An apparatus and method for processing a Web page is disclosed. A Web processing unit receives a first Web page from a Web server and displays the first Web page on a screen. The Web processing unit acquires a communication program identified by the first Web page. An external state is monitored and thereby operation information responsive to the external state is generated. The Web processing unit executes the communication program to change the first Web page displayed on the screen to a secon...

Methods and Systems in accordance with the present invention provide a file format for storing spreadsheets compactly on PDAs. PDAs only contain a limited amount of computer memory due to their small size and processing ability. To reduce memory constraints caused by PDA spreadsheet applications, the present invention reduces memory allocated for file storage by optimizing the compression of individual spreadsheet files within a database record storage system. This method and system in accordanc...

In message retrieval, a system is provided wherein both a message to be retrieved and a message related to the original message are acquired as a result of retrieval. The original message read from a DB 101 and displayed on a user's PC 108 by a message display section 103 is given to a response generating section 104. When a response message to the message is input by the user, and an instruction is given to the response generating section 104, a response message file is created, its file name i...

An application server executes voice-enabled web applications by runtime execution of extensible markup language (XML) documents that define the voice-enabled web application to be executed. The application server includes a hypertext markup language (HTML) conversion module configured for translating information present during runtime execution of an XML document into an HTML document. The system converts the XML document into an HTML document in a manner that is reversible, where all the infor...

A method (and system) for compressing an extensible markup language (XML) document, includes compressing an XML document such that information in a markup portion therein is maintained in a compressed form to allow the document to be reconstructed. During the compressing, the markup portion and a non-markup portion of the document are separated, and the non-markup component is compressed using a first compression method and the markup component is compressed using a second compression method.

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 desi...

To efficiently search an evaluation result of a plurality of XPath expressions with respect to a data file such as an XML document: an evaluation result of an XPath expression is obtained by generating a data structure with a redundant element by evaluating what common part or dependency has been omitted from a plurality of XPath expressions to be evaluated, and then the data structure is used with respect to a data file to be processed.

A method for mapping a DICOM document into a UML document is disclosed and claimed by this invention. The method includes mapping each DICOM Information Entity in the DICOM document into a corresponding UML class in the UML document, mapping each DICOM IOD Module in the DICOM document into a corresponding UML class in the UML document, mapping each DICOM Macro in the DICOM document into a corresponding UML class in the UML document, and mapping each DICOM Attribute in the DICOM document into a c...

Various embodiments include a means for simultaneously displaying in an ebook both an ebook page number and its corresponding print version page number.

The encoding and distribution of schema for multimedia content descriptions are described. Before the schema is sent to a system for use, it is encoded by assigning a first token for each component in the schema and a second token for each attribute of each component. In one aspect, a signifier is sent first to signal that the schema is to be sent in a particular format. In one aspect, the schema is sent as a whole entity first. In another aspect, some of the components of the schema are sent fi...