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Inventor: Robert M. Ayers


Address: Palo Alto, CA
No. of patents: 7
Last patent issue date: 05/03/2011

NumberTitleIssue Date
7937654Text reflow in a structured document
A method and computer program product for reflowing a PDL page without using the original application used to create the PDL page. The method and computer program product include receiving a page represented in a page description language, the page including a plura...
05/03/2011
7793224Methods and apparatus for formatting identified content
A content formatting process receives identification of selected content within an original document, and identifies formatting information associated with the selected content, but not contained within the selected content. The identified formatting information is ...
09/07/2010
7511720Text reflow in a structured document
A method and computer program product for reflowing a PDL page without using the original application used to create the PDL page. The method and computer program product include receiving a page represented in a page description language, the page including a plura...
03/31/2009
7415452Traversing a hierarchical layout template
Methods and apparatus implementing systems and techniques for traversing a hierarchical layout template to accelerate a constraint-driven backtracking search for a solution of the layout template. In general, in one implementation, the techniques include identifying...
08/19/2008
6915484Text reflow in a structured document
A method and computer program product for reflowing a PDL page without using the original application used to create the PDL page. The method and computer program product include receive a page represented in a page description language, the page including a plurali...
07/05/2005
5832530Method and apparatus for identifying words described in a portable electronic document
A method and apparatus for identifying words stored in a portable electronic document. A digital computation apparatus stores a page of a document including characters in text segments that have not been identified as words. A word identifying mechanism a...
11/03/1998
5832531Method and apparatus for identifying words described in a page description language file
A method and apparatus for identifying words described in a page description file. A computer device stores a page description language file which includes characters that have not been identified as words by the page description language. A word identify...
11/03/1998
 
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