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<title>freepatentsonline.com: Data processing: presentation processing of document, operator interface processing, and screen saver display processing</title>
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<title><![CDATA[Computer interface method and apparatus with portable network organization system and targeted advertising]]></title>
<link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/7366996.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[A method and apparatus for providing an automatically upgradeable software application includes targeted advertising based upon demographics and user interaction with the computer. The software application is accessible from a server via the network and demographic information on the user is acquired by the server and used for determining what advertising will be sent to the user. The software application includes programming that accesses the server to determine if one or more components of the application need upgrading. If so, the components can be downloaded and installed without further action by the user. A distribution tool is provided for software distribution and upgrading over the network. Also provided is a user profile that is accessible to any computer on the network. Furthermore, multiple users of the same computer can possess Internet web resources and files that are personalized, maintained and organized.]]></description>
<pubDate>April 29, 2008</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Using digital objects organized according to histogram timeline]]></title>
<link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/7366994.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[A method for organizing visual digital objects into a histogram timeline having a first axis with a timeline representing a range of time organized into separate time periods and a second axis orthogonal to the timeline axis representing a number of digital multimedia objects corresponding to portions of the histogram timeline. Each time period is associated with a graphical metaphor extending from the first axis in a direction along the second axis to an extent that indicates a relative number of visual digital objects associated with the time periods. Each said graphical metaphor comprises event icons which group the visual digital objects associated with the selected time period according to events. The icons are proportionately sized to indicate the number of visual digital objects in the group relative to the total number of visual digital objects associated with the selected time period.]]></description>
<pubDate>April 29, 2008</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Element management system with data-driven interfacing driven by instantiation of meta-model]]></title>
<link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/7366989.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[A network element management system which can exploit the customized interface features of a variety of versions of a variety of complex system products from a variety of manufacturers. This is done by maintaining a meta-model, which is not itself a model until instantiated, of the possible known product configurations to be interfaced to. Once the meta-model is instantiated, it provides configuration parameters which the interface program uses to build a correct configuration for the management and/or monitoring interface. This is particularly advantageous in the preferred embodiment of a telecommunications network element management system, but also has potential applicability to other large “supersystem” applications.]]></description>
<pubDate>April 29, 2008</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Method and system for managing user activities and information using a customized computer interface]]></title>
<link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/7366990.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[Methods and systems for managing user information using a customized computer interface which is user centric and geared toward creating and managing a personal information portal. In one aspect, the invention provides computerized methods for organizing a representation of user activities and information and navigating through an information management system that utilizes the representation.]]></description>
<pubDate>April 29, 2008</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Combination tool that zooms in, zooms out, pans, rotates, draws, or manipulates during a drag]]></title>
<link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/7366995.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[After positioning the cursor and pressing-and-holding a mouse button to begin a drag, a user continues to drag the cursor out of and into plural popped up regions. While the cursor is within a region, an associated function effects the displayed graphical information in a particular way, such as continuously panning, drawing, zooming, or rotating. Upon rolling-out of a region without entering a contiguous region, the last function continues to execute and all popped up regions are removed such that the user may utilize the entire display without being switched to another function. In a simple form, after release of the mouse button, a tool may zoom out if the user held the mouse substantially stationary and zoom in on a rectangle if the mouse was dragged. Reducing the number of times a user clicks by eliminating the step of selecting a function should help avoid repetitive strain injuries.]]></description>
<pubDate>April 29, 2008</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Method and system for creating a grid-like coordinate system for addressing data contained in an irregular computer-generated table]]></title>
<link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/7366978.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[Methods and systems provide for imposing structure onto a freeform or irregular table so that a subsequent consuming application may use the table, including presentation of the table and location of the data in the table. A generic grid structure is created having a plurality of uniformly-shaped cells such that if the generic grid is overlaid onto the irregular table, each cell within the irregular table may be located based on its position relative to the uniform cells or grids. The grid structure creates a coordinate system for defining the shape of the irregular table, for defining locations and shapes of cells comprising the irregular table and for addressing the locations of data contained in the irregular table.]]></description>
<pubDate>April 29, 2008</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Text based markup language resource interface]]></title>
<link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/7366985.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[A software control method and apparatus for displaying a text based markup language interface. The interface can interact with a computer to provide reference documents, install system drivers and perform various system utilities. The interface can reference optical drives, hard disk drives or other storage medium and files available over a network, such as a local area network (LAN) or a wide area network (WAN) including the Internet. A graphical user interface using a text markup language such as hypertext markup language (HTML) can allow for activation of a user interactive control such as an icon or a hyperlink. Activation of an interactive control can hook onto a hypertext link target associated with the activated user interactive control result in the performance of an initial action responsive to variables including the control, a uniform resource locator associated with the interactive control and the hypertext link target.]]></description>
<pubDate>April 29, 2008</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Spell checker with arbitrary length string-to-string transformations to improve noisy channel spelling correction]]></title>
<link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/7366983.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[A spell checker based on the noisy channel model has a source model and an error model. The source model determines how likely a word w in a dictionary is to have been generated. The error model determines how likely the word w was to have been incorrectly entered as the string s (e.g., mistyped or incorrectly interpreted by a speech recognition system) according to the probabilities of string-to-string edits. The string-to-string edits allow conversion of one arbitrary length character sequence to another arbitrary length character sequence.]]></description>
<pubDate>April 29, 2008</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Image forming device and method]]></title>
<link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/7366981.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[An image forming device for dividing a continuous document without the concept of pages, such as an HTML document, into pages, the device being capable of responding to a user's various needs in connection with page dividing. A page dividing processor ( 304 ) is provided with a plurality of page dividing algorithms which differ in terms of treatment of a document element placed across a page boundary. When a user inputs a page dividing policy using a user interface ( 301 ), a dividing algorithm designating section ( 305 ) specifies a page dividing algorithm corresponding to the policy, and notifies the page dividing processor ( 304 ) of the algorithm. The page dividing processor ( 304 ) divides an HTML document into pages according to the algorithm.]]></description>
<pubDate>April 29, 2008</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Item, relation, attribute: the IRA object model]]></title>
<link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/7366973.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[A system and method for providing a document object model to represent components of related entities for in-memory representations. The system and method provide for tangled data structures that are more readily parsed than conventional object models. Data is represented as items, relations and attributes. Items are described in terms of relations and attributes. Relations represent item associations. While attributes, represent other information about items. The present invention solves the problems associated with representing an XML document as a DOM component. The DOM component does not allow for relations of text with elements.]]></description>
<pubDate>April 29, 2008</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Method and systems of automated client-server data validation]]></title>
<link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/7366977.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[The present invention provides a way to validate data entry at both the client and the server with minimal engineering effort. The system allows the specification of data validation rules for a form on a server. The system provides a version of the rules with the form to the client computer. The system also executes the rules on the server for further validation. The system may translate the rules into JavaScript data structures, passed as the version to the client for client-side validation. Because the rules for the form are specific only once, there is no possibility of the rules becoming out of sync between the form on the client and on the server.]]></description>
<pubDate>April 29, 2008</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Packages that contain pre-paginated documents]]></title>
<link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/7366982.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[Modular content framework and document format methods and systems are described. The described framework and format define a set of building blocks for composing, packaging, distributing, and rendering document-centered content. These building blocks define a platform-independent framework for document formats that enable software and hardware systems to generate, exchange, and display documents reliably and consistently. The framework and format have been designed in a flexible and extensible fashion. In addition to this general framework and format, a particular format, known as the reach package format, is defined using the general framework. The reach package format is a format for storing paginated documents. The contents of a reach package can be displayed or printed with full fidelity among devices and applications in a wide range of environments and across a wide range of scenarios.]]></description>
<pubDate>April 29, 2008</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Dynamically mediating multimedia content and devices]]></title>
<link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/7366972.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[A mediator having at least a ranking component, a listening component, and a control component, selectively controls a group of devices from a plurality of network devices in a network environment to reproduce multimedia content. The mediator correlates the multimedia content with the plurality of network devices. The listening component collects data about the network environment to enhance a user's experience with the multimedia content. The mediator utilizes the network environment data and the correlation of the multimedia content and the plurality of network devices to automatically select the group devices from the plurality of network devices that maximize a user's viewing or listening pleasure when reproducing the multimedia content on the group of devices.]]></description>
<pubDate>April 29, 2008</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Interrupt processing in display control]]></title>
<link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/7366987.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[The present invention provides a display control system suitable to flexible and smooth presentation. The invention can include a projector that stores page data included in projector display data in a stack area by a stack system in which the page data corresponding to the last page is at the head and projects the pages by a projecting device based on the page data read from the stack area. Further, when another projector display data is received during projection, the projector additionally stores the page data included in the other received projector display data in the stack area by the stack system.]]></description>
<pubDate>April 29, 2008</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Automatic graph display]]></title>
<link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/7366993.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[System and method for displaying signals. First user input requesting display of a first signal is received, e.g., to a graphical user interface (GUI) comprised in a signal analysis function development environment, and the first signal programmatically analyzed in response to the first user input. A display tool operable to display the first signal is programmatically determined based on said analyzing, and the first signal displayed in the display tool, e.g., a data type of the first signal is determined, e.g., integer, floating point, Boolean, or user-defined data in a time-domain, frequency-domain, or spatial-domain, and the display tool programmatically determined based on the determined data type, e.g., via a loop-up table, where the display tool comprises an indicator operable to display the signal data. The signal comprises signal data, e.g., signal plot data, where the display tool comprises a graph, or tabular data, where the display tool comprises a table.]]></description>
<pubDate>April 29, 2008</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Multiple output device association]]></title>
<link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/7366980.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[One or more embodiments of the invention enable a user to establish, configure, and associate one or more output devices with a file. Prior art applications provide for configuring an output device (e.g., a printer) on an application wide basis. Users often format a file or document based on an output device. Consequently, it is useful to associate an output device with a particular file or information. In graphics programs, a user may define a drawing (referred to as a model) with various layouts or views of the drawing. Each layout or view may be formatted for a particular output device. Consequently, one or more embodiments of the invention associate one or more files, layouts, or views with one or more output devices. Additionally, each output device may be configured for a particular file, layout, or view. One or more embodiments of the invention provide for the association of one or more output device configurations with one or more files, layouts, or views.]]></description>
<pubDate>April 29, 2008</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Method and system for providing an extensible user interface]]></title>
<link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/7366991.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[Displaying a custom user interface in response to a determination that the application program is configured to display the custom user interface. To create the custom user interface, the end user can customize one or more default user interface files to create custom user interface files. The default user interface files can comprise one or more of a structure definition file, a content definition file, and a content display file. Additionally, the custom user interface can be associated with a program module function that can execute in connection with displaying the custom user interface.]]></description>
<pubDate>April 29, 2008</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[System and method for managing template attributes]]></title>
<link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/7366974.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[According to the invention, this invention redefines the concept of a template as a set of template attributes, such as font types and color schemes, that are accessed by document-generating applications to provide uniform functionality across an organization. The template attributes are stored and distributed throughout an organization in lieu of full document templates in order to reduce storage and transmission bandwidth requirements. The template attributes are distributed from a global server to regional servers and then to user workstations to facilitate propagation and enforcement of organization-wide document formatting protocols.]]></description>
<pubDate>April 29, 2008</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Apparatus for receiving MPEG data, system for transmitting/receiving MPEG data and method thereof]]></title>
<link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/7366986.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[An MPEG data receiving apparatus adapted to interact with a MPEG data providing apparatus. A storage unit stores scene description information (SDI) from a received MPEG stream and a command recognition unit outputs node identification information based on user-selected objects and scene correction commands input by the user. A correcting unit searches for SDI stored in the storage unit corresponding to the scene correction commands and selectively updates the SDI on the object or requests the MPEG stream providing apparatus to update the SDI corresponding to the scene correction commands according to a result of determining whether the SDI corresponding to the scene correction commands exists in the storage unit. Accordingly, interaction between the MPEG data receiving apparatus and the MPEG data providing apparatus is enabled. Effective results are obtainable under a narrow bandwidth environment by reducing an amount of SDI transmitted from the providing apparatus.]]></description>
<pubDate>April 29, 2008</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Power event analysis]]></title>
<link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/7366933.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[A computer program product residing on a computer-readable medium includes computer-readable instructions for causing a computer to obtain power event data associated with at least one uninterruptible power supply, the power event data including indicia of power events and occurrence times of the corresponding power events, aggregate the power event data in accordance with the occurrence times of the power events, and graphically display the aggregated power event data on a display such that indications of power events that occur close in time are graphically displayed in association with each other.]]></description>
<pubDate>April 29, 2008</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[SMS shorthand dictionary service]]></title>
<link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/7366500.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[The present invention provides a lookup service for shorthand terms directly from within an application. A lookup pane is provided to the user from which they can lookup a definition for the shorthand term. The lookup pane provides a consistent user interface for looking up shorthand terms from within a suite of applications. After entering a shorthand term, a dictionary of shorthand terms is accessed to determine the definition. If desired, the user can choose to insert the definition of the term directly into a document. The lookup service is provided directly to the user without the user having to open a web page and search for the term.]]></description>
<pubDate>April 29, 2008</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Method and apparatus for converting a network description into a computer program for disambiguating transmit-by-exception telemetry from a multi-path, multi-tier network]]></title>
<link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/7366988.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[A method for making an apparatus for disambiguating telemetry sent by exception over a multi-path, multi-tier communications network having a plurality of telemetry source nodes producing telemetry data elements, a plurality of linked relay nodes, and one destination node, each telemetry source node connected to at least one relay node, wherein each node originates uniquely identifiable periodically changing counter data over said network, the method comprising the steps of obtaining a network diagram of said multi-path, multi-tier communications network, organizing data describing said network diagram, wherein said data describing said network diagram includes data relating to said counter data, and autocoding said data describing said network diagram to produce a telemetry disambiguating computer program. An apparatus and a program product are also provided.]]></description>
<pubDate>April 29, 2008</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Method and apparatus for analyzing machine control sequences]]></title>
<link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/7367017.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[A graphical user interface (GUI) is provided that enables machine control sequences and the results of their execution to be easily and expediently analyzed. Logic is configured to execute GUI generation code and GUI user interaction handling code, and control a display device. When the logic executes the GUI generation code, a first window is displayed on the display device. The first window presents at least one option that enables a user to open a file comprising machine control sequence execution results resulting from execution of a machine control sequence. When the file is opened, a second window is displayed on the display device. The second window displays at least a summary of the execution results comprised in the file.]]></description>
<pubDate>April 29, 2008</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Method to maximize receiver performance in a multi-stream system]]></title>
<link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/7366246.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[A receiver includes a channel decoder select circuit, a plurality of communication channels, at least one maximum ratio combiner circuit, and a forward error correction circuit. The plurality of communication channels receive wireless information from channel demodulators and are in communication with respective channel decoder circuits, which are in communication with the channel decoder select circuit. The at least one maximum ratio combiner circuit receives the wireless information from the plurality of communication channels. The output of the maximum ratio combiner is communicated to the forward error correction circuit, the output of which is communicated to the channel decoder select circuit. A pseudo bit error measurement feedback signal communicated to the maximum ratio combiner from one of the plurality of channel decoder circuits. A method for finding wireless satellite signals that minimizes errors in a receiver system is also disclosed.]]></description>
<pubDate>April 29, 2008</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Customizable gesture mappings for motion controlled handheld devices]]></title>
<link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/7365736.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[A motion controlled handheld device includes a display having a viewable surface and operable to generate an image and a gesture database maintaining a plurality of predefined gestures. Each gesture is defined by a motion of the device with respect to a first position of the device. The device includes an application having a plurality of predefined commands and a motion detection module operable to detect motion of the handheld device within three dimensions and to identify components of the motion in relation to the viewable surface. The device includes a user interface operable to receive user input associating selected ones of the gestures with corresponding ones of the commands and a gesture mapping database comprising a command map for the application. The command map comprises mappings of the selected gestures to the corresponding commands as indicated by the user input. The device also includes a control module operable to load the application, to track movement of the handheld device using the motion detection module, to compare the tracked movement against the gestures to determine a matching one of the gestures, to identify, using the command map, the command mapped to the matching gesture, and to perform the identified command using the application.]]></description>
<pubDate>April 29, 2008</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Method and apparatus for allowing a media client to obtain media data from a media server]]></title>
<link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/7366975.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[Some embodiments of the invention provide a computer system that includes a media server, a media client, and a media-server interface. The media server application produces media data, where the media data has a plurality of segments. For example, in some embodiments, the media data is a movie with video and audio components. In this example, the segments of the movie can be specified in two groups, where one group includes the frames of video in the movie and the other group includes the seconds of audio in the movie. The media client application is typically an application that needs to process the media data of the media server application without the need to have any familiarity with the implementation of the media server application. The media-server interface directs the server application to successively generate individual segments of the media data and to store each generated segment in a location that is accessible by the media client. The server application generates each segment in a format that is comprehensible to the media client application. The media client application retrieves each segment from its stored location and processes the segment.]]></description>
<pubDate>April 29, 2008</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Phonetic searching using multiple readings]]></title>
<link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/7366984.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[The names of contacts are stored as characters. Each character may include one or more phonic codes that are encoded into the character. A smart filter decodes the character into its constituent sounds. An input string is received that includes phonic codes. An application matches the decoded constituent sounds with the specified phonetic codes from the input string in accordance with rules of the spoken language and character boundaries to determine a contact to display.]]></description>
<pubDate>April 29, 2008</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Non-uniform gesture precision]]></title>
<link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/7365737.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[A motion controlled handheld device includes a display having a viewable surface and operable to generate an image and a gesture database maintaining a plurality of gestures. Each gesture is defined by a motion of the device with respect to a first position of the device. The device includes a motion detection module operable to detect motion of the handheld device within three dimensions and to identify components of the motion in relation to the viewable surface. The device also includes a control module operable to identify a base reference position of the device, track movement of the device, using the motion detection module, to identify a potential gesture, compare the potential gesture against the gestures in the gesture database, and determine whether the potential gesture matches to a compared one of the gestures based on whether a difference between the potential gesture and the compared gesture is within a precision threshold.]]></description>
<pubDate>April 29, 2008</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Translation controlled cursor]]></title>
<link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/7365735.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[A motion controlled handheld device includes a display having a viewable surface and operable to generate a current image. The device includes a motion detection module operable to detect motion of the device within three dimensions and to identify components of the motion in relation to the viewable surface. The components comprise a first component parallel to the viewable surface, a second component parallel to the viewable surface and perpendicular to the first component, and a third component perpendicular to the viewable surface. The device also includes a display control module operable to display a cursor on the viewable surface, to determine a translation vector that is substantially opposite to the sum of the first component and the second component, and to translate the cursor across the viewable surface according to the translation vector in order to substantially maintain the position of the cursor in space with respect to the viewable surface.]]></description>
<pubDate>April 29, 2008</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Programmable interface for fitting hearing devices]]></title>
<link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/7366307.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[A graphical interface is provided to select parameters for fitting a hearing device. The graphical interface provides means visually representing and controlling values of these parameters using a common reference axis for multiple parameters related by a programmable constraint. The common reference multiple parameter structures convey information to a user about the interactions between parameters and the limits of the parameters. Further, parameters related by a constraint relation are displayed on graphical structures having a common path, such that movement of a slider representing a parameter can be limited within the bounds of the programmed constraints. Such limited movement is visually conveyed to the user allowing the user to make appropriate adjustment to remain within the limits of the constraint while programming a hearing device for improving performance.]]></description>
<pubDate>April 29, 2008</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Network apparatus for switching based on content of application data]]></title>
<link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/7366781.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[A network apparatus is provided between a network and a plurality of processing nodes or servers. The network apparatus includes a content based message director (e.g., XML director) to route or direct messages received from the network to one of the processing nodes based upon the application data, including business transaction information.]]></description>
<pubDate>April 29, 2008</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Multi-document summarization system and method]]></title>
<link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/7366711.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[A summary for a collection of related documents can be generated by extracting phrases from the documents which include common focus elements. Phrase intersection analysis is then performed on the extracted phrases to generate a phrase intersection table, where identical or equivalent phrases are identified. Temporal processing on the phrases in the phrase intersection table is performed to remove ambiguous time references and to sort the phrases in a temporal sequence. Sentence generation is then used to combine the phrases in the phrase intersection table into a coherent summary.]]></description>
<pubDate>April 29, 2008</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Scroll wheel device with a thin film type command switch]]></title>
<link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/7365740.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[A scroll wheel device with a thin film type command switch mainly replaces conventional optical grating switch during rotation of a wheel for outputting a signal. The thin film type command switch is a flexible circuit board, and is provided with a circuit arrangement corresponding to a rotating trajectory of the wheel. The wheel is provided with a pressing portion which is simultaneously driven during rotation of the wheel and pressing the thin film type command switch for outputting different command signals. The thin film type command switch of the present invention can decrease the manufacturing cost and save the installation space of the scroll wheel device.]]></description>
<pubDate>April 29, 2008</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Image processing apparatus, image processing method, medium that stores control program for realizing the method]]></title>
<link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/7365866.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[An image processing apparatus that performs an output processing based on document data including a command to refer to an external resource is disclosed. The image processing apparatus includes an output data processing unit that reads document data from a storage device and performs an output data processing, an analysis unit that analyzes the document data, an external resource obtaining unit that performs a processing to obtain an external resource through a network according to an analysis result of the analysis unit, and a print processing setting unit that is capable of making a setting not to output external resources. When the print processing setting unit makes a setting not to output external resources, the output data processing unit analyzes the document data inputted and generates output data without using the external resources.]]></description>
<pubDate>April 29, 2008</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Image pickup device and method for enabling switching between a first recording medium and a second recording medium]]></title>
<link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/7365782.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[When a key for directly transferring from the screen of a “video mode” of tape reproduction to the screen of memory stick reproduction is separately arranged, the ratio of an occupation area of the key on the screen is increased. Therefore, a setting operation is performed such that a stop key ( 11 a ) is displayed when the “video mode” is set and no memory stick is mounted as shown in FIG. 1A, and when the tape is being reproduced as shown in FIG. 1C. In contrast to this, the setting operation is also performed such that a switching key ( 11 f ) for transferring to the reproducing screen of the memory stick of FIG. 1D is displayed when the “video mode” is set and no tape is being reproduced and the memory stick is mounted as shown in FIG. 1B.]]></description>
<pubDate>April 29, 2008</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Document processing system including multi-device compatible interface and related methods]]></title>
<link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/7366799.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[A document processing system may include a document processing device (e.g., a copier), a host (e.g., a computer server), and a multi-device compatible interface for enabling operation of the host and the document processing device from among a plurality of different possible document processing devices. That is, the multi-device compatible interface may determine a set of signals to use with the document processing device upon being connected therewith, and thereafter use the determined set of signals. Accordingly, the multi-device compatible interface may advantageously be used with numerous types of document processing devices despite the differences in their various protocols, connector types, etc.]]></description>
<pubDate>April 29, 2008</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[System and method for applying color management on captured images]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[A system and method for image acquisition enables selective automated application of color management to color image data generated by an image-capturing device by the device driver for the device. In the image acquisition system, each image-capturing device has properties or operation parameters that can be set to control the operation of the device. During an image acquisition operation, color image data generated by the image-capturing device are transmitted to the device driver. If the operation parameters of the device are set to indicate that color management is to be performed, the device driver calls color management functions provided by the operating system to perform the desired color operation, such as a color space conversion, on the received color image data. The processed color image data are then sent to the image-processing application for further processing or editing.]]></description>
<pubDate>April 29, 2008</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[System and method for transparency optimization]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[One embodiment pertains to analyzing a document that is to be printed on a transparency, determining whether the document formatting is optimized for transparency printing, and alerting a user if the document formatting is not optimized for transparency printing. Another embodiment pertains to analyzing a document to determine whether the document is a transparency document, determining whether the scanning resolution is appropriate for scanning a transparency where the document is determined to be a transparency document, and alerting a user if the scanning resolution is not appropriate for scanning a transparency where the document is a transparency document and the scanning resolution is inappropriate.]]></description>
<pubDate>April 29, 2008</pubDate>
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