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7386792 System and method for collecting, storing, managing and providing categorized information related to a document object  
A method and system for enabling users of a network to create, store, and provide access to relationships between document objects stored on the network. The method may include the steps for...
7386547 Recommender system and method  
A system for providing item recommendations includes a memory, a device, responsive to a user request, for recording an item on a hardcopy medium, and a processor, for storing ratings of items and...
7346606 Rendering advertisements with documents having one or more topics using user topic interest  
Ambiguities with respect to a user topic interest may be resolved so that useful topic-relevant ads can be presented. Such ambiguities may be resolved by monitoring user behavior, determining a...
7343322 Method and apparatus for marketing products over the internet  
A method and apparatus is disclosed for permitting an online user to buy merchandise over the Internet from multiple vendor sites, after a single entry of their credit card information. In a...
7315864 System and method for creating a book of reports over a computer network  
A method is disclosed wherein a server receives and stores report definitions. A user instructs the server to create a book and associate the report definitions with the book. Thereafter, the user...
7299270 Inferring relations between internet objects that are not connected directly  
An inferred relation weighting process for determining the strength of an inferred relation between a first and a second Internet object which are not directly linked includes a first link...
7287064 Method and system for determining an internet user's interest level  
A method and system for measuring an Internet user's level of interest in one or more subjects. For a given subject, web pages that are sent to the user are analyzed to determine how many keywords...
7275206 Method and computer program product for identifying hypertext links in document printouts  
A method, apparatus and computer program product are provided for identifying hypertext links in document printouts. A document to be printed is scanned for identifying local hypertext links within...
7216348 Method and apparatus for dynamically balancing call flow workloads in a telecommunications system  
A call flow server is disclosed that processes call flow events from a plurality of gateways bridging between traditional circuit-switched networks and packet-switched networks. The call flow...
7181679 Method and system for translating a digital version of a paper  
A method performed by a computer system. The method includes storing a first version of a mass-produced printed paper, the first version having a first format. The method also includes translating...
7149208 Method and apparatus for providing caller identification based responses in a computer telephony environment  
A utility for enabling real-time, point-to-point communications over computer networks between users having dynamically assigned Internet Protocol addresses includes the ability to identify...
7143103 Method and apparatus for monitoring and maintaining the consistency of distributed documents  
A computer network comprising a plurality of terminals ( 1–4 ) connected via a communications network 5 is provided. In each of the terminals ( 1–4 ) application software ( 15 ) for...
7113954 System and method for generating a taxonomy from a plurality of documents  
A system and method for generating a taxonomy is provided in which the taxonomy is generated based on clusters of phrases and a topical library. The taxonomy permits a user of a text processing...
7032185 Graphical method and system for accessing information on a communications network  
A system and computer-based method for permitting a computer system to access a network location using a browser application by activating a desktop icon. The system comprises a first computer...
7013309 Method and apparatus for extracting anchorable information units from complex PDF documents  
A method for extracting Anchorable Information Units (AIUs), from a Portable Document Format (PDF) file, which may either be created using either an editor or by scanning in documents. The method...
7010742 Generalized system for automatically hyperlinking multimedia product documents  
A generalized hyperlinking system interactively creates hyperlinks one a time or automatically in mass production, statically at authoring time or dynamically at browsing time. A Generalized...
6920433 Vehicular data exchange system and method therefor  
The vehicular data exchange system of the present invention includes a plurality of computer terminals and a processor. Each of the computer terminals include an input device for inputting the...
6826574 Automatic profiler  
A method and system for generating and utilizing a profile of a user of a computer-based information handling system is disclosed. The information handling system is searched by a profiler for...
6745195 System, method and computer program product for generating software cards that summarize and index information  
A system, method and computer program product for generating software cards that summarize and index information. A documentation storage unit stores a variety of documentation. A software card...
6728701 Method and apparatus for database retrieval utilizing vector optimization  
A technique for optimizing the number of terms in a profile used for information extraction. This optimization is performed by estimating the number of terms which will substantively affect the...
6711586 Methods and systems for providing information based on similarity  
The present invention is related to an information providing method and system. More particularly, the present invention provides a method of searching for information on the basis of a user's...
6704741 Test item creation and manipulation system and method  
A method for creating a test for administration to a student includes creating a plurality of test items using a unitary software application. Each test item has a plurality of elements, including...
6694357 Accessing, viewing and manipulation of references to non-modifiable data objects  
A method and apparatus are provided for accessing, viewing and manipulating data stored in a computer system. This is achieved by selecting one or more of the non-modifiable data objects stored in...
6678745 Dynamic object synthesis with automatic late binding  
A method and system of automatically synthesizing object names. Variables are synthesized with object types associated with the variables. Buffers into which data is to be transferred are...
6671683 Apparatus for retrieving similar documents and apparatus for extracting relevant keywords  
Three kinds of data, i.e., a keyword frequency-of-appearance, a document length, and a keyword weight, are produced. Then, a document profile vector and a keyword profile vector are calculated....
6654761 Controlling which part of data defining a node-link structure is in memory  
In a series of iterations, each of which automatically traverses a set of elements of a node-link structure, an iteration modifies the part of node-link data defining the structure that is in...
6654738 Computer program embodied on a computer-readable medium for a document retrieval service that retrieves documents with a retrieval service agent computer  
A document retrieval assistance method has a user interface with an interactive guidance function. In response to a search query, search results including a title list of retrieved documents is...
6582474 Tagging related files in a document management system  
A document management system is provided which organizes, stores and retrieves documents according to properties attached to the documents. Applications which function based on hierarchical path...
6574644 Automatic capturing of hyperlink specifications for multimedia documents  
A system of hyperlink authoring allows authors to establish links in multimedia documents interactively and provides generalization and specialization mechanisms for transforming the content and...
6562077 Sorting image segments into clusters based on a distance measurement  
A programming interface of document search system enables a user to dynamically specifying features of documents recorded in a corpus of documents. The programming interface provides category and...
6553364 Information retrieval from hierarchical compound documents  
A search query is applied to documents in a document repository wherein the documents are organized into a hierarchy. A search engine searches the hierarchy to return documents which match a query...
6546558 Visual scenario editor for editing links between presentation screens in a multi-media application  
A scenario edit device creates node icons representative of the presentation screens described in the scenario, data icons associated with and disposed within their respective node icons, and link...
6446065 Document retrieval assisting method and system for the same and document retrieval service using the same  
A document retrieval assistance method has a user interface with an interactive guidance function. In response to a search query, search results including a title list of retrieved documents is...
6429952 Browser interface to scanner  
A system for interfacing a browser and a scanner includes a computer terminal having a browser loaded thereon; a communications network connected to the computer terminal; a HTTP server connected...
EP1217554A2 Recommender system and method  
A system for providing item recommendations includes a memory (40), a device (10), responsive to a user request, for recording an item on a hardcopy medium, and a processor (12), for storing...
6370551 Method and apparatus for displaying references to a user's document browsing history within the context of a new document  
An electronic document reader supplements a new document with selectable links that reference portions of previously read documents that have content similar to a passage of the new document. The...
6360227 System and method for generating taxonomies with applications to content-based recommendations  
A graph taxonomy of information which is represented by a plurality of vectors is generated. The graph taxonomy includes a plurality of nodes and a plurality of edges. The plurality of nodes is...
6356897 Associative database model for electronic-based informational assemblies  
An indexing system and linking method for an assembly of electronic-based information stored in and ordered by a plurality of records uniquely identified over relational data tables making up a...
6289337 Method and system for accessing information using keyword clustering and meta-information  
A system for accessing information stored in a distributed information database provides a community of intelligent software agents. Each agent can be built as an extension of a known viewer for a...
EP1128289A2 Data cross-referencing method  
A cross-referencing method and system for use with a collection of reference sources provides a method and a means for the identification of cross-references between elements in the same reference...
6272490 Document data linking apparatus  
This invention has as its object to assign a link destination address to each word in a designated document. A word to be linked is selected from those in the designated document, and information...
6268851 Hypermedia authoring and publishing system  
The present invention comprises a novel system for authoring and publishing hypermedia works. The present invention includes a scrollable contents map window in which a graphical representation of...
6266668 System and method for dynamic data-mining and on-line communication of customized information  
A method and system for dynamically searching databases in response to a query is provided by the present invention. More specifically, a system and method for dynamic data-mining and on-line...
6256648 System and method for selecting and displaying hyperlinked information resources  
A set of seed resources S is received that is typically specified by a user. A set of discovered resources D is identified from a hyperlinked collection of resources C such that each resource in D...
6256633 Context-based and user-profile driven information retrieval  
A user is enabled to navigate through an electronic data base in a personalized manner. A context is created based on a profile of the user, the profile being at least partly formed in advance....
6247018 Method for processing a file to generate a database  
A method for automatically processing a file, such as a web page or an ASCII file, is provided to treat the file as a database with one or more database tables. An HTML page is retrieved from a...
6222534 Article posting apparatus, article relationship information managing apparatus, article posting system, and recording medium  
The system enables a user to dispose information such as an icon to identify the article that the user posts from the client computer, on the display screen thereof, for example, at the position...
6212518 System and method for retrieval of data from related databases based upon database association model  
A relevant-information retrieval system manages a model which describes a relevancy among a plurality of databases in accordance with associative values or a tree structure. Besides, when the...
6191786 Navigational file system  
A method and apparatus for specifying the hierarchy of pages in a web site. The apparatus may include a graphical user interface providing a window including a display space for displaying a...
6189019 Computer system and computer-implemented process for presenting document connectivity  
A method for representing linked document connectivity that produces an easy to use, uncluttered screen display. An outline view shows a web of documents as a limited, hierarchical outline. A link...
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