179 results about "Formatted text" patented technology

In embodiments of the present invention, a system and computer-implemented method for enabling dictation may include parsing standard reports in order to identify a plurality of logical phrases in the report used for discrete sections and descriptions. In the report method, the phrases may be parsed and identifier words throughout the report may be compared to eliminate ambiguities. The method may then involve constructing text macros that follow the parsed text, thereby enabling the user to speak the identifiers to indicate full, formatted text. Finally, the report method may involve constructing a mnemonic document so both beginner and experienced users can easily read the identifiers out loud to produce a report. The result of the method is an intuitive, notes-style way to use speech commands to quickly produce a standard, formatted report.

The present invention is directed to a method for propagating contextual data in an audio communication by storing the contextual data obtained from a calling party in an extensible mark-up language formatted text document. A telephone call between a first party and a second party is converted to a session initiation protocol based voice over internet protocol communication, and the stored text document is attached to session initiation protocol messages that control the voice over internet protocol communication. The document is attached to the signaling messages by embedding the text document in a session description payload associated with the session initiation protocol message. The attached document is propagated with the audio communication, including when the signaling messages are used to transfer the audio communication from the second party to a third party or to add one or more addition parties to the audio communication.

In a data processing, a print area is divided into a text area for arranging text data and an image area for arranging image data. The image data is proportionally modified before arranging the data in the image area. Also, the text data is reformatted by, for example, deleting unnecessary line feed codes before arranging the data in the text area.

A text formatting system parses text (15) and reformats it (30) to establish optimal spacing for readability and reader comprehension. It also reduces the incidence of rivers and therefore enhances the aesthetic quality of the formatted text. The formatting applied to the text by the present invention is based on structure rules that determine key parameters of page layout including for example column width, font, font size, color, leading and kerning.

A template-based art creation system is used for the real-time creation of advertising art images, resulting in an automatically created, high resolution, pre-press ready art file for use in directly creating printing plates for commercial printing presses. The system includes a server module and client module. At the client module, a user creates and/or modifies a simulated advertising template, which includes a low-resolution background image for a particular type of advertisement (e.g., based on business type) and rendering data specifying where text and graphic elements are placed with respect to the background image. The user customizes the template by adding, positioning, and formatting text and graphic elements over the background image. Subsequently, information relating to the customized template is transmitted to the server module, which produces the pre-press ready art file. The file is a high-resolution equivalent of the low-resolution customized template as prepared by the user via the client module.

Methods, systems, and user interfaces for navigating hierarchical database views are provided, that support the efficient entry, review, and updating of data using a navigation display. At any point in the navigation process, the navigation display consists of buttons corresponding to nodes of hierarchical database data. Buttons form series of menu items representing nodes that lie along the path to the last node visited (the set of previously made choices) and the children of this node (the set of current choices). Other buttons act as placeholders to facilitate global movement within the database and when selected, initiate new series of menu items. Reports are generated by creating and formatting text based on data entered into the database. Other features are provided for increasing the efficiency of entering data and created reports from data in a hierarchical database views. Information is separated regarding the organization of the knowledge base and user interface from information from the data-entering step and associating the entered data items with sections used to organize information in the report.

A system and method for automatically performing validation and/or formatting procedures for a graphical user interface (GUI) described in a markup language file. The GUI markup language description may comprise descriptions of various types of GUI elements for which text is to be validated/formatted, such as form fields, tables, hypertext links, etc. The markup language file may include various custom markup language attributes in order to automatically validate/format text for a GUI element. Validation/formatting procedures for GUI elements may thus be based on custom markup language attributes and are managed by a manager that is automatically instantiated when the application parses the markup language file. This manager interfaces to receive programmatic events that trigger various types of formatting/validating operations to be performed on the GUI elements.

A plug-in is provided to existing electronic message programs, such as electronic mail message programs, to provide a virtual toolbar therein. The virtual toolbar includes one or more virtual buttons that allow a user to select multimedia content to be added to an electronic message. The multimedia content may include, without limitation, any one or more of: graphics, audio, animation, video and text selections. The multimedia content may further include customizable templates in which business messages may be generated. The virtual buttons may be each be assigned to one category of related content, such as Backgrounds for providing graphic backgrounds to a message, Holiday Themes for providing multimedia content associated with particular holidays, Animations for including FLASH animations or the like to a message, and Text for including pre-formatted text to a message. The content, appearance and number of virtual buttons may automatically be changed or updated by a content provider from time to time when the installed plug-in accesses a content server over a computer network, such as the Internet.

A computer implemented method, computer program product and data processing system, for identifying common structures shared across a plurality of formatted text documents. The common structure is presented as a sequence of landmarks, each of which has a starting and ending marker to describe the borders of text. The common structure is identified by counting the occurrences of repeating text segments across documents. Frequently co-occurred adjacent segments become candidates for markers of landmarks. In addition, styling information of textual content within a landmark is extracted and mapped to rules. The rules are used to merge and summarize content from multiple documents, which gives an advantage over current practice of content concatenation.

Computerized methods and systems for the analysis of textual data, including: receiving, from one or more memories at one or more processors, textual data; using the processors, formatting the textual data for analysis and applying a probabilistic topic model to the textual data to extract semantically meaningful topics that collectively describe it; using a keyword weighting module, generating a topic cloud view representing the topics as a tagcloud with each being associated with a plurality of keywords; using a topic ordering module, generating a document distribution view representing a distribution of the textual data across multiple topics; using a document entropy calculation module, generating a document scatterplot view representing how many topics are attributable to the textual data; using a temporal topic trend calculation module, generating a temporal view representing changes in the occurrence of topics over time; and displaying one or more of the views to a user.

The detection of unsolicited electronic messages is provided for by searching for pre-formatted text indicative of point-of-contact information in the body of an electronic message. A plurality of electronic messages is received, including a first electronic message and a second electronic message, each electronic message including a header portion and a body portion. The body portion of the first electronic message is searched for pre-formatted text indicative of point-of-contact information, and at least a subset of the plurality of electronic messages, the subset including the second electronic message, is searched for the pre-formatted text. The second electronic message is identified as including the pre-formatted text based upon the searching of at least the subset of the plurality of electronic messages, and the first electronic message is flagged as unsolicited based at least upon the identifying of the second electronic message.

Determination of an underlying grid structure that facilitates layout of East Asian text is disclosed. The underlying grid structure includes both a size of character frames and a size of a text block frame. The East Asian text may be obtained from a scan of printed material that has the text formatted according to layout conventions established by the publisher. The text may be reformatted to appear on a display of an electronic device in a manner similar to the formatting in the original scanned document. Reformatting may include reflowing the text in order to fit a greater or lesser number of characters on a line. The reflowing may maintain character spacing from the original document and follow formatting rules against locating certain characters at the start or end of a line.

An apparatus for providing location-specific alert information associated with an alert condition relevant to a geographical area may include a receiver adapted to receive transmissions comprising formatted text on a communication channel of a wireless bi-directional communication network; a peripheral device operable to indicate an alert condition, including displaying the formatted text; and a controller communicatively coupled to the receiver and the peripheral device. The controller is operable to monitor a communication channel of the network for the receipt of a transmission of location-specific alert information from a transmitter servicing a geographical area and to operate the peripheral device in response to the reception of the transmission of the location-specific alert information to display the formatted text. The location-specific alert information is broadcast within the geographical area by at least one transmitter of the wireless bi-directional communication network having communication channels and transmitters which are each positioned to provide communication services to specific geographical areas serviced by the communication network.

The invention discloses a text translation method for an electronic reader and an electronic reader, and relates to the field of terminal devices. The text translation method can improve the accuracy of translation and can translate one word group or a word with more characters for one time. The method includes steps as follows: acquiring a screenshot picture including a to-be-translated text in a current reading interface; identifying the picture comprising the to-be-translated text, and combining identified characters into to-be-translated text in a text format; translating the to-be-translated text combined into the text format, and obtaining corresponding translation text; and displaying the to-be-translated text combined into the text format and the corresponding translation text or the corresponding translation text in the current reading interface. The text translation method is mainly used by the electronic reader for reading text or non-text-format text.