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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7434175 | Displaying telephone numbers as active objects There are disclosed methods and apparatus for displaying telephone numbers. Before displaying data units, the data units are scanned for telephone numbers. The telephone numbers are automatically identified within the data units. When the telephone numbers are displ... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7406498 | Dynamic integration of web sites A method for displaying information includes identifying computer-readable service code at a service site, which code, when read by a client computer via a network, causes the computer to display at least one service page containing service information. Some service... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7392481 | Method and apparatus for providing content-owner control in a networked device An apparatus and methods for providing content-owner control in a device is optionally networked. A method for accessing media content has steps of initiating a first view providing access to at least a portion of a first content within the first view, initiating a ... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7386792 | System and method for collecting, storing, managing and providing categorized information related to a document object A method and system for enabling users of a network to create, store, and provide access to relationships between document objects stored on the network. The method may include the steps for allowing a user of the network to create a link relationship between a firs... | 06/10/2008 |
| RE40361 | Data conversion apparatus for data communication system A data conversion apparatus is provided as a data transmitting apparatus in a data communication system which achieves pseudo interactive communications by using one-way communications between the data transmitting apparatus and a plurality of data receiving apparat... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7383504 | Method for representing and comparing multimedia content according to rank A method for generating a representation of multimedia content by first segmenting the multimedia content spatially and temporally to extract objects. Feature extraction is applied to the objects to produce semantic and syntactic attributes, relations, and a contain... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7383248 | Hyperlink park and search The present invention provides a method for hyperlink parking and searching. A user pre-defined search criteria is formed by adding, deleting, or modifying a search criteria that includes at least one search term. A universal resource Locator (URL) is obtained by pa... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7380209 | Managing electronic documents utilizing a digital seal A method for storing electronic documents can include associating a digital seal with at least one electronic document. An image within a user interface can be displayed, wherein the image is a user selectable representation for the digital seal. At least one metada... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7376811 | Method and apparatus for performing computations and operations on data using data steering A data processing system architecture is based upon a hardware engine that includes a plurality of functional units and data routing units that interconnect the functional units. The hardware engine performs operations and computations on data as the data traverses ... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7373590 | Shared electronic ink annotation method and system A system and method in a computer network in which computer users may make handwritten annotations (to publication pages such as a slideshow slide) public to other computer users, as well as to view public annotations from other computer users. Users can selectively... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7373375 | Information management system using agents An agent employment system comprising at least one data terminal and at least one server computer. The data terminal is connected to a communications network and having a display device. The sever computer is connected to the data terminal by the communications netw... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7373357 | Method and system for an operation capable of updating and inserting information in a database A Structured Query Language (SQL) adapter business service that converts data from a data set to a common representation format used for all data sets with which the SQL adapter business service interacts. Hence the SQL adapter business service can communicate with ... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7373591 | Binary format for MPEG-7 instances An encoding and a decoding method for transmitting and storing description element(s) of an XML-like document which is an instance of an XML-like schema. ... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7370381 | Method and apparatus for a ranking engine A computer-implemented method is provided for ranking files from an Internet search. In one embodiment, the method comprises assigning a score to each file based on at least one of the following factors: recency, editorial popularity, clickthru popularity, favorites... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7373601 | Object transfer method with format adaptation A method of transferring a file includes generating a version of an object version at the source entity as a function of the profile of the destination entity (e.g., screen, calculation capacity, storage). A basic document is basic version of the object described in... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7373140 | Wireless communication system and method of changing language to be displayed in wireless client A wireless communication system is provided which supplies an only necessary font to a wireless client and avoids incorrect display on the wireless client. A wireless communication gateway server receives language information from the wireless client, and supplies a... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7373611 | Method and computer program for integrating a basic program with a basic program window into an auxiliary program with an auxiliary window At least one basic program and an auxiliary program run on a computer and collaborate with the computer via an operating system, with windows being displayed on a viewing device allocated to the computer. The auxiliary program determines a basic window pointer on th... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7373594 | Managing the release of electronic content using a template without version logic A facility for rendering a dynamic electronic document is described. The dynamic electronic document has both a current and a future edition. The current edition incorporates a current version of a content item, while the future edition incorporates a future version... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7370276 | Interface for collecting user preferences Various techniques are disclosed for accepting preference information from a user, where the preference information is specific to content elements within a media asset, and the preference information is collected while the user is viewing a display of the media ass... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7370053 | Coordinating transactional web services The present invention relates to coordinating web services wherein a coordination service acts as a rendezvous point through which participants such as web services may register to obtain protocol information to coordinate an outcome of an activity. The coordination... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7370288 | Method and system for selecting objects on a display device Different levels or categories of text or images or both can be selected on a display device with simple commands. A selection region including one of selected text and selected images can be increased or decreased depending upon an executed command. A first command... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7370028 | Method of and system for providing namespace based object to XML mapping The present invention relates generally to computers and computer databases, and more specifically, to a method of and system for converting between Object-oriented classes and markup languages. One aspect of the invention is broadly defined as a method for converti... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7370283 | Systems and methods for populating a ticker using multiple data transmission modes Content to be presented on a ticker of a communication device is conveyed by being transmitted using one or more transmission modes that are intelligently selected according to various criteria. The mode is chosen from among a plurality of transmission modes availab... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7370285 | Receiving and reporting page-specific user feedback concerning one or more particular web pages of a website In one embodiment, a method for receiving page-specific user feedback concerning a particular web page of a website includes using a comment icon viewable on the page to solicit one or more page-specific open-ended comments concerning the page from a user. The metho... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7370273 | System and method for creating dynamic folder hierarchies A dynamic foldering system automatically manages the creation and deletion of run-time dynamic folders and selection of documents, items, or object graphs found in the run-time dynamic folders. The system comprises a query/predicate for a design-time folder group ba... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7366973 | Item, relation, attribute: the IRA object model A system and method for providing a document object model to represent components of related entities for in-memory representations. The system and method provide for tangled data structures that are more readily parsed than conventional object models. Data is repre... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7366976 | Methods and systems for generating a viewable document using view descriptors and generic view stylesheets Methods, systems, and computer program products, for using a web browser to view stored data over the World Wide Web, where the data is stored in a format normally incompatible with such viewing. A client computer processes a view descriptor and a general view class... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7366770 | Method and system for interfacing with a shipping service A logistics node receives a purchase order from a customer. The logistics node selects an appropriate carrier to transport products specified in the purchase order and conveys shipping instructions to the selected carrier. The logistics node also coordinates the shi... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7366682 | System, method, and code for providing promotions in a network environment According to an embodiment of the present invention, techniques are disclosed for providing promotions to users of communication networks, such as the Internet. Information related to a plurality of promotions, including promotions information and rules associated w... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7366981 | Image forming device and method An image forming device for dividing a continuous document without the concept of pages, such as an HTML document, into pages, the device being capable of responding to a user's various needs in connection with page dividing. A page dividing processor (304) i... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7366762 | Method for monitoring and reporting usage of non-hypertext markup language e-mail campaigns A method, apparatus, and computer usable program code for tracking and reporting e-mail campaigns. An instruction set is placed in a tagged e-mail to form a modified e-mail, wherein the data type of the instruction set is set to hypertext markup language. The modifi... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7366767 | Dictation system employing computer-to-computer transmission of voice files controlled by hand microphone A dictation system is formed of two personal computers connected by an e-mail system. A hand microphone with control switches is provided at one personal computer and a foot pedal is provided at the other personal computer. The hand microphone is used to generate a ... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7366991 | Method and system for providing an extensible user interface Displaying a custom user interface in response to a determination that the application program is configured to display the custom user interface. To create the custom user interface, the end user can customize one or more default user interface files to create cust... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7366992 | Method and system for displaying and/or manipulating medical image data In one embodiment, a medical image viewer in compliance with a medical image standard is provided, and a file in compliance with the medical image standard is provided to the medical image viewer. The medical image standard specifies a first field for data not in co... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7367014 | System and method for XML data representation of portlets An Extensible Markup Language (XML) document adapted to describe a portlet, comprising a name element including a name tag, a description element including a description tag, and a content resource element including a content tag. ... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7366718 | Detecting duplicate and near-duplicate files Improved duplicate and near-duplicate detection techniques may assign a number of fingerprints to a given document by (i) extracting parts from the document, (ii) assigning the extracted parts to one or more of a predetermined number of lists, and (iii) generating a... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7363294 | Indexing for contextual revisitation and digest generation A medium, system and method of processing content information. In one exemplary embodiment, the medium, system and method include determining associated previously accessed content information in response to an action performed on a document containing information a... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7363322 | Methods and systems for performing reliable asynchronous notification of high-level document operations A mechanism is described for the reliable notification to client applications of the implementation of predefined high-level document commands in a database. The database management system is issued a number of high-level document commands such as “move electronic... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7363324 | Method, system and program for prioritizing maintenance of database tables There is disclosed a data processing system implemented method, a data processing system, and an article of manufacture for directing a data processing system to maintain a database table associated with an initial maintenance scheduling interval. The data processin... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7363266 | Systems and methods for asset valuation Methods and systems for providing a value of a good to a requester are described. In one embodiment, the method comprises uploading data relating to a request for a value of a good to a computer configured as a calculator for calculating the value of the good. The v... | 04/22/2008 |
