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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7388685 | Method and system for composition and transmission of an electronic mail message via an interactive document A method for composition and transmission of an electronic mail message via an interactive document is provided. The method comprises the steps of: (a) providing a document suitable for composition of the electronic mail message, the document including coded data in... | 06/17/2008 |
| 7373593 | Apparatus and method for automatically setting constraints within a document layout A user can efficiently perform a setting operation in an automatic layout system. An information processing apparatus having an automatic layout function includes a function for, in editing containers, measuring a distance between a first container placed on the doc... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7366978 | Method and system for creating a grid-like coordinate system for addressing data contained in an irregular computer-generated table Methods and systems provide for imposing structure onto a freeform or irregular table so that a subsequent consuming application may use the table, including presentation of the table and location of the data in the table. A generic grid structure is created having ... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7363348 | Method and system in an office application for providing content dependent help information Method, system and program product for providing on-line help information in an office application which includes one or more objects. The on-line help information is dependent on content of a selected object of the office application. A user of the office applicati... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7350139 | System and method for utilizing a drag and drop technique to complete electronic forms A system and method for utilizing a drag and drop technique to complete electronic forms are provided. A document browser computer (30) accesses one or more electronic forms provided by a document server (32) via an active Internet browser application ... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7349846 | Information processing apparatus, method, program, and storage medium for inputting a pronunciation symbol An information processing apparatus for inputting a pronunciation symbol corresponding to an English notation includes pronunciation symbol information holding means for holding pronunciation symbol information indicating a relationship between a predetermined alpha... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7350141 | User interface for integrated spreadsheets and word processing tables An architecture integrates spreadsheet functionality into tables commonly used in word processing programs and HTML documents. The architecture presents a table user interface (UI) that resembles a table when not being edited and adds spreadsheet elements to the tab... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7343551 | Autocompleting form fields based on previously entered values Systems and techniques for autocompleting form fields based on observed values. In general, in one implementation, the techniques include observing values entered in form field objects, generating likelihood assessments for possible values to be entered in a current... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7337411 | Logistics management system having user interface with tiered data entry A system is described that includes a host computer and a client computer. The host computer maintains data defining a set of selectable items, and the client computer executes a user interface module that presents a user interface that includes a first selection me... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7334184 | Method for online information sharing for completing electronic forms Methods are disclosed for gathering information from different sources to be used to automatically fill in online forms. The information is collected using a persona of an individual. A persona is created by filtering a larger set of raw data for that user so that o... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7318192 | Method and system for formulaically bounding data in a spreadsheet Methods and systems are provided for bounding data entered into one or more spreadsheet application cells. A bounding function is applied to a given cell that places bounds on values or formula results that may be entered into the cell. If a user enters a value to a... | 01/08/2008 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 7305621 | Defining a report based on data regions and including custom data in a report definition A computer-based report is generated based on report data and according to a report definition describing how to render the report on a page or screen or the like. The report definition may have standard data recognizable to a report processor, and may also have cus... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7302423 | Search-on-the-fly with merge function Sort-on-the-Fly/Search-on-the-Fly data retrieval or analysis provides an intuitive mechanisms for accessing databases, allowing a user to access or obtain information about data in the database without having to know anything about the database structure. A user sel... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7299465 | Configurable application integrating service request and fulfillment process A method and system for generating a plurality of concurrent solutions for a corresponding plurality of service requests each having one or more service types. The method comprises the steps of defining a set of said service types and a sequence of activities for ea... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7296297 | System and method for using web-based applications to validate data with validation functions Clients using standard software protocols may access stored validation functions in order to perform validation functions on data via a number of methods including Internet applications, a Java RMI server, a CORBA gateway server and graphical screen interphase appli... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7296145 | Method of secure communication over a distributed network without using secure socket layer A system and method for conducting secure distributed network communications without using Secure Socket Layer. A frame having an embedded security applet is forwarded by the device to an external node on the network. The security applet prompts a user at the extern... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7293231 | Data entry for personal computing devices In one aspect of the invention, the user can rapidly enter and search for text through a combination of entering one or more characters (a partial text entry) on a digitally displayed keyboard with a pointing device and using a search list to display a list of selec... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7281029 | Method and system of capturing data for automating internet interactions A method and system for capturing data for automating interactions occurring across the Internet includes storing data at a central Web server adapted for maintaining a database. Responsive to a program script requesting data, computer program code at the central We... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7278113 | Logistics management system user interface having dynamic form configuration A system is described in which a user interface module presents a user interface having a field set insertion control. In response to actuation of the field set insertion control by a user, the user interface module dynamically inserts one or more sets of input fiel... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7278099 | Visual graphical indication of the number of remaining characters in an edit field of an electronic device The invention relates to the indication of the amount of characters, which can be still entered into an edit field of an electronic device. A main object of the invention is to provide a new and improved indication of the amount of remaining capacity for entering da... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7269606 | Automatic reduction of table memory footprint using column cardinality information In a business system, one or more methods can be used to reduce an amount of redundancy in the storage of data. One implementation includes a method of reducing a memory footprint of a database table having multiple rows and one or more columns, in which each of the... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7246313 | Apparatus and method for authoring multimedia document An apparatus and method for authoring multimedia documents are provided. The apparatus includes a template document floating field detector for detecting a floating field of a template document, which is an incomplete multimedia document having a fixed field and the... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7236924 | Device for inputting names into navigation system and a corresponding navigation system for motor vehicles In a device for the entry of names into a navigation system, the selection probability is taken into consideration in entering the names. At least one statistically collected detail or a detail recorded by measurement technology concerning the local characteristics ... | 06/26/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7231595 | Acquiring a form using a proxy applicant and delegation data To provide a predetermined user with a privilege for a delegated application processing without providing the user with the application requester's log-in password. The application requester specifies a form class for identifying a form that requests a delegated app... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7216291 | System and method to display table data residing in columns outside the viewable area of a window A portion of a table is displayed in a window having a viewable area. For at least one row, information from one or more columns outside the viewable area of the window is displayed in a hovering row, which may be displayed below the associated row. Column headers m... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7216292 | System and method for populating forms with previously used data values A system and method is provided for learning data values over time as they are entered by a user on a form such as a web page form. An Internet web browser can be modified to suggest previously used data values for any form field that is the same as or similar to a ... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7216293 | Display control method, program product, and information processing apparatus for controlling objects in a container based on the container's size The present invention provides a technique to improve productivity on a task for redesigning a screen depending on change in a display size of the screen displayed on a display unit. In a computer environment, a display of a screen composed of a container for defini... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7213058 | Systems and methods for processing and managing collocation application over a computer network The invention includes methods and systems of processing and managing applications for collocation space. In a computer network including a workstation, a web server, an application server, and a database, the invention assists users in completing applications for c... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7206999 | Form processing method, program and apparatus An object of the invention is to provide a form processing technique relating to the outputting of a tabular-format object in a form generated by entering field data into a field, wherein the technique makes it possible to generate a form having an attractive appear... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7206998 | System and method for automatically learning information used for electronic form-filling A method and apparatus allowing for entry of form data in a browser. In the described embodiment, a browser automation program executes on the user's computer and communicates with a browser program in order to determine when forms are encountered. ... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7203699 | Computerized system for automated completion of forms The computerized system for automated completion of forms is an Internet accessible system for automatically completing forms such as employment or other applications from individual user data retained in a database. The computerized system for automated completion ... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7200811 | Form processing apparatus, form processing method, recording medium and program There is provided a form processing method enabling overlaying of field data without processing the field data, in form processing for overlaying field data onto a field in a form. In particular, the form processing method includes a step of setting an input picture... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7191391 | Form processing device, and form processing method and program There is provided a format processing method for overlaying data of a file located on an Internet server onto a predetermined field in a form. In particular, there is provided a form processing method for reading a field data file storing data to be overlaid onto a ... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7191447 | Managing transfers of information in a communications network The invention features various techniques for managing transfers of information in public packet switched communications networks. In one aspect, the invention provides a system for identifying updated items of network-based information, such as pages, to users in a... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7185285 | User interface and content enhancements for real-time communication Several enhancements to a real-time communications user interface are provided to add functionality and personality in such communications as instant messaging. These enhancements are geared at least in part to making the user interface more personalized between use... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7185272 | Method for automatically filling in web forms The present invention is a system for controlling in order to automatically fill in web enabled forms on a target web site. The system includes a web information database file containing a plurality of records relating to a plurality of web sites, including the targ... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7185273 | System and method for completing forms The present disclosure relates to a method for completing forms. In one arrangement, the method comprises the steps of receiving location information for user information to be added to a form, retrieving the user information, configuring the user information for me... | 02/27/2007 |
