Patents Examined by Tionna Smith
  • Patent number: 8010884
    Abstract: A method and apparatus simultaneously displays the main text and/or more attached filed of a message received in a mobile terminal. This simultaneous display allows a user to confirm the main text and attached files in the message. The main text and attached files may be shown in respective areas of the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2011
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventor: Jae Jun Jang
  • Patent number: 7984373
    Abstract: Creating an electronic data interchange (EDI) transaction from a description of the EDI schema. The description defines the EDI schema in a non-EDI structure. The description of the EDI schema is received. A plurality of data units included in the received description of the EDI schema is identified. The plurality of data units describes the content of the EDI schema. The identified plurality of data units is analyzed to determine the content of the EDI schema. The document definition is generated for the EDI schema as a function of the analyzed plurality of data units. The document definition is used to create an EDI transaction according to the EDI schema.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2011
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Surendra Machiraju, Suraj Gaurav
  • Patent number: 7979790
    Abstract: A method and system to manage rendering of multimedia content are provided. A theme specifies a collection of layouts defining multimedia content placement. The multimedia content is processed to extract one or more characteristics. The layouts are selected and populated with multimedia content based on the one or more characteristics associated with the multimedia content. The multimedia content is rendered by transitioning through the selected layouts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2011
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Benjamin Nicholas Truelove, Chunkit Chan, Jae Pum Park, Shabbir Abbas Shahpurwala, William Mountain Lewis
  • Patent number: 7930627
    Abstract: The present application relates to an image processing apparatus and a method for matching and combining two documents with at least some overlap area. Layout features are extracted from the two documents and used to determine common layout areas of the first and second documents, where the common layout area has the same layout in the first and the second documents. Text data in the common layout areas of the first and second documents are also detected and used to determine common text data of the first and second documents, where the common text data is the same in the first and the second documents. Feature points are extracted from the common layout areas of the first and second documents based on the common text data and the first and second documents may be combined based on the feature points.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2011
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Systems Laboratory, Inc.
    Inventor: Wei Ming
  • Patent number: 7904808
    Abstract: A computer-readable recording medium on which a document management program capable of calculating an evaluation value for objectively judging information transparency in an organization is recorded. When an original document is inputted, a document input section stores the document in a document store section. After that, a document correction section corrects a character string of the document stored in the document store section in response to operation input and registers a correction history including a number of characters deleted by a character string deletion process and a correction history including a number of characters before replacement by a replacement process in a correction history table.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2011
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventor: Hiroaki Harada
  • Patent number: 7890859
    Abstract: In a method for identifying a table of contents in a document (8), an initial indexing text fragment at about the middle of an ordered sequence of indexing text fragments (14) is associated with an initial set of one or more candidate linked body text fragments selected from an ordered sequence of body text fragments (16). A lower-ordered indexing text fragment at lower order than the initial indexing text fragment is associated with a set of one or more candidate linked body text fragments at lower order than the highest order member of the initial set of one or more candidate linked body text fragments. A higher-ordered indexing text fragment at higher order than the initial indexing text fragment is associated with a set of one or more candidate linked body text fragments at higher order than the lowest order member of the initial set of one or more candidate linked body text fragments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2011
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventor: Jean-Luc Meunier
  • Patent number: 7870476
    Abstract: A system and method for creating graphical presentations is disclosed. A pre-existing graphical presentation is scanned. Data points are extracted from the pre-existing graphical presentation. Corresponding data points are extracted from tabulated data. These corresponding data points are then inserted into the pre-existing graphical presentation to create a new graphical presentation. It is emphasized that this abstract is provided to comply with the rules requiring an abstract that will allow a searcher or other reader to quickly ascertain the subject matter of the technical disclosure. It is submitted with the understanding that it will not be used to interpret or limit the scope or meaning of the claims.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2011
    Assignee: Efficient Analytics, Inc.
    Inventor: Richard W Dorwart
  • Patent number: 7861163
    Abstract: A computer executable process for simultaneous visual depiction of plural text hierarchies of a visually displayable machine readable text, including provisions for a visual cue as to a location of a user select text within the simultaneous visual depiction of plural text hierarchies is provided. A text hierarchy is extracted for a reader select text of a machine read text accessible by at least a data processing portion of a data processing and display system. Units of a select element of elements of the text hierarchy are formatted for display and displayed upon a display of the data processing and display system. A portion of text of the machine read text present in the select unit of a select element of elements of the text hierarchy is selected such that when said selected portion of text is present in a particular hierarchical representation, units the select element of elements of the text hierarchy are selectively of moved or positioned.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2010
    Assignee: Walker Reading Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Randall C. Walker
  • Patent number: 7861151
    Abstract: A graph representation of a web site is generated by identifying blocks of links on web pages. Each block of links is represented by a node in the graph representation and connections between the nodes provide information on the re-use of blocks between pages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2010
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Natasa Milic-Frayling, Eduarda Mendes Rodrigues, Shashank Pandit
  • Patent number: 7861148
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a method for defining a base line for a sparkline having vertical or horizontal bars representing positive and negative values of a set, with the bars representing negative values extending to one side of the base line and the bars representing positive values extending to the other side of the base line. The diagram is located in a space having two borders.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2010
    Inventor: Nicolas Bissantz
  • Patent number: 7844898
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for exporting a document in multiple formats. The disclosed systems and methods may include creating a metafile including content associated with the document and injecting comments into the metafile. The comments may comprise semantic information corresponding to the document. Also, the metafile may be parsed to create at least one call. The at least one call may be configured to enable an export engine to render the document. Furthermore, the at least one call may be sent to the export engine configured to render the document in an output format associated with the export engine. In addition, the export engine maybe selected from a plurality of export engines based upon user input indicating the output format associated with the selected export engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2010
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Benjamen E. Ross, Stephen M. Blanding, Zhenjun Zhu
  • Patent number: 7840891
    Abstract: A method for presenting content in a form including extracting, from an open format for rendering the form, a plurality of elements on the form, wherein the plurality of elements represent the content in the form, identifying a plurality of contextual relationships between the plurality of elements, wherein identifying the plurality of contextual relationships that includes identifying a first attribute of a first element of the plurality of elements, identifying a second attribute of a second element of the plurality of elements, and relating the first element with the second element when a difference between the first attribute and the second attribute is within a predefined threshold, generating a representation of the form, wherein the representation that includes information about the plurality of contextual relationships, and presenting the content in the form based on the representation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2010
    Assignee: Intuit Inc.
    Inventors: Jay Jie-Bing Yu, Evan Worley
  • Patent number: 7818668
    Abstract: Fields for presentable files can be determined by an application (i) based on a field type and at least one parameter of the fields and (ii) responsive to raw data and a separate transformation engine, even when the application is unaware of the mechanics of the separate transformation engine. In a described implementation for a given field, the field type indicates that the given field is to be evaluated based on raw data that is referenced by the at least one parameter of the given field. The transformation engine is applied to the referenced raw data to produce a result for the given field that is suitable for presentation. In an example implementation, the transformation engine includes multiples sets of presentation rules that may be selectively established for application to the fields. In an example embodiment, respective presentation rule subsets target respective types of raw data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2010
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Jennifer P Michelstein, Joe K Yap
  • Patent number: 7818661
    Abstract: For applications of web-based analytics and business intelligence reporting, methods and systems are provided for exporting a data table as a spreadsheet pivot table by automatic creation of formatted spreadsheet pivot tables with application specific initial views. The views are specified by templates allowing a user to view multiple pivot tables in a single spreadsheet book. Pivot tables are created by a remote server that performs the exporting of the data table so that a user can save the pre created pivot table in his/her local machine. In one embodiment of the invention, the data table on which a pivot table is subject to have a limited number of rows of a spreadsheet data sheet. In another embodiment, the data table on which a pivot table is subject to can exceed the limit of the number of rows of a spreadsheet data sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2010
    Inventor: Dilip Patel
  • Patent number: 7788581
    Abstract: Techniques for dynamic content insertion are described, including converting an electronic document having content to a statically formatted electronic document having the content, extending an edge of the statically formatted electronic document to create an extended area, and inserting other content into the extended area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2010
    Assignee: Adobe Systems Incorporated
    Inventor: Benjamin Bauermeister
  • Patent number: 7783976
    Abstract: Thumbnails of pages of a key document are arranged sequentially according to a page order in a row. Thumbnails of pages of a target document are arranged sequentially according to a page order in a row parallel to the row of the key document. A key page of the key document is compared with each page of the target document. When a page of the target document that is most similar to the key page is found, the row of the target document is shifted in a horizontal direction so that the page of the target document that is most similar to the key page is positioned next to the key page.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2010
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Susumu Endo, Takayuki Baba, Shuichi Shiitani, Yusuke Uehara, Shigemi Nagata
  • Patent number: 7783965
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, implement techniques for managing links in a collection of documents. A plurality of links are identified in a collection of one or more documents. A visual representation of the identified links is displayed to a user. Each link has an associated source and destination. The source represents a location in the collection of documents from which the link points. The destination represents a location to which the link points. The visual representation includes information describing the sources and destinations for each of the identified links. Two or more of the links are simultaneously selectable for modification in response to user input in the visual representation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2010
    Assignee: Adobe Systems Incorporated
    Inventors: Stephen C. Dowd, Yohko A. Kelley
  • Patent number: 7783973
    Abstract: Disclosed are methods, systems and computer program products for generating a change approval plan for a computing system. The computing system has at least one component and at least two user groups, and each user group has an approver. A request to change at least one said component is received. It is determined which components are affected by the change request. An initial set of approvals to be obtained from at least one of said approvers is determined based on dependencies of the affected components with other components, and based on the approvers required for each affected and dependent component. The initial set of approvals is rearranged into sub-groups such that components falling within each sub-group are dependent only upon components within a respective same group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2010
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Guruduth Somasekhara Banavar, Vijay Krishnarao Naik, Biplav Srivastava
  • Patent number: 7779348
    Abstract: An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for rendering multiple segment hypertext script. An identification module identifies a plurality of segments in a hypertext script. Each segment is delimited by at least one tag and includes an instruction for rendering a segment display region that is a portion of a display image described by the hypertext script. A calculation module calculates display coordinates for each segment display region. The display coordinates specify the spatial location and dimensions of the segment display region. A format module formats each segment as an independently displayable formatted segment hypertext script configured to be displayed within the corresponding segment display region. A rendition module renders each formatted segment hypertext script within the corresponding segment display region as a Java object using Java functionality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2010
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Philip Matthew Doatmas, Brian Sean McCain, Matthew John Ward
  • Patent number: 7774696
    Abstract: Disclosed are methods, systems and computer program products for generating a change approval plan for a computing system. The computing system has at least one component and at least two user groups, and each user group has an approver. A request to change at least one said component is received. It is determined which components are affected by the change request. An initial set of approvals to be obtained from at least one of said approvers is determined based on dependencies of the affected components with other components, and based on the approvers required for each affected and dependent component. The initial set of approvals is rearranged into sub-groups such that components falling within each sub-group are dependent only upon components within a respective same group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2010
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Guruduth Somasekhara Banavar, Vijay Krishnarao Naik, Biplav Srivastava