View templates for HTML source documents
Before the Invention Before discussing a detailed embodiment of the invention, we briefly address how the normal HTML layout process works in the Microsoft HTML mark-up language engine (MSHTML engine... Read More
Inventors: Mogilevsky, Alex; Edlund, Carl A.; Ovetchkine, Oleg V.;, Assignee: Microsoft Corporation (Redmond, WA) |
Method and apparatus for importing and exporting archive files for a graphical user interface
The foregoing problems are overcome and the foregoing objects are achieved in one illustrative embodiment of the invention in which user interface objects are stored in a user interface object archive... Read More
Inventors: Palevich, Jack H.; Taylor, Thomas H.;, Assignee: Object Technology Licensing Corp. (Cupertino, CA) |
Methods and apparatus for requesting and receiving a print job via a printer polling device associated with a printer
The present invention relates to methods and apparatus for requesting and receiving print jobs over a communications network. In particular, the present invention enables a user to obtain print jobs a... Read More
Inventors: Keeney, Richard A.; Lodwick, Philip A.; Nourbakhsh, Farhad; Schoenzeit, Loren; Tenenbaum, Ofer;, Assignee: Electronics for Imaging, Inc. (Foster City, CA) |
Method and telecommunication system for transmitting a facsimile message
OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS The various embodiments of the present invention yield several advantages over the prior art. In one embodiment, the telecommunication system and method of the present in... Read More
Inventors: Meek, Jeffrey James; Meek, William Harvey; Blumenschein, Gordon Lynn;, Assignee: SBC Properties, L.P. (Reno, NV) |
Method for modeling, storing, and transferring data in neutral form
We claim: 1. A method of organizing and storing a set of information in neutral form in a computer based environment comprising the steps of: a) organizing the set of information into instance data se... Read More
Inventors: Odom, Paul S.; Massey, Michael J.;, Assignee: |
Deletion and compaction using versioned nodes
An information management system in accordance with a first aspect of the present invention includes a computer and a database, wherein the database comprises one or more B-Tree data structure(s) each... Read More
Inventors: Najork, Marc A.; Thekkath, Chandramohan A.;, Assignee: Microsoft Corporation (Redmond, WA) |
Method and system for developing extract transform load systems for data warehouses
Embodiments of the present invention include a method of developing an extract/transform/load (ETL) system in which one or more application programs perform a sequence of operations to transform data ... Read More
Inventors: Kornelson, Kevin Paul; Vajjiravel, Murali; Prasad, Rajeev; Clark, Paul D.; Najm, Tarek;, Assignee: Microsoft Corporation (Redmond, WA) |
Supplemental data processing system for processing ply-matching data generated during multiple-part product printing
Additional processing capabilities are provided to an existing ply matching system by a data processing system constructed in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention. The data processin... Read More
Inventors: Stevens, Scott A.; Graham, Raymond J.;, Assignee: Wallace Computer Services, Inc. (Hillside, IL) |
Automated pharmacy
In accordance with the present invention, there is provided a system for operating a pharmacy. The system provides a greater throughput than previous systems by virtue of eliminating a paper trail and... Read More
Inventors: Boyer, Joseph H.; Boyer, James P.; Bennett, William S.;, Assignee: Innovation Associates, Inc. (Johnson City, NY) |
Methods and systems for identification of protein classes
Accordingly, one aspect of the invention is a method for identifying protein classes from protein or nucleic acid sequence data comprising analyzing combinations of amino acid properties by mathematic... Read More
Inventors: Ladunga, Istvan;, Assignee: Smithkline Beecham Corporation (Philadelphia, PA) |
Methods for obtaining and using haplotype data
The basis of the present invention is the fact that the specific form of a protein and the expression pattern of that protein in a particular individual are directly and unambiguously coded for by the... Read More
Inventors: Denton, R. Rex; Judson, Richard S.; Ruano, Gualberto; Stephens, J. Claiborne; Windemuth, Andreas K.; Xu, Chuanbo;, Assignee: Genaissance Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (New Haven, CT) |
Apparatus and method for trend analysis in graphical information involving spatial data
OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENT OF THE INVENTION In the drawing and the following detailed description, all elements are assigned two or three digit reference numbers with a prefix of one or two digits. ... Read More
Inventors: Van Bemmel, Peter P.; Pepper, Randolph E. F.;, Assignee: Schlumberger Technology Corporation (Houston, TX) |
Apparatus and method for dynamically updating a computer-implemented table and associated objects
I claim: 1. An apparatus comprising: at least one processor; a memory coupled to the at least one processor; a software application residing in the memory and executed by the at least one processor, t... Read More
Inventors: Kelsey, Todd Mark;, Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, NY) |
Method and system for universal querying of distributed databases
Accordingly, it is an object of the present invention to provide a system and methodology for querying distributed databases. It is another object of the present invention to provide a query system an... Read More
Inventors: DiDomizio, Virginia Ann; Dixon, III, Walter Vincent; Epter, Scott D.; Hoebel, Louis John; Oksoy, Osman Rifki; Stillman, Jonathan Peter; Corman, Jennifer M.;, Assignee: Lockhead Martin Corporation (Bethesda, MD) |
System and method for performing database operations on a continuous stream of tuples
The SQL compiler and SQL executor of a relational database system are extended to process operations on streams of tuples and to access regular database tables as continuous streams of tuples. In part... Read More
Inventors: Klein, Johannes; Van der Linden, Robbert C.; Rathee, Raj K.; Zeller, Hansjorg;, Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, LP. (Houston, TX) |
Statistical and trend analysis of railroad bearing temperatures
The system of the present invention tracks individual train wheel bearing temperatures and selects those that are statistically determined to be abnormally high, while eliminating from consideration, ... Read More
Inventors: Snyder, Todd W.;, Assignee: Union Pacific Railroad Company (Omaha, NE) |
Checking serialization compatibility between versions of java classes
It is therefore one object of the present invention to provide an improved data processing system. It is another object of the present invention to provide an improved data processing system which uti... Read More
Inventors: Apte, Ajay A.;, Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation (Armok, NY) |
System and method for serializing Java objects in a tubular data stream
A distributed (e.g., client/server) computing environment is described which, in accordance with the present invention, simplifies the use of objects in distributed applications. In particular, the in... Read More
Inventors: Clegg, David Lyndon; Pannu, Adarsh Ratan;, Assignee: Sybase Inc. (Emeryville, CA) |
Computer program and data structure for use in knowledge enhance electronic logic
The present invention comprises a system for developing computer programs useful for computational decision-making including a graphical programming interface, an overall data structure and an executi... Read More
Inventors: Keeley, Thomas M.;, Assignee: |
System and method for catalog administration using supplier provided flat files
A system and method for publishing a catalog. A flat file catalog is received via electronic data interchange (EDI) from a supplier and loaded into a relational database staging table. A buyer is gran... Read More
Inventors: Ruest, David G.; Snavely, Amy J.; Musa, Mark A.; Cunningham, Candace M.;, Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, NY) |
System and method for dynamic knowledge generation and distribution
The present invention provides a dynamic knowledge creation and delivery system and method that substantially eliminates or reduces disadvantages and problems associated with previously developed comp... Read More
Inventors: Baffes, Paul T.; Subramanian, Siddarth; Nugent, Shane V.;, Assignee: Intelligent Learning Systems, Inc. (Austin, TX) |
Content providing system
In view of the foregoing circumstances, an object of the present invention is to provide a content providing system in which many unspecified people arbitrarily use it to obtain (purchase) a recording... Read More
Inventors: Otsuka, Satoshi; Marukawa, Kazuyuki;, Assignee: Sony Corporation (Tokyo, JP) |
Systems and methods for a user to access digital data provided by an on-line server over a data network
In view of the above-described disadvantages in present billing practices for services obtained over the Internet, it is an object of the invention to provide a billing and collection system in which ... Read More
Inventors: Walker, Jay; Schneier, Bruce;, Assignee: Walker Digital, LLC (Stamford, CT) |
Method and apparatus for delivering electronic data through a proxy server
What is claimed is: 1. An apparatus for electronically delivering an electronic document to a receiving system over a network, comprising: a sending system connected to the network and comprising digi... Read More
Inventors: Kobata, Hiroshi; Gagne, Robert;, Assignee: Atabok Japan, Inc. (Tokyo, JP) |
Block selection review and editing system
It is an object of the present invention to provide a system which can edit blocks of image data and the feature data associated therewith. Preferably, editing takes place in the displayed block templ... Read More
Inventors: Wang, Shin-Ywan;, Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Tokyo, JP) |
Method and apparatus for hierarchically restructuring portions of a hierarchical database based on selected attributes
FIG. 11 represents one possible embodiment of a hierarchical database containing a hypothetical cell 2BITMUX 150. 2BITMUX 150 contains two references, 151 and 152, to another cell MUX2, which also re... Read More
Inventors: Roberts, James T.;, Assignee: Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. (Austin, TX) |
Passing arrays to stored procedures
To overcome the limitations in the prior art described above, and to overcome other limitations that will become apparent upon reading and understanding the present specification, the present inventio... Read More
Inventors: Wang, I-Shin Andy; Ng, John Luen; Sidik, Judianto; Sharp, Frederick Thomas;, Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, NY) |
Intelligent token protected system with network authentication
In accordance with an aspect of the invention, an intelligent token is provided which stores critical information including authentication information. A local host computer is coupled with the intell... Read More
Inventors: Clark, Paul C.;, Assignee: |
System and method for accessing enterprise-wide resources by presenting to the resource a temporary credential
Accordingly, there is a need for a system and method which provide role-based access control for resources of an entire corporate entity which eliminate or substantially reduce the disadvantages assoc... Read More
Inventors: Hudson, Jerome D.; Champagne, Jean-Paul; Galindo, Mary A.; Hickerson, Cynthia M. K.; Hickman, Donna R.; Lockhart, Robert P.; Saddler, Nancy B.; Stange, Patricia A.;, Assignee: Electronic Data Systems Corporation (Plano, TX) |
Integration of procedural and object-oriented user interfaces
An object of the present invention is to provide a technique whereby procedural and object-oriented interfaces can be integrated, making available the advantages of each. Another object of the present... Read More
Inventors: Santos-Gomez, Lucinio;, Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, NY) |
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