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Glam girl Heddy Lamar may have used her good looks to good effect on the silver screen, but she put her smarts to better use as an inventor. During World War II, she co-patented a frequency-switching system for torpedo guidance that was considered years ahead of its time.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 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 |
| 7398468 | Bidirectional network language support A method and apparatus for displaying bi-directional text using a browser program on a computer (20) coupled to drive a display (22) and having an operating system such that the computer normally writes text to the display in a default language in a fi... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7398467 | Method and apparatus for providing spelling analysis A method, an article of manufacture and apparatus for providing user-specific error analysis for a document. Specifically, the invention provides for identifying user-specific proclivities for confusing particular words which, while grammatically correct, are not us... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7391529 | Apparatus and method for managing and using reusable document components during the process of dynamic document construction An apparatus (10) for processing documents each represented by a document description (12) encoded in a page description language supportive of reusable data includes a page description language interpreter (14) that receives the document descri... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7369988 | Method and system for voice-enabled text entry A method and system for voice enabled text entry. The method includes receiving a first user-entry with a communications device and creating a transient grammar set as a result of receiving the first user-entry, where the transient grammar set is based on the first ... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7366352 | Method and apparatus for performing fast closest match in pattern recognition A method and apparatus for determining a closest match of N input patterns relative to R reference patterns using K processing units. Each of a set of input patterns are loaded into the K processing units. One of the Reference patterns is sequentially loaded into ea... | 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 |
| 7366500 | SMS shorthand dictionary service The present invention provides a lookup service for shorthand terms directly from within an application. A lookup pane is provided to the user from which they can lookup a definition for the shorthand term. The lookup pane provides a consistent user interface for lo... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7363620 | Non-linear execution of application program instructions for application program obfuscation Obfuscating an application program comprises reading a first application program, determining an application program instruction location permutation that transforms the first application program into an obfuscated application program having at least one application... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7358965 | Tapping to create writing The present invention provides a method and system for tapping to create document structure, such as writing. A tapping gesture received from the user is interpreted by a writing application to indicate that the user is about to write in a certain location on the pa... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7359891 | Hot topic extraction apparatus and method, storage medium therefor A hot topic extraction apparatus for extracting a hot topic from information includes an information collection unit, an information storage unit, and a hot topic extraction unit. The information collection unit collects a document from an information source. The in... | 04/15/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7360153 | Method and apparatus for importing digital switching system data into a spreadsheet program A method and apparatus for importing digital switching system data into a spreadsheet program. Via the switch data examiner of the present invention, raw data from a digital switch/switching system such as the 5ESS® is converted by the switch data examiner to a for... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7356537 | Providing contextually sensitive tools and help content in computer-generated documents A method and system are provided for creation, implementation, and use of computer-generated “smart” documents to which functionality is attached for providing contextually sensitive tools, controls and help content to users of those documents. Portions of docum... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7356768 | Using document templates to assemble a collection of documents Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, to assemble a collection of documents according to a document list. The document list represents documents to be included in the collection, and includes multiple entries that identify document templates. E... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7353268 | Network system, server, web server, web page, data processing method, storage medium, and program transmission apparatus A network system includes a client for browsing a web page, a conversion server for providing a function for performing a predetermined process for the web page, and a web server for storing the web page that includes a function button used to request that a process... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7353499 | Multiple instruction dispatch tables for application program obfuscation Obfuscating an application program comprises reading an application program comprising code, determining multiple dispatch tables associated with the application program, transforming the application program into application program code configured to utilize the di... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7349840 | Memory system for storing and retrieving experience and knowledge with natural language utilizing state representation data, word sense numbers, function codes, directed graphs and/or context memory A memory system for storing and retrieving experience and knowledge with natural language through methods and apparatus is disclosed. The primary components of this memory system include syntactic processes, function word processes, ellipsis processes, morphology pr... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7349924 | Colloquium prose interpreter for collaborative electronic communication A method, system and apparatus for processing colloquialisms in message text. A method of processing colloquialisms in message text can include detecting a colloquialism in message text, locating a universal form for the detected colloquialism, and transmitting the ... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7346489 | System and method of determining phrasing in text A system analyzes text, determines phrasing and, in an exemplary embodiment, reformats the text to establish optimal spacing and related features for readability, reader comprehension and publishing economies. A neural network uses a library of text data to analyze ... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7346491 | Method of text similarity measurement In one aspect, the present invention provides a for estimating the similarity between at least two portions of text including the steps of forming a set of syntactic tuples, each tuple including at least two terms and a relation betweeen the two terms; classifying t... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7346501 | Compressing messages on a per semantic component basis while maintaining a degree of human readability A text message is first parsed into its constituent semantic components such as header fields and body components. Then, different compression methods may be performed on each semantic component depending on the importance of the semantic component, the context of t... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7343604 | Methods and apparatus for creation of parsing rules Techniques for parsing rule creation are provided. A technique for constructing one or more message parsing rules may comprise the following steps. First, message data representing past messages, for example, associated with a network, an application and/or a system... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7343372 | Direct navigation for information retrieval A method of document retrieval is provided. The method includes assigning concept labels to documents contained in a collection according to grammar rules, receiving a query, converting the query to a query concept using the grammar rules, and mapping the query conc... | 03/11/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7343556 | Technique for processing and generating messages in multiple languages A method for processing a received message is provided. Such a method may associate the message with a default language that corresponds to a default codepage. Thereafter, portions of the message are identified as having language keys corresponding to unique languag... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7340499 | Dynamic embedding of literal object data in supplied instance of information object Techniques have been developed whereby information objects referenced in a requested information object (e.g., image, audio, video, application, and/or text objects referenced in an HTML document) are embedded in a composite object and supplied in as literal data th... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7340466 | Topic identification and use thereof in information retrieval systems A technique to determine topics associated with, or classifications for, a data corpus uses an initial domain-specific word list to identify word combinations (one or more words) that appear in the data corpus significantly more often than expected. Word combination... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7340673 | System and method for browser document editing Method, system and computer code for editing text in a document displayed in a World Wide Web browser. User edit requests intended to modify a font parameter of one or more characters within a text box are replaced by a predefined substitute edit request prior to up... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7334183 | Domain-specific concatenative audio One embodiment of the present invention provides a system for generating speech output from a text string. During operation, the system first receives the text string and then examines the text string to locate one or more substrings within the text string that are ... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7334187 | Electronic form aggregation A system and method that aggregates information from one electronic form into another electronic form is described. For sufficiently similar electronic forms, the system and method aggregates information from one electronic form into another automatically and withou... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7331016 | Method and system for generating a value enhanced derivative document from a patent document The invention describes system and method for generation a derivative document from a patent document, which provide value, enhanced representation of the document and facilitate comprehension of information contained in the patent document. A segment of the patent ... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7330100 | Mobile device and related method for displaying text message with background images A wireless communications device includes a communication circuit for receiving a message signal having a text message via radio transmission; a storage device having a plurality of image data stored therein; a selecting module for selecting an image datum from the ... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7328211 | System and methods for improved linguistic pattern matching A system and method for reducing the number of false negatives with minimal impact on false positive search results while allowing searches to return phonetic equivalents, misspellings, common short names, and other such applicable information. New, N-Gram based ind... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7327962 | Abnormality determining method, abnormality determining apparatus, and image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus is capable of specifying the type of an occurring abnormality to a certain extent while avoiding the increasingly complicated control that is caused when a plurality of abnormalities is detected individually according to the presence of th... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7328193 | Summary evaluation apparatus and method, and computer-readable recording medium in which summary evaluation program is recorded The apparatus according to the present invention stores examples constituted by an article, a summary of the article and an evaluation of the summary in a solution data storage unit. Groups of sets of solutions and features are extracted from the stored examples and... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7328404 | Method for predicting the readings of japanese ideographs System and methods allowing for effective and reliable reading predictions for Japanese ideographs are provided. In an illustrative implementation, a reading predictions system operating in “learning” and “execution/run-time” modes is provided. In the “lea... | 02/05/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7325193 | Automated management of internet and/or web site content An apparatus, program product, and method manage content from a content-controlled database (e.g., web pages or other files maintained in a web site) using a content management record linked to each content-controlled content item in the database. Each content manag... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7325195 | Adjustable-speed electronic method of composing information A method of composing information by electronically advancing a sequence of information elements at controlled speed in an even step-wise fashion into a fixed transfer location while visibly displaying each of them there during a dwell time to permit the operator to... | 01/29/2008 |
