| 7039863 |
Computer generation of documents using layout elements and content elements |
| May-2-2006 |
Bindings are used to describe a document (and a different document) by associating content elements with layout elements, the layout elements defining layout features or placement information to be applied... |
| 7039860 |
Creating web pages category list prior to the list being served to a browser |
| May-2-2006 |
A method, system and computer program product for revising and publishing electronic documents. Two sets of electronic documents are generated and maintained on first and second computers. One set is stored... |
| 7039856 |
Automatic document classification using text and images |
| May-2-2006 |
A method and apparatus for automatic document classification using text and images. The present invention provides a method and apparatus for automatic document classification based on text and image.... |
| 7035910 |
System and method for document isolation |
| Apr-25-2006 |
A computer based system and method of providing document isolation during routing of a document through a workflow is disclosed. The method comprises maintaining a separate "working" copy of the original... |
| 7032167 |
Method and apparatus for a document parser specification |
| Apr-18-2006 |
The present disclosure presents a system for parsing based upon content type, and provides a content-rich set of parsing rules that can be optimized for a wide variety of applications. The present system... |
| 7029121 |
Techniques for facilitating use of eye tracking data |
| Apr-18-2006 |
Individual eye tracking data can be used to determine whether an individual has actually looked at a particular region of a visual field. Aggregation of data corresponding to multiple individuals can provide... |
| 7028251 |
System and method for reducing the size of data difference representations |
| Apr-11-2006 |
An improved system and method for reducing the size of data difference representations. The input data stream may be split into one or more output data streams such that the output data streams may be... |
| 7028250 |
System and method for automatically classifying text |
| Apr-11-2006 |
A method is provided for automatically classifying text into categories. In operation, a plurality of tokens or features are manually or automatically associated with each category. A weight is then coupled... |
| 7020837 |
Method for the efficient compression of graphic content in composite PDF files |
| Mar-28-2006 |
Disclosed is a method for efficiently creating a compressed PDF file containing multiple composite graphics pages, each of which is composed of a base page and zero or more overlaid and clipped PDF pages,... |
| 7016866 |
System and method for assisting the buying and selling of property |
| Mar-21-2006 |
The invention provides systems and methods for assisting the buying and selling of properties. The invention serves as a single point of contact for sellers, buyers, negotiators and third party service... |
| 7015922 |
Image display method and portable terminal for displaying selected image |
| Mar-21-2006 |
An image display method for displaying description data having text information and image information described in a predetermined description format. The image display method comprises the steps of extracting... |
| 7007232 |
System and method for facilitating the pre-publication peer review process |
| Feb-28-2006 |
An improved method for facilitating the peer review process in scholarly publications is presented. This improved method streamlines and compresses the review process, eliminating unnecessary delays and... |
| 7007226 |
High density visualizations for threaded information |
| Feb-28-2006 |
High-density computer display visualization formats provide improved visualization of large amounts of threaded information. These visualization formats are suitable for a wide variety of threaded information... |
| 7007227 |
Contract handling method and system |
| Feb-28-2006 |
The contract handling method and system of the present invention permits contract owners to handle execution of contracts. Contracts and statements of work (SOW) are created in a document assembler using... |
| 7007067 |
Apparatus for processing communications |
| Feb-28-2006 |
Communications received by a user over a communications link include identification information and are processed by: - extracting identification information associated with a first received...
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| 7000179 |
Method and apparatus for programmatic learned routing in an electronic form system |
| Feb-14-2006 |
A system and method for self-directed routable electronic forms is disclosed. The system and method create a heuristically generated routing selection list based on a history of previous routing transactions. |
| 7000178 |
Electronic document classification system |
| Feb-14-2006 |
An electronic document classification system for classifying electronic documents received through a network is provided. The classification system comprises a criteria table for storing predetermined... |
| 6996768 |
Electric publishing system and method of operation generating web pages personalized to a user's optimum learning mode |
| Feb-7-2006 |
A personalized web page is generated by an Electronic Publishing System (EPS) based on predetermined profiles representative of the user's optimum mode of learning. The user's optimum mode of learning... |
| 6996568 |
System and method for extension of data schema |
| Feb-7-2006 |
A system and method for defining and using logical extensions to a set of data stored in a relational database. A metadata definition for various extensions is stored to explain how to extend data as it... |
| 6996561 |
System and method for interactively entering data into a database |
| Feb-7-2006 |
A system and method for facilitating the accurate entry of information into a highly structured database by initially extracting information from a plurality of nonuniformly formatted source data streams,... |
| 6993707 |
Document placemarker |
| Jan-31-2006 |
A method of saving and retrieving a selected string on an HTML-based document. A cursor is placed at a location on the document. The number of HTML tags are counted between the beginning of the document... |
| 6993527 |
Describing documents and expressing document structure |
| Jan-31-2006 |
Apparatus and methods of revealing the hierarchical structure of a document having content of a characteristic type of content are described (100). The hierarchical structure may be expressed, independently... |
| 6992790 |
Method and apparatus for improving page description language (PDL) efficiency by recognition and removal of redundant constructs |
| Jan-31-2006 |
A method and system for removing redundant or repeated information from a multiple-page document file is described. A master prolog is created for storing information which is repeated in two or more pages... |
| 6992786 |
Method and system for online creation and ordering of customized material for printing |
| Jan-31-2006 |
The present invention relates to a method and a system for online creation and ordering of customized material for printing, where each customer at front end, through a computerized interface, participates... |
| 6990628 |
Method and apparatus for measuring similarity among electronic documents |
| Jan-24-2006 |
A method and apparatus are provided for determining when electronic documents stored in a large collection of documents are similar to one another. A plurality of similarity information is derived from... |
| 6990629 |
Publishing system for intranet |
| Jan-24-2006 |
A method and system for publishing information on a network-based computer system is disclosed using a network of client computers, network file server and a Light Weight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP)... |
| 6981219 |
Method and system for processing formulas and curves in a document |
| Dec-27-2005 |
A method and system are provided for a general computing software system to extract, reconstruct, save, and retrieve the information presented by an information source by assigning explicitly or implicitly... |
| 6981210 |
Self-maintaining web browser bookmarks |
| Dec-27-2005 |
The present invention provides a method for automatically updating bookmarks stored by a web browser when the bookmarked URL is invalid and a redirect to an alternate URL is specified. In accordance with... |
| 6981207 |
Automatic documentation of configurable systems by outputting explanatory information of configuration parameters in a narrative format and configuration parameters differences |
| Dec-27-2005 |
An automatic documentation generation and management system and method, for documenting configurable systems such as complex software applications and hardware systems is disclosed. The method retrieves... |
| 6978419 |
Method and apparatus for efficient identification of duplicate and near-duplicate documents and text spans using high-discriminability text fragments |
| Dec-20-2005 |
Disclosed is a computer-assisted method for finding duplicate or near-duplicate documents or text spans within a document collection by using high-discriminability text fragments. Distinctive features... |
| 6978418 |
Dynamic-adaptive client-side image map |
| Dec-20-2005 |
A method and system for associating active regions with positions within displayed images in a device and display independent manner. Active regions are described by client-side image maps include in hyper-text... |
| 6976207 |
Classification method and apparatus |
| Dec-13-2005 |
A method for building a classification model for classifying unclassified documents based on the classification of a plurality of documents which respectively have been classified as belonging to one of... |
| 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... |
| 6968363 |
File propagation tool |
| Nov-22-2005 |
A method for controlling the flow of files from a development server to another server using a file propagation tool is disclosed. A job comprising at least one file on a development server is created,... |
| 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... |
| 6966026 |
Balanced view generation for electronic documents |
| Nov-15-2005 |
Balanced view generation of pages of electronic documents is disclosed. In one embodiment, balancing the text of a page without forcing any of the text onto previous or subsequent pages is accomplished... |
| 6965861 |
Method for improving results in an HMM-based segmentation system by incorporating external knowledge |
| Nov-15-2005 |
A Hidden Markov model is used to segment a data sequence. To reduce the potential for error that may result from the Markov assumption, the Viterbi dynamic programming algorithm is modified to apply a... |
| 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... |
| 6965445 |
Systems and methods of automating job ticketing in printing, copying or imaging devices |
| Nov-15-2005 |
Systems and methods are provided for creating hard-copy documents without requiring a concurrent creation of an individual job ticket for each document file submitted for document output. The document,... |
| 6964019 |
Hypermedia document authoring |
| Nov-8-2005 |
A hypermedia authoring system enables an author to generate a document using a goals outline and a presentation outline. The goals outline is generated by instantiating document prototypes. A display of... |
| 6963878 |
Generating a focused data set from an original data set |
| Nov-8-2005 |
Systems and methods for generating a focused data. An original data set contains lines of data that are of interest to a user. The data set is filtered using inclusive filters, exclusive filters, and markers... |
| 6961895 |
Method and apparatus for synchronization of text and audio data |
| Nov-1-2005 |
A method and apparatus for synchronizing audio data to text data in which the text is manually or automatically divided into an arbitrary number of sections and a text section is selected for display and... |
| 6961482 |
System for archiving electronic images of test question responses |
| Nov-1-2005 |
A system and method for electronically archiving electronic images of responses received from a response provider in such a manner that reduces the amount of electronic resources required for said archival. |
| 6957416 |
Document builder classes and methods |
| Oct-18-2005 |
Computer readable media and methods are associated with a software development tool that is useful when authoring programs that generate documents, such as markup language documents. In one respect, the... |
| 6957226 |
Searching multi-media databases using multi-media queries |
| Oct-18-2005 |
A system and method for generating responsibility vectors associated with multi-media files (e.g., audio and/or video files) is provided. The responsibility vectors are based upon responsibility of mixture... |
| 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... |
| 6950986 |
Simultaneous display of a coded message together with its translation |
| Sep-27-2005 |
A system and method for presenting a simultaneous, overlapping display of a coded message and its translation as a single, integrated graphic presentation in any visual medium, that provides quick and... |
| 6947967 |
Method and apparatus for updating and synchronizing information between a client and a server |
| Sep-20-2005 |
The present invention provides a method and apparatus for integrating applets running on a client with the application logic for applications running on a server. The mechanism of the present invention... |
| 6947954 |
Image server store system and method using combined image views |
| Sep-20-2005 |
An image server store having a combined image including a first image of a first software combined with other images of other software such that any one or more of the images can be restored from the combined... |
| 6944815 |
Technique for content off-loading in a document processing system using stub documents |
| Sep-13-2005 |
A technique for handling document or content off-loading from a document processing system to a large repository is disclosed. A document including any possible attachments is copied to a remote repository.... |
