265 results about "Online document" patented technology

In a digital data processing system having an on-line file system component, a method and apparatus for archiving the contents of a selected client volume stored on the file system. The archiving is performed automatically, beginning with an initial duplication of the existing contents of the client volume into an archive volume, then continuing as changes, including additions, deletions and modifications, are made to the files comprising the client volume. Older, previously-archived versions of modified files are gracefully discarded so as to moderate the rate of growth of the archive volume. The archive volume may be used to restore the client volume, either selectively or in whole, in the event of inadvertent damage to, or loss of, files in the client volume.

A method and apparatus for definition links for online documentation is provided. According to one aspect of the invention, the definition links for online documentation provide a non-sighted or visually impaired user employing a screen reading utility a method to select a definition link from an online document which in turn navigates the user to a corresponding link definition area of the online document. Once the user has finished reading the definition, the user can easily be navigated back to the original text area of the document. In one embodiment, the definition links for online documentation provides footnote information. In one embodiment, a method of accessing footnote links and corresponding footnote definitions is provided. The embodiments contained herein for definition links for online documentation adhere to United States Federal Section 508 guidelines for accessibility standards.

An online file storage system having secure file drawer and safe is disclosed for securely storing and sharing confidential files. The system comprises a web-based user interface, tools for setting up server-side encryption method and client-side encryption method, tools for synchronizing encryption between different computers, tools for uploading files, tools for tracking files, tools for granting the right of access to files to the owner of other safes, and tools for generating authenticity certificate for proving the upload time and the substance of the files in a future time.

An online system provides users with tools to annotate publications and share such annotations with other users. Publications annotated by a community of users become a richer source of information for the community.

A method and system for automatic retrieval of a document linking to a starting document that has a static address on a data network. A sequence of commands that cause a browser in a computer system to navigate from a starting document to a target document on a data network is recorded. The recorded sequence of commands can be reproduced to cause the browser to navigate from the starting document through a sequence of intermediate documents to the refreshed version of the target document. More particularly, the invention allows retrieval of the target document even when the intermediate and the target documents are dynamically generated by a server computer and thus their online addresses change every time they are loaded.

Methods are described for implementing a plugin in a blog or other structured online document. One embodiment of the method includes providing an interface between a blog-editing application and a plugin, receiving an indication that the plugin is to be invoked; presenting a user interface based on the plugin to receive settings that define characteristics associated with an object to be rendered in a blog post, receiving the settings, creating an editable code fragment based on the settings that can be utilized to present a rendering associated with the plugin, and presenting the rendering in the blog-editing application.

A system and methods for matching between search requests and relevant data (web pages, online documents, essays, online text in general, images, video, footage etc.). The system comprises three components that can work separately or together and can be integrated with other search engine methods in order to further improve the relevancy of search results. The system can find similarity between different document and measure the distance (in similarity) between documents. The three components are: Context based understanding, comprising putting the documents in the context of aspects of the human knowledge external to the documents, Partial Sentence analysis and 100 percentage points to keyword/tag sets.

A system and method for editing documents available over a Web session. For example, one embodiment of the method comprises: establishing a Web session with a user computer; receiving a user request to edit a document from the user computer, the document having a particular document type and stored on a remote computer; automatically downloading a copy of the document and one or more modules to the user computer, the one or more modules to perform the operations of: invoking an application associated with the document type on the user computer, the application to provide an interface allowing the user to edit the document on the user computer; monitoring the state of the document copy, the state including an indication as to whether the document copy has been modified by the user to create a modified document copy; automatically uploading the modified document copy to the remote computer responsive from an indication that the document copy has been modified.

A virtual online document management system wherein an original document is broken down into logical pages before uploading into the document repository in a network environment. Each logical page is converted into a separate electronic image file. Each logical page is an addressable unit within the computer's storage. A virtual document consists of a sequence of pointers to the corresponding logical pages. These virtual documents can also be organized into virtual folders, again by the use of a sequence of pointers. The pointers to the logical pages that designate the virtual documents and the virtual folders are maintained in a computer software program practicing the disclosed method. The user operates on the logical pages with the program to create new virtual documents, retrieve the pages over the network, and to aggregate virtual documents to form virtual folders.

A computer implemented method comprises analyzing a plurality of attributes of a sample of online documents using a boosted decision tree and generating a model from it. The model is used to predict a click through rate (CTR) of an additional online document based on the analyzing. The predicted CTR is output to a display device, storage medium or network.

Collaborating on documents by e-mail may be streamlined into a unified process. In one example, a user creates a document in an online document service, and sends the document to collaborators by mailing a link to the document. The document may have permissions set so that the creator of the document, and any user on the e-mail distribution list, can read and edit the document. When a user receives the e-mail, that user may open and edit the document. Upon closing the editing application, the user may be presented with an appropriate interface to create a reply e-mail.

Methods, systems and program storage devices for generating search engine search results. Online files relevant to a requested search query are located by a search engine, while simultaneously previously accessed offline files residing on a client computer are located using the same search query. The search engine retrieves the offline files from the client computer and combines such offline files with the locate online files in a single search result overview. The listing of files within the combined search results are ranked according to relevancy to the search query using a search engine scoring algorithm, whereby the offline files within the combined search results are preferably brought to a user's attention to indicate that such files reside on the client computer.

Methods, systems and computer readable medium with program instructions for sharing documents with other users in an online document sharing session include identifying a set of documents to share with viewing users at a document sharing website. The set of documents may have been uploaded onto the document sharing website by a sharing user and selected for sharing in an online document sharing session. One or more viewing users are selected for sharing the documents of the online document sharing session and access information to access the identified documents are provided. The access provides uniform level of control to both the viewing users and the sharing user so as to interact and manage the documents in the online document sharing session. The viewing users and the sharing user access, view and interact with the documents equally and the interactions are gathered and propagated to all the viewing the sharing users in substantial real-time.

Documents from a data stream are clustered by first generating a feature vector for each document. A set of cluster centroids (e.g., feature vectors of their corresponding clusters) are retrieved from a memory based on the feature vector of the document and a relative age of each of the cluster centroids. The centroids may be retrieved by retrieving a set of cluster identifiers from a cluster table, the cluster identifiers each indicative of a respective cluster centroid, and retrieving the cluster centroids corresponding to the retrieved cluster identifiers from a memory. A list of cluster identifiers in the cluster table may be maintained based on the relative age of cluster centroids corresponding to the cluster identifiers. Cluster identifiers that correspond to cluster centroids with a relative age exceeding a predetermined threshold are periodically removed from the list of cluster identifiers.

Systems and methods for populating a database. An ontology is parsed to determine a plurality of keywords. A string-based search engine is utilized to perform a search of documents on a network based on the determined keywords, and at least one document is retrieved. A relation is established between the retrieved document and the ontology, and it is determined if the at least one document is to be stored in the database based on the established relation. If so, the document is stored in the database. The database can be used as part of a standalone or plug-in search engine for retrieving online documents.

The invention discloses a method, a device and a system for online document edition. The method, the device and the system are applied to a process in which one same document is edited by at least two terminals by virtue of a server online; the method comprises the steps that the server receiving document edition operation information sent by each terminal, the server detects whether an edition operation conflict is present according to the document edition operation information sent by each terminal, and when the server finds out the edition operation conflict, the server sends the edition operation conflict information to the terminal where the document is edited so as to notice the terminal where the document is edited of the occurrence of the edition operation conflict and to notice the terminal having the edition operation conflict of processing the edition operation conflict. By use of the method, the device and the system, a plurality of terminals are enabled to edit a same paragraph simultaneously, and therefore, the edition efficiency is improved on the basis of avoiding the edition conflict.

The invention discloses a method for sharing a document based on content difference comparison, and the method comprises the following steps: initializing a shared document at network user terminals; waiting for document content change; comparing the difference of the changed document and the unchanged content; carrying out lossless compression and sharing on the difference comparison result; receiving an update package by a browse terminal user from an operating terminal; and decompressing the update package and combining with the current document. The method can not only guarantee the completeness and timeliness of online document sharing but also greatly reduce the network bandwidth resource consumption caused by document sharing.

Managing file distribution in an online file sharing system implemented by at least one server includes inviting a first entity to access a shared file hosted by the online file sharing system, and allowing the first entity to reshare the shared file through the online file sharing system with at least a second entity only to an extent permitted by a resharing policy stored by the online file sharing system.

An online web-based document assembler and authoring software therefor. Authors build a library of stored document text using standard word processing software and using unique add-in software define a series of structured questions and input fields which in use are presented on web pages accessable to end users. End users requiring a document access a site containing the assembly software and by answering the questions posed and entering data unique to the document they are requesting cause a fished document to be assembled at the site which is subsequently made available to the end user in downloadable form or is emailed to an address of the user's choosing.