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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7392267 | Annotation validity using partial checksums Embodiments of the present invention generally provide a system, method and article of manufacture for validating annotations describing one or more portions of a data object. In general, prior to displaying a requested annotation, a current change detection value m... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7386793 | Apparatus, method and program for supporting a review When a comment and a solution thereagainst are described in any one of a review document, a minute and a pending issue list, a reflecting unit reflects the comment and solution upon a corresponding portion of the document associated with the contents of the comment ... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7383505 | Information sharing device and information sharing method A technique is provided which enables users to add, with ease, annotation information to an electronic document on a network and to share the annotation information within a disclosure range set to the annotation information. An electronic information is provided in... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7373597 | Conversion of text data into a hypertext markup language Disclosed is a markup system and method for converting text-based guidelines into a form that allows manipulation and viewing in different formats and detail. The system identifies conditions described in electronic documents and uses an interactive or rule-based pr... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7373342 | Including annotation data with disparate relational data Methods, systems, and articles of manufacture that may be used for identifying and indicating annotations made for a variety of different type (i.e., heterogeneous) data objects are provided. According to some embodiments, an annotation store may be queried to ident... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7373313 | Service for enabling users to share information regarding products represented on web pages A client executes in conjunction with a web browser on a user computer. The client interacts with a data server to provide user access to product-related information associated with products represented on web pages accessed by the web browser. The product-related i... | 05/13/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7370269 | System and method for real-time annotation of a co-browsed document A system and method for facilitating annotation of a document co-browsed by multiple attendees of a collaboration session. A co-browsed page is served to the attendees by a collaboration server. An attendee (e.g., the host) annotates the page by highlighting a porti... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7369649 | System and method for caller initiated voicemail annotation and its transmission over IP/SIP for flexible and efficient voice mail retrieval A voice-mail annotation system and method that enables callers to annotate the messages they leave at the time they leave them. Annotation may be performed using a touch screen or a telephone key-pad. In addition to allowing the caller to more clearly specify the in... | 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 |
| 7370067 | Maintaining time-date information for syncing low fidelity devices Generally, the present invention provides for a distributed computing system that is capable of associating time-date information with a property value in the database. The distributed computing system has a device that stores properties in a database without corres... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7366705 | Clustering based text classification Systems and methods for clustering-based text classification are described. In one aspect text is clustered as a function of labeled data to generate cluster(s). The text includes the labeled data and unlabeled data. Expanded labeled data is then generated as a func... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7366979 | Method and apparatus for annotating a document An apparatus for annotating a document is presented. The invention allows the addition of verbal annotations to a digital document such as a movie script, book, or any other type of document. In an embodiment, the invention the stores audio comments in data storage ... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7362475 | Image forming device for processing a file containing raster data and vector data An image forming device for forming images based on a file configured of a first data area for storing raster data and a header for storing vector data. The image forming device includes a raster data image displaying function for forming images on a display screen ... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7358965 | Tapping to create writing The present invention provides a method and system for tapping to create document structure, such as writing. A tapping gesture received from the user is interpreted by a writing application to indicate that the user is about to write in a certain location on the pa... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7360149 | Displaying text of video in browsers on a frame by frame basis A method, system, and computer program product for presenting text from multimedia data to a user is provided. In one embodiment, multimedia data containing associated text data is received by a data processing system. The associated text data is extracted from the ... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7360230 | Overlay management A method of personalizing a broadcast channel, comprising: receiving an input from a user (110); and personalizing the broadcast channel; and transmitting the personalized broadcast channel to the user using a compressed video transport method. Preferably, co... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7355633 | Video-image control apparatus and method with image generating mechanism, and storage medium containing the video-image control program A video-image control apparatus enables a client to obtain the details of an object in a displayed video image. For this purpose, when the angle of a camera 1003 is changed in accordance with an instruction from an external device, it is determined whether or... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7356563 | Methods of annotating a collaborative application display Disclosed are methods for remote users of a collaborative application to generate annotation information, send that annotation information to an application sharer device, and receive back a display combining output of the collaborative application with the annotati... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7356537 | Providing contextually sensitive tools and help content in computer-generated documents A method and system are provided for creation, implementation, and use of computer-generated “smart” documents to which functionality is attached for providing contextually sensitive tools, controls and help content to users of those documents. Portions of docum... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7352385 | Video editing system, video editing method, recording/reproducing method of visual information, apparatus therefor, and communication system The invention relates to a video editing system and others enabling editing of training video data suitable for training of counselors and others engaged in counseling and others in a direct or indirect face-to-face state and to a recording/reproducing method of vis... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7353451 | Meta data creation apparatus and meta data creation method The present invention is intended to detect, when a meta data author inputs a viewpoint and viewpoint score to contents having time information, time information of the contents corresponding to the input time of the viewpoint and viewpoint score input, assign corre... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7353453 | Method and system for categorizing data objects with designation tools A system and method for categorizing data objects with designation tools. A designation tool is provided for categorizing data in an electronic document. A user may select a designation tool corresponding to a data category with which to categorize data to be inputt... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7350140 | User-data relating apparatus with respect to continuous data In a meeting held with employment of a plurality of materials, conditions of this meeting are recorded in the form of continuous data, and these materials are distributed to a user P who participates in this meeting by way of a printed matter and/or a screen output.... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7350215 | System and method for dynamic content processing with extendable provisioning Data can be stored in a wide variety of formats, and it is recognized that not all terminals have the resources for storing the appropriate Application Program for processing and/or viewing the data as defined in a particular format. Systems and methods are describe... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7349000 | Method and system for display of video device status information The status of a video call is displayed in a simplified and intuitive graphical user interface that presents status information of individual video devices of the video call with graphical or color indications with a gauge metaphor, such as a vertically or horizonta... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7346841 | Method and apparatus for collaborative annotation of a document A system enables users at different locations (e.g. different geographic locations) to work collaboratively on a document, and to view each other's annotations to the document. Each user can work with a paper document, and make handwritten annotations to the paper d... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7346853 | Online learning monitor Content is transferred from one computer resource to another computer resource by receiving a first insertion point or replacement area from a first user interface to a destination computer resource, receiving an enablement to perform automatic paste operation, swit... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7343042 | Method and system for identifying a paper form using a digital pen The present application describes systems and methods for composing documents using a digital pointing instrument. In further configurations, a user utilizes a pen to trace a form serial number that is utilized to identify a form template that is used to process inp... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7343552 | Systems and methods for freeform annotations Systems and methods in accordance with the present invention provide freeform annotation techniques designed to make freeform annotations on a digital document more flexible, reliable and presentable on a screen of a computing device. They allow users to markup the ... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7340534 | Synchronization of documents between a server and small devices Converting document formatted for use on servers to and from documents formatted for use on small devices, including synchronizing two or more versions of the document. A user may edit documents formatted for use on small devices and the documents may be synchronize... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7340677 | Methods and apparatuses of presenting categorical programs in progressive levels of content details Methods and apparatuses for presenting categorical programs. The method causes information of a plurality of programs fitting categories defined in a request to be retrieved from a database. The method then causes a first tabular layout to be generated. The first ta... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7340528 | Data referencing system This application describes a method of referencing content in an application. The method comprises, for a content element, creating a reference to the content element and associating that reference with the content element. This enables the content (for example, tex... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7340685 | Automatic reference note generator Content is transferred from one computer resource to another computer resource by receiving a first insertion point or replacement area from a first user interface to a destination computer resource, receiving an enablement to perform automatic paste operation, swit... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7337389 | System and method for annotating an electronic document independently of its content A system, method, and apparatus for annotating an electronic document independently of its content is provided. According to one variation, a tablet and stylus-based computer is programmed with a document browser that permits a user to annotate documents viewed thro... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7337390 | Method and system for embedding voice notes A method of embedding voice data in a computing system includes detecting a record event and detecting if a software application currently running on the computing system is voice-aware. The method also includes embedding the voice data within associated data in the... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7337191 | Method and system for obtaining service related information about equipment located at a plurality of sites A method and system is provided for communicating service and maintenance information about equipment located at distributed building sites. A customer web portal is provided with a database for storing the equipment service information. The web portal provides an e... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7334186 | System and method for creation of video annotations A system and method for annotating a video data stream integrates geographic location data into the video data stream. A site name is mapped from the geographic location data, and the site name is automatically assigned as a text label to the associated portion of t... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7330282 | Document delivery system, document delivery apparatus, document delivery method, program for executing the method and storage medium storing the program A document delivery apparatus is provided, which is capable of performing automatic delivery processing of document information (e.g. received fax documents and scan documents) that has been created by devices, such as registering the documents in folders of a prede... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7331016 | Method and system for generating a value enhanced derivative document from a patent document The invention describes system and method for generation a derivative document from a patent document, which provide value, enhanced representation of the document and facilitate comprehension of information contained in the patent document. A segment of the patent ... | 02/12/2008 |
