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...that the Band-Aid Bandage was invented by a Johnson & Johnson employee whose wife had cut herself? Earl Dickson's wife was rather accident prone, so he set out to develop a bandage that she could apply without help. He placed a small piece of gauze in the center of a small piece of surgical tape, and what we know today as the Band Aid bandage was born!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7356611 | Method and apparatus for permissions based active document workflow Techniques for designing and processing a workflow that can be refined or modified based upon information associated with a document processed by the workflow. Since the author of the document may configure the information associated with a document that is used to ... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7355740 | Card making device, card making method and recording medium thereof A card making device allowing easy procurement of a character card desired by the user. When specified conditions are satisfied during a game, character data for a specified character are extracted from a character data storage means by a character data extraction m... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7353229 | Post-session internet advertising system The present invention is directed to a post-session advertising system that may be used in media such as computers, personal digital assistants, telephones, televisions, radios, and similar devices. In one preferred embodiment, a first display is viewed in a first p... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7353452 | System and method for hierarchical layout specialization The present invention discloses a system and method for delegated page specialization based on a page layer concept. A page consist of a set of layers. Except the first layer each layer represents a delta (container, frames) in its layout to its previous layer intro... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7353458 | Computer presentation and command integration method A method for integrating the monitoring and control of multiple subsystems. The method may include receiving a plurality of display signals, generating a composite display signal defining a plurality of windows, and transmitting the composite display signal to a dis... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7348982 | Method, system, and computer-readable medium for creating and laying out a graphic within an application program A method, apparatus, and computer-readable medium are provided for creating and laying out a graphic within a drawing application program. The method includes receiving a data model defining a set of data and data relationships to be represented in the graphic, rece... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7350142 | Method and system for creating a table version of a document A table version of a document is generated by computing a table layout of the document and generating the table version based on the table layout. Computing the table layout can include recording the positions of each object in the document while recording the posit... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7350226 | System and method for analyzing security policies in a distributed computer network A system and method for analyzing a global security policy in a distributed computing environment. In one embodiment the security policy is a global security policy which is stored in, and managed by, a policy manager located on a server. In another embodiment the s... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7343549 | Layout system, layout program, and layout method The invention provides a layout system suitable for producing an optimum layout when the attributes of the published information are not clearly determined in advance. The layout system can include a content distribution terminal that selects an article from the con... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7343555 | System and method for delivery of documents over a computer network A system and method for delivering a document by a first computer to a second computer over a computer network. A method of the present invention includes the following steps: (1) decomposing the document into nodes in accordance with a document model of the documen... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7343385 | System for processing objects for storage in a document or other storage system The invention is directed to a system for processing data to be stored in a document-imaging system that includes a posting processor programmed for receiving at least one object containing the data; a bursting processor programmed for bursting the object to create ... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7340676 | System and method for automatic layout of images in digital albums A system and method for automatic creation of digital image albums. A Page Creator Module utilizes a genetic engine and a layout evaluation module. The genetic engine evolves a group of images to a plurality of album pages, based on certain layout criteria. The eval... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7339598 | System and method for automated product design Automated electronic document design systems and methods for combining identified images and layouts into electronic product templates for displaying to a user. A plurality of images and a plurality of layouts are retained. Stored images are identified based on keyw... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7340092 | Image processing device, image processing method, program for executing image processing, and computer readable recording medium on which the program is stored An image processing device extracts graphic areas, for example, firstly from image data received, and then extracts other remaining areas, i.e., photographic and character areas. The areas that are extracted firstly can be photographic or character areas. This preve... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7340673 | System and method for browser document editing Method, system and computer code for editing text in a document displayed in a World Wide Web browser. User edit requests intended to modify a font parameter of one or more characters within a text box are replaced by a predefined substitute edit request prior to up... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7336389 | Method of generating interactive document A method of generating an interactive document is provided having the steps of allocating and recording a document identity in a computer system, associating the document identity with a page description for the document in the computer system, and communicating at ... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7337397 | Separation, transmission and display of character and non-character data A portable terminal receives document data from a data transmission device, separates character area and non-character area from the received document data, designates a display method for data in correspondence with each area, and outputs to display the document da... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7337163 | Multidimensional database query splitting A multi-dimensional database query to be sent to a data source may be split into multiple smaller queries by a mid-tier solution and sent individually to the data source(s) for calculation and retrieval of data. This may be accomplished by creating row and column tr... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7337393 | Methods and systems for providing an editable visual formatting model Systems and methods are disclosed for providing an editable visual formatting model. The disclosed systems and methods may include providing visual formatting properties. The visual formatting properties may comprise an outer-most polygon corresponding to a containe... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7337394 | Digital content production system and digital content production program The invention provides a digital content production system which is appropriate for use in preventing a layout intended by a designer from being destroyed and provides freedom in the order of posting information. A content delivery terminal processes a flow object u... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7337396 | Methods and systems for transitioning between thumbnails and documents based upon thumbnail appearance A thumbnail of an original document has at least one appearance characteristic that is different from a corresponding appearance characteristic in an original document. When retrieving a document associated with the thumbnail, a document version is displayed that is... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7334187 | Electronic form aggregation A system and method that aggregates information from one electronic form into another electronic form is described. For sufficiently similar electronic forms, the system and method aggregates information from one electronic form into another automatically and withou... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7333971 | Helpset build system and method A system and method for automatically building helpsets is disclosed. There are a number of features that are provided by the present invention, including recursive building of subhelpsets, running a variety of scripts (e.g., post-processing scripts), creating topic... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7334003 | Methods and systems for extracting related information from flat files Methods and systems for extracting related information from multiple two-dimensional files are provided. The method includes comparing data contained in at least one field of each record of a first file to data in a related field of each record of a second file. A r... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7330787 | System and method for abstracting and visualizing a route map A system and method for making computer-generated maps includes a different scale factor for each road in a route. The scale factors are used to optimize the route map against a target function that considers factors such as the number of false intersections in the ... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7331015 | Defining a report based on data regions and including custom data in a report definition A report definition is processed by a report processor to generate a report. The report definition includes a plurality of data regions arranged on a page, where the data regions as arranged on the page in the report definition extend in multiple dimensions selected... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7330828 | System and process for the production of a customer individualized print product A system and method for production of a printed product individualized for the customer, which offers the customer a selection of information content, depending on the variable payment (price) and the profile of interests thereof. Based on the price decision of the ... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7330816 | Information providing method and information providing system An information providing method of providing information to a user includes the steps of receiving a providing request of first information from the user, acquiring contents of the first information from a database, presenting to the user a charge which the user bea... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7328156 | Computational linguistic statements for providing an autonomic computing environment A method for autonomic computing using a relational grammar represented in a mark-up language. In response to a system input change, the autonomic relational grammar and the autonomic system input is parsed to form an autonomic derivation tree representing autonomic... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7327487 | Banded compositor for variable data A method and apparatus for Variable Data Printing that adds performance requirements to a raster image processor (RIP) memory optimization that employs memory bands within the page composition process. Documents containing both recurring elements as well as non-recu... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7325190 | Interface system and method of building rules and constraints for a resource scheduling system The present invention is an interface system for interactively building rules and constraints. The interface system comprises of an output display configured to show a user a partial complete rule with a current rule fragment, such rule fragment comprising a blank s... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7325186 | Method and system for showing unannotated text nodes in a data formatted document Methods and systems provide a tree view showing unannotated text nodes in a corresponding data formatted document. When the user begins to annotate the document with a desired data format structure, such as a markup language like XML, a tree view pane is displayed t... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7325192 | Method of assembling content from content providers An automated document delivery service acquires content from content providers publishing on different schedules and using different URLs to define the path to their web sites. A rule based process of URL generation enables the use of a limited number of resource lo... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7325191 | Preservation of source code formatting Documents before and after editing are compared. Changes are applied to the original document, thus preserving the existing formatting. ... | 01/29/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7320007 | Dynamic generation of target files from template files and tracking of the processing of target files A target file generation system and method for use by ordinary computer users to readily generate target files. The program includes various components. The first component promps for and receives user's selections of a folder or directory location where a new targe... | 01/15/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7317551 | Method and apparatus for tab sheet printing There are provided a printing control apparatus and printing system which can accurately print index information on the tab portion of a tab sheet without any print offset. A position where index information (Section 1-Section 5) is to be printed on ea... | 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 |
