System for creating structured fields on electronic forms
    1.
    发明授权
    System for creating structured fields on electronic forms 失效
    在电子表格上创建结构化领域的系统

    公开(公告)号:US6137488A

    公开(公告)日:2000-10-24

    申请号:US124565

    申请日:1998-07-29

    摘要: A computer system enables a user to conveniently fill-out, configure, and submit a structure of interrelated data fields, where the order and type of linking between the fields is user selected. A graphical user interface presents a field template having one or more data fields. The user may extend the electronic form by selecting an expand form field; in response to selection of the expand field, the user interface adds a second field template and a connective field to the display. This second template, like the first, includes one or more data fields. Using a connective field, the user identifies a logical relationship between the first field template and the second field template. For instance, the user may select from Boolean or other connective terms to construct a form having a complex format of interrelated fields. As each new field template is added with its corresponding connective field, the user interface also presents a nesting icon, allowing the user to establish a logical hierarchy between the various field templates.

    摘要翻译: 计算机系统使得用户能够方便地填写,配置和提交相关数据字段的结构,其中字段之间的链接的顺序和类型被用户选择。 图形用户界面呈现具有一个或多个数据字段的字段模板。 用户可以通过选择展开表单字段来扩展电子表单; 响应于扩展字段的选择,用户界面向显示器添加第二字段模板和连接字段。 第二个模板,如第一个模板,包含一个或多个数据字段。 使用连接字段,用户识别第一个字段模板和第二个字段模板之间的逻辑关系。 例如,用户可以从布尔或其他连接术语中选择构造具有相关字段的复杂格式的形式。 当每个新的字段模板添加其对应的连接字段时,用户界面还呈现嵌套图标,允许用户在各种字段模板之间建立逻辑层次结构。

    System for directly accessing fields on electronic forms
    2.
    发明授权
    System for directly accessing fields on electronic forms 失效
    直接访问电子表格领域的系统

    公开(公告)号:US6084585A

    公开(公告)日:2000-07-04

    申请号:US124635

    申请日:1998-07-29

    CPC分类号: G06F17/243 G06F3/04895

    摘要: A computer system provides a graphical user interface (GUI) to assist a user in completing electronic forms. The computer includes components such as a processor, user interface, and video display. Using the video display, the processor presents a row entry template including a menu field and an associated data field. The user completes the menu field by selecting a desired menu entry from a list of predefined menu entries. The user completes the data field by entering data into the data field. This format is especially useful when the data entry provides data categorized by the menu entry, explains the menu entry, or otherwise pertains to the menu entry. Each time the GUI detects activation of a form expand key, it presents an additional row entry template for completion by the user. Upon selection of a submit key, data of the completed form is sent to a predefined destination, such as a linked list, table, database, or another computer. Thus, by planned selection of menu entries, the user can limit his/her completion of an electronic form to blanks applicable to that user, avoiding the others. Nonetheless, the form can be easily expanded row by row to accommodate as many different blanks as the user wishes to complete. The invention may be implemented by a host sending a remote computer machine-executable instructions which the remote computer executes to provide the GUI, where the remote computer ultimately returns the completed form data to the host.

    摘要翻译: 计算机系统提供图形用户界面(GUI)以帮助用户完成电子表单。 计算机包括诸如处理器,用户接口和视频显示器的组件。 使用视频显示器,处理器呈现包括菜单字段和相关联的数据字段的行条目模板。 用户通过从预定义菜单条目的列表中选择所需的菜单条目来完成菜单字段。 用户通过将数据输入数据字段来完成数据字段。 当数据条目提供由菜单条目分类的数据,解释菜单条目或与菜单项相关时,此格式特别有用。 每次GUI检测到表单展开键的激活时,它会显示一个附加的行条目模板,供用户完成。 在选择提交密钥时,将完成的表单的数据发送到预定义的目的地,诸如链表,表,数据库或另一计算机。 因此,通过计划选择菜单条目,用户可以将其完成的电子表格限制为适用于该用户的空白,避免其他用户。 尽管如此,该表单可以容易地逐行扩展,以容纳与用户希望完成的许多不同的空白。 本发明可以由主机发送远程计算机执行以提供GUI的远程计算机机器可执行指令来实现,其中远程计算机最终将完成的表单数据返回给主机。

    Active calendar system
    3.
    发明授权
    Active calendar system 失效
    活动日历系统

    公开(公告)号:US06480830B1

    公开(公告)日:2002-11-12

    申请号:US09049661

    申请日:1998-03-27

    IPC分类号: G06F1700

    CPC分类号: G06Q10/109 G06Q10/1095

    摘要: An “active” calendar automatically analyzes a user's calendar entries and sends machine-readable messages to destinations appropriate to content of the calendar entry. A group of event categories is established, each category specifying one class of anticipated calendar entry. An action rule database pre-associates each event category with one or more message formats each having a content and a destination. The action rule database also contains data identifying sources containing the content and destination for each message format. These sources include records of the action rule database itself, subparts of calendar entries of the pre-associated event category, one or more other databases, or a combination of the foregoing. After the calendar receives a user-submitted computer calendar entry describing a planned event, it identifies one of the event categories of the established group that classifies the planned event. For each message format pre-associated with the identified event category, the calendar determines the content and destination for the message as specified by the action rule database, and transmits the message to the destination.

    摘要翻译: “活动”日历自动分析用户的日历条目,并将机器可读消息发送到适合日历条目内容的目的地。 建立一组事件类别,每个类别指定一类预期的日历项。 动作规则数据库将每个事件类别与每个具有内容和目的地的一个或多个消息格式相关联。 动作规则数据库还包含标识每个消息格式的内容和目标的源的数据。 这些来源包括动作规则数据库本身的记录,预关联事件类别的日历条目的子部分,一个或多个其他数据库或前述的组合。 在日历接收到描述计划事件的用户提交的计算机日历条目之后,它识别为计划事件分类的已建立组的事件类别之一。 对于与识别的事件类别预先关联的每个消息格式,日历确定由动作规则数据库指定的消息的内容和目的地,并将该消息发送到目的地。

    Programming aid for enabling a computer program in source code form to
be viewed using a general purpose document browser
    4.
    发明授权
    Programming aid for enabling a computer program in source code form to be viewed using a general purpose document browser 失效
    使用通用文档浏览器查看源代码形式的计算机程序的编程辅助

    公开(公告)号:US5940615A

    公开(公告)日:1999-08-17

    申请号:US799815

    申请日:1997-02-13

    IPC分类号: G06F9/06 G06F9/44 G06F9/445

    CPC分类号: G06F8/33

    摘要: Disclosed is a programming aid for enabling a computer program in source code form to be viewed using a general purpose document browser, which browser is responsive to a defined set of control tags determining the appearance of a document thereon, the programming aid comprising: a parser for generating a symbol table from an input file in which the program is stored; means to derive control tag locations from the symbol table; and an output file generator for inserting control tags into the program at the derived locations to generate an output file which can be viewed using the general purpose document browser. In this way, the full power of available general purpose document browsers may be used in software development and maintenance to view programs in a convenient way. A tool is provided that automatically marks up a program with control tags so that users are free to use the document browser of their choice as a powerful program browser.

    摘要翻译: 公开了一种用于使得能够使用通用文档浏览器来查看源代码形式的计算机程序的编程辅助装置,该通用文档浏览器响应于确定其上的文档外观的一组定义的控制标签,编程辅助装置包括:解析器 用于从存储该程序的输入文件生成符号表; 用于从符号表导出控制标签位置的装置; 以及输出文件生成器,用于在导出的位置处将控制标签插入到程序中,以生成可以使用通用文档浏览器来查看的输出文件。 这样,可用的通用文档浏览器的全部功能可以用于软件开发和维护,以方便的方式查看程序。 提供了一种工具,可以使用控件标签自动标记程序,以便用户可以自由使用他们选择的文档浏览器作为强大的程序浏览器。