Format Transformation Patents (Class 715/249)
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Patent number: 8543908Abstract: Degrees of similarity between pages from the viewpoint of metadata creation and verification can be estimated based on degrees of similarity between pages in terms of structure, style (appearance), and accessibility error, and, based on the estimation, representative pages appropriate for efficiently adding metadata can be recommended, or target pages appropriate for efficiently verifying the metadata can be recommended.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2010Date of Patent: September 24, 2013Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Shinya Kawanaka, Masatomo Kobayashi, Daisuke Sato
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Patent number: 8543362Abstract: A method and system for configuring a model of a process. A model of a process is provided, which follows a particular sequence. Such a model includes a plurality of component sub-models, wherein each component sub-model among the component sub-models includes one or more input variables and one or more output variables. Such a method and system also generally includes automatically assigning one or more output variables to one or more input variables based on information associated with the particular sequence of the process.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2010Date of Patent: September 24, 2013Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.Inventors: David Joachim Germann, Greg Stewart
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Patent number: 8539342Abstract: The present disclosure includes a system for generating a presentation order from a document that has fixed presentation layout when rendered. Techniques include reconstructing structural information and logical ordering for fixed-layout documents. A document editor generates a presentation order, or a read order, for contents within a fixed-layout document. The document editor creates an initial sort order for areas of content within a document. The document editor then generates a presentation order based on graphical dimensions and graphical placement relationships among areas of content within a document. The resulting presentation order can be used to create a second document or second layout, or to add structural information to create reflowed or reflowable content.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 2008Date of Patent: September 17, 2013Assignee: Adobe Systems IncorporatedInventor: Paton J. Lewis
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Patent number: 8516365Abstract: Technologies are described herein for dynamically laying out images and associated text using pre-defined layouts. The pre-defined layouts are created and data defining the layouts is stored in a layout definition file. An application program provides a user interface for dynamically laying out the images and associated text using the contents of the layout definition file. The user interface includes a canvas onto which a user may place one or more images and a layout gallery through which a user may select a pre-defined layout to be applied to images placed on the canvas. The layout gallery includes selectable visual representations corresponding to each of the available pre-defined layouts. When one of the visual representations is selected, the corresponding pre-defined layout is dynamically applied to images on the canvas. The visual representations displayed in the layout gallery may also be utilized to generate a preview of the layout.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2007Date of Patent: August 20, 2013Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Crystal Lynn Hoyer, Lawrence Waldman, Jason Stuart Schneekloth, Thomas Charles Underhill, Christopher Michael Becker
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Publication number: 20130212121Abstract: Client-side modification of electronic documents by server-generated instructions in a client-server environment enables dynamic modification of formatting information in an electronic document to accommodate new data received from the server. A server generates machine instructions to send to a client along with new data for an electronic document. The generated instructions modify the electronic document at the client to accommodate the new data. The generated instructions may include at least one tag indicating a relative order in which the new data is to be imported into the electronic document and the instructions are to be performed.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 27, 2012Publication date: August 15, 2013Applicant: ADOBE SYSTEMS INCORPORATEDInventors: Roberto Perelman, Scott E. Petersen
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Publication number: 20130205201Abstract: A method of operating presentation through a multi-touch panel, comprises steps of providing a presenting module having a format transformation module, user interface generator and presenting/reading mode switching module to a system; activating the presenting module and display interface generated by the user interface generator on a multiple-touch panel of the system, wherein the interface generated by the user interface generator includes a shrinkage image area to display the non-activated file, an operation area to display file which is activated and a buffer zoon to allow a user drag file in the shrinkage image area to the operation area, thereby activating the dragged file.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 8, 2012Publication date: August 8, 2013Applicant: PHIHONG TECHNOLOGY CO.,LTD.Inventors: Pao-Te Tsai, Wen-Kai Wu, Po-Tsang Li, Po-Yu Chen, Jing-Ru Chiu, Kuan-Chu Hou, Chien-Hung Huang, Allan Lin, Wen-Lung Tsai, Chung-Ming Lin
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Publication number: 20130205202Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for transforming a document into interactive media content. A system can include a memory for storing computer executable instructions and a processing unit for accessing the memory and executing the computer executable instructions. The computer executable instructions can include an engine to generate a dynamic composition of the text blocks and visual blocks of the document, based on semantic features of the text blocks and the visual blocks, to provide the interactive media content.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 31, 2011Publication date: August 8, 2013Inventors: Jun Xiao, Jiajian Chen, Jian Fan, Eamonn O'Brien-Strain
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Patent number: 8504989Abstract: A service definition document (SDD) framework is provided for defining blended services that utilize multiple service endpoints. The SDD framework can comprise a first category that defines a service endpoint representing a blended service, a second category that defines a plurality of service endpoints utilized by the blended service, and a third category that defines execution of the blended service. Blended services can be provided by creating a model of a blended service and saving a representation of the model of the blended service in a service definition document (SDD) framework. A blended service defined in a SDD framework can be executed by receiving the SDD and executing the blended service as defined by the SDD using a service execution environment (SEE).Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2011Date of Patent: August 6, 2013Assignee: Infosys LimitedInventors: Ravindra K. Ghanathe, Subrahmanya R. Mruthyunjaya, Rashmi Shenoy
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Patent number: 8499236Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for presenting reflow objects of content on an output medium. In some embodiments, the content to be presented may be determined by rendering one or more reflow objects of content to an image file, the image file having a horizontal dimension that approximates the horizontal dimension of the output medium and a vertical dimension that exceeds the vertical dimension of the output medium, and causing a portion of the image file to be presented on the output medium, wherein the portion of the image file presented corresponds to a view window logically superimposed upon the image file. A request for content that is not within the view window may be received, the location of the view window may be adjusted based on the request, and the adjustment may result in changing the portion of the image file presented on the display.Type: GrantFiled: January 21, 2010Date of Patent: July 30, 2013Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventor: Jonathan W. Keljo
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Publication number: 20130191733Abstract: An apparatus and method is provided that allows users to easily and rapidly search and locate parts of pages in an e-book that they have read, even though the form of pages has changed. The apparatus and method for displaying pages on an electronic mobile device includes: displaying at least one page of a plurality of pages of an e-book; detecting the presence of an event; changing the form of the displayed pages to a form corresponding to the detected event; and displaying the difference between the forms before and after the change.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 24, 2012Publication date: July 25, 2013Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventor: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
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Publication number: 20130191732Abstract: A fixed format document conversion engine and associated method for converting a fixed format document into a flow format document. The fixed format document conversion engine includes a sequence of layout analysis engines and semantic analysis engines to analyzes the base physical layout information obtained from the fixed format document to enrich, modify, and classify the physical layout information into progressively more advanced physical layout information and, ultimately, semantic layout information. The semantic layout information is mapped and serialized into a selected flow format document with a high level of flowability.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 23, 2012Publication date: July 25, 2013Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATIONInventors: Milos Lazarevic, Milos Raskovic, Aljosa Obuljen, Milan Sesum, Dusan Radovanovic, Aleksandar Tomic, Dragan Slaveski, Marija Antic
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Patent number: 8495176Abstract: A content management system (CMS) includes a value-add application with a first set of XML content services, one or more dedicated XML processing servers with a second and other sets of XML content services, and a core CMS with a third set of XML content services. The content management system may be designed to provide XML content services at any of these three tiers of processing. A first threshold is defined that allows the value-add application to determine when to offload XML content services to a dedicated XML processing server. A second threshold is defined that allows the core CMS to determine when to offload XML content services to a dedicated XML processing server. Callback services are included that allow each tier of XML content services to send or receive additional information to complete the XML processing. The result is a content management system that is very powerful and flexible.Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 2010Date of Patent: July 23, 2013Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: David G. Herbeck, John E. Petri
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Patent number: 8484556Abstract: Embodiments of the invention provide data file interoperability between two drawing programs using a single composite drawing file. A method of generating a drawing file shared by a source application and a target application includes storing a copy of a computer aided design (CAD) drawing in a composite drawing file, where the CAD drawing is stored according to a drawing format used by the source application. The method also includes generating a visual representation of the CAD drawing, where the visual representation is formatted according to a drawing format used by the target application. The method also includes storing the visual representation in the composite drawing file, where a display of the visual representation generated by the target application is substantially similar to a display of the CAD drawing generated by the source application.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2007Date of Patent: July 9, 2013Assignee: Autodesk, Inc.Inventors: Robert W. McMillan, Narayanan Krishnan, Prabakar Murugappan, James M. Clauss
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Patent number: 8484558Abstract: A document format of an electronic document be generated is designated when a document is read to generate an electronic document of the document, and a division unit for dividing the document in the designated document format is acquired. The document is read based on the acquired division unit, and an electronic document in the designated document format is generated from data of the division unit. The generated electronic document is transmitted to a destination designated in advance.Type: GrantFiled: October 14, 2009Date of Patent: July 9, 2013Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Keisuke Tamiya
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Patent number: 8484557Abstract: A method includes defining preflight parameters for preflight rules using relationship information. A preflight rule may be associated with an attribute table which may include information about associated preflight parameters. The preflight parameters may be defined via an interface that enables a user to specify data type and parameter relationship information.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2008Date of Patent: July 9, 2013Assignee: Adobe Systems IncorporatedInventor: Susan Cheng
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Patent number: 8484553Abstract: A system and method for defining specifications for outputting content to multiple formats. More specifically, a system and method for creating a single multi-purpose stylesheet file from a single user interface, the single multi-purpose stylesheet being capable of designing multiple output media formats. For example, the multi-purpose stylesheet may convert input XML content to HTML, PDF, PostScript, WML, or other output formats. The method may include creating or modifying a multipurpose stylesheet containing formatting rules corresponding to various properties of different output media formats. A user can configure the multi-purpose stylesheet by selecting different formatting properties for different output media formats.Type: GrantFiled: May 5, 2004Date of Patent: July 9, 2013Assignee: Arbortext, Inc.Inventors: John J. Lloyd, David L. White, Paul B. Grosso, Peter G. Bartlett, Robert M. Lambert, Kenneth D. Pierce, Samuel S. Brow, Joyce M. Svechota
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Publication number: 20130174024Abstract: This application provides methods and devices for converting a document format. The method may comprise typesetting a flow document and extracting first logical structure information of a document entity from the typeset flow document. The method may also comprise mapping a layout element associated with the document entity to a framing box corresponding to the first logical structure information. In addition, the method may comprise converting the layout element mapped to the framing box into a description form of second logical structure information associated with a target document format.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 31, 2012Publication date: July 4, 2013Inventors: Guofeng XING, Zhensheng He
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Patent number: 8479092Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on one or more computer storage media, for modifying content layout for an electronic document are described. In one aspect, a method includes receiving an identification of a subset of content items identified in a first electronic document. Each content item in the subset of content items includes displayable data. A prioritization of the subset of content items is identified, and a first content item is selected based on the prioritization. A new value of a first layout property for the selected content item is calculated based at least in part on one or more initial values. A new electronic document is generated. The new electronic document includes an identification of the new value and data for generating a second graphical representation of the subset of content items based at least in part on the new value.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2009Date of Patent: July 2, 2013Assignee: Adobe Systems IncorporatedInventor: Krishna Kumar Pandey
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Patent number: 8472052Abstract: An image reader and an external terminal are connected to each other through a network. The image reader includes a reading unit, a reception section, a data conversion section, a transmission data generation section and a transmission section. The reading unit reads an image. The reception section receives terminal information from the external terminal. The data conversion section converts image data read by the reading unit into a predetermined data format based on the terminal information. The transmission data generation section adds additional information, which relates to processing of the converted image data, to the converted image data to generate transmission data. The transmission section transmits the transmission data to the external terminal.Type: GrantFiled: November 11, 2009Date of Patent: June 25, 2013Assignee: Oki Data CorporationInventor: Yoko Asano
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Patent number: 8473996Abstract: Metadata are provided to video generators using a syndication protocol, so that the video generators may produce interactive video content for television subscribers. Metadata relating to source media content are transformed in a computer process from a storage format into a syndication format. Relevant metadata to transform are chosen to reflect the type of interactivity desired by a television service provider and the demands of the video generation process. The transformed metadata are published according to a syndication protocol, so that another computer process that participates in the protocol may generate the interactive video content using the metadata, the source media content, and subscriber commands.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2010Date of Patent: June 25, 2013Assignee: ActiveVideo Networks, Inc.Inventors: Donald Gordon, Hsuehmin Li, Ellen Rose Fratzke
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Publication number: 20130159831Abstract: Various embodiments of systems and methods for converting reports between disparate report formats are described herein. In one aspect, a first report in a markup data schema is received. On another aspect, a second report in a banded report schema, comprising one or more bands, is created. The second report is created as a blank report. First report formatting settings of the first report are converted to second report formatting setting of the second report. Report content and report content layout from the first report are converted to the second report.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 19, 2011Publication date: June 20, 2013Inventor: TOBIAS WELLER
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Patent number: 8467506Abstract: A voice channel connection and a data channel connection are established with a structured voice interaction system. Navigation information for and provided by the structured voice interaction system is received over the data channel connection. The data channel navigation information is coordinated with navigation information provided by the structured voice interaction system over the voice channel connection.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2009Date of Patent: June 18, 2013Assignee: The Invention Science Fund I, LLCInventors: Alexander J. Cohen, Edward K. Y. Jung, Royce A. Levien, Mark A. Malamud, Robert W. Lord, John D. Rinaldo, Jr.
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Publication number: 20130145259Abstract: A system, computer-implemented method and computer-readable medium for displaying edition content of a magazine edition are provided. In an embodiment, a screen selection corresponding to a size of a screen upon which to render a magazine edition is received, the magazine edition including a content page with one or more articles. A grid with grid segments is calculated for the selected screen size. A layout for the content page is determined, the layout including a tile of one or more of the grid segments corresponding to each of the articles. Content associated with each of the articles is determined. The content of each of the articles is arranged for display within its corresponding tile. The content page of the magazine edition is displayed, the displayed page including the articles arranged for display within its corresponding tile.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 6, 2011Publication date: June 6, 2013Applicant: Google Inc.Inventors: William Frederick Kiefer, III, Maurice Bennett Shore, Cassandra Lynn Doll
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Publication number: 20130144692Abstract: A system, computer-implemented method and computer-readable medium for displaying edition content are provided. An edition player is configured to receive a magazine edition, the magazine edition including a layout template for rendering edition content. The edition player is further configured to receive edition content subscribed to by the magazine edition, the edition content provided by a content source. The edition player then integrates the edition content within the magazine edition using the layout template to lay out the edition content based on a specification of the mobile device. The edition player then renders the edition content within the magazine edition.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 2, 2011Publication date: June 6, 2013Applicant: Google Inc.Inventors: Sami Mohammed Shalabi, Maurice Bennett Shore, Cassandra Lynn Doll
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Publication number: 20130145258Abstract: Methods and systems for efficient synchronization of magazine edition content on heterogeneous mobile devices are provided. Display screen information is obtained for a mobile device, including resolution and screen dimensions. Edition content changes for each magazine edition presented on the mobile device are determined based on the display screen information. Subscription information, edition summaries, edition design information and media library information specific to the edition content changes are each provided. When any of these portions of the edition content changes fails to synchronize, synchronization is continued with that portion that failed.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 6, 2011Publication date: June 6, 2013Applicant: Google Inc.Inventors: James D. Reilly, William F. Kiefer, Thomas William Schneider, Sami Mohammed Shalabi
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Patent number: 8458586Abstract: A method for creating a web application adapted to run in a Silverlight® run time environment from an X/HTML source file. The visual elements of the X/HTML source are converted to a corresponding Silverlight® custom control with a comparable visual presentation. The X/HTML source file is first converted to XAML which is then combined with the Silverlight custom controls into a web application.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2011Date of Patent: June 4, 2013Inventor: Jasim George Schluter
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Patent number: 8456654Abstract: A redaction process (10) to enable a user to redact an electronic document on a computer. The redaction process (10) includes the steps of converting a copy of the original electronic document file (14) from its native format into the format of an electronic image file. The user may redact sections of the electronic image file, and save the redacted electronic image file in electronic file format.Type: GrantFiled: October 14, 2005Date of Patent: June 4, 2013Assignee: Onstream Systems LimitedInventors: David George Kelly, Brent Russell Foster
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Patent number: 8453053Abstract: A method is provided for generating reports for a computer monitored or aided environment that has a server-side module, a client-side module and a database, the server-side module, client-side module and database being interconnected, The method includes creating a report layout, the report layout containing a predefined number of dynamic fields at predetermined positions; associating, at the server-side, each dynamic field with a data source; collecting, at the server-side, information for each dynamic field according to the associated data source; storing the information in the database; and displaying the information for each dynamic field on a display according to the report layout. The report layout is shared universally for the generation of a displayed report and a printed report.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2009Date of Patent: May 28, 2013Assignee: ECAVA Sdn. Bhd.Inventors: Kwee Hui Lee, Foot Yow Wong, Kin Hoon Wong, Kok Peng Lee
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Publication number: 20130132812Abstract: A spreadsheet is repurposed to save paper and ink. An indication that a printout of a spreadsheet from a printer has been requested is received. The spreadsheet has content with a format that would result in a first quantity of pages being printed. Further, a printable range for the spreadsheet is determined. In addition, an overlap analysis of the spreadsheet is performed to determine if any of the plurality of shapes in the spreadsheet overlap one another. Each print zone is isolated in the spreadsheet. The print zone includes a group of cells. Each print zone is transformed into a transformed print zone. Further, a green spreadsheet is generated, without falling below a predetermined readability threshold, based on each transformed print zone such that the green spreadsheet has a second quantity of pages that is less than the first quantity of pages.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 3, 2010Publication date: May 23, 2013Applicant: ADOBE SYSTEMS INCORPORATEDInventors: Naveen Goel, Mayur Hemani, Himanshu Jindal
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Publication number: 20130124966Abstract: A network system includes a computer and an apparatus for reading digital documents, including an apparatus display being connectable to a communication channel of the computer via a connector. The computer includes a converter to convert a document to a format displayable by the apparatus, a first watching unit to watch the communication channel for arrival of the apparatus, and a second watching unit to watch a user's activities on the computer. The apparatus includes a detector to detect a moment in time when the user starts to work with the apparatus, and a notification device configured to send a notification to the computer via the connector. The computer is configured to establish upon receipt of the notification a transfer of the converted document from the computer via the connector to the apparatus, and the apparatus is configured to show a converted document on the apparatus display.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 8, 2013Publication date: May 16, 2013Applicant: OCE-TECHNOLOGIES B.V.Inventor: OCE-TECHNOLOGIES B.V.
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Publication number: 20130124983Abstract: Embodiments of methods, apparatuses, devices and systems associated with document conversion are disclosed. In one particular implementation, an apparatus is provided which includes a document conversion program capable of generating at least a portion of a first document based at least in part on one or more portions of data from a second document.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 13, 2005Publication date: May 16, 2013Inventor: Nils Hausig
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Patent number: 8438368Abstract: Optimizing processing of a document sequentially processed by a plurality of image processing apparatuses that refer to an instruction document indicating the processing to be performed by each of the plurality of image processing apparatuses and respective security measures performed by each of the plurality of image processing apparatuses.Type: GrantFiled: April 1, 2009Date of Patent: May 7, 2013Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.Inventor: Tetsuo Numata
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Patent number: 8429524Abstract: A method executed by a computer of generating a repurposed document includes: providing a representation of a first document with no explicitly defined structure, extracting structural information for the first document using a set of predefined rules, determining a first content item formatted using a first style of the first document using the structural information, applying a second style to the first content item in order to generate a second content item, and generating the repurposed document using the second content item, wherein a visual significance hierarchical score is maintained between the first and second content items.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2009Date of Patent: April 23, 2013Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Helen Balinsky, Al-Fathiatul Habibah Abdul-Rahman, Anthony Wiley
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Patent number: 8418066Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to content formatting for Web distributed content and provide a method, system and computer program product for content personalization for Web distributed content. In an embodiment of the invention, a content customization method can be provided. The method can include selecting content in a retrieved page, retrieving an applied customization from a source separate from a source of the retrieved page, applying the applied customization to the selected content to modify a visual appearance of the selected content, and providing the selected content once modified for display in a content browser.Type: GrantFiled: August 7, 2008Date of Patent: April 9, 2013Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Samar Choudhary, Richard A. King, Vijay Pandiarajan, Niraj D. Patel, Shikha Srivastava
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Patent number: 8418057Abstract: A method for displaying text arranged into word clusters on an electronic display including the steps of providing a text, arranging the text into a plurality of word clusters, where a plurality of clusters includes at least two lines and each line includes at least two words, and where at least one word can be emphasized. The provided text has a plurality of paragraphs with a plurality of sentences arranged into clusters each limited to a thought group based on a word or a plurality of words linked by commonality having an end defined by a text element. Cluster size can be constrained by an estimate of reader apprehension span and/or a readability analysis of the provided text based on word complexity which can take into account reader comprehension. An automated program configured to identify thought groups using such linguistic criteria can be employed to carry out the method.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 2005Date of Patent: April 9, 2013Assignee: Cambridge Reading Project, LLCInventors: David H. Knight, Andrew D. Knight
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Patent number: 8411305Abstract: A system and method is disclosed for identifying a record template within a file having reused objects. The method discloses: identifying, in the input file, a reused object and a set of pages upon which the reused object is located; computing a page distance between at least two adjacent instances of the reused object; generating an object recurrence pattern for the reused object; and reconstructing a record template, based on the object recurrence pattern, thereby identifying the records in the input file. The system discloses a processor, a profiler module, a pattern identification module, and a template reconstruction module for effecting the method.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2009Date of Patent: April 2, 2013Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventor: Fabio Giannetti
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Patent number: 8407363Abstract: A computer-implemented method includes generating a user interface for displaying one or more images, receiving a request from a remote device to view the user interface, determining whether the remote device is a mobile device communicating over a wireless network, depending on a result of the determination, generating a low resolution version of the user interface that is computationally less intensive to render compared to the previously generated user interface, and transmitting the low resolution version of the user interface to the requesting device.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2011Date of Patent: March 26, 2013Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Brian Dote, Stephane Lunati, Ken Goto, Seejo Pylappan
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Patent number: 8407587Abstract: A document processing system for actively processing a document targeted for one system on another system. The system of processing a document having associated field definitions targeted for a system operating in a first encoding scheme in a text editor operating in a second encoding scheme includes determining if a change to the document in the second encoding scheme violates one of the field definitions associated with the document and providing an indication to the text editor when a field definition violation is determined. The processing functions include creating, inserting, editing, deleting and formatting. The document processing system can be used when editing RPG documents in a Unicode editor for ultimate processing by a non-Unicode system such as EBCDIC DBCS. The indications can include setting a flag, which can be used by the text editor to drive visual indicators of violations, deny changes and the like.Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 2008Date of Patent: March 26, 2013Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventor: Adrian Storisteanu
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Patent number: 8402358Abstract: A client and one or more information retrieval (IR) engines, such as a search engine, may be in communication with each other via a network. A computer may read index information associated with at least a portion of an audiovisual object, the index information structured to be used in an index database of a search engine system. The computer may obfuscate at least a portion of the index information so that the intelligibility of the contents of the index information is reduced, and may transmit at least some of the obfuscated index information to the search engine system.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2009Date of Patent: March 19, 2013Assignee: SuperMedia LLCInventors: Christopher L. Knauft, Martin Franklin
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Patent number: 8397161Abstract: A method and system for facilitating dynamic document creation and publication is provided. A document having a first format may be constructed from a number of content elements maintained in a first database. The document may be transformed into a second format different from the first format. The transformed document may be published and provided to a user.Type: GrantFiled: October 6, 2006Date of Patent: March 12, 2013Assignee: Juniper Networks, Inc.Inventors: Rajal Shah, Jason Gould, Charissa Fleischer, Renu Bhargava, Susan Aviva Doshay Garrett
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Patent number: 8392818Abstract: Methods for efficiently publishing electronic versions of traditionally paper-based government forms and utilizing the electronic forms for web-based transactional services are disclosed. Standard paper-based government forms are automatically converted to XML format, including data fields for entry of information by customers. Multiple electronic forms are accessible to the customer at a single access point, such as a web site. At the web site, the customer selects a form for filing with any of a plurality of government agencies. When presented to the customer, the selected form is presented with some of its data fields being pre-populated according to information retrieved from a database and specific to that customer. The customer completes the form, and a back-end system integrated with the web site handles the completed form, determines the appropriate government agency for filing the form, and transmits it as a transaction to the determined government agency.Type: GrantFiled: February 18, 2010Date of Patent: March 5, 2013Assignee: Accenture Global Services LimitedInventors: Iain Lopata, Andrew J. Pitman, Scott Gilliland, Robert Matles, San Retna
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Patent number: 8392826Abstract: The present embodiments provide methods, apparatuses, and systems for use in maintaining data quality upon conversion to a different data format. Some embodiments provide methods that receive media data in a first format, initiate a first conversion of the media data at the first format to a second converted format, identify parameters dictating the conversion to the second converted format, record the parameters, and distribute the recorded parameters to remote systems such that the parameters at least in part control the remote systems during a conversion of the media data to the second converted format.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2009Date of Patent: March 5, 2013Assignee: Sonic Solutions LLCInventors: Bruce W. Randall, James H. Taylor, Mark N. Ely, Kenneth G. Oetzel
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Patent number: 8392827Abstract: A method for dynamically converting electronically encoded HTML document from a text format to an image format. The method includes receiving a request for the content from a client, obtaining the content in text format, determining a content creation preference, and converting the content in text format to content in the image format according to the content creation preference. The method includes replying to the request, wherein the reply includes the content in the image format. The method applies a watermark to the content in the image format according to a watermarking preference. The method generates an image map in accordance with a mapping preference, wherein the image map relates selectable spatial display coordinates to external document identifiers.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2001Date of Patent: March 5, 2013Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: James R. H. Challenger, Paul M. Dantzig, Robert Filepp, Ronald Mraz
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Patent number: 8386924Abstract: An apparatus, method and system to automatically associate page elements, and convert and transform between disparate data and device format types. This allows for the ability to transform a single data source into multiple output composites suitable for deployment in disparate media outlets and on disparate output devices. Such automatic generation of disparate composites allows for the ability to take content written once in any given format and have said content automatically regenerated for any desired output outlet. The present disclosure further provides the ability to create and edit templates and data, and save edited changes affecting a single or a collection of templates. The invention teaches how to create associations from a piece of data and any of its page elements. Such associations facilitate the automatic transformation of the data into various output formats.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2007Date of Patent: February 26, 2013Inventors: Edgar Michael Fitzsimons, Brian G. Fitzsimons, Erik Richard Langenbach
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Patent number: 8386922Abstract: A structured document including a first element which includes an attribute that handles values as character strings, and a second element which defines a change of the values of the attribute is acquired. The attribute is extracted from the first element, and the extracted attribute is converted into a child element of the first element. The second element is converted into a third element which defines a change of the values of the attribute converted into the child element. The structured document updated by the conversions is output as a structured document.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2010Date of Patent: February 26, 2013Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Wataru Suzuki
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Patent number: 8381095Abstract: Automated comparison of Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) documents for revision mark-up includes reading document data from first and second DITA documents into respective document object model trees of nodes, and identifying and collapsing emphasis subtree nodes in the trees into their parent nodes, the collapsing caching emphasis data from the identified subtree nodes. A preorder traversal transforms the model trees into respective pre-order node lists and captures adjacent sibling emphasis subtree nodes as single text nodes. The node lists are merged into a merged node list via a longest common subsequence process that recognizes matches node pairs having primary sort key information and document structure metadata meeting a match threshold, with differences between matching tokens of the node pairs saved. A merged document object model built from the refined merged node list is transformed into a hypertext mark-up language document.Type: GrantFiled: November 7, 2011Date of Patent: February 19, 2013Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventor: Stephen E. Fischer
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Patent number: 8381110Abstract: An automatic graphics delivery system that operates in parallel with an existing Web site infrastructure is provided. The system streamlines the post-production process by automating the production of media through content generation procedures controlled by proprietary tags placed by an author within URLs embedded within Web documents.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2008Date of Patent: February 19, 2013Assignee: EquilibriumInventors: Sean Barger, Steve Johnson, Matt Butler, Jerry Destremps, David Pochron, Trent Brown
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Publication number: 20130024766Abstract: The invention relates to a system and method of context aware adaption of content for a mobile device. This involves identifying context parameters and associated values, selection of content layout based on context parameters. Content layout is selected from pre-configured content layouts based on context parameters. The content is retrieved from a content store. Content style is selected from pre-configured content styles based on context parameters. Rendering content on the device display based on the selected content layout, content style and at least one context parameter.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 6, 2012Publication date: January 24, 2013Applicant: INFOSYS LIMITEDInventors: Puneet Gupta, Venkat Kumar Sivaramamurthy, Karthik Gopalakrishnan Vinmani, Robin Pahwa, Akshay Darbari
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Patent number: 8359534Abstract: A system and computer program product produces an output document in any of several formats including any of several page description languages, from a file, in response to server side code.Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 2010Date of Patent: January 22, 2013Assignee: Adobe Systems IncorporatedInventors: Damon F. Cooper, Xu Chen, Sherman Gong, Michael Nimer
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Publication number: 20130019165Abstract: A method and computing system are provided for processing a document to associate a plurality of items within the document with a group. A first item included with in the group may be modified. All other items in the group may also be modified based on the modified first item.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 11, 2012Publication date: January 17, 2013Applicant: Paper Software LLCInventors: Nathan Alexander Whetsell, Benjamin Stuart Whetsell