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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6708148 | Correction device to mark parts of a recognized text In a correction device (3, 4) for correcting a text (ET) recognized by a speech recognition device (2) from a spoken text (GT), marking means (12, 15, 17) are provided for storing marking information (WMI) in memory means (8), which marki... | 03/16/2004 |
| 6701314 | System and method for cataloguing digital information for searching and retrieval The system and method for searching and retrieving information stored in heterogeneous information repositories. A portal server retrieves user requests through a computer network and looks up information stored in a metadata databases. For example, the m... | 03/02/2004 |
| 6671856 | Method, system, and program for determining boundaries in a string using a dictionary Disclosed is a system, method, and program for determining boundaries in a string of characters using a dictionary, wherein the substrings in the dictionary may comprise words. A determination is made of all possible initial substrings of the string in th... | 12/30/2003 |
| 6668355 | Text editing system The present invention relates to a text editing system with a line end line feed function and an indentation function. In particular, a line end position Pg is stored in advance in a line end position storage unit 1, a line feed code in text data are dete... | 12/23/2003 |
| 6665836 | Method for managing information on an information net A method for managing document information on an information net, such as the World Wide Web (WWW), comprises the steps of inputting a structured document; extracting selected document properties from the structured document; forming a feature vector repr... | 12/16/2003 |
| 6662152 | Information retrieval apparatus and information retrieval method Character data of a word or phrase in a document is designated. Desired data is retrieved from a predetermined database on the basis of the designated character data. One sentence including at least the designated character data is cut out and subjected t... | 12/09/2003 |
| 6651219 | System and method for generation of text reports An automated text generation system may be used to generate financial reports based on financial data. The text generation system uses decisional statements in conjunction with a base equation, and the decisional statements are evaluated using the base eq... | 11/18/2003 |
| 6647533 | Incremental algorithms for optimal linebreaking in text layout A computer-implemented incremental algorithm for updating globally optimized linebreaks for a paragraph following a change to that paragraph takes advantage of the fact that in many cases, the effect of a change on a paragraph is of only limited extent in... | 11/11/2003 |
| 6631500 | Method, system and computer program product for transferring human language data across system boundaries A multi-field text string object is employed to transfer data across systems running in different human languages. The text in the characters/language of the originating system is stored in a first field; a common or cross-language representation, prefera... | 10/07/2003 |
| 6626960 | Method, system, and program for generating a table to determine boundaries between characters Disclosed is a system, method, and program for generating a table for use by a computer in determining a location of a boundary, such as a word boundary, between two characters in text. A first table indicates a boundary between characters when processing... | 09/30/2003 |
| 6622140 | Method and apparatus for analyzing affect and emotion in text Disclosed is a computer-assisted method for classifying a text document according to emotion and affect. A score is assigned to each affect term in the document. An affect score is computed for the document from the scores for each affect term. The docume... | 09/16/2003 |
| 6622239 | Method, system and computer program product for optimization of single byte character processing employed within a multibyte character encoding scheme A method, system and computer program product for optimizing processing of single byte characters employed within a multibyte character encoding scheme in association with an underlying data encoding scheme employed within an operating system. The method ... | 09/16/2003 |
| 6616704 | Two step method for correcting spelling of a word or phrase in a document A very fast method for correcting the spelling of a word or phrase in a document proceeds in two steps: first applying a very fast approximate method for eliminating most candidate words from consideration (without computing the exact edit distance betwee... | 09/09/2003 |
| 6610103 | Method for providing precise cumulative updates and fixes to a software product Disclosed is a system for providing information to a user on modifications made to a base software product with a program temporary fix. The program temporary fix is applied to the base software product. The program temporary fix includes informational te... | 08/26/2003 |
| 6585779 | Method and apparatus for determining and categorizing Java Bean names and sub-elements files A method and apparatus for determining the names of Java Beans and for categorizing Java Bean sub-elements files. A two stage process is utilized for Java files having one or more .class files and .ser (serialized) files. The first stage attempts to deter... | 07/01/2003 |
| 6587132 | Method and system for efficiently navigating a text entry cursor provided by a mobile device Improved approaches are disclosed for efficiently navigating a cursor to an edit location within previously entered text so that the text can be edited. These improved approaches enable users to position a cursor within previously entered text more quickl... | 07/01/2003 |
| 6584479 | Overlay presentation of textual and graphical annotations A primary body of data is displayable on a screen and a supporting body of data is relatable to an annotation tag present in the primary body of textual data. An annotation tag having a predetermined size in the primary body of data is selected, and negot... | 06/24/2003 |
| 6581057 | Method and apparatus for rapidly producing document summaries and document browsing aids Disclosed is a computer-assisted method for generating a summary of or a browsing aid for a document. At an index creation time, information that is relevant to at least one dummy query and is necessary to compile at least one temporary summary for the su... | 06/17/2003 |
| 6572660 | Method and system for creating hyperlinks and hyperlinked documents from the direct manipulation of information ("Drag and link" operation) A method and system for creating hyperlinks and hyperlinked documents from the direct manipulation of information in a hypermedia processing system, or the like, in a fashion that requires little effort on the part of the user. A user can effortlessly cre... | 06/03/2003 |
| 6567830 | Method, system, and program for displaying added text to an electronic media file Provided are a method, system, and program for receiving and displaying text inserted into a text document. The program displays lines of text from the document and receives user inputted text. The program generates a graphical element to include the user... | 05/20/2003 |
| 6553373 | METHOD FOR DYNAMICALLY DELIVERING CONTENTS ENCAPSULATED WITH CAPSULE OVERVIEWS CORRESONDING TO THE PLURALITY OF DOCUMENTS, RESOLVING CO-REFERENTIALITY RELATED TO FREQUENCY WITHIN DOCUMENT, DETERMINING TOPIC STAMPS FOR EACH DOCUMENT SEGMENTS A method for the dynamic presentation of the contents of a plurality of documents on a display is disclosed. The method comprises receiving a plurality of documents and providing a plurality of topically rich capsule overviews corresponding to the plurali... | 04/22/2003 |
| 6547830 | Methods and apparatuses for display and traversing of links in page character array A device, such as a cellular telephone, having a software program for maximizing the amount of text displayed is provided. The software program converts a markup language page, such as a hypertext markup language page from the internet, or ASCII file, to ... | 04/15/2003 |
| 6546401 | Method of retrieving no word separation text data and a data retrieving apparatus therefor Full text data is divided into words to generate word separation data. All character strings are extracted from the full text data, each character string including N characters. The word separation and position data is attached to each character string to... | 04/08/2003 |
| 6542888 | Content filtering for electronic documents generated in multiple foreign languages A system for collecting and categorizing metadata about content provided via the internet or intranet, regardless of the language of generation of the content. The content of each document is assigned token IDs, which token IDs are the same for any given ... | 04/01/2003 |
| 6539116 | Information processing apparatus and method, and computer readable memory therefor The structure of entered document image data is analyzed and a character string in a text block that has been analyzed is subjected to pattern recognition. Synonyms and equivalents of words obtained as results of language analysis are extracted and words ... | 03/25/2003 |
| 6533822 | Creating summaries along with indicators, and automatically positioned tabs A method and a system for generating a document summary. The method and the system extract text along with corresponding position information from a document, provide the extracted text to a document summarizer and generates a summary with indicators that... | 03/18/2003 |
| 6535897 | System and methods for spacing, storing and recognizing electronic representations of handwriting printing and drawings A system for spacing, storing and recognizing electronic representations of handwriting and printing comprises a central processing unit that couples with a display device, an input device, and a memory. The memory includes means for spacing ink stroke re... | 03/18/2003 |
| 6527812 | Method and system for undoing multiple editing operations A method and system for undoing interactive editing operations enables efficient undoing of multiple non-invertable editing operations such as digital painting strokes. During the editing process, a plurality of prior states of the data object being edite... | 03/04/2003 |
| 6529902 | Method and system for off-line detection of textual topical changes and topic identification via likelihood based methods for improved language modeling A system (and method) for off-line detection of textual topical changes includes at least one central processing unit (CPU), at least one memory coupled to the at least one CPU, a network connectable to the at least one CPU, and a database, stored on the ... | 03/04/2003 |
| 6523134 | Selective undo A "Selective Undo Function" for computer programs allows a user to select any single specific action that was previously recorded by the computer, and undo only that selected action, rather than every action that chronologically follows the specific actio... | 02/18/2003 |
| 6510441 | Optimal line break determination Method and apparatus divide a paragraph of text into lines. The invention determines possible line breaks for multiple lines from a portion of the paragraph and selects an optimal line break that produces an ideal set of line breaks for the multiple lines... | 01/21/2003 |
| 6505150 | Article and method of automatically filtering information retrieval results using test genre A method of filtering according to text genre the results of a topic search of a heterogeneous corpus of untagged, machine-readable texts. Because each text of the corpus has a topic and a text genre, the corpus includes multiple text genres and covers mu... | 01/07/2003 |
| 6502114 | Script character processing method for determining word boundaries and interactively editing ink strokes using editing gestures A pen-based processor needs to be usable to input and edit script like a text-based computer but retain a resemblance to the user of a pad and pencil. The disclosed system and method implement input, editing and other manipulation of glyphs including hand... | 12/31/2002 |
| 6502113 | Negotiation manager incorporating clause modification and markers for tracking negotiation progress A method for managing negotiations between parties, comprising the steps of: storing a selected document having a plurality of negotiable clauses; creating a first retrievable display relating to the document; updating the document as the clauses are modi... | 12/31/2002 |
| 6493663 | Document summarizing apparatus, document summarizing method and recording medium carrying a document summarizing program A document summarizing apparatus generates a comprehensive summary on a group of documents of relatively diverse contents. The structure of documents specified to be processed is analyzed in a phrase analyzing unit to generate analytic trees describing th... | 12/10/2002 |
| 6490603 | Method and system for producing documents in a structured format Structured-format documents are produced in a process in which a file in a particular word processing format (input A) or in any other format (Input B) are converted (2) to a particular word processor format. The system loads a parameter activation table ... | 12/03/2002 |
| 6490604 | Character information processing device equipped with a layout display function Tape printing device 1 is provided with the second and third screen modes M1 and M2, in which the input document and its layout can be simultaneously displayed on the same screen. These modes can be switched by operating layout image simultaneous display ... | 12/03/2002 |
| 6487570 | Script character processing method for automatically supplementing blank writing space A pen-based processor needs to be usable to input and edit script like a text-based computer but retain a resemblance to the user of a pad and pencil. The disclosed system and method implement input, editing and other manipulation of glyphs including hand... | 11/26/2002 |
| 6477551 | Interactive electronic messaging system A method and apparatus for interacting with incoming text information, e.g., a user query. The method of the present invention categorizes the incoming text information, and may also provide associated confidence levels with the categorization feature. Th... | 11/05/2002 |
| 6473730 | Method and system for topical segmentation, segment significance and segment function A "domain-general" method for topical segmentation of a document input includes the steps of: extracting one or more selected terms from a document; linking occurrences of the extracted terms based upon the proximity of similar terms; and assigning weight... | 10/29/2002 |
