| 5717912 |
Method and apparatus for rapid full text index creation |
| Feb-10-1998 |
A computer system and method for document indexing and data retrieval. A full text index is created in two phases. In the first phase, a word list symbol table, an alphabetically ordered list, and a non-repeating... |
| 5715441 |
Method and system for storing and accessing data in a compound document using object linking |
| Feb-3-1998 |
A method and system for interfacing an application program with a compound document storage system. The present invention provides an interface which an application program uses to manipulate compound... |
| 5710918 |
Method for distributed task fulfillment of web browser requests |
| Jan-20-1998 |
A World Wide Web browser makes requests to web servers on a network which receive and fulfill requests as an agent of the browser client, organizing distributed sub-agents as distributed integration solution... |
| 5710843 |
Document processing apparatus having a communication/facsimile function with selective memory switching |
| Jan-20-1998 |
In a document processing method and apparatus, having both a communication function and a data processing function, when the communication function is performed during execution of the data processing... |
| 5706365 |
System and method for portable document indexing using n-gram word decomposition |
| Jan-6-1998 |
A system and method provides for indexing and retrieval of stored documents using a decomposition of words in the documents in n-grams, or linear word subunits. The documents are indexed as pages in a... |
| 5692176 |
Associative text search and retrieval system |
| Nov-25-1997 |
An associative text search and retrieval system uses one or more front end processors to interacting with a network having one or more user terminals connected thereto to allow a user to provide information... |
| 5689716 |
Automatic method of generating thematic summaries |
| Nov-18-1997 |
A technique for automatically generating thematic summaries for machine readable representations of documents. The technique begins with determining the number of thematic terms to be used based upon the... |
| 5689585 |
Method for aligning a text image to a transcription of the image |
| Nov-18-1997 |
A method for establishing a relationship between a text image and a transcription associated with the text image uses conventional image processing techniques to identify one or more geometric attributes,... |
| 5677835 |
Integrated authoring and translation system |
| Oct-14-1997 |
The present invention is a system of integrated, computer-based processes for monolingual information development and multilingual translation. An interactive text editor enforces lexical and grammatical... |
| 5675819 |
Document information retrieval using global word co-occurrence patterns |
| Oct-7-1997 |
A method and apparatus accesses relevant documents based on a query. A thesaurus of word vectors is formed for the words in the corpus of documents. The word vectors represent global lexical co-occurrence... |
| 5675788 |
Method and apparatus for generating a composite document on a selected topic from a plurality of information sources |
| Oct-7-1997 |
A computer-implemented method and apparatus for composing a composite document on a selected topic from a plurality of information sources by searching the plurality of information sources and identifying,... |
| 5666549 |
Method and system for processing a document transmitted via facsimile in an initially input form stored in a knowledge base |
| Sep-9-1997 |
A document processing method and system are provided in which data is inscribed as handwritten information on a blank form in a document form hitherto used or a blank form for a document produced by a... |
| 5666490 |
Computer network system and method for managing documents |
| Sep-9-1997 |
An electronic document management system converts documents into electronic images which can be sequentially routed to individual users in a network system. The network system includes at least two work... |
| 5659766 |
Method and apparatus for inferring the topical content of a document based upon its lexical content without supervision |
| Aug-19-1997 |
An iterative method of determining the topical content of a document using a computer. The processing unit of the computer determines the topical content of documents presented to it in machine readable... |
| 5648916 |
Internal mail distribution system |
| Jul-15-1997 |
A system for automatically (where possible) converting hard copy paper mail into electronic mail, while allowing those already using computers to communicate with those in the paper domain. The system... |
| 5644776 |
Data processing system and method for random access formatting of a portion of a large hierarchical electronically published document with descriptive markup |
| Jul-1-1997 |
A data processing system and method for generating a representation of an electronic document, for indexing the electronic document, for navigating the electronic document using its representation and... |
| 5640544 |
Computer network having an asynchronous document data management system |
| Jun-17-1997 |
An object of the present invention is to provide a document data management system which can effect rapid screen display of document data. The document data management system comprises a communication... |
| 5636340 |
System and method for special effects for text objects |
| Jun-3-1997 |
A system and method for creating and displaying dynamic special effects on graphic text objects. Preferably, the special effects are displayed in stages or animation frames, such that the special effects... |
| 5630079 |
Document job key to tailor multifunctional user interfaces |
| May-13-1997 |
A user interface mechanism called a document key for determining the selections needed to support a given combination of services without the user having to explicitly select a given service. By simply... |
| 5630060 |
Method and apparatus for delivering multi-media messages over different transmission media |
| May-13-1997 |
Method and apparatus for delivering multi-media messages which may include text components, image components, sound components or binary components to multiple recipients over different transmission media.... |
| 5625833 |
Document annotation & manipulation in a data processing system |
| Apr-29-1997 |
A data processing system provides annotation of a document with annotations inputted through an electronic tablet, a keyboard and an audio assembly. The annotations are entered in a modeless operation... |
| 5625773 |
Method of encoding and line breaking text |
| Apr-29-1997 |
This invention is a method of representing the text in a document in a way that enables very fast text processing on digital computers. More specifically, each word of text is represented as a number (or... |
| 5621874 |
Three dimensional document representation using strands |
| Apr-15-1997 |
A system for displaying documents on a computer controlled display device is disclosed. The system displays documents either in a completely free-form, user controlled configuration or as strands, such... |
| 5621864 |
Label generation apparatus |
| Apr-15-1997 |
The label generation apparatus of this invention enables the user to define a label of various sizes, shapes and characteristics, wherein each label in a series of labels includes unique indicia that individually... |
| 5617520 |
Three-dimensional pattern editing apparatus having moving distance calculator and/or a dragging pattern holding unit |
| Apr-1-1997 |
A three-dimensional pattern editing apparatus used in a CAD system edits three-dimensional patterns in accordance with a user's input operation and displays the result of edition. A pattern display unit... |
| 5613017 |
Apparatus for processing image data among media having different image output sizes |
| Mar-18-1997 |
From input document data there are detected the features of the document, such as the top, bottom, left and right margins, the character space, the line space, the word space, the column space, the size... |
| 5608857 |
Document preparation support system using knowledge database to determine document layout |
| Mar-4-1997 |
A document preparation support system which enables a document preparer to easily prepare a good-looking document meeting his purpose and application while eliminating the need for having any editorial... |
| 5606712 |
Information managing apparatus capable of utilizing related information in different function modes |
| Feb-25-1997 |
A plurality of memory areas which store various type of information having different formats such as address information, schedule information, memo information in units of type of information are provided.... |
| 5604579 |
Method and apparatus for electronically creating imposition data, including dummy data for original film and platemaking |
| Feb-18-1997 |
The platemaking system is a system that produces a printing plate by using an exposure device 8 to print on original film that has imposition data consisting of multiple page data imposed on photosensitive... |
| 5600844 |
Single chip integrated circuit system architecture for document installation set computing |
| Feb-4-1997 |
The present invention pertains to integrated circuit system design methods and apparatus based on the novel architecture concept of Document-Instruction-Set-Computing (DISC). The integrated circuit comprises... |
| 5600775 |
Method and apparatus for annotating full motion video and other indexed data structures |
| Feb-4-1997 |
Full motion digital video frames, or other indexed data structures, are annotated with text, graphics, and digital audio without modifications to the original video information. The video and annotations... |
| 5596689 |
Figure processing with magnification of designated portion of display |
| Jan-21-1997 |
A change in magnification of a figure pattern within a predetermined area is performed by designating a desired rectangular frame or one point on a screen, A plurality of menus associated with figure processes... |
| 5590245 |
Method for transmitting image processing jobs from a client system, and routing and performing the jobs in an image processing system |
| Dec-31-1996 |
An image processing method is carried out by a system (1) where a client system (2) automatically logs client data and retrieves image data to produce a job file which is automatically transmitted to a... |
| 5590039 |
Natural language processing apparatus and method for performing processing to analyze the meaning of an input sentence entered in the form of a natural language |
| Dec-31-1996 |
A natural language processing apparatus for performing processing operations to analyze the meaning of an input sentence entered in the form of a natural language includes a plurality of meaning analyzing... |
| 5586235 |
Interactive multimedia system and method |
| Dec-17-1996 |
A multimedia system contains documents which are made up of pages. Each page has at least one asset, page execution script which indicates the actions be performed on the assets, and a set of exit conditions... |
| 5586025 |
Rule-based electronic agent system and method thereof |
| Dec-17-1996 |
Rules registered in the electronic secretary system are defined by separating each of them into a trigger descriptor part, a condition part for object data retrieval, and an action part, and a flag indicating... |
| 5532920 |
Data processing system and method to enforce payment of royalties when copying softcopy books |
| Jul-2-1996 |
A publisher of a softcopy book includes royalty payment information either within the structured document text of the book or in a royalty payment information file which accompanies the book. To read the... |
| 5524201 |
Method of preparing an electronic book for a computer system |
| Jun-4-1996 |
A method and system for preparing interactive references having pages which can be displayed on the screen of a pointer-based computer system. Some of the reference's pages have "live" features or icons... |
| 5513305 |
System and method for documenting and displaying computer program code |
| Apr-30-1996 |
A system and method for documenting and displaying computer program code comprises a token annotation unit, a comment analyzer, a token parsing library, and a code outline unit. The token parsing library... |
| 5513304 |
Method and apparatus for enhanced automatic determination of text line dependent parameters |
| Apr-30-1996 |
An automatic character cell determining apparatus automatically determines the character cells within the text image of a document. A connected component generator means generates connected components... |
| 5510978 |
Electronic apparatus for implementing community policing program and method therefor |
| Apr-23-1996 |
A system and method for implementing an electronic data entry and processing system useful to influence and advance the practices of community police officers (CPOs) engaged in community policing. The... |
| 5490246 |
Image generator using a graphical flow diagram with automatic generation of output windows |
| Feb-6-1996 |
A graphics editor generates an Appearance Construction Graph (ACG) which represents an image formation process as a Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG). The ACG image transformation operations (transforms), and... |
| 5485568 |
Structured image (Sl) format for describing complex color raster images |
| Jan-16-1996 |
A method and device for describing a complex color raster image as a collection of objects in a hierarchical and device independent format. The purpose of structured imaging (SI) is to expand the scope... |
| 5467447 |
Document marking system employing context-sensitive embedded marking codes |
| Nov-14-1995 |
A system for generating documents which, as well as presenting the usual alpha-numeric text information, contain a distinctive marking. The marking scheme of the invention can convey identifying information... |
| 5448473 |
Method of and system for recording and researching documents |
| Sep-5-1995 |
A method of recording multiple kinds of documents successively while sorting them into plural document groups and then searching target document groups from the thus recorded document groups. Also provided... |
| 5444615 |
Attorney terminal having outline preparation capabilities for managing trial proceeding |
| Aug-22-1995 |
The present invention provides attorney terminals which operate using an outline for storing, associating and managing case evidence, case law and work product for a given lawsuit at issue. Accessed through... |
| 5291405 |
Documentation management system |
| Mar-1-1994 |
A documentation management system including an optical disk for storing a predetermined format for a document and data entered in the document, an area setting device for setting in a predetermined portion... |
| 5280275 |
Graphical interface control buttons with scalar values |
| Jan-18-1994 |
A method and apparatus for allowing users of computers having a graphical user interface to efficiently convey scalar control information (such as Likert scale data) are described. A graphical control... |
| 5243518 |
Document services architecture |
| Sep-7-1993 |
A layered document services architecture facilitating operation and interconnection of electronic printing systems with both resident and non-resident work inputs. |
| 5214696 |
Data processing system and method to produce softcopy book readers which are limited to reading only books published by a specific publisher |
| May-25-1993 |
A data processing system method and program are disclosed for limiting a book reading program for softcopy books, to be capable of reading only softcopy books published by a selected publisher. The method... |
