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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7395510 | Method of, and system for, adjusting a document configuration A method of adjusting a document configuration includes the steps of generating a set of document configuration constraints that define an acceptable range of change in the look and feel of a document, the configuration of which is to be adjusted. The method include... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7379074 | Semantically applying formatting to a presentation model The present invention includes a graphics software program that automatically generates a color scheme for graphics. In embodiments of the present invention, the graphics software program receives a selection of a color transformation and a semantic model describing... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7373600 | DICOM to XML generator A conversion system converts DICOM SR information from a DICOM-formatted file into an XML representation. By providing a mapping between DICOM SR and XML, the DICOM SR content material can be more easily processed by application programs that are DICOM-specific, suc... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7373422 | Techniques for supporting multiple devices in mobile applications Techniques for interacting with a client process on a mobile device connected to a network over a wireless link includes managing information at a mobile applications server executing on a platform connected to the network. The information includes device profile in... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7373140 | Wireless communication system and method of changing language to be displayed in wireless client A wireless communication system is provided which supplies an only necessary font to a wireless client and avoids incorrect display on the wireless client. A wireless communication gateway server receives language information from the wireless client, and supplies a... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7373602 | Method for reading electronic mail in plain text It may be determined whether text of an electronic mail message is in a format other than plain text. If the text of the electronic mail message is in a format other than plain text, the text may be converted to a plain text format for displaying. If the text of the... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7373591 | Binary format for MPEG-7 instances An encoding and a decoding method for transmitting and storing description element(s) of an XML-like document which is an instance of an XML-like schema. ... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7373598 | Method and apparatus for facilitating globalization of voice applications One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that generates voice output for an application. During operation, the system receives a symbolic representation of data to be outputted from the application, wherein the symbolic representation is locale-inde... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7373596 | Precise UML modeling framework of the DICOM information model A method for mapping a DICOM document into a UML document is disclosed and claimed by this invention. The method includes mapping each DICOM Information Entity in the DICOM document into a corresponding UML class in the UML document, mapping each DICOM IOD Module in... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7373601 | Object transfer method with format adaptation A method of transferring a file includes generating a version of an object version at the source entity as a function of the profile of the destination entity (e.g., screen, calculation capacity, storage). A basic document is basic version of the object described in... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7373632 | System and method for dynamic generation of proxies for isomorphic interfaces System and method for proxying isomorphic interfaces in different subsystems. Embodiments may provide a proxy mechanism that may generate proxies for isomorphic interfaces at runtime. Embodiments may allow two mutually indifferent subsystems to communicate with each... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7373347 | Information processing apparatus and information processing method In an information processing apparatus connectable to a terminal through a network, a terminal type of the terminal is specified based on a first request requesting Web information, said first request sent from the terminal through the network, and reference Web inf... | 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 |
| 7370280 | Apparatus, system, and method for defining a web services interface for MFS-based IMS applications An apparatus, system, and method are provided for defining a web services interface for an MFS-based IMS application. The apparatus, system, and method include a parser that parses an MFS-based IMS source file into one or more Message Input Descriptions (MIDs) and o... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7370032 | Data gathering A method for gathering data may include receiving query information in a first format related to a query, identifying a format-independent portion of the query information and a format-dependent portion of the query information, and translating the format-dependent ... | 05/06/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7366799 | Document processing system including multi-device compatible interface and related methods A document processing system may include a document processing device (e.g., a copier), a host (e.g., a computer server), and a multi-device compatible interface for enabling operation of the host and the document processing device from among a plurality of differen... | 04/29/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7367014 | System and method for XML data representation of portlets An Extensible Markup Language (XML) document adapted to describe a portlet, comprising a name element including a name tag, a description element including a description tag, and a content resource element including a content tag. ... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7366735 | Efficient extraction of XML content stored in a LOB A method and system are provided for extracting a valid, self-contained fragment for a node in a XML document stored in a database management system. An XML index is used to identify a location in which XML fragment data corresponding to the node is located. Ancesto... | 04/29/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7363310 | Mapping of data from XML to SQL A method, an apparatus and a computer program product for converting an XML encoded dataset into a minimal set of SQL tables are provided. In the method, a hierarchical structure in the XML encoded dataset is identified. A node element set for the XML encoded datase... | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 7360170 | Graphical user interface and background search methodology for creating references between software components According to one aspect of the invention a graphical user interface is provided. The graphical user interface includes a window displaying a first item and a menu listing a second item. Selection of the first item within the window and the second item in the menu he... | 04/15/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7356615 | Pluggable service delivery platform The present invention discloses a pluggable service delivery platform for supporting many devices to many services in an e-business application, comprising a device-platform interface, a service-platform interface and a platform kernel section. The service delivery ... | 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 |
| 7356528 | Phrase matching in documents having nested-structure arbitrary (document-specific) markup A method of searching a document having nested-structure document-specific markup (such as Extensible Markup Language (XML)) involves 112 receiving a query that designates at least (A) a phrase to be matched in a phrase matching process, and (B) a selective d... | 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 |
| 7350143 | Method for page translation Various embodiments include a means for simultaneously displaying in an ebook both an ebook page number and its corresponding print version page number. ... | 03/25/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7349862 | Business intelligence monitor method and system The present invention is directed to a business intelligence monitor method and system. Business intelligence indicators are monitored by generating a monitoring repository through selecting functions from a collection of functions, for receiving the business intell... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7349895 | Semi-automatic annotation of multimedia objects A multimedia object retrieval and annotation system integrates an annotation process with object retrieval and relevance feedback processes. The annotation process annotates multimedia objects, such as digital images, with semantically relevant keywords. The annotat... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7343403 | Network management system for remote setup of control equipment in a network A network management system has setup processing of a target network which can be done at other network. Therefore, it is possible to perform a network setup from a remote place. The network management system includes a plurality of networks to which equipment is co... | 03/11/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7343605 | System and method for communicating between software applications, particularly MES (manufacturing execution system) applications Applications to be connected, particularly MES (manufacturing execution system) applications, as well as the communications mechanisms are depicted in the object model of the framework (IF; IF meaning industrial framework) by using wrappers and/or adapters and, as a... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7340508 | Exposing process flows and choreography controllers as web services The present invention relates to computer-based devices and methods supporting document exchange choreographies. More particularly, aspects of the present invention relate to devices and methods that facilitate evolution of systems by various combinations of choreog... | 03/04/2008 |
