Bizarre Patents
A Christmas stocking having illumination means associated therewith for signalling the arrival of Santa Claus.
PatentStorm News
Make the Most of Our Site
See this month's Top Inventors and Most Cited Patents.
Stay on top of the latest innovations by subscribing to an RSS feed.
Registered users: Manage your profile.
| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7783637 | Label system-translation of text and multi-language support at runtime and design A method stores and uses labels in a business solution software program having multiple languages. Instead of having a single resource file for each language, the information related to the labels is stored in a database. Each label is assigned its own unique identi... | 08/24/2010 |
| 7707191 | Synchronizing undo/redo operations between different document views The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for synchronizing undo/redo operations between different document views. A unified undo stack uniformly stores undo operations and information for multiple views of a document. When a c... | 04/27/2010 |
| 7434219 | Storage of application specific profiles correlating to document versions A computer system that includes a processor for operating a software application in the computer system. The software application provides for creation, storage, and retrieval of a file, the file having a corresponding profile that the software application uses for ... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7392479 | System and method for providing namespace related information A system and method for providing namespace related information. A namespace library operating in a computer provides a central source of namespace related information for handling XML documents. The namespace related information may be used by other computer applic... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7373603 | Method and system for providing data reference information Reference information related to data that is copied using computer software is provided. The data can be copied from a first computer application to a memory. Reference information related to the data can also be copied to the memory. The copied data can be pasted ... | 05/13/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7370077 | Dynamic generation of a networked information resource A networked information resource generation system includes a wireless network (10), a transceiver (12) and mobile devices (14a-c). The mobile devices (14a-e) share information over the network (10) via ... | 05/06/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7365758 | System and method for scaling data according to an optimal width for display on a mobile device A system and method is included for scaling blocks of data according to an optimal width to increase usability of the data when scaling the blocks of data to fit a screen on a mobile device. The optimal width provides a minimum width to which the block of data may b... | 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 |
| 7363580 | Intermediate address table for converting position information to an address of a link structure correlated information file on a hypertext document The document information management system according to the present invention comprises a hypertext preparing unit for preparing a hypertext; a file unit for storing therein correlated information files; a medium form information preparing unit for preparing medium ... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7363577 | Techniques for serializing events Techniques are provided for serializing events of a data stream. Meta information defines information unit separators and context for events within the data stream. The data stream is parsed according to the instructions of the meta information and event data associ... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7363581 | Presentation generator A presentation generator may access one or more data sources structured into data fields. The user may create or modify a template by inserting one or more tags corresponding to data fields in the template. The template may also have one or more processing instructi... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7359084 | Preview display for multiple-sided printing Displaying of document information to be printed in a printing apparatus capable of inserting, during printing on print sheets fed from a predetermined sheet feed unit, a plurality of types of sheets from sheet feed units different from the predetermined sheet feed ... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7356559 | Integrated platform for developing and maintaining a distributed multiapplication online presence Software architectures, platforms, and data constructs are disclosed which provide a system for enabling a non-technical or lay user to perform discrete technical tasks necessary to build a complete network-based, multiuser application. The system also allows the us... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7343556 | Technique for processing and generating messages in multiple languages A method for processing a received message is provided. Such a method may associate the message with a default language that corresponds to a default codepage. Thereafter, portions of the message are identified as having language keys corresponding to unique languag... | 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 |
| 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 |
| 7340675 | System and method for creating web pages with word processing templates A computer-implemented system for creating files that can be viewed on the World Wide Web. The system employs an HTML authoring software module that works in conjunction with a word processing software module to create web pages. The HTML authoring software module u... | 03/04/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7333966 | Systems, methods, and software for hyperlinking names Hyperlinking or associating documents to other documents based on the names of people in the documents has become more desirable. Although there is an automated system for installing such hyperlinks into judicial opinions, the system is not generally applicable to o... | 02/19/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7328403 | Device for structured data transformation Numerous embodiments of structured data transformation are disclosed. Some embodiments include characterizing at least a portion of an expression in a stylesheet as evaluatable at a phase wherein the phase is one of a compile phase, a parse phase, or a transformatio... | 02/05/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7325187 | Structured document converting method, restoring method, converting and restoring method, and program for same The structured document converting method converts a tagged structured document in which tags are hierarchically ordered, into a document of unrestricted order, in such a manner that the original structured document can be restored. When converting a tagged structur... | 01/29/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7315867 | Document processing apparatus, document processing method, document processing program, and recording medium The text format of input data is checked, and is converted into a system-manipulated format. It is further determined if the input data is in an HTML or e-mail format using tags, heading information, and the like. The converted data is divided into blocks in a simpl... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7313754 | Method and expert system for deducing document structure in document conversion An expert system for more efficiently and accurately deducing document structure from document formatting, the expert system including a conversion engine for converting an unstructured file to a structured file, and a verification engine, responsive to the output o... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7313758 | Markup-language document formatting in memory-constrained environment Methods (600, 700, 900), apparatuses and computer program products are disclosed for parsing and formatting a document encoded using a markup language in a memory-constrained environment. The structure (100) of the document is represented by a tree hav... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7299411 | Providing a presentation engine adapted for use by a constrained resource client device A transcoder that converts text-based computer software instructions or code intended for use by a presentation engine into a binary code adapted for use by a constrained function presentation engine. ... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7296217 | Electronic transaction document system The present invention includes an electronic business transaction method for conducting a business transaction over a computer network. The method includes creating on an originating computer an electronic business transaction document that is compatible with a busi... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7296263 | Method and system for performing operations on data using XML streams The present invention provides a method and system for performing operations on data using XML streams. An XML schema defines a limited set of operations that may be performed on data. These operations include addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. The ... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7296015 | Apparatus and method for identifying and/or for analyzing potential patent infringement An apparatus and method for identifying and/or analyzing potential patent infringement, including a processing device for processing the information regarding the patent, wherein the processing device identifies at least one independent claim of the patent, wherein ... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7293008 | Database report generation The invention provides for a method for producing reports for business intelligence that adapt automatically to a context, defined by a locale variable. A parameter map is defined, based on locale key and field names, and a report layout is produced that contains on... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7293230 | Information architecture for the interactive environment A system and method for providing management such as creation, manipulation, storage, control, and retrieval of digital content for a company on a global basis. Digital content is created and stored in, for example, the eXtensible Markup Language (XML) format using ... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7287232 | Information display system having graphical user interface switchingly controlling information display on display screen Disclosed is an information display system capable of efficiently browsing items of information related by links. When displaying the information obtained by accessing a network, a plurality of display areas are formed, and plural items of information are displayed ... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7287218 | Dynamic publication of information from a database Systems and methods for electronic management can be configured so that content is stored apart from the information for formatting the content. A data structure for the content may be initially defined, and content items may be stored in the data structure. Formatt... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7280881 | Method and system for reducing lead-time in the packaging industry A system for integrating a packaging supply chain from a point that a digital contract proof is available through delivery of finished packaging materials to an end user, wherein said system comprises a computer system accessible for interactive communications with ... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7281204 | Hub document preparation method The invention provides a hub document preparation method which collects a plurality of external files and attachment files to be included in a structured document of a hub document format to allow a hub document to be prepared readily, to reduce the burden to a docu... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7278117 | Image segmentation and warping for specialized display viewing A method, program product and system for warping image data, the method comprising in one embodiment: receiving image data for an image; segmentation of the image into a plurality of regions based on regional classification of the image; obtaining a set of warping r... | 10/02/2007 |
