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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6976244 | Method, system, and product for storage of attribute data in an object oriented environment A method, system, and computer program product are described for storing attribute data in an object oriented environment. A base class and a subclass are defined within an object. The object is defined within the object oriented environment. An attribute is defined... | 12/13/2005 |
| 6975335 | Method of displaying magnified and reduced areas and apparatus thereof Magnified and/or reduced areas of a display are easily determined by the shades of color and a pattern densities which correspond to the magnification or reduction ratio of areas of the display. The areas that have been magnified and/or reduced are presented by vary... | 12/13/2005 |
| 6973457 | Method and system for scrollable cursors A method and system for implementing scrollable cursors is described. A multi-tier caching structure is maintained, in which a partial result set is cached at the client computer and a more-complete result set is cached at the server computer. If the cursor is scrol... | 12/06/2005 |
| 6973358 | Defect influence degree evaluation method and design support system At a stage before manufacture (product design stage or manufacturing process design stage), influence of defect occurrence in a component or process on other components and processes is estimated, and defect importance is evaluated to support the manufacturing proce... | 12/06/2005 |
| 6972860 | Encoding of requests for sample copy output in document assembly trees The concept of a document assembly tree is extended to include in nodes, such as a node describing a sheet 330 or a node describing a compilation 342, a sample interval specification. The sample interval specification is interpreted as a request to pro... | 12/06/2005 |
| 6973222 | System and method of cropping an image Systems and methods are disclosed for cropping an image to be included in an image-based product by displaying the image; generating a crop mask based on cropping product attributes, the crop mask having a selected portion corresponding to a selected portion of the ... | 12/06/2005 |
| 6973456 | Database system and method for organizing and sharing information A database stores records of resources that include web pages and web-accessed files, electronic files, and hardcopy documents. The URL of a web page or web-accessed file, the file access path of an electronic file, and the location of a hardcopy document are stored... | 12/06/2005 |
| 6968499 | Method and apparatus for deciding display information Contents to be embedded in a page template or layouts can be dynamically changed without editing an HTML file or correcting a server program such as CGI. A page template is defined with a servlet that specifies a display area and a display attribute for controlling ... | 11/22/2005 |
| 6968503 | XML user interface for a workflow server A workflow server system is provided which uses an XML namespace designed to execute various workflow server services. The workflow server may include an XML Execution Engine, which uses the XML namespace to execute commands issued by the user from a web browser. Th... | 11/22/2005 |
| 6968511 | Graphical user interface, data structure and associated method for cluster-based document management The present invention relates to a user interface, data structure and method to facilitate management and/or access to data, such as by grouping graphical representations of the data in an image space relative to cluster indicators. A given graphical representation ... | 11/22/2005 |
| 6968502 | Information processing apparatus for displaying enlarged characters or images An information processing apparatus having the function of displaying at least a character in an enlarged form and having the contents of display thereof being easily recognizable. A character at an intended point is displayed in an enlarged form according to a desi... | 11/22/2005 |
| 6968380 | Method and system for increasing ease-of-use and bandwidth utilization in wireless devices A method and system for increasing ease-of-use and bandwidth utilization in a wireless device capable of accessing a communication network is disclosed. The present invention receives information about the wireless device's environment, and then uses the environment... | 11/22/2005 |
| 6964024 | Operator-defined visitation sequence of client user interface controls A user interface for an image reproducing system that allows the system operator to visit system controls and features in an operator defined order. In this manner, the system operator avoids tabbing or scrolling through unwanted system controls and features. The us... | 11/08/2005 |
| 6964019 | Hypermedia document authoring A hypermedia authoring system enables an author to generate a document using a goals outline and a presentation outline. The goals outline is generated by instantiating document prototypes. A display of the goals outline permits the author to select a prototype docu... | 11/08/2005 |
| 6961901 | System for prioritizing of document presented on constrained receiving station interfaces to users of the internet personalized to each user's needs and interests A process in a computer managed communication network such as the World Wide Web with user access via a plurality of data processor controlled interactive display stations and with a system for displaying documents, e.g. Web pages, transmitted to said display statio... | 11/01/2005 |
| 6961135 | Print preview display method of displaying pages in an electronic document When “store” of intermediate data is designated in a print process, a spooler stores intermediate data and an output job setup file in a spool file. When the stored job is selected, a previewer displays a list of jobs, and displays a print preview image. In this... | 11/01/2005 |
| 6959415 | Methods and apparatus for parsing Extensible Markup Language (XML) data streams Methods and structures for parsing an Extensible Markup Language (XML) data stream are described. In the described embodiment, one or more schema modules are defined and are associated with HTTP requests that are received from a client. The schema module(s) has a fu... | 10/25/2005 |
| 6956664 | Generation of cover sheets by networked printer The disclosure relates to an apparatus and method of generating documents having one or more cover pages. A document may be printed with one or more covers. A user may format the covers as being printed on a front page, printed on a back page, printed on both the fr... | 10/18/2005 |
| 6957390 | Method and apparatus for providing dynamic information to a user via a visual display A client-server system for recording web site activity by web users and dynamically customizing web display apparatuses for optimal information presentation based on the users' prior activity history. The system assigns each user a user identifier that allows the sy... | 10/18/2005 |
| 6952801 | Book assembly process and apparatus for variable imaging system The present invention is useful for assembling a book. The inventive method includes the steps of specifying pagination information including an indication of whether a page is to be selectively included in the book, determining whether the page is to be assembled i... | 10/04/2005 |
| 6952802 | User controllable document converter and methods thereof A method, apparatus and computer program product for a non-atomic (i.e., user controllable) format converter that affords a user the ability to control the structure of the converted document as well as selectively add information to or otherwise modify selected por... | 10/04/2005 |
| 6952806 | Medium containing information gathered from material including a source and interface for graphically displaying the information An electronic medium is a new form of publication for a source material, such as a book. The medium includes information about features of the source material and features of secondary information related to the source material. The medium can be used with a visuali... | 10/04/2005 |
| 6950533 | Sorting images for improved data entry productivity A method for data entry, includes receiving a plurality of images and sorting the images into an order responsive to a measure of similarity between the images, so as to group similar images together in the order. A first image among the images in the order is prese... | 09/27/2005 |
| 6947061 | Method of displaying an image A method of displaying a digital image. The method comprises the steps of: accessing a digital file comprising the digital image, the digital file including at least a first and second format, each of the at least first and second formats having digital data represe... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6945716 | Printer A printer having a function for printing index prints comprises a connector to which a recording medium can be connected, a data reader for reading image data from the recording medium through the connector, a memory for memorizing a plurality of kinds of templates,... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6948123 | Multimedia information arranging apparatus and arranging method A multimedia information arranging apparatus that utilizes various feature values contained in multimedia information, carries out a flexible retrieval and classification and displays the information in an information set arrangement space is provided. An inf... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6944412 | Job information display apparatus, job execution apparatus, job instruction apparatus and job processing system Job data is created by a personal computer 4. A display attribute and a program corresponding to the display attribute are attached to this job data. On the other hand, a received job is displayed on a screen of an operation panel of a digital copier 1. | 09/13/2005 |
| 6944820 | Ensuring proper rendering order of bidirectionally rendered text A method and system are provided for locating specific text in a selection of text and ensuring that the specific text is rendered in the proper order relative to other text in the selection of text according to the text rendering rules of the language to which that... | 09/13/2005 |
| 6944819 | Computer method and apparatus for previewing files outside of an application program A method and apparatus for previewing images and image file information without opening and running an application in working memory. The previewing of a user-selected file includes a summary of file characteristics and contents including images. The summary synopsi... | 09/13/2005 |
| 6944818 | Method and apparatus for the viewing and exploration of the content of hierarchical information A method for the conversion and display of tree-structured information to a “treetable”, a table-like display structure, in which each path from a root to a leaf node is represented by a single column, and cells representing the immediate successors of a node ar... | 09/13/2005 |
| 6941520 | Method, system, and program for using a user interface program to generate a user interface for an application program Disclosed is a system, method, and program for generating a user interface for an application program. A determination is made of application program interfaces (APIs) in an application program that are members of a set of standard API interfaces. The application pr... | 09/06/2005 |
| 6938205 | Object oriented editor for creating world wide web documents A desktop publishing system contains an output display device that displays a palette window. The palette window contains a defined objects panel containing a list of defined objects, and an objects panel containing a list of objects. The output display device also ... | 08/30/2005 |
| 6938202 | System for retrieving and printing network documents A method for providing print-by-reference functionality includes providing a web page from a printer's embedded web server to a web browser, receiving a URL entered into the provided web page, retrieving a printable document corresponding to the URL, and printing th... | 08/30/2005 |
| 6934905 | Automated document drafting system A system for automated drafting of a customized document, the system interfacing with a word processing application having a plurality of word processing functionalities and with a database having a plurality of data base functionalities, the system including a user... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6931408 | Method of storing, maintaining and distributing computer intelligible electronic data The present invention provides an improved method of storing, maintaining, and distributing computer intelligible electronic data that substantially reduces the cost and complexity of traditional database management systems. The present invention provides a unstruct... | 08/16/2005 |
| 6931587 | Teleprompter device An apparatus, method and article of manufacture of the present invention provide an improved teleprompter device. The invention provides a method for defining a region of the display at which text is preferably read, and further provides a user interface for adjusti... | 08/16/2005 |
| 6931590 | Method and system for managing documents The present invention extracts common portions each composed of a structure and text character strings included commonly in both an original version and a revised version of a structured document, and difference portions specific to either the original version or th... | 08/16/2005 |
| 6928489 | Contents transmission/reproduction system, contents transmission apparatus, contents reproduction apparatus and contents transmission method A moving image (stream data) is transmitted/reproduced between a transmission side and a receiving side. At the receiving side, an image group configuring a moving image is compressed in accordance with a predetermined compression scheme, and the compressed image gr... | 08/09/2005 |
| 6928474 | Using a probability associative matrix algorithm to modify web pages A web based technique for predicting future web navigation sequences of users visiting a web site includes, in one example embodiment, a web server having browsable web pages including products and services offered by a business. A web-monitoring tool monitors each ... | 08/09/2005 |
| 6927865 | Information processing apparatus and method utilizing print previews, and computer-readable storage medium Defect-free printing is achieved by previewing on a display, prior to printing, document data and finishing information of a physical page to be printed. The preview is displayed with the finishing position information on the physical page in the same display window... | 08/09/2005 |
