| 5913066 |
Electronic work environment for a data processing system |
| Jun-15-1999 |
An electronic work environment for a data processing system includes documentation modules which execute on the hardware elements of the system. The documentation modules exchange data between the software... |
| 5909510 |
Method and apparatus for document classification from degraded images |
| Jun-1-1999 |
A word shape token-based document classification system prepares a plurality of sets of training data degraded by image quality and selects the optimum training data set by examining scores from a relevance... |
| 5907843 |
Replaceable and extensible navigator component of a network component system |
| May-25-1999 |
An extensible and replaceable network-oriented component system provides a platform for developing network navigation components that operate on a variety of hardware and software computer systems. These... |
| 5907837 |
Information retrieval system in an on-line network including separate content and layout of published titles |
| May-25-1999 |
A information retrieval system wherein design and content are separated. Within a section of a title, a designer can layout pages with controls that define areas for content to be inserted into the pages.... |
| 5907840 |
Overlapping subdocuments in a vector space search process |
| May-25-1999 |
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... |
| 5905979 |
Abstract manager system and method for managing an abstract database |
| May-18-1999 |
An abstract manager system (12) and method for managing an abstract database (40) are provided. The abstract manager system (12) may be implemented using a computer that includes a mass storage device... |
| 5893908 |
Document management system |
| Apr-13-1999 |
An electronic document management system that takes advantage of advanced document analysis techniques. The electronic document management system may provide automatic archiving of documents and retrieval... |
| 5893114 |
Document information collection method and document information collection apparatus |
| Apr-6-1999 |
Method and apparatus for automatically storing a referred electronic document in a database and notifying new information to a user. In response to a request issued from a document display control unit... |
| 5893092 |
Relevancy ranking using statistical ranking, semantics, relevancy feedback and small pieces of text |
| Apr-6-1999 |
Search system and method for retrieving relevant documents from a text data base collection comprised of patents, medical and legal documents, journals, news stories and the like. Each small piece of text... |
| 5887171 |
Document management system integrating an environment for executing an agent and having means for changing an agent into an object |
| Mar-23-1999 |
A document management system a high extendability, flexibility, and stability capable of solving a problem that, as an agent-oriented paradigm system extends, the number of agents increases and indefinite... |
| 5884280 |
System for and method of distributing proceeds from contents |
| Mar-16-1999 |
A content proceeds distribution system distributes proceeds of a sold content to third parties. Each of the third parties has a right of charge, not prescribed in a sales contract, at a rate corresponding... |
| 5873073 |
Method and system for mail piece production utilizing a data center and inter-related communication networks |
| Feb-16-1999 |
The invention is a method for producing a finished mail piece. The method allows a system user to select at a first node, a plurality of characteristics which define a mailing. These characteristics include... |
| 5870766 |
Efficient imposition of arbitrary postscript files without preprocessing by defining a virtual device that specifies a desired position of a page on an output device |
| Feb-9-1999 |
In a method of imposing selected pages defined in a sequence of page descriptions included in a PostScript.RTM. file, the selected pages are interpreted by an interpreter and may be transmitted to a raster... |
| 5870740 |
System and method for improving the ranking of information retrieval results for short queries |
| Feb-9-1999 |
A method and system for retrieving information in response to a query by a user. The method includes the steps of receiving a signal s having a value corresponding to a relevance-ranking algorithm score... |
| 5864869 |
Method and manufacture of lesson plans and classroom organizers utilizing computers and software |
| Jan-26-1999 |
Software utilizing a system and methodologies that allow cross-platform data transfer, either single user and/or networked access, for creating and maintaining an integrated classroom organizer using a... |
| 5863736 |
Method, apparatus and computer program products for determining quantities of nucleic acid sequences in samples |
| Jan-26-1999 |
Methods for determining quantities of nucleic acid sequences in samples include the steps of amplifying a plurality of known quantities of a nucleic acid sequence in respective calibration samples and... |
| 5862321 |
System and method for accessing and distributing electronic documents |
| Jan-19-1999 |
A system including any number workstations, file servers, printers and other fixed devices coupled in a network, and a number of portable devices carried by users and coupled to the network by infrared... |
| 5860066 |
Imaging and workflow system |
| Jan-12-1999 |
An imaging and workflow method, and a system for processing information efficiently for a service industry, the system being particularly well suited for use in the cardholder service industry. The system... |
| 5857199 |
Retrieval method using image information |
| Jan-5-1999 |
For retrieving attribute information through image information which is not linked with the attribute information: displaying on a display screen the first image information corresponding with attribute... |
| 5854750 |
System and method for processing transactions in an environment containing a number of object oriented applications |
| Dec-29-1998 |
A computer implemented transaction processing system is presented for processing transactions between an application and one or more transaction processors. The system utilizes a first communication link... |
| 5845075 |
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 |
| Dec-1-1998 |
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... |
| 5842217 |
Method for recognizing compound terms in a document |
| Nov-24-1998 |
A method is provided for identifying compound terms in a document that is represented by a stream of tokens. The stream of document tokens is scanned for an initial term associated with a compound term... |
| 5842195 |
Method and apparatus for preparation of a database document in a local processing apparatus and loading of the database document with data from remote sources |
| Nov-24-1998 |
A system for obtaining information from a plurality of computer users (7 to 12), comprising a processing apparatus (2) including an input mechanism (3 and 4) via which a survey author may input data, and... |
| 5832531 |
Method and apparatus for identifying words described in a page description language file |
| Nov-3-1998 |
A method and apparatus for identifying words described in a page description file. A computer device stores a page description language file which includes characters that have not been identified as words... |
| 5832530 |
Method and apparatus for identifying words described in a portable electronic document |
| Nov-3-1998 |
A method and apparatus for identifying words stored in a portable electronic document. A digital computation apparatus stores a page of a document including characters in text segments that have not been... |
| 5832528 |
Method and system for selecting text with a mouse input device in a computer system |
| Nov-3-1998 |
An improved method and system for selecting text is provided. In a preferred embodiment of the present invention, a method and system is provided for selecting text utilizing two text selection modes.... |
| 5829003 |
Record processing apparatus, method and computer readable storage having attribute information representing a hierarchical connection for display of data |
| Oct-27-1998 |
Information associated with an organization chart is stored in a personnel database. An organization chart processing program reads out organization chart information from the personnel database and displays... |
| 5826269 |
Electronic mail interface for a network server |
| Oct-20-1998 |
A networked system for processing queries for a server in a distributed processing environment is provided. The system includes a plurality of clients disposed for communication with a database server... |
| 5822454 |
System and method for automatic page registration and automatic zone detection during forms processing |
| Oct-13-1998 |
A system and method automatically detects user defined zones in a document image of a form, compensating for skew and displacement of the image with respect to a original image of form. The system provides... |
| 5819040 |
Image processing system for transferring electronic document and paper document as single mail |
| Oct-6-1998 |
An image processing system has a scanner for reading image information of a sheet, on which a first instruction for transferring image information of an electronic document and image information of a paper... |
| 5806057 |
System for managing database of communication recipients |
| Sep-8-1998 |
A computer system for creating and managing a database of communication recipients which processes queries and otherwise operates in accordance with user commands to perform telemarketing, mass mailing,... |
| 5802503 |
Channel switched mail message switching and metering system |
| Sep-1-1998 |
The invention is a method for channeling message traffic along an optimal path to its intended destination. The method is accomplished by drafting a message and a corresponding destination address together... |
| 5799325 |
System, method, and computer program product for generating equivalent text files |
| Aug-25-1998 |
A system, method, and computer program product for generating an equivalent text file. The equivalent text file, once generated, is an accurate textual representation of at least one portion of a source... |
| 5799304 |
Information evaluation |
| Aug-25-1998 |
An automatic method and apparatus for processing information. Features in the information are recognized and occurrences of user-relevant features in the features of the information are determined. Based... |
| 5787295 |
Document processing apparatus |
| Jul-28-1998 |
A document processing apparatus to affix an identification mark (i.e., bookmark) to document information including character data, image data, etc. When an add command to affix an identification mark to... |
| 5781665 |
Apparatus and method for cropping an image |
| Jul-14-1998 |
A method and apparatus for cropping an image in digital form. The image to be cropped is represented as a first digital array which is operated on by an edge enhancement transformation to generate a second,... |
| 5778397 |
Automatic method of generating feature probabilities for automatic extracting summarization |
| Jul-7-1998 |
A method of automatically generating feature probabilities that allow later automatic generation of document extracts. The computer system generates the probabilities by analyzing each document a document... |
| 5778396 |
Electronic equipment such as an electronic typewriter having a relocation function and an extension function thereof |
| Jul-7-1998 |
Electronic equipment of the invention includes a keyboard for inputting character data, a memory for storing the character data input from the keyboard, a printer for printing the character data stored... |
| 5767847 |
Digitized document circulating system with circulation history |
| Jun-16-1998 |
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... |
| 5761682 |
Electronic book and method of capturing and storing a quote therein |
| Jun-2-1998 |
A method of capturing and storing a quote in an electronic book includes reading machine-readable data from a removable machine-readable storage medium installed in the-electronic book, and displaying... |
| 5761681 |
Method of substituting names in an electronic book |
| Jun-2-1998 |
A method of substituting names in an electronic book (100) involves selecting an original name to be replaced. In one version the original name is selected by the user highlighting the original name. A... |
| 5754766 |
Integrated circuit system for direct document execution |
| May-19-1998 |
The present invention pertains integrated circuit method and apparatus for achieving the optimum computation performance of document data types. The integrated circuit maintain a digital dictionary for... |
| 5751943 |
Electronic work environment for a data processing system |
| May-12-1998 |
An electronic work environment for a data processing system includes documentation modules which execute on the hardware elements of the system. The documentation modules exchange data between the software... |
| 5748973 |
Advanced integrated requirements engineering system for CE-based requirements assessment |
| May-5-1998 |
An automated, user-interactive procedure is used to obtain the right statements for computer software from the user in a way in which the statements elicited from the user are free from errors due to ambiguity,... |
| 5748953 |
Document search method wherein stored documents and search queries comprise segmented text data of spaced, nonconsecutive text elements and words segmented by predetermined symbols |
| May-5-1998 |
A neighboring plural-character occurrence bitmap of a practical capacity capable of eliminating noises by hashing is realized, and a high speed full text search is realized equivalently, by greatly reducing... |
| 5745895 |
Method for association of heterogeneous information |
| Apr-28-1998 |
A coherent method for the creating, capturing, and retrieving of ideas, concepts, data, and/or multi-media information The system establishes a framework in which knowledge can be represented. The system... |
| 5737619 |
World wide web browsing with content delivery over an idle connection and interstitial content display |
| Apr-7-1998 |
A computer program product and method of browsing the World Wide Web of the Internet using a client machine (e.g., a personal computer) supporting a graphical user interface and an Internet browser. The... |
| 5737599 |
Method and apparatus for downloading multi-page electronic documents with hint information |
| Apr-7-1998 |
A method and apparatus for providing an optimized page-based electronic document file and downloading the optimized file. An optimized document file is created from a non-optimized electronic document.... |
| 5734882 |
Pictographic bitmap naming of files in pen-based computer systems |
| Mar-31-1998 |
A system and method for storage and retrieval of pictographic images as computer file names. Upon generation of an input image, the computer saves the image and extracted spatial and temporal information... |
| 5717915 |
Method of merging large databases in parallel |
| Feb-10-1998 |
The semantic integration problem for merging multiple databases of very large size, the merge/purge problem, can be solved by multiple runs of the sorted neighborhood method or the clustering method with... |
