| 6611835 |
System and method for maintaining up-to-date link information in the metadata repository of a search engine |
| Aug-26-2003 |
A system and method for updating search engine information that is more efficient, less time-consuming, and less costly than prior techniques. In order to carry out the method a uniform resource locator... |
| 6610105 |
Method and system for providing resource access in a mobile environment |
| Aug-26-2003 |
Techniques that facilitate participation of mobile devices in accessing resources over a data network are disclosed. The data network can be wired, wireless or some combination thereof. In one aspect,... |
| 6608634 |
System and method for demonstration of dynamic web sites with integrated database without connecting to a network |
| Aug-19-2003 |
A system for displaying operations of a dynamic web site with integrated database without connecting to a network is disclosed. An off-line presentation of a selected web site is developed by extracting... |
| 6606653 |
Updating of embedded links in World Wide Web source pages to have the new URLs of their linked target Web pages after such target Web pages have been moved |
| Aug-12-2003 |
Embedded links or hotspots in source Web pages are upgraded to reflect the new Universal Resource Locations (URLs) of moved target Web Pages. In a World Wide Web communication network with user access... |
| 6606633 |
Compound document management system and compound document structure managing method |
| Aug-12-2003 |
A compound document management system comprises a compound document object holding unit for holding a compound document object and a schema object generating unit for generating a schema object and applying... |
| 6605121 |
Method, apparatus and system for improved content management and delivery |
| Aug-12-2003 |
An apparatus comprising a storage medium and a communicatively coupled processor are presented. The storage medium has stored therein a plurality of executable instructions which, when executed, implement... |
| 6605120 |
Filter definition for distribution mechanism for filtering, formatting and reuse of web based content |
| Aug-12-2003 |
An automated means for defining a filter used to extract web content for a web page is disclosed wherein the extracted content is used in a recast web page. The recast web page may be produced by a hosting... |
| 6604115 |
Method and apparatus for storing data |
| Aug-5-2003 |
A method and apparatus of storing and accessing data from a database is disclosed. The method and apparatus applies particularly to database systems used for cardiovascular information systems but may... |
| 6604106 |
Compression and delivery of web server content |
| Aug-5-2003 |
A server-side mechanism together with an optional client-side decompression process enhance server content delivery. The server-side mechanism preferably comprises a pair of processes: a daemon process... |
| 6604103 |
System and method for information retrieval employing a preloading procedure |
| Aug-5-2003 |
A document retrieval system having improved response time. During the time the user spends viewing the displayed information, other information that the user is likely to read or study later is preloaded... |
| 6604100 |
Method for converting relational data into a structured document |
| Aug-5-2003 |
A method for converting relational data to XML (Extensible Markup Language) is provided. The method, sometimes referred to as SilkRoute, provides a general, dynamic and efficient tool for viewing and querying... |
| 6604099 |
Majority schema in semi-structured data |
| Aug-5-2003 |
A schema discovery system and associated method discover a majority schema for a set of related and similarly marked up documents, such as HTML documents, based on the assumption that though the structure... |
| 6599324 |
Document management apparatus and document management program storage medium |
| Jul-29-2003 |
In a document management apparatus for managing perusal and editing of documents, and a document management program storage medium for storing therein a document management program to manage perusal and... |
| 6598091 |
Method and medium for rendering documents by server |
| Jul-22-2003 |
A method and a medium for rendering documents to a browser from a server are provided. According to the rendering method, the browser requests a predetermined document and at the same time transmits user's... |
| 6596031 |
News story markup language and system and process for editing and processing documents |
| Jul-22-2003 |
The present invention defines a news story document format that supports a wide variety of news story information in a structured manner. The news story markup language of the present invention provides... |
| 6596030 |
Identifying changes in on-line data repositories |
| Jul-22-2003 |
A system for accessing documents contained in a remote repository, which change in content from version-to-version. The system allows users to specify lists of documents of interest. Based on the lists,... |
| 6594823 |
Method and system for representing a high-level programming language data structure in a mark-up language |
| Jul-15-2003 |
A novel method and system for representing a high-level programming language data structure in a mark-up language is provided, in which each variable of data structure is represented as a mark-up language... |
| 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,... |
| 6592627 |
System and method for organizing repositories of semi-structured documents such as email |
| Jul-15-2003 |
A user can easily organize computerized document folders by associating a few sample documents in the document database with each folder. The present invention learns folder profiles based on the sample... |
| 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... |
| 6590674 |
Method and apparatus for creating and maintaining graphic representations of documents under a universal format |
| Jul-8-2003 |
A document management system for use in a computer system that affords convenient access to documents configured under incompatible formats. The invention allows the graphical depictions of documents configured... |
| 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... |
| 6587858 |
Systems and methods for the control of dynamic data and request criteria in a data repository |
| Jul-1-2003 |
Systems and methods for controlling the dissemination of data from a repository based on the substitution of content contained within a generated response. The systems and methods are used by the repository... |
| 6585778 |
Enforcing data policy using style sheet processing |
| Jul-1-2003 |
Enforcing data policy using style sheet processing. A Document Type Definition (DTD) associated with an Extensible Markup Language document is modified to specify a reference to stored data policy to be... |
| 6585777 |
Method for managing embedded files for a document saved in HTML format |
| Jul-1-2003 |
A computer-implemented process for simulating, in an HTML-formatted primary file, certain user-expected characteristics of an electronic document containing an embedded file. In response to initiating... |
| 6585776 |
Computer system and method of displaying hypertext documents with internal hypertext link definitions |
| Jul-1-2003 |
A computer system and method display internal and external hypertext link definitions in different representations to simplify a user's recognition of the external/internal status of each hypertext link... |
| 6584480 |
Structured documents in a publishing system |
| Jun-24-2003 |
An authoring environment for producing content for an on-line system is described. This environment includes a story editor which can save files in a Multimedia Document Format (MDF) file. A MDF file is... |
| 6582475 |
Automatic adaptive document printing help system |
| Jun-24-2003 |
An automatic printing assistant application for documents in electronic form is provided by virtue of the present invention. In certain embodiments, an elongated thumbnail image of all or part of an electronically... |
| 6581062 |
Method and apparatus for storing semi-structured data in a structured manner |
| Jun-17-2003 |
In response to the provision of a collection of semi-structured data (or its schema), a mapper generates a structured organization to store the collection of semi-structured data. The mapper further collaterally... |
| 6581061 |
Remote web site authoring system and method |
| Jun-17-2003 |
A remote web site authoring system is located on a server in communication with one or more clients via a network with in a distributed computing environment. The system provides a what-you-see-is-what-you-get... |
| 6578078 |
Method for preserving referential integrity within web sites |
| Jun-10-2003 |
The integrity of uniform resource locator (URL) references within web sites are maintained when changes occur in the locations where resources referenced by URLs are stored. A Referential Preservation... |
| 6578048 |
Method for constructing a catalog of the files on a network and a catalog so constructed |
| Jun-10-2003 |
A method of constructing a catalog of the files stored on the network comprised of a plurality of interconnected computers each having a plurality of files stored thereon is comprised of the following... |
| 6574644 |
Automatic capturing of hyperlink specifications for multimedia documents |
| Jun-3-2003 |
A system of hyperlink authoring allows authors to establish links in multimedia documents interactively and provides generalization and specialization mechanisms for transforming the content and context... |
| 6574634 |
Creating, translating and publishing large information plans to a network |
| Jun-3-2003 |
The invention is a data structure published to an access viewer network such as the Internet or a wide area network. The deployment and publication of the data structure results in topic pages containing... |
| 6574630 |
Investor relations event notification system and method |
| Jun-3-2003 |
An information release notification is provided using an event manager, reports, information notification messages, an investor events database, and a personal computing device. The personal computing... |
| 6573907 |
Network distribution and management of interactive video and multi-media containers |
| Jun-3-2003 |
Interactive interfaces to video information provide a displayed view of a quasi-object called a root image. The root image consists of a plurality of basic frames selected from the video information, arranged... |
| 6572660 |
Method and system for creating hyperlinks and hyperlinked documents from the direct manipulation of information ("Drag and link" operation) |
| Jun-3-2003 |
A method and system for creating hyperlinks and hyperlinked documents from the direct manipulation of information in a hypermedia processing system, or the like, in a fashion that requires little effort... |
| 6571295 |
Web page annotating and processing |
| May-27-2003 |
A general purpose system and method for associating annotations, modifications, or other information with a web-viewable document is disclosed. An embodiment of the system and method includes the use of... |
| 6569208 |
Method and system for representing a web element for storing and rendering into other formats |
| May-27-2003 |
A system and method are provided for converting two-dimensional data, particularly information in HTML format, into a canonical representation for rendering in aural or other visual forms wherein each... |
| 6569207 |
Converting schemas to component models |
| May-27-2003 |
A system for automatically generating class specifications from eXtensible Markup Language (XML) schemas and then automatically instantiating objects from those class specifications using data contained... |
| 6565609 |
Translating data into HTML while retaining formatting and functionality for returning the translated data to a parent application |
| May-20-2003 |
A method for enabling data generated in a parent application to be translated into another format, such as hypertext markup language (HTML), so that formatting functionality unique to the parent application... |
| 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... |
| 6564254 |
System and a process for specifying a location on a network |
| May-13-2003 |
When a user selects an arbitrary symbol 75 (word, phrase, sentence, graphic, image, etc.) from an arbitrary application 3 on a client computer 3, and copies this symbol 75 to a clipboard 79, a linker 23,... |
| 6562076 |
Extending application behavior through active properties attached to a document in a document management system |
| May-13-2003 |
A document management system is provided which organizes, stores and retrieves documents according to properties attached to the documents. A property attachment mechanism allows an application to attach... |
| 6560633 |
Method for creating network services by transforming an XML runtime model in response to an iterative input process |
| May-6-2003 |
A method and apparatus for creating network services. Instead of programming or hard coding an entire web service, the invention provides the ability to easily create a module/mechanism (referred to as... |
| 6560621 |
World wide web formatting for program output through print function |
| May-6-2003 |
A method of creating a Web page comprising the steps of: (a) using an application to create a file not formatted for Web viewing referred to as a source file; and (b) transmitting said source file to a... |
| 6560605 |
Presentation of link information as an aid to hypermedia navigation |
| May-6-2003 |
A system for presenting hypermedia link information. A computer-implemented method for presenting hypermedia link information is described which relates to the user the characteristics of a data file pointed... |
| 6560602 |
Certified mailer and method of using the same |
| May-6-2003 |
A single sheet mailer which incorporates a detachable certified mail return receipt having a bar-code, a readable return address window, a message window, address window, the acceptable coloration, and... |
| 6560588 |
Method and apparatus for identifying items of information from a multi-user information system |
| May-6-2003 |
A method and apparatus for identifying items of information from an information system which is especially useful for identifying information from the World Wide Web. The information items have not been... |
| 6558431 |
Storing valid and invalid markup language in strict and relaxed tables respectively |
| May-6-2003 |
The inventive editor allows web authors to edit HTML visually while preserving the HTML source document. The editor preserves the structure and format of the HTML, and permits simultaneous modeless visual... |
