| 6490580 |
Hypervideo information retrieval usingmultimedia |
| Dec-3-2002 |
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... |
| 6490575 |
Distributed network search engine |
| Dec-3-2002 |
A method and system for facilitating a keyword search request initiated at a client station within a multilevel data network, wherein the multilevel data network includes multiple local sites each containing... |
| 6490370 |
System and method for describing multimedia content |
| Dec-3-2002 |
A video processing device and method for generating a descriptor data structure representative of a feature that has been selected from among of plurality of features including visual, conceptual, textual... |
| 6487564 |
Multimedia playing apparatus utilizing synchronization of scenario-defined processing time points with playing of finite-time monomedia item |
| Nov-26-2002 |
A multimedia playing apparatus plays hypermedia titles each consisting of a plurality of monomedia objects including at least one finite time monomedia object such as a video object, which is formatted... |
| 6473894 |
Dynamic runtime and test architecture for Java applets |
| Oct-29-2002 |
A test/run program receives as input a list of identifiers for source pages referencing applets to be tested or run. The test/run program creates an array of the identifiers, together with parameters for... |
| 6473778 |
Generating hypermedia documents from transcriptions of television programs using parallel text alignment |
| Oct-29-2002 |
An apparatus, method and computer program product for generating a hypermedia document from a transcript of a closed-captioned television program using parallel text alignment. The method includes the... |
| 6470345 |
Replacement of substrings in file/directory pathnames with numeric tokens |
| Oct-22-2002 |
A method and system for replacing substrings in file and directory pathnames with numeric tokens. A name string to be converted is first read; the current working directory and name string are canonicalized... |
| 6470235 |
Authoring system and method, and storage medium used therewith |
| Oct-22-2002 |
In an authoring system, a user creates and edits a scenario for a robot by using a GUI screen and a mouse. An authoring tool converts the scenario into a mnemonic code called "RCODE". When an RCODE action-control... |
| 6457025 |
Interstitial advertising display system and method |
| Sep-24-2002 |
A method of display as a user of the Internet uses a client machine during an Internet transaction (e.g., e-mail, file transfer, bulletin board, chat or browsing). The client machine supports a graphical... |
| 6457009 |
Method of searching multiples internet resident databases using search fields in a generic form |
| Sep-24-2002 |
A method of enabling multiple and different remote Internet resident databases to be queried by using search fields in a generic form in a browser by entering field information only once. The multiple... |
| 6456308 |
Embedded web server |
| Sep-24-2002 |
An embedded graphical user interface employs a World-Wide-Web communications and display paradigm. The development environment includes an HTML compiler which recognizes and processes a number of unique... |
| 6453459 |
Menu authoring system and method for automatically performing low-level DVD configuration functions and thereby ease an author's job |
| Sep-17-2002 |
A DVD authoring system in a processor-based system removes an author from consideration of the DVD Specification during authoring. According to a preferred embodiment, the authoring system provides an... |
| 6446095 |
Document processor for processing a document in accordance with a detected degree of importance corresponding to a data link within the document |
| Sep-3-2002 |
A document processor in which a document storage member stores link data and documents composed of texts and link information associated with the link data, comprising: a document gain member for gaining... |
| 6442574 |
Structured document browser |
| Aug-27-2002 |
A structured document browser includes a constant user interface for displaying and viewing sections of a document that is organized according to a pre-defined structure. The structured document browser... |
| 6434687 |
System and method for accelerating web site access and processing utilizing a computer system incorporating reconfigurable processors operating under a single operating system image |
| Aug-13-2002 |
A system and method for accelerating web site access and processing utilizing a multiprocessor computer system incorporating reconfigurable and standard microprocessors as the web site server. One or more... |
| 6434578 |
Generating instruction sequences using independently executable pane renderers |
| Aug-13-2002 |
An information server system is responsive to page specifications to render information pages at a plurality of clients that use different client software and that have widely different characteristics.... |
| 6430583 |
Scenario editing apparatus for performing editing of multimedia using figure feature points |
| Aug-6-2002 |
A scenario editing apparatus for editing of multimedia including an input manager 104 for managing a user's input and selecting specific multimedia data to indicate the presentation position of the selected... |
| 6430568 |
Methods and systems for java inter-applet communication |
| Aug-6-2002 |
Methods and systems for inter-applet communication. The methods and systems of the invention are particularly useful for communication between applets in different frames of an HTML page. Java and HTML... |
| 6430563 |
Integrated knowledge provider with logical hyperlinks |
| Aug-6-2002 |
A system and method for storage and management of multiple versions and context variants of documents in a multi-user environment is provided by a three-tiered content system/model for storage and a context... |
| 6430554 |
Interactive system for investigating products on a network |
| Aug-6-2002 |
An interactive search system for use primarily with a global computer network, e.g., the Internet, using a search identifying barcode, such as a UPC code, to rapidly and effectively obtain a supply of... |
| 6424978 |
Formatting card-based hypermedia documents by automatic scripting |
| Jul-23-2002 |
An automatic formatting system programmatically creates an electronic file format for card-based hypermedia documents without the knowledge of the target document format. The script-based formatting system... |
| 6421675 |
Search engine |
| Jul-16-2002 |
The present invention provides for a method of updatig an internet search engine database with the results of a user's selection of specific web page listings from the general web page listing provided... |
| 6417873 |
Systems, methods and computer program products for identifying computer file characteristics that can hinder display via hand-held computing devices |
| Jul-9-2002 |
Systems, methods and computer program products for identifying files from among a plurality of hierarchically-related files within a web site, wherein each of the identified files has one or more characteristics... |
| 6415316 |
Method and apparatus for implementing a web page diary |
| Jul-2-2002 |
A method and apparatus to create a "diary" containing multimedia references to contents of Websites. These references (also called addresses) can be to, for example, text, bookmarks, images, programs,... |
| 6415294 |
Electronic file retrieval method and system |
| Jul-2-2002 |
A method of operating a computer system (1) having a display (6) and being connected to the WWW (4). A Web page is downloaded into a buffer memory (8) of the computer system (1) from the WWW (4), the page... |
| 6408316 |
Bookmark set creation according to user selection of selected pages satisfying a search condition |
| Jun-18-2002 |
A bookmark set is created from search results. First, a search request from a client browser is sent for pages in a distributed database which satisfy a search condition. A set of pages which satisfy the... |
| 6405222 |
Requesting concurrent entries via bookmark set |
| Jun-11-2002 |
Concurrently displaying a set of pages in a distributed database with a minimum of user interaction is disclosed. A set of bookmarked web pages in a browser interface are concurrently displaying a list... |
| 6405221 |
Method and apparatus for creating the appearance of multiple embedded pages of information in a single web browser display |
| Jun-11-2002 |
A method of and apparatus for displaying multiple, user preferentially linked pages of at least one document on a display screen adapted for Web or network viewing of pages of data by a browser program.... |
| 6401075 |
Methods of placing, purchasing and monitoring internet advertising |
| Jun-4-2002 |
Methods for obtaining Internet-type advertisements, modifying those advertisements to fit designated advertising spaces allotted by a plurality of different and unrelated online newspaper websites, and... |
| 6397264 |
Multi-browser client architecture for managing multiple applications having a history list |
| May-28-2002 |
A method and apparatus for implementing a multiple-browser architecture is described. In one embodiment, the apparatus launches an application program in response to a trigger event. In addition, the apparatus... |
| 6397259 |
Method, system and apparatus for packet minimized communications |
| May-28-2002 |
A wireless communications system, apparatus and methods provide packet minimized communications between a wireless client and a proxy server. The methods use novel data compression techniques to enable... |
| 6393469 |
Method and apparatus for publishing hypermedia documents over wide area networks |
| May-21-2002 |
The present invention addresses the critical needs of publishers seeking to create and publish hypermedia content in electronic form across the wide area networks ("WAN's") such as the World Wide Web.... |
| 6392668 |
Client-side system and method for network link differentiation |
| May-21-2002 |
According to the invention, network code (for example, in HTML or XML) corresponding to a displayable portion of network content (such as an Internet Web site) is retrieved into a users' local processing... |
| 6389462 |
Method and apparatus for transparently directing requests for web objects to proxy caches |
| May-14-2002 |
In order to transparently redirect an HTTP connection request that is directed to an origin server (107) to a proxy cache (110-1), a proxy redirector (104) translates the destination address of packets... |
| 6381637 |
Information apparatus having automatic web reading function |
| Apr-30-2002 |
An information apparatus which has access means by which a document on the Internet is accessed and automatic Web tracing means which automatically trace link destinations successively according to a predetermined... |
| 6381593 |
Document information management system |
| Apr-30-2002 |
A document information management system in which a search-engine-compatible interface unit makes a word in a document displayed on the screen to be specified, transfers the specified word to a search... |
| 6377956 |
Automatically configuring product manual by binding document objects in logical structure to proper versions of component documents in a document database |
| Apr-23-2002 |
A system for automatically assembling product manuals based on a product model, a delivery model and a formal configuration specification includes a structure instantiator for instantiating a product manual... |
| 6374271 |
Hypermedia document authoring using a goals outline and a presentation outline |
| Apr-16-2002 |
A hypermedia authoring system enables an author to generate a document using a goals outline and a presentation outline. The goals outline is generated by instantiating document prototypes. A display of... |
| 6370497 |
Natural language transformations for propagating hypertext label changes |
| Apr-9-2002 |
In a page for computer display structured with labels for programmed navigational program links, such as a page programmed in HTML with hypertext link tags, a small amount of simple linguistic case information... |
| 6363386 |
System and method for managing property information related to a resource |
| Mar-26-2002 |
A method is described for managing property information related to a resource such as a computer file or directory. First, a property file is created for storing property information related to the resource.... |
| 6362837 |
Method and apparatus for simultaneously indicating rating value for the first document and display of second document in response to the selection |
| Mar-26-2002 |
A method for navigating within a message thread on a computer system having a memory and a display, includes the steps of displaying a message on the display, displaying an icon on the display, the icon... |
| 6360235 |
Objective measurement and graph theory modeling of web sites |
| Mar-19-2002 |
A machine implemented method of objectively determining attributes of a Web site is disclosed. A Web site located on a network of computers is spidered to determine all objects and hyperlinks associated... |
| 6360215 |
Method and apparatus for retrieving documents based on information other than document content |
| Mar-19-2002 |
A method and apparatus are provided for retrieving documents from a collection of documents based on information other than the contents of a desired document. The collection of documents, which may be... |
| 6359633 |
Apparatus and method for abstracting markup language documents |
| Mar-19-2002 |
An apparatus and a method to generate a hyperlinked abstract from a markup language document by parsing the document to create a syntax tree, analyzing statistically the syntax tree based on at least one... |
| 6356923 |
Document information management system |
| Mar-12-2002 |
The document information management system according to the present invention comprises data base with a plurality of document files previously stored therein, a medium form having a document information... |
| 6356921 |
Framework for progressive hierarchial and adaptive delivery rich media presentations and associated meta data |
| Mar-12-2002 |
A single file contains all information for a complete presentation. Each presentation file contains both data and software for the presentation. It includes both the data and software provided to the user... |
| 6356920 |
Dynamic, hierarchical data exchange system |
| Mar-12-2002 |
A computer system provides the ability to construct and edit a Data Definition File (DDF) containing hierarchically related elements of data, some of which are dynamic in that they must execute in order... |
| 6356910 |
Method and apparatus for a self-service content menu |
| Mar-12-2002 |
A content management system on a Web-site that serves as a end-user access method is disclosed. The prior art of the open hierarchical data structure is used to organize content and provide the basis for... |
| 6353824 |
Method for dynamic presentation of the contents topically rich capsule overviews corresponding to the plurality of documents, resolving co-referentiality in document segments |
| Mar-5-2002 |
A method for the dynamic presentation of the contents of a plurality of documents on a display is disclosed. The method comprises receiving a plurality of documents and providing a plurality of topically... |
| 6353822 |
Program-listing appendix |
| Mar-5-2002 |
Methods and apparatus for assisting a user in retrieving documents or other data items of interest operates in tandem with a conventional document-retrieval facility, such as a web browser, by tracking... |
