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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7788269 | Integration of predefined multi-dimensional and flexibly-ordered dynamic search interfaces A method, computer program product, and system for integrating faceted and predefined multi-dimensional search interfaces are provided. The method, computer program product, and system provide for displaying a first set of results from a search request in a faceted ... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7428549 | Method and apparatus for editing a production data store by shadowing content Improvements in the creation, maintenance and management of web based information are provided. A development environment conducive to separation of tasks and data, works in combination with the means to present views of changed information for approval to users. Da... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7418696 | Method and computer program for rendering assemblies objects on user-interface to present data of application A user-interface of a device renders a first object and a second object, each object with data of a business application. The device is either of a first type or of a second type. In the device, an interpreter receives an application specification document with a st... | 08/26/2008 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 7380236 | Method and computer program for rendering assemblies objects on user-interface to present data of application A user-interface of a device renders a first object and a second object, each object with data of a business application. The device is either of a first type or of a second type. In the device, an interpreter receives an application specification document with a st... | 05/27/2008 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 7373614 | Navigation history A method, apparatus, system, and signal-bearing medium that in an embodiment represent previously-accessed data items as nodes in a tree or trees and display the tree or trees with the access time on an axis. The root node of a tree represents a data item accessed v... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7371956 | Musical content utilizing apparatus A musical content utilizing apparatus has a data input portion B11, transformation process portion B13 and utilization process portion B15 implemented via programmed processes. The data input portion B11 inputs musical content data compri... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7373592 | Modeless child windows for application programs A computer system that assists the user of computer drawing programs is described. The computer system runs an application that displays modeless windows by first displaying an application window that presents information associated with the application. After the a... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7370275 | System and method for providing context to an input method by tagging existing applications An improved system and method for providing context information of executable code to an input method is provided. Advanced text input methods may be made aware of the type of text expected to be received as input so that input methods may achieve a higher accuracy ... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7370283 | Systems and methods for populating a ticker using multiple data transmission modes Content to be presented on a ticker of a communication device is conveyed by being transmitted using one or more transmission modes that are intelligently selected according to various criteria. The mode is chosen from among a plurality of transmission modes availab... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7370274 | System and method for formatting objects on a page of an electronic document by reference A method and system can format objects on a first page of an electronic document being created by applying the formatting from corresponding objects contained in a separate formatting source where these objects have been formatted using the existing tools of the app... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7366711 | Multi-document summarization system and method A summary for a collection of related documents can be generated by extracting phrases from the documents which include common focus elements. Phrase intersection analysis is then performed on the extracted phrases to generate a phrase intersection table, where iden... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7365873 | Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and storage medium Color image data is inputted, flag data indicative of attributes (character image, figure image, mesh image) of each pixel of an inputted image is generated, image processes, an enlargement, and a reduction according to the flag data are executed, the processed data... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7366974 | System and method for managing template attributes According to the invention, this invention redefines the concept of a template as a set of template attributes, such as font types and color schemes, that are accessed by document-generating applications to provide uniform functionality across an organization. The t... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7363582 | System and method of retrieving and presenting partial (skipped) document content Systems and methods of retrieving and presenting partial (skipped) document content are provided. A typical system includes a document parsing stage, a device request for content stage and a delivery of requested content stage. A target device can include a device p... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7363584 | Method and article for interactive data exploration A markup programming technique is described which directs a rendering agent to display at least two charts at the same time and, in response to a cursor operation over one of the charts, to replace the other chart. The cursor operation need not be a mouse click and ... | 04/22/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7360155 | Structured datatype expansion framework One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that expands a symbolic representation of a data item into a locale-specific textual representation of the data item. The system operates by first receiving a locale-independent symbolic representation of the... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7360209 | Object process graph application controller-viewer A computer software system is provided, namely, An Object Process Graph Application Controller-Viewer (OPGACV) system. The OPGACV controls a running Object Process Graph (OPG) application by inducing a Dynamic Graph Interpreter (DGI) to transition applications from ... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7359840 | Remote order acceptance design system and elevator remote order acceptance method A specification plan of an order-made product suitable for a building structure plan is generated promptly. A WWW server 11 and a database server 12 are provided to the equipment designer's side. The database server 12 has a drawing database ... | 04/15/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7360157 | Aligning content in an electronic document Aligning the contents of document objects on an electronic document page. Organizing a page of document objects so textual content is aligned to natural eye scanning patterns promotes readership and usability. When a user creates a new island of text, the new text c... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7355745 | Document-to-printer color gamut matching A document-to-printer color gamut matching system enables comparison of at least two color maps in a manner that allows selection of the printer that will result in the best print output. Information related to the document to be printed and information describing t... | 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 |
| 7356772 | Multi-column user interface for managing on-line threaded conversations The present invention provides a user interface that includes a first column for chronologically displaying a set of messages (objects) in a conversation, and a second column for displaying a branch of messages (objects) corresponding to a message (object) selected ... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7356823 | Method for displaying single monitor applications on multiple monitors driven by a personal computer A direct access driver solves limitations of DirectX operation under the Microsoft architecture when using multiple monitors. The direct access driver allows applications employing DirectX application program interfaces to use hardware acceleration without display e... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7353225 | Mechanism for comparing content in data structures A mechanism is provided for automatically comparing content in a plurality of data structures. In one embodiment, this mechanism does not perform a literal, line-by-line comparison of the data structures. Instead, the mechanism first extracts the content from the da... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7353249 | Method and apparatus for data retrieval from data server using a socket communications program A data retrieval system and method includes a data server, a client terminal, and a web server. The client terminal performs a data retrieval operation. The web server handles data processed between the data server and the client terminal. The client terminal has a ... | 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 |
| 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 |
| 7352713 | Multiplexed signal quality display system, method, and program, and storage medium storing the program A multiplexed signal quality display system, method, and program, and recorded medium where the program is recorded. The invention measures the quality of a multiplexed signal from a communication device wherein a band width to be used and the number of communicatio... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7353272 | Method and system for internet performance monitoring and analysis including user interface and periodic information measurement and collection A method for Internet performance monitoring and analysis includes, by at least one data collection agent (DCA), a DCA being a computer operating on the Internet and configured with software that is controlled remotely from another location on the Internet, responsi... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7353279 | Proxy architecture for providing quality of service(QoS) reservations An approach is provided for providing quality of service reservations in a packet-based radio communication network is disclosed. Connection information including connection rate is extracted from a dataflow from an application requesting connection-oriented service... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7350144 | Organizational visualization system An organizational visualization system is provided including obtaining organization information, obtaining overlay information, and processing the organization information and the overlay information to provide a visualization of the overlay information on an organi... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7349941 | Data transfer over a network communication system A method of transferring data includes receiving unprocessed data and processing the data into processed data. On the basis of a predetermined criteria, unprocessed data or processed data is transmitted. By choosing to transmit unprocessed data or processed data to ... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7350157 | Filtering by broadcast or recording quality within an electronic program guide A memory associates a media quality indicator with each media program in a set of media programs. A filter selects from the set those media programs having at least a specified media quality. A display interface displays a list of the selected media programs in an e... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7346789 | Multimedia reproducing apparatus having function for efficient use of memory A multimedia reproducing apparatus having excellent operability and amenity. In the apparatus, a ROM contains an OS including a system program and a utility program. A control unit controls at suspend function by which data indicating the state of contents of displa... | 03/18/2008 |
