| 6886129 |
Method and system for trawling the World-wide Web to identify implicitly-defined communities of web pages |
| Apr-26-2005 |
A method and system for identifying groups of pages of common interest from a collection of hyper-linked pages are disclosed. A plurality of community cores are identified from the collection where each... |
| 6883138 |
Methods and systems for generating enhanced thumbnails usable for document navigation |
| Apr-19-2005 |
A thumbnail is generated by generating a thumbnail of an original document, generating at least one selectable element, and associating the at least one selectable element with the thumbnail in a display... |
| 6883135 |
Proxy server using a statistical model |
| Apr-19-2005 |
A computer based system and method of determining whether to re-fetch a previously retrieved document across a computer network is disclosed. The method utilizes a statistical model to determine whether... |
| 6877137 |
System, method and computer program product for mediating notes and note sub-notes linked or otherwise associated with stored or networked web pages |
| Apr-5-2005 |
A system and method of manipulating notes linked to Web pages, and of manipulating the Web pages. These Web pages (or portions of Web pages) can be stored at a Web site or in a local file system. The method... |
| 6877136 |
System and method of providing electronic access to one or more documents |
| Apr-5-2005 |
The present invention provides a system and method of providing electronic access to one or more documents. In one embodiment, a storage device retains eligibility information relating to each document.... |
| 6877135 |
Document display apparatus and method for displaying documents |
| Apr-5-2005 |
A document display apparatus analyzes document data of electronic documents that are scanning targets (Step S11), calculates a display priority p (Step S12), registers it as priority level information... |
| 6871321 |
System for managing networked information contents |
| Mar-22-2005 |
A computer-implemented system for managing a collection of Web documents with dependency relationships which are defined among designated elements of those Web documents. The system automatically and consistently... |
| 6871318 |
System and method for authoring, distributing and replaying derivative hypermedia content |
| Mar-22-2005 |
A system for authoring, distributing, and replaying derivative hypermedia content comprises an authoring system for recording dynamic annotations and a distribution system for distributing the recorded... |
| 6871202 |
Method and apparatus for ranking web page search results |
| Mar-22-2005 |
A method and apparatus for ranking a plurality of pages identified during a search of a linked database includes forming a linear combination of two or more matrices, and using the coefficients of the... |
| 6868523 |
Audio/visual method of browsing web pages with a conventional telephone interface |
| Mar-15-2005 |
A system which presents a common interface over different communication links. If a party contacts an organization through the organization's web site, a sequence of options is presented to the party.... |
| 6865714 |
Automatic generation of card-based presentation documents from multimedia data |
| Mar-8-2005 |
An automatic card-based presentation generation system programmatically creates card-based presentation documents from source documents by transforming a card layout style specification into presentation... |
| 6865593 |
Dynamic integration of web sites |
| Mar-8-2005 |
A method for displaying information includes identifying computer-readable service code at a service site, which code, when read by a client computer via a network, causes the computer to display at least... |
| 6862710 |
Internet navigation using soft hyperlinks |
| Mar-1-2005 |
A system for internet navigation using soft hyperlinks is disclosed, in connection with an illustrative information retrieval system with which it may be used. The navigation tool provides freedom to move... |
| 6857102 |
Document re-authoring systems and methods for providing device-independent access to the world wide web |
| Feb-15-2005 |
An automatic re-authoring system and method re-author a document originally designed for display on a desktop computer screen for display on a smaller display screen, such as those used with a PDA or a... |
| 6851088 |
Conditional highlighting of given cells in a dynamic HTML table |
| Feb-1-2005 |
A method operative at a server for generating a table having dynamic data. According to the method, a page developer may specify a given table cell in the table for conditional treatment. In response to... |
| 6848077 |
Dynamically creating hyperlinks to other web documents in received world wide web documents based on text terms in the received document defined as of interest to user |
| Jan-25-2005 |
The user receiving a World Wide Web (Web) page is provided with an implementation for predetermining subject matter, terms and words for which the user desires to have hyperlinks in a received web document.... |
| 6848076 |
Automatic fetching and storage of requested primary and related documents or files at receiving web stations after repeated failures to access such documents or files from the World Wide Web |
| Jan-25-2005 |
Minimizing the effects that repetitive failures to access requested documents or files will have on the user requesting the files through a receiving network or World Wide Web (Web) station. When there... |
| 6848075 |
Internet web browser with memory enhanced hyperlink display |
| Jan-25-2005 |
A web browser displays historical information about hyperlinks shown on web pages. Initially, a computer receives user instructions to download an internet web page, and begins the download. The computer... |
| 6847967 |
Information set importance determination system and information set importance determination method |
| Jan-25-2005 |
The information set importance determination system of the present invention includes a page information management unit for managing an attribute of page information constituting hyper-media information,... |
| 6839880 |
Electronic property viewing system for providing virtual tours via a public communications network, and a method of exchanging the same |
| Jan-4-2005 |
Disclosed is an electronic real property viewing system for providing virtual tours of real property units via a public communications network such as the internet. The electronic property viewing system... |
| 6839878 |
Mechanism for displaying content using control structure for authoring systems |
| Jan-4-2005 |
The field of distributed authoring systems, and more particularly the implementing of authoring controls within the authoring system. Moreover, there is provided a selection mechanism which employs control... |
| 6834373 |
System and method for non-visually presenting multi-part information pages using a combination of sonifications and tactile feedback |
| Dec-21-2004 |
A visually impaired user is provided a non-visual, abstract representation of a multi-part information page. The non-visual, abstract representation is provided by auditory and tactile feedback. A touch... |
| 6834372 |
Internet web browser with proximity sensitie hyperlink history report |
| Dec-21-2004 |
A web browser program presents historical information about hyperlinks shown on web pages. Initially, the computer determines whether it is receiving certain user input, such as placement of a cursor over... |
| 6834306 |
Method and apparatus for notifying a user of changes to certain parts of web pages |
| Dec-21-2004 |
A method for notifying a user of changes to pre-selected portions of a web page includes dividing a web page into a plurality of blocks. User-selection information is added to each of the plurality of... |
| 6834276 |
Database system and method for data acquisition and perusal |
| Dec-21-2004 |
A data acquisition and perusal system and method including a database selection module, a database index generator module and a search module. The database selection module enables selection of a plurality... |
| 6832350 |
Organizing and categorizing hypertext document bookmarks by mutual affinity based on predetermined affinity criteria |
| Dec-14-2004 |
An apparatus, program product, and method utilize a "bookmark affinity" to facilitate organizing by mutual affinity stored storage location addresses, or "bookmarks," each for a given hypertext document.... |
| 6829619 |
Information providing server |
| Dec-7-2004 |
An information providing server is connected via the Internet to a mediation server and a reference terminal. The mediation server, when receiving a request for searching a home page, request the server... |
| 6826725 |
Techniques for invoking system commands from within a mark-up language document |
| Nov-30-2004 |
A method and apparatus for invoking system resources directly from within a mark-up language document. Links referencing a pre-defined system command to be invoked may be embedded within the document.... |
| 6823492 |
Method and apparatus for creating an index for a structured document based on a stylesheet |
| Nov-23-2004 |
One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that generates an index to facilitate searching through text within a document based upon an index stylesheet associated with the document. The... |
| 6823491 |
System and method for a dynamically integrated search engine |
| Nov-23-2004 |
A system and method for dynamically integrating a site specific search engine. In one embodiment, a hidden HTML tag is used on web pages to identify the site specific search engine for the web site. When... |
| 6823490 |
Enhanced position control of web pages |
| Nov-23-2004 |
A solution is presented to keep track of the URLs that have been visited within an HTML file, identify the location or exit point of the last line that was displayed on a screen in a multi-screen HTML... |
| 6820236 |
Click ahead browser function |
| Nov-16-2004 |
A method of accessing remote electronic documents, such as those stored on a network, by recording link information regarding one or more document links embedded in an electronic document, selecting the... |
| 6820235 |
Clinical trial data management system and method |
| Nov-16-2004 |
A system and method for managing clinical trial data includes dynamically generating, at a server, a data entry form to be displayed at a client. The data entry form is generated dynamically in a SGML-derived... |
| 6820094 |
Computer-based document management system |
| Nov-16-2004 |
A computer-based electronic document and/or paper-based document management application program. The program provides an efficient way to automatically import, index, categorize, store, search, retrieve,... |
| 6820075 |
Document-centric system with auto-completion |
| Nov-16-2004 |
An information space is created using a document. Entities from the document and its information space are used to create a database of entities. An auto-completion system uses contextual information surrounding... |
| 6819340 |
Adding a shortcut to a web site |
| Nov-16-2004 |
A method and an apparatus for accessing a web site quickly is provided. Part of the computer software for implementing the present invention will be called "See You Again Shortcut.TM." software in this... |
| 6813746 |
Hierarchical master pages |
| Nov-2-2004 |
A page description is stored that includes a pointer to a lower-level master page description. A pointer to a higher-level master page description is stored in the lower-level master page description.... |
| 6810503 |
Method and apparatus for controlling the timing of the invocation of events within a computer runtime environment |
| Oct-26-2004 |
An invention for specifying and synchronously executing an extensible set of events along a single timeline is disclosed. More specifically, an invention for specifying an extensible set of multimedia... |
| 6802042 |
Method and apparatus for providing calculated and solution-oriented personalized summary-reports to a user through a single user-interface |
| Oct-5-2004 |
An Internet-connected portal system has a data repository, a data-gathering system, a request processor, a plurality of report algorithms, and a report processor. The request processor receives a request... |
| 6799300 |
Document processor |
| Sep-28-2004 |
A document processing apparatus that automatically carries out a transmission operation at the time of a link selection, which selects a telephone number described in the link information without carrying... |
| 6799176 |
Method for scoring documents in a linked database |
| Sep-28-2004 |
A method is presented for scoring documents stored in a network. The method includes identifying links from linking documents to linked documents in the network and determining an importance of the identified... |
| 6792575 |
Automated processing and delivery of media to web servers |
| Sep-14-2004 |
A system using as input original media, an HTML document or browser language having proprietary tags, Web server traffic, and Web-client capabilities to generate an optimized Web media and HTML to refer... |
| 6792572 |
Method and apparatus to approve documents |
| Sep-14-2004 |
A method involves identifying at least one target accounts for a document, and identifying which of the at least one target accounts involve a first approval. At least one target accounts for which a first... |
| 6789231 |
Method and system for providing alternatives for text derived from stochastic input sources |
| Sep-7-2004 |
A computer-implemented method for providing a candidate list of alternatives for a text selection containing text from multiple input sources, each of which can be stochastic (such as a speech recognition... |
| 6785865 |
Discoverability and navigation of hyperlinks via tabs |
| Aug-31-2004 |
A user may discover and navigate among hyperlinks through the use of a keyboard. For example, a user may press a tab key to discover and navigate to a first hyperlink that is part of a hypertext document.... |
| 6785864 |
System and method for notifying of changes in web page hyperlinked documents |
| Aug-31-2004 |
A system and method for notifying a user of changes in a hyperlinked document, the system comprising a computer, a server operatively coupled with the computer, a web browser that executes in the computer,... |
| 6785740 |
Text-messaging server with automatic conversion of keywords into hyperlinks to external files on a network |
| Aug-31-2004 |
An apparatus, a method and a medium for providing and processing information, whereby users of a chat system send easily and rapidly to one another a URL for uniquely designating the location of a file... |
| 6784899 |
Systems and methods for providing rich multimedia messages to remote users using telephones and facsimile machines |
| Aug-31-2004 |
A system for receiving, sending and creating multimedia messages includes an audio communication device, a visual output device, a remote access system and a multimedia message system. The audio communication... |
| 6782505 |
Method and system for generating structured data from semi-structured data sources |
| Aug-24-2004 |
A system and method for generating structured data outputs from a semi-structured data source. The steps of this method include generating an example output from an example generator. The example output... |
| 6779153 |
Creation of web pages through synchronization |
| Aug-17-2004 |
Creation of web pages on hand-held devices such as digital cameras and personal digital assistants (PDAs) is made feasible by a system for generating mark-up language based on a compact template mapping... |
