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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20070236723 | DETERMINING A RESTART POINT OR REPRINT RANGE FOR REPRINTING A PRINT JOB Methods, systems, and computer program products are disclosed for determining the restart point for reprinting of a print job, such as for continuous forms printers. A method of the invention includes a step of processing the print job to identify logical pages in the p... | 10/11/2007 |
| 20070226635 | MULTI-MODAL CONTENT PRESENTATION A method is provided that includes receiving a user input, the user input having been input in a user interface in one of multiple modalities. The method also includes accessing, in response to receiving the user input, a multi-modality content document including conten... | 09/27/2007 |
| 20070220423 | Page Builder System and Method Page builder system and method utilizes a user interface to maintain web pages. In accordance with a preferred embodiment, a user may change and maintain layouts, content, and page details simultaneously with little or no approval from a system administrator. Furthermor... | 09/20/2007 |
| 20070204220 | RE-LAYOUT OF NETWORK CONTENT Techniques for modifying network content layout to be presented by an application are disclosed. More specifically, the content layout or portions thereof can be altered to facilitate specific tasks including, but not limited to, enhancing readability. For example, cont... | 08/30/2007 |
| 20070168855 | Screen splitting for Web browsers A computer implemented method, data processing system, and computer usable code are provided for splitting a screen in a Web browser window. User input is received requesting splitting of the screen in the Web browser window. A position for a split in the screen is iden... | 07/19/2007 |
| 20070150809 | Division program, combination program and information processing method The present invention provides an information processing method converting a format of a structured document, comprising: a first step copying, a first storage unit, information of a pre-converted first structured document sequentially by a predetermined amount beginnin... | 06/28/2007 |
| 20070136659 | Interfaces for creation and access of extensible markup language paper specification documents XPS documents are created and accessed via a collection of interfaces of various classes of an application programming interface. The application programming interface includes a document sequence class for reading and writing the document sequence of the XPS document, ... | 06/14/2007 |
| 20070124669 | Presentation of large objects on small displays A method for presenting at least a part of an object is shown, comprising at least partially dividing at least one object into a plurality of sub-objects, presenting the plurality of sub-objects in a first representation, making at least one sub-object of the plurality ... | 05/31/2007 |
| 20070101262 | Data transformation from content data for viewing content in network environment into data for printing the same on consecutive pages An information terminal equipment communicable with a server via a network is disclosed. The equipment includes: a unit that enables the equipment to communicate with the server; and a selector that selects as a first content one of content elements represented by displ... | 05/03/2007 |
| 20070083810 | Web content adaptation process and system An apparatus and method for adapting web page content are described. The adaptation of web page content for display on smaller intended display devices often requires the splitting of the content over a number of smaller pages. The apparatus and method relate to a proce... | 04/12/2007 |
| 20070006074 | Web page title shortening A method for shortening a web page title. The method includes determining if a title of a current web page fits in a title display area of a display. If the title fits the title is displayed in the title area. If the title does not fit, it is determined if the title of ... | 01/04/2007 |
| 20060248071 | Automated document localization and layout method A method which includes segmenting the content of a document into one or more original document structures, determining which of the one or more original document structures are to be localized, replacing the original document structures to be localized with new content... | 11/02/2006 |
| 20060206791 | File management apparatus When sequentially displaying images of pages in a plurality of documents, each of which has at least one page, if there exists an image to which an indicator has been attached, the indicator is displayed in a mode according to a page number of the image to which the ind... | 09/14/2006 |
| 20060156226 | Method and apparatus for detecting pagination constructs including a header and a footer in legacy documents A method for identifying header/footer content of a document, in order to sequence text fragments comprising recognizable text blocks as derived from the document. The textual variability of lines comprised of text blocks, including the different kinds of text blocks wi... | 07/13/2006 |
| 20060150096 | Dynamic pagination of text and resizing of image to fit a document Dynamic pagination for electronic documents, such as electronic books, is disclosed. In one embodiment, a computer-implemented method first processes a document made up of at least text, as a number of segments. Second, the method determines a number of page breaks with... | 07/06/2006 |
| 20060150093 | Page-break creating method for printing document A page-break creating method for use with a computer system is disclosed. The computer system is in communication with a printing device. After a document to be printed is selected, in response to a print command from the computer system, it is discriminated whether the... | 07/06/2006 |
| 20060136817 | Method and computer-readable medium for providing page and table formatting services A computer-implemented method and computer-readable medium are provided for providing page and table layout services. According to the method, a layout manager program provides layout services to client application programs. The layout manager receives requests from cli... | 06/22/2006 |
| 20060129922 | Reading product fabrication methodology A text enhancement method and apparatus for the presentation of text for improved human reading. The method includes extracting text specific attributes from machine readable text and varying the text presentation in accordance with the attributes. The preferred embodim... | 06/15/2006 |
| 20060123335 | Previews of information for selected download on auxiliary display Preview content is automatically downloaded to a user's device. When desired, the user may obtain more detailed information relating to the preview information. The more detailed information may be personalized to the user. The user may customize the preview content the... | 06/08/2006 |
| 20060123336 | Adding and removing white space from a document A method, a computer system and a computer-readable medium having instructions for a processor stored thereon are provided for growing a page on a display. Input indicating a first position or designation of content on a page of an electronic document and an amount of w... | 06/08/2006 |
| 20060109498 | Systems and methods for obtaining scan data by linking images Systems and methods for obtaining and linking scanned images are disclosed. An exemplary system includes an imaging device. The imaging device includes a processor and memory in electronic communication with the processor. Instructions are stored in the memory. The inst... | 05/25/2006 |
| 20060107230 | Application of paging to a dataset, graphical display window and graphical scrollbar grip A dataset is divided into overlapping logical pages, each associated with a different page index. A graphical display window is then filled with data corresponding to a current page offset which is mapped into a subset of data in a logical page corresponding to a curren... | 05/18/2006 |
| 20060075327 | User interface for presentation of a document A system identifies a document and provides an excerpt page corresponding to the document. The excerpt page includes a page of the document and a set of links to sections of the document. One of the links corresponds to a section containing the page and includes text as... | 04/06/2006 |
| 20060053370 | Electronic album editing apparatus and control method therefor An arrangement of images in an electronic document having multiple pages, such as an electronic album is disclosed. First, an image/images are arranged on each of the multiple pages in accordance with a first layout. When change of the number of image/images arranged on... | 03/09/2006 |
| 20060031764 | Methods and apparatus for automatic page break detection In one aspect of the present invention, page breaks are identified in the following manner. A set of ink data and a document description are processed by a variety of scoring methods, each of which generates a score for each possible insertion point in the ink. These sc... | 02/09/2006 |
| 20060031760 | Adaptive document layout server/client system and process A system and process for a server to provide a page of a document generated by an adaptive document layout application in a fixed-layout document format to a client computer over a client-server based network is presented. The document page is provided in response to a ... | 02/09/2006 |
| 20060031758 | Packages that contain pre-paginated documents Modular content framework and document format methods and systems are described. The described framework and format define a set of building blocks for composing, packaging, distributing, and rendering document-centered content. These building blocks define a platform-i... | 02/09/2006 |
| 20060026512 | Systems and methods for pagination using variable page dimensions On-line or computer based document generation and consumption has become as common, or more so, than paper based document generation and consumption. With the move away from paper there is no longer the physical restriction of the paper on which a document may be printe... | 02/02/2006 |
| 20060010371 | Packages that contain pre-paginated documents Modular content framework and document format methods and systems are described. The described framework and format define a set of building blocks for composing, packaging, distributing, and rendering document-centered content. These building blocks define a platform-i... | 01/12/2006 |
| 20050283720 | Process and apparatus for variable imaging system The present invention is useful for assembling a book. The inventive method includes the steps of specifying pagination information including an indication of whether a page is to be selectively included in the book, determining whether the page is to be assembled into ... | 12/22/2005 |
| 20050283722 | Imposition process and apparatus for variable imaging system The present invention is useful for assembling a book. The inventive method includes the steps of specifying pagination information including an indication of whether a page is to be selectively included in the book, determining whether the page is to be assembled into ... | 12/22/2005 |
| 20050283721 | Imposition process and apparatus for variable imaging system The present invention is useful for assembling a book. The inventive method includes the steps of specifying pagination information including an indication of whether a page is to be selectively included in the book, determining whether the page is to be assembled into ... | 12/22/2005 |
| 20050240868 | Balanced view generation for electronic documents Balanced view generation of pages of electronic documents is disclosed. In one embodiment, balancing the text of a page without forcing any of the text onto previous or subsequent pages is accomplished on a rolling pair of lines-by-rolling pair of lines basis. For each ... | 10/27/2005 |
| 20050223318 | System for implementing an electronic presentation from a storyboard A highly portable user-friendly development environment is provided that can enable the creative design of custom electronic presentations. Users can design their own custom presentations from a storyboard document, and collaborate with others during the development pro... | 10/06/2005 |
| 20050223321 | Demotion of memory pages to largest possible sizes Various approaches for demoting a memory page are described. In one approach, a first new page is established from a subpage of a base page in response to a request to demote a specified subpage. The size of the first new page is selected from a plurality of page sizes.... | 10/06/2005 |
| 20050210381 | Methods and computer systems for document authoring Methods and computer systems are provided for authoring documents. In one implementation, a computer system is provided that comprises an editor for editing a UI document, a pagination engine for paginating the UI document, and a pagination display for displaying a pagi... | 09/22/2005 |
| 20050188302 | Computing system for graphically manipulating production print streams A user interface associated with a print stream processing software tool allows a user define a print stream process application by “drag and drop” interaction with the user interface. Actions may be inserted in an action list by “dragging” items from a pallet t... | 08/25/2005 |
| 20050172223 | System and method for processing dynamic data sets in web applications Large data sets are displayed and processed. User mark-up language display provides a plurality of line items, each line item including a checkbox. A name/value pair is generated stored to a text string responsive to the user selecting a checkbox of a line item. The nam... | 08/04/2005 |
| 20050138551 | Method for page translation Various embodiments include a means for simultaneously displaying in an ebook both an ebook page number and its corresponding print version page number. ... | 06/23/2005 |
| 20050114766 | Image processing apparatus, and method for controlling the same An information processing apparatus fully utilizing contents available on a network by processing content that cannot be displayed on a built-in browser. A web browser displays in a pop-up fashion a dialog window that queries a user about the process to be performed on ... | 05/26/2005 |
