A method for facilitating display of content in a browser window includes receiving a user request for content, determining that the requested content cannot be displayed in a browser window using a single page, and generating code which, when executed, causes the display of the requested content to be divided into multiple frames. Each frame displays a portion of the requested content. The frames displayed in the browser window appear to the user as a single page containing the requested conten...

A document is divided into a plurality of regions so that each page has a meaning and, for each of the regions, there is generated a similarity table indicating a similarity degree and a data amount corresponding to the multiplexed resolution level data. By referencing this similarity table, each page of the electronic document in the region specified by the user is represented by a predetermined similarity (resolution) and at the reading speed specified by the user. Moreover, by referencing the...

A display system adapts a display page to a small display area using semantic information indicated by portions of the display page that are designated as cacheable. The display system adapts a display page by identifying leaf fragments, that is, fragments that contain no other fragments. The display system then determines whether each leaf fragment is a block that can be displayed as a unit in the display area or should be subdivided into blocks that each can be displayed as a unit in the displ...

Techniques for placing sequential or individual labels in an electronic image are disclosed. According to one embodiment, label parameters are determined. These label parameters may include, but not be limited to, label styles, fonts, sizes, or increments. As objects in the image are respectively identified, labels per the parameters are automatically generated and then placed upon or near the identified objects. A tracing line may be automatically added between a pair of an identified object an...

Disclosed is an information processing system having a print preview function for displaying a preview of the printed state of a document before the document is printed. If a double-sided printing function has been set by a user interface for setting various print functions for a document, a preview of front and back pages is displayed with the spacing between the front and back pages narrowed or the display positions thereof made different from each other in such a manner that pairs of front an...

A method of summarizing markup-type documents is provided to automatically summarize the documents more quickly as well as being suitable for providing a user with a reliable document quality through true summary to the documents. This method includes the steps of previously establishing weights of the tags, respectively, extracting at least one of the markup-type documents when a random user requests a document search using a specific keyword, computing weights for the respective elements of th...

The software according to the invention incorporates a glossary management tool that makes it easy for each client to customize terminology to the needs of a particular business. With this tool, termed a glossary manager, a company can customize a number of feature names in the system to provide a more familiar context for their users. A system administrator can also customize the manner in which "thumbnail" or "preview" images are presented. The system performs clustering on search queries, and...

Described is a mechanism for visually categorizing electronic notes so that important information within the notes can be easily discerned. More specifically, a user may request to categorize an object (i.e., a note) in a document that is being displayed on a screen. The request may be received through a menu selection, a short-key combination, an ink gesture, and the like. The request specifies which one of several visual indicators to apply to the object. When the visual indicator is applied, ...

When there are the same contents (content data) of a document among versions, the contents of the document are shared so as to reduce the storage area. Accordingly, instead of accumulating content data separately for each version, each version is related to the content data accumulated in the storage area shared among the versions. When a document .alpha. has versions 1 through 3 and each of versions 1 through 3 has sections 1 and 2, three sections 1 of the versions 1 through 3 share content dat...

Methods, systems, and products for displaying a help resource associated with a device on a remote display apparatus are provided. Some embodiments of methods, systems, and products for displaying a help resource associated with a device on a display apparatus include receiving, in a device, a help event created by a user engaging a help button installed on the device. In response to receiving the help event, typical embodiments include retrieving a help resource associated with the device, and ...