| 6845485 |
Method and apparatus for indicating story-line changes by mining closed-caption-text |
| Jan-18-2005 |
An automated video editing and indexing system is taught which has application for such tasks as creating a presentation for a video magazine and processing collections of video material in general. The... |
| 6842876 |
Document cache replacement policy for automatically generating groups of documents based on similarity of content |
| Jan-11-2005 |
A document storage management system and method that manages the storage of documents based upon the similarity of the content of the documents. Groups of documents are created based upon the similarity... |
| 6833827 |
System and method for automatically switching between writing and text input modes |
| Dec-21-2004 |
A method and system for automatically determining when an application should switch from a writing mode to a text entry mode, and vice-versa. When a soft input panel (SIP) or input method (IM) is selected,... |
| 6829748 |
Automatic kerning of text |
| Dec-7-2004 |
The kerning of text modified in various ways is disclosed. The text can be modified by distortion or perturbation. In one way no unmodified text character pair kerning distance is stored. The kerning distance... |
| 6820237 |
Apparatus and method for context-based highlighting of an electronic document |
| Nov-16-2004 |
An computer-readable apparatus and method for intelligently analyzing and highlighting key words/phrases, key sentences and/or key components of an electronic document by recognizing and utilizing the... |
| 6813747 |
System and method for output of multipart documents |
| Nov-2-2004 |
A system and method of identifying the matching or best-matching font to output text having a sequence of indeterminate languages are presented. Today's operating systems do not provide the native tools... |
| 6804644 |
Text processing system including a speech recognition device and text change means for changing a text-block data |
| Oct-12-2004 |
In a text processing system (1) are provided a speech recognition device (2) to which a spoken command information signal (SI) can be applied in a command inputting mode of the speech recognition device... |
| 6798913 |
Image processing device and image processing program |
| Sep-28-2004 |
An image processing device and a computer program product capable of accurately determining a user-desired region even when a region has been only roughly marked by a user, wherein a specific region within... |
| 6789230 |
Creating a summary having sentences with the highest weight, and lowest length |
| Sep-7-2004 |
A method and system for generating a summary of a document. The summary generating system generates the summary from the sentences that form the document. The summary generating system calculates a weight... |
| 6785869 |
Method and apparatus for providing a central dictionary and glossary server |
| Aug-31-2004 |
A method and apparatus provides a central dictionary and glossary server. An application executing on a client is able to access a local copy of a dictionary or glossary. A master dictionary or glossary... |
| 6782529 |
Method, apparatus and computer program product for editing in a translation verification test procedure |
| Aug-24-2004 |
According to one form of the invention, a display is generated for a target software program, including certain text, responsive to a user interface object. A user selection of a portion of the text for... |
| 6782509 |
Method and system for embedding information in document |
| Aug-24-2004 |
A method and a system for embedding information in document data that include text written in a page description language. First, an analysis is made of the layout of the document data in which information... |
| 6779021 |
Method and system for predicting and managing undesirable electronic mail |
| Aug-17-2004 |
In accordance with the present invention, multiple e-mails are received at a network server intended for multiple clients served by the network server. The received e-mails are analyzed to determine patterns... |
| 6772149 |
System and method for identifying facts and legal discussion in court case law documents |
| Aug-3-2004 |
A computer-implemented method of gathering large quantities of training data from case law documents (especially suitable for use as input to a learning algorithm that is used in a subsequent process of... |
| 6766495 |
Apparatus and method for improving line-to-line word positioning of text for easier reading |
| Jul-20-2004 |
An apparatus and method improve the readability of text on a computer system by changing the positioning of one or more words to eliminate potential problems in readability that can be identified by examining... |
| 6766287 |
System for genre-specific summarization of documents |
| Jul-20-2004 |
A system for genre-specific summarization of documents is provided that overcomes the problem of summarizing heterogeneous document collections by taking the genre, or type, of document into account when... |
| 6763497 |
Method and apparatus for displaying computer program errors as hypertext |
| Jul-13-2004 |
According to one embodiment a method and apparatus for displaying the path of a computer program error as a sequence of hypertext documents in a computer system having a display is disclosed. The method... |
| 6760887 |
System and method for highlighting of multifont documents |
| Jul-6-2004 |
A system and method of highlighting and manipulating text of different languages or fonts which are matched to a best-matching font are presented. Today's operating systems do not provide the native tools... |
| 6754617 |
Method for automatically determining solid compound words |
| Jun-22-2004 |
A method for automatic determination whether a word type is a solid compound word is disclosed. In the method a word type is looked up in an electronically stored list of known word types. The list comprises... |
| 6742164 |
Method, system, and program for generating a deterministic table to determine boundaries between characters |
| May-25-2004 |
Disclosed is a system, method, and program for generating a data structure for use by a computer in determining a location of boundaries in text. The data structure is initialized and at least one regular... |
| 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... |
| 6738952 |
Navigational map data object selection and display system |
| May-18-2004 |
A navigational map data object selection system having a data retrieving and displaying system, and a storage device which stores a plurality of names as body word sets and stores, as duplicate word sets,... |
| 6726487 |
Device for supporting reading of a text from a display member |
| Apr-27-2004 |
The invention refers to a device for supporting reading of a text from a display member (1) in order to increase the reading speed. The device includes first means (2, 4) which are arranged to provide... |
| 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... |
| 6718519 |
System and method for outputting character sets in best available fonts |
| Apr-6-2004 |
A system and method of identifying the matching or best-matching font to output text of indeterminate language are presented. Today's operating systems do not provide the native tools and functions to... |
| 6718518 |
Non-disruptive search facility |
| Apr-6-2004 |
A method and system for displaying the results of a search is disclosed. The method and system include the steps of displaying a first set of text in a first document in a first window, the first window... |
| 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... |
| 6718329 |
Method and apparatus for generating typed nodes and links in a hypertext database from formation documents |
| Apr-6-2004 |
The present invention is a method and apparatus for generating nodes and link definitions for a hypertext database from at least one source document which includes text and formatted properties that define... |
| 6708310 |
Method and system for implementing user-defined codeset conversions in a computer system |
| Mar-16-2004 |
A method and system for performing user-defined code conversions in a computer system. A utility accepts a text file from a user program. This text file contains a series of conditional rules that define... |
| 6708148 |
Correction device to mark parts of a recognized text |
| Mar-16-2004 |
In a correction device (3, 4) for correcting a text (ET) recognized by a speech recognition device (2) from a spoken text (GT), marking means (12, 15, 17) are provided for storing marking information (WMI)... |
| 6701314 |
System and method for cataloguing digital information for searching and retrieval |
| Mar-2-2004 |
The system and method for searching and retrieving information stored in heterogeneous information repositories. A portal server retrieves user requests through a computer network and looks up information... |
| 6671856 |
Method, system, and program for determining boundaries in a string using a dictionary |
| Dec-30-2003 |
Disclosed is a system, method, and program for determining boundaries in a string of characters using a dictionary, wherein the substrings in the dictionary may comprise words. A determination is made... |
| 6668355 |
Text editing system |
| Dec-23-2003 |
The present invention relates to a text editing system with a line end line feed function and an indentation function. In particular, a line end position Pg is stored in advance in a line end position... |
| 6665836 |
Method for managing information on an information net |
| Dec-16-2003 |
A method for managing document information on an information net, such as the World Wide Web (WWW), comprises the steps of inputting a structured document; extracting selected document properties from... |
| 6662152 |
Information retrieval apparatus and information retrieval method |
| Dec-9-2003 |
Character data of a word or phrase in a document is designated. Desired data is retrieved from a predetermined database on the basis of the designated character data. One sentence including at least the... |
| 6651219 |
System and method for generation of text reports |
| Nov-18-2003 |
An automated text generation system may be used to generate financial reports based on financial data. The text generation system uses decisional statements in conjunction with a base equation, and the... |
| 6647533 |
Incremental algorithms for optimal linebreaking in text layout |
| Nov-11-2003 |
A computer-implemented incremental algorithm for updating globally optimized linebreaks for a paragraph following a change to that paragraph takes advantage of the fact that in many cases, the effect of... |
| 6631500 |
Method, system and computer program product for transferring human language data across system boundaries |
| Oct-7-2003 |
A multi-field text string object is employed to transfer data across systems running in different human languages. The text in the characters/language of the originating system is stored in a first field;... |
| 6626960 |
Method, system, and program for generating a table to determine boundaries between characters |
| Sep-30-2003 |
Disclosed is a system, method, and program for generating a table for use by a computer in determining a location of a boundary, such as a word boundary, between two characters in text. A first table indicates... |
| 6622239 |
Method, system and computer program product for optimization of single byte character processing employed within a multibyte character encoding scheme |
| Sep-16-2003 |
A method, system and computer program product for optimizing processing of single byte characters employed within a multibyte character encoding scheme in association with an underlying data encoding scheme... |
| 6622140 |
Method and apparatus for analyzing affect and emotion in text |
| Sep-16-2003 |
Disclosed is a computer-assisted method for classifying a text document according to emotion and affect. A score is assigned to each affect term in the document. An affect score is computed for the document... |
| 6616704 |
Two step method for correcting spelling of a word or phrase in a document |
| Sep-9-2003 |
A very fast method for correcting the spelling of a word or phrase in a document proceeds in two steps: first applying a very fast approximate method for eliminating most candidate words from consideration... |
| 6610103 |
Method for providing precise cumulative updates and fixes to a software product |
| Aug-26-2003 |
Disclosed is a system for providing information to a user on modifications made to a base software product with a program temporary fix. The program temporary fix is applied to the base software product.... |
| 6587132 |
Method and system for efficiently navigating a text entry cursor provided by a mobile device |
| Jul-1-2003 |
Improved approaches are disclosed for efficiently navigating a cursor to an edit location within previously entered text so that the text can be edited. These improved approaches enable users to position... |
| 6585779 |
Method and apparatus for determining and categorizing Java Bean names and sub-elements files |
| Jul-1-2003 |
A method and apparatus for determining the names of Java Beans and for categorizing Java Bean sub-elements files. A two stage process is utilized for Java files having one or more .class files and .ser... |
| 6584479 |
Overlay presentation of textual and graphical annotations |
| Jun-24-2003 |
A primary body of data is displayable on a screen and a supporting body of data is relatable to an annotation tag present in the primary body of textual data. An annotation tag having a predetermined size... |
| 6581057 |
Method and apparatus for rapidly producing document summaries and document browsing aids |
| Jun-17-2003 |
Disclosed is a computer-assisted method for generating a summary of or a browsing aid for a document. At an index creation time, information that is relevant to at least one dummy query and is necessary... |
| 6572660 |
Method and system for creating hyperlinks and hyperlinked documents from the direct manipulation of information ("Drag and link" operation) |
| Jun-3-2003 |
A method and system for creating hyperlinks and hyperlinked documents from the direct manipulation of information in a hypermedia processing system, or the like, in a fashion that requires little effort... |
| 6567830 |
Method, system, and program for displaying added text to an electronic media file |
| May-20-2003 |
Provided are a method, system, and program for receiving and displaying text inserted into a text document. The program displays lines of text from the document and receives user inputted text. The program... |
