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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7373140 | Wireless communication system and method of changing language to be displayed in wireless client A wireless communication system is provided which supplies an only necessary font to a wireless client and avoids incorrect display on the wireless client. A wireless communication gateway server receives language information from the wireless client, and supplies a... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7373417 | Methods and systems for improving data transmission rates having adaptive protocols A machine-readable medium, a system, and an apparatus are provided for increasing a data transmission rate. A window size is established, where the window size is an indicator of an amount of data a terminal can receive. Data segments are received in accordance with... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7365889 | System and method for transparency optimization One embodiment pertains to analyzing a document that is to be printed on a transparency, determining whether the document formatting is optimized for transparency printing, and alerting a user if the document formatting is not optimized for transparency printing. An... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7362459 | Network device and printer A network device generates print data in accordance with information resources received from outside, and can then easily install or update a color conversion table, a printer driver, etc., necessary for generating print data. Print related information necessary for... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7362898 | Scalable stroke font system and method A method of creating font format data from source font data includes analyzing the source font data to obtain glyph data for a plurality of glyphs, dissecting the glyph data, extracting midline data from the dissected glyph data, classifying the midline data as uniq... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7356458 | Multi-language correspondence/form generator A method to automatically generate correspondence in multiple languages includes identifying format data portions and content data portions for pieces of correspondence, storing the format data portions and content data portions in a database capable of directly sto... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7353287 | Marked foreign data blocks Methods and apparatus, including computer programs, implementing a technique for creating and using marked foreign data blocks. In general, in one aspect, the technique includes receiving a host data file and a foreign data block. The host data file has a host data ... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7346845 | Font retrieval apparatus and method Out of a lot of fonts, the desired font is quickly found. For this purpose, out of a plurality of portions constituting a character displayed in a partial image retrieval area, the desired portion is selected. A retrieval area is clicked by a user, to retrieve a fon... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7340481 | Method and system for adding user-provided content to a content object stored in a data repository A web-based system, method and program product are provided for adding content to a content object stored (e.g., a custom compilation or prepublished work) in a data repository as a group of hierarchically related content entities. Each noncontainer content object i... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7330806 | Virtualized network A virtualized network that provides real-to-virtual correspondence without technically designed artificial systems of any kind. The virtualized network includes a plurality of virtualized entities (VENTs), each VENT a program together with its corresponding real ent... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7322007 | Electronic document modification Electronic document design methods and computer programs allowing a user to separately control and modify layout and the design components of an electronic document. A number of possible document layouts and possible document designs are stored. A document is based ... | 01/22/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7310769 | Text encoding using dummy font Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, to process an electronic document that includes a non-coded representation of characters of text. Based on text coding information that identifies the characters of the non-coded representation, a coded rep... | 12/18/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7292248 | Technique for storing and displaying computer text A technique for storing displayable computer text comprises a number of steps. Initially, each of a plurality of language characters is assigned to an appropriate sized stick frame, which includes a plurality of vertical and horizontal segments, in order to provide ... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7289123 | Simplifying complex characters to maintain legibility Methods, systems, and computer program products for adding hinting instructions to a character in order to improve a character bitmap produced from an outline of the character at a certain size and output resolution when the character outline is scan converted. A ch... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7289235 | Information processing device, information processing system, method for controlling information processing device, storage medium and control program In order to perform optimal character registration and a printing process depending on a language, in an information processing device connected to a printer having a first registration area and a second registration area as font registration areas, registration amo... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7287018 | Browsing electronically-accessible resources A method of browsing electronically-accessible resources using descriptions of the resources. These descriptions have descriptor components, which have attributes representative of at least two axes of access to the resources. These descriptions also have links to t... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7278097 | Display method of spatial data relationships For interactive operation between different enterprises or organizations, it is necessary to provide high-quality map information by not only displaying the results of retrieval from the map information servers of those organizations in a superimposed manner but als... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7278100 | Translating a non-unicode string stored in a constant into unicode, and storing the unicode into the constant Provided are a method, system, and program for creating a string of Unicode characters stored in a memory of a computer. A constant is created whose data type is a non-Unicode data type, wherein the constant specifies non-Unicode data to convert to Unicode. A string... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7271929 | System and method for integrated printing and assembly of electronic documents In one embodiment there is disclosed an application program in which a document is created containing complex rendering codes which codes identify locations within the document where material other than the basic medium is to be inserted or where special treatment i... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7269790 | Method and system for in-register processing of print data In a method and system for processing print data, the print data is displayed on a display device before printing, and the print data is displayed together with a check device or reticule that is displaceable at the display device. Both the print data as well as the... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7269787 | Multi-document context aware annotation system A method for document annotation includes providing a contextual framework extending over multiple electronic documents. Annotations are input to a computer by a user with respect to two or more of the documents, while the user views the documents on a computer scre... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7262869 | Controlling font usage based on printer identification information A method of controlling usage of fonts stored in a printer includes detecting a request for use of a first one of the fonts by a print job. Printer identification information contained in the first font is compared to a printer identifier stored in the printer. Usag... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7260780 | Method and apparatus for providing foreign language text display when encoding is not available A method and apparatus include referencing a phonetic language database that includes double-byte font entries and associated phonetic representations of the double-byte font entries. At least one of the double-byte font entries is used to obtain a phonetic represen... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7257528 | Method and apparatus for Chinese character text input A method and apparatus for inputting Chinese character text into a machine such as a word processor or personal computer. The system consists of an apparatus which forms a closed feedback loop with the operator. The operator supplies stroke selections and other data... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7257776 | Systems and methods for scaling a graphical user interface according to display dimensions and using a tiered sizing schema to define display objects Systems and methods are described for scaling a graphical user interface (GUI) to fit proportionally in displays of different sizes. Bounds of display objects to be displayed in the graphical user interface are defined in terms of position relative to horizontal and... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7257540 | Voice browser apparatus and voice browsing method In a voice browser apparatus, an HTML document is obtained from a designated URL, the obtained document is analyzed based on a rule designated from a plurality of rules for defining voice input/output contents to fetch voice output contents, voice input candidates a... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7251365 | Scalable stroke font system and method A method of creating font format data from source font data includes analyzing the source font data to obtain glyph data for a plurality of glyphs, dissecting the glyph data, extracting midline data from the dissected glyph data, classifying the midline data as uniq... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7248382 | Media parameter downloading Systems and procedures are described for an imaging device to download media parameters from a remote server computer that is connected to the imaging device across a network. Specifically, the imaging device detects a media ID from print media. Responsive to detect... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7246311 | System and methods for facilitating adaptive grid-based document layout A system and methods for facilitating adaptive grid-based document layout. More particularly, the present invention features a new approach to adaptive grid-based document layout that utilizes a set of adaptive templates that are configurable in a range of different... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7231369 | Digital contents provision system, server device incorporated in the system, digital contents provision method using the system, and computer program for executing the method An editor server in a server transmits a layout image to a user PC. An image editor in the user PC displays an editor window containing the layout image on a display. When the user enters a print start command through an input device, processing to check whether or ... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7231602 | Live preview for reformatting document text Reformatting a previously formatted portion of document text using a “live preview” technique. A sample of formats from a format set may be determined. A previously formatted portion of text within the document may be identified, for example, by identifying the ... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7228501 | Method for selecting a font The invention is generally directed to a method for selecting a font that uses a mark-up language document to group together multiple pre-existing fonts into a single font family or “virtual font.” The mark-up language document includes rules regarding the condi... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7225467 | Active intrusion resistant environment of layered object and compartment keys (airelock) A high level of security and fault tolerance is provided in a digital network by use of highly secure infrastructure of user transparent signalling for communicating detection of signals at a network node having characteristics of a potential attack to another node ... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7219309 | Innovations for the display of web pages Web pages are displayed with a simultaneous overview and magnified view. An indicator can show the portion of the overview in the magnified view. Both views can be shown, one above the other, across the full width of the same screen. A user can select between such a... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7202839 | Resolution reduction technique for displaying documents on a monitor A method of generating an output image having a lower resolution than that of a source image is provided. A thinned image is generated by discarding outer pixels of the source image. In parallel with generation of the thinned image, an averaged image is generated, s... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7200390 | Device software update transport and download A mobile station update client facilitates downloading of updated software. This client interacts through a data communication client, using a standard interface. The data client wakes up the update client, in response to a notification from a download server. The u... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7197705 | Electronic mail apparatus According to an electronic mail apparatus of the present invention, when a sentence serving as the contents of an electronic mail written in Japanese cannot be text-displayed in a destination of the electronic mail, a text file corresponding to the sentence is conve... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7197706 | Method and system for ensuring accurate font matching in documents Method and system aspects are described for ensuring accurate font matching in exchanged documents. The aspects include forming a database of font specifications. The aspects further include accessing the database when saving and opening documents to ensure usage of... | 03/27/2007 |
