| 6547830 |
Methods and apparatuses for display and traversing of links in page character array |
| Apr-15-2003 |
A device, such as a cellular telephone, having a software program for maximizing the amount of text displayed is provided. The software program converts a markup language page, such as a hypertext markup... |
| 6546401 |
Method of retrieving no word separation text data and a data retrieving apparatus therefor |
| Apr-8-2003 |
Full text data is divided into words to generate word separation data. All character strings are extracted from the full text data, each character string including N characters. The word separation and... |
| 6542888 |
Content filtering for electronic documents generated in multiple foreign languages |
| Apr-1-2003 |
A system for collecting and categorizing metadata about content provided via the internet or intranet, regardless of the language of generation of the content. The content of each document is assigned... |
| 6539116 |
Information processing apparatus and method, and computer readable memory therefor |
| Mar-25-2003 |
The structure of entered document image data is analyzed and a character string in a text block that has been analyzed is subjected to pattern recognition. Synonyms and equivalents of words obtained as... |
| 6535897 |
System and methods for spacing, storing and recognizing electronic representations of handwriting printing and drawings |
| Mar-18-2003 |
A system for spacing, storing and recognizing electronic representations of handwriting and printing comprises a central processing unit that couples with a display device, an input device, and a memory.... |
| 6533822 |
Creating summaries along with indicators, and automatically positioned tabs |
| Mar-18-2003 |
A method and a system for generating a document summary. The method and the system extract text along with corresponding position information from a document, provide the extracted text to a document summarizer... |
| 6529902 |
Method and system for off-line detection of textual topical changes and topic identification via likelihood based methods for improved language modeling |
| Mar-4-2003 |
A system (and method) for off-line detection of textual topical changes includes at least one central processing unit (CPU), at least one memory coupled to the at least one CPU, a network connectable to... |
| 6527812 |
Method and system for undoing multiple editing operations |
| Mar-4-2003 |
A method and system for undoing interactive editing operations enables efficient undoing of multiple non-invertable editing operations such as digital painting strokes. During the editing process, a plurality... |
| 6523134 |
Selective undo |
| Feb-18-2003 |
A "Selective Undo Function" for computer programs allows a user to select any single specific action that was previously recorded by the computer, and undo only that selected action, rather than every... |
| 6510441 |
Optimal line break determination |
| Jan-21-2003 |
Method and apparatus divide a paragraph of text into lines. The invention determines possible line breaks for multiple lines from a portion of the paragraph and selects an optimal line break that produces... |
| 6505150 |
Article and method of automatically filtering information retrieval results using test genre |
| Jan-7-2003 |
A method of filtering according to text genre the results of a topic search of a heterogeneous corpus of untagged, machine-readable texts. Because each text of the corpus has a topic and a text genre,... |
| 6502114 |
Script character processing method for determining word boundaries and interactively editing ink strokes using editing gestures |
| Dec-31-2002 |
A pen-based processor needs to be usable to input and edit script like a text-based computer but retain a resemblance to the user of a pad and pencil. The disclosed system and method implement input, editing... |
| 6502113 |
Negotiation manager incorporating clause modification and markers for tracking negotiation progress |
| Dec-31-2002 |
A method for managing negotiations between parties, comprising the steps of: storing a selected document having a plurality of negotiable clauses; creating a first retrievable display relating to the document;... |
| 6493663 |
Document summarizing apparatus, document summarizing method and recording medium carrying a document summarizing program |
| Dec-10-2002 |
A document summarizing apparatus generates a comprehensive summary on a group of documents of relatively diverse contents. The structure of documents specified to be processed is analyzed in a phrase analyzing... |
| 6490604 |
Character information processing device equipped with a layout display function |
| Dec-3-2002 |
Tape printing device 1 is provided with the second and third screen modes M1 and M2, in which the input document and its layout can be simultaneously displayed on the same screen. These modes can be switched... |
| 6490603 |
Method and system for producing documents in a structured format |
| Dec-3-2002 |
Structured-format documents are produced in a process in which a file in a particular word processing format (input A) or in any other format (Input B) are converted (2) to a particular word processor... |
| 6487570 |
Script character processing method for automatically supplementing blank writing space |
| Nov-26-2002 |
A pen-based processor needs to be usable to input and edit script like a text-based computer but retain a resemblance to the user of a pad and pencil. The disclosed system and method implement input, editing... |
| 6477551 |
Interactive electronic messaging system |
| Nov-5-2002 |
A method and apparatus for interacting with incoming text information, e.g., a user query. The method of the present invention categorizes the incoming text information, and may also provide associated... |
| 6473730 |
Method and system for topical segmentation, segment significance and segment function |
| Oct-29-2002 |
A "domain-general" method for topical segmentation of a document input includes the steps of: extracting one or more selected terms from a document; linking occurrences of the extracted terms based upon... |
| 6470307 |
Method and apparatus for automatically identifying keywords within a document |
| Oct-22-2002 |
A trainable method of extracting keywords of one or more words is disclosed. According to the method, every word within a document that is not a stop word is stemmed and evaluated and receives a score.... |
| 6466956 |
Method for distributing and collecting electronic worksheets via a network |
| Oct-15-2002 |
In a system where a subject management server, a requester client, and a plurality of replier clients are connected via a network, when the requester client sends a subject modification request to a worksheet... |
| 6457031 |
Method of marking previously dictated text for deferred correction in a speech recognition proofreader |
| Sep-24-2002 |
A method for marking dictated text for deferred correction or review of dictated text in a speech recognition system proofreader, comprising the steps of: displaying previously dictated text; sequentially... |
| 6457004 |
Document retrieval assisting method, system and service using closely displayed areas for titles and topics |
| Sep-24-2002 |
A document retrieval assistance method has a user interface with an interactive guidance function. In response to a search query, search results including a title list of retrieved documents is displayed... |
| 6442555 |
Automatic categorization of documents using document signatures |
| Aug-27-2002 |
A method of quickly and automatically comparing a new document to a large number of previously seen documents and identifying the document type. First, provide a plurality of document type distributions,... |
| 6424982 |
System and method for parsing a document using one or more break characters |
| Jul-23-2002 |
A parsing system and method are provided in which the break characters in the document are used to rapidly parse the document and extract one or more key phrases from the document which characterize the... |
| 6415283 |
Methods and apparatus for determining focal points of clusters in a tree structure |
| Jul-2-2002 |
A cluster processing system determines at least one focal node on a hierarchically arranged tree structure of nodes based on attributes of a data set. The data set comprises a plurality of data set attributes... |
| 6411974 |
Method to collate and extract desired contents from heterogeneous text-data streams |
| Jun-25-2002 |
A method extracts desired contents from multiple heterogeneous textual streams and provides normalized data representative of the desired contents. The method selects input streams containing text data... |
| 6408266 |
Didactic and content oriented word processing method with incrementally changed belief system |
| Jun-18-2002 |
A method of implementing a didactic and content oriented word processor analysis of displayed text based upon a unified belief system of linguistic space, which space comprises words, phrases, individual... |
| 6385630 |
Method for normalizing case |
| May-7-2002 |
A method is disclosed for automatically distinguishing significant from insignificant variants of upper and lower case in a number of input word types by means of a computer. According to the method an... |
| 6381593 |
Document information management system |
| Apr-30-2002 |
A document information management system in which a search-engine-compatible interface unit makes a word in a document displayed on the screen to be specified, transfers the specified word to a search... |
| 6377949 |
Method and apparatus for assigning a confidence level to a term within a user knowledge profile |
| Apr-23-2002 |
A method of assigning a confidence level to a term within an electronic document, such as an e-mail, includes the step of firstly determining a quantitative indicator in the exemplary form of an occurrence... |
| 6374218 |
Speech recognition system which displays a subject for recognizing an inputted voice |
| Apr-16-2002 |
A speech recognition system wherein a word being the most similar to an inputted voice is delivered as a recognized result; in order to assist a user in entering a voice input, words being subjects for... |
| 6374209 |
Text structure analyzing apparatus, abstracting apparatus, and program recording medium |
| Apr-16-2002 |
A text input section (1) divides an inputted text into sentences and attaches a number to each of the sentences, which is stored in a text data base together with the number. An important word recognizing... |
| 6363378 |
Ranking of query feedback terms in an information retrieval system |
| Mar-26-2002 |
An information retrieval system processes user input queries, and identifies query feedback, including ranking the query feedback, to facilitate the user in re-formatting a new query. A knowledge base,... |
| 6360237 |
Method and system for performing text edits during audio recording playback |
| Mar-19-2002 |
A method for editing written text in a text editor which automatically aligns a cursor in the written text on a screen with a particular spoken word during playback of an audio recording. The method may... |
| 6356898 |
Method and system for summarizing topics of documents browsed by a user |
| Mar-12-2002 |
The invention disclosed herein relates to cooperative computing environments and information retrieval and management methods and systems. More particularly, the present invention relates to methods and... |
| 6353824 |
Method for dynamic presentation of the contents topically rich capsule overviews corresponding to the plurality of documents, resolving co-referentiality in document segments |
| Mar-5-2002 |
A method for the dynamic presentation of the contents of a plurality of documents on a display is disclosed. The method comprises receiving a plurality of documents and providing a plurality of topically... |
| 6349316 |
Document summarizer for word processors |
| Feb-19-2002 |
An author-oriented document summarizer for a word processor is described. The document summarizer performs a statistical analysis to generate a list of ranked sentences for consideration in the summary.... |
| 6336125 |
Method and device for generating application data and storage medium containing thereon a program for generating application data |
| Jan-1-2002 |
A method for generating data for an application includes the steps of determining a character string composed of at least one character to be transferred from a text displayed by a display, designating... |
| 6327589 |
Method for searching a file having a format unsupported by a search engine |
| Dec-4-2001 |
Searching a file in a format unsupported by a search engine by creating term-topic links with associated probabilities. A file is retrieved comprising a compressed HTML file or a webpage. The file is parsed... |
| 6317708 |
Method for producing summaries of text document |
| Nov-13-2001 |
A computer method for preparing a summary string from a source document of encoded text. The method comprises comparing a training set of encoded text documents with manually generated summary strings... |
| 6314424 |
System and method for dynamically expanding and collapsing a tree view for an HTML web interface |
| Nov-6-2001 |
The present invention provides a system and method for expanding and collapsing a tree view from a web interface by using HTML to build the visual representation of the web server's information structure,... |
| 6289304 |
Text summarization using part-of-speech |
| Sep-11-2001 |
Text is summarized using part-of-speech (POS) data indicating parts of speech for tokens in the text. The POS data can be obtained using input text data defining the text, such as by POS tagging. The POS... |
| 6272495 |
Method and apparatus for processing free-format data |
| Aug-7-2001 |
A method and apparatus for processing free-format data (301) to produce a "text object" associated with the free-format data. The text object comprises a plurality of "component nodes" (302-312) containing... |
| 6253169 |
Method for improvement accuracy of decision tree based text categorization |
| Jun-26-2001 |
A text categorization method automatically classifies electronic documents by developing a single pooled dictionary of words for a sample set of documents, and then generating a decision tree model, based... |
| 6247010 |
Related information search method, related information search system, and computer-readable medium having stored therein a program |
| Jun-12-2001 |
A system according to the present invention searches for information related to entered text and presents searched information to a user with a minimum interruption to user's document formulating work.... |
| 6243726 |
Electronic calculating apparatus utilizing input and display of expressions in textbook and single line formats |
| Jun-5-2001 |
Objects of the present invention are to realize that a plurality of mathematical expressions are inputted and displayed within the same screen in textbook book format, and that a plurality of mathematical... |
| 6240409 |
Method and apparatus for detecting and summarizing document similarity within large document sets |
| May-29-2001 |
A method and apparatus are disclosed for comparing an input or query file to a set of files to detect similarities and formatting the output comparison data are described. An input query file that can... |
| 6240378 |
Weighting method for use in information extraction and abstracting, based on the frequency of occurrence of keywords and similarity calculations |
| May-29-2001 |
An information abstracting method and apparatus for extracting and displaying keywords as an information abstract. Given a large number of character string data sets divided into prescribed units, the... |
| 6219633 |
Apparatus and method for producing analogically similar word based on pseudo-distances between words |
| Apr-17-2001 |
In an analogically similar word production apparatus, based on three inputted unit strings, an analogically similar word which is a word analogically similar to inputted unit strings is produced at high... |
