...that in 1800 ether was first used by partyers as a fun diversion? Sniffing the gas led to hilarious and raucous laughter as people watched each other become more and more intoxicated and silly. Several doctors independently realized the value ether would have to anesthetize surgery patients. Of those who claimed rights to the "discovery," none had a happy ending. One had a seizure and died defending his rights. Another spent his life in an asylum because he had been denied acclaim. A third became addicted to chloroform and, in a New York City jail, he soaked a cloth in the drug, severed an artery and bled to death.
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| 20070299908 | Telephone/Transaction Entry Device and System for Entering Transaction Data into Databases A data transaction processing system in which transaction data is entered by the user in response to prompts in a template which is tailored to each user application. The template and entered data are accumulated into data transactions which are immediately transmitted ... | 12/27/2007 |
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| 20070265927 | SOFTWARE DESIGN SYSTEM The present invention improves on the existing infrastructure for providing a consumer design system for building structures by providing a system, method and software configured for providing a user the ability to enter information relating the user and/or customer, su... | 11/15/2007 |
| 20070256005 | Field-link autofill The invention provides a method for electronic form filling that enables users to enter data into one source form and have that data transferred into any number of electronic target forms. As the fields are linked through the invention, complete accuracy is provided for... | 11/01/2007 |
| 20070245226 | DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD A data processing apparatus discriminates a designated template and outputs a data registration sheet using the designated template. The data processing apparatus reads data that has been recorded on a sheet and registers the read data in accordance with the designated ... | 10/18/2007 |
| 20070245227 | Business Transaction Documentation System and Method A transaction documentation method includes loading a form including one or more hotspots from an indexed database of an electronic system that includes one or more scanned paper forms or imported externally-residing existing electronic forms or combinations thereof. Th... | 10/18/2007 |
| 20070244761 | Information protection system A method and a system to protect information are provided. For example, a system comprises a parser to parse user interface information to be included within a user interface to be displayed to a user by an information display application. The parser also identifies at ... | 10/18/2007 |
| 20070234197 | Universal form filler software A software program for completing electronic forms online, on a local network or on a local computer is described in this invention. This software can function as a plug-in for popular word-processors, databases, spreadsheets or PDF readers. ... | 10/04/2007 |
| 20070226633 | Copying and pasting portlets in a portal environment The present invention provides the copying and pasting of a portlet in a portal environment. A method in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention includes: providing a first instance of a portlet, the first instance of the portlet including encoded informa... | 09/27/2007 |
| 20070198250 | INFORMATION RETRIEVAL AND REPORTING METHOD SYSTEM A method. The method including receiving medical information, and comparing electronic text representative of the medical information with information associated with a field of a report template. The method also includes populating the report template with at least a p... | 08/23/2007 |
| 20070192679 | Method and system for flexible creation and publication of forms A method for creating an electronic form for publication comprising responsive to first user input allowing a user to create the electronic form using a form-creating user interface wherein the user defines the fields and their values for the electronic form that is mod... | 08/16/2007 |
| 20070186151 | Method for sharing calendar content in communications system, communications system and terminal The invention describes a method for sharing calendar content in a communications system, a communications system, and a terminal. The communications system comprises a terminal (100) and at least one remote device (102, 104), and the terminal (100)... | 08/09/2007 |
| 20070180353 | Systems and methods for generating documents using multimedia data gathering tools A system for generating a document by collecting information from an end user using a multimedia interface using at least one computing system comprising a processor and a computer readable medium. The computer readable medium has instructions executable by the processo... | 08/02/2007 |
| 20070162841 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING CUSTOMIZED AND/OR PERSONALIZED DOCUMENTS A system and method for rapidly customizing and printing documents is disclosed. The system supports product lines having a plurality of customizable products therein, through the use of a single Web page that is continually updated in a data-driven fashion. The system ... | 07/12/2007 |
| 20070157075 | Key command functionality in an electronic document Key command functionality is provided in an electronic document through a recognition of input data. The input data is received in a data field of the electronic document. If the input data is a help command, a help application is launched. The help application provides... | 07/05/2007 |
| 20070150296 | System and method for automated processing of requests for approval of materials for business development A system and method for automated processing requests for reviewing and approving business development materials, such as marketing flipbooks and request for proposals, etc., for compliance and performance approval employs an application server that presents a web-based... | 06/28/2007 |
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| 20070133876 | Device, method, and computer program product for enhancing the use of electronic forms in mobile devices A device, method, and computer program product enhance the use of electronic forms in mobile devices, such as by using a camera image for entering data into an input field of an electronic form. A portion of the camera image may be captured and displayed in the input fi... | 06/14/2007 |
| 20070130506 | Method and system for improving usability of online forms via an automatic field completion functionality A software tool populates an online interactive form with a set of values based on one or more basic values entered by the user in the online form. ... | 06/07/2007 |
| 20070130505 | TEMPLATE FILLER, METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT A system, method, computer program product and propagated signal for generating one or more forms in one operation using data identified in a dynamically generated user editable form that includes a list limited to the fillable fields of the form templates and prospecti... | 06/07/2007 |
| 20070124665 | Method and apparatus for creating and filing forms A method for designing, creating, and importing, on a digital computer having a memory and a processor executing a stored program, data into a viewable form viewable by the user of a data processing system, the viewable form duplicating the paper form, comprising the st... | 05/31/2007 |
| 20070113168 | Visual representation and navigation of erroneous fields in a document The present invention relates to the visual representation and navigation of erroneous fields in a document. A method in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention includes: detecting erroneous fields in a document; highlighting each erroneous field in the d... | 05/17/2007 |
| 20070101254 | Systems and methods for providing an allowed input range in a user interface Systems and methods are disclosed for validating one or more inputs to a user interface. In one embodiment, a system for providing an allowed input range in a user interface window is provided with a window creator to receive a document transferred between a server and ... | 05/03/2007 |
| 20070101253 | Systems and methods for extensible document generation A method of document generation includes, in response to a call from an application, getting an interface and interface description of a template used to create a document, determining whether a method exists for filling all elements of the interface, making a dynamic c... | 05/03/2007 |
| 20070094051 | Method for conducting business at a medical practice The invention concerns a method for conducting business at a medical practice. The method includes acquiring a customizable medical database containing information about medical conditions, and personalizing the database with details of the medical practice. The method ... | 04/26/2007 |
| 20070089050 | Populating a table in a business application Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for populating a table in a business application. A computer-implemented method of displaying information on a computer display device includes displaying a first view on the display device, the first view incl... | 04/19/2007 |
| 20070089049 | NON-SYMBOLIC DATA SYSTEM FOR THE AUTOMATED COMPLETION OF FORMS A system and method for paper-based, automated completion of forms allows a user charged with filling out multiple forms containing some common information to write each unique piece of information one time, and the system generates a set of completed forms with the req... | 04/19/2007 |
| 20070074101 | Smart form completion of form values Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to form value processing and provide a method, system and computer program product for smart completion of form values in a form. In a first embodiment of the invention, a data processing sy... | 03/29/2007 |
| 20070074130 | Automated placement of fields in a data summary table A graphical user interface for creating a data summary table includes a pane including a plurality of fields, and a data summary table. Upon selection of a field to include in the data summary table, the user interface is programmed to analyze the field and automaticall... | 03/29/2007 |
| 20070061701 | Input suggestions based on prior business process consequences A computer implemented method for providing input suggestions based on prior business process consequences, including the steps of receiving an input to an entry field in the business process instance, wherein the input is not predetermined at entry time, identifying a ... | 03/15/2007 |
| 20070055550 | Personal transportable healthcare data base A personal transportable patient healthcare data base. The data base includes data processes for storing bar coded specific health care information classified by general health care classifications. A data entry may be by entering a respective bar code for a specific he... | 03/08/2007 |
| 20070050702 | System and method for rendering of financial data A method of populating a spreadsheet with financial data, includes, in response to a user's request for financial data, sending a request to a web service for the financial data, receiving a response to the request from the web service, processing the response, retrievi... | 03/01/2007 |
| 20070044018 | Automated product layout Methods and computer programs for automatically creating a text layout in an electronic design for a product to be printed. A number of defined text elements are available for user text entries. The product layout is based a user-selected image, if any, and on the text ... | 02/22/2007 |
| 20070038924 | Methods and systems for placing card orders Methods and systems for processing an order for at least one card. One method can include electronically receiving a request for an order form file from a client computer; electronically transmitting the order form file to the client computer; electronically receiving t... | 02/15/2007 |
| 20070036433 | Recognizing data conforming to a rule Systems and/or methods (“tools”) are described that enable a recognition system to recognize user-entered data conforming to a data rule. The tools may do so by providing data regions for a document. With these data regions, the recognition system may better determi... | 02/15/2007 |
| 20070028160 | Re-use wizard The present application is directed to a re-use wizard. Embodiments of the re-use wizard are directed at recording data input during a wizard session into a stored “template” which may be used to re-use data when the wizard is subsequently executed. More specificall... | 02/01/2007 |
| 20060288269 | System and method for electronic document generation and delivery A system and method for generating and delivering an electronic form to a user. One embodiment of the disclosed system comprises a file management sub-system for receipt and management of at least one standard form in electronic format. The system also includes a user s... | 12/21/2006 |
| 20060265638 | Fill Form with Computer (Comp-Fill) The purpose of this invention is to ease the process of filling in the blank spaces on the paper form (worksheet) by using a computer's printer. This invention utilizes transparency sheet that contains a table with rows and columns (cells) formatted to be identical as c... | 11/23/2006 |
| 20060253773 | Web-based client/server interaction method and system A Web-based client/server interaction method and system is proposed, which is designed for use with a server/client architecture on a network system for the purpose of allowing Web servers to gather user-supplied data from Web clients, and which is characterized by the ... | 11/09/2006 |
| 20060248479 | Information system for supplying a prescribed region with information An information system for supplying a prescribed region with information comprises at least one transmission device for transmitting information in digitally coded form, and at least one hand-held appliance. Said hand-held appliance comprises a reception device for rece... | 11/02/2006 |