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6694356 Remote control having an optical indicia reader  
A method for a user to access information on a network ( 306 ). A remote control device ( 3700 ) is provided operating in a first and control mode with internally generated control commands and in...
6693623 Measuring applications for an electronic reading device  
A method and system for monitoring moving parts relies upon a formatted surface of a moving part. The formatted surface includes an address pattern wherein a precise position relative to the...
6690402 Method of interfacing with virtual objects on a map including items with machine-readable tags  
Apparatus for accessing a displayable information resource and tailoring retrieved information to a user's requirements comprises a tag reader ( 18 ), a decoder ( 34 ) for identifying a coded...
6684254 Hyperlink filter for “pirated” and “disputed” copyright material on the internet in a method, system and program  
A central repository server contains a reference list of Uniform Resource Locators (URLs) for copyright infringing or disputed material located on the Internet, with an indication of whether the...
6681028 Paper-based control of computer systems  
Digital data is steganographically encoded in printed materials, and—when sensed by an appropriately-equipped webcam or other imaging device—can be used to link to associated electronic...
6681029 Decoding steganographic messages embedded in media signals  
A decoder process reads a message steganographically encoded in a composite signal. One decoding process operates on a potentially modified version of the composite signal. The message is comprised...
6678738 Web server providing html pages embedded with non-HTML views  
A system for enabling access to non-HTML objects from a web browser. The system includes a database for storing non-HTML objects. A system user requests a non-HTML object from a database using a...
6674993 Method and system for identifying data locations associated with real world observations  
A method and system for identifying data locations or uniform resource locators associated with physical observations in the real world. The method and system includes selecting certain physical...
6671738 System and method of associating an object with a world wide web (WWW) site  
A method and system for associating an object with a web site is provided. An object in space is identified with unique object-identifying coordinates. These coordinates are compared with a...
6667751 Linear web browser history viewer  
An enhanced web browser includes a visual history browser which allows recording of browsing sessions and visual replay or review of browsing sessions. As web sites are visited during a normal...
6647130 Printable interfaces and digital linking with embedded codes  
A physical medium is encoded with machine readable information that provides a human interface to a computer system. The information encoded into the medium indicates a computer implemented...
6639610 Method and apparatus for assigning URLs to graphical objects in a web page  
Methods and a data structure for assigning URLs (e.g., to radio-station-streaming-media-content sources) to graphical objects (such as buttons) are disclosed. In one aspect of the present...
6631357 METHOD OF AND SYSTEM FOR FINDING CONSUMER PRODUCT RELATED INFORMATION ON THE INTERNET USING AUTOMATIC REGISTRATION SOLICITATION TECHNIQUES TO HELP CREATE UPN/TM/PD/URL DATA LINKS STORED IN AN INTERNET-BASED RELATIONAL DATABASE SERVER  
A novel system and method for finding product and, service related information on the Internet. The system includes Internet Servers which store information pertaining to Universal Product or...
6629642 Data system and method for accessing a computer network using a collection of bar code symbols  
A data system and method for retrieving information from a particular address of a computer network using a collection of bar code symbols and a hand-held, portable terminal. Each of the bar code...
6631404 Method and system for conducting a contest using a network  
A method for conducting a contest using a network. A selected article of commerce is identified to a plurality of users remotely disposed at user locations on the network which bears an indicia...
6629133 Interactive doll  
An interactive doll is disclosed having one or more sensors contained therein. The one or more sensors are operable to trigger output of a signal from the doll in response to the one or more...
6625594 System and method for searching a global communication system using a sub-root domain name agent  
A method and system for searching the World Wide Web through a sub-root domain name agent connected to a proprietary URL within a hierarchical directory system are provided. Sub-root domain name...
6611259 System and method for operating an electronic reading device user interface  
A method and system for operating a user interface uses an electronic reading device to detect a portion of an address pattern. A client device receives data identifying the detected portion of the...
6605121 Method, apparatus and system for improved content management and delivery  
An apparatus comprising a storage medium and a communicatively coupled processor are presented. The storage medium has stored therein a plurality of executable instructions which, when executed,...
6604098 Method and system in a computer network for searching and linking web sites  
A method and a system of searching web site that can display the content of searched homepage to users' browsers if their browsers connect the searching system through internet is described. Users...
6597377 Web links objects  
A method of providing information about a set of interrelated objects or files on one or more servers in a computer network, such as pages on the Internet's world wide web. The method involves...
6593908 Method and system for using an electronic reading device on non-paper devices  
A system and method for providing user input to a device of any type uses an electronic reader. The device can be any type of physical object and includes an address pattern statically printed...
6590998 Network linking method using information embedded in data objects that have inherent noise  
A given data object can effectively contain both a graphical representation to a network user and embedded information, such as the URL address of another network node, thereby to permit the object...
6580808 Method and apparatus for discerning image distortion by reference to encoded marker signals  
To permit scaling or rotation of an image to be discerned—even if the original image is not available—certain marker signals are steganographically encoded in the image. In one particular...
6578069 Method, data structure, and computer program product for identifying a network resource  
Techniques are presented for allowing clients and servers in a computer network executing the WebDAV protocol to identify a specific version of a specific resource a specific version using a...
6571256 Method and apparatus for providing pre-screened content  
A method of providing only pre-screened content is described. The method includes maintaining a database on a server including a plurality of pre-screened sites. When a universal resource locator...
6564254 System and a process for specifying a location on a network  
When a user selects an arbitrary symbol 75 (word, phrase, sentence, graphic, image, etc.) from an arbitrary application 3 on a client computer 3 , and copies this symbol 75 to a clipboard ...
6556984 Hierarchical string matching using multi-path dynamic programming  
A method, system, and article of manufacture for generating a list of candidate objects for a requested object. An identifier for the requested object is accepted, wherein the identifier comprises...
6557015 Determining whether a second hypertext document is included in a list of active document trails  
An apparatus, program product, and method utilize a “document trail” to facilitate the location of other documents reachable from a given hypertext document. The document trail includes a...
6546418 Method for managing printed medium activated revenue sharing domain name system schemas  
A method for bridging the gap between the virtual multimedia-based Internet world and the physical world of tangible object media, such as print media. More particularly, a method for managing a...
6546112 Security document with steganographically-encoded authentication data  
Security of a document is enhanced by steganographically embedding, within a graphic on the document, data that can be used in conjunction with text on the document to authenticate the document.
6542927 Linking of computers based on steganographically embedded digital data  
A printed object, such as an item of postal mail, a book, printed advertising, a business card, product packaging, etc., is steganographically encoded with plural-bit data. When such an object is...
6540141 Methods and systems for providing human/computer interfaces  
The present invention teaches a variety of methods and systems for providing computer/human interfaces. According to one method, the user interfaces with an electronic device such as a computer...
6535895 Technique to avoid processing well clustered LOB's during reorganization of a LOB table space  
A method, apparatus, and article of manufacture for a computer implemented reorganization system. A table space is reorganized in a database stored on a data storage device connected to a computer....
6529894 Communicating network information using universal resource locators  
A method and apparatus are provided for communicating network information among network devices using protocols based on Universal Resource Locators. In one embodiment, an apparatus for retrieving...
6526449 Method and apparatus for controlling a computer from a remote location  
A method for controlling a user computer is disclosed wherein a broadcast program is operable to transmit a broadcast to the user in the form of an audio/visual program, in addition to an encoded...
6519589 System and method for generating domain names and for facilitating registration and transfer of the same  
New and improved systems and methods for generating and facilitating registration and transfer of available domain names. The systems and methods include and involve a data storage facility for...
6509828 Interrogating tags on multiple frequencies and synchronizing databases using transferable agents  
A smart interrogator can communicate with RF tags on multiple frequencies and bandwidths and can communicate with tags from various manufacturers and thus permits assets if to be tracked even if...
6507864 Client-server software for controlling data collection device from host computer  
A method of integrating host application software with data collection devices (e.g., bar code scanners) located on remote, wireless terminals. A data collection object executes on the host...
6470359 Fast technique for recovering an index on an auxiliary table  
A method, apparatus, and article of manufacture for a computer implemented index recovery system An auxiliary index is recovered in a database stored on a data storage device connected to a...
6449640 Web server with unique identification of linked objects  
A system for enabling access to non-HTML objects from a web browser. The system includes a database for storing non-HTML objects. A system user requests a non-HTML object from a database using a...
6434607 Web server providing role-based multi-level security  
A system for enabling access to non-HTML files from a web browser. The system includes a database for storing non-HTML files. A system user requests a non-HTML file from a database using a web...
6418470 Metering of internet content using a control  
Web content received by a computer is processed such that a reference to a control is inserted in HTML received by the computer and the control is executed in response to the reference in order to...
6411994 Interface system for providing content using context hotspots  
The present invention teaches a computer interface system for providing content to a user using at least two encoded hotspots. A first hotspot is a context hotspot which activates functions in the...
6411725 Watermark enabled video objects  
Watermarks in video signals or the accompanying audio track are used to associate video objects in a video sequence with object specific actions or information. A video object refers to a spatial...
6408331 Computer linking methods using encoded graphics  
A data object comprises both a graphic and embedded link information, such as the URL address of a network node, thereby permitting the graphic object to serve as a link usable by an internet...
6407739 Article and method for displaying a graphical history list  
A tool is disclosed that assists a user to assimilate, interrelate, and remember a succession of resources that are retrieved by a computer under the direction of the user. In particular, some...
6405224 Method and apparatus for HTML control  
A method and apparatus to create a “diary” containing multimedia references to web sites that a user has visited. These references (also called “content objects” or “objects”) can be...
6401131 Web server enabling attachment of HTML and non-HTML files to web pages  
A system for enabling access to non-HTML files from a web browser. The system includes a database for storing non-HTML files. A system user requests a non-HTML file from a database using a web...
6377986 Routing string indicative of a location of a database on a web associated with a product in commerce  
A method for controlling a computer is disclosed wherein one or more remote locations disposed on a network are accessed in response to scanning an optical code. A first computer disposed on the...
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