| 6950984 |
Method, system for, and program product for generating a display rule for a structured document, and for changing a structured document and its document type definition |
| Sep-27-2005 |
A technique is provided for automatically and visually generating a display rule for a structured document based on an exemplary operation. Base display rule generation means 21 generates a first display... |
| 6948119 |
Automated paragraph layout |
| Sep-20-2005 |
A technique for automated paragraph layout identifies possible lines within a paragraph in a top-down pass through the paragraph, selects a combination of the possible lines in a bottom-up pass through... |
| 6944823 |
Outline forming apparatus and method using inputted weight information |
| Sep-13-2005 |
An outline forming apparatus stores first information indicating positions of first outline points for forming an outline of a pattern having a predetermined weight. The apparatus also stores second information,... |
| 6944818 |
Method and apparatus for the viewing and exploration of the content of hierarchical information |
| Sep-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,... |
| 6944612 |
Structured contextual clustering method and system in a federated search engine |
| Sep-13-2005 |
A federated search engine groups search results from information sources using attributes of the search results. In grouping the search results, a first set and a second set of attributes are extracted... |
| 6941507 |
Insertion point bungee space tool |
| Sep-6-2005 |
A computer system and method for providing user feedback when creating, modifying, or editing electronic documents. An insertion point icon is placed in a document at a position for insertion and/or deletion... |
| 6940528 |
Display-service providing system and image display apparatus |
| Sep-6-2005 |
The invention provides a display-service providing system in which an image display apparatus, such as a projector, simultaneously displays a plurality of image data on a display section and the display... |
| 6931591 |
Publishing layout wizard |
| Aug-16-2005 |
The present invention facilitates the specification and distribution of templated content materials by a content provider over an information exchange network such as the Internet. The present invention... |
| 6928611 |
Setting text composition spacing amount |
| Aug-9-2005 |
Methods and apparatus for setting a text composition spacing amount in a DTP system. An inter-character class spacing amount setting table for use in line composition groups similar characters, forms a... |
| 6928610 |
Automatic layout of content in a design for a medium |
| Aug-9-2005 |
A three-way separation of information in a document includes content, design and media aspects. This division supports automatic rendering to multiple forms of media such as print, Intranet, Internet,... |
| 6925613 |
Strobe reading technology and device |
| Aug-2-2005 |
A method and device for displaying electronic text on a screen is disclosed, comprising presenting text as a single word display of a particular duration plus a non-text gap, and continuing this single... |
| 6922718 |
Method and system for participating locations in a multi-point video conference |
| Jul-26-2005 |
A multi-point video conferencing system and method for managing display of images of multiple participating locations and bandwidth allocated for a multi-point video conference. The multi-point video conferencing... |
| 6920617 |
System and methods for distributing digital content |
| Jul-19-2005 |
A digital content distribution system that is suitable for outputting digital content in a layout that is easy to view for a user is provided. The system can include a content distribution terminal that... |
| 6920606 |
Custom computer wallpaper and marketing system and method |
| Jul-19-2005 |
An interactive system and method is disclosed for providing wallpaper or screen saver images for display on the background of a personal computer visual display. Wallpaper (or screen saver) images may... |
| 6919910 |
Apparatus and method for distributing representative images in partitioned areas of a three-dimensional graphical environment |
| Jul-19-2005 |
An apparatus and method for distributing representative images of a plurality of data objects within a database within a partitioned three-dimensional graphical environment is described. According to the... |
| 6915484 |
Text reflow in a structured document |
| Jul-5-2005 |
A method and computer program product for reflowing a PDL page without using the original application used to create the PDL page. The method and computer program product include receive a page represented... |
| 6910843 |
Cover authoring systems and methods and bookbinding systems incorporating the same |
| Jun-28-2005 |
Cover authoring systems and methods for automatically composing a final content layout for a cover, including spinal content formatted to accommodate the width and height dimensions of the book spine,... |
| 6907566 |
Method and system for optimum placement of advertisements on a webpage |
| Jun-14-2005 |
A method and system for placement of graphical objects on a page to optimize the occurrence of an event associated with such objects. The graphical objects might include, for instance, advertisements on... |
| 6901555 |
Tree visualization system and method based upon a compressed half-plane model of hyperbolic geometry |
| May-31-2005 |
A node-link structure is displayed within a display area, having a narrow rectangular shape with an edge along one side acting as a horizon of a hyperbolic space half-plane. Lower level node features that... |
| 6898316 |
Multiple image area detection in a digital image |
| May-24-2005 |
A method for detecting an image area in a digital image includes identifying in the digital image a first image region indicative of a background area and a second image region indicative of the image... |
| 6895549 |
Method and apparatus for generating a variable data file to be used to generate custom printed articles |
| May-17-2005 |
A method is provided for generating a variable data file to be used to generate custom printed articles. A template including a plurality of tokens is read, and a data structure including a plurality of... |
| 6892346 |
Collapsing event display for small screen computer |
| May-10-2005 |
The present invention provides an ability to generate a different layout on the screen of a calendering program. The program generates customized time slots according to the start and end points of the... |
| 6886034 |
Method and system for viewing scalable documents |
| Apr-26-2005 |
A method and system for on-line proofing of documents, including the steps of sending by a client computer a document request to a document server computer, transmitting a proof document from the document... |
| 6879943 |
Document processing apparatus and method |
| Apr-12-2005 |
This invention is to provide an information processing system and method in which when the paper size of a document is to be changed, layout constituent elements are rearranged while keeping margin sizes... |
| 6868524 |
Method and apparatus for text layout across a region |
| Mar-15-2005 |
The present invention displays text within a region by identifying text boxes within the region. To identify the text boxes, the invention uses scan lines that are spaced at intervals that are smaller... |
| 6867877 |
Printer and printing method |
| Mar-15-2005 |
A data acquisition portion 7 acquires any one of the composition data from a frame card in a case where the identifier of the whole file represents composition data and acquires image data from a memory... |
| 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... |
| 6854087 |
Document editing apparatus |
| Feb-8-2005 |
The invention provides an apparatus for reproducing the state in which an editor has added and described a comment to a document while what description content the editor is viewing so that the intention... |
| 6845483 |
System and method for generating electronic documents having independently formattable regions |
| Jan-18-2005 |
A system and method for generating a single electronic document having independently formatted regions. Different regions of a document are given attributes according to a set of region records, which... |
| 6845273 |
Method and system for replacing content in a digital version of a mass-produced printed paper |
| Jan-18-2005 |
A method performed by a computer system. The method includes storing a first version of a mass-produced printed paper, the first version having a first digital format. The method also includes replacing... |
| 6831754 |
System for sending and printing images |
| Dec-14-2004 |
The present disclosure relates to a method for sending digital images to a recipient using a sender printer. The method comprises receiving a digital camera memory card with the printer and sending an... |
| 6826727 |
Apparatus, methods, programming for automatically laying out documents |
| Nov-30-2004 |
A computerized system lays out document templates represented as a tree of text and shape elements, including variable elements. The user can define a shape element to have a maximize or minimize property... |
| 6826567 |
Registration method and search method for structured documents |
| Nov-30-2004 |
A registration/search method for structured documents where correspondence data is prepared between a fixed-length-string and a string occurrence position within a structured document for all fixed-length-strings... |
| 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.... |
| 6810401 |
Automated configuration system and method |
| Oct-26-2004 |
An automated configuration system (and method) is provided for facilitating the configuration of desired products, services, or other assemblages that require users to gather and assimilate disparate knowledge... |
| 6807676 |
Methods of formatting data to maximize the readability and the amount of song identification information displayed on a limited number of lines |
| Oct-19-2004 |
A method of formatting data to maximize the readability of song identification (ID) information displayed on a monitor screen and a method of formatting data to maximize the amount of song ID information... |
| 6804677 |
Encoding semi-structured data for efficient search and browsing |
| Oct-12-2004 |
A method for encoding XML tree data that includes the step of encoding the semi-structured data into strings of arbitrary length in a way that maintains non-structural and structural information about... |
| 6799298 |
Technique for locating an item of interest within a stored representation of data |
| Sep-28-2004 |
According to the present invention, a technique for locating an item of interest within a stored representation of data is disclosed. The item of interest is preferably located within a particular one... |
| 6792576 |
System and method of automatic wrapper grammar generation |
| Sep-14-2004 |
A method for generating a wrapper grammar for a file having a structure of a particular format includes providing at least one sample file of the particular format, where the particular format comprises... |
| 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... |
| 6791579 |
Method of enhancing streaming media content |
| Sep-14-2004 |
A graphical user interface, providing local drag and drop functions, is employed to position text and graphic elements on a video frame image. Frame number, element position, and element attributes are... |
| 6791571 |
Absolute and relative coordinate based format description system and method |
| Sep-14-2004 |
The present invention is embodied in an absolute and relative coordinate based format description system and method for displaying information, such as text, graphics, audio/visual multimedia, hyperlinks,... |
| 6782507 |
Document size management method and data processing computer program |
| Aug-24-2004 |
A document size management method enables the configuration of a virtual document size from at least two standard document sizes. Virtual page dimensions are sent corresponding to maximum overlapping dimensions... |
| 6782141 |
Ordering a plurality of objects |
| Aug-24-2004 |
The method comprises a first determining step 104, a measuring step 110, a second determining step 112, and a re-ordering step 114. In the first determining step 104, the method determines a line between... |
| 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... |
| 6772396 |
Content distribution system for network environments |
| Aug-3-2004 |
A method and apparatus for republishing content to multiple target server computers such that the content is automatically customized for each target site. Users on client computers can then view the customized... |
| 6772144 |
Method and apparatus for applying an adaptive layout process to a layout template |
| Aug-3-2004 |
A system retrieves a first template associated with data identified in a data request. A second template is generated using the first template and a device description, which is associated with a device... |
| 6769096 |
System and method for updating a table of contents in a frameset |
| Jul-27-2004 |
A self-updating frameset having a target document in one frame and a Table-of-Contents (TOC) document in another frame hyperlinked to the target document. A reference document (RD) field is inserted into... |
| 6766362 |
Providing a network-based personalized newspaper with personalized content and layout |
| Jul-20-2004 |
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... |
| 6765689 |
Method and system for preparing printed matter |
| Jul-20-2004 |
A method and system are provided for preparing printed matter. The method is particularly well-suited for the Internet. Herein, an account holder provides information related to a desired type of printed... |
