| Patent application number | Description | Published |
| 20080263518 | SOFTWARE DOCUMENTATION MANAGER - A computer-implementable method and system for managing software code documentation is disclosed. The method receives computer software code and documentation selected by a user and inserts one or more association keys in the selected code and one or more association keys in the selected documentation. The association keys are used to identify a portion of computer software documentation that corresponds with the computer software code. When the user wants to see documentation for a section of code, or code that corresponds to a section of documentation, the user selects the relevant text. The method receives the selected text, retrieves the association keys inserted in the selected text, determines whether the selected text is code or documentation, searches for documentation or code with matching association keys and alters the display of the matching documentation or code. | 10-23-2008 |
| 20080294482 | Personalized Electronic Meeting Invitations - Personalized meeting invitations, which may be used by electronic calendar applications (which may also be referred to as “calendar applications”, “calendaring applications”, or “calendar scheduling systems”). Using techniques disclosed herein, a meeting can be conceptually viewed as multiple smaller meetings, which are also referred to herein as “submeetings”, and a personalized meeting invitation sent to each invitee reflects that invitee's required presence at the meeting or an individual submeeting thereof. Optionally, personalized meeting invitations may also be used for invitees whose presence at a submeeting is optional. When an invitee accepts a personalized meeting invitation, the submeeting is placed on the invitee's electronic calendar, showing the invitee as unavailable during the corresponding time slot for the submeeting. Other people viewing the invitee's calendar can then see an accurate view of the invitee's availability. | 11-27-2008 |
| 20080294999 | Electronic Calendar Collaboration - Meeting originators grant permission to update (i.e., add, change, and/or delete) a field or fields of a meeting invitation that corresponds to a calendar entry on an electronic calendar, enabling a meeting invitee to update a meeting invitation and to thereby communicate updates that can be reflected in the corresponding electronic calendar entries of other people who are invited to the meeting. Update permission may be granted to one meeting invitee, to all meeting invitees, or to a selected subset of the meeting invitees. Update permissions are associated with the particular meeting invitation, and preferably expire once the meeting time and date have passed. For recurring meetings, a particular update permission may be granted for a single instance of the meeting, or to all instances, and this permission preferably expires after the last instance of the recurring meeting has ended. | 11-27-2008 |
| 20090094580 | DISPLAYING COMMENT STATISTICS INFORMATION - A system, method and program product for statistically analyzing comments in one or more program code listings. A system is disclosed that includes a process for associating comments to blocks of code at different programmatic levels in a code listing; a process for assigning weights to different code blocks, and a process for generating a statistical analysis at the different programmatic levels of the comments in the code listing. | 04-09-2009 |
| 20090157466 | APPARATUS, SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR APPOINTMENT SCHEDULING - An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for scheduling appointments. Appointment requests are received via a communication service, calendar information corresponding to the proposed appointment time and day is retrieved from a calendaring system and displayed to the user without requiring the user to open the calendaring application. The appointment can be accepted, confirmed, and recorded without opening the calendaring application. Multiple appointment times and days can be proposed and accepted among several meeting attendees. Temporary blocks may be placed on proposed and accepted calendar time slots until a finalized appointment time is negotiated and accepted. | 06-18-2009 |
| 20090259932 | USER-SELECTABLE HIDE OPTION FOR A USER INTERFACE, WHICH IS NOT PERSISTED, AND WHICH IS NOT DEPENDENT UPON INTRA-DOCUMENT CONTROLS - A stored document of a persistent data store can include digitally encoded content. A version of the stored document can be created that is placed in a non-persistent memory. This version can be referred to as a rendered document. Content from the rendered document can be presented in a user interface. A user selection of a user defined portion of the presented content can be received. Additionally, a user issued command to hide the selected portion of the presented content can be received. The rendered document can be responsively changed to omit the user defined portion of the presented content when outputting the presented content to at least one output device. The changing of the rendered document to omit the user defined portion is unable to affect the stored document in any fashion. | 10-15-2009 |
| 20110145339 | RECLAIMING LOST INTERNET CUSTOMERS - A system and method of reclaiming lost Internet customers may involve detecting an outage condition associated with a host of an electronic commerce (e-commerce) web site. Customer data can be extracted from packets destined for the host, wherein the packets could be associated with transactions between customers and the web site. The extracted customer data may be stored and, upon detecting a resolution of the outage condition, a customer database can be searched based on the extracted customer data in order to identify customer contact information. A customer reclamation message may then be sent to the customer, wherein the message can incentivize the customer to return to the web site and request completion of the transaction. | 06-16-2011 |
| 20120005114 | CUSTOMIZED REVIEW SYSTEM AND METHOD - A method for providing a customized review may include receiving, by a processing device, a request for a customized review for a product or service from a requester. The method may also include receiving, by the processing device, a consumer profile associated with the request from the requester. The method may additionally include receiving, by the processing device, at least one review for the product or service and an associated profile for a provider of each review. The consumer profile associated with the request may be compared by the processing device to the profile associated with each review for the product or service. The method may further include providing, by the processing device, the customized review to the requester. The customized review may include any reviews by review providers with profiles that substantially match the consumer profile associated with the request. | 01-05-2012 |