| 6516328 |
Digitized document circulating system with circulation history |
| Feb-4-2003 |
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... |
| 6510425 |
Document search method for registering documents, generating a structure index with elements having position of occurrence in documents represented by meta-nodes |
| Jan-21-2003 |
A document search method and apparatus and a portable medium used therefor are described, in which when registering a document in a data base, the logic structures of each document to be registered are... |
| 6507671 |
Method and system for dropping template from a filled in image |
| Jan-14-2003 |
In an image processing system for processing filled in forms, a method and system are disclosed for removing the fixed part or template of a form without altering the variable part or information filled... |
| 6505219 |
Process management system wherein process descriptions provide indices to document histories |
| Jan-7-2003 |
Process descriptions are formulated in a process management system to describe the flow of work and organizational responsibility in the performance of organizational processes. The process descriptions,... |
| 6502081 |
System and method for classifying legal concepts using legal topic scheme |
| Dec-31-2002 |
An economic, scalable machine learning system and process perform document (concept) classification with high accuracy using large topic schemes, including large hierarchical topic schemes. One or more... |
| 6493731 |
Document management system for recording and viewing the history of document use |
| Dec-10-2002 |
A document management system is adapted to operate with a process management system for recording and viewing metadata of a document. The document metadata is used to record resources referenced while... |
| 6490600 |
Processing continuous data streams in electronic spreadsheets |
| Dec-3-2002 |
An improved electronic spreadsheet is provided for applications that require the processing of continuous data streams over a time-based data interval of size greater than one. The improved spreadsheet... |
| 6489968 |
System and method for exposing popular categories of browse tree |
| Dec-3-2002 |
A computer-implemented process identifies popular nodes (items and/or item categories) within a browse tree or other hierarchial browse structure based on historical actions of online users, and calls... |
| 6473755 |
Overlapping subdocuments in a vector space search process |
| Oct-29-2002 |
The present invention is a method and apparatus for retrieving information from a database. Initially, the documents within the database are divided into mutually exclusive subdocuments that generally... |
| 6470362 |
Extracting ordered list of words from documents comprising text and code fragments, without interpreting the code fragments |
| Oct-22-2002 |
A computer implemented method is applied to convert a formatted document or text to an ordered list of words. The formatted document is first partitioned into first and second data structures stored in... |
| 6467080 |
Shared, dynamically customizable user documentation |
| Oct-15-2002 |
A user-generated documentation integration system operates in conjunction with a software application created by a manufacturer and executable on a computer processor for the benefit of a user. A documentation... |
| 6457017 |
Computing system for information management |
| Sep-24-2002 |
An information management system includes an indexing subsystem and a document management subsystem. The system layers an object-oriented architecture over a relational database to manage folders and files... |
| 6456740 |
System and method for identifying form type in a handwriting recognition based form completion system |
| Sep-24-2002 |
The system of the present invention includes a form design component, a form description repository, and a forms processing component Each form used with the system has a layout including a form identifier... |
| 6456738 |
Method of and system for extracting predetermined elements from input document based upon model which is adaptively modified according to variable amount in the input document |
| Sep-24-2002 |
Elements are extracted from an input document image according to a predetermined extraction model. Based upon the variability in a predetermined set of layout characteristics of the extracted elements,... |
| 6453327 |
Method and apparatus for identifying and discarding junk electronic mail |
| Sep-17-2002 |
Apparatus, methods, systems and computer program products are disclosed to provide electronic mail systems with the capability for a group of trusted users to collectively determine whether a given electronic... |
| 6438564 |
Method for associating a discussion with a document |
| Aug-20-2002 |
Associating a discussion with a document by associating the discussion with an identifier for the document, such as the document address. A discussion is associated with the document without modifying... |
| 6433885 |
Method and apparatus for manipulating bitmap raster data using a modular processing pipeline |
| Aug-13-2002 |
A configurable printer driver, resident on a host (source) computer is enabled to respond to a print job request by manipulating a source bitmap prior to its transmission to a destination printer. The... |
| 6433881 |
Method of establishing a set of print stream objects in an object oriented environment |
| Aug-13-2002 |
The invention is a method for creating a print job object, in an object oriented development environment of a print stream processing system. The object creation function within the system is named which... |
| 6430581 |
Automated court document docketing filing system |
| Aug-6-2002 |
An automated court docketing system that supplies evidence of the time and date that a document was filed with the court. This invention also processes and accepts payment and generates a receipt reflecting... |
| 6424963 |
Document retrieval having retrieval conditions that shuffles documents in a sequence of occurrence |
| Jul-23-2002 |
The document retrieval unit retrieves documents in a set of retrieval object documents stored in the memory unit according to the entered retrieval condition such as retrieval word, sequences each document... |
| 6424429 |
File system and a recording medium with a program used in the system stored therein |
| Jul-23-2002 |
According to the a processing command for the copy function or the like, the copying machine 11 sends the processing conditions like the user ID or the coping density as appended data along with the document... |
| 6421691 |
Document management apparatus and method, a recording medium storing a document management program, and a recording medium storing a decision-making program |
| Jul-16-2002 |
The invention provides a document management apparatus and method and a recording medium storing a document management program, which can display documents under management without the user having to be... |
| 6405199 |
Method and apparatus for semantic token generation based on marked phrases in a content stream |
| Jun-11-2002 |
A content stream having a plurality of phrases is accessed. One or more phrases in the content stream are marked. For example, the phrases may be annotated and/or highlighted. The marked one or more phrases... |
| 6385763 |
Methodology for mapping use cases to operations for operational profile development |
| May-7-2002 |
A method and apparatus for mapping use cases to an operational profiles. Initiators of operations in the operational profile may be identified from the actors of the use case model. A list of operations... |
| 6385627 |
Method, apparatus and computer program product for providing document user role indication |
| May-7-2002 |
An intelligent method, apparatus and computer program product are provided for providing a digital document user role indication. A user role profile for a user is stored. Selecting rules are utilized... |
| 6381616 |
System and method for speeding up heterogeneous data access using predicate conversion |
| Apr-30-2002 |
A system and method for modifying or converting predicates involving a comparison with a string constant in a query is provided so that the predicates can be evaluated by an external or remote source that... |
| 6381607 |
System of organizing catalog data for searching and retrieval |
| Apr-30-2002 |
A method, an apparatus, and a computer program product for organizing and searching catalogs based on compacting a hierarchical structure (150, 500) into related arrays (210, 310, 410, 610; and 220, 320,... |
| 6377946 |
Document search method and apparatus and portable medium used therefor |
| Apr-23-2002 |
A document search method and apparatus and a portable medium used therefor are described, in which when registering a document in a data base, the logic structures of each document to be registered are... |
| 6374270 |
Corporate disclosure and repository system utilizing inference synthesis as applied to a database |
| Apr-16-2002 |
A corporate disclosure and repository system includes one or more software programs which execute on one or more general purpose data processing systems. The software programs include components for gathering... |
| 6374218 |
Speech recognition system which displays a subject for recognizing an inputted voice |
| Apr-16-2002 |
A speech recognition system wherein a word being the most similar to an inputted voice is delivered as a recognized result; in order to assist a user in entering a voice input, words being subjects for... |
| 6373947 |
Document processing |
| Apr-16-2002 |
There is provided a computer system including a first operating process operating in a non-modified operating environment and having at least one user operating command which is normally employed only... |
| 6370536 |
Information management apparatus and information management program recording medium for compressing paragraph information |
| Apr-9-2002 |
An information management apparatus and method are provided for managing a logical structure of information file wherein a plurality of pieces of paragraph information, to each of which header information... |
| 6370535 |
System and method for structured news release generation and distribution |
| Apr-9-2002 |
A mechanism for the structured generation of a news release includes in one embodiment, (a) separately specifying the content of each of a plurality of predetermined sections of the news release; (b) storing,... |
| 6370531 |
Method and computer program product for automatic conversion of data based on location extension |
| Apr-9-2002 |
A method and computer program product are provided for automatic conversion of data by a server computer system based on a location extension in a universal naming convention (UNC) name. Responsive to... |
| 6366900 |
Method for analyzing the conditional status of specialized files |
| Apr-2-2002 |
A specialized file organization has data files organized in named blocks of data files and index files organized in a tree structure of hierarchical nodes. A sequential method is provided for analyzing... |
| 6363390 |
System and method for structured news release generation and distribution |
| Mar-26-2002 |
A mechanism for the structured generation of a news release includes in one embodiment, (a) separately specifying the content of each of a plurality of predetermined sections of the news release; (b) storing,... |
| 6356923 |
Document information management system |
| Mar-12-2002 |
The document information management system according to the present invention comprises data base with a plurality of document files previously stored therein, a medium form having a document information... |
| 6351560 |
Apparatus, method, and program for locating an objective on a form and a recording medium for recording the program for locating the objective on the form |
| Feb-26-2002 |
An apparatus, a method, and a program locate an objective on a form without a black background function or specific marks irrespective of whether or not there are ruled lines on the form. The apparatus,... |
| 6343297 |
Methods, systems and computer program products for providing document management for software development systems |
| Jan-29-2002 |
Methods, systems and computer program products are provided which provide a document management system suitable for incorporation with a software management and control library by encapsulating a plurality... |
| 6338074 |
System for enterprise-wide work flow automation |
| Jan-8-2002 |
Methods and apparatus are provided for a enterprise-wide work flow system that may encompass multiple geographically separate sites. The sites may be either permanently or transiently linked. A single... |
| 6334140 |
Electronic mail server in which electronic mail is processed |
| Dec-25-2001 |
In order to achieve an aspect of the present invention, an electronic mail server includes a mail box, and an interface unit for receiving an electronic mail. A mail processing section analyzes the received... |
| 6331860 |
Method and apparatus for stitching scanned image segments together to form an oversized document |
| Dec-18-2001 |
An oversize document, one that is larger than the platen of the scanner, can be scanned in several segments then stitched together electronically. A method is described to analyze the scan segments to... |
| 6327586 |
System method and computer program product to automate the management and analysis of heterogeneous data |
| Dec-4-2001 |
System, Method and Computer Program Product for automating the collection, management and analysis of data. Research is performed according to a methodology based on four phases: Requirements; Collection;... |
| 6326983 |
Structured image (SI) format for describing complex color raster images |
| Dec-4-2001 |
A method and device for describing a complex color raster image as a collection of objects in a hierarchical and device independent format can be carried out using an apparatus for generating an image... |
| 6324569 |
Self-removing email verified or designated as such by a message distributor for the convenience of a recipient |
| Nov-27-2001 |
Methods, articles, signals, and systems are provided for providing email message originators and distributors with default control over message removal at a message recipient's location, regardless of... |
| 6324551 |
Self-contained document management based on document properties |
| Nov-27-2001 |
A document management system is provided which organizes, stores and retrieves documents in accordance with document properties. A property attachment mechanism allows a user to define and attach static... |
| 6308198 |
Method and apparatus for dynamically adding functionality to a set of instructions for processing a web document based on information contained in the web document |
| Oct-23-2001 |
A method for dynamically adding new functionality to a first set of instructions that processes Web documents. The invention includes the first step of the first set of instructions decoding a first statement... |
| 6304885 |
Digital data retrieving, organizing and display system |
| Oct-16-2001 |
A digital data retrieving, organizing and display device for retrieving information from a number of disparate sources relating to development of a complex system including firmware, hardware and software... |
| 6301590 |
Method and apparatus for formatting and displaying data from the internet |
| Oct-9-2001 |
A method and apparatus are used to format and display data on the Web. A request is received on an application server from a Web client, a connection is established to a data repository via the application... |
| 6301576 |
Document retrieval system for retrieval of a first search document and a last search document from database |
| Oct-9-2001 |
A document retrieval system is disclosed that improves a database system's response time so that a user's request to view new information is serviced quickly. During the time the user spends viewing the... |
