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"It is my heart-warmed and world-embracing Christmas hope and aspiration that all of us, the high, the low, the rich, the poor, the admired, the despised, the loved, the hated, the civilized, the savage (every man and brother of us all throughout the whole earth), may eventually be gathered together in a heaven of everlasting rest and peace and bliss, except the inventor of the telephone. "
Mark Twain ; Christmas greetings, 1890
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7324986 | Automatically facilitated support for complex electronic services Systems for an automatically facilitated support for complex electronic services include a plurality of databases having customer records and problem solving information to assist a user with problem resolution and a cycler module configured to access the databases.... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7325194 | Method, system, and apparatus for converting numbers between measurement systems based upon semantically labeled strings Number conversion between different units of measurement in a document is enabled. A string of text entered into an application program is analyzed to determine whether it includes a number having an associated unit name. Found numbers with associated unit names are... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7325014 | Direct rendering of a web application from a database to a web browser A method includes selecting a database on a system and selecting a style format on the system. The database contains data information for the web application, and the style format is applied to the web application. The method also includes selecting a validation rul... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7321769 | Method and apparatus for managing personal cache in a wireless network A method and apparatus for determining whether cache memory is available on a wireless network to store at least one user-selected electronic file. The cache memory may be provided to a user of a wireless device for a fee. If a user has cache memory available on the... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7321917 | Customizing a client application using an options page stored on a server computer A method and apparatus for displaying an options page for client application in a network environment. Instead of hard coding the options page within the client application, the options page is stored on a server computer and may be updated dynamically without modif... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7322006 | Integrated document management system, document retrieval device, and a computer-readable recording medium with a document retrieval program recorded therein An integrated document management system comprises a storage unit which stores therein a document database consisting of a plurality of documents based on a hierarchical structure and a management information database consisting of a information indicating a relatio... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7322007 | Electronic document modification Electronic document design methods and computer programs allowing a user to separately control and modify layout and the design components of an electronic document. A number of possible document layouts and possible document designs are stored. A document is based ... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7321439 | Information processing apparatus and method for processing externally transmitted data, and information processing program An online print system including a server and a print apparatus capable of communicating with the server via the Internet is provided. The print apparatus receives display page data from the server, analyzes the display page data and requests the server to print the... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7320023 | Mechanism for caching dynamically generated content A mechanism for caching dynamically generated content is disclosed, wherein initially, a server receives a request from a client for a set of dynamically generated content. In response to the request, the server accesses a cached version of the requested content, wh... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7320024 | System and method for providing contents on a network Disclosed is a contents-providing system for receiving contents from a web server and providing the contents to a portable terminal connected via a network that comprises: a user information database for storing user ID information; an authentication server for perf... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7320107 | Bookmark frame and method of launching browsers using the bookmark in an internet terminal A bookmark frame and a method of launching a plurality of browsers using the bookmark in an Internet terminal. The bookmark frame includes a browser ID field and a URL (Uniform Resource Locator) field in a 1:1 relationship corresponding to the browser ID field. To a... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7318238 | Security settings for markup language elements A system and method that allows a page (e.g., Internet content) author to associate a set of security settings on any desired element (e.g., tag) of the page. When the page is interpreted, each element is handled based on its associated security settings, allowing a... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7318237 | System and method for maintaining security in a distributed computer network A system and method for maintaining security in a distributed computing environment comprises a policy manager located on a server for managing and distributing a security policy, and an application guard located on a client for managing access to securable componen... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7318203 | Selecting image processing functions An image processing function is selected via a graphical user interface (GUI) 902 that receives input commands from manually operated input means 102-103, 106 configured with activation means. Image data 707, 1206 is selected by placing a... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7316566 | Method for accessing interactive multimedia information or services from Braille documents System and method to enable blind people to detect and access hyperlinks within Braille documents. A proximity sensing foil placed under a Braille page senses the position of a reader's fingertips and provides coordinates of the sensed position. A workstation comput... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7318064 | Using MD4 checksum as primary keys to link transactions across machines A method, system, and computer instructions for using MD4 checksum to link transactions across machines. Transaction information is received, wherein transaction information comprises a checksum and topology information, and wherein the checksum serves as a unique i... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7315848 | Web snippets capture, storage and retrieval system and method A web snippets capture, storage, and retrieval system is comprised of a snippet capture and storage method operating on a computer. The system has snippet selection means which selects a snippet, snippet processing means which processes the snippet so selected, and ... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7315849 | Enterprise-wide data-warehouse with integrated data aggregation engine An enterprise-wide data-warehouse comprising a database management system (DBMS) including a relational datastore storing data in tables. An aggregation module, operatively coupled to the relational datastore aggregates the data stored in the tables of the relationa... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7315858 | Method for gathering and summarizing internet information A computer method of gathering and summarizing large amounts of information comprises collecting information from a plurality of information sources (14, 51) according to respective maps (52) of the information sources (14), converting the colle... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7315978 | System and method for remote collection of data A system and method for managing electronic forms data, and financial advise applications is provided. Financial advisors may be equipped with portable computing devices, such as a laptop or tablet PC to provide customers in-field support through the use of financia... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7315887 | Facilitating integration of communications network equipment inventory management A physical asset management system as disclosed herein is capable of carrying-out a method for facilitating integration of communications network equipment inventory management. In at least one embodiment of the method for facilitating integration of communications ... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7315902 | Compression and abbreviation for fixed length messaging A method, computer program product, and data processing system for compressing and abbreviating text messages at a first text messaging device for transport and subsequent interpretation at a second text messaging device is disclosed. A user-defined message length r... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7315980 | Method and apparatus for generating electronic document definitions A method of automatically creating an electronic document definition can include querying an application using a meta data interface of the application to obtain meta data describing at least one other interface of the application. The meta data can be received resp... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7315886 | Capability spoofing using a local proxy server A home-networking gateway may provide a service to a device on a home network by transparently accessing (or spoofing) a capability of a different device on the home network. The device capabilities may be automatically detected and used. A home-networking gateway a... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7315864 | System and method for creating a book of reports over a computer network A method is disclosed wherein a server receives and stores report definitions. A user instructs the server to create a book and associate the report definitions with the book. Thereafter, the user requests that the server generate and transmit the book to his client... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7313514 | Validating content of localization data files The invention provides for extracting language and culture information from a POSIX™* conforming locale source file for the purpose of formatting sample data for country and language expert validation. The invention is performed on a computer system by obtaining a... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7313595 | System and method for record and playback of collaborative web browsing session A collaborative Web browsing session may take place over a network, allowing the presenter on a first computer to direct the audio and visual components of a browser on one or more second computers. The second computer is instructed to log into a control site that d... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7313813 | Method and apparatus for providing and maintaining a user-interactive portal system accessible via internet or other switched-packet-network An Internet Portal is enabled by software executing on an Internet-connected server. The Portal, in response to a log-on by a user, presents a secure and personalized page for and to the user, the personalized page having listed plural Internet destinations enabled ... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7312798 | Device and method for controlling the display of electronic information The present invention provides a novel device and method for controlling the display of electronic information. The device can be based on the computing environment of an enhanced personal digital assistant with cellular telephone and electronic message capabilities... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7313530 | Methods and systems for generating and displaying the capacity of a delivery management system The present invention is adapted to calculate expected capacity utilization information by zone for a respective delivery agent within the zone then to display delivery agent shipping capacity information via a communications network. The present invention further p... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7313567 | Schemaless XML payload generation An XML payload is generated from an XML list irrespective of a schema associated with the XML list. The parent/child relationship pats are collected from the field entries in the XML list. An XML payload node tree is created reflective of the parent/child relationsh... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7310770 | Method and apparatus for a home network auto-tree builder A method and system is provided for detecting, commanding and controlling diverse home devices currently connected to a home network. An interface is provided for accessing the home devices that are currently connected to a home network. According to the method, a d... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7310771 | 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... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7310114 | Picture storage device An image capturing device generates a picture handle for designating a picture file and transmits the picture handle to a picture display device. When an alias corresponding to the picture handle is recorded in a file in a storage medium, the image capturing device ... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7310662 | Token-based web browsing with visual feedback of disclosure A data communications network may be browsed using one or more tokens by receiving an input keyword string from a user, determining whether there is a match between the input keyword string and a database of keyword strings, determining a category of the keyword str... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7310627 | Method of searching for text in browser frames Methods, systems and articles of manufacture for searching content in frames. In general, information located at one or more networked addresses may be displayed to a user in two or more frames. The content of a frame may be searched by designating one frame as a de... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7308645 | Method and apparatus for a home network auto-tree builder A method and system is provided for detecting, commanding and controlling diverse home devices currently connected to a home network. An interface is provided for accessing the home devices that are currently connected to a home network. According to the method, a d... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7308649 | Providing scalable, alternative component-level views Techniques are disclosed for improved handling of alternative content selection. Using these techniques, content designers specify alternative content views that are designed for use under different conditions, and a particular alternative view is programmatically s... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7308644 | Method and apparatus for a home network auto-tree builder A method and system is provided for detecting, commanding and controlling diverse home devices currently connected to a home network. An interface is provided for accessing the home devices that are currently connected to a home network. According to the method, a d... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7308643 | Anchor tag indexing in a web crawler system Provided is a method and system for indexing documents in a collection of linked documents. A link log, including one or more pairings of source documents and target documents is accessed. A sorted anchor map, containing one or more target document to source documen... | 12/11/2007 |
