| 6317791 |
System and method for distributing data over a communications network for display during start-up |
| Nov-13-2001 |
A system and method for distributing and presenting data such as video advertisements from a host server to a browsing device through a communications network. The method involves detecting an extended... |
| 6317781 |
Wireless communication device with markup language based man-machine interface |
| Nov-13-2001 |
A system, method, and software product provide a wireless communications device with a markup language based man-machine interface. The man-machine interface provides a user interface for the various telecommunications... |
| 6317780 |
System and method for distributing data over a communications network |
| Nov-13-2001 |
A system and method for distributing and presenting data such as advertisements from a host server to a browsing device through a communications network. The method involves preloading data from the host... |
| 6317760 |
Extensible ordered information within a web page |
| Nov-13-2001 |
An extensible set of commands to be executed in an ordered manner, such as a series of vector graphics commands, is provided in a Web page written in a markup language. The commands are embedded in statements... |
| 6317759 |
Method and apparatus for providing an applications development system for internet based applications |
| Nov-13-2001 |
A method and apparatus for providing an HTML applications development environment is disclosed. The applications development environment is used to develop large HTML based applications. The invention... |
| 6314439 |
Computer system, program product and method of creating aliases and accessing storage locations in a computer system with same |
| Nov-6-2001 |
A computer system, program product and method implement enhancements to the functionality and power of aliases in accessing documents stored in a computer system. An alias may be automatically or manually... |
| 6314425 |
Apparatus and methods for use of access tokens in an internet document management system |
| Nov-6-2001 |
An Internet-based document management system and methods are provided wherein access to the system and its services may be controlled through use of access tokens. The Internet-based document management... |
| 6314424 |
System and method for dynamically expanding and collapsing a tree view for an HTML web interface |
| Nov-6-2001 |
The present invention provides a system and method for expanding and collapsing a tree view from a web interface by using HTML to build the visual representation of the web server's information structure,... |
| 6314423 |
Searching and serving bookmark sets based on client specific information |
| Nov-6-2001 |
One or more searchable repositories of bookmark sets are stored in a computer system, each bookmark set can be downloaded to a client browser as a unit. Each bookmark set contains a set of Uniform Resource... |
| 6313835 |
Simplified on-line preparation of dynamic web sites |
| Nov-6-2001 |
A method for creating a Web page component, including opening a remote connection to a server provided with a plurality of basic animation sequences having variable attributes associated therewith, and... |
| 6311223 |
Effective transmission of documents in hypertext markup language (HTML) |
| Oct-30-2001 |
A data processor controlled display system for displaying documents including natural language text representative of data transmitted in a markup language such as HTML to a display station from a location... |
| 6311215 |
System for dynamic determination of client communications capabilities |
| Oct-30-2001 |
A system for determining whether an entity that issued a message is pre-configured to receive a response according to an enhanced communications protocol is implemented in a method which includes the steps... |
| 6311197 |
Method for downloading a web page to a client for efficient display on a television screen |
| Oct-30-2001 |
An improved method of providing a document to a client coupled to a server. The server provides a number of Internet services to the client, including functioning as a caching proxy on behalf of the client... |
| 6311196 |
Method and apparatus for implementing web pages having master borders |
| Oct-30-2001 |
A method and apparatus that a user to specify "master borders" that are normally a part of each web page on a web site. A preferred embodiment of the present invention allows the user to define the size... |
| 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... |
| 6301621 |
Web server with direct mail capability |
| Oct-9-2001 |
A system for enabling access to non-HTML objects from a web browser. The system includes a database for storing non-HTML objects. A system user requests a non-HTML object from a database using a web browser.... |
| 6300947 |
Display screen and window size related web page adaptation system |
| Oct-9-2001 |
A web page adaptation system and method provides organization of viewing material associated with web sites for visual displays and windows on which these home pages are being viewed. A different viewing-access... |
| 6298357 |
Structure extraction on electronic documents |
| Oct-2-2001 |
A method and apparatus for extracting structure information from an unstructured electronic document is described. The method includes the step of identifying a structural type for each instance in the... |
| 6298356 |
Methods and apparatus for enabling dynamic resource collaboration |
| Oct-2-2001 |
Methods and apparatus for enabling collaboration with web pages and other resources is described. A method includes the step of establishing a collaboration session between a first client and a second... |
| 6298344 |
Document searching apparatus |
| Oct-2-2001 |
A searching apparatus includes an index generation portion for generating an index to provide data of the number of documents including the key word and the number of appearances of the key word. Matching... |
| 6297819 |
Parallel web sites |
| Oct-2-2001 |
Systems, methods, and apparatus (including computer program apparatus) for a browser-aware application delivery system. The System provides World Wide Web browser extensions based on server processes rather... |
| 6292936 |
Enabling multiple runtime processors in an interpreter-based embedded scripting system |
| Sep-18-2001 |
An interpreter-based embedded scripting environment includes multiple runtime processors executed by the computer. Each of the runtime processors processes their respective corresponding intermediate sources... |
| 6292813 |
System and method for communicating information relating to a network resource |
| Sep-18-2001 |
A system and method for communicating information relating to a network resource. Upon detecting a hypertext document displayed on the screen a request identifying the document to a supplemental information... |
| 6292796 |
Method and apparatus for improving access to literature |
| Sep-18-2001 |
A method and apparatus for improving access to literature is described. Embodiments of the invention comprise an access mechanism that searches current and past literature (e.g., journal publications or... |
| 6289501 |
Method for generating simple document type definitions |
| Sep-11-2001 |
A method is disclosed for use in a software development framework that has a repository and at least two software systems. The repository contains a meta-model and the software systems store instances... |
| 6289333 |
Methods and apparatus enabling dynamic resource collaboration when collaboration session host is distinct from resource host |
| Sep-11-2001 |
Methods and apparatus for enabling collaboration between clients with respect to dynamic resources are described. The method includes the step of establishing a collaboration session between a first client... |
| 6286018 |
Method and apparatus for finding a set of documents relevant to a focus set using citation analysis and spreading activation techniques |
| Sep-4-2001 |
A method and apparatus combining spreading activation and citation analysis techniques to find related documents in collections of linked documents. Spreading activation is an analysis technique that may... |
| 6285985 |
Advertising-subsidized and advertising-enabled software |
| Sep-4-2001 |
The present invention, generally speaking, provides a mechanism allowing a software developer to present advertisements through a software program. In accordance with an exemplary embodiment of the invention,... |
| 6285683 |
Method and apparatus for providing extended capability telephone services via an automated server |
| Sep-4-2001 |
Automated servers can provide a wide-variety of services and information to users via communications vehicles such as telephones. Such servers are often designed to interact specifically with an abstract... |
| 6282549 |
Indexing of media content on a network |
| Aug-28-2001 |
A method and apparatus for searching for multimedia files in a distributed database and for displaying results of the search based on the context and content of the multimedia files. |
| 6282548 |
Automatically generate and displaying metadata as supplemental information concurrently with the web page, there being no link between web page and metadata |
| Aug-28-2001 |
A method and apparatus that displays metadata about a web page currently being displayed by a browser. While the web browser is communicating with a web server to obtain the requested web page, client... |
| 6278992 |
Search engine using indexing method for storing and retrieving data |
| Aug-21-2001 |
A Search Engine utilizing a method and system for efficient storage and retrieval of data. The system comprises a record file, an index file, a duplicate segment file and access to a network of computers.... |
| 6275954 |
Method and apparatus for analyzing data |
| Aug-14-2001 |
The present invention comprises a method and apparatus for receiving data analysis instructions from a user and for displaying results of the data analysis to the user. In one embodiment, the invention... |
| 6275833 |
Method and system for generating materials for presentation on a non-frame capable web browser |
| Aug-14-2001 |
A method and system are disclosed for managing Internet presentation materials in a single file format for ease of administration while presenting to an Internet requestor only those portions of the file... |
| 6275829 |
Representing a graphic image on a web page with a thumbnail-sized image |
| Aug-14-2001 |
An original (full size) image is automatically represented by a thumbnail (reduced size) image on a Web page. A user selects the original image that will be represented by the thumbnail image. The thumbnail... |
| 6275490 |
Method and apparatus for establishing communications from browser application |
| Aug-14-2001 |
A technique for initiating communications from a web browser to a destination on either a packet-switched data network or a circuit-switched communication network includes a communication utility capable... |
| 6272507 |
System for ranking search results from a collection of documents using spreading activation techniques |
| Aug-7-2001 |
A system and method for ranking the results of a search on a collection of linked documents. Documents found on the Web are typically referred to as Web pages. The system utilizes various information relating... |
| 6272490 |
Document data linking apparatus |
| Aug-7-2001 |
This invention has as its object to assign a link destination address to each word in a designated document. A word to be linked is selected from those in the designated document, and information of a... |
| 6271840 |
Graphical search engine visual index |
| Aug-7-2001 |
A visual index method provides graphical output from search engine results or other URL lists. Search engine results or a list of URLs are passed to a web crawler that retrieves the web page and other... |
| 6269369 |
Networked personal contact manager |
| Jul-31-2001 |
A network-computer-based personal contact manager system is disclosed wherein users of networked clients maintain and update a set of user information which is stored in a relational database on a networked... |
| 6268852 |
System and method for facilitating generation and editing of event handlers |
| Jul-31-2001 |
A method and system for creating and editing event handlers that link events triggered on one object to actions taken on one or more different objects. The method provides a user interface having an event... |
| 6266684 |
Creating and saving multi-frame web pages |
| Jul-24-2001 |
A web page authoring program allows a user to create a multiple frame web page by manipulating a graphical display representing the web page. The program presents a graphical display representing how the... |
| 6266058 |
Apparatus and method for linking browser bars with active documents for a browser |
| Jul-24-2001 |
An apparatus and method provides for active documents to be linked with the standard browser bar. This linkage allows for software components contained by the browser to work together and feel like an... |
| 6263352 |
Automated web site creation using template driven generation of active server page applications |
| Jul-17-2001 |
A computer-implemented system is designed to assist a merchant in setting up an electronic online storefront that is customized to the merchant's business, without requiring the merchant to program. The... |
| 6263344 |
Method and apparatus for processing hypertext objects on optical disc players |
| Jul-17-2001 |
A method for retrieving, decoding, and processing codes in an intermediate language generated from object specifying languages such as HTML and JAVA is disclosed. The codes in the intermediate language... |
| 6263332 |
System and method for query processing of structured documents |
| Jul-17-2001 |
A computer-implemented method of retrieving information in a first markup language through a query engine and presenting the information in any required markup language. A user inputs a query and may invoke... |
| 6259771 |
Web based voice response system |
| Jul-10-2001 |
A telephone announcement system 10 has a URL computer 30 that accesses announcements stored on Internet sites 41-44. Subscribers may enter the sites 41-44 to create or change announcements. |
| 6256631 |
Automatic creation of hyperlinks |
| Jul-3-2001 |
Creating hyperlinks in a document is performed according to structural indicators within a set of documents. The documents are parsed for at least one structural indicator, preferably of a type of structural... |
| 6256622 |
Logical division of files into multiple articles for search and retrieval |
| Jul-3-2001 |
A single file, such as an HTML document, is logically divided into multiple articles that can be individually recognized and ranked by search engines. The segmentation of a document into separate articles... |
| 6253367 |
Method and system for transforming dynamic content for use on the internet |
| Jun-26-2001 |
Dynamic content is transformed for use on the Internet by receiving an object and a feature for the object in a non-Internet format. The feature specifies an event and an action to be performed in connection... |
