| 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... |
| 6934932 |
System and method for managing workflow using a plurality of scripts |
| Aug-23-2005 |
A system and method are provided for managing workflow, using a plurality of scripts, in a workflow system. The method comprises: selecting an MFP device at which the document is to be processed; supplying... |
| 6934905 |
Automated document drafting system |
| Aug-23-2005 |
A system for automated drafting of a customized document, the system interfacing with a word processing application having a plurality of word processing functionalities and with a database having a plurality... |
| 6931592 |
Reviewing and merging electronic documents |
| Aug-16-2005 |
A system and method for reviewing an electronic document. A copy of an electronic document is sent to a reviewer, the copy of the electronic document having a first property identifying the location of... |
| 6931587 |
Teleprompter device |
| Aug-16-2005 |
An apparatus, method and article of manufacture of the present invention provide an improved teleprompter device. The invention provides a method for defining a region of the display at which text is preferably... |
| 6925593 |
Method and apparatus for transferring data during automated data processing |
| Aug-2-2005 |
A number of items of data from a data source (12) can be processed, and then supplied to a data destination (16-17). The data can include image data, text data, numeric data or some other type of data,... |
| 6915308 |
Method and apparatus for information mining and filtering |
| Jul-5-2005 |
The present invention combines a data processing structure with a graphical user interface (GUI) to create an information analysis tool wherein multiple functions are combined in a network to extract information... |
| 6904560 |
Identifying key images in a document in correspondence to document text |
| Jun-7-2005 |
A computer-implemented method and system for identifying key images in a document is provided. The operations used include extracting one or more document keywords from the document considered important... |
| 6901585 |
Active ALT tag in HTML documents to increase the accessibility to users with visual, audio impairment |
| May-31-2005 |
A method, program and system for providing access to alternate formats within an electronic document are provided. The invention comprises parsing a web page and creating a document object model (DOM),... |
| 6898601 |
System and method for digital content processing and distribution |
| May-24-2005 |
A publication system, method and apparatus simplifies end-to-end planning, building and printing of publications. The present invention allows a publication's audience and other third parties to submit... |
| 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... |
| 6889358 |
Concurrency control in materialized views of a database |
| May-3-2005 |
In a database, a database manager can generate a view, which, in concept, is a subset of the database, which is placed outside the database for use without disturbing the database, and without disturbance... |
| 6883135 |
Proxy server using a statistical model |
| Apr-19-2005 |
A computer based system and method of determining whether to re-fetch a previously retrieved document across a computer network is disclosed. The method utilizes a statistical model to determine whether... |
| 6880122 |
Segmenting a document into regions associated with a data type, and assigning pipelines to process such regions |
| Apr-12-2005 |
Disclosed is a selective document processing system and method. The selective document processing system includes a digital document analyzer configured to determine a number of regions on a digital document... |
| 6865715 |
Statistical method for extracting, and displaying keywords in forum/message board documents |
| Mar-8-2005 |
A group of documents in a forum/message board are stored as a document group database in a predetermined server computer. A document group analysis device analyzes a group of documents contained in each... |
| 6862708 |
Extensible device command commutation engine for formatting device commands for the controls of devices |
| Mar-1-2005 |
An extensible commutation engine for formatting a command buffer in a device commanding system comprises a modifiable list of constants, each constant forming a coded representation of parameters associated... |
| 6857102 |
Document re-authoring systems and methods for providing device-independent access to the world wide web |
| Feb-15-2005 |
An automatic re-authoring system and method re-author a document originally designed for display on a desktop computer screen for display on a smaller display screen, such as those used with a PDA or a... |
| 6848079 |
Document conversion using an intermediate computer which retrieves and stores position information on document data |
| Jan-25-2005 |
A document processing apparatus implemented in a client/server system to add and modify a document conversion function without modification for either client or server. The apparatus comprises a client... |
| 6842876 |
Document cache replacement policy for automatically generating groups of documents based on similarity of content |
| Jan-11-2005 |
A document storage management system and method that manages the storage of documents based upon the similarity of the content of the documents. Groups of documents are created based upon the similarity... |
| 6839877 |
E-mail terminal automatically converting character string of reception e-mail, and e-mail system |
| Jan-4-2005 |
An electronic mail terminal includes a display section, a conversion dictionary which stores sets of a character string and a pictograph, a receiving section and a control section. The conversion dictionary... |
| 6834370 |
Method for creating master recipes |
| Dec-21-2004 |
A method is provided for automatically creating a set of master recipes from a general recipe using site information. Each master recipe includes a plurality of recipe segments. The general recipe includes... |
| 6832349 |
Remote activation of enhanced functionality features in locally created documents |
| Dec-14-2004 |
A method and system for remotely activating document features in locally created electronic documents. Documents having certain document features, are created in a design application at a local computer.... |
| 6826553 |
System for providing database functions for multiple internet sources |
| Nov-30-2004 |
A system for automatically extracting data from at least one electronic document accessible through the Internet or other computer network. The system records a sequence of actions operable to electronically... |
| 6823491 |
System and method for a dynamically integrated search engine |
| Nov-23-2004 |
A system and method for dynamically integrating a site specific search engine. In one embodiment, a hidden HTML tag is used on web pages to identify the site specific search engine for the web site. When... |
| 6812926 |
Displaying data containing outlying data items |
| Nov-2-2004 |
Multiple data items having at least one outlying data item are displayed so as to avoid obscuring the display of non-outlying data items. In this manner, a graphical representation of multiple data items... |
| 6810404 |
Computer-based document management system |
| Oct-26-2004 |
A computer-based electronic document and/or paper-based document management application program. The program provides an efficient way to automatically import, index, categorize, store, search, retrieve,... |
| 6810246 |
Method and system for analyzing digital wireless network performance |
| Oct-26-2004 |
A system (36) provides a network designer with a mechanism for analyzing the performance of a code division multiple access wireless network (20). The system (36) includes executable code in the form of... |
| 6807570 |
Pre-loading of web pages corresponding to designated links in HTML |
| Oct-19-2004 |
A web browser loads and displays a web page and reads the html of the web page to identify an entry for a link which is marked for pre-loading. Then, the web browser automatically pre-loads into memory... |
| 6802041 |
Multimedia word processor |
| Oct-5-2004 |
A word processor optimized for students taking notes automatically opens the correct document for each course according to a class schedule. It makes digital audio or video recordings of classes and establishes... |
| 6802042 |
Method and apparatus for providing calculated and solution-oriented personalized summary-reports to a user through a single user-interface |
| Oct-5-2004 |
An Internet-connected portal system has a data repository, a data-gathering system, a request processor, a plurality of report algorithms, and a report processor. The request processor receives a request... |
| 6795854 |
Operating system for structured information processing |
| Sep-21-2004 |
An embodiment of the present invention includes an extensible and dynamic software operating environment supporting applications which process structured information, and particularly an environment supporting... |
| 6792572 |
Method and apparatus to approve documents |
| Sep-14-2004 |
A method involves identifying at least one target accounts for a document, and identifying which of the at least one target accounts involve a first approval. At least one target accounts for which a first... |
| 6789230 |
Creating a summary having sentences with the highest weight, and lowest length |
| Sep-7-2004 |
A method and system for generating a summary of a document. The summary generating system generates the summary from the sentences that form the document. The summary generating system calculates a weight... |
| 6785864 |
System and method for notifying of changes in web page hyperlinked documents |
| Aug-31-2004 |
A system and method for notifying a user of changes in a hyperlinked document, the system comprising a computer, a server operatively coupled with the computer, a web browser that executes in the computer,... |
| 6785659 |
Agent-based technique for implementing browser-initiated user-transparent interstitial web advertising in a client computer |
| Aug-31-2004 |
A technique for implementing in a networked client-server environment, e.g., the Internet, network-distributed advertising in which advertisements are downloaded, from an advertising server to a browser... |
| 6782423 |
Hypertext analyzing system and method |
| Aug-24-2004 |
For each page set contained in a hypertext and with reference to access history information, a hyperlink transition frequency acquiring unit calculates a transition frequency between the pages (i.e., a... |
| 6782402 |
Network management system, computer system, copy server, file server, network copy file management method, and computer readable medium |
| Aug-24-2004 |
Image data gathered by a scanner portion is stored into an image file, and stored into a hard disc. A client terminal requests a copy server to send management information of the image files in the hard... |
| 6778941 |
Message and user attributes in a message filtering method and system |
| Aug-17-2004 |
A method and system for filtering messages where the importance of a message is determined by analyzing the message body in conjunction with message attributes. Message body refers to the text in the body... |
| 6772149 |
System and method for identifying facts and legal discussion in court case law documents |
| Aug-3-2004 |
A computer-implemented method of gathering large quantities of training data from case law documents (especially suitable for use as input to a learning algorithm that is used in a subsequent process of... |
| 6769016 |
Intelligent SPAM detection system using an updateable neural analysis engine |
| Jul-27-2004 |
A system, method and computer program product are provided for detecting an unwanted message. First, an electronic mail message is received. Text in the electronic mail message is decomposed. Statistics... |
| 6760648 |
Robot control system and method for introducing robot control software |
| Jul-6-2004 |
An articulated robot is controlled by dynamically modifying a combination of a hardware dependent middleware layer and a hardware independent application layer. A memory device for storing a plurality... |
| 6745367 |
Method and computer program product for implementing parental supervision for internet browsing |
| Jun-1-2004 |
A method and computer program product are provided for implementing supervision functions for Internet browsing. A user profile record is maintained. A universal resource locator (URL) is identified. Approval... |
| 6742161 |
Distributed computing document recognition and processing |
| May-25-2004 |
The present invention is a system and method for performing document recognition and processing in a distributed computing environment. The invention uses applications which are remotely located from one... |
| 6732090 |
Meta-document management system with user definable personalities |
| May-4-2004 |
A system operates using meta-documents which include document content associated with one or more personalities. Each personality is associated with a set of document service requests. Users are provided... |
| 6728932 |
Document clustering method and system |
| Apr-27-2004 |
Document clustering method and system utilizing both the log-based clustering method and the content-based clustering method are disclosed. The method includes the steps of generating log-based document... |
| 6728762 |
System and method for browser definition of workflow documents |
| Apr-27-2004 |
Collaboration space object model provides for a Place consisting of rooms. A room is made up of pages. Folders are used to organize pages. Members belong to rooms, and are those users authorized to access... |
| 6725429 |
System and method for presenting and processing documents on the internet |
| Apr-20-2004 |
A digital document delivery system and method for providing to a user an electronic primary document with associated secondary documents. The secondary documents can have relative priorities and are based... |
| 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... |
| 6715130 |
Software requirements metrics and evaluation process |
| Mar-30-2004 |
A system and method for estimating a metric of a proposed product from a document describing the product in an arbitrary degree of detail provides accuracy comparable to a function point assessment of... |
| 6708165 |
Wide-spectrum information search engine |
| Mar-16-2004 |
A method and computer program product for comparing documents includes segmenting a judgment matrix into a plurality of information sub-matrices where each submatrix has a plurality of classifications... |