Annotation Control Patents (Class 715/230)
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Patent number: 8584008Abstract: Systems and methods may operate to display a plurality of data containers or bubbles within a user interface so that they do not overlap. Data containers are associated with a pointer or association indicium of fixed size that indicates the relationship between the data container and a target item. They systems and methods include, among other things, determining that two or more data containers will overlap if displayed in the user interface and performing a shift of the data containers, a resizing of the data containers, a shifting of the pointer, or a combination of the above. Additional apparatus, systems, and methods are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 2009Date of Patent: November 12, 2013Assignee: Adobe Systems IncorporatedInventor: Marissa Dulaney
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Patent number: 8583514Abstract: A system and method for tracking information in a business environment. The system uses a tree-view hierarchy whereby alerts and time triggers are set by the user and upon the triggering of an event, the visual attributes of the tree-view folders change to reflect the triggering event.Type: GrantFiled: August 13, 2004Date of Patent: November 12, 2013Inventor: Jeffrey Brian Klem
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Patent number: 8584022Abstract: An email client and file manager provides combined file management and communications management in a single interface. An interface allows documents, email messages, contact information, web links or pages, and user-attached notes to be stored in the same folders. This facilitates communication by email and fax. The interface permits the user to combine this data in folders which the user categorizes according to a folder tree created by the user. In one embodiment of the invention, the client, in its email function, communicates with a dedicated host which in turn communicates with external servers according to standard internet protocol.Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 2007Date of Patent: November 12, 2013Assignee: Everez Systems LimitedInventors: Gerald E. O'Shaughnessy, Vladimir Spirin, Alexei Ivlev, Oskar Karash, Denis Medvedev
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Publication number: 20130298003Abstract: Generally described is auto annotation of content. A network service can receive at least partly textual content. The content can be automatically annotated to generate varying sets of the content. The varying sets of content can include varying levels of annotation to better meet user preferences or device capabilities. One or more of the varying sets of content can be output to a content browser, allowing a user of the content browser to see an annotated version of the content.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 4, 2012Publication date: November 7, 2013Inventor: Andrey N. Nikankin
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Patent number: 8577149Abstract: Sentence data corresponding to headword data is retrieved from a data group including sentence data in the form of text data in accordance with a user's operation, and is displayed as a sentence image on a display screen. The display screen can be edited in accordance with a coordinate point output from coordinate input means. An edited sentence image is transmitted to other apparatuses.Type: GrantFiled: April 6, 2006Date of Patent: November 5, 2013Assignee: Nintendo Co., Ltd.Inventor: Kazuyoshi Toriyama
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Publication number: 20130290826Abstract: According to one embodiment, a medical image display apparatus includes a display unit, an allocation unit, a storage unit. The display unit is configured to display a medical image on which a plurality of annotations are superimposed. The allocation unit is configured to allocate the plurality of annotations to a plurality of groups. The storage unit is configured to store data of at least one annotation belonging to each of the groups in association with data of the medical image on a group basis.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 25, 2013Publication date: October 31, 2013Inventors: Kenichi NIWA, Hikaru Futami, Maiko Tezuka, Iwao Goto
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Patent number: 8572475Abstract: 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.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2009Date of Patent: October 29, 2013Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.Inventor: Masafumi Chikyu
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Patent number: 8572488Abstract: Automated methods are used to augment an original script of a time-based media program that contains speech with timing metadata and an indication of a confidence level with which script portions are matched with the speech in the program audio track. An editor uses a spot dialog editor tool to produce a word-accurate spot dialog master by reviewing and editing script portions displayed next to the corresponding portions of the time-based media. The spot dialog editor tool selects for review and editing the parts of the script having a low confidence match with the speech in the program.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2010Date of Patent: October 29, 2013Assignee: Avid Technology, Inc.Inventors: Michael E. Phillips, Glenn Lea
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Publication number: 20130283143Abstract: A system for annotating frames in a media stream frames includes a pattern recognition system (PRS) to generate PRS output metadata for a frame; an archive for storing ground truth metadata (GTM); a device to merge the GTM and PRS output metadata and thereby generate proposed annotation data (PAD); and a user interface for use by the HA. The user interface includes an editor and an input device used by the HA to approve GTM for the frame. An optimization system receives the approved GTM and metadata output by the PRS, and adjusts input parameters for the PRS to minimize a distance metric corresponding to a difference between the GTM and PRS output metadata.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2013Publication date: October 24, 2013Inventors: Eric David Petajan, David Eugene Weite, Douglas W. Vunic
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Publication number: 20130283144Abstract: A mobile terminal and controlling method thereof are disclosed, which facilitates a terminal to be used in further consideration of user's convenience. The present invention includes a touchscreen, a wireless communication unit configured to perform a wireless communication with at least one or more external terminals including a 1st external terminal, and a controller controlling a 1st image message including an image received from the 1st external terminal to be displayed on the touchscreen together with at least one of a previously saved transmitted message and a previously saved received message, the controller, if a 1st user command is inputted in the course of displaying the 1st image message, controlling a 1st memo to be written on the image of the received 1st image message.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2013Publication date: October 24, 2013Applicant: LG ELECTRONICS INC.Inventors: Hyeongseok ROH, Hyunghoon OH
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Patent number: 8566703Abstract: It is confirmed whether or not page description data contain an object for stroking a path. If the page description data contain the object for stroking a path, then it is confirmed whether or not a curved path construction operator is contained in the object. If the curved path construction operator is contained in the object, line segments of a polygonal path which is approximated to a curved path of the curved path construction operator are determined, and the curved path construction operator is replaced with a plurality of straight path construction operators which correspond respectively to the line segments of the polygonal path.Type: GrantFiled: November 24, 2010Date of Patent: October 22, 2013Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventor: Yasuharu Aoki
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Patent number: 8566700Abstract: A client terminal acquires from a server terminal one or more document information which includes at least a thumbnail image and document identification information for identifying document data corresponding to the thumbnail image, and includes first annotation data and/or second annotation data associated with the document identification information. If first annotation data is included in respective acquired document information, the client terminal displays a thumbnail image with which the first annotation data is combined, as a list with thumbnail view, on a display unit. If the second annotation data is included in specified document data, the client terminal individually displays specified document data with which the second annotation data is combined, on a display unit.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2009Date of Patent: October 22, 2013Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Masami Ueda
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Patent number: 8559764Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed in which image representations of text strings can be easily edited. As such, one embodiment, among others, includes the step of receiving input from a user. The received input is indicative of a selection of an image. The image corresponds to a text string. That embodiment further comprises the step of correlating the image to the corresponding text string. Upon correlating the image to the text string, the text string is displayed to the user.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2004Date of Patent: October 15, 2013Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventor: Dale W. Malik
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Patent number: 8555154Abstract: A method for producing a photo album includes providing a plurality of images comprising a first image, associating text information with the first image, and providing a library of page layouts each comprising one or more image receiving areas. A page layout includes an image caption area associated with one of the image receiving areas in the page layout. After the step of associating, the method includes automatically selecting a first page layout from the library of page layouts, wherein the first page layout comprises an image receiving area and an image caption area in association with the image receiving area, automatically placing the first image in the image receiving area in the first page layout, and automatically placing the text information into the image caption area in association with the image receiving area in the first page layout to produce a page in the photo album.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2008Date of Patent: October 8, 2013Assignee: Shutterfly, Inc.Inventors: Eugene Chen, Trynne Anne Miller, Su Mien Quek
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Patent number: 8547561Abstract: The present invention aims that in a printing environment holding only a print instruction and a print data, a printing system capable of updating, changing, correcting, etc. only an additional drawing object is provided by holding an instruction about printing of an additional drawing object (added information) based on the print instruction. In printing out print data on a target page with an additional drawing object added, a job ticket generation means generates a job ticket according to the information about an additional drawing object and instruction information about the printout. Printout means perform printout based on the job ticket generated by the job ticket generating means.Type: GrantFiled: November 24, 2008Date of Patent: October 1, 2013Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Kazuyuki Saito
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Patent number: 8549303Abstract: A method for electronically signing an electronic transcript. The method includes obtaining an image of a court reporter's signature which may be incorporated into an electronic transcript. A hash operation performed on the electronic transcript to generate a representation of the contents of the electronic transcript. The representation of the contents of the electronic transcript is recorded/time stamped by a digital notary service, from which a notary record of the time stamping is obtained from the digital notary service. The notary record is digitally signed, and an electronically signed electronic transcript is formed by bundling the digitally signed notary record with the electronic transcript and with the data identifying the user. In this manner, an electronic transcript with an electronic signature is created. The electronic transcript may be viewed, with the image displayed in the viewer having an image of the court reporter's signature.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2009Date of Patent: October 1, 2013Assignee: West Services, Inc.Inventors: Davin Fifield, Kevin Koch
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Patent number: 8549394Abstract: An apparatus and method are disclosed for determining whether the meaning of a word in an electronic message should be presented to a user, according to a dynamic determination of whether the user knows the meaning of the word. A communication control unit receives a message sent from user A to user B. A morphological analysis unit extracts a word from the message, and a history acquisition unit acquires history information on viewing, usage, or the like of the word by user B. A display determination unit determines whether the meaning of the word should be displayed, according to the acquired history information, the language level of user B, and the difficulty level of the word. The meaning of the word is presented to user B according to the determination result.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2008Date of Patent: October 1, 2013Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Ryoju Kamada, Ryo Kamimura, Shingo Kato, Takayuki Sato
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Publication number: 20130254645Abstract: The present invention provides a system for and a method of collaborative annotation of digital content. In accordance with an embodiment of the present invention, a method of annotating digital content is provided. An annotation related to a portion of a volume of digital content is created. The annotation is stored in computer-readable memory in a manner that maintains a logical connection between the annotation and the portion of the volume of the digital content. The annotation is created by a first user. A comment is created by a second user in response to the annotation. The comment is stored in computer-readable memory in a manner that maintains a logical connection between the comment and the annotation. The portion of the volume of the digital content is displayed together with at least an identification of the annotation and at least an identification of the comment.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 22, 2013Publication date: September 26, 2013Inventors: Raymond Lee Haynes, II, Dave Nelson, Robb Smigielski, Brian Cunningham, Tyler Hilker
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Patent number: 8543905Abstract: An electronic device with a display and a touch-sensitive surface displays a portion of a document in a primary user interface for the document. The portion of the document includes a respective author-specified term. The respective author-specified term is associated with corresponding additional information supplied by an author of the document, and the corresponding additional information is not concurrently displayed with the author-specified term in the portion of the document.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2011Date of Patent: September 24, 2013Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Charles J. Migos, Jay Christopher Capela, Markus Hagele
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Patent number: 8539346Abstract: The present invention generally provides methods, systems, and articles of manufacture for managing an annotation system that includes storing annotations for a document family, i.e., a series of versions of a data source. Annotations created for one version of the data source may be viewed in context from both subsequent and prior versions of the same data source. Embodiments of the invention associate annotations with both a data source “family identifier” as well as a “version identifier.” Other than adding a family ID to the data source, the data source remains unchanged. The family ID is maintained across different versions of the data source, whereas version IDs are determined for a specific version of the data source. Version IDs can be constructed from each data source directly, and do not need to be stored.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2008Date of Patent: September 17, 2013Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Jordi A. Albornoz, Lee D. Feigenbaum, Douglas R. Fish, Sean J. Martin, Hoa T. Tran, David A. Wall
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Patent number: 8539334Abstract: A method for storing, organizing and providing remote electronic access to documents. A cover sheet including a standard set of identification data characterizing each document is developed and stored. A digital version of each document is created and stored by scanning each contract. Each digital version includes a scanned image and a searchable text file, wherein the text is overlaid with the image. An index of bookmarks identifying sections of the digital version of each document is generated. Selected fields of information are captured from the digital version of the document. The documents are organized and cross-referenced in a database that includes the captured information and additional information related to each document. Designated parties are alerted of critical dates associated with each document. Remote electronic access to the documents is provided over the internet.Type: GrantFiled: August 21, 2007Date of Patent: September 17, 2013Assignee: TractManager, Inc.Inventors: Scott R. Jeffery, Thomas A. Rizk
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Patent number: 8539336Abstract: An annotation system includes first annotation data for annotating a manifestation of a first instance of a first XML document. The first instance of the first XML document is served by a document system. The first annotation data includes a first XML document identifier for the first XML document. The first annotation data is uniquely identified by a first annotation data identifier. The document system is configured to respond to a request containing the first XML document identifier with a manifestation of a second instance of the first XML document. The annotation system: (A) receives a request containing the first annotation data identifier; (B) issues a request containing the first XML document identifier to the document system; and (C) in response to the request containing the first annotation data identifier, manifests the first annotation data in connection with a manifestation of a second instance of the XML document.Type: GrantFiled: October 4, 2011Date of Patent: September 17, 2013Assignee: Scrawl, Inc.Inventors: Peter Griffiths, Andrew Rutter
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Publication number: 20130238969Abstract: Systems and methods for providing previews to mobile client devices of files stored in a web-based collaboration platform are disclosed. In one embodiment, a system sends a request to preview a file uploaded to the web-based collaboration platform. The system receives preview information for accessing and manipulating preview of the uploaded file. The preview information includes a scheme for accessing file segments of the preview of the uploaded file. The file segments are byproducts of a conversion of the file from the source format to a target format and have a requested preview format. The system further includes a viewer to access the file segments of the uploaded file using the scheme. The viewer displays the accessed file segments on a touch screen responsive to swiping actions on the touch screen, the swiping actions determined based on the source format.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 7, 2012Publication date: September 12, 2013Applicant: Box, Inc.Inventors: Michael Smith, Jeffrey H. Seibert, JR., Nicholas Silva
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Patent number: 8533743Abstract: A method includes receiving a plurality of events that each include a plurality of associated attributes, analyzing the plurality of associated attributes in order to identify at least two or more related events, determining a time associated with each of the at least two or more related events from the plurality of associated attributes, ordering the at least two or more related events in chronological order based on the determined time associated with each of the at least two or more related events, and manipulating at least one of the at least two or more related events based on the ordering.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2010Date of Patent: September 10, 2013Assignee: Openconnect Systems IncorporatedInventors: Christopher Raymond Houck, Edward M. Peters, Stuart H. Burris, Jr., Eric P. Armstrong
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Patent number: 8533586Abstract: An annotation overlay collection, storage, and display system and method is described. The system and method allows the collection of annotations of a variety of formats from multiple users and stores these annotations separate from, but related to the reference document, or several related reference documents. The annotations are displayed when the reference document is viewed and may be displayed in a format that minimizes the use of display real-estate but allows access to the annotation when desired.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2006Date of Patent: September 10, 2013Assignee: Twelvefold Media Inc.Inventors: Marc A. Meyer, Jean Sini
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Patent number: 8527868Abstract: A method and system for document annotation. A script editor is combined with a document rendering or client display system that allows a user to develop a customizable programmatic annotation script that is thereafter saved and associated with a document. When the document is selected for viewing, the rendering system renders the document and then, using a script language interpreter, runs the annotation script such that a user customizable programmatic annotation is rendered on top of the document. Annotations may include, for example, animation, sounds, or time-delayed effects. Server side annotation scripts may also be implemented thereby allowing management of documents on a document-by-document basis.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2008Date of Patent: September 3, 2013Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventor: William Wood Harter, Jr.
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Patent number: 8520025Abstract: An electronic book system provides interfaces particularly suited to students' use of textbooks. A finger press on a touch screen produces a contextual menu with user choices that relate to where the finger was pressed or what the user was recently doing with the book. A student provisionally navigates through a book by a specific gesture which, when it stops, returns the user to the previous position in the book. Annotations are displayed and hidden using specific gestures and through selective movement of the reader as sensed by its accelerometer.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2011Date of Patent: August 27, 2013Assignee: Google Inc.Inventors: James Patterson, Nathan Moody, Scott Dougall
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Patent number: 8522130Abstract: A notepad application enables users to create notes associated with electronic documents. The document, configured for rendering by an eReader browser application, is associated with a table of contents defining a plurality of sections of the document. The notepad application displays a note window associated with a section of the document within a user interface of the browser application. When a user generates a note in connection with the note window by indicating a location within the document, the notepad application adds the note to a note region in a note object that is associated with a section of the document defined by the table of contents. The notepad application then can access the note using the table of contents of the document.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2012Date of Patent: August 27, 2013Assignee: Chegg, Inc.Inventors: Yehuda Gilead, Arieh Glazer, Shahaf Shakuf, Shannyn Timrott, Brent Tworetzky, Ohad Eder-Pressman, Vincent Le Chevalier, Charles Geiger
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Patent number: 8515923Abstract: A document repository management system for an institution having a defined organization is provided. The document repository management system has (a) a first database containing an organization chart and organizational chart information including information identifying individuals in the defined organization, (b) a second database containing accessible documents, (c) programs for controlling requested access to each document of the accessible documents in the second database, and (d) programs for mapping, to the organization chart and the organizational chart information of the first database, each requested access to each document of the accessible documents, thereby enabling efficient management of the document repository based on historical tracking of actual usage of each document by individuals and groups on the organization chart.Type: GrantFiled: April 2, 2007Date of Patent: August 20, 2013Assignee: Xerox CorporationInventors: John C Wenn, Daniel W Manchala, Leonid Orlov
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Patent number: 8510646Abstract: Contextually placed chat-like annotations in an electronic record. Users can input successive time-stamped annotations at a selected location in an electronic record. The annotations are displayed chronologically in a discussion window, which is customizable by color, style, and location. The discussion window styles minimize clutter and distraction, thus providing for more effective review and collaboration. The discussion location is indicated by a discussion point icon, and can be displayed in a window of fixed size with scrolling capability. A user can email the discussion window content to other users and request an alert, notifying the user of successive annotations. An annotation engine can reside on a server and receives user input and performs functionality related to the annotations. The electronic record can reside on the server and is repeatedly updated to reflect current content relating to the electronic record and annotations.Type: GrantFiled: July 1, 2008Date of Patent: August 13, 2013Assignee: Google Inc.Inventors: David S. Young, Andrea Knight
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Patent number: 8504908Abstract: Disclosed is a computer-implemented method of presenting data which has been automatically extracted from a digital representation of a document to a curator for review, the extracted data comprising annotation entity data concerning one or more instances of entities which have been identified in the digital representation of a document, the annotation entity data comprising data specifying the location of the identified instances of entities within the digital representation of a document, the method comprising the steps of (i) displaying in a first region of a display screen a user selectable portion of the digital representation of a document with said instances of entities which are specified by the annotation entity data as being located within the displayed portion of the digital representation of a document highlighted at the location specified by the annotation entity data; (ii) displaying in a second region of the display screen a list of a plurality of instances of entities which have been identifieType: GrantFiled: October 17, 2008Date of Patent: August 6, 2013Assignee: ITI Scotland, LimitedInventor: Alastair Chisholm
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Patent number: 8504587Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems and methods for controlling access to content, and/or regions thereof, as well as controlling access to annotations to the content, or regions thereof. An audience can be specified for a region of content and one or more associated annotations. In response to a request for a content region, a content region definition, an audience definition for the content region, and at least one annotation for the content region and audience can be obtained, and the content region and the at least one annotation can be transmitted in response to the request if it is determined that the request is from a member of the audience, so that the content region and annotation can be experienced at an audience member's device.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2008Date of Patent: August 6, 2013Assignee: Yahoo! Inc.Inventors: Athellina Athsani, Elizabeth F. Churchill
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Patent number: 8504364Abstract: Differential dynamic content delivery including providing a session document for a presentation, wherein the session document includes a session grammar and a session structured document; selecting from the session structured document a classified structural element in dependence upon user classifications of a user participant in the presentation; presenting the selected structural element to the user; streaming presentation speech to the user including individual speech from at least one user participating in the presentation; converting the presentation speech to text; detecting whether the presentation speech contains simultaneous individual speech from two or more users; and displaying the text if the presentation speech contains simultaneous individual speech from two or more users.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2012Date of Patent: August 6, 2013Assignee: Nuance Communications, Inc.Inventors: William K. Bodin, Michael John Burkhart, Daniel G. Eisenhauer, Thomas James Watson, Daniel Mark Schumacher
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Publication number: 20130198600Abstract: Systems and methods for providing previews of files stored in an online content management system with collaboration environment and permitting a user to annotate the previews are disclosed. The system further tracks the frequency of access of content in previewed documents and provides a visual representation of the frequency with which sections in a document was viewed.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 17, 2012Publication date: August 1, 2013Applicant: Box, Inc.Inventors: Kimber Lockhart, Jeffrey H. Seibert, JR.
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Publication number: 20130198182Abstract: A method, system and program for facilitating consideration of clearance of a target sequence. The method comprises retrieving a predefined patent document library data structure having fields for claim identifiers, a matching criterion for a comparison, translated claim statements, matching procedures, sequence identifiers, logical relationships between claim statements and machine readable comparison instructions; retrieving a sequence database indexed by sequence identifier, comparing the target sequence with each of the claims in the retrieved patent document library data structure, using a corresponding machine readable comparison instructions and a sequence which is obtained from the retrieved sequence database corresponding to a sequence identified in the claim and determining whether each of claims in the retrieved patent document library data structure matches the target sequence based upon a result of the comparison.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 31, 2012Publication date: August 1, 2013Applicant: SANOFIInventors: Amar Mohan DRAWID, Tai-He XIA
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Patent number: 8499234Abstract: A spatial bulletin board system for virtually writing a memo in an actual space and displaying the memo superimposed on a picked-up image of the actual space. The system includes an input device that converts drawing movement during the creation of content in an actual space to three-dimensional coordinate information and acquires positional information which specifies a place in which the memo is written and saves the information in a spatial communication server. In the image-pickup place, the picked-up image is displayed on a spatial bulletin board display device and a browsing request is sent to the spatial communication server.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2007Date of Patent: July 30, 2013Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.Inventors: Mamoru Sawada, Takuro Komine, Eiichi Hakkaku
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Patent number: 8498858Abstract: The present invention relates to the translation of a portion of text to be communicated in a text-based communication in a communications network. A communications device for composing the text-based communication queries a translation service with a portion of text in a first language to obtain a replacement for the portion in a second language. A user may trigger a replacement query by composing the portion using at least one trigger symbol monitored by the communications device. Replacement may be confirmed with the user and at least one alternative replacement sought in response to the confirmation. The communications network may comprise a wireless network and the communications device a wireless mobile communications device.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2012Date of Patent: July 30, 2013Assignee: Research In Motion LimitedInventor: Thanh Vinh Vuong
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Publication number: 20130191718Abstract: A rule based apparatus and method for modifying word annotations in an annotated text base, the apparatus comprising: an index creator component for creating an index of word annotations; an annotations modifying component for modifying word annotations; and a retriggering component, responsive to said annotations modifying component, for retriggering a rules engine to modify all occurrences of a matching word annotation in said annotated text base and updating the index of word annotations with the modified occurrences of a matching word annotation in said annotated text base.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 8, 2013Publication date: July 25, 2013Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventor: International Business Machines Corporation
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Publication number: 20130191717Abstract: Evaluating the performance of a text analysis engine is provided. A plurality of pre-annotated reference documents and a set of annotation types associated with the pre-annotated reference documents are received. Annotation contexts of reference annotations in the plurality of pre-annotated reference documents are analyzed using the set of annotation types. Similar annotation contexts are identified between the reference annotations and the set of annotation types. Responsive to identifying the similar annotation contexts, the similar annotation contexts are clustered thereby forming a plurality of reference annotation clusters. A set of reference content heterogeneity scores are computed based on the number of reference annotation clusters for each annotation type in the set of annotation types. An integral reference content rate for the set of annotation types is then computed and output to a user.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 22, 2012Publication date: July 25, 2013Applicant: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Genady Grabarnik, Lev Kozakov, Larisa Shwartz
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Publication number: 20130191719Abstract: A notebook component within a note-taking application is utilized as a centralized mechanism for recording notations and providing documentation related to a particular meeting. The meeting participants are provided with centralized access to the notebook component and thus are able to update the notebook record of the meeting collaboratively and in real time. In addition to user-driven updates, updates may also be generated on an automatic or semi-automatic basis. Updates may be made before, during or after the actual meeting. Updates may originate from an application data source outside of the note-taking application itself.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 19, 2012Publication date: July 25, 2013Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATIONInventors: Thomas Underhill, Cynthia Wessling, Apeksha Godiyal, Syed Mustafa Bilal, Hong Lin, Nathaniel Stott, Charles Duze, Po-Yan Tsang
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Publication number: 20130191716Abstract: A method, system and computer readable medium for providing for providing a function item, such as a key, button, icon, or menu, tied to a user operation in a computer, whereby a single click on the function item in a window or program on a computer screen, or one single selection in a menu in a program, initiates retrieval of name and addresses and/or other person or company related information, while the user works simultaneously in another program, e.g., a word processor. The click on the function item initiates a program connected to the button to search a database or file available on or through the computer, containing the person, company or address related data, in order to look up data corresponding to what the user types, or partly typed, e.g., name and/or address in the word processor, the correct data from the database, data related to the typed data, e.g.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 4, 2011Publication date: July 25, 2013Applicant: Arendi S.A.R.L.Inventor: Atle Hedloy
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Publication number: 20130191711Abstract: Review systems and methods facilitate active reading by providing a flexible environment in which users can examine documents. A review system can comprise a virtual workspace, a document view region, a preview region, and optional document objects. The virtual workspace can simulate a desktop or other physical workspace. The document view region can display a portion of an open document at a magnification sufficient for reading. The preview region can display the document at a magnification sufficient to enable the general layout of the entire document to be determined. The document objects can be created from the document through tools of the review system. These document objects can be independently moveable throughout the virtual workspace as needed to facilitate the user's active reading process.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 16, 2011Publication date: July 25, 2013Applicant: GEORGIA TECH RESEARCH CORPORATIONInventors: Craig S. Tashman, W. Keith Edwards
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Patent number: 8495488Abstract: This invention concerns a document markup tool, that is an application where existing authored documents can be marked or annotated. For instance, formative or summative assessment submissions authored by students might be graded by a teacher using the markup tool. The tool itself is operable by a user at a computer user interface to: Recognize the members of a set of existing documents. Open one of the existing documents in a set and display its contents to a user together with a toolbar. And, select locations in the document and, using the toolbar, add commentary and scores to the document. Wherein the markup tool is automatically operable to: Total the scores made in a document. Display the scores in a graphical report in the document. Display a moderation panel which enables visual and statistical comparisons of the scores made in a document to the scores added to all the documents of the set. And, reflect changes to the scores made in a document in the displayed moderation panel.Type: GrantFiled: August 21, 2008Date of Patent: July 23, 2013Assignee: RemarksPDF Pty LimitedInventor: Stephen Colbran
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Patent number: 8495505Abstract: A method for perspective based tagging and visualization of avatars in a virtual world may include determining if another avatar has moved within a predetermined proximity range of a user's avatar in a virtual world. The method may also include allowing the user to tag the other avatar with information in response to the other avatar being within the predetermined proximity range of the user's avatar.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2008Date of Patent: July 23, 2013Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Andrew Bryan Smith, Brian Ronald Bokor, Daniel Edward House, William Bruce Nicol, II
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Patent number: 8495489Abstract: Disclosed herein are computer-implemented systems and methods for allowing an end-user to create and share annotated comments, modify published images, and/or otherwise interact with images published on digital content platforms (e.g., images published on a webpage, mobile application, etc.). The systems and methods may include: (1) providing an annotation interface to allow a first end-user to create an annotation on a published image; (2) providing a comment entry interface to receive a comment from the first end-user; (3) linking the annotation and the comment; (4) identifying when a second end-user accesses the image or comment on the digital content platform; and (5) displaying the comment and/or annotation to the second end-user.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2012Date of Patent: July 23, 2013Assignee: Luminate, Inc.Inventor: James R. Everingham
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Patent number: 8495495Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus including a content display unit for displaying movie content on a display screen, and a bookmark setting unit for setting a bookmark in which a display position where a display subject is displayed on the display screen and a temporal position within the movie content where the display subject is displayed on the display screen are mutually related to each other, to the display subject of the movie content displayed on the display screen by the content display unit.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 2010Date of Patent: July 23, 2013Assignee: Sony CorporationInventor: Masaaki Isozu
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Publication number: 20130185622Abstract: This application relates to calculating addresses of modifications to tree-based structures and storing some of the addresses in a manner that allows the modifications to be applied, sustained, modified, and removed independently from one another. In some embodiments, the tree-based structures may define documents, including web documents, and the modifications may include annotations. In some embodiments, the addresses may include locations of the annotations within the documents. Methods and systems disclosed herein also include improved methods and systems for handling annotations. Some such methods and systems operate in connection with handling addresses associated with tree-based structures, while others can function independently of tree-based structures. Related user interfaces, applications, and computer program products are disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 27, 2012Publication date: July 18, 2013Applicant: SCRIBLE, INC.Inventor: SCRIBLE, INC.
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Publication number: 20130179766Abstract: In accordance with the teachings described herein, systems and methods are provided for identifying organizational elements in argumentative or persuasive discourse. A text that has been annotated is received. The annotated text includes argumentative or persuasive discourse that includes claims and evidence and organizational elements configured to organize the claims and evidence. Annotations of the annotated text distinguish the organizational elements from the claims and evidence. A rule set or a feature set is identified from the annotated text, where the rule set or the feature set includes textual patterns or word frequency features related to the organizational elements of the annotated text. A model is built based on the annotations and on the rule set or the feature set. The model is configured to identify organizational elements in a new text. The model is applied to the new text.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 7, 2013Publication date: July 11, 2013Applicant: EDUCATIONAL TESTING SERVICEInventor: Educational Testing Service
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Patent number: 8484297Abstract: One embodiment of the present invention provides a method for allowing a first user to view a collaboratively annotated electronic document. During operation, the system identifies a set of users based on the similarities of online behavior between the identified users and the first user. The system further ranks the identified users based on degrees of similarities between these users and the first user. The system then retrieves an electronic document selected for viewing by the first user and determines whether at least one of the identified users has annotated the electronic document. Based on the determination, the system augments the electronic document with annotations from the identified user and displays the annotated electronic document to the first user.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2008Date of Patent: July 9, 2013Assignee: Palo Alto Research Center IncorporatedInventor: Qingfeng Huang
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Patent number: 8482808Abstract: An image processing system includes a client apparatus and a server apparatus. The server apparatus includes an item extraction unit, an item classification unit, and an image selection processing unit. The item extraction unit extracts a prescribed item from a document. The item classification unit classifies the extracted item into any of a plurality of groups. The image selection processing unit generates a display screen displaying each item included in read data in a manner different for each group. A display of the client apparatus displays the generated display screen.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 2009Date of Patent: July 9, 2013Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Kei Shigehisa, Takeshi Morikawa, Toshimichi Iwai, Kaitaku Ozawa