| 7043688 |
Document processing apparatus capable of increasing printing efficiency by forming virtual document and storage medium |
| May-9-2006 |
When a document is printed and this document contains plural sorts of data such as a document, a presentation material, and a drawing, a virtual document is formed by which these plural data can be printed... |
| 7039861 |
Presentation data-generating device, presentation data-generating system, data-management device, presentation data-generating method and machine-readable storage medium |
| May-2-2006 |
A presentation data-generating device includes a first part for acquiring document data sets, each containing contents to be presented, a second part for acquiring transformation data sets, each defining... |
| 7036073 |
System and method for supporting non-native XML in native XML of a word-processor document |
| Apr-25-2006 |
A system and method for enabling validation of an extensible markup language (XML) document having elements associated with two or more schemata where elements of each schema may be arbitrarily nested... |
| 7036072 |
Method and apparatus for declarative updating of self-describing, structured documents |
| Apr-25-2006 |
The present invention includes a method and device for updating a self-describing, structured document. A further aspect of the present invention is enabling client-based modification of the document.... |
| 7035848 |
System and method for structured news release generation and distribution |
| Apr-25-2006 |
A mechanism for the structured generation of a news release includes in one embodiment, (a) separately specifying the content of each of a plurality of predetermined sections of the news release; (b) storing,... |
| 7032180 |
User interface rendering component environment |
| Apr-18-2006 |
A client software program for use with an embedded device includes an application layer, a programming environment configured to render user interface component areas and query user interface component... |
| 7032172 |
System and method for displaying scale-down picture |
| Apr-18-2006 |
A web document display system and method wherein the web document display system includes a web document retriever for retrieving a web document via a network, a main display for displaying the retrieved... |
| 7028260 |
Text layout in path corner regions |
| Apr-11-2006 |
Techniques for placing base and related characters along a path, where the related character is associated with the base character, include determining a position along the path for the base character,... |
| 7028258 |
Dynamic pagination of text and resizing of image to fit in a document |
| Apr-11-2006 |
Dynamic pagination for electronic documents, such as electronic books, is disclosed. In one embodiment, a computer-implemented method first processes a document made up of at least text, as a number of... |
| 7028257 |
System and method for rapid creation and display of stylized digital content items |
| Apr-11-2006 |
Stylized digital content is rapidly created by reading a first file and a plurality of second files. The first file contains a digital content item and each second file contains at least one style definition.... |
| 7028256 |
Adding white space to a document generating adjusted page sizing |
| Apr-11-2006 |
A method, a computer system and a computer-readable medium having instructions for a processor stored thereon are provided for growing a page on a display. Input indicating a first position or designation... |
| 7028255 |
Self-sizing object placement |
| Apr-11-2006 |
A method and computer program product includes identifying a page layout template having a plurality of dimensions including one or more variable dimensions, the template lacking a size specification for... |
| 7024621 |
Methods and systems for rendering electronic data |
| Apr-4-2006 |
Methods and a system are provided to receive electronic data in their native format and to deliver automatically revised electronic data in a new format and new layout. The received data are decomposed... |
| 7020611 |
User interface selectable real time information delivery system and method |
| Mar-28-2006 |
An information delivery system including a client device and server interconnected by a network passes data files in accordance with a well known protocol. The server creates an audio version of a displayed... |
| 7017124 |
Method for controlling electronic devices using digital recall tool |
| Mar-21-2006 |
In an electronic device that accepts drawn graphic entries and includes a screen display, a tool for storing and recalling elements displayed on the screen enables a user to draw a simple diagonal line... |
| 7010746 |
System and method for constraint-based document generation |
| Mar-7-2006 |
What is disclosed is a system and method for specifying a custom document as a constraint satisfaction problem (CSP) to create the specified document using existing constraint solving algorithms wherein... |
| 7010745 |
Border eliminating device, border eliminating method, and authoring device |
| Mar-7-2006 |
The image input part (3) in an authoring device (1) reads a plurality of pages of a paper publication and creates images of the pages. In the border eliminating part (9) of the authoring... |
| 7009723 |
Method and apparatus for arranging a plurality of orders for printed articles |
| Mar-7-2006 |
A method is provided for arranging a plurality of orders for printed articles in order to reduce wasted space when printing the orders in multiple column's. A plurality of orders for at least one printed... |
| 7007231 |
Document management system employing multi-zone parsing process |
| Feb-28-2006 |
A document management system that converts documents from different sources such as scanners, Fax machines, and workstations into electronic documents and provides file management to manage the document... |
| 7003723 |
System and method for representing and managing pages in a production printing workflow |
| Feb-21-2006 |
A system and method for managing production printing workflow is disclosed. The system includes workflow management software which manages and facilitates the procedural stages of the workflow including... |
| 7003722 |
Method and system for converting a schema-based hierarchical data structure into a flat data structure |
| Feb-21-2006 |
A method and system are provided for converting a hierarchical data structure into a flat data structure based on a schema. The format of the hierarchical data structure may be XML. A hierarchical data... |
| 7003720 |
Electronic shipment planner |
| Feb-21-2006 |
An electronic shipment planner is adapted for electronically presenting shipment and scheduling information to a user. The shipment and scheduling information includes at least one shipment event date.... |
| 7000199 |
Methodology for viewing large strategies via a computer workstation |
| Feb-14-2006 |
The invention herein draws from the design principles of the field of information visualization and provides a series of design principles for the efficient display of large strategies, based in part upon... |
| 7000182 |
assistant for creation of layouts or reports for databases |
| Feb-14-2006 |
An assistant for the creation of layouts/reports for databases is disclosed. A layout for a database is the arrangement of information for the database such as for data entry or screen viewing, and a report... |
| 7000182 |
assistant for creation of layouts or reports for databases |
| Feb-14-2006 |
An assistant for the creation of layouts/reports for databases is disclosed. A layout for a database is the arrangement of information for the database such as for data entry or screen viewing, and a report... |
| 6996774 |
Display of data element indicia based on data types |
| Feb-7-2006 |
When displaying a plurality of data elements, region indicia, defined according to corresponding data types, are displayed. Data element indicia representative of the plurality of data elements are displayed... |
| 6996771 |
Dynamic parameter modification |
| Feb-7-2006 |
Methods and apparatus for the dynamic modification of parameters existing within computing systems are described. An application program runs a Graphical User Interface (GUI) having a navigator panel 152... |
| 6993716 |
Frame rearrangement to support bidirectional languages in a Web application |
| Jan-31-2006 |
A bidirectional frame processing system, method and apparatus. In accordance with the inventive arrangements, a preferred directional orientation can be determined for distributed content. Upon receiving... |
| 6993711 |
Style-sheet output apparatus and method, and style-sheet output system |
| Jan-31-2006 |
Style sheets indicating layouts of a plurality of types are stored in a server. The user of a client computer selects the style sheet having the desired layout. When the user of the client computer subsequently... |
| 6993517 |
Information retrieval system for documents |
| Jan-31-2006 |
Questions and answers associated with each other are stored in a document storage section. A clustering section classifies the answers in the document storage section into clusters based on feature vectors... |
| 6990633 |
Providing a network-based personalized newspaper with personalized content and layout |
| Jan-24-2006 |
A computer network server provides a customized newspaper to a recipient according to recipient profile preferences. The server searches for and obtains article content that is deemed to be of greatest... |
| 6990632 |
Method and system for inferring a schema from a hierarchical data structure for use in a spreadsheet |
| Jan-24-2006 |
A method and system are provided for inferring a schema from an electronic document containing hierarchical data for use in a spreadsheet application program. The electronic document containing the hierarchical... |
| 6990480 |
Information manager method and system |
| Jan-24-2006 |
A system and method for providing a single software package that performs and integrates the same informational tasks that people perform on paper is disclosed. The system includes a user interface called... |
| 6983331 |
Selective display of content |
| Jan-3-2006 |
A method and system for selectively fully displaying additional content in a browser window, without requiring scrolling in more than one direction, based on an available display area. For example, additional... |
| 6981214 |
Virtual editor and related methods for dynamically generating personalized publications |
| Dec-27-2005 |
A document delivery system comprising a data store to receive a plurality of content objects and a virtual editor to dynamically generate a personalized publication for a requesting user. The virtual editor... |
| 6977741 |
Progressive image shift for a saddle-stitched document |
| Dec-20-2005 |
Shifting a page image while it is still in compressed form. The page image is compressed into independent strips that are a full page in the fast scan direction, and a small number of scanlines in the... |
| 6976212 |
Method and apparatus for the construction and use of table-like visualizations of hierarchic material |
| Dec-13-2005 |
A method for the conversion and display of tree-structured information to a "treetable", a table-like display structure, in which each path from a root to a leaf node is represented by a single column,... |
| 6973627 |
Website display emulating a display of an application program |
| Dec-6-2005 |
A website display configured to emulate the look and feel of an application program is created using a border webpage and a content webpage. The border webpage comprises a table having a plurality of border... |
| 6971062 |
Methods for rendering footnotes |
| Nov-29-2005 |
Methods are provided for rendering footnotes to a variety of media. Footnote citations and non footnote data are received and inserted into a unit of media at a beginning location within the unit of media.... |
| 6970749 |
Grouped palette stashing |
| Nov-29-2005 |
Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, implement techniques for representing control functions in a user application. A group of control palettes is provided in an application window... |
| 6968501 |
Document format identification apparatus and method |
| Nov-22-2005 |
To provide a document format identification apparatus capable of correctly identifying a document format even in an environment where a number of types of scanners are used. The document format identification... |
| 6968499 |
Method and apparatus for deciding display information |
| Nov-22-2005 |
Contents to be embedded in a page template or layouts can be dynamically changed without editing an HTML file or correcting a server program such as CGI. A page template is defined with a servlet that... |
| 6966028 |
System and method for a uniform website platform that can be targeted to individual users and environments |
| Nov-15-2005 |
A system and method for a uniform website platform are provided. For a representative embodiment, a website is created so that one or more of its web pages are subdivided into a series of panels. Each... |
| 6965440 |
Print control method and apparatus |
| Nov-15-2005 |
When "store" of intermediate data is designated in a print process, a spooler stores intermediate data and an output job setup file in a spool file. When the stored job is selected, a previewer displays... |
| 6964022 |
Electronic board system |
| Nov-8-2005 |
An electronic board system includes an electronic board having a screen for displaying information of interest to a work group or community, an input device for receiving information from users in a group... |
| 6964016 |
Method of paginating printed material |
| Nov-8-2005 |
A printed material to be folded a plurality of times is paginated by displaying an unfolded leaf and assigning page numbers to pages on the face and back of the unfolded leaf through computer processing.... |
| 6964009 |
Automated media delivery system |
| Nov-8-2005 |
An automatic graphics delivery system that operates in parallel with an existing Web site infrastructure is provided. The system streamlines the post-production process by automating the production of... |
| 6961901 |
System for prioritizing of document presented on constrained receiving station interfaces to users of the internet personalized to each user's needs and interests |
| Nov-1-2005 |
A process in a computer managed communication network such as the World Wide Web with user access via a plurality of data processor controlled interactive display stations and with a system for displaying... |
| 6957383 |
System and method for dynamically updating a site map and table of contents for site content changes |
| Oct-18-2005 |
A web site is broken up into main topical content areas. Each area shows a list of content items that the user can link to, displayed using views. A site map and table of contents read these views to determine... |
| 6952661 |
System and method for abstracting and visualizing a rout map |
| Oct-4-2005 |
A system and method for making computer-generated maps includes a different scale factor for each road in a route. The scale factors are used to optimize the route map against a target function that considers... |