David R Stork, 675255 Clayton Rd, Concord, CA 94521

6457026, Sep 24, 2002

Sep 13, 2000

09/661184

Jamey Graham - Los Altos CA
David G. Stork - Portola Valley CA

Ricoh Company, Ltd. - Tokyo
Ricoh Corporation - Menlo Park CA

G06F 1721

707512, 707 3, 7075011

An automatic reading assistance application for documents available in electronic form. An automatic annotator is provided which finds concepts of interest and keywords. The operation of the annotator is personalizable for a particular user. The annotator is also capable of improving its performance overtime by both automatic and manual feedback. The annotator is usable with any electronic document. Another available feature is a thumbnail image of all or part of a multi-page document wherein a currently displayed section of the document is highlighted in the thumbnail image. Movement of the highlighted area in the thumbnail image is then synchronized with scrolling through the document.

6492981, Dec 10, 2002

Nov 21, 2000

09/721045

David G. Stork - Portola Valley CA
Michael Angelo - Redwood City CA
Gregory J. Wolff - Mountain View CA

Ricoh Company, Ltd. - Tokyo

G09G 500

345179, 178 1901, 702150

One embodiment of the writing instrument described herein comprises a pen-like device containing three accelerometers and three gyroscopes. Data from these sensors are processed via an Euler transform. Prior to using the writing instrument, the user holds the writing instrument in multiple predefined positions and sensor readings are taken. The sensor readings are mapped to the corresponding predefined positions. In addition, the sensor readings are compared to expected sensor readings to compensate for environmental variations such as altitude or temperature as well as for the possible tilt of a writing surface. The sensor readings are interpolated to map sensor readings other than those at the predefined positions to other writing instrument positions. When the user writes with the writing instrument, sensor outputs are used to track the writing instrument to define strokes made by the user. The data describing the strokes may be stored or processed to accomplish a variety of tasks including faxing a message, recording information, etc.

6574375, Jun 3, 2003

Mar 12, 1996

08/614913

John F. Cullen - Mountain View CA
David G. Stork - Stanford CA
Peter Hart - Menlo Park CA
Koichi Ejiri - Chiba-Ken, JP

Ricoh Company, Ltd. - Tokyo
Ricoh Corporation - Menlo Park CA

G06K 932

382290, 382288

A method and apparatus for detecting proper page orientation of a scanned document image. The document is subdivided into a series of word boxes. The number of ascending and descending text characters within the word can then be compared with the number expected for a properly oriented document to verify page orientation.

6804659, Oct 12, 2004

Jan 14, 2000

09/483092

Jamey Graham - Menlo Park CA
David G. Stork - Portola Valley CA

Ricoh Company Ltd. - Tokyo

G06F 1760

705 14

According to the present invention, an internet target marketing system, method and computer program for distributing online advertising to viewers based upon the viewers interests is provided. Specific embodiments according to the present invention can use an n-way matching of users concepts of interest, advertisers concepts and a currently viewed document to target advertising to the view of the current document. Some embodiments can generate a contextually sensitive advertisement for each page viewed in a browser, thereby associating an advertisement with every page in a document. Specific embodiments can associate advertising with documents that are substantially free of embedded advertisements, for example. Alternative embodiments can include embedded advertising, however.

6879967, Apr 12, 2005

Mar 24, 2000

09/534950

David G. Stork - Portola Valley CA, US

Ricoh Co., Ltd. - Tokyo

G06N005/00

706 12, 706 45

A method and apparatus for open data collection is provided. The method of machine learning comprises setting up a system for learning, the system having certain goals. The method further comprising presenting queries to non-expert netizens over a network, the netizens participating in the training process. Then, based on responses to the queries, the method continually updating the system and refining the queries.

7120699, Oct 10, 2006

Sep 20, 2001

09/958000

David G. Stork - Portola Valley CA, US
Robert van Glabbeek - Portola Valley CA, US

Ricoh Company, Ltd. - Tokyo

G06F 15/173
G06F 9/44

709239, 717104

The document controlled workflow techniques are provided that can be represented by refinable Petri nets. A document may contain a control code that indicates to the document controlled workflow system to implement specified operations (i. e. , functions) at a refinable place. The operations implemented at the refinable place are determined by the control code in the document. An author of the document can customize a document controlled workflow system of the present invention by entering a control code into a document that triggers the implementation of operations customized to that particular document at a refinable place in the document workflow system. The operations specified by a control code in a document can be represented by a refinement network.

7124093, Oct 17, 2006

Sep 7, 2004

10/936782

Jamey Graham - San Jose CA, US
David G. Stork - Portola Valley CA, US
Chuck Lam - San Francisco CA, US

Ricoh Company, Ltd. - Tokyo

G06F 17/60
G06Q 30/00

705 14

An internet target marketing system, method, and computer program for distributing online advertising to viewers based upon the viewers' interests is provided. Specific embodiments according to the present invention can use an n-way matching of user's concepts of interest, advertiser's concepts and a currently viewed document to target advertising to the view of the current document. Some embodiments can generate a contextually sensitive advertisement for each page viewed in a browser, thereby associating an advertisement with every page in a document. Specific embodiments can associate advertising with documents that are substantially free of embedded advertisements, for example. Alternative embodiments can include embedded advertising.

7356611, Apr 8, 2008

Jan 18, 2002

10/054749

David G. Stork - Portola Valley CA, US
Robert Jan van Glabbeek - Portola Valley CA, US
Stephen Savitzky - San Jose CA, US

Ricoh Company, Ltd. - Tokyo

G06F 15/16

709239, 717104

Techniques for designing and processing a workflow that can be refined or modified based upon information associated with a document processed by the workflow. Since the author of the document may configure the information associated with a document that is used to determine if a workflow is to be modified, the present invention enables a document author, in addition to the workflow designer, to control processing of a document in a workflow. The documents themselves specify portions of the overall processing within a workflow net. Permissions information may be specified for the workflow and for the documents. The permissions information may specify which documents can modify the workflow, the manner in which the workflow is modified, and which documents can be processed according to the modified workflow.