Form Creation Patents (Class 715/222)
  • Patent number: 8977951
    Abstract: A system receives an identification of an electronic form that contains a set of objects. At least one object allows a user, via a graphical user interface, to provide input to the object. The system identifies a set of objects from the electronic form to be included within a panel used by a wizard to complete the electronic form. The system generates the panel for presentation by the wizard. The panel allows the user to provide input to those objects on that panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2015
    Assignee: Adobe Systems Incorporated
    Inventors: Christopher H. M. Ethier, Trevor H. Ward, Keith R. McLellan, Anthony R. Rumsey
  • Patent number: 8958644
    Abstract: A system and method for creating a table from one or more form images is described. An Image Based Document Management (IBDM) server includes a stroke identification module, an image generator, a table generator and a preference module. The stroke identification module receives completed form data from one or more forms with handwriting fields, media fields and symbolic fields. The image generator generates field images that are a combination of handwriting fields, media fields and symbolic fields. The user preference module determines a user preference for displaying the table. The table generator generates a table from the field images based on the user preference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2015
    Assignee: Ricoh Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Edward L. Schwartz, John W. Barrus
  • Patent number: 8954841
    Abstract: A template processor converts an initial template document into an XSL template that can be used to automatically generate reports from report data extracted from a database or other application. Users create initial template documents using a word processor or other rich-text editing application. The initial template document employs the word processor's native formatting features to specify the formatting of report data. The initial template document includes placeholder tags inserted by the user to define the locations of report data in the report. The initial template document also includes transformation tags that dynamically define the content of a report based on the value or quantity of report data. The template processor can include a reader adapted to read portions of the initial template file and a parser adapted to create corresponding XSL code from these portions. The XSL template can be combined with XML-formatted data to create a report.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2015
    Assignee: Oracle International Corporation
    Inventors: Xin Jiang, Shinji Yoshida
  • Patent number: 8954839
    Abstract: A computer based system and method for contract authoring. The method can receive an external contract document in electronic form, wherein the external contract document comprises a plurality of text portions relating to a plurality of contract component types, respectively. The method can accessing a knowledge base describing a plurality of text patterns which identify with the plurality of the contract component types, respectively. Moreover, the method can process the external contract document utilizing the knowledge base to automatically identify the plurality of the contract component types for the plurality of the text portions in the contract document, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2015
    Inventors: Sachin Sharma, Shawn Fernandes
  • Publication number: 20140380141
    Abstract: A system and method for creating and managing electronic forms is described. The system includes a processor configured to receive an image of a form and receive, via a network interface, form template information specifying at least a first input field. The form template information includes a first input field type selection and first field location information for the first input field. The first input field type is selected from a plurality of input field types and the first field location information is defined relative to the image. The processor stores the form template information within a memory. The electronic form is configured to be rendered by superimposing a representation of the first input field over the image of the form.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2014
    Publication date: December 25, 2014
    Inventors: Jason Craven, Jeff Fildey, Jason Freitas, Jonathan McIntire, Andrew Stevens, Jonathan Stevens
  • Patent number: 8918709
    Abstract: An object template system is described herein that allows an administrator of an IT management application to define templates that provide a streamlined mechanism for pre-populating IT objects with common values based on business logic and processes. The object template system addresses manipulation of objects both as part of a user interactive session as well as in programmatic workflows, while also allowing for referencing of existing objects to assume integrity of data. A metadata-driven schema allows for portable definitions of simple and complex extensible objects. The system validates these definitions against the extensible types that define the objects to ensure structural integrity. Users can then apply these definitions at runtime to both create and/or update simple and complex management objects. Thus, the object template system allows an administrator to define controlled processes for creating and modifying management objects within a flexible IT management application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2014
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Jakub M. Oleksy, Bogdan Berce, Bradley M. Hammond
  • Patent number: 8918810
    Abstract: An apparatus for providing available codec information, includes a receiving unit that receives electronic program guide (EPG) data transmitted by a broadcasting operator; a codec-management unit that checks the position information of the codec based on the received EPG data, and manages the point of downloading time of the codec; an interface-generation unit that generates the position information of the checked codec, and provides the information to the EPG screen; and a display unit that displays the EPG screen including the position information of the codec.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2014
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jung-min Yoon, Jun-hyeong Kim, Jae-woo Ko, Joung-hoon Choo, Sang-do Park
  • Publication number: 20140372860
    Abstract: A system and method for creating and managing electronic forms is described. The system includes a processor configured to receive an image of a form and receive, via a network interface, form template information specifying at least a first input field. The form template information includes a first input field type selection and first field location information for the first input field. The first input field type is selected from a plurality of input field types and the first field location information is defined relative to the image. The processor stores the form template information within a memory. The electronic form is configured to be rendered by superimposing a representation of the first input field over the image of the form.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2014
    Publication date: December 18, 2014
    Inventors: Jason Craven, Jeff Fildey, Jason Freitas, Jonathan McIntire, Andrew Stevens, Jonathan Stevens
  • Publication number: 20140359418
    Abstract: The disclosed embodiments illustrate methods and systems for creating one or more tasks of digitizing an electronic document. The electronic document comprises one or more fields. The method comprising receiving inputs to define one or more characteristics associated with each of the one or more fields. The one or more fields are categorized in one or more groups based on the one or more characteristics. Additionally, a task is created for each of the one or more categorized fields based on the one or more characteristics associated with each of the one or more categorized fields, wherein the task comprises at least a user interface for facilitating at least one remote worker to input a response for the task.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2013
    Publication date: December 4, 2014
    Applicant: XEROX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Chithralekha Balamurugan, Shourya Roy, Sujit Gujar
  • Patent number: 8903712
    Abstract: A system and method for providing an easy-to-use interface for verifying semantic tags in a steering application in order to generate a natural language grammar. The method includes obtaining user responses to open-ended steering questions, automatically grouping the user responses into groups based on their semantic meaning, and automatically assigning preliminary semantic tags to each of the groups. The user interface enables the user to validate the content of the groups to ensure that all responses within a group have the same semantic meaning and to add or edit semantic tags associated with the groups. The system and method may be applied to interactive voice response (IVR) systems, as well as customer service systems that can communicate with a user via a text or written interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2014
    Assignee: Nuance Communications, Inc.
    Inventors: Real Tremblay, Jerome Tremblay, Amy E. Ulug, Jean-Francois Fortier, Francois Berleur, Jeffrey N. Marcus, David Andrew Mauro
  • Publication number: 20140351684
    Abstract: A mobile application engine includes an adapter, translation server and mobile renderer for providing forms as native mobile applications on a mobile device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2013
    Publication date: November 27, 2014
    Applicant: SourceCode Technology Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Oliver Mitchel Smit, Werner Lowe, Marius Burger, Carel Aaron du Toit
  • Publication number: 20140344659
    Abstract: A unified electronic forms management system that comprises a network-based software implemented process that is designed to provide its users with access to a unified system and process of managing form data and the creation, storage, update and distribution of electronic forms. The unified electronic forms management system may include a centralized and unified electronic forms management system remote server, which communicates over a network with a remote form designer used by a user to create a form, a remote form viewer used by a form user, a database that stores the form data associated with the remote server, and external database(s) that optionally receive data transmitted by the unified system. Form recipient(s) have the option of receiving over the network the form for approval and/or to provide additional information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2014
    Publication date: November 20, 2014
    Inventor: David SCHNITT
  • Patent number: 8893233
    Abstract: A referer verification apparatus and method for controlling web traffic having malicious code are provided. In the referer verification method, whether a referer is present in a Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) packet is determined. If it is determined that the referer is present in the HTTP packet, Uniform Resource Locators (URLs) are extracted from a referer web page corresponding to the referer. The referer is verified based on a URL corresponding to a referer verification request received from a server and the extracted URLs. A Completely Automated Public Test to tell Computers and Humans Apart (CAPTCHA) verification procedure conducted by a user is performed based on results of the verification of the referer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research
    Inventors: Chul-Woo Lee, Deok-Jin Kim, Byoung-Jin Han, Byung-Chul Bae, Sang-Woo Park, Man-Hee Lee, E-Joong Yoon
  • Publication number: 20140325330
    Abstract: A pedagogical system and method enables improved writing skills by assisting in the generation of a document. The system includes a server having a data interface for receiving a question to be answered in the document. A data store associated with the server includes a plurality of directive words and descriptive text associated with each of the directive words. The server also includes a processor and associated memory, including program code for identifying directive words in the question and retrieving, from the data store, descriptive text associated with the directive words. An output interface then displays the descriptive text for each of the directive words.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2012
    Publication date: October 30, 2014
    Inventors: Selina Joy Tomasich, Lee-anne Maree Bye, Diana Jasmine Gay
  • Publication number: 20140310582
    Abstract: A system and method for creating an electronic form used to chronicle a healthcare interaction between a patient and healthcare provider is provided. A repository stores form control data objects, each of the form control data objects enabling user data entry of information associated with a respective aspect of the healthcare interaction. A form processor acquires form control data objects associated with a particular healthcare interaction from the repository and generates form creation data including the acquired form control data objects and a formatting grid, the formatting grid receives at least one of the acquired form control data objects. A user interface generator generates a form creation user interface using the form creation data received from the form processor that enables a user to selectively position the at least one of the acquired form control data objects within the formatting grid in a desired position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2013
    Publication date: October 16, 2014
    Applicant: Draeger Medical Systems, Inc.
    Inventor: Jody Bardman
  • Patent number: 8860994
    Abstract: A method is disclosed. The method includes receiving an input print job file including a form definition (formdef), determining whether the formdef is an N-up formdef and generating an output print job file by inserting a forms overlay into the input print job file as a pre-printed form if the formdef is an N-up formdef.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2014
    Assignee: Ricoh Production Print Solutions
    Inventors: David L. Stokes, Susan M. Saad, Michael G. Lotz
  • Publication number: 20140258825
    Abstract: Systems and methods acquire inspection information and reporting data from a scanned image of a paper inspection form. Inspection information can be extracted and converted to electronic format. The electronic format can be downloaded to a mobile device to facilitate an inspection during an inspection process. The inspection results can be entered into the mobile device and saved electronically, and can be automatically generated on a printed paper inspection form when desired.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2013
    Publication date: September 11, 2014
    Inventors: Tuhin Ghosh, Terry Freund
  • Patent number: 8832578
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are methods, systems, and non-transitory computer readable media for displaying a clipboard. A method can include receiving at a client device, two or more copied pieces of content copied from one or more resources, receiving an indication to display the two or more copied pieces of content, determining a form field associated with the indication, ranking the two or more copied pieces of content based on the form field, and displaying at the client device, a clipboard with the two or more copied pieces of content ranked.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Roma Shah, Nicholas Jitkoff, Alex Ainslie
  • Patent number: 8826115
    Abstract: According to one aspect of the present invention, a method is provided in which a form is received from an author. A parsing function is performed to extract attribute information with respect to various form elements contained in the form. A user interface is presented to the author to allow the author to configure a set of actions that are to be performed in processing the submissions of the form.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2014
    Assignee: Oracle Systems Corporation
    Inventor: Prasad Raje
  • Publication number: 20140237341
    Abstract: A system and method for creating integrated web form and database applications. One or more embodiments of the invention enable a system and method for creating integrated web form and database applications. The system enables click-and-drag form creation and automatically codes the markup, validation script and database schema. The system does not require programming to create forms or a database schema to associate form data with. In addition, the system does not require programming for integrating forms and a database. By generating the schema to implement a form, a non-database programmer such as a designer can create web forms that store and display data to and from a database without programming any software. In this manner, designers can perform tasks that heretofore have required software engineers. A system and method for creating integrated web form and database applications.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2014
    Publication date: August 21, 2014
    Applicant: ECI Software, Inc.
    Inventor: Monique Stover
  • Patent number: 8806320
    Abstract: The present invention relates generally to a system that creates a real-time collaboration and synchronization of multiple, disparate media components, and more particularly to a system that creates dynamic relations and includes notations and annotations in text, audio, video, bookmark, and marked area without affecting the integrity of the original media source making it possible to later search any of these components independently using regular text search or further phonetic and image recognition searches.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2014
    Assignee: Cut2It, Inc.
    Inventor: Gaith Abdo
  • Patent number: 8799762
    Abstract: A technique for generating a form is described. In the technique, a user provides information associated with a user-defined field, including a data type and/or semantic information for an entry associated with the user-defined field. Then, a computer system generates the form, which includes the user-defined field and additional fields based on the information associated with the user-defined field and the additional fields. This form includes a spatial reference pattern that, when printed on paper, facilitates data input using a writing instrument (such as a digital pen). Furthermore, generating the form may involve translating from a computer-input format of the form to a writing-instrument format based on specified layouts or sequential positions of the user-defined field and the additional fields. Next, the computer system provides the form to a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: Intuit Inc.
    Inventors: Gang Wang, Gerald B. Huff, William A. Lucchini
  • Patent number: 8793574
    Abstract: Systems and methods for receive one or more document comprising genealogical or ancestral information and generating an electronic version of the document. Extracting genealogical or ancestral information from one or more documents and associate information extracted from the document(s) with one or more data fields of a genealogical record. Displaying the electronic document simultaneously with a plurality of genealogical or ancestral records that includes information about individuals, and a hierarchical structure describing a relationship between individuals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: Ancestry.com Operations Inc.
    Inventor: Donald B. Curtis
  • Publication number: 20140208194
    Abstract: A system and method for creating and/or presenting electronic forms to users and securely collecting the data entered into the electronic forms. A dashboard application includes a collection of electronic forms for display on a presentation device. Clients complete their corresponding form(s) through the presentation device and the completed form(s) are collected by a server application and stored in a database remote from the presentation device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2014
    Publication date: July 24, 2014
    Inventors: Michael O'Leary, Michael Hansen, Matthew Murray
  • Patent number: 8782065
    Abstract: A system supports discovering available web services, retrieving description documents describing the web services, and binding methods and their parameters to data of an application document. When a user wants to bind a discovered web service to an application document, the system retrieves a description document from the web service. The system then parses the description document to identify the methods supported by the web service along with their parameters. The system allows a user to map method names and parameter names to more user-friendly display names. The system allows the user to bind the parameters to data of an application document. When the document is to be updated, the system sends a request for services specifying a method and input parameters as indicated by the binding. When a response is received, the system stores output parameters of the response in the document as indicating by the binding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2014
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventor: Louis Maresca
  • Patent number: 8756489
    Abstract: A system for dynamic assembly of form fragments is provided. The system may reside on a computer system hosting a computing application and may include a request processor be configured to receive a request to generate an electronic form based on a host template and a document description, an insertion points processor, a stitching module, and an output module. The insertion points processor may be configured to parse the host template to determine an insertion point and determine a form fragment to be referenced in the host template at a location designated by the insertion point, based on information present in the document description. The stitching module may be configured to insert a reference to the form fragment into the host template at the location indicated by the insertion point. The output module may be configured to generate a result electronic form, utilizing the host template and the form fragment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2014
    Assignee: Adobe Systems Incorporated
    Inventors: Jocelyn Richardt, John P. Brinkman, Donald R. Walling, Jr.
  • Patent number: 8739047
    Abstract: A method of managing agile software development includes displaying assets associated with an agile software development process. Selection of a first link corresponding to a respective asset of the displayed assets is detected; in response, one or more related assets associated with the respective asset are displayed. Selection of a second link corresponding to a first related asset of the one or more related assets is detected; in response, a user interface for editing attributes of the first related asset is displayed, wherein the user interface and the one or more related assets are displayed in a common window.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2014
    Assignee: VersionOne, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Holler, Ian Culling, Rajiv Delwadia, Pavel Mamut, Mark Crowe, Donald Hanson, Patrick Boudreaux
  • Patent number: 8732570
    Abstract: A system and method for paper-based, automated completion of forms allows a user charged with filling out multiple forms containing some common information to write each unique piece of information one time, and the system generates a set of completed forms with the required information on each form with no change to the use or structure of the current forms. The control module is operable on a processor to determine a mapping between common fields on multiple forms or multiple pages of the same form, copy information written in a field on one form to equivalent fields on other forms, and produce a set of completed forms. The system is computationally simple and independent of language because these operations can be performed without having to understand, translate or convert the writing. Furthermore, there is no loss of security or privacy beyond the use of paper forms because these operations can be performed without access to a centralized database and without connectivity to other systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2014
    Assignee: Ricoh Co. Ltd.
    Inventors: Michael J. Gormish, Michael G. E. Griffin, Max E. McFarland
  • Patent number: 8719216
    Abstract: A method for obtaining a result for a post-query may include: (a) Algorithmically treating the query to create a signature. (b) Composing a pseudo-get web identifier including a web address identifying a responding station and the signature. (c) Sending the query via a network to the responding station to request the result. (d) Determining whether the result is stored in a cache unit in the network. (e) If the result is stored in a cache unit, providing the result to the requesting station. (f) If the result is not stored in a cache unit, acquiring the result from the responding station. (g) Storing the result in a receiving cache unit. (h) Sending a resubmitted query via the network to the responding station in a format appropriate to retrieve the stored result from the receiving cache unit. The resubmitted query format includes the signature phrase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2014
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: John Francis Bremer, Jr., Alimuddin Mohammad
  • Patent number: 8707157
    Abstract: In general, in one aspect, the invention relates to a method for populating forms. The method includes: identifying a set of inputs to a form from past users; receiving, from a current user, a request to view the form; identifying temporal data associated with the current user; identifying an internet protocol (IP) address of a computing device of the current user; performing, based on the IP address and the temporal data, a statistical analysis on the set of inputs; determining, based on the statistical analysis, that a statistical threshold corresponding to a field on the form is exceeded; calculating, in response to determining that that the statistical threshold is exceeded, a default value for the field; and sending the default value to the computing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2014
    Assignee: Intuit Inc.
    Inventor: Yashwant Singh Chouhan
  • Publication number: 20140095968
    Abstract: A computer-based method of creating a document assembly source document using a document creation application comprises providing one or more selection interface components within the document creation application, each selection interface component being operable by an author to create a variable content element within a current document. The author is able to select one of the selection interface components, and is then presented with one or more input components into which values of variable content configuration information are entered. Document assembly source control elements are then automatically created, corresponding with the variable content element and the variable control configuration information, and then associated with the current document. The document assembly source elements are adapted for generation of a document assembly content form which comprises separate data model and presentation sections.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2013
    Publication date: April 3, 2014
    Applicant: Plutext Pty Ltd
    Inventor: Jason Brett Harrop
  • Patent number: 8683435
    Abstract: The present invention includes aspects of a designer program or tool for customizing a clinical trial program to a particular protocol of a particular clinical trial. The designer program includes visual cues or mechanisms for organizing trial components within the designer program in a straightforward manner such that technically low skilled designers can implement often complex trial protocols. In an embodiment, the designer program includes validation scripts that test functions, derivations, queries and the like. Moreover, use of the designer program can include development of trial libraries that can make customizations reusable, scalable, and highly efficient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2014
    Assignee: Datalabs
    Inventors: Nicholas P. Richards, James A. Langford, Richard E. Gleeson, Scott Thompson, Christopher C. DeMeyer, Ron W. Dixon, Dennis M. Wjinker, Robert L. Barr
  • Patent number: 8683315
    Abstract: A system and method for creating integrated web form and database applications. One or more embodiments of the invention enable a system and method for creating integrated web form and database applications. The system enables click-and-drag form creation and automatically codes the markup, validation script and database schema. The system does not require programming to create forms or a database schema to associate form data with. In addition, the system does not require programming for integrating forms and a database. By generating the schema to implement a form, a non-database programmer such as a designer can create web forms that store and display data to and from a database without programming any software. In this manner, designers can perform tasks that heretofore have required software engineers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2014
    Assignee: ECI Software, Inc.
    Inventor: Monique Stover
  • Patent number: 8667394
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a system for incorporating all or part of a database and/or data sources and data management interface into a transferable file that is in the form of a platform-independent, intelligent document and provides a user in real-time with a platform-independent file having data and a data management interface. The intelligent cross-platform document is generated by synthesizing information from diverse data sources, such as, but without limitation, database, architecture files, icons, images, reference data files, web links. The generation of the file encapsulated with data and an information management interface may be conducted in real-time and allows for all or part of an information management system to be transferred in a cross-platform file to a user that is not directly connected to the information management system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2014
    Inventor: William C. Spencer
  • Patent number: 8667383
    Abstract: A unified electronic forms management system that comprises a network-based software implemented process that is designed to provide its users with access to a unified system and process of managing form data and the creation, storage, update and distribution of electronic forms. The unified electronic forms management system may include a centralized and unified electronic forms management system remote server, which communicates over a network with a remote form designer used by a user to create a form, a remote form viewer used by a form user, a database that stores the form data associated with the remote server, and external database(s) that optionally receive data transmitted by the unified system. Form recipient(s) have the option of receiving over the network the form for approval and/or to provide additional information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2014
    Inventor: David Schnitt
  • Publication number: 20140059414
    Abstract: An arrangement for, and a method of, electro-optically reading forms, each form having a plurality of form fields arranged at locations relative to one another, by image capture, includes storing form templates, each template having a plurality of template fields arranged at locations relative to one another, and capturing images over a field of view. A form and a correct orientation of the form, whose image is being captured, are automatically identified by matching the locations of the form fields in the captured image of the form with the locations of the stored template fields. The form fields on the identified form in the correct orientation are thereupon processed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2012
    Publication date: February 27, 2014
    Applicant: Symbol Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Duanfeng He, Anu Kannan
  • Patent number: 8655843
    Abstract: A device receives medical data associated with a user of the device, and creates a body template based on the received medical data, where the body template includes layers that are representations of a human body associated with the user. The device also displays the body template to the user, where the user is capable of manipulating one or more layers of the body template in order to review the medical data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2014
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventor: Michelle Felt
  • Publication number: 20140033011
    Abstract: The present embodiments are directed to systems and methods of creating and deploying electronic forms for collecting information from a user using a browser or other application. Various embodiments herein include features for automatically selecting and configuring services for rendering and submitting intelligent forms or other data structures in an automated process environment. The automated process environment may include features which permit an enterprise to blend electronic forms, process management, document security, and document generation capabilities to deliver applications which may reduce paperwork, accelerate decision-making processes, and help ensure regulatory compliance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2009
    Publication date: January 30, 2014
    Applicant: ADOBE SYSTEMS, INC.
    Inventors: Florentin N. Wandeler, Jason Hightower
  • Publication number: 20140033010
    Abstract: A system for dynamic assembly of form fragments is provided. The system may reside on a computer system hosting a computing application and may include a request processor be configured to receive a request to generate an electronic form based on a host template and a document description, an insertion points processor, a stitching module, and an output module. The insertion points processor may be configured to parse the host template to determine an insertion point and determine a form fragment to be referenced in the host template at a location designated by the insertion point, based on information present in the document description. The stitching module may be configured to insert a reference to the form fragment into the host template at the location indicated by the insertion point. The output module may be configured to generate a result electronic form, utilizing the host template and the form fragment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2009
    Publication date: January 30, 2014
    Applicant: Adobe Systems Incorporated
    Inventors: Jocelyn Richardt, John P. Brinkman, Donald R. Walling
  • Patent number: 8630974
    Abstract: A real estate disclosure reporting method identifies a subject property, accesses an insurance claim database, determines from the database whether an insurance claim has been filed for the subject property and generates a report regarding the subject property and the insurance claim.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2014
    Assignee: Empire IP LLC
    Inventor: G. Randall Bell
  • Publication number: 20140006917
    Abstract: A method and system generates an idealized image of a form. An image of a form and a template model of the form are received. The form includes data fields. Word boxes of the image are identified. The word boxes are assigned to corresponding data fields of the form. An idealized image of the from is generated based on the assignments and the template model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2012
    Publication date: January 2, 2014
    Applicant: Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated
    Inventor: Eric Saund
  • Publication number: 20140003721
    Abstract: A method and system to localize data fields of a form. An image of a form is received, where the form includes data fields. Word boxes of the image are identified. The word boxes are grouped into candidate zones, where each of the candidate zones includes one or more of the word boxes. Hypotheses are formed from the data fields and the candidate zones, where each hypothesis assigns one of the candidate zones to one of the data fields or a null data field. A constrained optimization search of the hypotheses is performed for an optimal set of hypotheses. The optimal set of hypotheses assigns word box groups to corresponding data fields.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2012
    Publication date: January 2, 2014
    Applicant: PALO ALTO RESEARCH CENTER INCORPORATED
    Inventor: Eric Saund
  • Publication number: 20130346845
    Abstract: Methods and system of creating a multi device interactive form. At design time a declarative data model having a plurality of queries each said query having a data source definition and plurality of fields and plurality of data entry view for a runtime data model of said declarative data model are defined and associated. At runtime the runtime data model is generated using reflection classes and annotation attributes the data entry view is presented as an interactive form having UI controls to a user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2012
    Publication date: December 26, 2013
    Applicant: PNMSoft Ltd.
    Inventor: Stas NAFTULIN
  • Publication number: 20130339835
    Abstract: A results set can be received from a form-based presentation optimizer. The results set can comprise data records having at least one data field. Form definitions applicable to the received results set can be identified. A form definition can define user interface elements and their configuration within a user interface of the form-based software application. An optimal form definition can be dynamically synthesized from the identified form definitions and predefined presentation optimization rules. The optimal form definition can define the configuration of user interface elements that optimally present the results set. The contents of the optimal form definition can vary based upon internal and external parameters that affect operation of the form-based software application and/or form-based presentation optimizer. The optimal form definition can then be conveyed to the form-based software application for rendering.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2012
    Publication date: December 19, 2013
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: MATTHEW G. MARUM, SAMUEL PADGETT, STEVEN K. SPEICHER, MICHAEL J. TABB
  • Publication number: 20130339834
    Abstract: A method for dynamically generating an optimal form definition for a results set can begin with the receipt of a results set by a form-based presentation optimizer. The results set can comprise data records having at least one data field. Form definitions applicable to the received results set can be identified. A form definition can define user interface elements and their configuration within a user interface of the form-based software application. An optimal form definition can be dynamically synthesized from the identified form definitions and predefined presentation optimization rules. The optimal form definition can define the configuration of user interface elements that optimally present the results set. The contents of the optimal form definition can vary based upon internal and external parameters that affect operation of the form-based software application and/or form-based presentation optimizer. The optimal form definition can then be conveyed to the form-based software application for rendering.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2012
    Publication date: December 19, 2013
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Matthew G. MARUM, Samuel PADGETT, Steven K. SPEICHER, Michael J. TABB
  • Patent number: 8607139
    Abstract: A system and process for managing content organized in a tag-delimited template using metadata are described. A stored template written in a tag-delimited language is retrieved. The retrieved template is converted into an object representation of a metadata entry form. A user interface exported by the object representation is initialized. A data entry form is built including individual data entry elements responsive to user selections on the user interface of the metadata form. Each data entry element includes a set of information attributes describing the data entry element. The data entry elements of the data entry form are defined as one or more classes within the retrieved template. The data entry form is rendered by enumerating each of the one or more classes of the stored template and generating each data entry element of the one or more enumerated classes as described by the set of information attributes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2013
    Assignee: Twain Typesetting LLC
    Inventor: Vlad Alexander
  • Patent number: 8599138
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus is provided which includes a position acquisition unit for obtaining a display position of an input area in a display area, and a display control unit for controlling, based on the display position of the input area, in the display area a display position of an input operation area in which a character to be displayed in the input area is input. The display control unit displays the input area near the display position of the input area, and makes the input operation area follow the movement of the input area when the display position of the input area is moved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuma Takahashi, Manabu Yasumi
  • Patent number: 8595030
    Abstract: A system and method for managing form-generated data related to a patient encounter involves translating location information related to a user writing on a form into a contextualized data element that includes contextual information. The contextual information helps to explain and/or give meaning to the user writing. Contextual information may include a descriptive name, an identification of data type, healthcare classification information, taxonomic information, an indication of the patient, an indication of the person that wrote on the form, and/or an indication of the date and time at which the writing occurred. The contextual information is then used by an Electronic Medical Record (EMR)/Electronic Health Record (EHR) application to perform a function such as patient/insurance billing, case management, or order fulfillment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2013
    Assignee: Medrule Business Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: Chih-heng Thomas Yeh, Lionel P. Ng
  • Patent number: 8595609
    Abstract: Apparatus, methods and computer program products for creating and modifying labels for use by pharmaceutical dispensing machines are provided. A pharmaceutical dispensing apparatus includes a touch screen, a processor, memory coupled to the processor, and a computer program residing in the memory that is executable by the processor for guiding a user through a process of designing a label via the touch screen. The computer program displays a label template adapted to receive a plurality of data fields inputted by a user therein, wherein each data field is adapted to receive and display respective data. The computer program includes a label wizard that guides a user through the process of designing a label within the label template.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2013
    Assignee: Parata Systems, LLC
    Inventors: Stefano Bresolin, Matthew Johnson
  • Publication number: 20130290824
    Abstract: A reference-management tool facilitates managing prior art references relating to one or more patent applications, which may be represented by matters. Interfaces can be presented to users to enable the users to group matters into clans, to associate references with matters, to automatically generate information disclosure statements (IDSs) and to track citations of references.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2012
    Publication date: October 31, 2013
    Applicant: Faegre Baker Daniels LLP
    Inventors: Marion Lukawski, Benjamin S. Fernandez, Thomas Anthony Gelbmann, JR., Karen J. Hull, Victor Petersen Jonas, Andrew James Koch, Matthew John Mathieson, Mark Robert Raabe, JoRae M. Stockdale, Johnathan Andrew Tinnen, William K. Weimer