| 6212494 |
Method for extracting knowledge from online documentation and creating a glossary, index, help database or the like |
| Apr-3-2001 |
A method involving computer-mediated linguistic analysis of online technical documentation to extract and catalog from the documentation knowledge essential to, for example, creating a online help database... |
| 6205456 |
Summarization apparatus and method |
| Mar-20-2001 |
A document summarization apparatus or method summarizes an electronic document written in a natural language, and generates an appropriate summary depending on user's focus and user's knowledge. The document... |
| 6202064 |
Linguistic search system |
| Mar-13-2001 |
A method of searching for information in a text database, comprising: receiving (s1) at least one user input, the user input(s) defining a natural language expression, converting (s2, s3) the natural language... |
| 6202063 |
Methods and apparatus for generating and using safe constraint queries |
| Mar-13-2001 |
Methods and apparatus are provided for ensuring that queries presented to a database are safe thus providing solutions to both undecidability and lack of effective syntax issues. In a one aspect of the... |
| 6195668 |
Tape printing and editing assembly |
| Feb-27-2001 |
A tape printing assembly for editing input data of up to `n` lines which includes a main display formed to display the edited input data in `p` lines, where `p` is an integer between 1 to at most `n`-1.... |
| 6195655 |
Automatically associating archived multimedia content with current textual content |
| Feb-27-2001 |
Described herein is a system that draws from an archive of media objects to associate appropriate media objects with current news articles. The media object archive includes an index having an entry for... |
| 6185592 |
Summarizing text documents by resolving co-referentiality among actors or objects around which a story unfolds |
| Feb-6-2001 |
A method and system for characterizing the content of a document is disclosed. The method and system comprise identifying a plurality of discourse referents in the document, dividing the document into... |
| 6185591 |
Text edit system with enhanced undo user interface |
| Feb-6-2001 |
Present edit systems having undo/redo functions are typically inflexible and do not permit users of computer systems to make use of these functions to the greatest advantage. The disclosed edit system... |
| 6182029 |
System and method for language extraction and encoding utilizing the parsing of text data in accordance with domain parameters |
| Jan-30-2001 |
A computerized method for extracting information from natural-language text data includes parsing the text data to determine the grammatical structure of the text data and regularizing the parsed text... |
| 6169969 |
Device and method for full-text large-dictionary string matching using n-gram hashing |
| Jan-2-2001 |
A method and apparatus providing full-text scanning for matches in a large dictionary is described. The invention is suitable for SDI (selective dissemination of information) systems, accommodating large... |
| 6167370 |
Document semantic analysis/selection with knowledge creativity capability utilizing subject-action-object (SAO) structures |
| Dec-26-2000 |
A computer based software system and method for semantically processing a user entered natural language request to identify and store linguistic subject-action-object (SAO) structures, using such structures... |
| 6160555 |
Method for providing a cue in a computer system |
| Dec-12-2000 |
A novel cuing feature in a handheld computer device having a handwriting recognition (HWR) input device and a display is disclosed. The handheld computer device provides text-editing functions to a user,... |
| 6139201 |
Integrated authoring and translation system |
| Oct-31-2000 |
The present invention is a system of integrated, computer-based processes for monolingual information development and multilingual translation. An interactive text editor enforces lexical and grammatical... |
| 6128621 |
Apparatus and method for pickling data |
| Oct-3-2000 |
A pickler apparatus and a process for pickling and unpickling data objects are disclosed. Data objects are described in metadata that store attributes of a source data object organized according to an... |
| 6125377 |
Method and apparatus for proofreading a document using a computer system which detects inconsistencies in style |
| Sep-26-2000 |
A computer system for proofreading a document in electronic form performs the steps of: identifying elements of the document; interpreting elements of the document; creating known element objects; linking... |
| 6115024 |
Image display device |
| Sep-5-2000 |
There is provided an image display device which is capable of clearly displaying the use of each fixed format for forming an image and the image formed according to the fixed format on a small-sized display... |
| 6108668 |
Method and system for undoing edits within selected portion of electronic documents |
| Aug-22-2000 |
Provided is a method and system, to be utilized with an editing system having electronic document editing capabilities, which provides an ability to selectively undo previous edits performed upon a selected... |
| 6101515 |
Learning system for classification of terminology |
| Aug-8-2000 |
A learning system learns terms in the context of a set of documents. During an accumulation phase, the learning system accumulates contextual data for a term in the form of a categorization schema. The... |
| 6098085 |
Word-serial reader for network devices having limited display capabilities |
| Aug-1-2000 |
A method and apparatus for presenting information using an electronic display. Information stored in a source format is retrieved from a source device. The information is converted the source format to... |
| 6098035 |
Morphological analysis method and device and Japanese language morphological analysis method and device |
| Aug-1-2000 |
There is provided a morphological analysis method and device whereby, even if unknown words are present, processing can be effected with high accuracy and at high speed and economy of resources can be... |
| 6094665 |
Method and apparatus for correcting a uniform resource identifier |
| Jul-25-2000 |
A computer program which causes a computer to correct a uniform resource identifier (URI) in a noisy source document. The program finds and corrects potential errors within a URI before turning the URI... |
| 6094648 |
User interface for document retrieval |
| Jul-25-2000 |
A user interface for a full-text document retrieval computerized system comprises a display with a words window in which each query word is displayed by means of a distinctive representation uniquely associated... |
| 6065026 |
Multi-user electronic document authoring system with prompted updating of shared language |
| May-16-2000 |
An electronic document authoring system and method that feature maintaining a library of textual components, displaying a document including some of them in a word processor window, responding to user... |
| 6064952 |
Information abstracting method, information abstracting apparatus, and weighting method |
| May-16-2000 |
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... |
| 6055494 |
System and method for medical language extraction and encoding |
| Apr-25-2000 |
In computerized processing of natural-language medical/clinical data including phrase parsing and regularizing, parameters are referred to whose value can be specified by the user. Thus, a computerized... |
| 6044386 |
Information processing apparatus and data input method used therein |
| Mar-28-2000 |
An information processing apparatus which provides improved user interfacing. Upon the inputting of model data, data-input windows and item information input into the windows are displayed, and parameters... |
| 6041303 |
Method of assisting the conducting of a research project |
| Mar-21-2000 |
A method of assisting the carrying out of a research process is implemented with the aid of specialized computer software. The software defines a sequence of predetermined research process steps. In a... |
| 6032163 |
Method and apparatus for reformatting paragraphs on a computer screen |
| Feb-29-2000 |
A method for reformatting alphanumeric objects displayed on a screen of a pen computer system including the steps of: (a) selecting a plurality of objects to be reformatted; (b) removing object breaks... |
| 6032157 |
Retrieval method using image information |
| Feb-29-2000 |
For retrieving attribute information through image information which is not linked with the attribute information: displaying on a display screen the first image information corresponding with attribute... |
| 6012074 |
Document management system with delimiters defined at run-time |
| Jan-4-2000 |
A document management apparatus provides a user to define delimiters in order to specify portions of documents or attributes of documents to be retrieved from a document repository. The repository is searched... |
| 6011877 |
Apparatus and method for determining the directional orientation of a document image based upon the location of detected punctuation marks within the document image |
| Jan-4-2000 |
An image forming apparatus includes an image reading device which extracts character images from an original document image read by an image reader. The reading device further extracts an area of predetermined... |
| 6009382 |
Word storage table for natural language determination |
| Dec-28-1999 |
A language in which a document is written is identified through the use of sets of most frequently used words in each of a plurality of candidate languages. Each set of most frequently used words in a... |
| 6006242 |
Apparatus and method for dynamically creating a document |
| Dec-21-1999 |
An apparatus and method for dynamically constructing electronic and printable documents and forms. An entity reference is read from a document instance and compared to entity identifiers provided in a... |
| 6002390 |
Text input device and method |
| Dec-14-1999 |
A text input device and method is disclosed which enables efficient and high-speed input of text in a pen-input computer. A pen-input computer has a liquid crystal display panel, a ROM storing plural words... |
| 5995724 |
Image process system and process using personalization techniques |
| Nov-30-1999 |
Fixed and variable content is merged to produce personalized documents using a raster image processor that, for each page to be printed, initializes a frame buffer according to fixed content specified... |
| 5991755 |
Document retrieval system for retrieving a necessary document |
| Nov-23-1999 |
One or more important sentence structural functional units are extracted from an important portion of each of a plurality of documents, and one or more input sentence structural functional units are extracted... |
| 5991709 |
Document automated classification/declassification system |
| Nov-23-1999 |
A computer system for automatically classifying or declassifying military, intelligence, government, or industrial documents. Inputs to the system are classification or declassification guidelines, which... |
| 5978820 |
Text summarizing method and system |
| Nov-2-1999 |
By storing data on text attributes comprising a plurality of attribute items, a text analysis rule, a plurality of text type identification rules, a plurality of text content/domain type identification... |
| 5963969 |
Document abstraction system and method thereof |
| Oct-5-1999 |
A document abstract system and methodology produces an abstract from a text by identifying sentences within the text that contain numerical information, such as dates and numbers. The sentences with numerical... |
| 5963950 |
Method and system for facilitating access to selectable elements on a graphical user interface |
| Oct-5-1999 |
In one embodiment the present invention provides a method of selecting a selectable element with a character input device from a list of exically unordered selectable elements on a graphical user interface... |
| 5963893 |
Identification of words in Japanese text by a computer system |
| Oct-5-1999 |
A word breaking facility operates to identify words within a Japanese text string. The word breaking facility performs morphological processing to identify postfix bound morphemes and prefix bound morphemes.... |
| 5963205 |
Automatic index creation for a word processor |
| Oct-5-1999 |
Method and apparatus to enable scanning one or more documents, from within a word-processor program, wherein said method and apparatus automatically identifies key topics and phrases in a document's text,... |
| 5960080 |
Method for transforming message containing sensitive information |
| Sep-28-1999 |
A method for transforming an original message into a final message by including an untrusted service, includes the steps of identifying at least one sensitive term from the original message; replacing... |
| 5956687 |
Personal injury claim management system |
| Sep-21-1999 |
A technique for computerized management of a plaintiff's personal injury case is disclosed. This technique includes establishing records, each reflective of the phase of a corresponding personal injury... |
| 5946702 |
Document information transmitting, receiving and processing apparatus and method for compensating character display |
| Aug-31-1999 |
There is provided a document information transmitting apparatus and a document information receiving apparatus in a communication system having the document information transmitting apparatus for transmitting... |
| 5946648 |
Identification of words in Japanese text by a computer system |
| Aug-31-1999 |
A word breaking facility operates to identify words within a Japanese text string. The word breaking facility performs morphological processing to identify postfix bound morphemes and prefix bound morphemes.... |
| 5937422 |
Automatically generating a topic description for text and searching and sorting text by topic using the same |
| Aug-10-1999 |
A method of automatically generating a topical description of text by receiving the text containing input words; stemming each input word to its root form; assigning a user-definable part-of-speech score... |
| 5924109 |
Method and apparatus for automatic generation of external interface specifications |
| Jul-13-1999 |
A method and apparatus for the automatic generation of interface specifications includes a communications network for enabling users of the apparatus to inter-communicate and to write files to pending,... |
| 5924108 |
Document summarizer for word processors |
| Jul-13-1999 |
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.... |
| 5920862 |
Beacons for locales |
| Jul-6-1999 |
In a multicast environment in which large-scale virtual environments are lt using locales and in which data from non-neighboring locales is ignored to minimize computation and local storage, a system is... |
