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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7747621 | Generating a relation diagram of data files The invention provides a system that associates data files with one another effectively to visually represent a relation among the data files and allows a user to easily understand relationship of contents of the data files. The system determines whether there is a ... | 06/29/2010 |
| 7423773 | Print system and printer device facilitating reuse of print data A print system includes a communication path, a client device which transmits print data to said communication path, a host device connected to said communication path, and a printer device which prints the print data after receiving the print data from said client ... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7388950 | Technique for providing personalized information and communications services A user may utilize a communication device, e.g., a wireless phone, mobile device or personal digital assistant (PDA), to contact an information/call center where an operator provides personalized information and communications services to the user in accordance with... | 06/17/2008 |
| 7376895 | Data object oriented repository system An integrated multi-application data processing system for generating, storing, and retrieving data files, each data file having a multi-dimensional array of data cells, and a program framework providing a common user interface for at least one application program f... | 05/20/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7363315 | Creating, editing, and displaying hierarchical data structures associated with data in a data source Methods and systems, including computer program products, implementing techniques for configuring data structures. The techniques include receiving a description of a logical structure of a data model, the logical structure comprising a first set of elements; displa... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7363579 | Mark-up of automated documents The invention provides a document generation system for generating a customised document using content elements selected by rules operating on input information, the operating information comprising transaction values. The system comprises at least one computer havi... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7360153 | Method and apparatus for importing digital switching system data into a spreadsheet program A method and apparatus for importing digital switching system data into a spreadsheet program. Via the switch data examiner of the present invention, raw data from a digital switch/switching system such as the 5ESS® is converted by the switch data examiner to a for... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7356530 | Systems and methods of retrieving relevant information The present invention provides systems and methods of retrieving the pages according to the quality of the individual pages. The rank of a page for a keyword is a combination of intrinsic and extrinsic ranks. Intrinsic rank is the measure of the relevancy of a page ... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7356760 | System and method for editing an electronic document of text and graphic objects A system and method for editing an electronic document of text and graphic objects utilizes first and second display objects to separate the graphic objects from the text to provide a user with control of the layout of the electronic document. The separation of the ... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7356768 | Using document templates to assemble a collection of documents Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, to assemble a collection of documents according to a document list. The document list represents documents to be included in the collection, and includes multiple entries that identify document templates. E... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7356766 | Method and system for adding content to a content object stored in a data repository A web-based system, method and program product are provided for adding content to a content object stored (e.g., a custom compilation or prepublished work) in a data repository as a group of hierarchically related content entities. Each noncontainer content object i... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7356767 | Extensible resource resolution framework An extensible resource resolution framework. Executing code that references a resource invokes an interface of an extensible resource resolution framework. Parameters may be provided on the invocation to specify information pertaining to the current execution contex... | 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 |
| 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 |
| 7346844 | Method and system for moving content in a content object stored in a data repository A web-based system, method and program product are provided for adding content to a content object stored (e.g., a custom compilation or prepublished work) in a data repository as a group of hierarchically related content entities. Each noncontainer content object i... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7346668 | Dynamic presentation of personalized content Methods and systems for dynamically presenting personalized content are disclosed. Articles may be collected, each article having content, attributes of the content, and content metadata characterizing individual elements of the content. The articles may be filtered... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7346843 | Low-latency, incremental rendering in a content framework Techniques are disclosed for incrementally rendering content in a content framework (such as a portal page provided by a portal system). Upon receiving a request for a portal page, a portal server immediately returns a response including the results from portlets wh... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7340689 | Method, system and program product for automatically modifying a display view during presentation of a web page A system and method are disclosed for displaying a web page on a computer screen. The method and system provide zoom in and out viewing of the web page as the web page is constructed. In accordance with the method, a browser determines whether web object display has... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7337399 | Apparatus, system, and method for editing a region of a document intersecting multiple content component types in a single operation An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for editing a region of a document intersecting multiple content component types in a single operation. The apparatus includes an input module, a function module, an identification module, a document editing module, and... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7334194 | Text editing apparatus It is one object of the present invention to improve the text editing operation provided by document creation application software. A text editing apparatus that is implemented by a computer under the control of document creation application software comprises: a do... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7334189 | Displaying method in information processing apparatus that permits execution of either object or task oriented processings A displaying method that makes the following possible: Executing an operation from either of two approaches, i.e. a processing oriented to an object to be processed or a processing oriented to a task to be processed, and effectively dealing with a lot of tasks and v... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7324931 | Conversion of model components into references An automated model componentization feature systematically converts duplicate or otherwise amenable patterns in a model into references. Multiple references are simplified to one unit that contains the otherwise duplicated functionality. Duplicated or selected funct... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7325196 | Method and system for manipulating page control content A page is generated in a computer-based format that includes zones in which controls are inserted. The controls can present information or data that the controls obtain from one or more sources. Features such as the location, quantity, and properties of the zones an... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7325197 | Method and system for providing page control content A page is accessed in a computer-based environment. A user interface gallery that includes at least one computer-based module from a remote source is opened on or in the vicinity of the page. The computer-based module can be inserted on the page from the gallery. Th... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7322013 | Launch and edit user interface improvements A system and method is described for editing, in its native application, a source file of an object or image in a first application, wherein the source file includes computer-readable code or script associated with the source file and editable in either the first or... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7320104 | Text grid creation tools Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, implementing and using techniques for controlling typesetting and layout editing (2a). Data being typeset or laid out are displayed on a display (3). A first menu (20) having a u... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7315988 | System and method for using short captions to map user interfaces A system and method is provided to map alternative short captions that are displayed in a constrained display environment instead of displaying standard captions. When designing a display panel, the designer identifies shorter captions to use in a constrained enviro... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7315979 | Method and system for dynamic flowing data to an arbitrary path defined by a page description language Improvements to a method for flowing variable data, such as text data, image data, bar code data, and the like, into a path of a template defined by a PDL specification in a high-speed printing operation. ... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7308642 | Method and device for handling synchronization related information SyncML allows synchronization to take place between a terminal device and a server device. To be able to understand each other the data transferred between a SyncML client and a SyncML server must be coded as a SyncML document. The coding or decoding/parsing of the ... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7305612 | Systems and methods for automatic form segmentation for raster-based passive electronic documents Systems and methods for automatically extracting form information (document structure, elements, format, etc.) from electronic documents such as raster-based passive documents, and storing such form information in a file in accordance with a predetermined DTD (docum... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7305615 | Methods and apparatus for accelerating data parsing According to the present invention, methods and apparatus are provided for improving the efficiency of data parsing. Data parsing can be applied to a variety of different types of data in various computer systems and appliances. Some of the methods and apparatus pro... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7305629 | Consolidation of computer documentation An apparatus, program product and method effectively merge computer documentation for multiple API sets together to facilitate user access to such computer documentation. Such merging of computer documentation may include, in part, the incorporation, into a navigati... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7302438 | Method and system for flowing data to an arbitrary path defined by a page description language A method for flowing data, such as text data, into an arbitrary path defined by a page description language specification (“PDL specification”) generally comprises the steps of: identifying a path defined in the PDL specification as a datawrapping path; associat... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7302274 | Method and device for real-time shared editing mobile video According to the present invention, there is provided a method and device for the viewing, editing and dissemination of an editable object in real-time mobile collaboration sessions. The invention comprises a set of mobile terminals and a protocol which enables user... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7296038 | Context resolution Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for maintaining a database, including maintaining a collection of documents containing content, each of the documents including a hyperlink to another document and represented by a unique logical informatio... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7296238 | Method and apparatus for triggering automated processing of data A number of items of data from a data source (12) can be processed and then deposited in at least one data destination (16, 17). The data can be image data, text data, numeric data or some other type of data, or a combination of these types of data. Th... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7293228 | Maltweb multi-axis viewing interface and higher level scoping A method, apparatus and computer program product for navigating in a multi-dimensional space containing an electronic publication formed from predefined portions of text-based data encoded using a markup language are disclosed. A selected predefined portion is displ... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7289973 | Graphical user interface for system and method for managing content A system and method for electronic file management includes an object-oriented file management database, a volume manager, and a coherency manager. The volume manager manages electronic files and metadata relating to the files of one or more volumes. Each volume may... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7287064 | Method and system for determining an internet user's interest level A method and system for measuring an Internet user's level of interest in one or more subjects. For a given subject, web pages that are sent to the user are analyzed to determine how many keywords related to the given subject appear in the web pages. The keyword cou... | 10/23/2007 |
