| 6851089 |
Software application and associated methods for generating a software layer for structuring semistructured information |
| Feb-1-2005 |
A wrapper builder application provides a variety of features for facilitating the creation of wrappers that are used to extract information from Web sites. In one aspect, the wrapper builder application... |
| 6851088 |
Conditional highlighting of given cells in a dynamic HTML table |
| Feb-1-2005 |
A method operative at a server for generating a table having dynamic data. According to the method, a page developer may specify a given table cell in the table for conditional treatment. In response to... |
| 6851087 |
System and method of processing computer form data |
| Feb-1-2005 |
A technique of translating the data structure of a data group pertaining to a computer form from a first format to a second format, is disclosed. A method implementing this technique includes the steps... |
| 6850988 |
System and method for dynamically evaluating an electronic commerce business model through click stream analysis |
| Feb-1-2005 |
A system and method for dynamically evaluating an electronic commerce business model through click stream analysis is disclosed. An electronic commerce business model is incorporated into a Web site. The... |
| 6850950 |
Method facilitating data stream parsing for use with electronic commerce |
| Feb-1-2005 |
A parsing technique suitable for use in electronic commerce that avoids the disadvantages of known monolithic parsers. The parsing system generates code specific to each input document and data stream... |
| 6850948 |
Method and apparatus for compressing textual documents |
| Feb-1-2005 |
A method and apparatus are disclosed for compressing textual documents encoded using a tag-based markup language, such as XML or SGML documents, in a manner that allows a compressed document to be processed... |
| 6850940 |
Automated on-line information service and directory, particularly for the world wide web |
| Feb-1-2005 |
A computer network and a database are used to provide a hardware-independent, dynamic information system in which the information content is entirely user-controlled. Requests are received from individual... |
| 6847974 |
Method and apparatus for intelligent data assimilation |
| Jan-25-2005 |
An intelligent data assimilation system including an ontology description, workflows, and logical search objects. The logical search objects operably connect to external and internal data providers and... |
| 6845483 |
System and method for generating electronic documents having independently formattable regions |
| Jan-18-2005 |
A system and method for generating a single electronic document having independently formatted regions. Different regions of a document are given attributes according to a set of region records, which... |
| 6845380 |
Method and system of valuing transformation between extensible markup language (XML) documents |
| Jan-18-2005 |
A method and system of valuing transformation between XML documents. Specifically, one embodiment of the present invention discloses a method for calculating a transformation cost for a transformation... |
| 6845374 |
System and method for adaptive text recommendation |
| Jan-18-2005 |
Network system provides a real-time adaptive recommendation set of documents with a high statistical measure of relevancy to the requestor device. The recommendation set is optimized based on analyzing... |
| 6842757 |
Methods and systems for dynamic and default attribute binding |
| Jan-11-2005 |
Every attribute or property of an element in a declarative environment such as XML may be bound to an external data source or defaulted when binding fails to resolve. The failure to resolve the binding... |
| 6839881 |
Limited access network database system |
| Jan-4-2005 |
A network database system wherein clients of subscribing entities are authorized network access to reliable documents that are identified by each entity as being relevant to clients of that entity. Features... |
| 6839880 |
Electronic property viewing system for providing virtual tours via a public communications network, and a method of exchanging the same |
| Jan-4-2005 |
Disclosed is an electronic real property viewing system for providing virtual tours of real property units via a public communications network such as the internet. The electronic property viewing system... |
| 6836779 |
Network transaction method |
| Dec-28-2004 |
A method of performing transactions over an electronic network includes defining data entries for objects represented in the network. The data entries including metadata represented as a web-readable document... |
| 6834372 |
Internet web browser with proximity sensitie hyperlink history report |
| Dec-21-2004 |
A web browser program presents historical information about hyperlinks shown on web pages. Initially, the computer determines whether it is receiving certain user input, such as placement of a cursor over... |
| 6834276 |
Database system and method for data acquisition and perusal |
| Dec-21-2004 |
A data acquisition and perusal system and method including a database selection module, a database index generator module and a search module. The database selection module enables selection of a plurality... |
| 6832350 |
Organizing and categorizing hypertext document bookmarks by mutual affinity based on predetermined affinity criteria |
| Dec-14-2004 |
An apparatus, program product, and method utilize a "bookmark affinity" to facilitate organizing by mutual affinity stored storage location addresses, or "bookmarks," each for a given hypertext document.... |
| 6832349 |
Remote activation of enhanced functionality features in locally created documents |
| Dec-14-2004 |
A method and system for remotely activating document features in locally created electronic documents. Documents having certain document features, are created in a design application at a local computer.... |
| 6829746 |
Electronic document delivery system employing distributed document object model (DOM) based transcoding |
| Dec-7-2004 |
Several different embodiments of an electronic document delivery system are described including a client machine (e.g., a palmtop/handheld computer or wireless communication device) coupled to a transcoder... |
| 6829745 |
Method and system for transforming an XML document to at least one XML document structured according to a subset of a set of XML grammar rules |
| Dec-7-2004 |
A method and system are for transforming an XML document structured according to a set of XML grammar rules to at least one XML document structured according to at least one subset of the set of XML grammar... |
| 6829570 |
Oilfield analysis systems and methods |
| Dec-7-2004 |
An oilfield data analysis system is based on a four-tier software model which includes a "shared earth model" and a federation of "directory services". The first tier is a universal graphical user interface... |
| 6826726 |
Remote document updating system using XML and DOM |
| Nov-30-2004 |
In a system comprising a local processing device, a transmission link to a remote processing device, and a remote processing device, a method for updating a remote document in accordance with mutations... |
| 6826725 |
Techniques for invoking system commands from within a mark-up language document |
| Nov-30-2004 |
A method and apparatus for invoking system resources directly from within a mark-up language document. Links referencing a pre-defined system command to be invoked may be embedded within the document.... |
| 6826597 |
Providing clients with services that retrieve data from data sources that do not necessarily support the format required by the clients |
| Nov-30-2004 |
A method and system for allowing clients to retrieve data from data sources that do not necessarily support the same protocols and formats as the clients. The clients issue service requests. A pre-processor... |
| 6826553 |
System for providing database functions for multiple internet sources |
| Nov-30-2004 |
A system for automatically extracting data from at least one electronic document accessible through the Internet or other computer network. The system records a sequence of actions operable to electronically... |
| 6823492 |
Method and apparatus for creating an index for a structured document based on a stylesheet |
| Nov-23-2004 |
One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that generates an index to facilitate searching through text within a document based upon an index stylesheet associated with the document. The... |
| 6823491 |
System and method for a dynamically integrated search engine |
| Nov-23-2004 |
A system and method for dynamically integrating a site specific search engine. In one embodiment, a hidden HTML tag is used on web pages to identify the site specific search engine for the web site. When... |
| 6823490 |
Enhanced position control of web pages |
| Nov-23-2004 |
A solution is presented to keep track of the URLs that have been visited within an HTML file, identify the location or exit point of the last line that was displayed on a screen in a multi-screen HTML... |
| 6823361 |
Computationally efficient, platform-independent data transfer protocol |
| Nov-23-2004 |
A computationally efficient, platform-independent data transfer protocol includes executing a depth-first traversal of a data tree representing a query or a query response to generate message elements,... |
| 6820235 |
Clinical trial data management system and method |
| Nov-16-2004 |
A system and method for managing clinical trial data includes dynamically generating, at a server, a data entry form to be displayed at a client. The data entry form is generated dynamically in a SGML-derived... |
| 6820094 |
Computer-based document management system |
| Nov-16-2004 |
A computer-based electronic document and/or paper-based document management application program. The program provides an efficient way to automatically import, index, categorize, store, search, retrieve,... |
| 6820075 |
Document-centric system with auto-completion |
| Nov-16-2004 |
An information space is created using a document. Entities from the document and its information space are used to create a database of entities. An auto-completion system uses contextual information surrounding... |
| 6819336 |
Tooltips on webpages |
| Nov-16-2004 |
A method and apparatus that allows a Web page designer to specify tooltips for his Web page. Tooltips are text areas that display automatically when the user places the cursor over predetermined text on... |
| 6817008 |
System and method for enterprise-wide business process management |
| Nov-9-2004 |
Implementing a business process management system across an entire enterprise. An exemplary computer-based system for implementing business processes can access data existing on one or more of the computer... |
| 6816893 |
Web based no print feature |
| Nov-9-2004 |
The present invention provides a method of displaying at least one alpha-numeric character of an HTML based web page that will not be printed when the web page is printed. The process consists of generating... |
| 6816849 |
Advanced internet interface |
| Nov-9-2004 |
An Internet interface is disclosed for tailoring of a web page to an individual user without requiring a user to disclose information that specifically identifies the user. The interface includes a user... |
| 6813746 |
Hierarchical master pages |
| Nov-2-2004 |
A page description is stored that includes a pointer to a lower-level master page description. A pointer to a higher-level master page description is stored in the lower-level master page description.... |
| 6813591 |
Information processing apparatus and method as well as providing medium |
| Nov-2-2004 |
An information processing apparatus which pleases a user with a higher degree of entertainment property is disclosed. A graphic chip copies original image data stored in a VRAM into a buffer built therein... |
| 6810404 |
Computer-based document management system |
| Oct-26-2004 |
A computer-based electronic document and/or paper-based document management application program. The program provides an efficient way to automatically import, index, categorize, store, search, retrieve,... |
| 6804700 |
Methods and systems for assigning human-readable and unique uniform resource locators to objects |
| Oct-12-2004 |
A method and system for generating unique and human-readable URLs for objects included in a network system. When an object is created in a network system it may be that the application creating the object... |
| 6804677 |
Encoding semi-structured data for efficient search and browsing |
| Oct-12-2004 |
A method for encoding XML tree data that includes the step of encoding the semi-structured data into strings of arbitrary length in a way that maintains non-structural and structural information about... |
| 6799301 |
Methods and systems for objects supporting structured language persistent state |
| Sep-28-2004 |
A converter converts between structured language elements and objects embeddable in the native format of a document editor. A data structure representing the embeddable object is created without instantiating... |
| 6799300 |
Document processor |
| Sep-28-2004 |
A document processing apparatus that automatically carries out a transmission operation at the time of a link selection, which selects a telephone number described in the link information without carrying... |
| 6799299 |
Method and apparatus for creating stylesheets in a data processing system |
| Sep-28-2004 |
A method and apparatus in a data processing system for converting documents. Source elements and corresponding target elements are identified. An initial target document derived from a source document... |
| 6799297 |
Form printing solutions web server using a java vending machine for pulling a jetsend form print job from a server and outputting to a device |
| Sep-28-2004 |
A forms printing apparatus includes a web server having a forms solution for supporting forms generation and transmission via an information exchange protocol. The web server includes a control interface... |
| 6799182 |
System and method for data source flattening |
| Sep-28-2004 |
A system and method for enabling data exchanges between various data processing systems, including disparate systems, is described. In one exemplary embodiment, the present invention can receive a hierarchical... |
| 6795854 |
Operating system for structured information processing |
| Sep-21-2004 |
An embodiment of the present invention includes an extensible and dynamic software operating environment supporting applications which process structured information, and particularly an environment supporting... |
| 6792595 |
Source editing in a graphical hierarchical environment |
| Sep-14-2004 |
This invention relates to a method for viewing, writing, and modifying source code in an integrated development environment (IDE). When source code is being edited in a graphical environment, windows in... |
| 6792577 |
Data distribution method and apparatus, and data receiving method and apparatus |
| Sep-14-2004 |
Style sheets which define the expression form, etc., of documents in a meta-language (for example, XML) format in which tags which can be defined arbitrarily are used are managed appropriately. A style... |
