Patents Examined by Peter J. Smith
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Patent number: 7089494Abstract: The present invention provides data structure, methods, and computer programs for storing text data used by a computer program to display information on a display terminal. Importantly, the present invention provides a data structure in which the data strings traditionally stored in the computer program are removed from the computer program and stored in the data structure. The data strings are associated with individual 16 bit identification numbers, called tokens, which are used to indicate the location of the data strings in the data structure. In light of this, the data strings are removed from the source code of the computer program and replaced with tokens that address the data strings in the data structure. As such, to display a data string, the computer program outputs a token associated with the data string and the command to display it to the display management module, and the data string is located in the data structure and displayed on the display terminal.Type: GrantFiled: October 10, 2000Date of Patent: August 8, 2006Assignee: American Megatrends, Inc.Inventor: Brandon Mitchell Burrell
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Patent number: 7058888Abstract: A multi-modal text editing correction environment is disclosed. An application program owns a document, while each of a number of handlers has a corresponding input device and is capable of entering text into the document. Each handler has a method callable by the program to request: that the handler return correction content for display by the application; and/or that the handler display a correction interface. A common text framework includes a mechanism to track entry of text into the document by handler, and a correction interface callable by the application program to determine the handler responsible for entering a particular range of text into the document.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 2000Date of Patent: June 6, 2006Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Kevin B. Gjerstad, Yutaka Suzue, Yutaka Nakajima, Benjamin M. Westbrook
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Patent number: 7055096Abstract: There is disclosed a translation apparatus 1 which obtains a plurality of data/information concerning a manufacturing managed by mutually different formats in a plurality of quality control apparatuses 5-1 to 5-n, integrates these data/information and translates the data/information into data/information to be handled in common in the plurality of quality control apparatuses 5-1 to 5-n.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2002Date of Patent: May 30, 2006Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventor: Yasuo Namioka
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Patent number: 7013423Abstract: A system, method, and program controls a display of pages retrieved over a network by a browser program. A predetermined minimum threshold of time for displaying a page is required before the page can be included in a browser history list that is used to satisfy “Back” and “Forward” requests from a user. For each page, if the length of time that the page is displayed is less than the minimum threshold of time, then the page, or a reference to the page, is not stored in memory in the history list. In this way, pages that merely forward or reference another page, i.e., forwarder pages, are not included in the history list. As such, a forwarder page will not be included in the sequence of pages when a “Back” function is utilized by a user.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2002Date of Patent: March 14, 2006Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: David Earl Blaschke, Scott Thomas Jones
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Patent number: 6964017Abstract: A system and method of creating interactive visual content in which base visual content, a selection of a trigger event associated with the base visual content, and intermediate visual content are received as an input. Viewing visual content derived from the base visual content is automatically generated. The viewing visual content can be displayed by a viewing application executing on a computer. A set of regions of the interactive visual content in which swap visual content is to be displayed by the viewing application when the trigger event occurs is automatically generated. For example, regions of the viewing visual content that are to be replace by the swap visual content when the trigger event occurs can be identified. Also, the swap visual content is automatically generated from the intermediate visual content.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2000Date of Patent: November 8, 2005Assignee: Adobe Systems IncorporatedInventors: Douglas E. Meisner, Alan L. Erickson, Troy A. Gaul, Timothy N. Wright, Christopher P. Hondl, Doug J. Ahmann
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Patent number: 6950983Abstract: A hybird Notes/DB2 environment provides a requisition catalog on the Web. Client browsers are connected to a GWA infrastructure including a first network dispatcher and a virtual cluster of Domino.Go servers. The network dispatcher sprays out browser requests among configured .nsf servers in virtual server cluster. Communications from this virtual server cluster are, in turn, dispatched by a second network dispatcher servers in a Domino cluster. External objects, primarily for a GUI, are served in a .dfs and include graphic files, Java files, HTML images and net.data macros. The catalog is built from supplier provided flat files. A front end is provided for business logic and validation, as also is a relation database backend. HTML forms are populated using relational database agents. A role table is used for controlling access both to Notes code and DB2 data. Large amounts of data is quickly transferred using an intermediate agent and window.Type: GrantFiled: September 7, 2000Date of Patent: September 27, 2005Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventor: Amy J. Snavely
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Patent number: 6910185Abstract: A method and apparatus for support of bi-directional text in legacy applications is disclosed. The method may be used in different embodiments for either monospace or proportionally spaced fonts. In general, the method involves first flipping all of the text, and thereby putting most of the text into its proper position and orientation. The method then involves finding any foreign (left-to-right) text within the flipped text, and flipping it back.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 2000Date of Patent: June 21, 2005Assignee: Openwave Systems Inc.Inventor: Bruce V. Schwartz
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Patent number: 6904560Abstract: A computer-implemented method and system for identifying key images in a document is provided. The operations used include extracting one or more document keywords from the document considered important in describing the document, collecting one or more images associated with the document including information describing each image, generating a proximity factor for each image collected from the document and each document keyword that reflects the degree of correlation between the image and the document keyword, and determining the importance of each image according to an image metric that combines the proximity factors for each document keyword and image pair. In addition, the operations may also include ordering the document keywords according to an ordering criterion and weighting the proximity factor associated with each document keyword and image pair based on the order of the document keyword.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2000Date of Patent: June 7, 2005Assignee: Adobe Systems IncorporatedInventor: Chinmoy Panda
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Patent number: 6829747Abstract: A editing apparatus and an editing method that allow a source group name, a destination group name, the total number of files of each of the source group and the destination group, and the file insertion position of the destination group to be represented with an integrated icon in the case that a file categorized as a group and recorded in one of at least one record medium is moved to another group.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2000Date of Patent: December 7, 2004Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Fumihiko Kato, Hitoshi Iijima, Yoshimichi Minakata
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Patent number: 6728934Abstract: A method for touch tone voice internet service includes the steps of remotely retrieving a document including HTML tags, converting selected text in the document to speech, and enumerating links in the text document. The method further includes the steps of accepting touch tone input to designate one of the links as a selected link, and retrieving a second document specified by the selected link. As an example, the document may be a Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) document or an email message.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2000Date of Patent: April 27, 2004Inventor: Philip M. Scopes