| 5940843 |
Information delivery system and method including restriction processing |
| Aug-17-1999 |
The electronic distribution of research documents over the world wide web or other network to investors. A repository server receives research documents from contributors. A restriction subsystem server... |
| 5890178 |
Display of data files indicated by pasting instructing data indicating pasting of a data file in a displayed data file |
| Mar-30-1999 |
An electronic apparatus has a display area of comparatively small surface area and is provided with a function selecting key unit for instructing execution of a plural number of data file preparing functions... |
| 5875441 |
Document database management system and document database retrieving method |
| Feb-23-1999 |
This invention provides a document database management system that reduces time to retrieve a structured document and improves precision of a result of the retrieving. Query input unit inputs a query including... |
| 5864848 |
Goal-driven information interpretation and extraction system |
| Jan-26-1999 |
A proactive interface management system for ascertaining a computer user's goals and automatically extracting untagged data from one or more source objects and applying the data to one or more target objects.... |
| 5857185 |
Method and system for searching and for presenting the search results in an attribute that corresponds to the retrieved documents |
| Jan-5-1999 |
The electronic document database searching system displays search results using a display attribute that corresponds to the attribute of the string in each original electronic document. The system also... |
| 5838906 |
Distributed hypermedia method for automatically invoking external application providing interaction and display of embedded objects within a hypermedia document |
| Nov-17-1998 |
A system allowing a user of a browser program on a computer connected to an open distributed hypermedia system to access and execute an embedded program object. The program object is embedded into a hypermedia... |
| 5818447 |
System and method for in-place editing of an electronic mail message using a separate program |
| Oct-6-1998 |
An email client invokes a DocObject-enabled mail note to display an email message and related features of the user interface. The mail note, which is a DocObject container, creates a DocObject server by... |
| 5806061 |
Method for cost-based optimization over multimeida repositories |
| Sep-8-1998 |
A method for optimizing the cost of searches through a multimedia repository is disclosed where the repository contains a plurality of objects having at least two different attributes such as color in... |
| 5799298 |
Method of indirect specification of user preferences |
| Aug-25-1998 |
A system and method for allowing communication of a large number of parameters from a computer user to an application program with a relatively small amount of interaction. The system uses a plurality... |
| 5794235 |
System and method for dynamic retrieval of relevant information by monitoring active data streams |
| Aug-11-1998 |
A system and method for monitoring the content of incoming data sets and retrieving data sets that may be related to the content of the incoming set. The system and method identify in an incoming data... |
| 5752056 |
System for binding document parts and handlers by fidelity of parts or by automatic translation of parts |
| May-12-1998 |
A computer-human interface employs parts as the basic structural elements of documents. At the time a part is opened, an editor is bound to the part in a manner which makes most efficient use of programs... |
| 5742744 |
Output apparatus and method for establishing a using right for plural data processing units |
| Apr-21-1998 |
An output apparatus and method controls a combination of a plurality of font data stores and a plurality of conversion methods for converting font data to dot pattern data in accordance with a condition... |
| 5682542 |
Language processing system using object networks |
| Oct-28-1997 |
A language processing system using object networks in a computer system which manages and processes as objects the data to be operated on and the functions operating on the data. The objects are classified... |
| 5664227 |
System and method for skimming digital audio/video data |
| Sep-2-1997 |
A method for skimming digital audio and video data, wherein the video data is partitioned into video segments and the audio data has been transcribed, is comprised of the steps of selecting representative... |
| 5652876 |
Method and apparatus for launching files created by non-resident application programs |
| Jul-29-1997 |
A method in a computer system enables the translation and opening of a document which was created by an application program no longer resident in the computer system. The method begins by identifying the... |
| 5630126 |
Systems and methods for integrating computations into compound documents |
| May-13-1997 |
Systems and methods for creating and integrating computations within compound documents wherein a compound document having a plurality of integrated computations is created in a computing environment.... |
| 5606609 |
Electronic document verification system and method |
| Feb-25-1997 |
The integrity or the signator of an electronic document can be verified by embedding a security object, for example, supported by an object linking and embedding (OLE) capability, in the electronic document... |
| 5584035 |
Object based system comprising user interface permitting manipulation of objects by users |
| Dec-10-1996 |
A distributed object based system includes primary and secondary objects. Primary objects can sustain containership links to other objects in the same storage domain and weak links can exist between objects... |
| 5581686 |
Method and system for in-place interaction with contained objects |
| Dec-3-1996 |
A computer method and system for interacting with a containee object contained within a container object. In a preferred embodiment of the present invention, the container object has a container application... |
| 5581677 |
Creating charts and visualizations by demonstration |
| Dec-3-1996 |
A system and method to automatically produce a display chart from example graphics and data values. New or existing example graphics are drawn with a programmable data processing system, and the drawn... |
| 5572728 |
Conference multimedia summary support system and method |
| Nov-5-1996 |
A system and a user interface make it possible to easily edit important items of a program, such as a conference, in a short time using multimedia information. A retrieving file is generated by extracting... |
| 5499369 |
Method and system for connecting objects using alert and running states |
| Mar-12-1996 |
Method and system for connecting link object to a link source. In a preferred embodiment, a source process registers the link source in a running object table when the link source enters a running state.... |
| 5469538 |
Mathematical document editor and method performing live symbolic calculations for use with an electronic book |
| Nov-21-1995 |
A mathematical document editor that can perform live symbolic calculations. The mathematical document editor is capable of placing mathematical expressions at any position on a computer screen, that represents... |
| 5457776 |
Compact memory for mixed text in graphics |
| Oct-10-1995 |
A fast, highly efficient method for storing computer display information (13) which contains both text and graphics (26, 27). The method separates text (26) from graphics (27) compressing, storing each... |
| 5422992 |
Method and system to handle state variables in a document processing language |
| Jun-6-1995 |
A method and apparatus for processing state variables in a hierarchically structured page description language such as SPDL. Each structure level of a document causes the creation of a prologue data structure... |
| 5412774 |
Apparatus for and method of displaying a data item of a database using the display function of a selected data item |
| May-2-1995 |
A method and apparatus of operating a display system for displaying data items stored in an associated database. The database stores a display function for each data item class to be also stored in the... |
| 5408599 |
Editing apparatus for simultaneously editing two different types of data with a single edit command |
| Apr-18-1995 |
Corresponding portions between data having different data formats, such as document data and figure data, are automatically managed to save labors for retrieving or updating. A general editing apparatus... |
| 5398293 |
System for editing image data |
| Mar-14-1995 |
There is provided a system for editing image data in which addition to and correction of image data constructed by a set of dot data can be effected in an extremely simple operation while attaining the... |
| 5285526 |
Method of manipulating elements of a structured document, function key operation being dependent upon current and preceding image element types |
| Feb-8-1994 |
A method is described for manipulating commonly used elements within a structured document. The method takes advantage of a user's intent in selecting certain keystrokes to complete a task. By making assumptions... |
| 5146553 |
Document editing apparatus which activates application programs in response to document data input |
| Sep-8-1992 |
An operator activates a document editing program or editing document data including character strings, graphics and image data with the aid of an input device and a display. In the course of edition of... |
| 5142618 |
Window management apparatus for a document creating apparatus |
| Aug-25-1992 |
A document creating apparatus for creating and editing a document in which a plurality of different types of descriptive element data, such as text data, graph data, pattern data, image data and other... |
| 5051930 |
Method and apparatus for editing documents including a plurality of data of different types |
| Sep-24-1991 |
A documentation system for editing a document in which a plurality of document data of different forms coexist in a mixed fashion and which includes one or more pages each partitioned into a plurality... |
| 4974178 |
Editing apparatus for audio and video information |
| Nov-27-1990 |
Information including pictures, sounds, and characters is inputted. A form of the inputted information is converted into a prescribed format in accordance with properties of the information, and thus converted... |
| 4815029 |
In-line dynamic editor for mixed object documents |
| Mar-21-1989 |
A method for the intelligent, in-line, dynamic editing of documents containing mixed object types on a computer work station is disclosed. The mixed object types may be text objects, draw graphics objects,... |
| 4752908 |
Visualizable and descriptive data handling system |
| Jun-21-1988 |
Visualizable and descriptive data handling system including an assembly comprising a unit for reading a video disk on which images of schematic detailed layouts that can be displayed on a unit screen are... |
| 4686522 |
Method of editing graphic objects in an interactive draw graphic system using implicit editing actions |
| Aug-11-1987 |
A method is described for editing graphic objects in an interactive draw graphic system which selectively displays a menu of available editing actions in response to operation of one mouse button by the... |
