Did You Know...
...that when IBM conducted a market study of Chester Carlson's invention in 1959, the company concluded that it would take only 5000 units of his new product to saturate the market? IBM therefore declined to be part of the new product introduction. Too bad for IBM. Carlson's invention was the xerography process, and his new product was the beginning of the Xerox Corporation. It is estimated that every day, worldwide, 3,000,000,000 copies are made!!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7065705 | Automatic labeling in images Techniques for placing sequential or individual labels in an electronic image are disclosed. According to one embodiment, label parameters are determined. These label parameters may include, but not be limited to, label styles, fonts, sizes, or increments. As object... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7065562 | System and method for generating a representation of a configuration schema A system and method for managing and modeling a network device using a representation of a configuration schema is disclosed. One implementation includes a configuration hash key storage module; a configuration hash object storage module; and a configuration manager... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7065782 | Digital broadcasting system, digital broadcasting apparatus, and receiver apparatus for digital broadcasts A data transmission apparatus has a multiplexing unit that cyclically multiplexes presentation information and navigation information stored in a transmission data storage unit according to control by a multiplexing control unit and a transmission unit that transmit... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7065716 | Systems, methods and graphical user interfaces for previewing image capture device output results The user enters the desired image capture parameters to be used when capturing an electronic image of an original document into one or more portions of a preview graphical user interface. Then, either automatically, or upon selecting a preview function, a preview pa... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7065704 | Methods for fast HTML rendering A method is provided for optimizing rendering and display of HTML data by a wireless trans-receiving device. The method includes receiving a portion of the data, and parsing the portion of the data where the parsing begins when a minimum amount of the portion of dat... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7065557 | Method and apparatus for consuming content at a network address User interface apparatus (1) comprising electronic user interface device (2) and storage device (3), the electronic user interface device being operative to convey information to a user, the information being derived from a resource which is rem... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7062723 | Systems, methods and apparatus for magnifying portions of a display Systems, methods and apparatus are provided through which meaningful or semantic portions of displayed visual information, are modified in order to improve their visual perception by a user. In some embodiments, the meaningful portion is limited to a word, a plurali... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7062707 | System and method of providing multiple items of index information for a single data object A system and method of generating index information for electronic documents. The system includes a client and one or more information retrieval (IR) engines, such as a search engine, which are each in communication with each other via a network. ... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7058647 | Electronic presentation generation system and method A method of presenting electronic data includes intelligently linking presentation data with data stored in a database that the presentation data was selected from. The presentation data is linked with intelligence information to permit searching of the presentation... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7058623 | Computer automated system for management of engineering drawings A computer automated method for identification, management and retrieval of engineering drawings in digital format where the central processing unit locates and identifies specific predefined textual and graphical information, relating to that drawing, in accordance... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7058417 | Method for inputting address of receiver in messaging service A method for messaging service, e.g. short message service (SMS), in a mobile phone, capable of inputting a phone number of receiver directly into a message editing window. Disclosed is also a computer-readable recording medium including therein a software program f... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7055109 | System and method for business process space definition A method and system for representing business processes such as in a workflow model. Each of a plurality of processes is defined as a 3-tuple including a noun, a verb and an attribute, and a selected process is displayed as a point in navigation space. In this manne... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7055104 | System and method for focused navigation using filters A sequence of cards representing filters is displayed along a first axis of a user interface with a single card being displayed in a focus area. The card in the focus area defines a selected filter, which is applied to another sequence of available options. The filt... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7055097 | Displaying a large amount of information in a browser window A method for facilitating display of content in a browser window includes receiving a user request for content, determining that the requested content cannot be displayed in a browser window using a single page, and generating code which, when executed, causes the d... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7054891 | System and method for comparing database data An improved method and system for comparing database data. Data comparison may be performed either within a database or between two databases. Sets of cyclical redundancy check values may be created, at various points in time. Corresponding cyclical redundancy check... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7054856 | System for drawing patent map using technical field word and method therefor A system and a method for drawing a patent map using a technical field word are disclosed. In the system and the method, a word to be used for drawing a patent map is extracted by calculating weight values of significant words which are gotten by removing unnecessar... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7051316 | Distributed computing component system with diagrammatic graphical representation of code with separate delineated display area by type Methods and systems consistent with the present invention provide an improved software development tool that generates code corresponding to a distributed computing component that contains methods of a plurality of types and that displays a graphical representation ... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7051281 | Remotely controllable user interface display apparatus and method of controlling same A remotely controllable apparatus has a control panel for specifying a processing operation and is operated in accordance with an indication from the control panel and/or an externally supplied command. A storage device stores control-panel data that represents the ... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7050990 | Information distribution system A system and method that enhances the “focus” of information exchanged between sellers and buyers. Buyers identify potential sources for goods and services that are desirable to the buyer. Buyers can focus their access to listings of seller information by identi... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7047490 | Displaying the appearance of a printed and assembled document A method of depicting a hard copy document, in which a user generates an electronic document and then selects an instruction for assembling a hard copy document. The visual appearance of the electronic document once printed and assembled in accordance with the instr... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7047525 | System and method for an interoperability framework An embodiment of the present invention is a consolidated package for diverse platforms to interoperate and transfer data. It allows otherwise incompatible systems to communicate with each other, exchange information, and otherwise interact. An embodiment of the pres... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7047489 | Slide show system and method using a browser When a presentation is performed using a web browser, in a manual mode, the display sequence of web pages registered in a bookmark list is specified using an operation button, and in an automatic mode, a plurality of pages registered in a bookmark list are automatic... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7046388 | Printing system An object of the present invention is to provide a printing system capable of outputting print of a style desired by the user without any waste of sheets. In a printing system according to the present invention achieving this object, a plurality of different output ... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7046281 | Camera apparatus and image processing method A camera apparatus (1) is constructed which is equipped with an optical system, a photographing element (21) for converting a light signal of an object to be photographed from the optical system to an electric signal, an A/D conversion unit (22)... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7044363 | Method and system for collaborative document markup using processing sensor A method and system is described for enabling collaborative document markup, through the use of one or more forms which support interaction with a computer system or network. Each form is printed on sheet material such as paper and includes coded data which allows i... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7043690 | Method, system, and program for checking contact information Provided is a computer implemented method, system, and program for checking text in an electronic document. Words in the text are scanned and parsed. For each set of one or more scanned and parsed words, a determination is made of whether one or more words form a co... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7043689 | Managing zero-width markers Computer programs and computer-implemented methods implement techniques for displaying zero-width markers in an electronic document. An electronic document including content having a visual content is provided. The electronic document includes one or more markers ha... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7043686 | Data compression apparatus, database system, data communication system, data compression method, storage medium and program transmission apparatus It is one object of the present invention to perform data compression to encode the structure part of a document in a tree local language, such as XML or ASN.1. A data compression apparatus for encoding data and for compressing the encoded data comprises: a g... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7039861 | Presentation data-generating device, presentation data-generating system, data-management device, presentation data-generating method and machine-readable storage medium A presentation data-generating device includes a first part for acquiring document data sets, each containing contents to be presented, a second part for acquiring transformation data sets, each defining a transformation rule between the document data sets and a pre... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7039643 | System, method and apparatus for converting and integrating media files The present invention teaches a digital media file conversion and integration system including a server coupled to the Internet to allow users to download media files to a server the Internet. The system contains devices to screen, compress, and update the media fil... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7039256 | Efficient verification of recognition results A method for increasing efficiency of interaction by an operator with data on a computer display includes presenting the data to the operator on the computer display, and providing multiple instances of an on-screen control at different locations on the display for ... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7036074 | Apparatus and method for controlling display of database search items Stored in a database are a general-purpose table which contains, on a field-by-field basis, element data corresponding to the fields, an item-mane definition table which stipulates, filed by field an item name for being made to correspond with a database search-item... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7035788 | Language model sharing The sharing of language models is disclosed. In one embodiment, a language model service is provided that is shareable among handlers for input devices. The service includes a pre-processing mode of operation, and a correction mode of operation. In the former mode, ... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7032172 | System and method for displaying scale-down picture A web document display system and method wherein the web document display system includes a web document retriever for retrieving a web document via a network, a main display for displaying the retrieved web document thereon, a scale-down picture generator for gener... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7031006 | Facsimile apparatus and communication system, in which data that is not suitable for displaying on display of external terminal and portable terminal, of electronic mail data or internet data received by external terminal or portable terminal can be displayed A facsimile apparatus, includes a radio unit, a display unit and a print unit. The radio unit communicates with a terminal apparatus which can receive one of an electronic mail data and the Internet data. The display unit displays a first portion of one of the elect... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7031004 | Web print submission from within an application A method, computing machine and computer readable medium provides a computer user with the ability to route a print job to a service bureau over the Internet. The computer receives a print command input for printing a document. In response to the print command, the ... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7028268 | Multiple destination banners The present invention provides software, methods, and computer systems for displaying banner ads with a set of navigation options presented to an end-user, such as a customer or consumer, who selects or clicks on the displayed banner ad. The navigation options inclu... | 04/11/2006 |
| 7028258 | Dynamic pagination of text and resizing of image to fit in a document Dynamic pagination for electronic documents, such as electronic books, is disclosed. In one embodiment, a computer-implemented method first processes a document made up of at least text, as a number of segments. Second, the method determines a number of page breaks ... | 04/11/2006 |
| 7028075 | Method and system for sharing digital images over a network A system and method for sharing digital images over a network, such as the Internet, wherein the first person desires to send images from a first computer to a second person having a second computer that includes a standard email program. The system and method inclu... | 04/11/2006 |
| 7028044 | Highlighting quoted passages in a hypertext system A method for highlighting quoted passages in a hypertext system. When a quotation in a reference document is selected by the user of the hypertext system, the source document for that quotation is retrieved from storage. The passage corresponding to the quotation is... | 04/11/2006 |
