| 6763497 |
Method and apparatus for displaying computer program errors as hypertext |
| Jul-13-2004 |
According to one embodiment a method and apparatus for displaying the path of a computer program error as a sequence of hypertext documents in a computer system having a display is disclosed. The method... |
| 6763122 |
Watermarking an image in color plane separations and detecting such watermarks |
| Jul-13-2004 |
Colored images are divided into color planes and watermarks are inserted into the individual color planes. One or more watermarks can be inserted into one or more of the color planes. In order to print... |
| 6760638 |
Method and apparatus for resolving overlaps in a layout containing possibly overlapping designs |
| Jul-6-2004 |
A method and apparatus for resolving on a computer system overlaps in a layout including a plurality of possibly overlapping designs, each design including an image and a design mask defining the border... |
| 6751779 |
Apparatus and method for processing document image |
| Jun-15-2004 |
In a document image processing apparatus, a document image is inputted as image data from an image inputting section. In a layout analyzing section, the layout of the document image is analyzed on the... |
| 6751778 |
Information server systems and methods of rendering information pages |
| Jun-15-2004 |
Methods and systems for rendering information pages are described. A page is divided into panes which are rendered by individual pane renderers. The pane renderers can be shared between pages, or even... |
| 6735740 |
Document composite image display method and device utilizing categorized partial images |
| May-11-2004 |
One document image is divided according to attributes such as a character, a graphic, a table, etc., and the divided partial images are stored as one file. For example, each of the partial images is stored... |
| 6731309 |
Real time preview |
| May-4-2004 |
Computer software applications presently allow the User to preview the impact of some commands on active documents via a small preview window. However, such preview windows are not representative of how... |
| 6725423 |
Laying out markup language paragraphs independently of other paragraphs |
| Apr-20-2004 |
A display process is carried out in high speed without changing a structure of a structured document. Within structural information of a structured document, a paragraph-forming element is obtained in... |
| 6721286 |
Method and apparatus for device interaction by format |
| Apr-13-2004 |
A method of passing information between two or more information handling devices is described. Such information handling devices might be a printer 342, a personal computer 343, or a scanner 344. Means... |
| 6718517 |
Methods of and computer readable media for automatically setting up page files for labels for compact disc media |
| Apr-6-2004 |
Methods and computer readable media generate a page file representing a compact disc label sheet having label blanks thereon for one or both of a compact disc case or a compact disc. The sheet may have... |
| 6708309 |
Method and system for viewing scalable documents |
| Mar-16-2004 |
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... |
| 6701308 |
Method and apparatus for fixed format word processing |
| Mar-2-2004 |
The concept of database management is employed in the field of word processing, thereby strengthening the format design characteristics so as to simplify word processing with repeating formats and repeating... |
| 6697999 |
Computer-based automatic document formatting method |
| Feb-24-2004 |
A computer-based method for improved automatic formatting of a document provides easier accepting and rejecting of formatting actions made by the automatic formatting method. In particular, the user inputs... |
| 6697825 |
Method and apparatus for generating and modifying multiple instances of element of a web site |
| Feb-24-2004 |
A technique for modifying a web site generated in accordance with received data entry by: determining at least one characteristic of at least one web site dimension of the web site based on the data entry;... |
| 6694053 |
Method and apparatus for performing document structure analysis |
| Feb-17-2004 |
The present invention is directed to a method and an apparatus for performing document analysis. The apparatus of the present invention comprises logic configured to recognize and label structures in a... |
| 6683631 |
System and method for selecting and deselecting information in an electronic document |
| Jan-27-2004 |
A system and method processes selected regions in an electronic text to edit the selected region on a continuous basis, without destroying the original highlighting and forcing the user to re-bracket the... |
| 6681223 |
System and method of performing profile matching with a structured document |
| Jan-20-2004 |
A profile matching system and associated method match the path expressions in a structured or semi-structured document, such as an XML document, to an indexed resource. The system, having assigned weighting... |
| 6678866 |
Notification information display apparatus notification information display system and recording medium |
| Jan-13-2004 |
An advertising information memory area for storing advertising information for displaying prescribed advertisement, and a label information memory area for storing label information for presenting a space... |
| 6675351 |
Table layout for a small footprint device |
| Jan-6-2004 |
An efficient method is described for laying out a table for display. The method may be used to display tables on a small footprint device, such as a smart cellular phone, a personal data assistant, a handheld... |
| 6672212 |
Single print job emulation of multiple TIFF files |
| Jan-6-2004 |
Methods and apparatus for printing multiple TIFF files as a single print job are disclosed. Multiple-TIFF-file data is concatenated into a single stream, without completely merging the data into a single... |
| 6668355 |
Text editing system |
| Dec-23-2003 |
The present invention relates to a text editing system with a line end line feed function and an indentation function. In particular, a line end position Pg is stored in advance in a line end position... |
| 6668354 |
Automatic display script and style sheet generation |
| Dec-23-2003 |
A system for automatically generating a style sheet includes a parser for generating a document type graph in accordance with an input structure, a graphical user interface tool for interactively mapping... |
| 6665841 |
Transmission of subsets of layout objects at different resolutions |
| Dec-16-2003 |
In a document search and retrieval system, document images are segmented into layout objects. Each layout object identifies different structural elements in a document image. In addition, the system computes... |
| 6665840 |
System and method for run time generation of potential label positions |
| Dec-16-2003 |
A system and method for generating multiple potential label positions for a polygon at run time, rather than selecting from pre-configured label positions. The present invention analyzes the visible portion... |
| 6662343 |
Cool ice automatic footer text on HTML pages |
| Dec-9-2003 |
An apparatus for and method of utilizing an internet terminal coupled to the world wide web to access an existing proprietary data base management system having a dialog-based request format. The user... |
| 6654009 |
Method and apparatus for arranging entities in a two-dimensional lattice |
| Nov-25-2003 |
A method for arranging entities in a two-dimensional lattice including the steps of determining all applicable two-dimensional lattice forms from a predetermined group of lattice forms for a predetermined... |
| 6647533 |
Incremental algorithms for optimal linebreaking in text layout |
| Nov-11-2003 |
A computer-implemented incremental algorithm for updating globally optimized linebreaks for a paragraph following a change to that paragraph takes advantage of the fact that in many cases, the effect of... |
| 6643825 |
Methods, systems, and computer program products for applying styles to host screens based on host screen content |
| Nov-4-2003 |
Screens generated by a host application are reformatted for viewing by applying styles to the host screens in response to recognized components included therein. In particular, a style defines a desired... |
| 6639611 |
System and method for efficient layout of a display table |
| Oct-28-2003 |
A system and method for efficient layout of a display table. Given a description of a table, such as a markup language description, the table description may be parsed and data structures representing... |
| 6636648 |
Albuming method with automatic page layout |
| Oct-21-2003 |
An albuming method includes the automatic adaptation of the page layout of a plurality of images to a boundary condition of an event. The method includes the steps of receiving a plurality of images having... |
| 6633859 |
Knowledge system with distinct presentation and model structure |
| Oct-14-2003 |
A knowledge-based system enables one knowledge model to generate multiple presentations. A domain expert, thus, can build a hierarchical collection of "knowledge blocks" that fully characterize all aspects... |
| 6632250 |
Method and system for creating a card |
| Oct-14-2003 |
A card creation method and system includes defining a data entry screen including a plurality of screen fields and creating at least one card layout, including defining specific positions for a plurality... |
| 6631498 |
Adaptive rendering of hypermedia documents |
| Oct-7-2003 |
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.... |
| 6631375 |
Administration and search and replace of computerized prepress |
| Oct-7-2003 |
Computerized client/server prepress using a downloadable document authoring program. A server has stored thereon a document authoring program. The program is adapted to download to a client computer and... |
| 6626959 |
Automatic formatting of pivot table reports within a spreadsheet |
| Sep-30-2003 |
Automatically formatting a spreadsheet pivot table using one of a plurality of predefined formats that include banded report formats and tabular report formats. The pivot table is reformatted automatically,... |
| 6626958 |
Adaptive rendering of hypermedia documents |
| Sep-30-2003 |
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.... |
| 6620206 |
White space equalization around features placed on a page |
| Sep-16-2003 |
A method for the equalization of white space around multiple placements of photographs or other placement items with optional, associated captions on a medium such as a page or a computer screen. The method... |
| 6606105 |
Layer enhancements in digital illustration system |
| Aug-12-2003 |
Methods and apparatus, including computer program apparatus, implementing techniques for displaying information to a user of a system for editing documents containing digital artwork objects and for creating... |
| 6601057 |
Method and apparatus for generating and modifying multiple instances of an element of a web site |
| Jul-29-2003 |
A technique for modifying a web site generated in accordance with received data entry by: determining at least one characteristic of at least one web site dimension of the web site based on the data entry;... |
| 6596032 |
Document processing apparatus storing and modifying data using effect data |
| Jul-22-2003 |
A document processing apparatus simplifies a user's manipulations for selecting a layout or inserting a part into a selected layout, and enables a user to increase the number of parts the user can choose... |
| 6589292 |
Electronic publishing system |
| Jul-8-2003 |
The present invention has application in electronic and printed media such as newspapers, magazines and computer text systems. The present invention relates to a mechanism by which text and images for... |
| 6589291 |
Dynamically determining the most appropriate location for style sheet application |
| Jul-8-2003 |
A method, system, and computer-readable code for dynamically determining the most appropriate location for applying style sheets. The style sheets may be applied on a server (and/or Web proxy), or on a... |
| 6565610 |
Method and system for text placement when forming maps |
| May-20-2003 |
A text placement program is disclosed. The text placement program provides for placement of text, such as names of geographic features, on a map image. A plurality of candidate locations for text placement... |
| 6565607 |
Labeling system and process |
| May-20-2003 |
A network system is provide which includes a computer with a monitor and a storage device and a printer separate from the computer. A computer program is provided for creating a file that when sent to... |
| 6562077 |
Sorting image segments into clusters based on a distance measurement |
| May-13-2003 |
A programming interface of document search system enables a user to dynamically specifying features of documents recorded in a corpus of documents. The programming interface provides category and format... |
| 6549935 |
Method of distributing documents having common components to a plurality of destinations |
| Apr-15-2003 |
A method of distributing documents, via a communications network, to a plurality of receiving stations associated with a plurality of users. At least one document layout is pointcast to each receiving... |
| 6546400 |
Method and system for creating trading cards |
| Apr-8-2003 |
Statistical data relating to the performance of a person in an activity, such as a sporting activity, may be stored in a memory storage device. One or more digital images may also be stored in the memory... |
| 6538765 |
Output image data generation memory medium, device and printer |
| Mar-25-2003 |
An improvement in the technique to create output image includes creating on output template data by automatically replacing template character train data, which is created based on an output format, with... |
| 6510441 |
Optimal line break determination |
| Jan-21-2003 |
Method and apparatus divide a paragraph of text into lines. The invention determines possible line breaks for multiple lines from a portion of the paragraph and selects an optimal line break that produces... |
| 6499023 |
Data item evaluation based on the combination of multiple factors |
| Dec-24-2002 |
An object-focused workflow system for processing a received object in accordance with a declarative workflow specification. The specification includes modules and attributes, where module execution results... |
