| 7042471 |
Method and system for displaying descriptive information associated with a defined video object |
| May-9-2006 |
According to the present invention, there is provided a method, system and program storage device for displaying textual information associated with a defined video object in video data on a video display... |
| 7039865 |
System and method for determining the commutativity of computational operations |
| May-2-2006 |
A system and method for executing computational operations upon elements of a data structure. The method includes determinations of the commutativity of the computational operations. If the computational... |
| 7039857 |
Method and apparatus for building multimedia applications using interactive multimedia viewers |
| May-2-2006 |
A programming application for creating an Interactive Multimedia Application (IMA) which includes access to and rendering of multimedia files stored in a data repository has first selectable software modules... |
| 7036075 |
Reading product fabrication methodology |
| Apr-25-2006 |
A text enhancement method and apparatus for the presentation of text for improved human reading. The method includes extracting text specific attributes from machine readable text and varying the text... |
| 7030872 |
Image data editing |
| Apr-18-2006 |
A computer based image data processing system reads image data from a framestore and processes this data in response to user commands. In order to effect these commands the user is provided with a graphical... |
| 7028252 |
System and method for construction, storage, and transport of presentation-independent multi-media content |
| Apr-11-2006 |
Extensible, multi-presentation content is created in human/machine readable form, where each data object may contain numerous data elements that comprise alternate representations of a single piece of... |
| 7028251 |
System and method for reducing the size of data difference representations |
| Apr-11-2006 |
An improved system and method for reducing the size of data difference representations. The input data stream may be split into one or more output data streams such that the output data streams may be... |
| 7024619 |
Dynamic multimedia document |
| Apr-4-2006 |
The invention relates to a method of dynamically representing a multimedia document described in a description language. The invention also relates to the multimedia document itself. The invention is based... |
| 7024575 |
Apparatus and method for time synchronization of a plurality of multimedia streams |
| Apr-4-2006 |
An apparatus and method for time synchronization of a plurality of multimedia streams are described. In one embodiment, the method includes the concurrent capture of multimedia data via a plurality of... |
| 7020837 |
Method for the efficient compression of graphic content in composite PDF files |
| Mar-28-2006 |
Disclosed is a method for efficiently creating a compressed PDF file containing multiple composite graphics pages, each of which is composed of a base page and zero or more overlaid and clipped PDF pages,... |
| 7003719 |
System, method, and software for inserting hyperlinks into documents |
| Feb-21-2006 |
On the Internet, millions of documents are electronically linked via embedded hyperlinks. The hyperlinks, which function as network addresses for specific documents, can be selected by a user to "jump"... |
| 7000180 |
Methods, systems, and processes for the design and creation of rich-media applications via the internet |
| Feb-14-2006 |
Rich-media applications are designed and created via the Internet. A host computer system, containing processes for creating rich-media applications, is accessed from a remote user computer system via... |
| 6993565 |
Service processor control system and computer-readable recording medium recording service processor control program |
| Jan-31-2006 |
Service processor control has enhanced versatility by delivering and maintaining component information with less labor and lower cost. A system includes a client storing component information on all hardware... |
| 6992786 |
Method and system for online creation and ordering of customized material for printing |
| Jan-31-2006 |
The present invention relates to a method and a system for online creation and ordering of customized material for printing, where each customer at front end, through a computerized interface, participates... |
| 6986104 |
Method and apparatus for normalizing and converting structured content |
| Jan-10-2006 |
A method and apparatus are disclosed for transforming information from one semantic environment to another. In one implementation, a SOLx system includes a Normalization/Translation NorTran Workbench and... |
| 6981210 |
Self-maintaining web browser bookmarks |
| Dec-27-2005 |
The present invention provides a method for automatically updating bookmarks stored by a web browser when the bookmarked URL is invalid and a redirect to an alternate URL is specified. In accordance with... |
| 6981208 |
Multimedia data routing system and method |
| Dec-27-2005 |
A technique for providing routing of various multimedia events throughout the course of a multimedia presentation using a computer with a storage and a display. A variety of multimedia objects are defined... |
| 6978417 |
Method and system for subsetting rich media in a peer-to-peer model |
| Dec-20-2005 |
A method and system for sending rich media. In a preferred embodiment, a document containing rich media is parsed using preset filtering options to determine a subset of the document containing rich media... |
| 6976208 |
Progressive adaptive time stamp resolution in multimedia authoring |
| Dec-13-2005 |
Environments with unreliable delivery may result in faltering presentation of multimedia objects, due to missing time stamp deadlines. This may be alleviated by introducing more flexible time stamping.... |
| 6976031 |
System and method for automatically generating a narrative report of an event, such as a sporting event |
| Dec-13-2005 |
An automatic report generator provides a narrative account of a newsworthy happening such as an sporting event by using templates. The game events are retrieved from storage and various statistics are... |
| 6975970 |
Method for designing an interactive system |
| Dec-13-2005 |
A method of effectively designing an interactive system is disclosed. The method may preferably include the steps of (1) determining the overall scope of the desired interactive system, including available... |
| 6973641 |
Persistent representations for complex data structures as interpreted programs |
| Dec-6-2005 |
The structure of a complex data object such as a multimedia presentation is stored in a persistent representation comprising a directly executable program. The instructions of the program are created by... |
| 6971059 |
Chromatographic or spectroscopic reports with hyperlinks to allow direct access to external references |
| Nov-29-2005 |
For chromatographic or spectroscopic data analysis, a method may be created by a developer or expert that contains instrument parameters for a particular sample to control a chromatographic or spectroscopic... |
| 6963880 |
Schema evolution of complex objects |
| Nov-8-2005 |
Schema conversion approaches convert images of complex objects. The schema conversion is performed on images of complex objects belonging to a root class, whether those objects are instances of the root... |
| 6961896 |
Method and system for setting document-linked timed reminders |
| Nov-1-2005 |
A method and system for creating timed reminders linked to computer-readable documents. The present invention permits a user to create a reminder for any date and time, and associate any data file with... |
| 6961895 |
Method and apparatus for synchronization of text and audio data |
| Nov-1-2005 |
A method and apparatus for synchronizing audio data to text data in which the text is manually or automatically divided into an arbitrary number of sections and a text section is selected for display and... |
| 6961861 |
Globally clocked interfaces having reduced data path length |
| Nov-1-2005 |
A interface, which connects memory and an integrated circuit, having a write path and read path that allow synchronous data propagation is provided. Further, a method for synchronizing data propagation... |
| 6959309 |
Interface between programming languages and method therefor |
| Oct-25-2005 |
An interface implements a file system for supporting Java record and resource management between an operating system using a first programming language other than Java and a suite of Java applications.... |
| 6957384 |
Document management system |
| Oct-18-2005 |
A method for storing, organizing and providing remote electronic access to documents. A cover sheet including a standard set of identification data characterizing each document is developed and stored.... |
| 6954894 |
Method and apparatus for multimedia editing |
| Oct-11-2005 |
A method for production and post-production processing of multi-media input data where the method comprises the steps of inputting one or more multi-media input data sets inputting one or more templates... |
| 6948115 |
System and method for efficient production of dynamic documents |
| Sep-20-2005 |
A production system and method for producing a VIPDL output stream from a dynamic document and a recipients list including a data iterator for iterating through the recipients list one record at a time... |
| 6947954 |
Image server store system and method using combined image views |
| Sep-20-2005 |
An image server store having a combined image including a first image of a first software combined with other images of other software such that any one or more of the images can be restored from the combined... |
| 6944825 |
Real-time multimedia visual programming system |
| Sep-13-2005 |
A user friendly visual programming system with a visual programming interface that allows a user to visually create multimedia programs in real-time. In this system, input and output functions are represented... |
| 6944817 |
Method and apparatus for local generation of Web pages |
| Sep-13-2005 |
A method and apparatus for performing dynamic modification of templates based on a local user profile is provided. A document is received from a server by a client. The document includes one or more placeholders.... |
| 6941508 |
System and method for media stream indexing and synchronization |
| Sep-6-2005 |
An indexing method for allowing a viewer to control the mode of delivery of program material. By mapping from time to data position, data delivery can begin at any selected time in the program material.... |
| 6934906 |
Methods and apparatus for integrating external applications into an MPEG-4 scene |
| Aug-23-2005 |
A method of decoding, composing and rendering a scene. First information is obtained, the first information including a part of a MPEG-4 BIFS scene description stream and at least one coded MPEG-4 media... |
| 6931624 |
Programming method and model for expressing synchronous, fine-grained parallelism |
| Aug-16-2005 |
In a programming model, a machine is represented in an object-oriented language by extending a Machine base class representing a state machine, to form a first class representing a first state machine.... |
| 6931591 |
Publishing layout wizard |
| Aug-16-2005 |
The present invention facilitates the specification and distribution of templated content materials by a content provider over an information exchange network such as the Internet. The present invention... |
| 6928461 |
Portable high speed internet access device with encryption |
| Aug-9-2005 |
The invention discloses a portable remote device that allows the user to access the Internet and World Wide Web. The portable device connects to a cellular telephone, thus providing wireless connection... |
| 6925251 |
Optical disc apparatus |
| Aug-2-2005 |
In optical disc apparatus, time data recorded on an optical disc is read out, and a read-out time at this timing is compared with an immediately previous display time. Only when the read-out time is within... |
| 6919891 |
Generic parameterization for a scene graph |
| Jul-19-2005 |
A parameterized scene graph provides mutable (animated) values and parameterized graph containers such that an application program or the like can selectively change certain aspects of the scene graph... |
| 6915481 |
Transactional watermarking |
| Jul-5-2005 |
Transactional watermarking is disclosed. In one embodiment, a computer-implemented method includes receiving an original multimedia content source. The original multimedia content source may have already... |
| 6912688 |
Script editor |
| Jun-28-2005 |
An editing system has a video store for storing a video sequence and a text store for storing a sequence of text associated with the video sequence. Displays and are provided for displaying the video and... |
| 6912528 |
Rechargeable media distribution and play system |
| Jun-28-2005 |
An electronic media distribution/play system includes a service facility that has a communications network interface and maintains a data file catalog. The catalog is sent over the network to requesting... |
| 6910967 |
Network participation type game system, computer readable recording medium storing program of system, and program to be used in game system |
| Jun-28-2005 |
A network participation type game system for distributing a game from a game provider to a member via a network comprises a device for sequentially and regularly distributing a segment story from the game... |
| 6907563 |
System and method for composing heterogeneous media components into a unified environment for rich spatio-temporal hotlink authoring and action enablement in low-bandwidth presentations |
| Jun-14-2005 |
A system and method composes heterogeneous media components into a unified environment for rich spatio-temporal hotlink authoring and action enablement in low-bandwidth presentations. The media client... |
| 6904561 |
Integrated timeline and logically-related list view |
| Jun-7-2005 |
A system and method for graphically showing the order and timing of elements in a presentation program or other software. The sequence of events is shown in an event list, a list of events in sequence... |
| 6898759 |
System of generating motion picture responsive to music |
| May-24-2005 |
In a system for animating an object along a music, a sequencer module sequentially provides music control information and a synchronization signal in correspondence with the music to be played. A parameter... |
| 6892351 |
Creating a multimedia presentation from full motion video using significance measures |
| May-10-2005 |
Methods apparatus and computer programs products for creating a multimedia presentation having video frames and video segments with synchronized audio are disclosed. Audio-video data is separated into... |
| 6892346 |
Collapsing event display for small screen computer |
| May-10-2005 |
The present invention provides an ability to generate a different layout on the screen of a calendering program. The program generates customized time slots according to the start and end points of the... |
