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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7237030 | System and method for preserving post data on a server system A system and method for preserving POST data on a server system are presented. Embodiments of the present invention include a method for preserving POST data comprising using a generic cache agent to intercept a POST request made by a client for a resource accessibl... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7237192 | Methods and systems for naming and indexing children in a hierarchical nodal structure A hierarchically structured electronic document includes a parent node, a first and a second child of the parent node. The first child is configured as a named role child, the named role child having a first child component, the named role child specifying a relatio... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7236984 | Digital document discussion apparatus and digital document discussion method A digital document discussion apparatus includes a user profile information database storing user profile information on a user, a responsible organization profile information database storing responsible organization profile information, and a control section provi... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7236975 | System and method for controlling access to anode in a virtual content repository that integrates a plurality of content repositories A system and method for controlling access to a node in a virtual content repository (VCR), comprising, integrating the plurality of repositories into the VCR, storing the node in the VCR, associating with the node at least one of: a role and a policy, wherein the n... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7233407 | Document production system for capturing web page content A system and method for converting a page from a network into an image file suitable for assembly of or insertion into a document generated by a document creation algorithm. The system of the invention includes a browser for retrieving a page from the network. The p... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7233698 | Apparatus and methods for converting raster illustrated parts images into intelligent vector-layered files Apparatus and methods for converting raster illustrated parts images into intelligent vector-layered files. The method involves recognizing and removing reference labels from the raster illustrated parts image to produce a reference label scrubbed file. Reference li... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7233943 | Clustering hypertext with applications to WEB searching A method of searching a database of documents, wherein the method includes performing a search of the database using a query to produce query result documents; constructing a word dictionary of words within the query result documents; constructing an out-link dictio... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7234108 | Ink thickness rendering for electronic annotations A system and method for rendering ink annotations for a displayed image is disclosed. The invention adjusts the thickness of rendered lines for ink annotations when rendered. Ink annotations are created by capturing and connecting a set of data points input by a use... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7233973 | Evolving interactive dialog box for an internet web page A host Web page includes an evolving interactive dialog box wherein an Internet user may enter user data to be processed. When the user completes entering user data in a first revolution of the interactive dialog box, the first revolution is replaced with a second r... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7234107 | System for customizing web page A method and a system for customizing a Web page includes the capability of adding all types of objects describable in HTML such as text, an image, a program, a hyperlink, a table and an applet. A web page is customized by first requesting the page to be customized ... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7234110 | Apparatus and method for providing dynamic multilingual web pages A web page providing method for providing a web page responsive to a request from a browser, including the steps of preparing a plurality of types of web pages responsive to a display request from the browser for each display request, selecting a web page based on s... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7234109 | Equality of extensible markup language structures A computer-implemented mechanism for comparing information sets is described. The mechanism may include a comparison system that concentrates on the schema in each information set. An alternative embodiment includes an equality comparison mechanism that performs set... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7231633 | Debugging with set verbosity level during read and analysis of executable code and associated comments while logging according to set verbosity level A debugging tool for computer program development that analyzes the computer program adds output statements at strategic locations throughout the program. The output statements may include the filename and line number of the original source code and may further incl... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7231590 | Method and apparatus for visually emphasizing numerical data contained within an electronic document A method and apparatus are provided for visually emphasizing all of the numerical data contained in an electronic document. A determination is made as to whether a request to emphasize all of the numerical data in the electronic document has been received. If such a... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7231596 | Collaborative, fault-tolerant, scaleable, flexible, interactive real-time display and processing method and apparatus The invention relates to a method and system for providing information in an easily customizable, interactive and collaborative format. Various manipulations of the data and its presentation, in many cases within one user action, including, for example, flexibly sor... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7231426 | System and method for sending a web page via electronic mail An email client is configured to watch for attachment events and to automatically package a web page as a single-file attachment to an email note. When an attachment event is recognized by the email client, a determination is made as to whether the attached file is ... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7228496 | Document editing method, document editing system, server apparatus, and document editing program A partial document defined in advance as an operating unit composed of at least one element, which is coincident with or is contained in a structural document, includes at least information representing that the partial document is an operating unit. Based on this i... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7228498 | Structured document transformation apparatus for managing document information transfers between a server and a client A method, apparatus, and computer program product for performing bidirectional transformation between a first structured document and a second structured document is disclosed. A transformation rule having primitive rules each of which is applicable to respective on... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7228501 | Method for selecting a font The invention is generally directed to a method for selecting a font that uses a mark-up language document to group together multiple pre-existing fonts into a single font family or “virtual font.” The mark-up language document includes rules regarding the condi... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7228494 | Methods and systems for providing navigation within an application Systems and methods for providing navigation in an application may have a menu system that allow a user to see a menu with options for most or all of the possible navigable contexts without first displaying an intermediate context. A user may then go directly to a d... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7228301 | Method for normalizing document metadata to improve search results using an alias relationship directory service The present invention provides methods, systems, and computer program products for normalizing document search terms through use of an alias database, as may be found in an alias relationship file, such as a directory service. A gatherer module receives as input (or... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7228322 | Data management apparatus of switching system A data management apparatus, according to a request of an application program, lends a pointer for reading out a data from a data field stored a plurality of data. An address of the data field corresponding to the lent pointer is stored a lending pointer table. When... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7228340 | Wireless communication device with markup language based man-machine interface A wireless communications device with a markup language based man-machine interface provides a user interface for telecommunications functionality, including dialing telephone numbers, answering telephone calls, creating messages, sending messages, receiving message... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7228293 | Copy detection for digitally-formatted works An electronic book reader has a processor, a display surface, and access to a memory card upon which is stored a digitally-formatted creative work such as a book. In addition, the reader has access to a plurality of precompiled condensed content descriptions of resp... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7228302 | System, tools and methods for viewing textual documents, extracting knowledge therefrom and converting the knowledge into other forms of representation of the knowledge Systems, tools, methods and recordable media for text mining textual documents and extracting and associating entities and interactions mined with other data formats, such as diagrammatic displays and experimental data, using a local format. Additionally, informatio... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7228319 | File comparison of locally synched files Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for a single keystroke file comparison tool. A first version of a file is downloaded from a repository to a client computer. An updated version of the file is downloaded from the repository to the client co... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7228360 | Web address converter for dynamic web pages Herein is described an implementation of a Web address converter, which helps dynamic Web sites get the attention of spiders of Internet search engines. ... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7228499 | Processor with separately configured display control file, CGI scripts, and processing program In a source file for a server, a Web display control division, a CGI script division and a processing program division are separated. The server has a Web server division, a CGI script control division and a processing program division and constitutes an inte... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7228495 | Method and system for providing an index to linked sites on a web page for individuals with visual disabilities A system and method in accordance with the present invention allows blind and visually impaired users to quickly identify links to relevant material when “viewing” web pages that consist primarily of either plain text or images. By generating an aural or visual ... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7228497 | System and method for automated generation of XML transforms XML transforms may be automatically generated by separating a standard process that can produce features of many transforms, and a variable process that is tailored to the features of a particular transform. The standard process can be reused with any number of vari... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7225400 | Techniques for invoking system commands from within a mark-up language document A method and apparatus for invoking system resources directly from within a mark-up language document. Links referencing a pre-defined system command to be invoked may be embedded within the document. The specific system command may be identified in the link by an a... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7225407 | Resource browser sessions search A browser sessions search tool allows a user to search through records of previously viewed resource pages, even across multiple browser sessions. Each visit to a resource page results in creation of a visit data structure that references the resource page content. ... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7225181 | Document searching apparatus, method thereof, and record medium thereof A document searching apparatus for searching a document group having a link relation for particular document is disclosed, that comprises a link importance assigning unit weighting the link relation and assigning the link importance which indicates importance of the... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7225211 | Multi-class storage mechanism System and method for implementing a file system across different storage classes in a storage system. Embodiments may define multiple classes of storage and automatically and transparently migrate data in the storage classes within the same file system to meet the ... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7225399 | Systems and methods for generating interactive electronic reference materials Described herein, amongst other things, are electronically available interactive reference materials that can preferably be accessed by using a network, such as the World Wide Web or Internet, to eliminate the need to create and transport paper. There are further de... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7225232 | Using existing web-based information to generate responses to user queries Email response management systems (ERMSs) have previously been developed for use with contact centers where email queries are received from customers. These ERMSs have contained pre-configured information suitable for incorporating into email responses. A major prob... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7224404 | Remote display control of video/graphics data A method and apparatus where a source delivers graphics data to a target, which receives and displays the graphics data. The source of the graphics data controls how the graphics data is to be displayed at the target. The source transmits a display control signal pr... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7225142 | Interactive multimedia advertising and electronic commerce on a hypertext network A system and method for providing targeted, interactive, multimedia advertisements and electronic commerce capability on a hypertext network. Advertising software from a server is loaded on a user's client computer through a browser at the user's request. The displa... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7222296 | Configurable display of web site content A method and system of displaying data from a database onto a page. The database is provided with a view having data therein, and with a configuration document describing characteristics of the page. The database is also provided with a form for reading the configur... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7222292 | Methods and systems for dynamically creating user interfaces A data presentation system dynamically generates and renders a user interface (UI) in the form of a Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) document. Extensible Markup Language (XML) data files contain data that defines the UI. The XML data is maintained independently of a... | 05/22/2007 |
