| 6572661 |
System and method for automated annotation of files |
| Jun-3-2003 |
A method and apparatus links descriptions with the thing that is described to allow them to be maintained separately but displayed with one another. The description contains a portion of the thing described... |
| 6572660 |
Method and system for creating hyperlinks and hyperlinked documents from the direct manipulation of information ("Drag and link" operation) |
| Jun-3-2003 |
A method and system for creating hyperlinks and hyperlinked documents from the direct manipulation of information in a hypermedia processing system, or the like, in a fashion that requires little effort... |
| 6569208 |
Method and system for representing a web element for storing and rendering into other formats |
| May-27-2003 |
A system and method are provided for converting two-dimensional data, particularly information in HTML format, into a canonical representation for rendering in aural or other visual forms wherein each... |
| 6569206 |
Facilitation of hypervideo by automatic IR techniques in response to user requests |
| May-27-2003 |
Disclosed is a method and device for selecting documents, such as Web pages or sites, for presentation to a user, in response to a user expression of interest, during the course of presentation to the... |
| 6567980 |
Video cataloger system with hyperlinked output |
| May-20-2003 |
One aspect of the invention is directed to a system and method for video cataloging. The video is cataloged according to predefined or user definable metadata. The metadata is used to index and then retrieve... |
| 6565611 |
Automatic index creation for handwritten digital ink notes |
| May-20-2003 |
A system for automatically generating indexes for handwritten notes captured as digital ink in a computer is disclosed. Ink words are identified, and features of the ink words are computed. Pairwise distances... |
| 6565608 |
Method and system for customizing alert messages |
| May-20-2003 |
Providing custom content that supplements static content displayed in an alert message. In response to detecting a predetermined condition, such as an error condition, the alert message is displayed to... |
| 6560633 |
Method for creating network services by transforming an XML runtime model in response to an iterative input process |
| May-6-2003 |
A method and apparatus for creating network services. Instead of programming or hard coding an entire web service, the invention provides the ability to easily create a module/mechanism (referred to as... |
| 6560605 |
Presentation of link information as an aid to hypermedia navigation |
| May-6-2003 |
A system for presenting hypermedia link information. A computer-implemented method for presenting hypermedia link information is described which relates to the user the characteristics of a data file pointed... |
| 6560600 |
Method and apparatus for ranking Web page search results |
| May-6-2003 |
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... |
| 6558431 |
Storing valid and invalid markup language in strict and relaxed tables respectively |
| May-6-2003 |
The inventive editor allows web authors to edit HTML visually while preserving the HTML source document. The editor preserves the structure and format of the HTML, and permits simultaneous modeless visual... |
| 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,... |
| 6557016 |
Data processing apparatus for facilitating data selection and data processing |
| Apr-29-2003 |
A data processing apparatus which displays a set of document data on a display unit together with an operation menu which has operation items related to the set of document data. In the apparatus, the... |
| 6557015 |
Determining whether a second hypertext document is included in a list of active document trails |
| Apr-29-2003 |
An apparatus, program product, and method utilize a "document trail" to facilitate the location of other documents reachable from a given hypertext document. The document trail includes a plurality of... |
| 6557003 |
Method and apparatus for multiple agent commitment tracking and notification |
| Apr-29-2003 |
A system for tracking client contacts for a host organization utilizes a multimedia database and a user interface at a connected computer device. The database stores client communications as full content,... |
| 6556984 |
Hierarchical string matching using multi-path dynamic programming |
| Apr-29-2003 |
A method, system, and article of manufacture for generating a list of candidate objects for a requested object. An identifier for the requested object is accepted, wherein the identifier comprises a target... |
| 6553410 |
Tailoring data and transmission protocol for efficient interactive data transactions over wide-area networks |
| Apr-22-2003 |
A system is provided for improving data transmission to computers and computerized appliances connected directly or indirectly to the Internet or other wide area data network. In this system software at... |
| 6553393 |
Method for prefetching external resources to embedded objects in a markup language data stream |
| Apr-22-2003 |
A method of outputting a document on a rendering engine in a client in a computer network. The document comprises a markup language data stream having a plurality of references to external resources required... |
| 6547829 |
Method and system for detecting duplicate documents in web crawls |
| Apr-15-2003 |
A Web crawler application takes advantage of a document store's ability to provide a content identifier (CID) having a value that is a unique function of the physical storage location of a data object... |
| 6546397 |
Browser based web site generation tool and run time engine |
| Apr-8-2003 |
A method and apparatus for designing and building a web page. The apparatus includes a browser based build engine including build tools and a user interface. The build tools are operable to construct a... |
| 6542925 |
Generation and distribution of motion commands over a distributed network |
| Apr-1-2003 |
A control software system for generating and distributing motion media for operating a target motion device. The control software system generates the motion media based on a motion program generated at... |
| 6542912 |
Tool for building documents for commerce in trading partner networks and interface definitions based on the documents |
| Apr-1-2003 |
Machine readable documents connect businesses with customers, suppliers and trading partners. The self defining electronic documents, such as XML based documents, can be easily understood amongst the partners.... |
| 6542888 |
Content filtering for electronic documents generated in multiple foreign languages |
| Apr-1-2003 |
A system for collecting and categorizing metadata about content provided via the internet or intranet, regardless of the language of generation of the content. The content of each document is assigned... |
| 6539405 |
Information cross referencing system |
| Mar-25-2003 |
An information cross referencing system facilitates the finding of various bits of information in a reference manual, textbook, computer tutorial, or other reference or educational work. The present system... |
| 6539387 |
Structured focused hypertext data structure |
| Mar-25-2003 |
A structured focused hypertext data structure in which hypertext nodes store identifying information about source and target documents or pages so that their relative positions in a hierarchy and other... |
| 6539370 |
Dynamically generated HTML formatted reports |
| Mar-25-2003 |
A report generating and viewing method (10) for generating and viewing reports (72) over the internet (16). A request from a browser (14) is sent to a server (12) whereupon a generate reports program (38)... |
| 6537324 |
Generating and storing a link correlation table in hypertext documents at the time of storage |
| Mar-25-2003 |
The document information management system according to the present invention includes a hypertext preparing unit for preparing a hypertext. A file unit storing therein correlated information files. A... |
| 6535912 |
Method for creating and playing back a smart bookmark that automatically retrieves a requested Web page through a plurality of intermediate Web pages |
| Mar-18-2003 |
Shortcuts to Web pages that require multiple steps to be retrieved are enabled by means of a smart bookmark. A smart bookmark is a stored sequence of browsing steps performed by a user, that have been... |
| 6526424 |
Browser image display bookmark system |
| Feb-25-2003 |
An image display bookmark system is disclosed. The image display bookmark system comprises a bookmark processing unit and a data storing unit. The bookmark processing unit is disposed in a processing unit.... |
| 6526398 |
Generating labels indicating gaps in retrieval of electronic documents |
| Feb-25-2003 |
A method and apparatus for document management including assigning labels to gaps in document production. The gaps may correspond to events that caused an individual to begin and/or cease production/modification... |
| 6526332 |
Robot control system and method for introducing robot control software |
| Feb-25-2003 |
An articulated robot is controlled by dynamically modifying a combination of a hardware dependent middleware layer and a hardware independent application layer. A memory device for storing a plurality... |
| 6523024 |
Methods for retrieving database with image information |
| Feb-18-2003 |
In a DB retrieval method, a two-step retrieval including quantitative and qualitative retrievals is interactively performed so that, through the operation of image information (e.g. map information) having... |
| 6519617 |
Automated creation of an XML dialect and dynamic generation of a corresponding DTD |
| Feb-11-2003 |
A method, system, and computer-readable code for translating an input document into an Extensible Markup Language (XML) dialect which is well-formed, such that automated, dynamically-selected transformations... |
| 6519616 |
Web site quality assurance system and method |
| Feb-11-2003 |
A system and method for use in assuring the quality of a web site are disclosed. The system and method are particularly directed to the quality assurance of a telephone directory web site that, in response... |
| 6517587 |
Networked architecture for enabling automated gathering of information from Web servers |
| Feb-11-2003 |
A data-gathering and reporting system for collecting WEB summaries from the Internet for individual subscribers to a Portal subscription system has a plurality of gatherer servers each connected to the... |
| 6516329 |
Method of maintaining search results pages |
| Feb-4-2003 |
A method, system, signal, and software program for handling search through the use of a page index. Searches are performed across a plurality of content information sources and content types. For every... |
| 6516321 |
Method for database address specification |
| Feb-4-2003 |
A method for use with a processor which automatically creates hyperlinks between references to records in a record set which appear in a second record and the records in the record set, the method for... |
| 6515656 |
Synchronized spatial-temporal browsing of images for assessment of content |
| Feb-4-2003 |
A method and apparatus for viewing multimedia-based information in accordance with user controls for the speed and direction of the multimedia presentation. Different techniques for presenting multimedia... |
| 6513036 |
Method and apparatus for searching and presenting search result from one or more information sources based on context representations selected from the group of other users |
| Jan-28-2003 |
A method and an apparatus for searching and presenting electronic information from one or more information sources where the retrieval and presentation of information depends on context representations... |
| 6510468 |
Adaptively transforming data from a first computer program for use in a second computer program |
| Jan-21-2003 |
A system for transforming a mainframe application into corresponding web-based application is disclosed. A set of logic rules and data are extracted from the mainframe application. Link objects containing... |
| 6507857 |
Extending the capabilities of an XSL style sheet to include components for content transformation |
| Jan-14-2003 |
Systems and methods consistent with the present invention use a Namespace paradigm to define an external component reference to a style sheet. When the style sheet processor processes the tags in the style... |
| 6507854 |
Enhanced network caching and mirroring system |
| Jan-14-2003 |
A Program product code, a method, and a deviceare disclosed for an enhanced caching and mirroring router which modifies stored web pages in order to indicate the age, time of capture, and which allows... |
| 6505219 |
Process management system wherein process descriptions provide indices to document histories |
| Jan-7-2003 |
Process descriptions are formulated in a process management system to describe the flow of work and organizational responsibility in the performance of organizational processes. The process descriptions,... |
| 6505197 |
System and method for automatically and iteratively mining related terms in a document through relations and patterns of occurrences |
| Jan-7-2003 |
A computer program product is provided as an automatic mining system to identify a set of related terms on the World Wide Web that define a relationship, using the duality concept. Specifically, the mining... |
| 6504554 |
Dynamic conversion of object-oriented programs to tag-based procedural code |
| Jan-7-2003 |
An HTML package of the Windows foundation classes framework allows Java developers to write Java code normally as if they were writing to any user interface framework. The WFC framework converts their... |
| 6496829 |
Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and computer-readable storage medium for storing information processing program |
| Dec-17-2002 |
An information processing apparatus, method and program for managing a bookmark list in which URL information is registered that is used to access other information processing apparatuses in order to obtain... |
| 6493733 |
Method for inserting interactive HTML objects into an electronic file |
| Dec-10-2002 |
A method for automatically inserting an interactive HTML object into an existing web page without the user having any knowledge of programming in HTML or server-side scripts. The method is contained in... |
| 6493731 |
Document management system for recording and viewing the history of document use |
| Dec-10-2002 |
A document management system is adapted to operate with a process management system for recording and viewing metadata of a document. The document metadata is used to record resources referenced while... |
| 6493707 |
Hypervideo: information retrieval using realtime buffers |
| Dec-10-2002 |
Disclosed is a method and device for selecting documents, such as Web pages or sites, for presentation to a user, in response to a user expression of interest, during the course of presentation to the... |
| 6490602 |
Method and apparatus for providing enhanced functionality to product webpages |
| Dec-3-2002 |
A method and apparatus for providing enhanced functionality to product webpages is described. This method and apparatus may be used to provide a unified toolbar across product webpages of multiple, independent... |
