Patents Examined by Tyler J Schallhorn
  • Patent number: 9465791
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus are provided for automatically detecting spelling errors in one or more documents, such as documents being processed for the creation of a lexicon According to one aspect of the invention, a spelling error is detected in one or more documents by determining if at least one given word in the one or more documents satisfies a predefined misspelling criteria, wherein the predefined misspelling criteria comprises the at least one given word having a frequency below a predefined low threshold and the at least one given word being within a predefined edit distance of one or more other words in the one or more documents having a frequency above a predefined high threshold; and identifying a given word as a potentially misspelled word if the given word satisfies the predefined misspelling criteria.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2016
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: H. Richard Gail, Sidney L. Hantler, Meir M. Laker, Jonathan Lenchner, Daniel Milch
  • Patent number: 9449114
    Abstract: A method and system for removing chrome from a web page is provided. An example system includes a parsing module, a text density analyzer, a content node selector 206, and a text extractor. The parsing module may be configured to parse a web page into a tree structure. The text density analyzer may be configured to determine a text density score value for each node from the tree structure. The content node selector may be configured to identify one or more nodes from the tree structure as content nodes based on their respective text density score values. The text extractor may be configured to extract text from the content nodes only.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2016
    Assignee: PayPal, Inc.
    Inventors: John Roper, Dane Glasgow
  • Patent number: 9430253
    Abstract: Various embodiments of systems and methods for reusable and late addition enabled XML data binding are described herein. A computer receives an element class that is created for a non-atomic class. The element class comprises a first constructor, a decomposer that returns data extracted from an object for an entity to aid in serialization, and a composer that extracts value of the entity and creates a new instance of the non-atomic class using the extracted value to aid in de-serialization. The object is of type non-atomic class. The computer also receives an attribute class that is created for an atomic class to which the non-atomic class refers to. The attribute class comprises a second constructor, a serializer, and a de-serializer. The computer then generates an XML document using the element class and the attribute class.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2016
    Assignee: SAP SE
    Inventor: Ralph Debusmann
  • Patent number: 9418169
    Abstract: A method operable on a mobile communication device, comprising opening a browser session and issuing an HTTP request for document data, wherein the request includes an XML descriptor added to headers of the HTTP request for identifying the request and the document data being requested, and receiving an HTTP response including the XML descriptor along with document binary data representing respective chunks of the document data for display on the mobile communication device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2016
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Dan Mihai Dumitru, Rakesh Kumar Arora, Randy Michael Rossi
  • Patent number: 9411781
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, that use record-based styles. In one aspect, a system receives an input selecting a portion of some formatted content, and generates from the selected content one or more style definitions defining a corresponding style in terms of contiguous fields, each defined in terms of units of formatted content. In another aspect, a system applies a record-based style to formatted text content, identifies one or more logical records within the formatted text content matching the style, and displays one of the logical records with a demarcation of boundaries between occurrences of fields in the record. In another aspect, a system also receives a second record-based style, and applies the second style to a result set of logical records that match the first style. In another aspect, a system also uses a record-based style as a search term to search a set of documents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2016
    Assignee: ADOBE SYSTEMS INCORPORATED
    Inventor: Rithesh R. Prasad
  • Patent number: 9372837
    Abstract: In various embodiments, arrangements for presenting an XSLT mapping tool is presented. A computer system may receive XML source code that includes a plurality of source nodes. The computer system may also receive XSLT code configured to transform the XML source code into XML target code. The XSLT code may include multiple templates. The computer system may use the multiple templates of the XSLT code and the XML source code to create XML target code. The XML target code may include a plurality of target nodes. An interface of the XSLT mapping tool that displays mappings between the plurality of source nodes of the XML source code and the plurality of target nodes of the XML target code resulting from the multiple XSLT templates may be presented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2016
    Assignee: ORACLE INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Sunitha Alli, Thomas Hora, Agnes Freese
  • Patent number: 9355137
    Abstract: An information processing device includes an article acquisition unit that acquires articles indicated as data, a theme setting unit that sets a theme and an extraction condition of an article included in the theme, a selection unit that receives selection of the set theme by a user, an article extraction unit that extracts an article included in the set theme from the articles acquired by the article acquisition unit based on the extraction condition corresponding to the theme, a posting reception unit that receives posting of a comment corresponding to the article extracted by the article extraction unit from the user, a transmission unit that transmits the posted comment to the user selecting the theme including the article, and a condition update unit that updates the extraction condition of the article corresponding to the theme according to an amount of comment posted for each of the articles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2016
    Assignee: YAHOO JAPAN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takeshi Mori, Shigetoshi Okuyama
  • Patent number: 9348803
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed herein for providing a preview of an editor action related to a suggested edit of an electronic document. A first user provides a suggested edit to the electronic document, and the suggested edit to the electronic document is displayed to a second user of the electronic document. The second user provides a user input that is indicative of a desire to preview a result of the editor action on the suggested edit, such as an acceptance or a rejection of the suggested edit. Then, before the second user performs the editor action, a preview of the result of the editor action is provided to the second user in response to detecting the user input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2016
    Assignee: GOOGLE INC.
    Inventors: Vance Julius Vagell, Ian Gunn
  • Patent number: 9329809
    Abstract: A non-transitory recording medium stores a program including program codes for causing a computer (a) to read information necessary for a display from a base file, (b) to display information according to base file contents, (c) to read machine type dependent information that (i) is necessary for the display on an output apparatus, (ii) depends on an output apparatus machine type, and (iii) cannot be commonly used in multiple machine types, (d) to create a transaction file composed of function information and an argument necessary for the function without including a control code based on the machine type dependent information, and (e) to instruct the output apparatus to output the information according to the base file contents by using the transaction file and a fixed file that (i) does not depend on the machine type, (ii) can be commonly used in multiple machine types, and (iii) is composed of machine type independent information including the control code.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2016
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Toshiaki Ueno
  • Patent number: 9324168
    Abstract: Technologies are described herein for correcting the layout of shapes in a diagram, and specifically for diagrams having constraint-based layouts, such as with lists of regions and shapes directly connected without connecting lines. A request is received to correct the diagram layout. Shape layouts are predicted for each region, followed by minimal region corrections corresponding to the corrected shape layouts. Corrected layouts are provided sequentially through the lists of regions while resolving conflicts. Virtual nodes may be utilized to preserve region layouts when flipping or rotating diagrams. A connection classification and prioritization system is used to layout shapes and regions within a diagram having one or more direct connections between shapes and/or regions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: John Edward Haug, III, Jie Li, Ramona Pousti Canan, Zach Andrew Barth, Amit Velingkar
  • Patent number: 9288339
    Abstract: A data generation apparatus for generating data to be used to for bookbinding by bundling a plurality of paper sheets into a book form, comprises: a determination unit configured to determine based on a criterion defined in advance for a characteristic of the book whether to assign a thumb index for each page of the book; and a generation unit configured to generate, for a page to which the determination unit has determined to assign the thumb index, data that arranges the thumb index to be printed at a fore edge of the page of the book.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2016
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Takayuki Kaneko
  • Patent number: 9286272
    Abstract: A method determines structures and features of an original document to make style decisions. The extensible markup language of the original document is analyzed to produce instance mapping. The document type definitions of the original document are analyzed to produce document type definitions mapping. Lastly, the instance schema of the original document is analyzed to produce schema mapping. A transform is generated from the produced instance mapping, document type definitions mapping, and schema mapping. The transform is applied to the original document to generate an instance in an intermediate format. A stylesheet is selected and applied to the intermediate format to produce a styled document.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2016
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventor: Steven J. Harrington
  • Patent number: 9275026
    Abstract: A text display system provides a restricted copy-and-paste operation such that only a limited percentage less than 100% of a source text can be copied. The strategy assumes that a document contains a plurality of words and sentences that a restriction can be placed upon. While it is possible to highlight any amount of text via a typical select function (e.g., mouse drag over text), depending on the number of words at the sentence, paragraph or document level, the present invention limits how much of the selected text can be copied. The system provides the user with instant feedback via visual, tactile or other means, when a selection exceeds the system-imposed limit. The restriction permits the copy-and-paste operation of key ideas from the source text, potentially for further elaboration upon in future writing, and yet discourages indiscriminant copying leading to plagiarism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2016
    Assignee: Quillsoft Ltd.
    Inventors: Vivian Tsang, David Jacob, Fraser Shein
  • Patent number: 9229914
    Abstract: Optimizing a layout of an electronic document. An electronic document can be processed to identify a plurality of document sections within the document. A plurality of document sections can be recursively combined in at least a first page of a modified document and a presentation size of content within the document sections can be reduced. With each recursive combination of document sections, a first perceptual delta value can be generated based on perceptual differences between the document sections as originally presented in the electronic document and the document sections as presented when combined into the first page. When the first perceptual delta value at least equals the first threshold value, the recursive combination of document sections into the first page can cease.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2016
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ileana Belfiore, Stanley K. Jerrard-Dunne, Brendan P. Murray
  • Patent number: 9224149
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method includes storing at a computer server indicative data for a first web-accessible document that is not associated with the computer server, receiving a request from a program module in a container document associated with the web-accessible document, and providing, in response to the request, information related to the indicative data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2015
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Adam Sah, Deepak Jindal, Christian Oestlien
  • Patent number: 9218327
    Abstract: A method of optimizing a layout of an electronic document. An electronic document can be processed to identify a plurality of document sections within the document. A plurality of document sections can be recursively combined in at least a first page of a modified document and a presentation size of content within the document sections can be reduced. With each recursive combination of document sections, a first perceptual delta value can be generated based on perceptual differences between the document sections as originally presented in the electronic document and the document sections as presented when combined into the first page. When the first perceptual delta value at least equals the first threshold value, the recursive combination of document sections into the first page can cease.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2015
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ileana Belfiore, Stanley K. Jerrard-Dunne, Brendan P. Murray
  • Patent number: 9081780
    Abstract: A system and method for assigning user preference settings for fields in a category using selected settings for only a subset of the media category fields is disclosed. A subset of fields for a media category is defined. A base setting for each field in the subset of the category fields is established. The base setting may be a weight or preference value. The base setting may be established by the user selecting a base setting or may be a default base setting. Once a user selects the settings for the subset of category fields, a set weight for the fields in the category not in the subset is determined using the base setting. That is possible because the fields in the subset of category fields are chosen from fields that contain aspects and attributes of the other fields.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2015
    Assignee: Abo Enterprises, LLC
    Inventors: Hugh Svendsen, Waymen Askey
  • Patent number: 9043698
    Abstract: A computer implemented method of editing a layout of areas on a page, for example for webpage design, includes displaying the layout in a user interface along with control elements operable via a user input device to manipulate user-variable attributes of the layout, the user-variable attributes including at least one of a number count of subdivisions in said layout, dimensions of said subdivisions in said layout, and border direction between each pair of adjacent subdivisions in said layout. Input via the user input device and the control elements is received to modify one or more of the user-variable attributes. Stored data representing the layout is updated based on the user input, and the display of the layout is updated based on the updated data to present a revised layout based on new values of the user-variable attributes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2015
    Inventor: Aleksandar Tucovic
  • Patent number: 8972840
    Abstract: Methods and apparatuses in which two or more types of attributes from an information stream are identified. Each of the identified attributes from the information stream is encoded. A time ordered indication is assigned with each of the identified attributes. Each of the identified attributes shares a common time reference measurement. A time ordered index of the identified attributes is generated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2015
    Assignee: Longsand Limited
    Inventors: D. Matthew Karas, William J. Muldrew
  • Patent number: 8869019
    Abstract: Web pages of a website are parsed and a set of n-grams are generated from the parsed web pages. A relevancy value is determined for each n-gram and a second set of n-grams is generated by removing any n-gram in the first set whose relevancy value is below a threshold. A third set of n-grams is generated at least by removing those of the second set of n-grams that have been determined to be similar to another one of the second set of n-grams. Responsive to determining that there is not a web page that is directed at an n-gram, a web page is automatically created with content directed at that n-gram including reusing existing content of the website that is related to the n-gram. One or more links to the created page are added to web pages so that the created page is not an orphan page.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2014
    Assignee: Captora Inc.
    Inventors: Srihari P. Sampath-Kumar, Anindo Mukherjee