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5945989 Method and apparatus for adding and altering content on websites  
A device for enabling users without programming backgrounds to create and modify web pages combines the telephone with interactive voice-response technology, database software, streaming audio...
5937402 System for enabling access to a relational database from an object oriented program  
Logical tables and logical keys are employed to facilitate interaction between user applications and a relational database. Each logical table is a group of at least one column from a table or view...
5931919 State-based object transition control and attribute-based locking  
Temporary states are used transitionally in run-time situations and are unknown to the object database. A temporary state is created if, when an object is performing a requested event, interim work...
5911141 On-line hierarchical form records identification  
An on-line records identification system for users in a multiple-level hierarchy. The system provides a record origin identifier associated with each record, wherein a unique record origin...
5907836 Information filtering apparatus for selecting predetermined article from plural articles to present selected article to user, and method therefore  
An information filtering apparatus for receiving articles, such as texts or images, from information sources to select predetermined articles from the supplied articles to a user has a storage...
5900874 Icon transformation system  
A method, system and program for transforming one or more icons in an object-oriented, graphical environment. The icon transformations entail the changing of an icon from one state to another using...
5897642 Method and system for integrating an object-based application with a version control system  
A method and system for integrating an object-based application with a version control system. Selected objects of an application such as a database are converted to individual text files and...
5897635 Single access to common user/application information  
The present invention is directed of a method for centralized storage of user and application information where user and application information can be added, deleted, modified, updated, and...
5896530 Portable and dynamic distributed applications architecture  
A system and method is shown for enabling a plurality of computers and associated computer resources, some or all of which my be of heterogeneous configuration, to cooperatively process various...
5893128 Distributed work flow management  
Method for distributed work flow management in a distributed data processing system comprising node units (18,20,22) connected in a network (12), whereby data can be communicated between node units...
5893117 Time-stamped database transaction and version management system  
Each element of a database may have multiple versions; the versions are partitioned into branches, and versions of a branch are ordered linearly according to their timestamps. Branches are...
5889945 System for dynamically updating information in panels within an attendee bar corresponding to a conference session when selected information regarding to conferencing participants changes  
A method and apparatus for associating user information with conference participants in a conferencing environment generates one or more attendee bars corresponding to the conferencing environment....
5886707 Method for real-time on-demand interactive graphic communication for computer networks  
The simultaneous, real time graphical information is shared between two or more intelligent work stations linked together in conversation via a network. Transmission of the essence of a graphical...
5884035 Dynamic distributed group registry apparatus and method for collaboration and selective sharing of information  
A dynamic group registry for organizing information created by a client entity for sharing, having a plurality of publication computers networked together inside the client, each publication...
5875484 Method and system for determining and overriding information unavailability time at a coupling facility  
A method and system for capturing and controlling access to information in a data processing system are provided. The data processing system includes one or more operating systems coupled to a...
5873092 Information handling system, method, and article of manufacture including persistent, distributed object name services including shared properties  
An information handling system includes one or more work stations, each work station including one or more processing units, a memory system, and one or more I/O controllers all connected to a...
5872924 Collaborative work support system  
A shared window of the same content is displayed on each display device of a plurality of computers connected through a communication network for use in a collaborative work and objects are...
5870764 Method of managing a data structure for concurrent serial and parallel revision of a work  
A data structure and associated data management methods for highly flexible storage of data for a wide variety of application programs. Data is stored as a plurality of Blops, each of which has a...
5864874 Community co-presence system  
A data retrieval system includes a data server a co-presence server and at least two co-presence data retrieval clients. The data server retrieves at least one of a plurality of data objects from a...
5862346 Distributed group activity data network system and corresponding method  
A distributed group activity network system and corresponding method over a computer network. It synchronizes and provides access by system users to shared data files of a group activity. The...
5862325 Computer-based communication system and method using metadata defining a control structure  
An automated communications system operates to transfer data, metadata and methods from a provider computer to a consumer computer through a communications network. The transferred information...
5860115 Requesting a dump of information stored within a coupling facility, in which the dump includes serviceability information from an operating system that lost communication with the coupling facility  
A method and system for capturing and controlling access to information in a data processing system are provided. The data processing system includes one or more operating systems coupled to a...
5859974 Apparatus and method for linking public and private pages in a conferencing system  
An apparatus and method for linking public and private pages in a conferencing system is disclosed. In a computer conferencing system having a plurality of participants coupled by a communication...
5857207 Storage manager for computer system  
A data structure and associated data management methods for highly flexible storage of data for a wide variety of application programs. Data is stored as a plurality of Blops, each of which has a...
5857181 Broadcast interactive multimedia system  
A procedure for selecting and storing data elements communicated from a common database to users of the database utilizing a communication link between each transmitter and a concomitant receiver...
5848409 System, method and computer program product for maintaining group hits tables and document index tables for the purpose of searching through individual documents and groups of documents  
A system for searching through documents maintained in electronic form is described. The system is capable of searching through individual documents, or groups of documents. In the case of a group...
5848271 Process and apparatus for controlling the work flow in a multi-user computing system  
A new computerized information flow technology is provided where information in an organization may be logically and automatically routed through a predefined sequence of activities to users who...
5845301 System, method, and computer program product for displaying and processing notes containing note segments linked to portions of documents  
A system, method, and computer program product for annotating an electronic document. An electronic document is displayed. At least one note having at least one note segment is displayed. The note...
5838938 Multimedia user interface employing components of color to indicate the values of variables  
A graphical user interface for use in connection with computer display systems such as computer controlled multi-media editing systems. The interface utilizes the components of color (e.g., hue,...
5832209 System and method for providing object authorization in a distributed computed network  
For use in a computer network having first and second endpoints coupled thereto, a target application object being instantiatable on the first endpoint and a corresponding surrogate application...
5828372 Information processing system  
An information processing system which includes control apparatus for controlling the operation of a plurality of information processing apparatuses. The control apparatus controls the information...
5825348 Desk drawer user interface  
A display oriented software user interface for the generation and display of a secondary display region within a primary display region of a computer controlled information management system having...
5819089 Portable and dynamic distributed transaction management method  
A distributed applications architecture performs an information distribution service between multiple transaction processing systems by working with a transaction processor via communication...
5819084 Co-presence data retrieval system  
A data retrieval system includes a data server which retrieves a data object from a data repository and a system for associating a virtual place with a retrieved data object. The virtual place...
5812750 Method and apparatus for monitoring the status of non-pollable devices in a computer network  
A network management system includes a user interface, a virtual network and a device communication manager. The virtual network includes models which represent network entities and model relations...
5806079 System, method, and computer program product for using intelligent notes to organize, link, and manipulate disparate data objects  
A system and method of manipulating notes linked to data objects, and of manipulating the data objects. The method operates by displaying a note including one or more first sub-notes and one or...
5805819 Method and apparatus for generating a display based on logical groupings of network entities  
A method and apparatus are provided for grouping the network entities that belong to a network system into logical groups, and generating a display of the network based on the logical groups. In...
5799325 System, method, and computer program product for generating equivalent text files  
A system, method, and computer program product for generating an equivalent text file. The equivalent text file, once generated, is an accurate textual representation of at least one portion of a...
5799320 Remote multiple-user editing system and method  
The user of any of a plurality of personal computers linked over an analog or digital network is able to edit a file in one of the personal computers. This one personal computer is a personal...
5799318 Method and apparatus for collecting and displaying information from diverse computer resources  
A method and apparatus is disclosed for organizing and reviewing information from diverse computer applications. An item, describing the information and referring to an attached file, is formed for...
5797001 Broadcast interactive multimedia system  
A procedure for selecting and storing data elements communicated from a common database to users of the database utilizing a communication link between each transmitter and a concomitant receiver...
5796999 Method and system for selectable consistency level maintenance in a resilent database system  
In a resilient database system which includes a journaled database which is implemented at one or more locations within a distributed data processing system, multiple diverse consistency levels are...
5796396 Multiple user/agent window control  
A system is provided to automatically control input permission when multi users and/or software agents interact with a single, shared application in a window-based computing environment, and to...
5796393 System for intergrating an on-line service community with a foreign service  
A system and method are disclosed for integrating an on-line service community with a foreign service such as the Internet World Wide Web. To take advantage of the present invention, on-line...
5781915 Document processing apparatus that determines whether a document has been confirmed by another user  
A document processing apparatus has memory space for holding a plurality of documents, each of the documents being provided with respective update time data, and additional memory space for storing...
5781732 Framework for constructing shared documents that can be collaboratively accessed by multiple users  
A Shared Document Framework for use by an application program provides collaborative access to a shared document by means of a caucus service associated with the shared document. The caucus service...
5778357 Market information machine  
A computerized data retrieval system, especially for commodity price information databases, having a windowing system which aids a user in creating and revising formal search language queries, a...
5771036 Conferencing system with remote object display and cursor shadow  
An improved method and apparatus for remotely displaying cursor and tool operation in a conferencing system can be used for manipulating a remote cursor in a computer conferencing system, the...
5768552 Graphical representation of computer network topology and activity  
A means and method is disclosed for displaying an image on a display screen graphically representing the topology and information transfer activity occurring on a computer network. One host...
5758110 Apparatus and method for application sharing in a graphic user interface  
Methods and apparatus for task based application sharing in a graphic user interface such as for Windows® are provided. A host user designates an application to be shared, referred to as a shared...
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