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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| RE43170 | Previewing documents on a computer system A method, system and apparatus for previewing documents on a computer system, the method comprising the steps of:—displaying a main document (102) which contains a hyperlink (104); and—in response to an indication (106) of the hyperlink bein... | 02/07/2012 |
| 7434164 | User interface for adaptive document layout via manifold content A user interface for a system and method for improving document layout on arbitrary devices of different resolutions and size using manifold representations of content. Manifold representations of content are: multiple versions of anything that might appear in a doc... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7434219 | Storage of application specific profiles correlating to document versions A computer system that includes a processor for operating a software application in the computer system. The software application provides for creation, storage, and retrieval of a file, the file having a corresponding profile that the software application uses for ... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7430717 | Method for adapting a K-means text clustering to emerging data A method and structure for clustering documents in datasets which include clustering first documents and a first dataset to produce first document classes, creating centroid seeds based on the first document classes, and clustering second documents in a second datas... | 09/30/2008 |
| 7409408 | Using ViewTypes for accessing instance data structured by a base model Disclosed is a technique for manipulating instance data of a base model. A ViewType, a root object representing an object of the base model, and an operation are received. Whether the ViewType and the root object are compatible is determined. When the ViewType and t... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7392280 | Method for summarization of threads in electronic mail The present invention discloses a pre-processing summarization technique that makes use of knowledge specific to the electronic mail domain to pre-process an electronic mail message so that commercially-available document summarization software can subsequently gene... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7392477 | Resolving metadata matched to media content Managing a plurality of states of metadata. Each of the states stores one or more items of metadata that have been automatically matched and obtained for media content (e.g., for rendering by a media player). The invention resolves the matched metadata by selectivel... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7389299 | Document content analysis technology for reducing cognitive load The present invention provides for analyzing document content for display with reduced cognitive load, and assists those who are blind, have low vision, or have cognitive problems. This present invention also aids those who prefer to receive condensed information or... | 06/17/2008 |
| 7389304 | Generating a relational view for a base model schema Disclosed is a technique for generating a relational view. Initially, identification of a base model, a relational schema, and a ViewType are received. Then, a statement to create a relational view of the instance data for the base model using the ViewType is automa... | 06/17/2008 |
| 7386792 | System and method for collecting, storing, managing and providing categorized information related to a document object A method and system for enabling users of a network to create, store, and provide access to relationships between document objects stored on the network. The method may include the steps for allowing a user of the network to create a link relationship between a firs... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7386439 | Data mining by retrieving causally-related documents not individually satisfying search criteria used This patent describes a method and apparatus to automatically and accurately winnow down arbitrarily large amounts of electronic information created by a particular population of actors to only those subsets of particular interest by having a causal relationship, ev... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7386831 | Interactive collaborative facility for inspection and review of software products A review facility and review method for interactively reviewing an item, such as a block of code, by a group of reviewers and collecting comments from the reviewers. An author provides the item as text for preparation for interactive review. The text is prepared, ta... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7376932 | XML-based textual specification for rich-media content creation—methods Video, stills, panorama, sound and all forms of media as Rich Media in a Multimedia Vehicle Repository (MVR) file editable with a Rich Media Content description file. The Rich Media Content description file enables users to specify a vocabulary that defines the medi... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7373595 | System and method for validating an XML document and reporting schema violations A system and method for validating an extensible markup language (XML) document and reporting schema violations in real time. A parallel tree is maintained that includes nodes corresponding to non-native XML elements of the XML document. When changes occur to the XM... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7370381 | Method and apparatus for a ranking engine A computer-implemented method is provided for ranking files from an Internet search. In one embodiment, the method comprises assigning a score to each file based on at least one of the following factors: recency, editorial popularity, clickthru popularity, favorites... | 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 |
| 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 |
| 7373391 | System and method for digital content distribution The present invention makes it possible to distribute digital content managed under copyright to a large number of users through a communications network while ensuring copyright protection. The web server 12 distributes images requested by the user through t... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7373350 | Virtual metadata analytics and management platform A method and system for managing metadata residing in multiple information sources are described. In one embodiment, the method includes providing a user interface that represents a single point for user access to source metadata residing in source metadata reposito... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7373385 | Method and apparatus to block spam based on spam reports from a community of users In one embodiment, a method for operating a server is provided. The method comprises receiving a plurality of reports from a community of users, each report identifying an email message as spam or not spam; and determining if the email message is spam based on a num... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7373586 | Differencing and merging tree-structured documents Differencing and merging tree-structured documents, such as extensible Markup Language (XML) documents, is disclosed. A differencing-and-merging system for tree-structured documents of one embodiment of the invention includes a difference processing unit and a mergi... | 05/13/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7370290 | Contact card An interface for enabling a user to quickly access contact information and contact-centric tasks is displayed when an appropriate request for a contact card associated with a contact is received. The contact card displays contact information corresponding with the c... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7370276 | Interface for collecting user preferences Various techniques are disclosed for accepting preference information from a user, where the preference information is specific to content elements within a media asset, and the preference information is collected while the user is viewing a display of the media ass... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7369868 | Method and apparatus for sharing content with a remote device using a wireless network The present invention is directed to a method and apparatus for sharing content between a content source device and a remote device. The content source device is connected to a mobile device that communicates with the remote device using a wireless network. The mobi... | 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 |
| 7370033 | Method for extracting association rules from transactions in a database Apriori algorithms are popular data mining techniques for extracting association rules from a body of data. The computational complexity of these algorithms is reduced by representing itemset information at cells of a hypercube. The cells encode associations between... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7370059 | Model of documents and method for automatically classifying a document A method for automatically creating a model of documents representing a class of documents. The method includes the steps of providing a plurality of documents separated into different classes; and determining at least one potential identifying tag within one docume... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7370066 | System and method for offline editing of data files A system and method that enables a user to edit a data file offline is described. This system and method can enable a user to edit a data file without the user having to discover or deploy a solution application governing the data file. For security, this system and... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7366972 | Dynamically mediating multimedia content and devices A mediator having at least a ranking component, a listening component, and a control component, selectively controls a group of devices from a plurality of network devices in a network environment to reproduce multimedia content. The mediator correlates the multimed... | 04/29/2008 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 7366982 | Packages that contain pre-paginated documents Modular content framework and document format methods and systems are described. The described framework and format define a set of building blocks for composing, packaging, distributing, and rendering document-centered content. These building blocks define a platfo... | 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 |
| 7366722 | System and method for specifying application services and distributing them across multiple processors using XML A system and method that uses XML schemas to specify the set of allowed calls, to invoke multiple function calls, either hierarchically or sequentially, and to specify the calls in such a way that they can be distributed across multiple processors. An XML schema mec... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7363214 | System and method for determining quality of written product reviews in an automated manner A system and method for determining quality of written product reviews to distinguish the user reviews for further use or processing. In one embodiment, the opinion analyzer system includes a processor, a parser module, an prose analyzer module, a characteristic fea... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7363495 | System and method for message encryption and signing in a transaction processing system The invention provides a system and a method which utilizes a combination of message-based encryption and message-based digital signing to ensure the security and authenticity of a message or message buffer sent from one party or process to another in a transaction ... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7360151 | System and method for creating custom specific text and emotive content message response templates for textual communications Aspects of the invention present a system and methods to analyze textual communications, which include cognitive as well as emotive content. Generally accepted communication models and principles are used to create communication unique response templates which respo... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7359940 | Cooperative processing apparatus and cooperative processing method When instruction data is received, a prescribed service is performed on the basis of the received instruction data. A processing result of the service is sent to a service processing apparatus as an instruction data transmission source. If the processing result of t... | 04/15/2008 |
