Abstract: A content management tool can assist publishers/authors in managing access rights and other parameters related to the display of documents online. The documents may include books and other documents that are traditionally published as printed works. The content management tool may display presentation parameters for the documents that relate to how the documents are to be shown to users when accessing the documents. The content management tool receives modifications to the presentation parameters and applies the modified versions of the presentation parameters to future accesses of the documents by users. The content management tool can, for example, be used to modify the portions of the document available for display, turn on/off certain portions of the document, manage links displayed concurrently with the document, and/or manage advertising related to the document.

Abstract: A document analysis system receives multiple concepts along with multiple reference documents and generates sensory indicators that assist a researcher in assessing the relevance of each of the documents to the concepts. In one exemplary aspect, the document analysis system displays a table of keywords separated into blocks, each block of keywords corresponding to one of the concepts. Each block is colored according to the prevalence of any keyword within a given keyword group. The color of a block thus indicates the relative presence of a concept in the document. The document analysis system also determines a unique color for each block of keywords for highlighting in the text of the document. In this manner a researcher can quickly identify passages that contain multiple concepts. Additionally, the researcher is provided the ability to quickly locate reference characters, figure numbers and patent numbers in the document.

Abstract: An electronic document reader includes a display configured to display at least a page of an electronic document, a memory configured to store indications of sets of pages of the electronic document, a user interface for receiving commands, and a processor connected to the display, the memory, and the user interface. The processor is configured to cause pages to be displayed on the display. In response to a first command, the processor can use a random number generator to select a new page to display from a first set of pages, the first set of pages excluding a second set of previously displayed pages.

Abstract: A display device for displaying a plurality of contents in a predetermined display area. The display device includes a content acquiring unit configured to acquire the contents, a content arranging unit configured to arrange the contents based on time information possessed by the contents, a time difference calculating unit configured to calculate a time difference between adjacent contents in terms of time based on the time information possessed by the contents, a display position setting unit configured to set a position of each content along a time axis based on the time difference between the contents, the display position setting unit determining whether the time difference between the contents is larger than a predetermined value, and a content display unit configured to display the plurality of contents based on position information on the time axis along the depth direction of the predetermined display area.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus of the present invention includes: a blank document determination section determining whether or not input image data is image data of a blank document, regardless of a process mode set for setting a process with respect to the input image data; a storage device storing the input image data in association with a determination result made by the blank document determination section; and a control section (i) reading out the input image data from the storage device and (ii) excluding the input image data determined as image data of a blank document by the blank document determination section, from images to be displayed by the image display device, when the image display device carries out a preview display of the input image data. This configuration makes it possible to carry out a preview display in which a blank document (blank page document) is skipped, without reading the document again.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, implement techniques for configuring at least a portion of a document for display in a display environment. The techniques include generating a document color palette for all or a portion of an electronic document, where the colors of the document color palette are selected based on colors of a plurality of color containing objects in the document or portion thereof, and generating a plurality of views of the document, two or more of the views being based on different color palettes. The plurality of views includes a document view including each of the plurality of color containing objects, where each color containing object in the document view is represented using the document color palette.

Abstract: The present invention relates to displaying coordinated related-search feedback in a single active window, to help a user develop, refine and select a useful search. In particular, it relates to conducting a plurality of related searches and making the results simultaneously available to the user in a coordinated display.

Abstract: A system and method for a graphical user interface including a multimedia container. The method includes accessing, within a mobile device, a first data store corresponding to a multimedia container and accessing a second data store. The multimedia container comprises a first object and the multimedia container is operable to comprise one or more applications, widgets, and pieces of content. The second data store comprises data corresponding to a first electronic book. The method further includes displaying a first image corresponding to the first object, where the first image comprises a first book cover image corresponding to the first electronic book. The first image further comprises a first statistic corresponding to the first electronic book and the first statistic is related to access of the first electronic book.

Abstract: User documentation is customized. First and second pieces of user documentation content are generated based on predetermined requirements. The first piece is maintained independently from the second piece. The first and second pieces are processed in accordance with stylesheets. Localized content is derived from the first and second pieces. A deliverable document is derived from the first and second pieces. The document is provided in response to a user interface prompt.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are methods and systems for monitoring and detecting changes in files attached to incoming emails. In one embodiment, if files are attached to an outgoing email, the change service uniquely tags each of the attached files and optionally stores local or remote copies of the tagged files. Additionally, in embodiments, the change service monitors and intercepts incoming emails. If files are attached to an incoming email, the change service identifies whether the files are tagged in a manner unique to the compare service. The change service then matches uniquely tagged files in the incoming email to corresponding files previously tagged by the change service. The change service then compares the two documents and generates reports that identify changes in the received document in relation to the transmitted document. Further, in embodiments, the change service provides visual indicators of the changes within the email application.

Abstract: An electronic document reader includes a display configured to display at least a page of an electronic document, a memory configured to store indications of sets of pages of the electronic document, a user interface for receiving commands, and a processor connected to the display, the memory, and the user interface. The processor is configured to cause pages to be displayed on the display. In response to a first command, the processor can use a random number generator to select a new page to display from a first set of pages, the first set of pages excluding a second set of previously displayed pages.

Abstract: A system and method that allows a publisher to create a document series, associate a document with a document series and present to an end-user a series nugget displaying at least one document associated with the document series. Document series information may be inherited by each document in the document series. Document series information is stored in an asset database.

Abstract: A computer-assisted visualization and potential adjustment of the layout of a document element involve multiple layout processes being sequentially applied. One set of one or more layout processes are applied to the element to determine an intermediate position of the element with respect to its initial position. Then, another set of one or more layout processes are applied to the element to determine a final position of the element. Rather than displaying just the final position on the display, the initial position, the intermediate position, and the final position of the element are all displayed. An intermediate control may be used to change the first set of one or more layout processes by moving the displayed intermediate position of the element. A final control may be used to change the second set of one or more layout processes by moving the displayed final position of the element.

Abstract: An image processing device includes a first display section configured to display an image, an input receiving device configured to receive an input associated with the image, and a computer processing unit (CPU). The CPU is configured to determine a selected portion of the image based on the input, to reduce a scaling factor associated with the selected portion of the image as an amount of time that the input device continuously receives the input increases, and to apply the scaling factor to the selected portion of the image to generate a scaled image. The device also includes a second display section configured to display the scaled portion of the image.

Abstract: A product creator system includes a business application and a distribution utility. The business application enables a user to specify and/or edit (via a user client) a document. The business application generates a packet that is transmitted to the distribution utility. The packet describes the document, such as a document of a particular type (where the document is based on variable content and/or variable layout), and a distribution method for the document. Distribution methods include print, ship, mail, fax, email, and save. The distribution utility generates and distributes the document (via an output device) based on the packet. The business application, which can be used with a variety of distribution utilities, includes a web front-end and a packet generator. The distribution utility, which can be used with a variety of business applications, includes control logic and a document processor. The document processor helps generate the document.

Abstract: In response to a user touching one of a plurality of pieces of content arranged on a display in a two-dimensional manner, a browsing system and method may transform the pieces of content into a three-dimensional arrangement, with the desired piece of content being displayed on the very top and overlapping adjacent pieces of content. The plurality of pieces of content can be images, each of which may be associated with a document. The images may be sorted based on the associated documents, for instance, the relevance of the associated documents with respect to a context or topic. The images in the three-dimensional arrangement may have a size which decreases from the desired image in both horizontal and vertical directions such that only a portion of the images being overlapped is exposed.

Abstract: A document processing apparatus includes: a unit configured to detect a leading-edge point of an object in a page; a unit configured to calculate an association of objects to determine whether they should be merged into one based on the area matching rate between the leading-edge points of the objects; a unit configured not only to slide the objects in a normally appropriate direction for merging but also to perform fine-tuning in the vicinity thereof so as to derive a maximum area matching rate and improve the completeness of finished form of merging; a unit configured to merge the mating leading edges of the objects and further merge sets of overlapping objects; a unit configured to calculate the association by comparing attribute values included in the objects instead of using the area matching rate between the mating leading-edge points thereof, depending on a kind of the objects; and a unit configured to reduce the merged objects so that they fit into one page.

Abstract: One or more techniques and/or systems are provided for transitioning between representations of an electronic document. Elements, such as visual elements, common between a first set of elements from a first representation of the document and a second set of elements from a second representation of the document are identified. The non-intersecting elements from the first and second sets are respectively ranked in accordance with a representation relevance. First set non-intersecting elements are removed from an intermediate representation of the document, and second set non-intersecting elements are added to the intermediate representation, while the intermediate representation is not equivalent to the second representation; and respective iterations of the intermediate representation are output, such as to a display to depict a transition from the first representation of the document to the second representation of the document.

Abstract: Architecture that facilitates the attachment of multiple visualization types (e.g., charts) to the data of a grid and the presentation of the visualization next to the grid. The infrastructure allows each data view to be associated with a set of visualizations. These visualizations are rendered along with the grid (in a separate presentation pane) so that the user does not have to switch context to perform analysis. The visualizations available include charts that show aggregate and/or non-aggregate data. In a server farm scenario, all user interactions such as drill-downs are provided. Server farm drill-downs for these visualizations can be obtained using MHTML (MIME hypertext markup language). The visualizations can be automatically updated when filters are applied on the grid, and when drill-down is performed on the visualization, the grid is automatically updated. The visualizations can be consumed from a web-based browser client and/or thick client, for example.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: a document acceptance unit that accepts a plurality of documents; a reduction and display unit that reduces and displays the documents accepted by the document acceptance unit; a region designation unit that designates a region for one of the documents displayed by the reduction and display unit; a region image creation unit that creates an image corresponding to the region designated by the region designation unit for each of the documents accepted by the document acceptance unit based on a size of each of the documents displayed by the reduction and display unit; and a region image display unit that displays the images created by the region image creation unit in respective document positions corresponding to the documents displayed by the reduction and display unit.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: an operation input unit; an electronic information display control unit; an electronic information operation control unit; an annotation operation control unit; and an electronic information data holding unit, wherein the annotation operation control unit, in a case where the at least one annotation object is pasted on a page, holds a displaying magnification of a page on which the at least one annotation object is pasted and a displaying position on the page on which the at least one annotation object is pasted, as annotation data, and the electronic information display control unit, in response to a fact that the at least one annotation object has been selected through the annotation operation control unit, displays a page of the electronic information on a screen based on the displaying magnification and the displaying position held in annotation data corresponding to the at least one annotation object selected.

Abstract: A display apparatus for displaying accumulated data items includes obtaining means for obtaining a plurality of data items accumulated, classifying means for classifying the plurality of data items into N groups on the basis of predetermined criteria, display-control means for controlling an indication on a display unit such that the plurality of data are displayed in N display regions corresponding to the N groups, and accepting means for accepting a specification of one display region from among the N display regions. When the accepting means accepts a specification of one display region from among the N display regions, the classifying means classifies a plurality of data items displayed in the specified display region into a further N groups, and the display-control means controls an indication on the display unit such that the plurality of data items are displayed in the N display regions corresponding to the N groups.

Abstract: A computer program product for standardizing the appearance of related accessories installed on a base product. The base product and related accessories can be visualized from a plurality of view-angles on a configurator application. An accessory is loaded onto the base product by an image transformation tool that manipulates the accessory to fit onto the base product. The transformed accessory is saved as a t-matrix profile for each view-angle of the base product, and the t-matrix profiles are associated with an accessory classification, which includes additional accessories that similarly fit the base product. The visualization data associated with the base product can then be updated with the t-matrix profiles. A customer GUI is provided for viewing the accessories fitted onto the base product where the transformations can automatically transform other accessories in the same accessory classification on the base product. In an embodiment, the base product is a vehicle.

Abstract: Disclosed is a document viewing apparatus including: a display unit to display a page designation object for receiving designation of a document or designation of any page in one document; an operating unit to receive a page designating operation for the page designation object; and a control unit; wherein in case that there are a plurality of documents to be displayed, the control unit instructs the display unit to display the page designation objects corresponding to the plurality of documents to be displayed, respectively, and when the operating unit receives the page designating operation for any one of the page designation objects which are currently displayed, the control unit instructs the display unit to display a page designated by the page designating operation, the displayed page being contained in a document corresponding to the page designation object for which the page designating operation is received.

Abstract: A method, system and computer program product for displaying authorship and time stamp data within an electronic mail (e-mail) message comprising multiple contributors. The recipient of a multiple author e-mail may view an e-mail inclusive or exclusive of an author's comments. The e-mail client is capable of identifying the author and insertion date of content included within an e-mail message by hovering on or near the word(s)/or phrase utilizing a pointing device. E-mail content may be viewed in chronological order of contribution(s) as selected by the recipient. Contributed content may be displayed chronologically, or color coordinated to avoid displacing key information.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes an input unit adapted to input forming information related to a layout, a plurality of objects, and a policy which includes information on permission of usage of the plurality of objects and information on allowance of usage related to a layout for the plurality of objects. The apparatus further includes a first determination unit configured to determine based on the policy, for each of the plurality of objects, whether the usage of the object is permitted, and a second determination unit configured to determine based on the policy whether the forming information satisfies an allowed layout.

Abstract: An electronic document reader includes a display configured to display at least a page of an electronic document, a memory configured to store indications of sets of pages of the electronic document, a user interface for receiving commands, and a processor connected to the display, the memory, and the user interface. The processor is configured to cause pages to be displayed on the display. In response to a first command, the processor can use a random number generator to select a new page to display from a first set of pages, the first set of pages excluding a second set of previously displayed pages.

Abstract: A print control device includes a receiving unit that receives print instruction data including item data specifying information for specifying item data to be used from the item data included in a record, and allocation information for allocating a template including plural fields and the item data to be applied to the plural fields of the template; an item data obtaining unit that sequentially specifies the record from an external database having plural records stored therein, and obtains the item data to be used from the specified record on the basis of the item data specifying information; a print data generating unit that sequentially generates print data by applying the item data obtained based on the allocation information to the plural fields of the template on the basis of the allocation information; and a print data transmitting unit that sequentially transmits the print data to an external print device.

Abstract: A system and method for serving ad creatives to a user includes steps of: monitoring open conversation windows of a client during a login session, wherein each open conversation window is a conversation between the client and a correspondent; receiving client state information associated with each open conversation window; sending the client state information to client state information store; responsive to initiation of a new client session, retrieving the client state information; dynamically computing a template for a combination ad creative customized for each open conversation window associated with the new client session; generating the combination ad creative from the template; and serving the combination ad creative to the client.

Abstract: A computerized method and system for creating, analyzing, and editing complex formulas so as to facilitate their use in software applications such as spreadsheets and database applications. The method and system employ multiple synchronized views for formulas, one view presenting the linear text required by the software application and the other views presenting clear indications of the meaning of that text. Examples of such views include mathematically typeset formulas and hierarchical diagrams that reveal the formula's structure. The method and system parse formulas to determine their structure, display that structure in multiple views, and provide a variety of controls and aids to assist in analyzing, debugging, and editing the formula so that it has the intended meaning and result. Additionally, it synchronizes the multiple views so that changes to the formula or to the presentation of the formula in one view are automatically reflected in the other views.

Abstract: A method of dynamically presenting temporally ordered image events includes providing a pre-determined presentation rate and a corresponding pre-determined presentation period; using a processor to receive at irregular intervals a plurality of temporally ordered image events at an average image event rate less than the presentation rate; storing the received image events in an ordered list corresponding to the order in which the image events were received; accessing, according to a pre-determined rule, stored image events from the ordered list; sequentially presenting the accessed image events for the presentation period; and interrupting the sequential presentation of the stored image events when a new image event is received and presenting the received new image event for the presentation period and resuming the sequential presentation of the accessed image events.

Abstract: A method includes using rules included in two or more preflight profiles to apply to a document. The preflight profiles may be selected to reduce possibilities of conflicts. The preflight profiles may be selected based on global settings or local settings. The preflight profiles may also be selected based on priority. When there are conflicts, conflict resolution techniques may be applied.

Abstract: A graphic user interface (GUI) display of computer status is provided across multiple computer platforms. A computer and physical layout are identified and this information is used to provide a desired set of displays. Data is parsed from an output from the computer and is stored in a data store in a predetermined common format as a part of a collection of parsed data. A graphic display depicting a physical layout of at least one aspect of a computer or the physical layout is provided along with data retrieved from the collection of parsed data and corresponding to the computer associated with the display depicting the physical layout in accordance with the identification of the computer and physical layout.

Abstract: A computer implemented method, computer program product and a data processing system for managing electronic messages is disclosed. The contents of an electronic messages are segmented based on the recipients receiving the message and access control authorizing access to the segmented contents is provided to the segmented contents and transmitted to a list of recipients.

Abstract: A computer implemented method, computer program product and a data processing system for managing electronic messages is disclosed. The contents of an electronic messages are segmented based on the recipients receiving the message and access control authorizing access to the segmented contents is provided to the segmented contents and transmitted to a list of recipients.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus is provided to enable a user to integrate plural images on a single sheet in a pattern controlled by the user. The apparatus includes an image acquiring portion that acquires document images, and integration pattern determining portion that makes settings relating to the integration and an integrated document image generating portion that generates the integrated document images corresponding to the integration pattern. The apparatus includes a print portion that prints the integrated document images.

Abstract: A method for discovering and installing web application plugins is disclosed. In one embodiment, such a method includes initiating a client-side component of a server-based web application. The client side-component hosts a first document. The method opens an inline frame, such as an IFrame or Web Worker, within the first document that hosts a second document. The method uses cross-document messaging to communicate, from the second document to the first document, metadata describing a plugin's capabilities and metadata describing an API to access the plugin's capabilities via cross-document messaging. The method utilizes the capabilities of the plugin using cross-document messaging in accordance with the API. A corresponding system and computer program product are also disclosed.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, an electronic apparatus includes a text recognition module, a group creation module, a group extraction module, an arrangement module, and a movie generator. The text recognition module recognizes a character string in a plurality of still images. The group creation module creates a plurality of groups by classifying the plurality of still images. The group extraction module extracts, from the plurality of groups, groups including a still image which meets a predetermined condition. The arrangement module arranges still images included in the extracted groups in a predetermined order, and inserts a still image included in the extracted groups and including the character string at a predetermined position of the still images which are arranged. The movie generator generates movie data for successively displaying the arranged still images in the extracted groups.

Abstract: Disclosed are methods and devices for processing a raster image so that the white color filled in the raster image during building the raster image can be differentiated from that contained in the figure objects presented in the page, which will be inserted into the raster image later. The method comprises building the raster image and filling the raster image with a white color; and transferring the white color in a figure object described in a page and inserting the figure object into the raster image. In this way, the white color filled in the raster image during building the raster image can be differentiated from that contained in the figure objects presented in the page, which will be inserted into the raster image later.

Abstract: Methods of dynamically identifying a server provided media asset on a client device are provided herein.

Abstract: Media presentations including related content are described, including presenting a workspace and a content shelf, presenting a media presentation in the workspace, designating a portion of the media presentation based on parsing the media presentation according to a predetermined criterion, and displaying a content related to the portion of the media presentation in the content shelf.

Abstract: A method may include storing, in a memory associated with a computer device, cached content associated with a document and receiving a request to access the document. The method may further include sending a request to revalidate the cached content to a server device associated with the document, performing speculative rendering of the document, using the cached content, the speculative rendering being performed as a plurality of work items, receiving revalidated content associated with the document, determining invalid ones of the plurality of work items based on the revalidated content, and discarding the invalid ones of the plurality of work items.

Abstract: A product creator system includes a business application and a distribution utility. The business application enables a user to specify and/or edit (via a user client) a document. The business application generates a packet that is transmitted to the distribution utility. The packet describes the document, such as a document of a particular type (where the document is based on variable content and/or variable layout), and a distribution method for the document. Distribution methods include print, ship, mail, fax, email, and save. The distribution utility generates and distributes the document (via an output device) based on the packet. The business application, which can be used with a variety of distribution utilities, includes a web front-end and a packet generator. The distribution utility, which can be used with a variety of business applications, includes control logic and a document processor. The document processor helps generate the document.

Abstract: Implementing an electronic calendar can include accessing a first electronic calendar owned by a first party, accessing a second electronic calendar owned by a second party, and presenting a view that combines at least one existing entry from within each of the first and second electronic calendars. Source information for each of the first and second electronic calendars may be electronically maintained. The combined view may be updated electronically to reflect a change to at least one of the existing entries from within at least one of the first and second electronic calendars. Electronic calendars may be accessed and overlaid without importing events, thus enabling simple updating. Event information may be imported and source or other attributes may be associated with imported information to enable updating and other sorting functions.

Abstract: Implementing an electronic calendar can include accessing a first electronic calendar owned by a first party, accessing a second electronic calendar owned by a second party, and presenting a view that combines at least one existing entry from within each of the first and second electronic calendars. Source information for each of the first and second electronic calendars may be electronically maintained. The combined view may be updated electronically to reflect a change to at least one of the existing entries from within at least one of the first and second electronic calendars. Electronic calendars may be accessed and overlaid without importing events, thus enabling simple updating. Event information may be imported and source or other attributes may be associated with imported information to enable updating and other sorting functions.

Abstract: A method and an apparatus for storing document data in a docbase management system are provided. In the method, document data is described by using a tree structure, the document data is split into multiple data fragments based on the tree structure when the document data is being stored, and the data fragments are stored, and the relation of the data fragments is recorded, wherein, each data fragment corresponds to a subtree or a node in the tree structure.

Abstract: The invention pertains to a method and an apparatus adapted to carry out a mechanism for managing navigation among information elements displayed on axes thereof when information elements are not displayed on a display area, the method generally comprising displaying an array, or an axis, of information elements adapted to receive thereon information elements, the array of information elements virtually extending outside a viewing area, the array of information elements including a portion thereof having no information elements thereon, and displaying an indicator of a non-displayed information element present on the axis of information elements outside the viewing area.

Abstract: An apparatus includes an editing area display unit configured to display a screen including an editing area that enables a user to edit a document, a temporary storage area display unit configured to display a temporary storage area which differs from the editing area and temporarily displays a list of reduced images of editing materials, and a layout editing unit configured to edit the document by adding a material selected from the editing materials displayed in the temporary storage area. When a currently edited document is transferred to a file, a control unit stores a path of a material displayed in the temporary storage area in relation to the document transferred to the file. When a document file stored in relation to the path of a material area is newly opened, the control unit determines whether the newly opened document file is related to the material in the temporary storage area.

Abstract: In a method or system to generate a document data stream of a first format that is serially structured per page, document data of a second format that comprise multiple pages of a document are linked with the document data stream. In the document data stream of the first format a separate characteristic type mapping is provided that indicates that contiguous document data that comprise multiple pages are linked with the document data stream. In the first format a first page of the multipage document is completely and successfully run through a parsing process before document data of subsequent pages are run though the parsing process.

Abstract: An input of document data, in which a rule for retrieving an object from a database has been specified for each region, is received. For each region, the number of times that the database is referenced for retrieving the object is counted by applying the rule. A reference value and each of the counted are compared. For each region, it is determined that the object is to be inserted in the region if the result of the comparison is that the number of times is less than or equal to the reference value, and that the object is not to be inserted in the region if the number of times is greater than the reference value. A preview of the document data is displayed with, for each region, the object being inserted in the region or the object not being inserted in the region in accordance with the determination.