| 6748387 |
Flexible keyword searching |
| Jun-8-2004 |
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,... |
| 6745368 |
Methods, apparatus, and systems for storing, retrieving and playing multimedia data |
| Jun-1-2004 |
Various embodiments of the invention provide increased speed and decreased computer processing for playing and navigating multimedia content by using two types of data objects for displaying the multimedia... |
| 6745367 |
Method and computer program product for implementing parental supervision for internet browsing |
| Jun-1-2004 |
A method and computer program product are provided for implementing supervision functions for Internet browsing. A user profile record is maintained. A universal resource locator (URL) is identified. Approval... |
| 6745187 |
Environmental permit web portal |
| Jun-1-2004 |
A system is disclosed that allows remote, regulated entity users web based access to authorization data, such as permit data in an environmental regulatory permitting or management system. The user can... |
| 6745163 |
Method and system for synchronizing audio and visual presentation in a multi-modal content renderer |
| Jun-1-2004 |
A system and method for a multi-modal browser/renderer that simultaneously renders content visually and verbally in a synchronized manner are provided without having the server applications change. The... |
| 6742163 |
Displaying multiple document abstracts in a single hyperlinked abstract, and their modified source documents |
| May-25-2004 |
A computerized document processing apparatus for creating an abstract includes document storage for storing a computerized document, keyword storage for storing keywords, an abstract creation section for... |
| 6741992 |
Flexible rule-based communication system and method for controlling the flow of and access to information between computer users |
| May-25-2004 |
Flexible rule-based information system allows information originators, administrators, recipients, and requesters (collectively, "users") to control and influence the flow of and access to information.... |
| 6738951 |
Transcoding system for delivering electronic documents to a device having a braille display |
| May-18-2004 |
An electronic document delivery system is described including a client machine coupled to (i.e., in wired or wireless communication with) a transcoder proxy. The client machine may be, for example, a palmtop... |
| 6738950 |
Method and system for dynamic generation of web site content for specific user communities from a single content base |
| May-18-2004 |
What is described is a system for generating a web site. The system and method consists of a web server to service HTTP requests received from users and a database connected to the web server. The database... |
| 6738803 |
Proxy browser providing voice enabled web application audio control for telephony devices |
| May-18-2004 |
A unified web-based voice messaging system provides voice application control between a proxy browser having a web browser, and an application server via an hypertext transport protocol (HTTP) connection... |
| 6738759 |
System and method for performing similarity searching using pointer optimization |
| May-18-2004 |
The present invention is a computer-implemented method for optimizing the detecting and scoring of similarities between documents in a source database and search criteria. It uses a set of hierarchical... |
| 6735739 |
Text in anchor tag of hyperlink adjustable according to context |
| May-11-2004 |
In a computer system, a method of forming a hyperlinked index of computer-readable pages of information, having steps of: accessing a table of stored table entries, each table entry having a long-name... |
| 6735585 |
Method for search engine generating supplemented search not included in conventional search result identifying entity data related to portion of located web page |
| May-11-2004 |
It is determined that an entity is registered as having control over the use of at least a portion of a World-Wide Web address for a first set of computer data that is accessible in accordance with Internet... |
| 6732332 |
Automated web site creation system |
| May-4-2004 |
The present invention provides a system of creating Internet web content. In some embodiments, non-web content is received in a web content creation module, which automatically creates web content from... |
| 6732331 |
System and process for managing content organized in a tag-delimited template using metadata |
| May-4-2004 |
A system and process for managing content organized in a tag-delimited template using metadata are described. A stored template written in a tag-delimited language is retrieved. The retrieved template... |
| 6732330 |
Scripting language blocks to support multiple scripting languages in a single web page |
| May-4-2004 |
Different scripting languages may reside side-by-side or nested within each other on the same web page. Thus, a new author may add code to the page, and he or she is not tied to any given subset of languages... |
| 6732175 |
Network apparatus for switching based on content of application data |
| May-4-2004 |
A network apparatus is provided between a network and a plurality of processing nodes or servers. The network apparatus includes a content based message director (e.g., XML director) to route or direct... |
| 6732102 |
Automated data extraction and reformatting |
| May-4-2004 |
A system and method for automated browsing and data extraction from Internet Web sites. Our preferred method and system selects various data elements within the Web site during a design phase and extracts... |
| 6728934 |
Touch tone voice internet service |
| Apr-27-2004 |
A method for touch tone voice internet service includes the steps of remotely retrieving a document including HTML tags, converting selected text in the document to speech, and enumerating links in the... |
| 6728756 |
Information processing method, collaboration server, collaboration system, and storage medium for storing an information processing program |
| Apr-27-2004 |
To display contents desired by a user in one information terminal onto another information terminal having no special software for collaboration when collaboration is performed through internets. If a... |
| 6728705 |
System and method for selecting content for displaying over the internet based upon some user input |
| Apr-27-2004 |
The present invention provides a method for displaying information from the Internet. In one embodiment, the invention generates a plurality of content modules, each content module comprising a subset... |
| 6725426 |
Mechanism for translating between word processing documents and XML documents |
| Apr-20-2004 |
A translation mechanism translates between a word processing document and an XML file. The translation facility may translate the word processing document into the XML file and, conversely, may translate... |
| 6725425 |
Method and apparatus for retrieving information from semi-structured, web-based data sources |
| Apr-20-2004 |
An Internet search system is structured for efficient data retrieval from semi-structured data sources. The configurable Internet WEB search system has a browser module for navigating to and displaying... |
| 6725424 |
Electronic document delivery system employing distributed document object model (DOM) based transcoding and providing assistive technology support |
| Apr-20-2004 |
Several 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 proxy.... |
| 6725423 |
Laying out markup language paragraphs independently of other paragraphs |
| Apr-20-2004 |
A display process is carried out in high speed without changing a structure of a structured document. Within structural information of a structured document, a paragraph-forming element is obtained in... |
| 6725421 |
Methods, apparatus, and systems for storing, retrieving and playing multimedia data |
| Apr-20-2004 |
Various embodiments of the invention provide increased speed and decreased computer processing for playing and navigating multimedia content by using two types of data objects for displaying the multimedia... |
| 6725232 |
Database system for laboratory management and knowledge exchange |
| Apr-20-2004 |
A database system is provided that allows for navigation to outgoing links and incoming links. The database system is defined by a plurality of database-oriented projects. Each project has one or more... |
| 6725227 |
Advanced web bookmark database system |
| Apr-20-2004 |
An advanced bookmark database system provides query, re-organization, information sharing, view, and access control capabilities to manage bookmarks. In one embodiment of the bookmark database system of... |
| 6721747 |
Method and apparatus for an information server |
| Apr-13-2004 |
The present invention provides a method and apparatus for managing information in an information resource system containing a server, a client, and a database, by generating metadata using an import agent,... |
| 6720981 |
Method, system and program product for animated web page construction and display |
| Apr-13-2004 |
A system and method are disclosed in which a browser application animates web page construction. The animated construction involves the browser associating each web object with an animated mover character.... |
| 6718516 |
Method for verifying context between multiple related XML tags in document object model (DOM) |
| Apr-6-2004 |
A method for processing a Document Object Model (DOM) tree to verify context between multiple related XML tags. One or more of these related XML tags are custom tags. According to the invention, contextual... |
| 6718515 |
Method of populating a dynamic HTML table from a set of data objects through a common interface |
| Apr-6-2004 |
A method operative at a server in response to a client browser request for generating a table having dynamic data. The method begins by instantiating a table format object with dynamic data extracted from... |
| 6718345 |
Resume storage and retrieval system |
| Apr-6-2004 |
A method of and apparatus for storage and retrieval of resume images in a manner which preserves the appearance, organization, and information content of the original document. In addition, summaries or... |
| 6718340 |
Resume storage and retrieval system |
| Apr-6-2004 |
A method of and apparatus for storage and retrieval of resume images in a manner which preserves the appearance, organization, and information content of the original document. In addition, summaries or... |
| 6718015 |
Remote web page reader |
| Apr-6-2004 |
A method for enabling a user having access to a telephone device to browse the Internet without a Web browser. The method begins by establishing a connection between the user's telephone device and a computer.... |
| 6717593 |
Mark-up language implementation of graphical or non-graphical user interfaces |
| Apr-6-2004 |
Interface description documents define the appearance and behavior of a user interface (132) toward the user, and feature description documents define interaction of the interface with the interfaced-to... |
| 6715129 |
Achieving application-specific document content by transcoding using Java Server Pages |
| Mar-30-2004 |
A method, system, and computer program product for using Java Server Pages to enable transcoding the content of a document requested by a client, in order to tailor the output document according to application-specific... |
| 6714931 |
Method and apparatus for forming user sessions and presenting internet data according to the user sessions |
| Mar-30-2004 |
Conventionally, a web site stores Internet data indicating file access status for the files that have been accessed in response to requests from web browsers. Unfortunately, the Internet data are kept... |
| 6714928 |
Development system providing HTML database control object |
| Mar-30-2004 |
A Database Development System is described that provides methodologies for creating an HTML or Web database control object (the "HTML DataWindow") for use in a Client/Server Database System The HTML DataWindow... |
| 6711569 |
Method for automatic selection of databases for searching |
| Mar-23-2004 |
A method for automatic selection of databases for improving the efficiency of data capture and management systems. The method for automatic selection of databases includes obtaining a candidate database... |
| 6704776 |
Selecting attribute based content for server applications |
| Mar-9-2004 |
The present invention provides a decision engine and a content directory for use in identifying an appropriate instance of data to be used by an application. This process of localizing data is related... |
| 6704722 |
Systems and methods for performing crawl searches and index searches |
| Mar-9-2004 |
The systems and methods described herein allow a user to perform localized searching from a standard web browser. In particular, the systems and methods of this invention use a two-prong approach to accomplish... |
| 6701485 |
Binding spreadsheet cells to objects |
| Mar-2-2004 |
Spreadsheet cells are bound to external objects using a direct communication scheme having little processing overhead. A spreadsheet cell is bound to an object external to the spreadsheet, exposing a property... |
| 6701310 |
Information search device and information search method using topic-centric query routing |
| Mar-2-2004 |
An information search device capable of selecting topic search engines (i.e., search engines that focus on specific topics) that are appropriate to a user's search keywords when searching the Web on the... |
| 6697999 |
Computer-based automatic document formatting method |
| Feb-24-2004 |
A computer-based method for improved automatic formatting of a document provides easier accepting and rejecting of formatting actions made by the automatic formatting method. In particular, the user inputs... |
| 6697821 |
Content development management system and method |
| Feb-24-2004 |
A system and method for content development management is provided which increases the speed, quality control and accuracy of the content generation process and reduces the cost of the content generation... |
| 6694485 |
Enhanced viewing of hypertext markup language file |
| Feb-17-2004 |
The present invention discloses a method and apparatus for correctly positioning the text of a hypertext markup language (html) file on a display screen linked to a computer such that there are no partial... |
| 6694484 |
Relating a HTML document with a non-browser application |
| Feb-17-2004 |
Systems, methods, and computer program products for relating a hyper-text markup language (HTML) document to stored information associated with the HTML document and with an application program are provided... |
| 6694482 |
System and methods for an architectural framework for design of an adaptive, personalized, interactive content delivery system |
| Feb-17-2004 |
System and methods for creating and delivering interactive multimedia content that can dynamically adapt to at least one user. At least one user model is created for at least one user. The at least one... |
| 6694357 |
Accessing, viewing and manipulation of references to non-modifiable data objects |
| Feb-17-2004 |
A method and apparatus are provided for accessing, viewing and manipulating data stored in a computer system. This is achieved by selecting one or more of the non-modifiable data objects stored in a computer... |
