| 5694592 |
Process for determination of text relevancy |
| Dec-2-1997 |
This is a procedure for determining text relevancy and can be used to enhance the retrieval of text documents by search queries. This system helps a user intelligently and rapidly locate information found... |
| 5694544 |
Conference support system which associates a shared object with data relating to said shared object |
| Dec-2-1997 |
A conference support system includes a plurality of computers provided with a graphical user interface (GUI) system and connected by a communication network. Each computer includes a storage section having... |
| 5692206 |
Method and apparatus for automating the generation of a legal document |
| Nov-25-1997 |
The contract generation system of the present invention automates the generation of various legal documents related to a negotiated agreement. The contract generation system provides various standard documents... |
| 5685003 |
Method and system for automatically indexing data in a document using a fresh index table |
| Nov-4-1997 |
A system and method for indexing words in documents, the system including a master index for storing the words and for storing associated index data. One of the documents is selected for updating and is... |
| 5680614 |
Relational database management system |
| Oct-21-1997 |
In a database management system of the present invention, a trigger definition means which defines activation condition an contents of a triggered operation activated upon execution of updating for a table... |
| 5680158 |
Communication apparatus including a plurality of light sources arranged in columns and lines corresponding to columns and lines of a plurality of key switches |
| Oct-21-1997 |
A communication apparatus for a handicapped person, includes a plurality of first key switches for inputting character input data in a general input mode, a single second key switch for inputting character... |
| 5678053 |
Grammar checker interface |
| Oct-14-1997 |
A convenient interface for a grammar checking system in which improper utilization of words in a sentence is detected and in which corrected words are suggested for insertion in the sentence including... |
| 5675820 |
Guided outlining method |
| Oct-7-1997 |
A guided outlining system to assist the user in developing strategy-specific outlines for business communications. The user is prompted to enter the target audience, purpose and specific content entries... |
| 5664210 |
Method and system of providing multiple selections in text on a computer display |
| Sep-2-1997 |
Multiple selections of text are provided while allowing swipe and type editing operations. A normal typing cursor is displayed to indicate where newly input text will be inserted. A portion of text may... |
| 5659729 |
Method and system for implementing hypertext scroll attributes |
| Aug-19-1997 |
Embodiments of the present invention use a new extension to the HTML language to support remotely specified named anchors. A remotely specified named anchor, when embedded within a source document, instructs... |
| 5649183 |
Method for compressing full text indexes with document identifiers and location offsets |
| Jul-15-1997 |
A method is disclosed for recording a text index wherein the text index comprises a plurality of data key fields. Each data key field includes a data key identifier, document identifier data, and an offset... |
| 5642520 |
Method and apparatus for recognizing topic structure of language data |
| Jun-24-1997 |
A method and apparatus for recognizing the topic structure of language. Language data is divided into simple sentences and a prominent noun portion (PNP) extracted from each. The simple sentences are divided... |
| 5642502 |
Method and system for searching for relevant documents from a text database collection, using statistical ranking, relevancy feedback and small pieces of text |
| Jun-24-1997 |
Search system and method for retrieving relevant documents from a text data base collection comprised of patents, medical and legal documents, journals, news stories and the like. Each small piece of text... |
| 5627948 |
Information processing apparatus and method for displaying format information for a line to which a cursor is shifted by scrolling in a format display area |
| May-6-1997 |
An information processing apparatus for processing document information including image information has a printer, a line number register, registers for storing format information for each line displayed... |
| 5627748 |
Method of identifying pattern matches in parameterized strings and square matrices |
| May-6-1997 |
Methods are disclosed for finding maximal matches in data strings and for finding matches in parameterized strings, that is, strings containing symbols from more than one alphabet in which the symbols... |
| 5625773 |
Method of encoding and line breaking text |
| Apr-29-1997 |
This invention is a method of representing the text in a document in a way that enables very fast text processing on digital computers. More specifically, each word of text is represented as a number (or... |
| 5621875 |
Method and system for automatic formatting of user selected text |
| Apr-15-1997 |
A method and system for automatic formatting of user selected text in a word processing system. A number of format options are displayed to the user and a text format selection is then obtained from the... |
| 5619634 |
Color image processing method for processing input image data in accordance with input character data |
| Apr-8-1997 |
A method for processing input image data and for outputting processed image data which includes the steps of inputting a particular word comprised of character data, and searching a memory for a plurality... |
| 5614927 |
Protecting confidential information in a database for enabling targeted advertising in a communications network |
| Mar-25-1997 |
A system and method are disclosed for protecting a database against deduction of confidential attribute values therein. A memory 160 is provided for storing the database and a processor 155 is provided... |
| 5604910 |
Method of and vector processor for searching text for key words based on candidate character strings obtained from the text using parallel processing |
| Feb-18-1997 |
The present invention relates to a method of search in which a plurality of candidate of character strings likely to coincide with a designated key word are detected from a text character string, and it... |
| 5598518 |
Text editing apparatus for rearranging sentences |
| Jan-28-1997 |
The present invention provides a text editing support apparatus in which constituents of text and connective relationships among the constituents are received as inputs. The constituents and the connective... |
| 5594641 |
Finite-state transduction of related word forms for text indexing and retrieval |
| Jan-14-1997 |
The present invention solves a number of problems in using stems (canonical indicators of word meanings) in full-text retrieval of natural language documents, and thus permits recall to be improved without... |
| 5590258 |
Text generation apparatus |
| Dec-31-1996 |
A text generation apparatus which generates a text including character rows which are separated by blank characters. These character rows are stored in a text storage unit and displayed by a display unit.... |
| 5581780 |
Stored string data with next and alternative information a processor can use to reach next and alternative locations in memory |
| Dec-3-1996 |
An FSM data structure is encoded by generating a transition unit of data corresponding to each transition which leads ultimately to a final state of the FSM. Information about the states is included in... |
| 5576954 |
Process for determination of text relevancy |
| Nov-19-1996 |
This is a procedure for determining text relevancy and can be used to enhance the retrieval of text documents by search queries. This system helps a user intelligently and rapidly locate information found... |
| 5574840 |
Method and system for selecting text utilizing a plurality of text using switchable minimum granularity of selection |
| Nov-12-1996 |
An improved method and system for selecting text is provided. In a preferred embodiment of the present invention, a method and system is provided for selecting text utilizing two text selection modes.... |
| 5572644 |
System and methods for multi-dimensional information processing |
| Nov-5-1996 |
An electronic spreadsheet system of the present invention includes a notebook interface having a plurality of notebook pages, each of which may contain a spread of information cells, or other desired page... |
| 5572643 |
Web browser with dynamic display of information objects during linking |
| Nov-5-1996 |
A method of browsing the Worldwide Web of the Internet using an HTML-compliant client supporting a graphical user interface and a browser. The method begins as a web page is being displayed on the graphical... |
| 5568640 |
Document retrieving method in a document managing system |
| Oct-22-1996 |
A document retrieving method in a document management system which manages documents, using a computer. The classification of documents is managed in accordance with a plurality of node trees constructed... |
| 5561470 |
Method and system for entering a plurality of data into an apparatus |
| Oct-1-1996 |
For operating consumer apparatuses, the consumer often has to enter complicated operating instructions (cf. programming a video recorder). In order to enter the large number of data within such an instruction... |
| 5555410 |
Generation management system and method for managing resource generation using pre-edit and post-edit line renumbering |
| Sep-10-1996 |
A generation management system includes a renumbering device for renumbering pre-edit software in conformity with post-edit and renumbered software for those lines existing commonly in the pre-edit software... |
| 5552982 |
Method and system for processing fields in a document processor |
| Sep-3-1996 |
A method and system for providing calculated fields in a document processing environment. A calculated field comprises a beginning field character, a field code, and an ending field character. The field... |
| 5524191 |
Method of editing text in column sensitive environments |
| Jun-4-1996 |
A method and editor for editing a line of text comprising mixed single-byte character set (SBCS) and double-byte character set (DBCS) text while maintaining the columnar integrity of the text after the... |
| 5523945 |
Related information presentation method in document processing system |
| Jun-4-1996 |
The relationships between words included in an input character string are analyzed. At least one related element conforming to the analyzed relationships is extracted from the input character string. Subject... |
| 5487000 |
Syntactic analysis apparatus |
| Jan-23-1996 |
In a syntactic analysis apparatus, when a syntax analyzing section fails in a syntactic analysis of an input sentence due to a syntactic error included in the input sentence and thus is unable to generate... |
| 5469355 |
Near-synonym generating method |
| Nov-21-1995 |
A near-synonym generating method generates near-synonyms of a target character string by retrieving a near-synonym file based on the target character string, where the near-synonym file defines near-synonyms... |
| 5469354 |
Document data processing method and apparatus for document retrieval |
| Nov-21-1995 |
High-speed full document retrieval method and system capable of providing result of retrieval within practically acceptable short search time. Upon registration of documents in a document database, condensed... |
| 5452206 |
Method for generating documentation for computer software |
| Sep-19-1995 |
Documentation is automatically generated having a specified format for a computer program having a source code consisting of a stream of characters. The ordering of the stream of characters follows a set... |
| 5448475 |
Word processing apparatus with handwriting input function |
| Sep-5-1995 |
A word processing apparatus includes a document data memory, a display, a handwriting input unit for handwriting an edition symbol onto a data portion of the displayed document data, a count unit for counting... |
| 5446883 |
Method and system for distributed information management and document retrieval |
| Aug-29-1995 |
A distributed computer system and method for integrating call management to the retrieval of documents in response to user inquiries includes distributed computers, a processor connected to an incident... |
| 5438664 |
Method and apparatus for producing slips of variable length and having user-defined word names and associated word data thereon |
| Aug-1-1995 |
A slip producing apparatus and method for producing a slip having a variable number of word names and respectively corresponding word data, wherein a plurality of slip types and a variable arbitrary number... |
| 5423033 |
Report generation system and method |
| Jun-6-1995 |
A report generation system and method generates a secondary report containing detailed information concerning a specific data element of a primary report. To generate the secondary report, the user first... |
| 5420976 |
Method for selecting position-dependent actions of computer applications programs |
| May-30-1995 |
As user is allowed alternatives for selecting computer application program actions which are dependent on the position of a computer display cursor. If the cursor is located at the position where the action... |
| 5410475 |
Short case name generating method and apparatus |
| Apr-25-1995 |
A short case name generator transforms the long case name of a lawsuit into a short case name format. The text of the long case name is converted to low-level tokens using dictionaries and heuristic rules.... |
| 5404517 |
Apparatus for assigning order for sequential display of randomly stored titles by comparing each of the titles and generating value indicating order based on the comparison |
| Apr-4-1995 |
A document processing apparatus which has a keyboard for inputting characters and instructions. The apparatus includes a memory that randomly stores the inputted characters as titles and documents. The... |
| 5400243 |
Method of correcting print data and system of editing and printing documents |
| Mar-21-1995 |
The present invention relates to a document editing and a printing apparatus comprising a data processor such as a personal computer and a word processor, and more particularly to a method of correcting... |
| 5396589 |
Character input apparatus for determining the total number of characters which may be written in a predetermined space |
| Mar-7-1995 |
A character input apparatus such as a word processor or a personal computer used to input characters and edit documents utilizes a character input device such as a keyboard which generates signals representing... |
| 5386572 |
Information processing apparatus with discriminating communication and distinguishing display functions |
| Jan-31-1995 |
A data processing apparatus capable of distinguishing the data entered from the keyboard from those received through a communication line, thus facilitating the use by the operator. |
| 5384703 |
Method and apparatus for summarizing documents according to theme |
| Jan-24-1995 |
A summary is automatically formed by selecting regions of a document. Each selected region includes at least two members of a seed list. The seed list is formed from a predetermined number of the most... |
| 5384700 |
Method and system for storing multiple, modifiable Yomi and Kanji strings in a structured document |
| Jan-24-1995 |
An improved Yomi and Kanji phrase editing method and system are provided. In accordance with the invention, a structured document editor includes a normal state, a Yomi state, a Kanji state, and an active... |
