| 6704905 |
Text classifying parameter generator and a text classifier using the generated parameter |
| Mar-9-2004 |
A method and system for generating a set of parameters for use in determining whether a given document belongs to a specified one of a plurality of predetermined categories. An evaluation sample selection... |
| 6691282 |
Method and apparatus for displaying and navigating containment hierarchies |
| Feb-10-2004 |
A method for use in a computer system for displaying a containment group such as file folder hierarchy. The method displays a direct containment hierarchy for the selected containment group or file folder,... |
| 6687877 |
Web-based call center system with web document annotation |
| Feb-3-2004 |
A web-based call center and a method for its operation include multiple agent and customer terminals connected to a web server. The agent terminals and the customer terminals include a web browser for... |
| 6687874 |
System for generating and maintaining field service publications |
| Feb-3-2004 |
The present invention is directed at a publication including plural service publication units typically used by a service technician to service a complex product. The units are browser enabled HTML files... |
| 6687873 |
Method and system for reporting XML data from a legacy computer system |
| Feb-3-2004 |
A method and system for modifying program applications of a legacy computer system to directly output data in XML format models the legacy computer system, maps the model to an XML schema and automatically... |
| 6687816 |
Configuration caching |
| Feb-3-2004 |
User provided product configurations are identified and memorized along with their corresponding configuration information such as constraints and incompatibilities. The next time that configuration is... |
| 6684368 |
Method for specifying delivery information for electronic documents |
| Jan-27-2004 |
A graphical user interface that presents document destinations in terms of recipient objects readily familiar to the user is provided by the present invention. According to one embodiment of the present... |
| 6683619 |
System and method for increasing performance when compositing images |
| Jan-27-2004 |
A system and method for increasing the performance of a compositing system when compositing images represented as a directed acyclic graph. The method comprises identifying at least one critical path,... |
| 6681367 |
Objects with self-reflecting object relevance functions |
| Jan-20-2004 |
The invention relates to objects within a computer-system said objects comprise object data and the invention relates to a specification of an object-specific, self-reflecting relevance-function associated... |
| 6678690 |
Retrieving and ranking of documents from database description |
| Jan-13-2004 |
A method, a computer system, and a program product for retrieving and/or ranking documents in a database. The method comprising steps of, providing a document matrix derived from the documents, the matrix... |
| 6675356 |
Distributed document-based calendaring system |
| Jan-6-2004 |
A system and method for receiving, analyzing, and managing a database of calendar information obtained from a variety of source documents. Information derived and extracted from calendar documents is used... |
| 6675357 |
Method and apparatus for matching system and device fonts |
| Jan-6-2004 |
A method and apparatus in a distributed data processing system for controlling printing. An interface is presented, wherein the interface allows for association of a logical font with a number of system... |
| 6665531 |
Transmission system for relaying short messages |
| Dec-16-2003 |
A transmission system for relaying short messages comprising a sender of short messages and a receiver of short messages. The short message sender comprises sending means for sending a deleting short message... |
| 6662342 |
Method, system, and program for providing access to objects in a document |
| Dec-9-2003 |
Disclosed is a system, method, and program for determining a structure of objects in a document, such as an XML document. The document is parsed to determine instances of objects within the document. Each... |
| 6658624 |
Method and system for processing documents controlled by active documents with embedded instructions |
| Dec-2-2003 |
An improved document processing system is provided by virtue of the present invention, wherein documents and processing associated with those documents are combined by structuring documents according to... |
| 6651218 |
Dynamic content database for multiple document genres |
| Nov-18-2003 |
A system and method for receiving, analyzing, and managing key information extracted from input documents in multiple document genres. A document "genre" is the social environment that defines the document's... |
| 6638317 |
Apparatus and method for generating digest according to hierarchical structure of topic |
| Oct-28-2003 |
A digest generator apparatus calculates a lexical cohesion degree at each position in a document using a plurality of windows having different sizes, and calculates the candidate section of a topic boundary... |
| 6636235 |
Lettering adjustments for display resolution |
| Oct-21-2003 |
A method and implementing computer system are provided in which a request from a client for the display of a web page is processed by initially separating device-dependent display data from device-independent... |
| 6633913 |
Scan system and method for scanning images to an online web page |
| Oct-14-2003 |
A system and method provide users the ability to quickly and efficiently transfer images from a scanner to an online web page. In particular, the system can be implemented as follows. A scanner scans an... |
| 6633890 |
Method for washing of graphic image files |
| Oct-14-2003 |
A method for producing normalized (or "washed") graphic image files that have a consistent file structure, the graphic image files thereafter being used to produce a consistent print ready file structure.... |
| 6632251 |
Document producing support system |
| Oct-14-2003 |
Document producing support system including: input means like a keyboard or a mouse; display means; a user profile database storing user profiles; a logon/logoff module connected to the user profile database... |
| 6631495 |
Electronic document identification, filing, and retrieval system |
| Oct-7-2003 |
An electronic document filing method and a system using the same is disclosed. The system comprises identification code addition means for adding identification code proper to the electronic document thereto,... |
| 6626953 |
System and method for retrieving software release information |
| Sep-30-2003 |
A method for retrieving software release information. A first step obtains a software defect data set, a second step obtains a software release data set, and a third step obtains a software release schedule... |
| 6606635 |
Data processing apparatus |
| Aug-12-2003 |
The present invention relates to a data processing apparatus for transmitting data to and receiving data from a device to be controlled which is connected to the data processing apparatus by way of a communications... |
| 6606620 |
Method and system for classifying semi-structured documents |
| Aug-12-2003 |
A classifier for semi-structured documents and associated method dynamically and accurately classify documents with an implicit or explicit schema by taking advantage of the term-frequency and term distribution... |
| 6601012 |
Contextual models and methods for inferring attention and location |
| Jul-29-2003 |
Determination of the current context of the user, such as the user's current location and attentional state, is disclosed. The determined context can be used to assist determination as to whether, when... |
| 6592628 |
Modular storage method and apparatus for use with software applications |
| Jul-15-2003 |
A method and system is provided that processes the content of a document separately from information used to describe the structure of the content in the document. Content can be text, alphanumeric data,... |
| 6591280 |
Method and apparatus for generating a multimedia document |
| Jul-8-2003 |
A method and apparatus for generating a multimedia document that includes video image samples and associated audio is accomplished by decoding video signals into decoded video representations, sampling... |
| 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... |
| 6587861 |
Apparatus and method for controlling execution of job, and storage medium for such a program |
| Jul-1-2003 |
A client generates a request in accordance with an operation initiated by a user, and transmits the request to a server for a local apparatus or to another apparatus. The server interprets the received... |
| 6585775 |
Financial document processing system and method of operating a financial document processing system during exception recovery |
| Jul-1-2003 |
A financial document processing system for processing financial documents is operated to assist an operator during exception recovery. During exception recovery, an original codeline, an encoded data string,... |
| 6582474 |
Tagging related files in a document management system |
| Jun-24-2003 |
A document management system is provided which organizes, stores and retrieves documents according to properties attached to the documents. Applications which function based on hierarchical path names... |
| 6581099 |
Accessing sources of resources within standard request-response protocols |
| Jun-17-2003 |
Access of sources of resources within standard request-response protocols such as HTTP is disclosed. In one embodiment, a method specifies a request for application against a resource, where the resource... |
| 6574617 |
System and method for selective replication of databases within a workflow, enterprise, and mail-enabled web application server and platform |
| Jun-3-2003 |
A workflow, enterprise, and mail-enabled application server and platform supports distributed computing and remote execution of web applications. Lotus Domino online services (DOLS) is used by a web site... |
| 6571240 |
Information processing for searching categorizing information in a document based on a categorization hierarchy and extracted phrases |
| May-27-2003 |
Processing automatically information in a document to be incorporated into databases to be searched, retrieved and learned. This would significantly enhance categorizing information in the domain so that... |
| 6569205 |
Method and system for report presentation and navigation in a computer system |
| May-27-2003 |
A method and system for report presentation and navigation in a computer system that includes multiple reports about multiple components. The method and system include defining relationships between the... |
| 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... |
| 6556999 |
System and method for bridging a clinical remote data entry product to a back-end clinical data management system |
| Apr-29-2003 |
A back-end clinical definition is designed using a back-end clinical data management system (CDMS). The back-end clinical definition is automatically converted into a Remote Data Entry (front-end) study... |
| 6546385 |
Method and apparatus for indexing and searching content in hardcopy documents |
| Apr-8-2003 |
A method and apparatus for indexing and searching content in a hardcopy document utilizes a searching assistant computing device (402) with an index table (420) stored in memory (412). The index table... |
| 6546133 |
Methods and apparatus for print scraping |
| Apr-8-2003 |
Systems and processes that automate receiving of unstructured information contained in electronic documents, detecting the document type, determining the corresponding document format, extracting structured... |
| 6539404 |
Project and role based workflow systems and methods |
| Mar-25-2003 |
The present invention relates to project and role based workflow systems and methods used in conjunction with e-mail systems and/or the World Wide Web. Project identifiers, the roles of the users in an... |
| 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... |
| 6537324 |
Generating and storing a link correlation table in hypertext documents at the time of storage |
| Mar-25-2003 |
The document information management system according to the present invention includes a hypertext preparing unit for preparing a hypertext. A file unit storing therein correlated information files. A... |
| 6526425 |
Digitized document circulating system with circulation history |
| Feb-25-2003 |
A digitized document circulating system includes a unit provided in a transmission source of a digitized document and for sending the digitized document, a unit for delivering the digitized document to... |
| 6526388 |
Interoperable workflow management system |
| Feb-25-2003 |
An interoperable workflow management system controls an information disclosing range of a workflow case to prevent transmission delay even when the communication path has a small transmission capacity... |
| 6526332 |
Robot control system and method for introducing robot control software |
| Feb-25-2003 |
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... |
| 6519617 |
Automated creation of an XML dialect and dynamic generation of a corresponding DTD |
| Feb-11-2003 |
A method, system, and computer-readable code for translating an input document into an Extensible Markup Language (XML) dialect which is well-formed, such that automated, dynamically-selected transformations... |
| 6519578 |
System and method for processing knowledge items of a knowledge warehouse |
| Feb-11-2003 |
A system for processing knowledge items includes a memory coupled to a processor. The memory stores a number of knowledge items. The processor identifies a number of first questions for presentation to... |
| 6516338 |
Apparatus and accompanying methods for implementing network servers for use in providing interstitial web advertisements to a client computer |
| Feb-4-2003 |
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... |