Data processing: presentation processing of document inventions 04/06

20060090124 - Communications system, terminal device, server, and method of providing content items in communications system: A communications system comprising a first terminal device and one or more second terminal devices communicating with the first terminal device. The first terminal device is configured to associate at least one content item with a given multimedia file, and to send the content item associated with the multimedia file...

20060090122 - Group editing of media content stored on wireless portable devices: The invention provides for the communicating and editing of media files in wireless portable devices. The invention enables a user to manipulate displayed media content and other types of information stored in a personal media device. A master device may be coupled to a display device such as a television...

20060090123 - System and method for acquisition and storage of presentations: Embodiments of the present invention enable the extraction, classification, storage, and supplementation of presentation video. A media system receives a video signal carrying presentation video. The media system processes the video signal and generates images for slides of the presentation. The media system then extracts text from the images and...

20060090125 - Interface-controlled display of a matrix document in regions: A method for displaying regions of a matrix. The matrix has at least one column and one or more rows having one or more fields related to individual data records. The method comprises: displaying a starting region of the matrix, the starting region having one or more rows with each...

20060090126 - Method, system, and storage medium for providing instant text character identification: Embodiments include a method, system, and storage medium for providing instant text character identification. The method includes querying a code page for a character selected for identification, the querying implemented in response to a request for the identification by a user at a computer device. The request for identification includes...

20060090127 - Method and system for capturing a note-taking session: The invention concerns a system and method capturing, in a computer system, data relating to a note-taking session, the session consisting of handwritten annotations made by a user by way of a writing implement on a plurality of pages. Specifically, the method includes the steps of receiving, in the computer...

20060090129 - Importing and exporting markup language data in a spreadsheet application document: Methods and systems are provided for importing markup language formatted data into a spreadsheet document and for exporting markup language formatted data from a spreadsheet document. XML data is associated with an XML schema file defining XML data types and data type definitions for applying XML data to the document....

20060090128 - Methods and systems for providing remote file structure access to an imaging device: Embodiments of the present invention comprise systems, methods and devices for providing remote file structure data to an imaging device user interface and for providing access to remote file resources from an imaging device user interface....

20060090130 - System and method for styling content in a graphical user interface control: An improved system and method for styling content in a graphical user interface control is provided. An application may define a user interface control having a data object of any type of singular content, including another user interface control. An application may include style declarations that may associate a style...

20060090131 - Multi-media user terminal for a presentation medium: Mass electronic-commerce (e-commerce) user terminal is disclosed, which enables mass television (TV) viewers to participate in e-commerce using new and existing business infrastructures. The multi-media user terminal makes a direct, real-time, instantaneous connection between products featured in TV commercials/programs (or other event such as a movie in a theater) and...

20060090132 - Enhanced user assistance: In an approach, an exemplary method includes receiving a selection corresponding to an aspect of an electronic device through a first user interface of the electronic device, and receiving a selection corresponding to an assistance request related to the aspect of the electronic device through a second user interface of...

20060090133 - Provision of context-specific information: The invention relates to a system and a method for the provision of context-specific information (1). The system has indicator means (2) to display a moving indicator symbol (3) to indicate a position and to display an indicator area (4) to indicate context-specific information (1). To make the provision of...

20060090134 - System and method for detecting user actions in a video stream: Embodiments of the present invention include a video server that can detect and track the image of a pointing indicator in an input video stream representation of a computer display. The video server checks ordered frames of the video signal and determines movements for a pointing indicator such as a...

20060090135 - Job guiding system: The operation guiding system 1 includes a virtual image memory segment 17A, a glass section 11, a virtual image replay function 193A, and a virtual image adjusting function 193B. The virtual image memory segment 17A stores, with respect to an operation composed of a sequence of operation steps, virtual images...

20060090136 - Methods and apparatus for implementing a virtualized computer system: In one aspect, a method of creating a virtualized computer environment that represents a real world computer environment is provided. The real world computer environment comprises a plurality of components, the plurality of components comprising a plurality of computer devices and at least one network device that implements a network...

20060090137 - Chat user interface for threaded text chat systems: A chat user interface for threaded text chat systems. The user interface can include a canvas view in which multiple portions of a threaded text tree for a chat session can be rendered separately and concurrently. The user interface further can include a chat participant view, a chat input view...

20060090139 - Collection view objects for displaying data collection items in user interface elements: Described are collection view objects, which provide a user interface view over a data collection, where each view may have its own sort order, filter and/or grouping criteria, as well as current item semantics. A user interface element is bound to a data collection, such as via markup language (e.g.,...

20060090138 - Method and apparatus for providing dhtml accessibility: A system for providing DHTML (“Dynamic Hyper-Text Markup Language”) accessibility. Rich keyboard and other assistive technology (“AT”) accessibility is provided for sophisticated Web applications. When a user downloads a Web page, the system performs initialization that includes loading at least one display object, and binding the object to a predetermined...

20060090140 - Computer executable message system and method thereof: A computer executable message system and the method thereof are disclosed. During the operation of a computer screen saver program, a received trigger is checked to determine whether to generate a message input window or to display the entered message. This allows the user to obtain messages left by a...

20060090141 - Method and system for browsing large digital multimedia object collections: A display system and method for operating a display and a collection of digital multimedia objects are provided. A first selection set of predefined organizational metaphors is presented and a selection of a first organizational metaphor from the first selection set is received. A second selection set of predefined organizational...

20060090142 - Systems and methods for configuring a user interface having a menu: Systems and Methods for configuration of a menu for display via a user interface are described. In an implementation, a method includes monitoring text input by a user via a user interface. A menu is configured, based on the monitoring, to display actions to be performed using the text. In...

20060090143 - Differential tree and dialog device settings menu: A method for providing a simplified menu for a device, by providing a GUI for selecting setting items for display and setting values. Those settings that are different from the standard settings are displayed more prominently, resulting in a display that enables an instantaneous confirmation of the settings. Clicking on...

20060085733 - Document display device, method, and program product: The present invention makes it possible to quickly identify a place where a hyperlink is located in a document being displayed, and to design the document without caring about the indication of the location of the hyperlink. When a control thread is activated, a transparent sheet generation unit stores a...

20060085732 - Method and system for editing and using visual bookmarks: A method and system for recording or selecting visual bookmarks in the process of playing a multimedia data are disclosed, wherein users can play the multimedia data at one of the mark in point. The visual bookmarks are represented by playing the sounds or the pictures at the mark in...

20060085731 - Method for providing a clip for viewing at a remote device: A method and apparatus is directed to provide a clip of content to a remote device, such as a mobile device. The invention enables an end-user to determine content from a networked device, such as a personal computer. The determined content may include content from a webpage, graphic image, audio...

20060085735 - Annotation management system, annotation managing method, document transformation server, document transformation program, and electronic document attachment program: An annotation management system that manages annotation data of information regarding the annotation of an electronic document comprises: a client 4 having a browser 41 that conducts display of an electronic document, execution of an electronic document attachment program added to the electronic document and an acceptance of the user's...

20060085734 - Method for annotating statistics onto hypertext documents: Reporting and accuracy issues related to link navigation statistics associated with links of a webpage are addressed. To improve the reporting, a hypertext page is displayed with present statistical information associated with a hyperlink at the hyperlink on the page. The statistical information relates to a transition from the page...

20060085736 - A scientific formula and system which derives standardized data and faster search processes in a personnel recruiting system, that generates more accurate results: The present invention relates to a data processing system, engrained with value-added methodologies to create a highly structured and automated recruiting system. This system may reduce the time required to select a meaningful shortlist, as well as improving the compatibility of qualifications of candidates towards the requirements of a position....

20060085737 - Adaptive compression scheme: An apparatus and method of compressing a structured document. The structured document is searched once for first and second marks, a first mark indicating a start of an element of the structured document, and a second mark indicating an end of an element of the structured document. When encountering a...

20060085739 - Document processing apparatus and control method thereof: A document processing apparatus has a data exchange processor for inputting plural first structured documents, extracting contents included in the respective first structured documents, and creating second structured documents respectively corresponding to the first structured documents and having a predetermined data structure, a data unification processor for unifying the plural...

20060085738 - Method and system for automatic audit trail: An exemplary method for tracking changes to a first electronic document containing financial data includes authenticating the first electronic document, receiving changes to the first electronic document and authorship information regarding the changes, creating a second electronic document that includes the financial data and the changes and identifies the changes,...

20060085740 - Parsing hierarchical lists and outlines: A system and method for determining hierarchical information is described. Aspects include using the Collins model for parsing non-textual information into hierarchical content. The system and process assign labels to lines that indicate how the lines relate to one another....

20060085741 - Method and apparatus to view multiple web pages simultaneously from network based search: A graphical user interface for displaying at least two search results from a plurality of search results identified during a network based search. The graphical user interface includes a first window configured to display a first web page that is associated with a first search result of the plurality of...

20060085742 - System and method for network user interface olap report formatting: A network-based system for enabling users connected over the network to an OLAP system to select formatting options for reports requested for processing by the OLAP system. The system enables a user to select the format for each report in a workbook or for a stand-alone report. The format specified...

20060085743 - Semantic thumbnails: A method is provided for displaying a page formed of discrete elements, such as a Web page, on different computing devices. The method converts the page into a semantic thumbnail, which preserves the overall appearance of the page and displays readable text segments that enable a user to identify main...

20060085745 - System and method for displaying a user interface object using an associated style: An improved system and method for displaying a user interface object using an associated style is provided. To this end, an application may include style declarations that may associate a style resource with a user interface object. The style resource may define property values that may be selectively applied to...

20060085746 - System, method and computer program product for web site editing: The present invention provides a web site editing method, a web site editing system, and a web site editing computer program product enabling both an improvement in efficiency and safety in editing partial sites. A method of editing a web site by using a plurality of editing environments including at...

20060085744 - Systems and methods for declaratively controlling the visual state of items in a report: Systems and methods for declaratively controlling the visual state of items in a report allow the visual state of any report item to be toggled from any other item. A set of declarative metadata may be associated with a report item. The declarative metadata may identify an initial visual state...

20060085747 - Method and apparatus for presenting technical architectural patterns and solutions: A multi-layer visual representation of technical architecture and various other architecture disciplines provides views that are linked horizontally and vertically, allowing for ease of navigation from conception to development to physical representations of architecture for a technology solution. The vertical layers represent the layers of abstraction of the architecture from...

20060085748 - Uniform user interface for software applications: The present invention is a user interface for varying accessibility parameters to match comprehension needs. The present invention consists of a uniform, easy to use, interface to applications. Rather than dealing directly with the user interface parameters of a particular application, the user interacts with this uniform interface, or UI...

20060085749 - System and method for using customizable phrasebooks on multi-function devices: The invention provides a device and method for inserting a phrase in a message, wherein the message accompanies a data file representing a document that is sent from a multi-function device. The multi-function device uses a customizable phrasebook including a plurality of phrases that are each associated with an operator-actuated...

20060085750 - Intelligent web based help system: A system, method and computer program product that combines techniques in the fields of search, data mining, collaborative filtering, user ratings and referral mappings into a system for intelligent web-based help for task or transaction oriented web based systems. The system makes use of a service oriented architecture based on...

20060085751 - Music user interface: A music user interface presents various thematic choices, such as themes organized around various artists, to organize digital music so as to enhance the user's browsing, playing, and purchasing experience. An “Artist Choice” user interface presents a dual presentation of a selected artist and his/her music preferences. A “Now Playing”...

20060085752 - Method and apparatus for dynamically creating historical groups in a messaging client: A method, apparatus, and computer instructions for managing user lists. A group of instant messaging addresses used most frequently by a user of an instant messaging client on the communications device is identified. The identified group of instant messaging addresses is displayed visibly within a display in the communications device....

20060085753 - Systems, methods and computer program products for displaying content on multiple display screens using handheld wireless communicators: Content displaying methods, systems and computer program products display first display content on a first display screen of a handheld wireless communicator, while simultaneously sending second display content that is different from the first display content, from the handheld wireless communicator to an external display screen. In videoconferencing applications, the...

20060085754 - System, apparatus and method of selecting graphical component types at runtime: A system, apparatus and method of selecting graphical component types at runtime are provided. When a graphical component is to be displayed in a GUI, which usually has a type, the type of the GUI is first determined. Type in this case is used to signify a look, feel and...

20060085755 - Learning supporting program having tag information function, learning supporting method, and learning supporting system: A learning supporting system includes: a contents transmitting unit for collecting contents according to a request from a client from a database in which contents information have been stored on the basis of the request and sending them to the client; and an additional information transmitting unit for collecting tag...

20060085756 - Method and an apparatus for a collaborative clip board: Embodiments of the present invention are directed to a method and an apparatus for a collaborative clip board. In one embodiment, a plurality of objects are collected into temporary storage associated with a collaborative clip board based on user specified information. A relationship specified by the user is established between...

20060085757 - Activating virtual keys of a touch-screen virtual keyboard: A method of operating a touch screen to activate one of a plurality of virtual keys is provided. A touch location is determined based on location data pertaining to touch input on the touch screen, wherein the touch input is intended to activate one of the plurality of virtual keys....

20060085758 - Desktop alert management: Various embodiments of systems, methods, computer programs, etc. for managing desktop alerts on a computer system or device are provided. One embodiment comprises a desktop alert management system for controlling alerts displayed on a graphical user interface. One such desktop alert management system comprises: a message controller module for controlling...

20060085759 - User interface display system: A user interface system for presenting information to a user involves a display processor for initiating generation of data representing an image. The image includes multiple adjacent rows of visible user selectable tabs individually incorporating a tab function identifier identifying a function associated with a respective tab. An individual tab...

20060085760 - Virtual desktop manager: A method for a user to preview multiple virtual desktops in a graphical user interface is described. The method comprises receiving an indication from a user to preview the multiple virtual desktops and displaying multiple panes on the display. Each pane contains a scaled virtual desktop having dimensions that are...

20060085761 - Text masking provider: A system that facilitates masked data entry in an edit control is provided. More particularly, the invention can include a mask engine component that facilitates determination of a valid character from an input of one or more characters with respect to a defined format. In other words, the mask engine...

20060085762 - Display device with a detechable command input unit: A display device includes a main body and a housing. The main body includes a control unit. The housing includes a command input unit associated with the housing. The command input is replaceable piece of equipment. The command input unit includes a plurality of pins for generating the control signals...

20060085763 - System and method for using an interface: A system and method for using a user definable interface (UDI). A display displays the interface. The interface comprises a plurality of levels each having a plurality of command regions. The visual appearance of the interface remains substantially the same for each of the plurality of levels and only one...

20060085765 - Method, system, and program for generating a tree view of elements in a graphical user interface (gui): Provided are a method, system, and program for generating a tree view of elements in a graphical user interface (GUI). Hierarchical information is processed including information on elements at different hierarchical levels. A tree view is generated in response to processing the hierarchical information enabled to be displayed in a...

20060085764 - System and method for making a user interface element visible: Various new and non-obvious apparatus and methods for ensuring a user interface element is visible within an automated user interface test environment are disclosed. One of the disclosed embodiments is a method for locating a parent element of the user interface element and then making the user interface object visible...

20060085766 - Browsing web content using predictive navigation links: A predictive travel log system using one or more ranking schemes to predict the location that a user would seek to navigate to through back and forward navigation in a web browser is provided. The navigation functionality can be exposed through traditional back and forward buttons with drop down travel...

20060085767 - Delimiters for selection-action pen gesture phrases: A pen-based user interface (PBUI) that facilitates input of a delimiter to a scope in a substantially uninterrupted stroke for generating a selection-action gesture phrase. Four delimiter techniques are provided, which include a Multi-stroke delimiter, a button delimiter, timeout delimiter and pigtail delimiter. The Pigtail delimiter uses a small loop...

20060080590 - Method and apparatus for utilizing an extensible markup language schema for managing specific types of content in an electronic document: An extensible markup language (“XML”) schema is provided for defining a content region which displays specific types of content in an electronic document created in a word processing application program. The schema includes structural elements for defining the content region in the electronic document. The structural elements include a properties...

20060080591 - Apparatus and method for automated temporal compression of multimedia content: A apparatus and method for automated temporal compression of content is disclosed. The apparatus includes a processor and a temporal compression module. The processor implements the temporal compression module to provide a given work of multimedia content at a plurality of playback rates....

20060080593 - System and method for generating computer-readable documents: A system and method for generated computer-readable documents are disclosed which reveal a way to retrieve dynamically generated content for a web page locally from an application server. In particular, the present invention discloses a custom protocol that is used to insert the dynamically generated content stored locally by the...

20060080592 - System for management of interactions between users and software applications in a web environment: There is disclosed a system for management of interactions between users and software applications in a web environment, related to an operating environment which functional devices are in charge of providing methods allowing maximum interactivity between the end user and the application. The operating environment also includes a set of...

20060080596 - Dynamic update of changing data in user application via mapping to broker topic: A method and service for enabling a smallest unit of variable data within a data space of a user application to be dynamically updated using an external source. The application GUI is enhanced with a dynamic update utility (DUU) that enables the data unit to be selected and linked to...

20060080594 - Methods, systems and computer program products for facilitating visualization of interrelationships in a spreadsheet: Methods, systems and computer program products are provided for visually indicating relationships among cells in a spreadsheet. Each of a first graphical linking element extending between cells in a first branch of a dependency tree of a root cell and a second graphical linking element extending between cells in a...

20060080595 - Methods, systems and computer program products for processing cells in a spreadsheet: Methods, systems and computer program products are provided for processing cells in a spreadsheet. A first formula contained in a first cell and a second formula contained in a second cell to provide a consolidated formula, wherein the second formula references the output of the first cell are automatically consolidated....

20060080597 - Object editing system: An editing apparatus for editing objects on a screen includes an object input display section for displaying contents which have been input by a user, as objects on a screen. The apparatus also includes an object extension section for superposing at least one side of a first object on one...

20060080598 - Robust anchoring of annotations to content: Annotations are robustly anchored to content. The robust anchoring allows annotations to be associated with the content independently of the format used to store the content. The annotations can be re-anchored to the content after the content has been modified, including modifications to the format used to store the content....

20060080600 - Grouping and nesting hierarchical namespaces: A group identifier represents an association between each of a number of different abbreviated namespace identifiers with a corresponding hierarchical namespace (e.g., an XML namespace). A hierarchically-structured document (e.g., an XML document) is accessed by a computing system that determines that the group identifier is associated with the hierarchically-structured document....

20060080599 - Method and system for building audit rule sets for electronic auditing of documents: A software-based method and system is described for building audit rule sets for auditing electronic documents. The method and system include an editor, schemas, a processing engine, and documents or a document creation engine. The system and method give users a visual interface for building audit rule sets to examine...

20060080601 - Method, apparatus, and computer program product for deferred completion of multi-step user transaction applications: Disclosed are server features for allowing a client user to defer completion of multi-step user transaction applications (“MUTAs”) and later resume the MUTA. One disclosed feature is providing a selectable deferral action in a page implementing part of the MUTA, e.g., HTML, XML, JavaScript/ECMA Script document. If the client user...

20060080602 - Method for downloading a structured file from a server to a terminal device, and a corresponding terminal device: The invention relates to a method, terminal device, program, and information structure for downloading a structured file, containing formatted text and other information, from a server to the terminal device over a telecommunications link. The user selects the file to be downloaded and initiates the downloading operation. The file is...

20060080603 - Method and apparatus for utilizing an object model to manage document parts for use in an electronic document: A method and apparatus are provided for utilizing a document object model to manage document parts for use in an electronic document. The document object model enables a user to retrieve, insert, add, and delete document parts to and from an electronic document using a programmable interface from within a...

20060080604 - Navigation and viewing in a multidimensional space: A display controller allows a user to control a base viewing location, a base viewing orientation, and a relative viewing orientation. The base viewing orientation and relative viewing orientation are combined to determine a desired viewing orientation. An aspect of a multidimensional space visible from the base viewing location along...

20060080605 - Language editing system for a human-machine interface: A language editing system for a human-machine interface is disclosed, the system comprises a language text editing unit for retrieving and editing text data of a menu item, and a language text database for providing the language text data needed by the language text editing unit. The user may edit...

20060080607 - Extensible help facility for a computer software application: Content obtained from a help file containing at least two interactive links in a sequence may be displayed in a help facility. Each interactive link may be associated with at least one user-activated step in a computer software application to perform in connection with a help topic according to the...

20060080606 - System and method for model-specific web help: A Web help utility allows a user to select the model number of an electronic product for which the user is experiencing problems, with the help utility thereafter presenting a list of commonly encountered problems with the particular model....

20060080608 - Interactive apparatus with recording and playback capability usable with encoded writing medium: An interactive apparatus is disclosed. The interactive apparatus has an audio recording mode and an audio playback mode. Further, the interactive apparatus includes a writing tool for manually writing on an encoded writing medium, an audio input device for recording audio, an audio output device for playing the recorded audio....

20060080609 - Method and device for audibly instructing a user to interact with a function: A method for audibly instructing a user to interact with a function. A function is associated with a user-written selectable item. The user-written selectable item is recognized on a surface. In response to recognizing the user-written selectable item, a first instructional message related to the operation of the function is...

20060080610 - Methods, systems and computer program products for outline views in computer displayable presentations: Methods of providing a computer displayable presentation can include allowing insertion of outline section breaks into an outline view of a computer displayable presentation including a sequence of slides. A multi-level hierarchical outline view of the computer displayable presentation can be provided, wherein different levels of the multi-level hierarchical outline...

20060080611 - Interactive topology graphs for visualization and characterization of sonet consumption patterns: A computer-based monitoring system provides interactive topology information about a synchronized optical network (SONET). The monitoring system utilizes a trunks integrated record keeping system (TIRKS) connected to the SONET for collecting status data in a raw format. A computer system retrieves the raw format status data from TIRKS and provides...

20060080612 - Dynamic portlet tabbing: A method, apparatus, and computer instructions for presenting portlets in a document. A set of portlets are presented using a single portlet window in the document. The portlet window includes a set of tabs used to manipulate the portlets. Responsive to a selection of a particular tab in the set...

20060080613 - System and method for providing an interactive social networking and role playing game within a virtual community: Described is a system and method for receiving personal profile data from a plurality of participants, wherein each participant is a member of a virtual community. Generating a participant profile for each of the participants as a function of the personal profile data corresponding to each participant, rating each participant...

20060080614 - Apparatus, system and method of providing feedback to an e-meeting presenter: An apparatus, system and method of providing feedback to a presenter in an e-meeting in which visual information is being presented are provided. During presentation, the computer system of each participant is monitored to ensure that the window in which the visual information is being presented (i.e., the e-meeting window)...

20060080615 - Method, apparatus and software for business and financial analysis: A method and computer software for displaying information about an organization comprising code representing a plurality of factors of the organization as a corresponding plurality of displayed interlocking gears and code causing the displayed gears to rotate in accordance with simulated increasing or decreasing of the corresponding factors....

20060080616 - Systems, methods and user interfaces for document workflow construction: Context sensitive drag-and-drop systems, methods and user interfaces are provided in a Graphical User Interface (GUI) computing environment. Icons representing various tasks may be interactively drag-and-dropped to an adjoining graphically-based workspace in a context-based task-drop location to simply and intuitively construct a graphically-based workflow solution. A collapsible error handling failure...

20060080617 - Virtual desktop manager: A method for a user to preview multiple virtual desktops in a graphical user interface is described. The method comprises receiving an indication from a user to preview the multiple virtual desktops and displaying multiple panes on the display. Each pane contains a scaled virtual desktop having dimensions that are...

20060080618 - Input field for graphical user interface: Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for and input field on a graphical user interface (GUI). The graphical user interface (GUI) includes one or more input fields that, when activated in response to a stimulus, display one or more associated projected input fields showing a maximum width of the...

20060080620 - Electronic system for collecting and automatically populating clinical order information in an acute care setting: A graphical user interface for use on a computer coupled to an enterprise electronic medical records system for accepting order data including an order entry window corresponding to an identified order, the identified order including one or more parameters. The graphical user interface also including an expandable order editing box...

20060080619 - Method and system for document draft reminder based on inactivity: The present invention provides a flexible system and method for notifying a user when the user has an open document which is inactive over a predetermined period of inactivity defined by the user. The user may be able to set a desirable period of inactivity for each application at the...

20060080621 - Method of controlling location of display window on display screen of information processing device and apparatus using the method: Provided is a method of controlling a location of a display window on a display screen of an information processing device, and an apparatus using the method. The method of controlling location of a display window includes: displaying the display window on the display screen; and moving the display window...

20060080622 - Container metaphor for visualization of complex hierarchical data types: The present invention provides an efficient way of presenting hierarchical data or information based on a container metaphor. Nodes or information associated with the hierarchy are represented visually using a geometric shape, such as a rectangle, square, or circle. The hierarchical relationships of the data in the hierarchy can then...

20060075323 - Method, system, and computer-readable medium for merging data from multiple data sources for use in an electronic document: A method, apparatus, and computer-readable medium are provided for merging data from multiple data sources for use in an electronic document. The method includes receiving field names and field data from an initial data source, mapping field names from a subsequently added data source to the initial data source, building...

20060075322 - Remote interface for a mobile storage system or other equipment: A communication system for providing the ability to control, monitor or diagnose equipment such as a mobile storage system having a series of movable storage units. Each storage unit includes a controller or operational interface, and a communication interface is interconnected with the controller. The communication interface preferably provides access...

20060075324 - Variably controlling access to content: A software module is presented that enables a person to determine the relevance of a document while preventing the person from making a copy of the entire document. In one embodiment, this is accomplished by programmatically controlling which portions of a document will be presented to a user and which...

20060075325 - Record device with customized information function: A record device with a customized information function, which is for a user to edit customized information, comprises a text-information receiving unit, a text-data compiling module, a figure-information receiving unit, and a figure-data processing module. The text-information receiving unit receives at least one extra-text data and at least one text-control...

20060075326 - Research software tool with flowchart graphic user interface: A research software tool for use with an online external resource. The research software tool includes a flowchart graphic user interface. The flowchart graphic user interface includes a graphically indicated first defined area, and a text string displayable within the first defined area. The flowchart graphic user interface further includes...

20060075327 - User interface for presentation of a document: A system identifies a document and provides an excerpt page corresponding to the document. The excerpt page includes a page of the document and a set of links to sections of the document. One of the links corresponds to a section containing the page and includes text associated with the...

20060075328 - Design of spreadsheet functions for working with tables of data: The present invention provides several database formulas that can manipulate large sets of data. Each database formula is customizable and repeatable without user intervention. Thus, users may enter numerous options that can cover the user's desire for data output in certain forms or formats, select a set of input data,...

20060075329 - Dynamic marking system: A method and associated software and a system for automatic package marking makes use of specification of an image for a package. The specification includes specifications of data fields for marking on a package. Data values for the data fields are received from multiple data sources. Images are formed based...

20060075330 - Method, system, and computer program product for sharing information between hypertext markup language (html) forms using a cookie: The present invention provides a method, system, and computer program product for automatically sharing information between HTML forms using a cookie. A method in accordance with the present invention comprises: providing a cookie containing at least one name-value pair; determining if an input element of a form contains a variable...

20060075331 - Structured document processing method and apparatus, and storage medium: A structured document processing method includes a structured document holding step holding a structured document that includes tags, in a text form, in a memory part, a document information holding step holding document structure information of the structured document and positions of each of the tags of the structured document...

20060075332 - System and method for information collation: A method and system for information collation through software code by a digital computer. The software code includes a collator. The collator receives first update information from a first user for updating a first topic portion of a first document with the first update information. The first topic portion has...

20060075333 - Display device: The present invention relates to a display device for data editing data for display acquired from outside and sending the edited data via a Web control to the Web browser for display thereon. In the present invention, a common data interface means unaffected by the type of Web control is...

20060075334 - Information processing apparatus, history file generation method and program: An information processing apparatus provides history information by a history file in a designated data format, in which the history file is generated by storing the contents of processing performed by the information processing apparatus, and reading and recomposing the stored history information in accordance with a received data format,...

20060075335 - Temporal visualization algorithm for recognizing and optimizing organizational structure: A system is provided that takes as input the interrelationships which are observed between identified resources, and automatically generates interactive movies that depict a visualization of the of the interaction patterns among the identified resources. Each resource is represented as a dot. A line between two dots indicates a relationship....

20060075338 - Document processing apparatus and method: According to this invention, a document processing apparatus capable of creating document information including attribute information and page content information from electronic data created by an application program, includes a storage unit which stores, as part of document information, original document information for specifying electronic data as a source of...

20060075339 - Document processing method and system therefor: According to this invention, a document processing apparatus capable of editing document information includes an operation instruction input unit which can input an operation instruction to be saved, an operation instruction save unit which saves the operation instruction input by the operation instruction input unit together with document information, an...

20060075336 - Method, system and program product for providing content over a network: An improved solution for providing content over a network is described. In particular, a tag is inserted into display content indicating slow-loading data that is to be incorporated. When the display content is requested, a placeholder is inserted into the display content in place of the tag and the display...

20060075337 - Method, system, and computer-readable medium for creating, inserting, and reusing document parts in an electronic document: A method, system, and computer-readable medium are provided for creating, inserting, and reusing document parts in an electronic document. According to a system, a word processing application program receives a selection of a document part category. In response to the selection of the document part category, a gallery of document...

20060075340 - Packing list verification system: The present application describes systems and methods for real-time verification of form input using a digital pen. In one configuration, a user inputs data by checking or initialing boxes using a digital pen and then selects a complete indicator. The system then verifies that all required boxes have been checked...

20060075341 - Multi-language system and method for quickly selecting font file corresponding to character from font database: A multi-language system for quickly selecting a font file corresponding to a character includes a font database and a code allocation table. The font database contains at least one character code range and at least one font-storage unit. Each font-storage unit is for storing at least one font file corresponding...

20060075343 - Electronic portal for information storage and retrieval: Systems and methods for communicating picture, video, audio and other informational data relating to a subject, e.g. person, place or thing, to a user by playing a portable viewer at the subject site affiliated with the subject. For example, the subject may be a deceased person, or decedent, and the...

20060075342 - Handheld pda video accessory: A portable video accessory apparatus (10) is adapted to be mated to a handheld computer (30), such as a personal digital assistant (PDA) (30). The video accessory apparatus (10) adds a video playback and recording functionality to the PDA (30). The video accessory device (10) is capable of controlling the...

20060075344 - Providing assistance: Methods, devices, and systems that receive a signal corresponding to a selected portion of a manual related to an aspect of an electronic device, and provide an assistance correlating to the selected portion of the manual through a user interface of the electronic device different from the manual....

20060075345 - Progressive reference system, method and apparatus: A written document (hereinafter referred to as a “work,” on electronic format which includes, stories, novels, education texts, biographies, compilations, collections, anthologies, tracts, and any other traditional format for relatively extensive texts) provides access to reference, bibliography and/or definition material through an electronic software capability associated with the work. Depending...

20060075346 - Video presentation using compositional structures: A method presents a video according to compositional structures associated with the video. Each compositional structure has a label, and multiple segments that can be organized temporally or hierarchically. A particular compositional structure is selected with a remote controller, and the video is presented by a playback controller on a...

20060075347 - Computerized notetaking system and method: A computerized notetaking system that records audio and links notes to the audio and has enhancements such as: Always-on audio recording and external timestamp button that work even when the system is turned off. A “next-topic” command that prepares and timestamps a new paragraph while allowing the user to complete...

20060075348 - Presentation facilitation: Multiple schemes and techniques for facilitating presentations with an interactive application are described. For example, an interactive application provides a console view overlay for integrating multiple productivity applications into a graphical user interface (GUI) window. An interactive application can also share a selected display portion of the console view overlay...

20060075349 - Communication device for displaying a shared message: A message, including for example an image, video, audio, text, and/or haptics, e.g., a digital photograph, is received by a communication device (101) via a receiver (109) operably connected to a communication network (117), and determined by a processor (107) of the communication device (101) to be targeted to a...

20060075350 - Displaying information to indicate both the importance and the urgency of the information: Data items contained in personal information are displayed in manner that is indicative of both the importance and the urgency of the data items. A first visual cue is assigned to the data item based on an importance of the data item. The first visual cue may cause more important...

20060075351 - Method and apparatus for instant messaging prioritization: A method, apparatus, and computer instructions for indicating wait time for instant messages. An elapsed time since a response has been sent to a recipient in a chat session being displayed in a user interface is identified. A visual indication of the elapsed time is generated through the user interface....

20060075352 - Property independent in-place editing: “In-situ editing” of a control property within a design surface is provided. “In-situ editing” refers to a feature that can allow a user (e.g., developer) to easily perform multi-pass configuration operations on their user interface (UI) components. This can be achieved by introducing the concept of a new editing mode...

20060075353 - Method and system for persisting and managing computer program clippings: Described is a system and method that provide an organized view of computer content clippings including text, documents, pictures, and other file types. The clippings are persisted with associated metadata that enables the users to access the clippings in a managed manner via filtering and sorting mechanisms that allow the...

20060075354 - Experience digitally recorded book: Disclosed is software and a method that has the following steps: inputting a text book into a data base for sequential display onto a computer screen; programing the data display, the data for sequential display of experiences; the sequential display of experiences comprises story text and movie clips associated with...

20060075355 - Interface and interface program executed by a computer: The interface according to an embodiment for displaying icons or indicators corresponding to a plurality of functions on a screen and selectively pointing each icon or indicator on the screen, comprises a display controlling means for displaying a rotator on the screen, placing each icon or indicator on the circumferential...

20060075356 - Three-dimensional cartographic user interface system: A three-dimensional cartographic computer user interface system for enhancing geo-spatial comprehension and geographic information system user interactivity is disclosed. The system has at least one computer and operating system, user input means, and at least one positionable projection display means, including storage, retrieval and playback control means for the projected...

20060075357 - Method and system for maintaining scroll position in a web user interface: A method for maintaining scroll position in a web user interface may include translating a selected scroll position in the web user interface to a pair of scroll coordinates in response to operation of a set scroll position function. The method may also include advancing the web user interface to...

20060075358 - Scrolling items on a list: The invention relates to a method for scrolling items on a list, wherein the method comprises: conducting said scrolling on a user interface and adaptively controlling speed of the scrolling depending on the items on the list....

20060075359 - System and method for managing a floating window: A method and system for managing overlapping windows on a computer screen of a computer system. A hook filter intercepts an event that has occurred. An association of the hook filter with the event was established prior to the occurrence of the event. The event is characterized by an overlapping...

20060075360 - Dynamic highlight prompting apparatus and method: Dynamic Highlight Prompting provides graphical interface screens that have moderate complexity, and that selectively highlight the most likely selections at each step in multistep processes. Dynamic Highlight Prompting allows a novice or occasional user to follow an understandable sequence, while allowing a proficient user to choose valid, non-highlighted selections to...

20060075361 - Video browser based on character relation: A video data structure and a video browser for video browsing are disclosed. The data structure includes segment group information indicating that a first segment group represents highlights sharing at least two objects in a program's content. The segment group information is used to display the highlights represented by the...

20060075362 - Image processing apparatus, method, and recording medium on which program is recorded for displaying thumbnail/preview image: An image processing apparatus is disclosed that includes a display part, an image data storage part for storing original image data corresponding to an original image, a thumbnail image data generating part for generating thumbnail image data based on the original image data of the original image, a transferring part...

20060075363 - Information processing system, and program and recording medium implementing functions of the system: A user is enabled to easily set processing conditions with simple operations of a pointing device, such as a mouse. When a gesture operation operating a pointer being dragged corresponds to a predetermined operation retained in advance, an information processing device sets processing condition defined in advance correspondingly to the...