| 6397210 |
Network interactive tree search method and system |
| May-28-2002 |
A method for searching for data in a data network comprising hyperlinked pages comprising the steps of (1) receiving an initial set of network addresses for pages in the data network; (2) receiving a non-negative... |
| 6393468 |
Data access control |
| May-21-2002 |
A modified Web server comprises a session manager which intercepts all incoming requests from clients for Web pages. Each request incorporates a token which the session manager compares with tokens which... |
| 6393422 |
Navigation method for dynamically generated HTML pages |
| May-21-2002 |
A report navigation method (30a) operating in conjunction with a report generating and viewing method (10) for viewing and navigating between reports (72, 72a) over the internet (16). A request from a... |
| 6389436 |
Enhanced hypertext categorization using hyperlinks |
| May-14-2002 |
A method, apparatus, and article of manufacture for a computer implemented hypertext classifier. A new document containing citations to and from other documents is classified. Initially, documents within... |
| 6389409 |
Method for obtaining unified information graph from multiple information resources |
| May-14-2002 |
A method for dynamically obtaining a unified classification information graph which provides a navigation system for a user to access sought information. The method includes providing a multiple information... |
| 6381593 |
Document information management system |
| Apr-30-2002 |
A document information management system in which a search-engine-compatible interface unit makes a word in a document displayed on the screen to be specified, transfers the specified word to a search... |
| 6377956 |
Automatically configuring product manual by binding document objects in logical structure to proper versions of component documents in a document database |
| Apr-23-2002 |
A system for automatically assembling product manuals based on a product model, a delivery model and a formal configuration specification includes a structure instantiator for instantiating a product manual... |
| 6377945 |
Search system and method for retrieval of data, and the use thereof in a search engine |
| Apr-23-2002 |
A search system for information retrieval includes a data structure in the form of a non-evenly spaced sparse suffix tree for storing suffixes of words and/or symbols, or sequences thereof, in a text T,... |
| 6377928 |
Voice recognition for animated agent-based navigation |
| Apr-23-2002 |
A method of operation of a computer system for processing an arbitrary document such as a World Wide Web page to provide additional information not immediately available from the raw, unprocessed document.... |
| 6374273 |
Reformatting a first single-column markup document into a multi-column document, and formatting second markup document in the background, while displaying the first reformatted document |
| Apr-16-2002 |
An optimized HTML (HyperText Markup Language) viewer formats documents and other information into a convenient, newspaper-like, multi-column format. The viewer can display one or many documents simultaneously,... |
| 6374272 |
Selecting overlapping hypertext links with different mouse buttons from the same position on the screen |
| Apr-16-2002 |
A computer system, program product and method utilize an input region defined for a hypertext link that is capable of receiving user input for the hypertext link outside of a display region thereof to... |
| 6370552 |
Apparatus and method for displaying application output in an HTML document |
| Apr-9-2002 |
A method for displaying an executing application in an HTML page includes the steps of receiving an indication that execution of an application should begin, determining the parameters of a window in which... |
| 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... |
| 6366934 |
Method and apparatus for querying structured documents using a database extender |
| Apr-2-2002 |
An extender for a computer-implemented relational database system is disclosed for storing, querying, and retrieving structured documents. The extender provides a new abstract data type and includes a... |
| 6366912 |
Network security zones |
| Apr-2-2002 |
A computer based system and method of providing security when receiving digital data at a client computer from one or more Web sites is disclosed. The method includes receiving security configuration information... |
| 6363418 |
On-line image caching control for efficient image display |
| Mar-26-2002 |
A method for on-line controlling caching of an image on a viewing device to efficiently display the image on the viewing device. The method comprises the following steps: (a) sending from a server to the... |
| 6363404 |
Three-dimensional models with markup documents as texture |
| Mar-26-2002 |
A method, system and computer-readable medium for providing user-interfacing within textures of three-dimensional models. A processor with hardware and software components stores one or more markup documents... |
| 6363386 |
System and method for managing property information related to a resource |
| Mar-26-2002 |
A method is described for managing property information related to a resource such as a computer file or directory. First, a property file is created for storing property information related to the resource.... |
| 6362894 |
Network printer and network printing method |
| Mar-26-2002 |
A process for directly accessing a network and receiving and printing only required information of information resources. When information resources (a Web page) specified by a host computer are accessed,... |
| 6362837 |
Method and apparatus for simultaneously indicating rating value for the first document and display of second document in response to the selection |
| Mar-26-2002 |
A method for navigating within a message thread on a computer system having a memory and a display, includes the steps of displaying a message on the display, displaying an icon on the display, the icon... |
| 6360215 |
Method and apparatus for retrieving documents based on information other than document content |
| Mar-19-2002 |
A method and apparatus are provided for retrieving documents from a collection of documents based on information other than the contents of a desired document. The collection of documents, which may be... |
| 6359633 |
Apparatus and method for abstracting markup language documents |
| Mar-19-2002 |
An apparatus and a method to generate a hyperlinked abstract from a markup language document by parsing the document to create a syntax tree, analyzing statistically the syntax tree based on at least one... |
| 6356933 |
Methods and apparatus for efficiently transmitting interactive application data between a client and a server using markup language |
| Mar-12-2002 |
A method for efficiently transferring data between a client and a server includes the steps of: providing an application program; providing an application-independent client process effecting a plurality... |
| 6356910 |
Method and apparatus for a self-service content menu |
| Mar-12-2002 |
A content management system on a Web-site that serves as a end-user access method is disclosed. The prior art of the open hierarchical data structure is used to organize content and provide the basis for... |
| 6356908 |
Automatic web page thumbnail generation |
| Mar-12-2002 |
A method for presenting content from the page in a distributed database. In a preferred embodiment, a page of data from the database is presented to a user. The page has a plurality of links to linked... |
| 6356907 |
Providing for data types of properties according to standard request-response protocols |
| Mar-12-2002 |
Data types of properties for resources of standard request-response protocols such as HTTP is disclosed. In one embodiment, a method specifies a command, such as a PROPPATCH command, a PROPFIND command,... |
| 6356906 |
Standard database queries within standard request-response protocols |
| Mar-12-2002 |
Standard database queries within standard request-response protocols is disclosed. A database query according to a predetermined query language such as SQL is first wrapped according to a predetermined... |
| 6356898 |
Method and system for summarizing topics of documents browsed by a user |
| Mar-12-2002 |
The invention disclosed herein relates to cooperative computing environments and information retrieval and management methods and systems. More particularly, the present invention relates to methods and... |
| 6353839 |
Method for inline variables management in a hypermedia display language |
| Mar-5-2002 |
To accept, store, and use dynamic information within a markup language, a markup language variable system is introduced. The markup language variable system allows variable scopes to be created within... |
| 6353822 |
Program-listing appendix |
| Mar-5-2002 |
Methods and apparatus for assisting a user in retrieving documents or other data items of interest operates in tandem with a conventional document-retrieval facility, such as a web browser, by tracking... |
| 6351766 |
Front end navigator tool for automatically retrieving referenced URL links on distributed files for performing debugging, editing and browsing functions on distributed files |
| Feb-26-2002 |
The present invention provides methods and apparatus for a front end navigating tool that may access and manipulate files distributed across different physical machines and platforms. The front end navigating... |
| 6351748 |
File system level access source control of resources within standard request-response protocols |
| Feb-26-2002 |
File system level access source control of resources within standard request-response protocols such as HTTP is disclosed. In one embodiment, the server receives a request, and determines whether a TRANSLATE... |
| 6351747 |
Method and system for providing data to a user based on a user's query |
| Feb-26-2002 |
A method and system is described for notifying users of an arrival of a document. A respective query is received from each respective user. Each respective query includes at least one query term and at... |
| 6345292 |
Web page rendering architecture |
| Feb-5-2002 |
An architecture for rendering web pages. In one embodiment, a system including a first server, a first-level cache, a second server, a second-level cache and one or more provider objects. The first server... |
| 6343377 |
System and method for rendering content received via the internet and world wide web via delegation of rendering processes |
| Jan-29-2002 |
A system and method for manifesting content received via the Internet by an automatic data processing system includes and involves a content retrieval module for retrieving content from the Internet. The... |
| 6338067 |
Product/service hierarchy database for market competition and investment analysis |
| Jan-8-2002 |
A product hierarchy database organizes company market performance and stock investment information by the products and services produced and offered by each competitor. The companies that produce each... |
| 6336214 |
System and method for automatically generating browsable language grammars |
| Jan-1-2002 |
A technique for automatically generating browsable language grammars. A grammar specification is used to identify the structure of an input grammar, so that a specification pre-processor, grammar parser... |
| 6332039 |
Structured document preparation apparatus and structured document preparation method |
| Dec-18-2001 |
A plurality of documents including at least one symbol is scanned by a scanner section so as to be converted to image data. The symbol is recognized from image data by a symbol recognizing section. Next,... |
| 6331865 |
Method and apparatus for electronically distributing and viewing digital contents |
| Dec-18-2001 |
The present invention is a method and system for electronically distributing digital contents. The digital contents include textual, graphical and pictorial information. At least one portable electronic... |
| 6330596 |
System and method for creating and navigating a linear hypermedia resource program |
| Dec-11-2001 |
A method and system for creating and navigating linear hypermedia resource programs are disclosed. The system includes a distributed hypermedia resource network having a plurality of hypermedia resources... |
| 6330575 |
Web commerce tool kit for distributed payment processing |
| Dec-11-2001 |
Methods and systems for designing a Web page, to be hosted on a Web page server. The development applications provide an object-oriented, template-driven interface for a customer or merchant to utilize... |
| 6330574 |
Compression/decompression of tags in markup documents by creating a tag code/decode table based on the encoding of tags in a DTD included in the documents |
| Dec-11-2001 |
In a tag document compressing/decompressing technique, a tag document compressing apparatus, for example, has a tag extracting unit for scanning document type definition of an inputted tag document to... |
| 6330007 |
Graphical user interface (GUI) prototyping and specification tool |
| Dec-11-2001 |
A Dynakey Screen Generator (DSG) is disclosed which is a graphical user interface prototyping and specification tool. DSG is a Microsoft Windows-based tool for prototyping and specifying a graphical user... |
| 6327598 |
Removing a filled-out form from a non-interactive web browser cache to an interactive web browser cache |
| Dec-4-2001 |
A process and system for controlling and moving along a path containing previously accessed interactive inter- or intra-net HTML source files and bypassing certain interactive HTML source files which contain... |
| 6327589 |
Method for searching a file having a format unsupported by a search engine |
| Dec-4-2001 |
Searching a file in a format unsupported by a search engine by creating term-topic links with associated probabilities. A file is retrieved comprising a compressed HTML file or a webpage. The file is parsed... |
| 6324553 |
Apparatus and method for the manual selective blocking of images |
| Nov-27-2001 |
A browser selectively disables the display of viewable objects in a document. The document contains control tags that describe how associated data is to be displayed. The browser interprets the control... |
| 6321242 |
Re-linking technology for a moving web site |
| Nov-20-2001 |
Techniques are discussed whereby hyperlinks that exist in an on-line document can be automatically updated (re-linked) when the location of the document to which a link points changes. In one embodiment,... |
| 6321228 |
Internet search system for retrieving selected results from a previous search |
| Nov-20-2001 |
A system and method that enable Internet users to access selected records retrieved from result sets that are derived from earlier search queries. The invention tracks and ranks selected records that users... |
| 6321227 |
Web search function to search information from a specific location |
| Nov-20-2001 |
A method for providing information placed in the specific location after analyzing the locations of the information is disclosed. Web search function to search information placed in the specific location... |
| 6321226 |
Flexible keyboard searching |
| Nov-20-2001 |
A search engine implements a multi-level search scheme. A first level involves performing a keyword search based on character matching. A second level, performed only if the first level yields no results,... |
