Did You Know...
...Chester Carlson was a patent agent who tired of having to make multiple copies of patent applications using the only duplication method available at the time: carbon paper. In 1959 he came up with a new copying system and took it to IBM for evaluation. The "experts" at IBM determined potential sales to be only 5,000 units because people wouldn't want to use a bulky machine when they had carbon paper. Carlson's invention was the xerography process, the company founded on the system is Xerox.
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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20070300279 | Method of providing integrated file list and video apparatus using the same A method of providing an integrated file list and a video appliance using the same are provided. The video appliance includes a combining unit for combining a video signal to be displayed with desired information, and a control unit for creating an integrated file list ... | 12/27/2007 |
| 20070300269 | Snippet access systems and methods In one of many possible embodiments, a system includes a requesting media content processing subsystem and a network entity. The requesting media content processing subsystem is configured to transmit to the network entity a request to access a snippet of a media conten... | 12/27/2007 |
| 20070294631 | Apparatus and method for embedding and utilizing report controls within an online report A computer implemented method includes adding a web element to a report, generating a segment of code for the web element, embedding the segment of code within the report, and publishing the report, such that in the published report the web element operates as a web ele... | 12/20/2007 |
| 20070294265 | Identification of content downloaded from the internet and its source location A method for identifying a predetermined type of content such as video from data retrieved on the Internet to facilitate bookmarking of the content is disclosed. The method comprises determining a source location of data retrieved from the Internet, determining whether ... | 12/20/2007 |
| 20070289021 | CONTENT DOWNLOADING IN COMMUNICATION TERMINALS A multimedia terminal (200) that receives a document descriptor file in response to a content download request, parses the document descriptor file for a reference to a specification file that controls the usage of the requested content, and thereafter the termin... | 12/13/2007 |
| 20070283238 | Multi-layer interactive multimedia presentation A method and apparatus by which information of similar or different types may be combined to form an integrated interactive multimedia presentation which may be used to provide marketing and conducting commerce is provided. An apparatus for providing a multi-layer inter... | 12/06/2007 |
| 20070277088 | ENHANCING AN EXISTING WEB PAGE Methods, systems, and computer program products are provided for enhancing an existing web page. Embodiments include retrieving a web page; identifying a hyperlink within the web page; retrieving content by invoking the hyperlink; creating a speech presentation of the c... | 11/29/2007 |
| 20070271498 | System and method for bookmarking and tagging a content item The present invention is directed towards systems and methods for saving and tagging a content item available on a computer network, including saving and bookmarking a reference to a content item. According to one embodiment of a method according to the present inventio... | 11/22/2007 |
| 20070250901 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ANNOTATING MEDIA STREAMS In one embodiment, the invention is a method and apparatus for annotating media streams. One embodiment of a method for facilitating creation of an annotated media stream by a user includes receiving the media stream from the user, mapping at least one item of supplemen... | 10/25/2007 |
| 20070245224 | WEB PAGE EDITING SYSTEM WITH DATABASE DRILL-DOWN A method of establishing a link in a first web page includes establishing a first component in the first web page capable of querying a first data source, establishing a variable named according to a predetermined naming convention, generating an argument to the variabl... | 10/18/2007 |
| 20070240039 | CONTENT SERVER AND LAYOUT SYSTEM A server system for generating information to be delivered to a client having an RSS reader according to this invention, includes a layout unit configured to execute layout processing of content data acquired from a content server in accordance with template data, a gen... | 10/11/2007 |
| 20070204211 | Apparatus and method for creating literary macrames By the use of program scripts, databases, and other software elements, taking as input a set of text files making up a work of literature of substantial size, converting the files to an electronically-readable form, linking the files to each other to provide readers wit... | 08/30/2007 |
| 20070192672 | Invoking an audio hyperlink Methods, systems, and computer program products are provided for invoking an audio hyperlink. Embodiments include identifying a predetermined playback time in an audio file pre-designated as having an associated audio hyperlink; playing an audio indication of the audio ... | 08/16/2007 |
| 20070192676 | Synthesizing aggregated data of disparate data types into data of a uniform data type with embedded audio hyperlinks Methods, systems, and products are disclosed for synthesizing aggregated data of disparate data types into data of a uniform data type. Embodiments include receiving aggregated data of disparate data types; translating the aggregated data of disparate data types into tr... | 08/16/2007 |
| 20070192675 | Invoking an audio hyperlink embedded in a markup document Methods systems and products are provided for invoking an audio hyperlink embedded in a markup document. Embodiments include identifying an audio hyperlink embedded within the markup document; playing an audio indication of the audio hyperlink; receiving from a user an ... | 08/16/2007 |
| 20070192674 | Publishing content through RSS feeds Methods, systems, and products are disclosed for publishing content. Embodiments include aggregating, for a user, content of disparate data types from disparate data sources; synthesizing the aggregated content of disparate data types into synthesized content including ... | 08/16/2007 |
| 20070177165 | Printing tool A printing tool has a module allowing printing of at least one linked content item. A request sub-module generates a request to print at least one linked content item, and a retrieval sub-module allows at least one linked content item to be retrieved for printing.... | 08/02/2007 |
| 20070180355 | Enhancing accuracy of jumping by incorporating interestingness estimates A method and apparatus is disclosed herein for enhancing accuracy of jumping by incorporating interestingness estimates. In one embodiment, the method comprises serially displaying a sequence of page images; receiving a user input to stop sequencing through the page ima... | 08/02/2007 |
| 20070180354 | Opening Network-Enabled Electronic Documents System(s), method(s), and/or technique(s) (“tools”) are described that enable a user to open a network-enabled electronic document in either a specific software application associated with the electronic document or a network browser. In some cases the tools do so u... | 08/02/2007 |
| 20070174230 | System and method for displaying information in association with an electronic file management application Displaying associated information adjacent to, or in proximity of, an electronic file displayed within an electronic file management application. An e-file callout system associates e-file callout information with an electronic file. When a user hovers or selects an ele... | 07/26/2007 |
| 20070157073 | Software weaving and merging There is disclosed transforming an electronic plain text to an electronic anchored text, comprising inserting anchors located between characters in said plain text. Each character has a unique association with a nearest preceding or succeeding anchor. Each anchor serves... | 07/05/2007 |
| 20070157072 | PORTABLE CONTENT SHARING The system of the invention comprises creating a bookmark file for a multimedia content file where the bookmark file includes a URL or other address identifier for the content file and a bookmark pointer that identifies a specific location within the content file. To sh... | 07/05/2007 |
