Starfish Software, Inc.

Nokia Corporation

Adobe, Inc.

Borland International, Inc.

Rae Technology Inc.

Martin Frid-Nielsen

Steven Ray Boye

Richard Lee Schwartz

Samir Arora

Gagan Arora

Clement Mok

Rajagopal Lakshminarayan

Gregory Brown

Bernard Desarnauts

David Kleinberg

A method and apparatus for a structure editor implementing a 'top-down' approach to designing a Web page. The user uses a 'drag and drop' interface to add, delete, and move display elements to define the hierarchy of the site and to define the layout of each page in the site. The present invention automatically generates a layout for each page. This layout contains display elements that represent the links between pages of the site. The present invention automatically adds, removes, and deletes the appropriate links between the pages of the site as the user moves display elements. After the user has defined the hierarchy of the site and the layout of each page in the site, the user &#x201c;publishes&#x201d; the site. The publish function automatically generates HTML for each page of the site in accordance with the display elements of each page, yielding true WYSIWYG pages for the site.

Hierarchical drag and drop structure editor for web sites

A system for processing multiple schedules, constructed in accordance with the principle of the present invention, includes an information processing system having a memory and a processor; an input device for entering user information; a display device for showing scheduling information; an interface for sending and/or receiving information from another source; and the processor enabling reconciling two schedules by building synchronized lists, from which the user may effect a reconciliation.

System and method for appointment reconciliation

A method and apparatus that a user to specify &ldquo;master borders&rdquo; that are normally a part of each web page on a web site. A preferred embodiment of the present invention allows the user to define the size of top, left, right, and bottom margins for each master border. The master borders are used for each page on the web site, unless the user chooses not to use the default master border on a particular page. Each master border has display elements defined therein. Initially, all pages in a site have the same master border. The master border for each page may be changed by the user. Changes to a master border, such as the addition of display elements to a master border on one page, are reflected in all pages using the master border. The user can also, for each page, specify whether one or more margins of the master borders is implemented as an HTML frame. The editor generates an HTML table representing each web page (or each frame of the web page). The user can chose to have HTML for the master borders generated as frames, overlapped in a user-defined manner.

Method and apparatus for implementing web pages having master borders

A system for processing multiple schedules, constructed in accordance with the principle of the present invention, includes an information processing system having a memory and a processor; an input device for entering user information; a display device for showing scheduling information; an interface for sending and/or receiving information from another source; and means for reconciling two schedules by building synchronized lists, from which the user may effect a reconciliation.

System and methods for appointment reconcilation

A user interface technique for applying attributes to screen objects. The user selects a screen object, and causes the display of a dialog box for changing an attribute of the screen object. The dialog box includes an attribute palette or other controls used for setting attributes, as known in the art, but also includes a sample box in which a replica of the selected screen object (or a portion thereof) is displayed. The user then takes the actions necessary to select the desired attribute, in response to which the replica in the sample box is updated with the desired attribute. Once the user is satisfied with this previewed result, the user can accept the changes by clicking in the 'OK' button or reject the changes by clicking in the 'Cancel' button.

Technique for assisting a user in setting attributes of selected screen

A method for reconciling multiple schedules having time slots on a computer system including a processing unit, system memory, display device, and input device. An interval is selected which is common to the schedules and derived schedules are created for each schedule using the common interval. The derived schedules are then synchronized by matching like time slots of the derived schedules. Empty time slots are inserted into each derived schedule to correspond to time slots in the schedules that conflict. The resulting schedules are displayed on the display device for user reconciliation.

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Martin Frid-Nielsen