Abstract: A method of selecting objects in web pages provides users with conveniently selecting objects of interest in a target web page. With the method of the present invention, it is not necessary for the users to either know the makeup language for the web pages or create a program reserved for capturing required contents in the target web page. The method of the present invention provides an easy operational flow for the users to select required contents in the target web page.

Abstract: A method of combining personal media files with a digital map has (a) obtaining original information including a tracking information and multiple personal media files; (b) matching each media file to the corresponding tracking coordinates and recording matched points; (c) generating a displaying program codes to display a tracking pattern and media file on a browser; and (d) packing the matched media files, the tracking information and the generating the displaying program codes to HTML/MHTML format file. Therefore, the user generates the HTML/MHTML format file by the local computer and IE browser directly executes the HTML/MHTML format file to play the personal media files without other plug-in software.

Abstract: A method to protect digital rights using an OMA DRM standard has acts of generating an encryption key and an ID unique to a user and a decryption key, encrypting the digital content using the encryption key into an encrypted object, packaging the ID and the decryption key into a rights object, delivering the ID and the encrypted object to the user's mobile device, delivering the rights object to the user's mobile device, verifying ID delivered with the encrypted object and ID in the rights object and decrypting the encrypted object. The method replaces assigning a conventional identifier to each digitized content with assigning each user a unique ID. For either the rental service or the purchase service all downloaded content in the user's mobile device is accessible based on the same rights object to improve unreasonably receiving so many rights objects for each downloaded digital content.

Abstract: A method and system for detecting a mobile model are provided. The system gathers model IDs by receiving a customized massage from a sender and then storing the model ID, issuing a WAP PUSH message containing an access URL to a mobile station, receiving a request with a UserAgent attached and mobile phone number from a mobile station, adding a new record of the mobile phone number and its corresponding UserAgent into a ID database when the UserAgent is not in the mapping table.

Abstract: A method and system of transmitting electronic files over to a mobile phone is disclosed. The system introduces a personalized service by allowing the sender of an electronic file to add a personalized note to the WAP PUSH message, such that the receiver of the WAP PUSH message can be well informed of the motive and the identity of the sender behind the electronic file and use the routing information to retrieve the electronic file; and later the sender can receive a confirmation message from the network server after the receiver has successfully downloaded the electronic file. For the sender of electronic file, the personal message can be clearly expressed without causing any confusion for the receiver, which is largely lacking from current download services.

Abstract: A modified data synchronization system having data security and proxy capabilities has a delivery server, a PC, and at least one mobile phone. The PC sends out the exchange data through the Internet to a remote location where the delivery server is installed, and then one mobile phone compliant with SyncML protocols dials in to conduct data synchronization with the delivery server through wireless means, through which the existing data discrepancy between the mobile phone and the PC can be eliminated. The PC does not need to install a dedicated SyncML server, and data security can be ensured in the synchronization process, as data transfer between the PC and the delivery server through secured protocol over the Internet, and that between the mobile phone and the delivery server is through a dedicated channel.

Abstract: A system for analyzing and structuring business processes implemented in software to provides businesses with tools to manage business processes. The system i) notifies the user that he or she has a step to begin or to complete; ii) provides the user with the proper tools to complete a task; iii) provides the user with the proper information to complete a task; iv) allows the user to see where a task fits in the overall process; v) manages proper reminders, alerts, and follow-ups to keep the process moving; vi) automates certain standard procedures; vii) integrates with the organization's existing business systems; and viii) provides application program interfaces that allow developers to develop applications that are workflow-enabled. The system utilizes a workflow server including a transactions manager and a database.

Abstract: The present invention is a method and apparatus which is used to enable application developers to generate workflow enabled applications which request services from the workflow server component of the workflow system, remotely and indirectly using messaging, shared databases or inter-process communications. The present invention provides a standard transaction format (STF) for accessing such a workflow system through STF processors via messaging, updates to the shared databases or inter-process communications. Workflow enabled applications are used by users to act and participate in business processes and enable users and managers to observe and query the status of workflows and business processes.

Abstract: The invention is a method and system which provides consultants, business process analysts, and application developers with a unified tool with which to conduct business process analysis, design, documentation and to generate business process definitions and workflow-enabled applications. The invention may be implemented using a software system which has two functional sets. One is a set of graphical tools that can be used by a developer or business analyst to map out business processes. The second is a set of tools that can be used to document and specify in detail the attributes of each workflow definition, including roles, cycle time, conditions, of satisfaction, cost and value, associated text, forms, application data as well as detail the attributes of links between workflows required to complete a business process map, and to generate a business process definition and a workflow-enabled application.

Abstract: The invention is a method and system which provides consultants, business process analysts, and application developers with a unified tool with which to conduct business process analysis, design, and documentation. The invention may be implemented using a software system which has two functional sets. One is a set of graphical tools that can be used by a developer or business analyst to map out business processes. The second is a set of tools that can be used to document and specify in detail the attributes of each workflow definition, including roles, timing, conditions of satisfaction, forms, and links required to complete a business process definition. The invention utilizes fundamental concept of workflow analysis that any business process can be interpreted as a sequence of basic transactions called workflows.

Abstract: A method for managing business, social, and/or personal communications utilizing a programmed computer system including certain defining steps. All communications between a set of participants are defined as moves in conversations for declaring specific realizable possibilities or as moves in conversations for producing actions to complete specific possibilities. These conversations are defined as taking place within a set of declared or understood domains of possibilities. A set of conversational roles played by participants in the conversations is defined. Each participant plays at least one conversational role in any conversation. A set of types of incompletions which occur recurringly within the conversations is also defined. A set of types of permitted moves in conversations is defined on the basis of the defined incompletions, the defined roles, and the specific types of incompletions produced by the permitted moves. For each of the types of moves a set of associated data is defined.

Abstract: A method for managing communications between individuals utilizing a programmed computer system. The method involves several definitional steps that are critical to achieving a practicable methodology for conversation management. The integrated concepts of "moves in conversations" of two basic types (Conversation for Action and Conversation for Possibilities), conversational roles, types of incompletions, and logical/functional relationships between moves, incompletions, and roles, provide a set of constructs on which a powerful and practicable methodology for conversation management may be built. They provide a basis for defining a meaningful conversation record format which can be integrated into a conversation data base using standard data base building and management tools. A system for managing communications which incorporates the methodology of this invention provides a powerful framework for structuring human conversations.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for improved plasma treating of circuit boards is disclosed wherein a plasma treating zone and a gas resupply zone are established in a chamber, an actuating mechanism being provided to establish relative movement between the circuit boards and the zones during treatment of the circuit boards. The apparatus preferably includes a chamber for receipt of a gas and having electrodes centrally positioned therein for generating an electrical field at a central portion of the chamber thereby exciting the gas thereat and creating a zone of intense plasma.