Edit, Composition, Or Storage Control Patents (Class 715/255)
  • Patent number: 8713429
    Abstract: Collaborative web pages are enabled which allow every page on a website to be editable by an author and by others the author lets access the site. Web pages can send and receive email messages. Users can attach files to pages. Structure queries and page-building are enabled by use of various forms and form elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2014
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Joe Kraus, Graham Spencer
  • Patent number: 8713431
    Abstract: A document authoring program provides different views of a document opened by a user. In the editing view, the user can view the document contents and edit the contents in using a menu bar. In the semantic zoom view, the user is presented with a heading pane and a thumbnail pane and the menu bar is removed. The user can toggle from the editing view to the semantic zoom view by zooming out past a defined threshold using various user interface controls. Once the threshold is exceeded, the semantic view is presented. The editing view is returned to by selecting a heading or a thumbnail page, which respectively returns the user the page incorporating the selected heading or to the page incorporating the selected heading. This page will be displayed in the editing view at the same zoom level prior to toggling to the semantic zoom view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2014
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Michelle Elena Lisse, Aaron Alexander Selig
  • Publication number: 20140115450
    Abstract: This application provides a method and system of evidence preservation for digital documents. The method comprises: converting, by a client, the digital document to a document code, which is uniquely corresponding to the digital document; uploading, from the client, the document code and first attribute information of the client to a server, wherein the first attribute information includes user information and geographical position information of the client; and incorporating, by the server, second attribute information into the document code and the first attribute information to form a code file, and preserving the code file in a code file database of the server, wherein the second attribute information includes time information indicating when the document code is received by the server; wherein when contents of the digital document are changed, contents of the document code are changed accordingly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2011
    Publication date: April 24, 2014
    Applicant: DOMINATOR IP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shan Zhong, Yaou Li, Di Li, Dalong Shi, Peng Wang, HuiChung Che, Hsiangshuai Wu
  • Publication number: 20140115451
    Abstract: A system and method is described for customizing commercial-quality movies, books, and other products and media. An interface is employed to guide customers through the customization process, presenting a menu of available movies, books, products, and other offerings, as well as providing customers with the ability to continuously or discretely adjust a wide range of physical attributes to improve resemblance between them and their characters. A high degree of customization is achieved through the selective adjustment of the transparency of two-dimensional layers, through the manipulation of three-dimensional models, or through a combination thereof. Files size is kept to a minimum by recursively adding categories of body components to a base file. A dynamic database of body components is structured for easy expansion and so as to allow characters to migrate easily between artistic styles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2013
    Publication date: April 24, 2014
    Inventor: Madeleine Brett Sheldon-Dante
  • Publication number: 20140115446
    Abstract: Some embodiments provide a non-transitory machine-readable medium that stores a document authoring application which when executed by at least one processing unit provides a graphical user interface (“GUI”) for the document authoring application. The GUI includes a display area for displaying a document being authored. The GUI also includes a document authoring tool for adding to the document a floatable content control. The floatable content control includes (1) a content display area for displaying content specified for the floatable content control and (2) a selectable user interface item (UI) that when selected causes the document authoring application to display the content display area. The floatable content control for display by a document viewing application such that the document viewing application displays the specified content through the content display area when the document viewing application receives a selection of the UI item.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2012
    Publication date: April 24, 2014
    Applicant: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: David M. Hall, Allison M. Styer, Christopher E. Rudolph, Charles J. Migos, Martin J. Murrett, Markus Hagele
  • Patent number: 8707164
    Abstract: In various embodiments of the present invention, documents (eg, PDFs) are converted into HTML 5 (and CSS 3) formats and integrated into existing HTML 5 web pages to preserve the original embedded fonts. The fonts can also be integrated or embedded (e.g., via the standard HTML “iframe” tag) into other web pages. The original appearance of the source document is maintained, the text is preserved as searchable text, and the document is integrated into a web page that can be searched, zoomed, scrolled, and printed utilizing standard web browser controls. A significantly increased “ad inventory” is thereby enabled, wherein advertisements can be integrated between pages, or even within a page. Moreover, the resulting document can be passively shared with members of a user's external social networks (including those within the host website), along with other activities and behaviors performed by the user on the hosting website.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2014
    Assignee: Scribd, Inc.
    Inventors: John Adler, III, Jared Friedman, Matthias Kramm, Michael Lewis, Matthew Riley
  • Patent number: 8707170
    Abstract: A system and method for document editing. A system includes an operator input device, a processor, gesture recognition program, and an edit mode program. The operator input device that senses gestures and multiple simultaneous touch points. The processor is coupled to the operator input device. The processor executes the gesture recognition program, which recognizes inputs from the input device. The gesture recognition program recognizes a predetermined edit mode gesture and, based only on the gesture, causes the processor to execute the edit mode program. The edit mode program provides a plurality of document editing functions for modifying a currently displayed document.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2014
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Christopher M. Rives, Craig T. Brown, Dustin L. Hoffman, Peter M. On
  • Patent number: 8707171
    Abstract: A selection of a service domain policy definition is received in a service repository. A service policy document is created from the service domain policy definition. At least one user change to the service policy document is received in accordance with the selected service domain policy definition. The service policy document is saved in the service repository.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2014
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Duncan G. Clark, Steven Groeger, Evan G. Jardine-Skinner, Samuel J. Smith
  • Patent number: 8707169
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus that controls reproduction of contents includes: a first storage means for storing contents and attribute data indicating predetermined attributes of the contents so as to correspond to each other; a second storage means for storing association among the attribute data; and a selection means for selecting a second content to be reproduced subsequent to a first content which is being reproduced or whose reproduction has been instructed. The selection means selects, as the second content, a content having attribute data that is stored in the second storage means so as to be associated with the attribute data of the first content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Toshihiro Morita, Yasuhiro Shirai, Shin Ogata, Susumu Morita, Taku Sugawara
  • Patent number: 8701002
    Abstract: A system and technique for displaying a document's workflow history are disclosed. The system includes a graphical user interface for displaying one or more graphical representations of events generated by an application configured to edit a document. Each of the events generated by the application may be stored in a data structure that is associated with one or more portions of the document. The data structure may also be associated with a digital image that reflects the state of the document at the time the event was generated and one or more frames of digital video captured substantially simultaneously with the generation of the event. The system may display the stored events via graphical representations in the graphical user interface that represent a portion of the total document workflow history. A user may navigate through the graphical events based on a hierarchical algorithm for clustering events.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2014
    Assignee: Autodesk, Inc.
    Inventors: Tovi Grossman, Justin Frank Matejka, George Fitzmaurice
  • Patent number: 8700996
    Abstract: Computer software applications presently allow the User to preview the impact of some commands on active documents via a small preview window. However, such preview windows are not representative of how the command will impact the entire document. The invention provides a method and system of efficiently and effectively previewing the impact of User commands on the entire document by executing User commands as they are identified. Leaving the menu open, the User is able to identify successive commands until the desired result is reached. Embodiments are described for execution of general commands, text editing commands, relocations of margins or guidelines, and relocations of graphic objects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2014
    Assignee: Corel Corporation
    Inventors: Kevin C. Unbedacht, Bruce G. Woodward, Eric D. Johnson
  • Publication number: 20140101540
    Abstract: A system, apparatus and method for enhancing documents, including using a graphical capture device, are described herein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2013
    Publication date: April 10, 2014
    Applicant: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Martin T. King, Dale L. Grover, Clifford A. Kushler, James Q. Stafford-Fraser
  • Publication number: 20140101541
    Abstract: A display apparatus and a method for controlling thereof include: a communication unit which receives a content, an output unit which outputs the received content, and a controller which, if the content is received, determines whether edition information for editing the content has been already set or not with reference to identification information included in the received content, and controls to output the content in one of a general reproducing mode and an editing-reproducing mode according to a result of the determination. Accordingly, the display apparatus edits a read only content.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2013
    Publication date: April 10, 2014
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Byung-keuk LIM, Jung-su KIM
  • Patent number: 8694788
    Abstract: A security system includes an interface, a main computer, and an application server. The interface enables a user to access a remote document related to a product. The main computer stores documents related to the product and generates a pair of localized encryption keys. The encryption keys include a first key that encrypts data and second key that decrypts the data. An application server that is remote from the interface transmits and receives the document from the interface. The main computer authenticates the integrity of the document in a local operation by signing the document with the first key before it is transmitted to the interface and by signing the document with the second key after it is received from the interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2014
    Assignee: Progressive Casualty Insurance Company
    Inventors: Michael F. Thomas, Martin R. Polak, Dennis C. Kunc, Frank N. Stanich, Jr., Raymond S. Ling
  • Patent number: 8694964
    Abstract: Documentation having code samples is managed. Documentation describing programming code for a software product is received. The documentation references a code sample having an associated test module for determining whether the code sample is valid. The code sample is tested by executing the associated test module to produce a test result indicating whether the code sample is valid. The documentation, code sample, and test result are stored. The documentation, code sample, and test result may be provided to a client adapted to display the code sample and test result to a user of the client. Invalid code samples in the documentation may be identified using the test modules and the invalid code samples may be replaced to make the code samples valid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2014
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventor: Antoine Picard
  • Publication number: 20140095990
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus of generating document content are disclosed. Document content is generated by identifying a location in a document at which to insert content, the location associated with a content template, generating the content in accordance with the content template and application data generated by an application, and inserting the content into the document at the location in the document. The document content generation can further include retrieving application data from the application in accordance with a data mapping that maps application output data to the application data references in the template, where generating the content comprises generating text by replacing application data references in the template with the application data in accordance with the data mapping. The document content generation can further include retrieving one or more instances of previous application data from a historical record of previous application output.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2012
    Publication date: April 3, 2014
    Applicant: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Terence D. BLANCHARD, Neil V. JHAVERI
  • Publication number: 20140095991
    Abstract: To provide a content reproduction apparatus, content reproduction method and content reproduction program that enable progress of browsing to be grasped with ease for each divided area in a single piece of content, a content reproduction apparatus that enables content to be reproduced from some midpoint is provided with a reproduction progress determination part 108 that identifies a reproduction position in entire content which is divided into a plurality of areas as a mark position when a predetermined condition is met, a table management part 106 that manages a table for associating the identified mark position with an area including the reproduction position among the divided areas, and a content reproduction part 102 that reproduces the content from the reproduction position corresponding to the table when instructions for reproduction from the mark position are given.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2012
    Publication date: April 3, 2014
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Abe, Masayuki Shimada, Yusuke Kurimoto
  • Patent number: 8689094
    Abstract: An electronic document includes header, view, data, and signature sections. The data section provides data typically processed in transactions involving the electronic document. The view section includes presentation formatting for displays corresponding to the data. Linking elements identify corresponding main data values and view data values respectively used to populate the data section and display presentation formatting, and are accessible for determining whether the data in the display and data section, providing assurances that processed data matches that found in documents used by parties to a transaction. A digital signature section allows a digital signature to be provided, and used to wrap that data and view sections, to ensure authenticity. The header section provides document type, state and other information that is readily accessed without otherwise scanning the electronic document.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2014
    Assignee: Fannie Mae
    Inventors: J. Harvey Trimble, Michael C. Daconta, Mark A. Oliphant, Jennifer Donaghy
  • Patent number: 8689100
    Abstract: According to this invention, bookbinding data containing pages created by respective applications can be constructed regardless of the type of application. Even when one or more desired pages contained in bookbinding data are selected, image editing is designated, but a non-image page exists in the selected pages, the non-image page can be excluded from editing targets, and the process can shift to image editing. For this purpose, when a plurality of pages are selected and image editing is designated, whether each selected page is an editable image page is determined. An editable page is temporarily stored. After all the selected pages are determined, an image editing application is activated to edit stored editable image pages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2014
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Makoto Tomita, Koji Nakagiri, Yasuo Mori, Junko Sato, Michiko Kanaya
  • Patent number: 8688435
    Abstract: A method and system for processing input media for provision to a text to speech engine comprising: a rules engine configured to maintain and update rules for processing the input media; a pre-parsing filter module configured to determine one or more metadata attributes using pre-parsing rules; a parsing filter module configured to identify content component from the input media using the parsing rules; a context and language detector configured to determine a default context and a default language; a learning agent configured to divide the content component into units of interest; a tagging module configured to iteratively assign tags to the units of interest using the tagging rules, wherein each tag is associated with a post-parsing rule; a post-parsing filter module configured to modify the content component by executing the post-parsing rules identified by the tags assigned to the phrases and strings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2014
    Assignee: Voice on the Go Inc.
    Inventors: Babak Nasri, Selva Thayaparam
  • Patent number: 8689095
    Abstract: Users are enabled to navigate a spreadsheet document presented by a web service in a similar fashion to a locally executed spreadsheet application by retrieving blocks of grid data asynchronously in order to display or refresh the area(s) of the spreadsheet currently being viewed by the user as the user navigates the spreadsheet grid or dynamic updates occur. The blocks are laid out in the browser's user interface to fill the user's viewport as well as a predefined buffer around the edge of the viewport. As such, when the user scrolls or updates occur, data associated with blocks are added, updated, or removed in the browser as required to fill the user's viewport.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2014
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Dan Parish, Anthony Valey, Ira Levin, Justin Rockwood, Shahar Prish, Amar Grewal, Liviu Asnash, Amir Avraham
  • Patent number: 8683310
    Abstract: A system and method for providing management such as creation, manipulation, storage, control, and retrieval of digital content for a company on a global basis. Digital content is created and stored in, for example, the eXtensible Markup Language (XML) format using the relationship between component mapping information and content information comprising webpage components. The XML data is developed by defining page components, mapping the components on a page and indexing the page for future retrieval of the page. The data is then stored in a single database, as segments related to the page, for call-up by a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2014
    Assignee: American Express Travel Related Services Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Andrea Bimson, Jin Chyung, Meena Gopakumar, Lorraine Miranda, Biswajit Sarkar, Shashikant Rao, Kaustubh Kunte
  • Patent number: 8683346
    Abstract: According to some embodiments, a client accesses enterprise portal content from an enterprise portal server. The client also accesses supplemental content directly from a supplemental server. The supplemental server may, for example, be associated with a browser-based collaboration and/or document-management platform. Moreover, the client integrates the supplemental content into the enterprise portal content on a user interface display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2014
    Assignee: SAP Portals Israel Ltd.
    Inventors: Lior Lavi, Yaron Cohen
  • Patent number: 8683327
    Abstract: A frequency converter includes a symbol string editor in which the potential input symbols are grouped into at least two symbol lists. One of the lists is treated as a current symbol list, which can be scrolled and from which the symbols can be selected as the user input. In addition, a user is allowed to control change of the current symbol list such that the symbols in all of the symbol lists are available for selection. This arrangement allows for scrollable lists to be significantly shorter than a single list of potential symbols would be, which makes entering symbol strings faster.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2014
    Assignee: ABB Oy
    Inventors: Vesa Metso, Lauri Sumari, Marjukka Mäkelä
  • Patent number: 8683322
    Abstract: In some embodiments, communications in a private network are programmatically inspected to identify traffic associated with uncontrolled Web applications originating from outside of the private network. Unstructured data, including messages and application content, originating from such uncontrolled Web Applications may be disassembled, analyzed, and categorized into application element types. In some embodiments, these application element types may be source specific. An example of a source would be a social networking site operating on a public network such as the Internet. The application element types thus generated can then be utilized in a variety of ways to facilitate the entity operating the private network to, for instance, control, monitor, archive, categorize, and moderate communications between its users and social networking sites operating outside the entity's private network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2014
    Assignee: Socialware, Inc.
    Inventor: Cameron Blair Cooper
  • Patent number: 8683313
    Abstract: A method, medium and implementing processing system are provided for book marking a combination of frame URLs within a frameset and allowing the sharing on multiple PCs the saved form data that may have been filled in. The system uses an image as a hotspot, containing a complex target destination in the form of an XML structure with multiple URLs for multiple frames as well as captured form data. This system combines file types such as XML and JPG, e.g. as in sample file name ‘MyCapturedFramesAndFormData.XML.JPG’ or ‘MyCapturedFramesAndFormData.XML.GIF’. This combination provides a surprising effect compared to the prior systems, namely, launching the image in an enhanced web browser or in a web browser containing a new plug-in, displays the frame just as it was when saved, including frame set and data input to displayed forms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2014
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Flemming Boegelund, Steven Earl Hicks
  • Patent number: 8683318
    Abstract: A method for facilitating the processing of markup language documents, e.g., XML documents, uses a code generator that creates programs configured to read dynamic XML documents at run time, avoiding many of the complexities arising from the use of conventional “XML Parse” statements. In one embodiment, this process involves (1) creating a template document using the markup language, wherein the template document includes a set of tags associated with the markup language documents; (2) parsing the template document to determine a data structure corresponding to the tags in the template document; and (3) generating an application program in the programming language (e.g., COBOL), wherein the application program includes a definition of the data structure, and is configured to read, during run-time, the markup language document and generate a corresponding set of data elements corresponding to the data structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2014
    Assignee: American Express Travel Related Services Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Srinivas Dasari, Kevin T. Harvey, Cathy Sockrider
  • Publication number: 20140082475
    Abstract: A method for scaling on a display device, including: obtaining an electronic document (ED) identifying multiple graphical features; generating, before receiving a request to scale the ED on the display device, multiple resolution-independent (RI) versions of the multiple graphical features; adding, before receiving the request to scale the ED on the display device, the multiple RI versions to a RI display list; receiving the request to scale the ED on the display device specifying a resolution; and generating, in response to the request, a scaled ED for the display device by rendering the multiple RI versions of the multiple graphical features in the RI display list at the resolution.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2012
    Publication date: March 20, 2014
    Inventor: Kurt N. Nordback
  • Publication number: 20140082473
    Abstract: Event processing is provided responsive to users' input, to provide a display. Event storage stores event content for a plurality of events. The event content is comprised of an edit event reference identifying a position relative to another event, and change data. The events are entered in an ordering of an entry order of input. Selection means select a plurality of the events as a selected set of events. The events in the selected set can comprise less than all the events between a first event and a last event within the ordering. A presentation processor assembles the events in a defined order, utilizing respective change data for each respective said event responsive to a respective edit event reference for each respective said event, to generate a presentation output of presentation data utilized by a display apparatus to provide a presentation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2012
    Publication date: March 20, 2014
    Inventors: David H. Sitrick, Russell T. Fling
  • Publication number: 20140082469
    Abstract: A system and method provide for user interaction and document processing via event generation and processing. An underlying document is displayed and worked with (ranging from a blank document, or a presentation display of a non-blank document or an image of anything relative to which a user can make annotations that can result in a respective combined display presentation of the underlying image combined with the selected ones of the annotation). The annotations to be displayed are selected by criteria such as user, time, location, etc. A combined display presentation is generated responsive to respective display presentation data, and is associated with and representative of a specific combination view of edit events. A second version of a display presentation can be provided by selecting the events associated with a respective one of more users' annotations to form a selected set that is used to generate said display presentation data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2012
    Publication date: March 20, 2014
    Inventors: David H. Sitrick, Russell T. Fling
  • Patent number: 8676806
    Abstract: The claimed subject matter provides a system and/or a method that facilitates collecting and organizing electronic documents. An interface component can receive a document. A manager component can automatically file the document into a category based at least in part upon a portion of static metadata associated with the document and a portion of metadata dynamically generated from an inference related to the portion of static metadata associated with the document.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2014
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Patrice Y. Simard, Lewis C. Levin, Christopher H. Prately
  • Patent number: 8677505
    Abstract: The method for securing data includes establishing a group of security sensitive items, filtering data and extracting and separating the security items from remainder data. The filtered data are separately stored (locally on a PC or on another computer in a LAN or WAN or on the Internet.) A map may be generated. The filter and/or map may be destroyed or stored. The data input, extracted data and remainder data may be deleted from the originating computer. Encryption may be utilized to enhance security (including transfers of data, filter and map). Reconstruction of the data is permitted only in the presence of a predetermined security clearance. A plurality of security clearances may be used to enable a corresponding plurality of partial, reconstructed views of the plaintext (omitting higher security words).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2014
    Assignee: Digital Doors, Inc.
    Inventors: Ron M. Redlich, Martin A. Nemzow
  • Patent number: 8676859
    Abstract: One embodiments of the present invention is directed to a data-analysis system, implemented as one or more electronic computers that execute one or more computer programs. The data-analysis system includes a metadata-extraction component that extracts indications of data entities and relationships between data entities from data stored on one or more electronic-memory and mass-storage devices, a relationship-inference component that analyzes the data to infer additional relationships between data entities, a context-determination component that determines one or more contexts within which the data is analyzed, and a navigational analysis tool, displayed on a computer device, that provides an interface that allows for navigation between relationship-interconnected data entities within each of one or more contexts, for viewing representations of data entities and relationships, and for editing and updating the relationships.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2014
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Mehmet Oguz Sayal, Kemal Guler
  • Publication number: 20140075298
    Abstract: A method, system, and computer program product for document analysis and presentation to a user, the user having a special need, are provided in the illustrative embodiments. A document is received for presentation to the user, the document including a plurality of parts, the plurality of parts including a preferred part, and wherein the user has to reach the preferred part in the document by sequentially processing a subset of parts preceding the preferred part in the document. The document is analyzed according to a set of attributes. The document is restructured to form a restructured document such that user can directly access the preferred part of the restructured document without having to sequentially process the restructured document. The restructured document is presented to the user having special needs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2012
    Publication date: March 13, 2014
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: MAUREEN ELIZABETH KRAFT, Michael A. Squillace, Elizabeth Vera Woodward, Shunguo Yan
  • Publication number: 20140075300
    Abstract: A method for creating and sending customized cards to members on a list can include steps for designing a first card, creating a member list and dividing the member list into at least two groups. The first card can initially be associated with all members included in the member list. A second card can be designed and can be based, at least in part, on the first card. The second card can be associated with at least one member group. A data file can be created that can include the first and second card designs and association information regarding the card designs and the member groups.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2013
    Publication date: March 13, 2014
    Inventors: Eric B. HANSON, Rachel A. ROTH, Andre SOUZA DOS SANTOS
  • Publication number: 20140075299
    Abstract: Disclosed systems and methods enable a user to train an extraction model by receiving a starting document and input from the user indicating tagged data from the starting document and creating an extraction model from the tagged data. Disclosed systems and methods also include identifying groups of additional documents based on a location of the starting document and displaying each of the groups to the user in order to receive a selection of at least one group from the user. Disclosed systems and methods also include applying the extraction model to the at least one group by evaluating the additional documents associated with the at least one group based on the extraction model to determine a confidence score for each of the additional documents, determining a document with a low confidence score, and displaying the particular document to the user to receive additional tagged data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2012
    Publication date: March 13, 2014
    Applicant: GOOGLE INC.
    Inventors: Joshua Daniel Ain, Ryan Levering, Justin Andrew Boyan
  • Publication number: 20140075301
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus and a control method update document data in such a manner that an object in document data is inputted to an application, the object is transmitted to an external information processing apparatus, a processing result processed based on the object is received, and the processing result is inputted to the document data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2013
    Publication date: March 13, 2014
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Makoto MIHARA
  • Patent number: 8671342
    Abstract: An embodiment of the invention provides a method for displaying a message from a first user to a second user, wherein the message from the first user is received in a system of the second user. The message includes text in an intended font and metadata, wherein the metadata includes a link to a font source. It is determined whether the intended font is on the system of the second user; and, if the intended font is not on the system of the second user, rendering instructions are obtained from the font source. The rendering instructions include instructions on how to display the text in the intended font on the system of the second user without downloading the intended font to the system of the second user. The text is displayed in the intended font on the system of the second user using the rendering instructions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2014
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Lisa Seacat DeLuca, Brian Daniel Goodman, Angel E. Tomala-Reyes
  • Patent number: 8671341
    Abstract: A system, method, and computer program for identifying claims associated with electronic text are provided. Electronic text is accessed. Linguistic content associated with the electronic text is identified. A linguistic structure is generated based on the linguistic content identified. The linguistic structure is compared to a claim template. A claim is identified based on the comparison.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2014
    Assignee: Linguastat, Inc.
    Inventors: John Hellwig, John M. Pierre, Mark H. Butler
  • Patent number: 8671351
    Abstract: A data format provides a mechanism to dynamically change the appearance of an application. During operation, the application obtains streaming feed data for presentation to a user. The feed data may be formatted according to a Really Simple Syndication (RSS) data format. The application detects, within the feed data, branding extensions that identify branding content to be displayed concurrently with channel data and content items when a user selects a channel defined by the feed data. The application detects a user selection of the channel defined by the feed data, and in response, references the branding extensions to obtain and display the branding content within a display region of the application that is separate from the content presentation region of the application for display of content items defined within the feed data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2014
    Assignee: Adobe Systems Incorporated
    Inventors: Brian Riggs, George Craig Barberich, Daniel J. Cooley, Joel Huff
  • Publication number: 20140068400
    Abstract: A technique involves allowing use of content only if the content has been approved for the use. The content can be stored in a universal content format to facilitate cross-platform approval in a single approval transaction. The content can include granular content items incorporated into larger documents. In a specific implementation, it is possible to grant approval for one or more of the granular content items.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2012
    Publication date: March 6, 2014
    Inventors: David Gulezian, Richard Turner Barker, Nathaniel Anthony Fast
  • Publication number: 20140068425
    Abstract: A document editing tool that allows splitting a primary clause of a document template tree into a first split clause and a second split clause based on a set of instructions is provided. The set of instructions include (a) processing a first selection of the primary clause from the document template tree, (b) replicating the primary clause to obtain a first replicate clause and a second replicate clause, c) deleting a sub-set of content from a content in the first replicate clause to obtain the first split clause, and d) deleting a sub-set of content from a content in the second replicate clause to obtain the second split clause. The document template tree includes one or more parent clauses and one or more child clauses that are arranged hierarchically. The first replicate clause and the second replicate clause include content and a metadata of the primary clause.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2012
    Publication date: March 6, 2014
    Inventors: Gururaj Potnis, Mohit Kataria
  • Patent number: 8666223
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an electronic apparatus includes a storage device, a first display process module, and a second display process module. The storage device is configured to store a plurality of moving picture data, and still images which are composed of a plurality of still images extracted from the moving picture data with respect to each of the moving picture data. The first display process module is configured to display a list of the plurality of moving picture data. The second display process module is configured to display, in a case where to-be-deleted moving picture data is selected by a user from the list of the moving picture data, a deletion confirmation screen on which still images corresponding to the to-be-deleted moving picture data are arranged and which prompts the user to confirm whether or not to delete the to-be-deleted moving picture data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2014
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventor: Kohei Momosaki
  • Patent number: 8661336
    Abstract: In general, the subject matter described in this specification can be embodied in methods, systems, and program products for mapping an object type to a document type. A computer system stores configuration templates that each identify a mapping of an object type to a markup language document type. The computer system displays a graphical user interface that permits a user of the computing system to select a configuration template. The computer system displays a list of the at least some attributes and, for each of the attributes, the associated markup language attribute or element that is identified by the selected configuration template. The computer system receives second user input that changes an association of one of the attributes so that the attribute is instead associated with a different markup language attribute or element. The computer system stores an updated mapping of the object type to the markup language document type.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2014
    Assignee: SAP AG
    Inventors: Herbert Hackmann, Kai Dehmann
  • Publication number: 20140053055
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided, at an accessible electronic device having a visual display with a touch-sensitive surface, for displaying on the visual display a graphic visualization having a plurality of graphic elements, and in response to detecting a navigation gesture by a finger on the touch-sensitive surface, selecting one of the plurality of graphic elements and outputting accessibility information associated with the selected graphic element. Systems and methods are also provided for generating computer code for converting a data set into graphic visualization annotated with accessibility information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2012
    Publication date: February 20, 2014
    Inventors: Claude Edward Summers, II, Robert E. Allison, JR., Julianna Elizabeth Langston, Jennifer Antonia Cowley
  • Patent number: 8655648
    Abstract: Browsing sequence phrase identification technique embodiments are presented that generally extract topically-related phrases from the pages visited by a user in a browsing session. The topically-related phrases can be used for a variety of purposes, including aiding a user in re-finding previously visited sites. This phrase identification task is performed by considering not just the pages of a user's browsing sequence individually, but also pages visited immediately before and immediately after each page. In this way, phrases found in a page can be analyzed in the context in which the page was viewed, rather than in isolation. The identified phrases are further filtered by picking those that appear on a pre-populated topic list, and then clustering to find the most informative ones.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2014
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Chinmay Eishan Kulkarni, Uppinakuduru Raghavendra Udupa, Santosh Raju Vysyaraju, Ajay S. Manchepalli
  • Publication number: 20140047327
    Abstract: Systems and methods for document creation and management to facilitate creation of documents. An example document creation and management system is configured with an input component, a processing component, and a document creation component. A document creation and management systems can allow input of data in a customizable manner via talking (or recording), touching, typing, and/or clicking. A document creation and management system may use customizable templates, so that a user, for example a physician, may more efficiently enter and review data, such as data related to a patient encounter. A navigator may import information, such as formatting and structure information, from a template to guide a user as to the input to be provided to generate a document according to the template. Document entries may be automatically sent for processing, which may include editing, transcription, encryption, etc, in a parallel or serial fashion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2013
    Publication date: February 13, 2014
    Inventors: Glen A. Larsen, Justin B. Rich, Steven R. Mimnaugh, Dennis J. Wyman, Robert K. Rothfeder
  • Publication number: 20140046947
    Abstract: A method for question/answer creation for a document is described. The method includes importing a document having a set of questions based on content in the document. The method also includes automatically creating a candidate question from the content in the document. The method also includes automatically generating answers for the set of questions and the candidate question using the content in the document. The method also includes presenting the set of questions, the candidate question, and the answers to a content creator for user verification of accuracy. The method also includes storing a verified set of questions in the document. The verified set of questions includes the candidate question.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2012
    Publication date: February 13, 2014
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jana H. Jenkins, David C. Steinmetz, Wlodek W. Zadrozny
  • Publication number: 20140047326
    Abstract: Object merging in an electronic document may be provided. First, a selection of at least two objects within the electronic document may be received. Then, in response to the received selection of the at least two objects, a menu listing a plurality of merge operations configured to be performed on the selected at least two objects may be provided. A merge operation may then be selected, previewed, and applied to the selected at least two objects.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2013
    Publication date: February 13, 2014
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Christopher Doan, Christopher Becker
  • Patent number: 8650484
    Abstract: The disclosed methods and systems provide a computer content creation application that allows movement and use of components between editing contexts. Different editing contexts may result where the content utilizes instances of one or more components that are defined outside the outer context in which the instances are used. In another example, different editing contexts result where components are, for one reason or another, stored in separate locations. Embodiments disclosed herein further facilitate developing and using of multi-editing context computer content by providing techniques for organizing parts of content according to content editing context. Other embodiments organize such parts based on the particular editing and use functionality available in a current editing context. Certain embodiments simplify and facilitate a user's ability to move components from an outer or general context into another context, such as into a particular component's instance definition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2014
    Assignee: Adobe Systems Incorporated
    Inventors: Rob Adams, Narciso B. Jaramillo, Ethan A. Eismann, Peter Flynn