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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7380212 | Dynamic-template incorporation of digital images in an electronic mail message A method and system for execution in a graphical user interface environment are provided to incorporate digital image files in an email message. A template layout gallery is presented that includes a plurality of template layouts for digital image files for possible... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7363315 | Creating, editing, and displaying hierarchical data structures associated with data in a data source Methods and systems, including computer program products, implementing techniques for configuring data structures. The techniques include receiving a description of a logical structure of a data model, the logical structure comprising a first set of elements; displa... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7360156 | Method and system for performing actions on content in a region within a free form two-dimensional workspace A method and system are provided for performing actions on content in a region within a free form two-dimensional workspace. In a computer software application, a region is defined within the workspace, an action is associated with the region, content is received wi... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7360166 | System, method and apparatus for selecting, displaying, managing, tracking and transferring access to content of web pages and other sources A method, system and apparatus for selecting, displaying, managing, tracking and transferring access to content of Internet web pages and other sources along with custom text messages has programming permitting a user to create custom selections of selected image, a... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7356761 | Computer method and apparatus for determining content types of web pages Computer method and apparatus determines content type of contents of a subject Web page. A predefined set of potential content types is first provided. For each potential content type, there are one or more tests having test results that enable quantitative evaluati... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7348982 | Method, system, and computer-readable medium for creating and laying out a graphic within an application program A method, apparatus, and computer-readable medium are provided for creating and laying out a graphic within a drawing application program. The method includes receiving a data model defining a set of data and data relationships to be represented in the graphic, rece... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7350142 | Method and system for creating a table version of a document A table version of a document is generated by computing a table layout of the document and generating the table version based on the table layout. Computing the table layout can include recording the positions of each object in the document while recording the posit... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7343385 | System for processing objects for storage in a document or other storage system The invention is directed to a system for processing data to be stored in a document-imaging system that includes a posting processor programmed for receiving at least one object containing the data; a bursting processor programmed for bursting the object to create ... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7343555 | System and method for delivery of documents over a computer network A system and method for delivering a document by a first computer to a second computer over a computer network. A method of the present invention includes the following steps: (1) decomposing the document into nodes in accordance with a document model of the documen... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7337393 | Methods and systems for providing an editable visual formatting model Systems and methods are disclosed for providing an editable visual formatting model. The disclosed systems and methods may include providing visual formatting properties. The visual formatting properties may comprise an outer-most polygon corresponding to a containe... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7337394 | Digital content production system and digital content production program The invention provides a digital content production system which is appropriate for use in preventing a layout intended by a designer from being destroyed and provides freedom in the order of posting information. A content delivery terminal processes a flow object u... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7333110 | Adjusted stroke rendering Methods and apparatus implementing and using techniques for rendering a stroke (e.g., a line or glyph). An initial adjustment value can be calculated for the stroke, and an offset amount calculated based on the initial adjustment value, such that a minimum number of... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7331015 | Defining a report based on data regions and including custom data in a report definition A report definition is processed by a report processor to generate a report. The report definition includes a plurality of data regions arranged on a page, where the data regions as arranged on the page in the report definition extend in multiple dimensions selected... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7325196 | Method and system for manipulating page control content A page is generated in a computer-based format that includes zones in which controls are inserted. The controls can present information or data that the controls obtain from one or more sources. Features such as the location, quantity, and properties of the zones an... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7325197 | Method and system for providing page control content A page is accessed in a computer-based environment. A user interface gallery that includes at least one computer-based module from a remote source is opened on or in the vicinity of the page. The computer-based module can be inserted on the page from the gallery. Th... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7320104 | Text grid creation tools Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, implementing and using techniques for controlling typesetting and layout editing (2a). Data being typeset or laid out are displayed on a display (3). A first menu (20) having a u... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7307742 | Information processing method, information processing apparatus, program for information processing apparatus, and storage medium To perform control so as to acquire a list of print style information stored in an output device, specify a particular piece of print style information in the acquired list, generate print data associated with the specified piece of print style information, and stor... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7304756 | Image information processing apparatus, and computer-readable recording medium A sender device 1 stores, in header information about image information, information indicating that attribute information and image data rearranged in sequence, and produces image information by means of storing attribute information and image data in a pred... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7302475 | System and method for measuring reactions to product packaging, advertising, or product features over a computer-based network A system and method is provided for enabling respondents at their computer systems to connect via a browser with a server computer over a network and receive an initial set of survey questions on one or more pages during which primary images are downloaded into the ... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7296225 | Information transmitting and receiving in which layout information is used to determine importance Information showing how the information that meets the requirements of a user is treated in an information source, for example, how information about the positions and importance degree of articles in newspaper space is retrieved, how the retrieved information is ou... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7296227 | Determining line leading in accordance with traditional Japanese practices Method and apparatus, including computer program products, implementing and using techniques for controlling leading. A region including a plurality of lines in data being typeset and displayed on a display device is specified. One of the lines in the plurality of l... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7296238 | Method and apparatus for triggering automated processing of data A number of items of data from a data source (12) can be processed and then deposited in at least one data destination (16, 17). The data can be image data, text data, numeric data or some other type of data, or a combination of these types of data. Th... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7296224 | Method for assigning graphical images to pages A system and method for paginating objects, such as graphical images, within a predefined space, such as a viewable or printed page, is provided. The system and method includes substantially evenly distributing graphical images on a selected number of pages. Alterna... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7293228 | Maltweb multi-axis viewing interface and higher level scoping A method, apparatus and computer program product for navigating in a multi-dimensional space containing an electronic publication formed from predefined portions of text-based data encoded using a markup language are disclosed. A selected predefined portion is displ... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7283277 | Image borders A border can be added to an image using pixels of a graphic piece that can be copied into or around an image. The graphic piece can be repeatedly copied around an image to form a border. A mask file identifies pixels of a graphic piece to merge with pixels of the im... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7281210 | Layout system, layout program, and layout method To provide a layout system that prevents a layout intended by a designer from being destroyed, a content delivery terminal segments a selected information container frame into information container frames that do not overlap with another information container frame,... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7277579 | Smart scan A method for determining a border of an image includes (a) receiving a composite image including a background image and a foreground image, (b) following one geometric feature (e.g., a line) of the background image, and (c) detecting two or more breakpoints in the f... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7278107 | Method, system and program product for managing windows in a network-based collaborative meeting Under the present invention, a source meeting partner can select a target application for sharing with one ore more destination meeting partners during a collaborative meeting. Upon selection of the target application, a portion of a meeting application window will ... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7278117 | Image segmentation and warping for specialized display viewing A method, program product and system for warping image data, the method comprising in one embodiment: receiving image data for an image; segmentation of the image into a plurality of regions based on regional classification of the image; obtaining a set of warping r... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7272789 | Method of formatting documents The present invention provides a method of preparing content with design in a presentation that is suitable for printing and/or electronic publishing. The method utilizes content data including alphanumeric and/or graphical elements, and design data including a rule... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7272790 | Method and device for automatically selecting a frame for display The present invention relates to the display of multi-frame-based information on devices such as mobile terminal devices, wherein a possible definition of “a frame” is a display area of an application that is scrollable, if the whole content can not be displayed... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7266563 | Specifying, assigning, and maintaining user defined metadata in a network-based photosharing system A method and system for allowing a user to define and use custom metadata is disclosed. The method and system include providing a network accessible server with a metadata library having plurality of metadata vocabularies. The server allows the user to create a cust... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7262887 | Network scanner system An image input section pre-inputs an image. A temporary storage section temporarily stores the image input by the image input section. An attribute control section controls at least attribute information of the input information temporarily stored in the temporary s... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7257352 | Image forming device and image forming method An image forming device for adequately forming an image in which images overlap one another. The priority order (display order) of the images overlapping with one another is judged for the area where images of different attributes overlap with one another. When the ... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7243303 | Constraint-optimization system and method for document component layout generation What is disclosed is a system and method for specifying a custom document as a multi-criteria constraint optimization problem, and a method to automatically create the specified document using existing constraint optimization solving algorithms. The present method s... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7240294 | Method of constructing a composite image A method and apparatus are provided for constructing a composite image within an image space of a webpage. The method includes the steps of displaying a plurality of source images within a content area of the webpage and dividing the image space of the composite ima... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7236982 | Computer systems and methods for platform independent presentation design Methods, computer systems and computer program products for constructing a presentation in a platform independent manner. A layout is defined that includes a top split. The top split includes a first orientation parameter specifying an orientation for any daughter s... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7232058 | Data displaying apparatus and method A data displaying apparatus that can efficiently display a plurality of data on a relatively small display screen. The data displaying apparatus includes a user input unit for outputting a data display request signal if there is a data display request from a user, a... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7221810 | Method and device for recording of information A device and a method for recording of text by imaging the text on a light-sensitive sensor (8). The device converts the images (14–17, 47–49) into a set of characters (50, 51) each using character recognition, and then assembling the acts o... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7222294 | Extension of formulas and formatting in an electronic spreadsheet Formats are extended automatically to cells in an electronic spreadsheet. Previously blank, newly edited cell(s) are determined to be an extension or within a list of cells based on having a consistent data type, and the like. Next, formatting of the list of cells i... | 05/22/2007 |
