| 6880123 |
Apparatus and accompanying methods for implementing a network distribution server for use in providing interstitial web advertisements to a client computer |
| Apr-12-2005 |
A technique for implementing in a networked client-server environment, e.g., the Internet, network-distributed advertising in which advertisements are downloaded, from an advertising server to a browser... |
| 6877135 |
Document display apparatus and method for displaying documents |
| Apr-5-2005 |
A document display apparatus analyzes document data of electronic documents that are scanning targets (Step S11), calculates a display priority p (Step S12), registers it as priority level information... |
| 6877134 |
Integrated data and real-time metadata capture system and method |
| Apr-5-2005 |
One aspect of the invention is directed to a system and method for a digital capture system, such as a digital encoder, having an embedded real-time content-based analysis function in the capture device... |
| 6874119 |
Stored-media interface engine providing an abstract record of stored multimedia files within a multimedia communication center |
| Mar-29-2005 |
An Interaction Object Model (IOM) Interface to a data repository includes objects representing files in the data repository; standardized information about each file, the information associated in the... |
| 6871318 |
System and method for authoring, distributing and replaying derivative hypermedia content |
| Mar-22-2005 |
A system for authoring, distributing, and replaying derivative hypermedia content comprises an authoring system for recording dynamic annotations and a distribution system for distributing the recorded... |
| 6865714 |
Automatic generation of card-based presentation documents from multimedia data |
| Mar-8-2005 |
An automatic card-based presentation generation system programmatically creates card-based presentation documents from source documents by transforming a card layout style specification into presentation... |
| 6865572 |
Dynamically delivering, displaying document content as encapsulated within plurality of capsule overviews with topic stamp |
| Mar-8-2005 |
A method and system for the dynamic presentation of the contents of a plurality of documents on a display is disclosed. The method and system comprises receiving a plurality of documents and providing... |
| 6862709 |
Data retrieval using graphic display |
| Mar-1-2005 |
A graphic representing possible values of attribute data for multimedia data to be stored is displayed and a desired position on the graphic is designated to store the multimedia data and the attribute... |
| 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... |
| 6848076 |
Automatic fetching and storage of requested primary and related documents or files at receiving web stations after repeated failures to access such documents or files from the World Wide Web |
| Jan-25-2005 |
Minimizing the effects that repetitive failures to access requested documents or files will have on the user requesting the files through a receiving network or World Wide Web (Web) station. When there... |
| 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... |
| 6839411 |
Graphical user interface and method for displaying messages |
| Jan-4-2005 |
A graphical user interface is disclosed that displays messages to a user in a manner such that attached or embedded message (as well as attachments to the embedded messages) within a message can be easily... |
| 6839070 |
Real-time display of bandwidth utilization in a transport multiplexer |
| Jan-4-2005 |
A feature-rich transport multiplexer and a number of associated methods, systems, subsystems, software features, graphical user interfaces and control systems are disclosed. The disclosure includes GUI's... |
| 6834371 |
System and method for controlling synchronization of a time-based presentation and its associated assets |
| Dec-21-2004 |
A system and method for efficiently creating a multi-media presentation, as well as allowing for searching through the presentation to retrieve and display desired subject matter within the presentation.... |
| 6833840 |
PROTO implementation in MPEG-4 |
| Dec-21-2004 |
A method of PROTO implementation in MPEG-4 is provided, including the steps of: defining a PROTO object class, instantiating a PROTO object, calling the PROTO object into an MPEG-4 scene graph, and rendering... |
| 6826577 |
Method and apparatus for data storage, and recording medium therefor |
| Nov-30-2004 |
Provided are a method and apparatus having simplified operation for data storage according to which data, for example, images contained in a home page, are stored in a computer system, and a recording... |
| 6819338 |
Defining variables used in a multi-lingual internet presentation |
| Nov-16-2004 |
The present invention provides methods, apparatus and systems for defining variables to be used in a multi-lingual presentation system accessed by the Internet network wherein a plurality of visual objects... |
| 6813745 |
Media system |
| Nov-2-2004 |
A media system includes an optical storage disk electronically storing at least one media file and a media organization file. The media organization file includes an includes at least two media selection... |
| 6810503 |
Method and apparatus for controlling the timing of the invocation of events within a computer runtime environment |
| Oct-26-2004 |
An invention for specifying and synchronously executing an extensible set of events along a single timeline is disclosed. More specifically, an invention for specifying an extensible set of multimedia... |
| 6804806 |
Method of delivering an audio or multimedia greeting containing messages from a group of contributing users |
| Oct-12-2004 |
A method and apparatus for delivering a greeting from a group of individuals to an individual or another group of individuals is disclosed. Recipient information, contributor information, billing information,... |
| 6804674 |
Scalable Content management system and method of using the same |
| Oct-12-2004 |
A scalable content management system manages searches from a local content manager and a plurality of remote content managers. A single scalable content manager manages data in a content repository or... |
| 6803925 |
Assembling verbal narration for digital display images |
| Oct-12-2004 |
A computer-based narration assembly system and method provide an environment analogous to in-person sharing of photographs by utilizing spontaneous verbal narration or story-telling, together with manual... |
| 6802041 |
Multimedia word processor |
| Oct-5-2004 |
A word processor optimized for students taking notes automatically opens the correct document for each course according to a class schedule. It makes digital audio or video recordings of classes and establishes... |
| 6792573 |
Method for playing media based upon user feedback |
| Sep-14-2004 |
A method for playing media based upon feedback from a user using a media system for the selective playing of media clips based upon feedback collected from a user includes a storage device electronically... |
| 6791579 |
Method of enhancing streaming media content |
| Sep-14-2004 |
A graphical user interface, providing local drag and drop functions, is employed to position text and graphic elements on a video frame image. Frame number, element position, and element attributes are... |
| 6789229 |
Document pagination based on hard breaks and active formatting tags |
| Sep-7-2004 |
Pagination of a document is achieved through the use of an index of predetermined hard breaks within the document. When a selected portion of the document is identified, an immediately prior hard break... |
| 6789228 |
Method and system for the storage and retrieval of web-based education materials |
| Sep-7-2004 |
A system is provided that automatically digitally captures lecture presentation slides and speech and stores the data in a memory. This system also prepares this information for Internet publication and... |
| 6789105 |
Multiple-editor authoring of multimedia documents including real-time video and time-insensitive media |
| Sep-7-2004 |
A system and method for employing multiple editors in the creation of self-presenting multimedia documents that include real-time video and time-insensitive media such as graphics and text. The real-time... |
| 6785868 |
Method and apparatus for managing calendar information from a shared database and managing calendar information from multiple users |
| Aug-31-2004 |
A method and system for synchronizing and using calendar information from a shared database. Calendar information can be stored in a shared database, and accessed and synchronized with one or more portable... |
| 6785682 |
Data processing system, method and computer program product |
| Aug-31-2004 |
The present invention relates to a data processing system, method and computer program product for improving the operation of, for example, a message broker. By not constructing messages from stored data... |
| 6772165 |
Electronic document processing system and method for merging source documents on a node-by-node basis to generate a target document |
| Aug-3-2004 |
A target document (25) is generated by merging four source documents (2-5). There are three merge operations, an operation (10) for two source documents (2, 13), an operation (13) for an intermediate target... |
| 6769094 |
Method for generating multimedia projects |
| Jul-27-2004 |
The invention relates to a method for generating a multimedia project comprising at least one page, with the aid of a computer, a storage medium to which the computer has access, an input device, a display... |
| 6768999 |
Enterprise, stream-based, information management system |
| Jul-27-2004 |
Disclosed is a computer program product and method that operate an enterprise information system of at least one server and a number or personal computers communicating with each other and with the server.... |
| 6762429 |
Image and information processor |
| Jul-13-2004 |
The image and information processor includes an image information processing unit having a function for inputting patient information and radiation image capture information related to the patient information,... |
| 6760886 |
Ensuring referential integrity when using WebDAV for distributed development of a complex software application |
| Jul-6-2004 |
A method of performing distributed development of a computer software application by using a WebDAV (Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning) client, to access a WebDAV server, ensures that referential... |
| 6760885 |
System and method for using a standard composition environment as the composition space for video image editing |
| Jul-6-2004 |
A method of generating an image or a video stream in which the composition space in a standard display tool is used as the composition space. One example of a standard display tool is an HTML-compliant... |
| 6760884 |
Interactive memory archive |
| Jul-6-2004 |
An authoring system and procedure for organizing photos (and other physical object types) are provided. Using the authoring system, an author organizes a set of physical objects into a particular story... |
| 6760043 |
System and method for web based enhanced interactive television content page layout |
| Jul-6-2004 |
A system and method for creating a platform independent enhancement file for television employs a web based editor with local functions for repositioning and sizing of displayable elements. Elements comprise... |
| 6757866 |
Hyper video: information retrieval using text from multimedia |
| Jun-29-2004 |
Disclosed is a method and device for selecting documents, such as Web pages or sites, for presentation to a user, in response to a user expression of interest, during the course of presentation to the... |
| 6751776 |
Method and apparatus for personalized multimedia summarization based upon user specified theme |
| Jun-15-2004 |
An automatic video content summarization system that is able to create personalized multimedia summary based on the user-specified theme. The invention employs both natural language processing and video... |
| 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... |
| 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... |
| 6735738 |
Method and device for reconstructing acoustic data and animation data in synchronization |
| May-11-2004 |
A pair of acoustic data and animation data that are in synchronization are compressed or expanded, and reconstructed in synchronization in the following manner. The acoustic data and the animation data... |
| 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... |
| 6727955 |
Communication system for providing a transport entity with mutually related objects |
| Apr-27-2004 |
A communication system in which a transmitter transmits cyclically a plurality of mutually related objects to a terminal. If the objects are used in the terminal there is no mechanism to establish whether... |
| 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... |
| 6725230 |
System, method and computer program for assembling process data of multi-database origins using a hierarchical display |
| Apr-20-2004 |
The present invention provides a method for analyzing a process based on displaying data to a user from a plurality of different sources and a machine-readable medium for implementing such a method. The... |
| 6721768 |
Recording and/or reproducing apparatus, portable recording and reproducing apparatus, data transfer system, data transfer method, and data recording and reproducing method |
| Apr-13-2004 |
A portable recording and/or reproducing apparatus for receiving and recording and/or reproducing data and management data to and/or from a recording medium having a data area in which data are stored and... |
| 6718368 |
System and method for content-sensitive automatic reply message generation for text-based asynchronous communications |
| Apr-6-2004 |
A process and system is disclosed for automatically and adaptively retrieving information from a database and transmitting reply messages based on the content of a received message, such as an e-mail,... |
| 6718367 |
Filter for modeling system and method for handling and routing of text-based asynchronous communications |
| Apr-6-2004 |
A three phase process and system is disclosed for automatically and adaptively filtering and classifying electronic text-based messages, such as e-mail, e-commerce transactions, CGI forms, and optically... |
