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Decorative Jeweled Wheel Cover
An improved wheel is provided wherein decorative items such as gem stones are embedded in either the wheel surface, a special mounting section attached to the wheel surface, or to a spoke strap that wraps around each spoke and positions embedded gem stones on the outside surface of the spoke.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7415669 | Method and apparatus for viewing electronic commerce-related documents The present invention includes a method of providing users with formatted access to XML and similar documents received from trading partners using a general purpose viewer or browser. Particular aspects of the present invention are described in the claims, specifica... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7406660 | Mapping between structured data and a visual surface A data processing application uses a translation file to render a visual surface based on underlying structured data. The data processing application provides mapping between nodes associated with the visual surface and nodes associated with the structured data. The... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7406659 | Smart links A system and methods to incorporate, distribute, and execute associated links in online content is provided. The invention contemplates client side processing of online content received from one or more cooperating content servers to incorporate associated links by ... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7398463 | High performance freeze-dried dynamic web page generation Dynamic web page generation is optimized by reducing the processing overhead required to parse the web page HTML code for tokens and insert dynamic content. Using the invention, an HTML file for a dynamic web page need be read and parsed only once throughout the lif... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7398464 | System and method for converting an electronically stored document A system and method for producing a document formatted according to Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) from an electronically stored original document while preserving the visual presentation properties of the original document as characterized by the document-authori... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7392470 | Adaptive display system and method for a gaming machine The present invention provides a system and method for a configurable gaming system. Certain embodiments of the system include a local storage for storing a markup language file and token resolution information and a markup language viewer for processing the markup ... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7389473 | Representing user edit permission of regions within an electronic document Regions within editable objects of electronic document can be defined such that specific editing permissions can be granted to specific users for specific regions. The regions can be expressed in a ML format such that a variety of applications that consume ML conten... | 06/17/2008 |
| 7373589 | Keyword creation method and its apparatus A keyword creation method and its apparatus to simply create keywords in user's retrieving a desired item of information from a vast amount of information. The habitual situation characteristics and the degree of typical liking tendency of a user are calculated on t... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7370271 | Methods and apparatus for generating a spreadsheet report template Methods and apparatus for generating a report template for generation of a spreadsheet report are disclosed. First, a grid including a plurality of cells is displayed. One or more database fields for which data is to be obtained from a database are identified, where... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7366976 | Methods and systems for generating a viewable document using view descriptors and generic view stylesheets Methods, systems, and computer program products, for using a web browser to view stored data over the World Wide Web, where the data is stored in a format normally incompatible with such viewing. A client computer processes a view descriptor and a general view class... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7366975 | Method and apparatus for allowing a media client to obtain media data from a media server Some embodiments of the invention provide a computer system that includes a media server, a media client, and a media-server interface. The media server application produces media data, where the media data has a plurality of segments. For example, in some embodimen... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7360149 | Displaying text of video in browsers on a frame by frame basis A method, system, and computer program product for presenting text from multimedia data to a user is provided. In one embodiment, multimedia data containing associated text data is received by a data processing system. The associated text data is extracted from the ... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7343554 | Mechanisms for supporting back button function of web browser as web service server in interaction with business process engine This application describes systems and techniques for using a Web-service based business process to interact with a Web browser as if the Web browser were a Web service server. In one exemplary implementation, an interface module with a HTTP server is provided to co... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7334188 | System and method for generating HTML based on common XSLT A method for generating HTML based on common XSLT includes retrieving XML data from a data provider in response to a request from a client, the XML data comprising at least one dataset associated with at least one SVG tag or at least one table tag. The retrieved dat... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7325191 | Preservation of source code formatting Documents before and after editing are compared. Changes are applied to the original document, thus preserving the existing formatting. ... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7322008 | Organizing, editing, and rendering digital ink A pen-based computing system supports organizing, editing, and rendering handwritten digital ink. A given page of text may include several word flows, but the flows may be prevented from overlapping one another, and each word and stroke may be assigned to only one f... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7308642 | Method and device for handling synchronization related information SyncML allows synchronization to take place between a terminal device and a server device. To be able to understand each other the data transferred between a SyncML client and a SyncML server must be coded as a SyncML document. The coding or decoding/parsing of the ... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7305611 | Authoring tool for remote experience lessons A computer-implemented presentation authoring method, tool, and interface is provided for creating a remote experience lesson defined with a hierarchy of pages, at least one of the pages including an interactive view of a three-dimensional model. Any number of three... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7296218 | Instant note capture/presentation apparatus, system and method A live-presentation utterance-capture system includes a microphone accessible to a speaker at a live presentation; a voice-recognition mechanism configured linguistically to interpret a vocal utterance received at the microphone from the speaker; a database mechanis... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7284188 | Method and system for embedding MPEG-7 header data to improve digital content queries A system and method for augmenting digital material with MPEG-7 content descriptions to enhance searching and selection of the digital material. Pursuant to the collection of content information about the digital material, either through receipt or content character... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7275209 | Mixed content flexibility for XML editors The present invention is directed towards providing mixed content flexibility for word-processing document in an XML (or ML) file format. Mixed content can be provided within an XML file such that validation of the file will not produce errors even when an associate... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7266765 | Detection and processing of annotated anchors A system, apparatus, and article of manufacture for detecting a reader's interest in a particular external document through their markings and annotations, and processing the marks in various ways, is provided. By detecting anchors proximal to annotations made by a ... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7266769 | Organizing, editing, and rendering digital ink A pen-based computing system supports organizing, editing, and rendering handwritten digital ink. A given page of text may include several word flows, but the flows may be prevented from overlapping one another, and each word and stroke may be assigned to only one f... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7260775 | System and method for discovering information about web resources Described is a system and mechanism by which a client computer may issue a conventional request for a resource on the Web. A response to that request is annotated with information indicating that metadata is available for the resource. Specifically, a special tag or... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7197701 | Management of hierarchies Computer-implemented methods, computer systems and computer program products for display state adjustment of tree-nodes. A tree has a plurality of nodes, wherein each node has a predefined control attribute and a predefined display attribute. A computer system chang... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7185277 | Method and apparatus for merging electronic documents containing markup language A method and apparatus are provided for merging two electronic documents, one or both of which contain markup language. The source document and the destination document are compared to identify the matching blocks and the difference blocks. Each of the matching bloc... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7165212 | Animation on object user interface A system and method for graphically showing the animation order of animated elements in a presentation program or other software. The invention consists of a User Interface (UI) widget which shows the order of the animation in the presentation. This UI employs an an... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7103835 | Process builder for a routable electronic document system and method for using the same A process builder for a system of routing electronic documents and a method for using the same are provided. The process builder receives an electronic document having programmable features. The process builder determines a number of attributes and form fields from ... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7036077 | Method for gestural interpretation in a system for selecting and arranging visible material in document images A graphical input and display system for creating and manipulating image object(s) includes input devices permitting a user to select elements of image object(s) received from various image input sources. A processor, connected to the system, receives requests for v... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7028256 | Adding white space to a document generating adjusted page sizing A method, a computer system and a computer-readable medium having instructions for a processor stored thereon are provided for growing a page on a display. Input indicating a first position or designation of content on a page of an electronic document and an amount ... | 04/11/2006 |
| 7017113 | Method and apparatus for removing redundant information from digital documents Method and apparatus for reconstructing new documents from a group of old ones by removing the existing redundant information. Redundant information (images, text paragraphs) from retrieved multimedia documents is removed. Each document consists of two main parts st... | 03/21/2006 |
| 7013424 | Dedicated processor for efficient processing of documents encoded in a markup language A dedicated processor for efficient processing of documents encoded in a markup language, such as XML. The dedicated processor is capable of performing traditional parsing, transformation and manipulation processes on the document. The special purpose processor free... | 03/14/2006 |
| 7010744 | System and method of navigating and creating electronic hierarchical documents A method of navigating and creating hierarchical documents is disclosed. The illustrative embodiments of the present invention enable a user to navigate quickly through multiple levels and sub-levels of hierarchical documents without having to manually change the di... | 03/07/2006 |
| 7010746 | System and method for constraint-based document generation What is disclosed is a system and method for specifying a custom document as a constraint satisfaction problem (CSP) to create the specified document using existing constraint solving algorithms wherein the document, its content components, and its layout requiremen... | 03/07/2006 |
| 6988243 | Print system and information processing apparatus It is desirable for a user to perform optimum printing business in an environment of a print system used by the user, without being conscious of a function of forming document printing data by a server and a function of forming the document printing data by a client... | 01/17/2006 |
| 6957389 | Animation on-object user interface A system and method for graphically showing the animation order of animated elements in a presentation program or other software. More particularly, the invention consists of a User Interface (UI) widget which shows the order of the animation in the presentation. Th... | 10/18/2005 |
| 6952802 | User controllable document converter and methods thereof A method, apparatus and computer program product for a non-atomic (i.e., user controllable) format converter that affords a user the ability to control the structure of the converted document as well as selectively add information to or otherwise modify selected por... | 10/04/2005 |
| 6950985 | Specifying DICOM semantic constraints in XML The invention relates to a method of providing DICOM SR constraints within an XML document. An XML document is created containing DICOM SR constraints using declarative language. The document can then be accessed and displayed if desired. ... | 09/27/2005 |
| 6948117 | Methods and systems for generating a viewable document using view descriptors and generic view stylesheets Methods, systems, and computer program products, for using a web browser to view stored data over the World Wide Web, where the data is stored in a format normally incompatible with such viewing. A client computer processes a view descriptor and a general view class... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6941513 | System and method for text structuring and text generation The present invention provides a computer-implemented system and method of text processing. The system and method include analyzing selected text units of a digitally coded parsed text file to determine text entities, determine the interconnections between the text ... | 09/06/2005 |
