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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8108779 | Collaborative editing operations Apparatus, systems, and methods may operate to detect modifications made to information, the modifications received from a modifying user included in a group of users sharing the information by separately viewing presentations of the information. The presentations m... | 01/31/2012 |
| 7996774 | Hierarchical display of project information in a collaboration environment Providing access to project information in a virtual collaboration environment is disclosed. A credential information associated with a user of the virtual collaboration environment is received. It is determined, based at least in part on the credential information,... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7797636 | System and method for administering pluggable user interactive system applications Systems and methods are described that allow for multiple pluggable user interactive system (UIS) applications to be added or removed from a UIS system while maintaining controlled access by users to each currently available application. Users can access the system ... | 09/14/2010 |
| 7793221 | Method and system for unit level military administration The present invention provides a system for providing administrative support for a military unit. The invention includes a server-side database containing information about the military unit and a client-side browser application that provides a secure network connec... | 09/07/2010 |
| 7716591 | System and method for dynamically generating a web page A method for dynamically constructing a web page is disclosed which includes receiving a uniform resource locator identifying a web page. The web page references a plurality of elements. The method also includes receiving a user identifier representing a user and ev... | 05/11/2010 |
| 7676750 | Method of printing, scanning, and faxing using device location A method of printing includes providing a computer server linked to a plurality of printers, initiating a print job on a user computer device, querying the computer server for one or more available printers; transmitting identification information and location infor... | 03/09/2010 |
| 7600187 | Image forming apparatus and image forming system An image forming apparatus for communicating with a management apparatus for storing a plurality of electronic prepaid information and authentication information related to the plurality of electronic prepaid information, and replaying to inquiry request for electro... | 10/06/2009 |
| 7469383 | Medical apparatus for diagnosis or treatment The invention relates to a medical apparatus for diagnosis and/or treatment using a procedure (20), with an operating console (11) to control the use of components of the procedure (20), the operating console (11) having an input device (... | 12/23/2008 |
| 7427988 | Method and apparatus for defining and distributing an animation A method of customising an animation. A broadcast station renders first animated objects in response to locked graphic data and unlocked metadata. The metadata facilitates customisation, by including parameter interface information as well as actual parameter values... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7424680 | Set top box object security system Systems and methods for controlling the ability of scripts to access objects defined at the client. The client stores an access control data structure having multiple entries. Each entry is associated with one or more objects for which access is to be controlled. Th... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7392481 | Method and apparatus for providing content-owner control in a networked device An apparatus and methods for providing content-owner control in a device is optionally networked. A method for accessing media content has steps of initiating a first view providing access to at least a portion of a first content within the first view, initiating a ... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7383192 | Method for displaying product value chain flow diagram and product value chain data A value chain flow diagram expresses the flow of money, things, claims, persons, information, services, values or the like related to the lifecycle of products (planning, designing, manufacturing, distribution, sale, use, disposal) which are generated among enterpri... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7363587 | Method and apparatus for supporting real-time collaboration A collaboration system synchronizes an application or applications running on one or more computer systems. Each of the applications has a local data copy and the applications commence operation by creating consistent local copies from a common third copy. The consi... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7360163 | Work space formation apparatus When a user or a portable device enters work space, the user or the portable device entering the work space is detected by reading of an ID tag, and a connection interface public server for managing connection interfaces of computational resources which these user a... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7360095 | Method and apparatus for a proximity warning system The present invention provides a method, apparatus, and computer instructions for warning of a presence of a person in a zone having an inadequate security clearance. Movement of the person in the zone is detected. A message is broadcast to selected data processing ... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7346692 | Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and program Disclosed is an information processing apparatus for switching a first session and a second session in executing processing, the apparatus comprising: storage controlling means which, if a first module belonging to a group is activated in the first session, then sto... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7334039 | Techniques for generating rules for a dynamic rule-based system that responds to requests for a resource on a network Techniques for forming a rule to respond dynamically to requests for one or more resources on a network include providing, to a resource administrator, an interface for specifying the rule. The interface includes a first presentation area that displays data defining... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7328406 | System, method and software for managing and publishing resource availability data A system, method and software permitting the publication of resource availability information and the management of reservation requests therefor are provided. In an exemplary embodiment, a resource provider provides authorization, availability, descriptive, linking... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7323999 | Automatic subscriptions to shared repositories with notifications reflecting accesses by important other users and keywords stored in a personal interest profile A system and method for automatically generating and receiving notifications regarding accesses to documents in a shared repository, where the notifications are filtered such that they are only generated and/or received for accesses that match a personal interest pr... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7287227 | System and method for editing web pages in a client/server architecture A method for the editing of web pages by selectively providing editing logic and data that associates portions of the page with data sources used to provide the portions. Identical pages are provided to both editors and non-editors, preferably by retrieving and view... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7266835 | Method and apparatus for secure transactions in an interactive television ticker A user can perform secure transactions via an interactive television ticker. While viewing an advertisement scrolling in the ticker, the user can select that advertisement to initiate an on-line transaction. That resulting transaction can be performed within the tic... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7266693 | Validated mutual authentication A method of authenticating a user through a validated mutual authentication system is provided. In an exemplary embodiment, the method includes establishing a validating fractal image during an enrollment or other process. A plurality of fractal images are provided ... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7251785 | Method and system of providing access privileges to records of members of a community A method and system of providing access privileges to records of members of a community may comprise storing an assignment of a member of a community to a first position in the community to generate a first relationship. Access privileges to records of the member ma... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7251675 | Meeting system and information storage medium In a meeting system, supplied-data which is convertible using a virtual machine is transmitted and received among a plurality of processing apparatuses interconnected via a transmission line, and meeting data is reproduced. At least two of the plurality of processin... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7246367 | Synchronized service provision in a communications network The invention relates to the synchronized playback of video and/or audio recordings in terminals of a communications network. A server stores recordings including timing markers, each of which indicates an internal position within the recording. The system comprises... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7225408 | System and user interface for communicating and processing patient record information A system facilitates the secure access, transfer and update of patient record information and the creation and navigation of image menus supporting the location and access of desired patient record data by a user. A system provides a user interface for use by a port... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7222369 | Role-based portal to a workplace system A method includes storing a plurality of role data entries on a storage device coupled to a computer system, each role data entry corresponding to an assigned role of at least one of a plurality of individuals, each role corresponding to an enterprise with which the... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7197712 | Server visualization and control Methods and systems for server visualization and control are provided. In various embodiments, multiple clients connect to a server to receive various services from service providers, including financial services. When a client connects to a server, it provides auth... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7188314 | System and method for user authentication interface A graphical user interface supports an interactive client-server authentication based on Random Partial Pattern Recognition algorithm (RPPR). In RPPR, an ordered set of data fields is stored for a client to be authenticated in secure memory on the server side. A gra... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7185066 | Secure data sharing system A system for sharing computer data between two or more sharing partners. The system includes copying of first private data from a first private data memory of a first sharing partner, to a first shared data memory associated with the first sharing partner. The syste... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7162699 | Mechanisms and artifacts to manage heterogeneous platform interfaces in a collaboration system A collaboration system including a coordinated distributed design process and which allows individuals to hold interactions over a network and work together in a coordinated fashion on shared problems, wherein a controlling participant in control of the floor of a c... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7159179 | Service providing system and service providing device that provides a specific service in response to user authority determination based on positional relationships of virtual objects The invention provides a service providing system in which it is determined whether users have use authority to utilize a service providing apparatus, such as a projector, so that only users having the use authority can utilize the service providing apparatus. The i... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7149738 | Resource and data administration technologies for IT non-experts A system and method for managing data resources includes a policy definition layer, a policy deployment layer and a policy execution layer. The policy definition layer provides for creating, editing and visualizing policies through a user interface using intuitive s... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7127677 | Customizable remote order entry system and method A system for generating a requisition comprises a client computer system and a server computer system connected via a network. The client computer is configured to allow a plurality of users to access the server computer system. The system further includes a server ... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7124370 | Presence and geographic location notification based on a delegation model A user of an instant messaging system may store names of other users of the instant messaging system on a participant list (which may be referred to as a “buddy list”), and the names may be categorized into one or more groups. Similarly, a user of a mobile devic... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7107538 | Enforcing security on an attribute of an object Methods, systems, and schema are provided for enforcing security on an attribute of an object. An instance of an object is created or modified using the schema where a number of the attributes for the object include descriptors. The attributes of the created or modi... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7089501 | Menu-assisted control method and device A method and a device for menu-assisted operator control, in particular for motor vehicles, using a multifunctional operator control, includes a multifunctional display device and a processing device which controls the display build-up of the multifunctional display... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7076736 | Method and apparatus for sharing many thought databases among many clients The Brain system employs a graphical user interface to facilitate user interaction with highly flexible, associative “matrices” that enable users to conveniently organize digitally-stored “thoughts” (inter-related information) and their network of inter-rela... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7065785 | Apparatus and method for TOL client boundary protection A telephony-over-LAN (ToL) system having a graphical user interface (GUI) wherein an authorized or guest user may be locked within a ToL window, having full access to the ToL features, but denied access to other parts of the computer system. In such a system, the te... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7051282 | Multi-layer graphical user interface A multi-layer graphical user interface provides multiple types of information in at least two layers of a common display space, such as a window. In one implementation, a shared network folder includes two layers of display objects to separately represent files cont... | 05/23/2006 |
