (URLs) in electronic mail over the Internet. An electronic mail document containing a URL may have several different types. If the... |
| 5787448 |
Dynamic linking system |
| Jul-28-1998 |
A method and system for selecting a location in a first document, selecting a location in a second document, performing an action on the second document and performing the identical action on the first... |
| 5787254 |
Web browser method and system for display and management of server latency |
| Jul-28-1998 |
A browser extension method and system for a Web browser in a computer network having a client connectable to one or more servers, the client having an interface for displaying a first hypertext document... |
| 5778398 |
Document processing to permit sharing of content by plural documents |
| Jul-7-1998 |
A document processing apparatus which permits the sharing of a document element in a document structure while ensuring that any change to the content appears in the document element in each document sharing... |
| 5774109 |
Electronic scrolling book with temporary interruptions |
| Jun-30-1998 |
A hand held electronic book machine has a platform with a keyboard and a display for displaying text. The book machine further includes a database mounted to the platform. The database has a first memory... |
