| 6490604 |
Character information processing device equipped with a layout display function |
| Dec-3-2002 |
Tape printing device 1 is provided with the second and third screen modes M1 and M2, in which the input document and its layout can be simultaneously displayed on the same screen. These modes can be switched... |
| 6473096 |
Device and method for generating scenario suitable for use as presentation materials |
| Oct-29-2002 |
Described herein are a device and a method of generating a scenario used for presentation materials. A descriptive operation input part is used to perform descriptive operation while contents retained... |
| 6463461 |
System for communicating information among a group of participants |
| Oct-8-2002 |
A system is described that can be used to communicate information among a group of participants. A participant may create an electronic form specifying a list of network addresses corresponding to other... |
| 6453078 |
Selecting, arranging, and printing digital images from thumbnail images |
| Sep-17-2002 |
A method for selecting and arranging digital images to be printed from a group of thumbnail images is disclosed. The method comprises the steps of displaying the group of thumbnail images; selecting, from... |
| 6446100 |
Variable imaging using an electronic press |
| Sep-3-2002 |
An apparatus and method for controlling an electronic press develops first and second sets of template data representing associated first and second template pages, respectively, wherein each set of template... |
| 6446099 |
Document matching using structural information |
| Sep-3-2002 |
A method and apparatus for document matching using structural information. The present invention provides a method and apparatus for identifying documents based on the visual structure of the document.... |
| 6442555 |
Automatic categorization of documents using document signatures |
| Aug-27-2002 |
A method of quickly and automatically comparing a new document to a large number of previously seen documents and identifying the document type. First, provide a plurality of document type distributions,... |
| 6438219 |
System, method and computer program product for achieving local number portability costing support |
| Aug-20-2002 |
A system, method and computer program product for achieving local number portability (LNP) costing and network management support is disclosed. The disclosure includes a LNP graphical user interface (GUI)... |
| 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.... |
| 6417931 |
Print layout device, print layout method, and storage medium |
| Jul-9-2002 |
Provided are a print layout device, a print layout method and a storage medium therefor with which all data can always be printed by ensuring that data to be printed do not extend out beyond the limits... |
| 6415555 |
System and method for accepting customer orders |
| Jul-9-2002 |
A kiosk system and method is provided for accepting and processing customer orders and payments in a retail environment. The kiosk system and method is particularly applicable to the restaurant business... |
| 6415306 |
Method for selecting next feature for placement on a page |
| Jul-2-2002 |
A Method for selecting a placement, on a medium such as a page or a computer screen, of a photograph or another placement item with optional, associated caption from a set of multiple placement items.... |
| 6411299 |
Processing text for display on medical images |
| Jun-25-2002 |
A graphic workstation receives digitized medical images and the user creates textual information that is to be displayed on the images. The text along with associated properties are packaged as a data... |
| 6366918 |
Computer-implemented optimization of publication layouts |
| Apr-2-2002 |
A computer-implemented method, apparatus, and article of manufacture optimizes publication layouts using a genetic algorithm approach. In a timely manner, the computer-implemented invention generates and... |
| 6353840 |
User-defined search template for extracting information from documents |
| Mar-5-2002 |
The document processing system includes a database generation unit for generating predetermined bases from documents and a user-defined search template generation unit for generating a user-defined search... |
| 6332149 |
Imposition process and apparatus for variable imaging system |
| Dec-18-2001 |
The present invention comprises an apparatus and method for reproducing master and variable information on a display device, such as a computer network or a demand printer. The present invention develops... |
| 6327599 |
Apparatus for controlling an electronic press to print fixed and variable information |
| Dec-4-2001 |
An apparatus and method for controlling an electronic press develops first and second sets of template data representing associated first and second template pages, respectively. Each set of template data... |
| 6327387 |
Apparatus and method for extracting management information from image |
| Dec-4-2001 |
A management information extraction apparatus learns the structure of ruled lines of a document and the position of user-specified management information such as a title, etc. during a form learning process,... |
| 6326970 |
TV centric layout |
| Dec-4-2001 |
Displaying a hypermedia document such as an HTML web page on a television display without using horizontal scroll bars, while preserving the look and feel of the web page as originally contemplated by... |
| 6324555 |
Comparing contents of electronic documents |
| Nov-27-2001 |
A method is described which compares contents-rich documents page by page and creates a difference document of paired pages. The pages are compared, in that order, based on their marking operators, on... |
| 6324554 |
Character processing apparatus |
| Nov-27-2001 |
A character processing apparatus provides improved layout and formatting. In a preferred embodiment, the character processing apparatus includes a character data memory for storing a plurality of groups... |
| 6321243 |
Laying out a paragraph by defining all the characters as a single text run by substituting, and then positioning the glyphs |
| Nov-20-2001 |
Laying out a paragraph using a layout services library. An entire paragraph is defined as a single text run. The text run is laid out by substituting glyphs for the characters of the text run and then... |
| 6320671 |
Web browser printing enhancements |
| Nov-20-2001 |
A method and system for printing web pages from an intra- or internet source with a client computer. The client computer is capable of accessing and viewing a web page from an intra- or internet source... |
| 6314424 |
System and method for dynamically expanding and collapsing a tree view for an HTML web interface |
| Nov-6-2001 |
The present invention provides a system and method for expanding and collapsing a tree view from a web interface by using HTML to build the visual representation of the web server's information structure,... |
| 6298358 |
Method and apparatus for removing blank space from a document to be displayed |
| Oct-2-2001 |
A technique for removing blank space from an input page that includes a plurality of lines of text is provided. A plurality of objects are defined to represent the lines of text. A size is determined for... |
| 6288719 |
System and method of constructing a photo album |
| Sep-11-2001 |
A method of constructing a photo album wherein a plurality of digital images are provided in a low resolution format on sticker sheets that have a unique identifier that cross references the reduced resolution... |
| 6285460 |
Image processing apparatus having a mode for laying out a predetermined number of pages of a document on a single sheet for recording |
| Sep-4-2001 |
An image processing system includes an input device which inputs an n page document, with the n pages being reduced in size so that a predetermined number of the n pages can be layed out in a layout print... |
| 6266661 |
Method and apparatus for maintaining multi-instance database management systems with hierarchical inheritance and cross-hierarchy overrides |
| Jul-24-2001 |
An application configuration system including a database, a preprocessed configuration ("PPC") service processor that communicates with the database, a data exchange system preprocessed configuration application... |
| 6259771 |
Web based voice response system |
| Jul-10-2001 |
A telephone announcement system 10 has a URL computer 30 that accesses announcements stored on Internet sites 41-44. Subscribers may enter the sites 41-44 to create or change announcements. |
| 6256650 |
Method and system for automatically causing editable text to substantially occupy a text frame |
| Jul-3-2001 |
A method and system for causing editable text to substantially occupy an associated text frame. The system and method operate in a standard text editing environment of a text editing application program.... |
| 6247011 |
Computerized prepress authoring for document creation |
| Jun-12-2001 |
Computerized prepress is disclosed. In one embodiment, a computerized prepress system includes three components: a server, a client and a printer. The server has stored thereon an authoring program to... |
| 6232967 |
Web browser column control |
| May-15-2001 |
Web browser interaction with HTML files is modified to allow for columns of row headings to be defined as non-scrollable so that the headings will always be visible as the data rows are scrolled to the... |
| 6226658 |
Layout code tuning in universally readable document files |
| May-1-2001 |
Page layout code in so-called "universal" document file formats (such as RTF) is customized to make the file format more universally compatible with word processor applications software across a spectrum... |
| 6226648 |
System and method for modification of included files used in a automatic web page generation system |
| May-1-2001 |
A collaborative Internet data mining system for facilitating a group effort from a plurality of guides to the Internet, by automatically processing the information provided by the guides and thereby create... |
| 6223191 |
Method and apparatus for automatically formatting multiple lines of text in a word processor |
| Apr-24-2001 |
A text formatter for a word processor formats text as groups of words, a group being more than a single line at a time. The formatter determines the minimum number of lines required to hold the formatted... |
| 6222947 |
Image editing apparatus and method and medium on which programs are recorded |
| Apr-24-2001 |
An image editing apparatus for laying out a plurality of images input from an image input unit to a plurality of pages includes an input unit for inputting the number of images to be laid out on one page,... |
| 6216142 |
Desk top publishing method of laying parts on leaf pattern and method of displaying leaf pattern |
| Apr-10-2001 |
Leaf pattern data and parts data representing the shapes of parts including back signatures, register marks, etc. are managed separately from each other. The leaf pattern data includes parts name data... |
| 6209009 |
Method for displaying selectable and non-selectable elements on a small screen |
| Mar-27-2001 |
A structured screen display process presents structured information that includes a plurality of selectable and non-selectable elements on any width screen display so that the user is able to see as many... |
| 6202073 |
Document editing system and method |
| Mar-13-2001 |
A document editing system edits a document which includes image data. A processing script for editing the image data is either selective or nonselective. If the processing script is nonselective, image... |
| 6185589 |
Automatic banner resizing for variable-width web pages using variable width cells of HTML table |
| Feb-6-2001 |
Web page banners are constructed in parts using HTML tables rather than as a single graphical image to allow web page designers to reuse the banner for different window widths without requiring a separate... |
| 6182096 |
Method and apparatus of creating highly portable output files by combining pages from multiple input files |
| Jan-30-2001 |
A method and apparatus for creating a highly portable output file is described. For one embodiment of the present invention, the output file is PostScript file that includes DSC comments. Document comments... |
| 6173286 |
Computer-implemented optimization of publication layouts |
| Jan-9-2001 |
A computer-implemented method, apparatus, and article of manufacture optimizes publication layouts using a genetic algorithm approach. In a timely manner, the computer-implemented invention generates and... |
| 6167382 |
Design and production of print advertising and commercial display materials over the Internet |
| Dec-26-2000 |
A client at a remote site may order each of a series of images from a low resolution image database, and may then assemble these images and text into a marketing piece. Once assembly is complete, the client... |
| 6161114 |
Design engine for fitting content to a medium |
| Dec-12-2000 |
A method of fitting content elements of a composition to a media layout is disclosed. Each content element has an associated content type, and the media layout has a content rendering space for presenting... |
| 6144974 |
Automated layout of content in a page framework |
| Nov-7-2000 |
A method and apparatus for repositioning a content object on a page in response to a request to change the page framework associated with the page, the method including receiving a user request to change... |
| 6134565 |
Apparatus and method for extracting operator selected articles from a plurality of articles within an image of a document |
| Oct-17-2000 |
A device for identifying at least one article within an image of a document, the document including plural articles, with each article including one or more objects. The device performs a first step in... |
| 6128629 |
Method and apparatus for automatically updating data files in a slide presentation program |
| Oct-3-2000 |
A computer-based system and method of updating and viewing an electronic slide show presentation is disclosed. The method includes storing a local version of the slide presentation file and an indication... |
| 6122362 |
Systems and method for providing network element management functionality for managing and provisioning network elements associated with number portability |
| Sep-19-2000 |
The invention provides exemplary systems and methods for provisioning network elements when providing local number portability services. In one exemplary method, local number portability subscription information... |
| 6121970 |
Method and system for HTML-driven interactive image client |
| Sep-19-2000 |
A method for archiving digital data on a server computer, and enabling a user, by means of a client computer, to interactively view a digital image derived from the digital data, including receiving by... |
| 6108677 |
Data processing apparatus |
| Aug-22-2000 |
A data processing apparatus includes a slip file for storing slip records each including item data corresponding to individual item names of the slip records, and a data file for storing data records in... |
