Data processing: presentation processing of document inventions 03/06

20060069982 - Click distance determination: An efficient determination of a click distance value is made for each document in a corpus of documents from data included in a locally-stored inverted index. The click distance is measurement of the number clicks or user navigations from a first document on the network to another document. Specialized words...

20060069981 - Data processing systems and methods for automatic entry of user data into an application program: Systems and methods are provided for the automatic entry of user data into an application program. In one implementation, a computer stores an embedded mark-up language document carrying user data and executes an application program. A graphical user interface displays a graphical representation of the embedded mark-up language document and...

20060069983 - Method and apparatus for utilizing an extensible markup language schema to define document parts for use in an electronic document: A method and apparatus are provided for utilizing an extensible markup language schema to define document parts for use in an electronic document. The method includes providing a glossary document accessible by one or more word processing application programs. The glossary document includes schema elements for defining one or more...

20060069984 - Method for performing a load-on-demand operation on assigned graphic objects in a computer operating environment: A method for performing a load-on-demand operation on assigned graphic objects allows a user to load a computer file without the assigned graphic objects to shorten the loading time of the computer file. The assigned graphic objects can be subsequently loaded by the user by activating an “assigned to” object....

20060069985 - Parsing extensible markup language (xml) data streams: Various features enable an XML data stream to be parsed without the need to build a hierarchical tree structure for the XML document....

20060069986 - Technical specification editor: The production of formal technical specification documents using a web-based interface is disclosed. The interface is used to identify one or more products, for example, lighting control systems that will be used in a construction. After receiving a selection of one or more products, a database is referenced to automatically...

20060069987 - Method, apparatus and computer-readable medium for managing specific types of content in an electronic document: A method, apparatus, and computer-readable medium are provided for managing specific types of content in an electronic document. A user interface is provided for displaying a specific type of content in a predefined area of and electronic document. The user interface includes a content region for receiving the specific type...

20060069988 - Methods and devices for printing graphical works: A method of printing a graphical work on a medium includes providing a file comprising the graphical work and at least one boundary associated with the graphical work. The graphical work and an indication of at least one of the boundaries are printed onto the medium....

20060069989 - Method and apparatus for utilizing an object model for managing content regions in an electronic document: A method and apparatus are provided for utilizing a document object model to manage content regions for use in an electronic document. A content region is a predefined area which may be inserted in an electronic document and which serves as a placeholder for receiving and displaying specific types of...

20060069990 - Method and computer-readable medium for previewing and performing actions on attachments to electronic mail messages: A method and computer-readable medium are provided for previewing and performing actions on attachments to electronic mail messages. A first window pane is displayed that includes a list of e-mail messages and information identifying any attachments to the e-mail messages. When an attachment is selected, a preview is generated for...

20060069991 - Pictorial and vocal representation of a multimedia document: A representation server comprises a parser for transforming a multimedia document into a pre-analyzed document describing elements of the multimedia document, modules for determining the background and form characteristics of the pre-analyzed document, and a central unit for selecting pictorial characteristics as a function of the background and form characteristics...

20060069992 - Method of managing the printing of characters and a printing device employing method: In a printing device storing a plurality of font files, at least a first font file storing glyph data corresponding to a first set of characters, characters of the first set being represented by double-byte words and at least a second font file storing glyph data corresponding to a second...

20060069993 - Method and system for multithread processing of spreadsheet chain calculations: Embodiments of the invention involve a method of concurrent processing of chain calculations using multiple processors each having a separate recalculation engine in a spreadsheet program. The operations basically include first determining a number of available processors, then allocating a recalculation engine to each available processor, distributing the formulas between...

20060069994 - Method for integrating drawings and supporting documents using graphic object interface: The Graphic Object Interface (GOI) integrates supporting documents with the drawings & specifications that they represent. This integration of often bulky and cumbersome information into a single system computer run program allows all individuals associated with the maintenance upkeep & troubleshooting of the equipment, building or other item to be...

20060069995 - Personalised process automation: A service-composition framework arranged to generate a personalised order process for a user seeking to fulfil a service goal by composing a process from a multiplicity of registered services, the framework comprising: a service engine configured to compose one or more services into an order for offering to a user,...

20060069996 - Fisheye viewer and wiggly icon: Users scanning listings of items are able to easily and quickly read each item in a list without actually leaving the list, as would be the case when following a regular hypertext link. The contents of each link are displayed in a separate, smaller viewing window that maintains a stable...

20060069997 - Device and method for processing information: A method for processing information includes steps of: classifying a plurality of files into a plurality of groups, and each group is represented by one or more displayable images; designating each group according to a hierarchy of the groups; displaying images of one or more groups in a same level...

20060069998 - User-interface application for media file management: A media management user-interface (UI) application that provides access to media items and media files and provides browsing and search capabilities for locating media items within media files. The UI application of the present invention relies on a hierarchical display of various levels or categories of media files and, as...

20060069999 - Image reproduction apparatus and image reproduction program product: An image reproduction apparatus that sequentially reproduces and displays a plurality of images, includes: a display effect setting unit that sets a display effect for each image based upon image data of the image stored in a storage means; and a display unit that reproduces and displays the image with...

20060070000 - Image display device and control method of the same: An image display device disclosed herein includes an image data storage in which plural image data are stored; a slide show displayer which performs a slide show display in which the image data are sequentially read from the image data storage and the image data are continuously displayed according to...

20060070001 - Computer assisted presentation authoring for multimedia venues: A system and method for optimizing the visual fidelity of a presentation for a plurality of audience members and a plurality of display devices, comprising: modeling the quality of view available to the plurality of audience members based on: one or more properties of the display devices, a distribution of...

20060070002 - Method and system to control operation of a portlet: A method to control a portlet associated with a portal page may include deactivating a selected portlet in response to operating a deactivation feature. The method may also include reactivating the selected portlet in response to operating a reactivation feature. The method may also include freezing a portlet content in...

20060070003 - Method and system for supporting communications within a virtual team environment: A collaboration services suite is adapted to support a plurality of integrated telecommunications services accessed by geographically dispersed team members using a virtual team environment (VTE) client that generates a graphical user interface (GUI) for each of the respective team members. Communications sessions are automatically set up by the collaboration...

20060070004 - System and method for unified navigation: A navigation structure is generated at runtime based upon the hierarchy of a site. The navigation structure includes the ability to author specific links throughout the structure. These specific links or child objects allow the navigation structure to be customized while maintaining site organization according to the hierarchy....

20060070005 - Editing the text of an arbitraty graphic via a hierarchical list: The present invention includes a graphics software program that automatically creates graphical content when a user creates or modifies a hierarchical list of content data and chooses from one of a plurality of graphical definition choices for the graphical elements. In addition, the present invention includes a user interface with...

20060070006 - Techniques for decoding and reconstructing media objects from a still visual representation: Techniques for creating an output media object based on a first visual representation and a second visual representation are provided. A first visual representation is received. The first visual representation is generated based on first information determined from an input media object. A second visual representation is also received. The...

20060070007 - Rich drag drop user interface: In an electronic file system, preview information is provided to the user during a drag operation of a selected object onto a target object. The information indicates what type(s) of action is to be taken should the selected object be dropped onto the target object. The action(s) to be taken...

20060070008 - Preserving browser window integrity: A method and system for preservation of browser window integrity is disclosed. The position and size of script-created windows is adjusted as necessary to preserve critical data on the computer screen prior to rendering those windows. Popup windows are similarly adjusted so that window integrity is preserved. Popup window size...

20060070009 - Key-controlled multi-level window activating method and interface: A key-controlled multi-level window activating method and interface is proposed, which is designed for use in conjunction with a window-based information platform for providing the user with a key-controlled multi-level window activating capability that allows the user to utilize keyboard keys, rather than mouse in the case of prior art,...

20060070010 - System status visualization method and system: Embodiments of the present invention relate to a system and method for system status visualization. In one embodiment in accordance with the present techniques, an operating system may comprise an expandable component tree graphic. The expandable component tree graphic may comprise a plurality of parent icons and a plurality of...

20060070011 - Display control device, image forming apparatus and display control method: A display control device comprises: an extractor for extracting candidates of a character sequence to be retrieved when at least a part of the character sequence to be retrieved is input; a display controller for displaying, on a display, the candidates of the character sequence to be retrieved extracted by...

20060070012 - Method and apparatus for enhanced browsing: A method and apparatus for enhanced browsing of electronic data (e.g., web pages, documents, electronic mail). When a first page is displayed in a browser, content identified by links to other pages is prefetched. If the page contains a list of links (e.g., search results), an enhanced browsing stripe is...

20060070013 - Method and system to drill down graphically: A method and system drill down graphically are disclosed. When a chart or a graph represents a plurality of data components, a user may wish to know more details about a particular component of the data presented in the graph. A method and system drill down graphically enables a user...

20060059414 - Common charting using shapes: A method for rendering a chart associated with a document includes translating a chart object into a shape-based chart definition, wherein the chart object defines the chart with chart elements, and the shape-based shape definition defines the chart with shapes, and maintaining the chart object in the document to enable...

20060059415 - Data processing system, control method therefor, document input apparatus, control method therefor, document managing apparatus, control method therefor, programs for implementing the control methods, and storage media storing the control programs: A data processing system that enables a plurality of users to share an input format for data on a document by document basis. In a document generating system as a data processing system, a plurality of multi-function devices 120 and a document managing server 100 are connected to each other...

20060059412 - Method for communicating structured information: The method for communicating structured information, for a example a report or an account, between a first user and at least one second user includes a step of defining a document standard, which determines the general frame of the document in the form of a series of titles and/or conventional...

20060059413 - Systems and methods for generating intellectual property: Systems and methods are disclosed for checking a document by identifying all nouns and noun phrases in a portion of the document; and checking that the first occurrence of each noun or noun phrases has proper antecedent basis....

20060059416 - Architecture and methodology of redirection for dynamic new url links: An architecture and methodology of redirection for dynamic new URL Links uses a first server device to get information flow content from a second server device. By inserting an application into the information flow content retrieved from the second server device, the first server device replaces the web objects, which...

20060059417 - Scenario-dependent evaluation formula: Software is disclosed that creates a way of controlling alterations to cell contents of a data flow network so they can easily be turned on and off as separate layers. These layers can then be grouped as scenarios. Scenarios allow different layers of formula changes to be easily added and...

20060059418 - Data insertion from a database into a fixed electronic template form that supports overflow data: One embodiment in accordance with the invention relates to inserting data (e.g., XML data) from a database into an electronic template form that includes a table. Furthermore, each table can expand to fit any amount of inserted data and can also expand onto additional pages. The additional pages may have...

20060059419 - Cube method of film notation: A system of motion picture notation uses standard data entry characters for symbols and formation, standard words for distinctive formations and distinctive placements, and standard word usage for distinctive placements—all to compose in a script the visual notes and audio notes that represent the cinguistic elements in any motion picture....

20060059422 - Desktop application implemented with web paradigm: A program module that serves as a dispatcher for client-side desktop applications that use web-based markup language as a graphic user interface to access both web resources and execute local functionalities is described. An embedded browser component within a desktop application allows the client computer to host markup language forms...

20060059420 - Document content analysis technology for reducing cognitive load: The present invention provides for analyzing document content for display with reduced cognitive load assists those who are blind, have low vision, or cognitive problems. This present invention also aids those who prefer to receive condensed information orally. Document content is analyzed, a set of salient words and phrases are...

20060059421 - Method and apparatus for data communication in a gaming system: In a method for configuring a first computing device to send or receive formatted data is provided, wherein the formatted data includes a plurality of formatting tags, an indication of a set of formatting tags recognized by a second computing device may be received via a network. A mapping of...

20060059423 - Apparatus, system, and method for creating customized workflow documentation: An apparatus, system, and method are provided for creating customized workflow documentation. The apparatus includes an interface module, a-content module, and an assembly module. The interface module gathers input from a user regarding the workflow to be documented. The content module gathers the required pre-defined content sections for the workflow...

20060059424 - Real-time data localization: A method, apparatus, and system are provided for performing a real-time or a near real-time localization of data. The method comprises monitoring an input string and comparing a semantic associated with the input string to a semantic associated with at least one stored string. The method further comprises providing the...

20060059425 - Method and apparatus for enabling a user to select hierarchically arranged data in a graphical user interface: A method of selecting options arranged in a hierarchy including a first level and at least one additional level is described. The method includes displaying a hierarchical-selection visual object. A selection action of the hierarchical-selection visual object may cause a display list, containing at least one hierarchy item and possibly...

20060059426 - Image processing apparatus, method, and program, and program storage medium: An image processing apparatus, method, and program and program storage medium that enable easy search for a desired part. A plurality of video data are created from video data and are displayed, each as a motion picture, at time intervals in a display order on a plurality of display areas...

20060059427 - Digital image albums: To better realize the great potential of amateur digital photography, the present invention introduces an integrated system for the acquisition, organization, manipulation, and publication of digital images by amateur digital photography enthusiasts. The system of the present invention first acquires images from a number of different image sources. Images acquired...

20060059428 - Method and system for presenting relationships: One aspect of the invention is a method for presenting relationships. An example of the method includes specifying a set of objects. This example also includes designating a root node of the set of objects. This example also includes selecting a first level object type for a first level. This...

20060059429 - Dynamic update of data entry in a user interface: A widget is incorporated into a user interface associated with a processing system to provide the user with a display of the entered data, together with any added text or other data modifications that result from application of a default format. The display thus enables the user to determine whether...

20060059430 - Palette-based color selection within a user interface theme: Methods and devices that enable the customization of colors in a user interface by using a palette to define colors. The palette includes strings that have color values assigned to them. The strings are referred to in style sheets where color attributes are specified, such that colors can be redefined...

20060059431 - Real-time collaborative graphics application and method for use on a computer network having a collaborative networking platform: A real-time collaborative graphics application and method (such as Microsoft® Visio®) that runs on top of a collaborative networking platform (such as Microsoft® ConferenceXP) and provides real-time collaboration. The real-time collaborative graphics application and method personalizes local objects created by a local to readily distinguish them from remote objects created...

20060059432 - User interface having viewing area with non-transparent and semi-transparent regions: Method and device for displaying, in a graphical user interface having overlapping viewing areas, a foreground viewing area having foreground viewing area content over a background viewing area having background viewing area content, including displaying the foreground viewing area with a non-transparent region that obscures any part of the background...

20060059433 - Active content wizard testing: Automated testing of active content wizards is provided. A test infrastructure (TI) accesses a list of ACW to test and controls an ACW runtime engine to execute the ACWs. During ACW execution, the TI interacts with the ACW runtime engine to inject simulated user information based upon test information stored...

20060059434 - System and method to capture and manage input values for automatic form fill: A system for automatically completing fields in online forms, such as login forms and new user registration forms, which employs a Master Cookie File containing sets of records associated with the user, his or her accounts or web sites, and registered values associated with form tags (e.g. username, password, address,...

20060059436 - Handling and scrolling of content on screen: The invention relates to a software application adapted for scrolling content on a screen in an application window. The software application includes at least two logically distinct scroll bars in one application window, each of the scroll bars providing scrolling functionality relative to the same orientation of the content and...

20060059435 - Node scrollers: Techniques employed in displays of graphs with large numbers of nodes for viewing details of an area of interest while preserving context. The techniques take advantage of parent-child and sibling relationships. Sibling nodes and children of sibling nodes are displayed in rows. The center of interest is at the center...

20060059437 - Interactive pointing guide: Maximizing the utilization of screen space by introducing an interactive pointing guide called the Sticky Push. The present interactive pointing guide (IPG) is a software graphical component, which can be implemented in computing devices to improve usability. The present interactive pointing guide has three characteristics: (1) it is interactive, (2)...

20060059438 - Optical reproducing apparatus and method capable of adjusting size of osd menu: An optical reproducing apparatus and method capable of adjusting a size of a menu view. An user input unit selects a predetermined menu view mode among a plurality of menu view modes displaying a standard menu view in different sizes. A storage stores an image information of the standard menu...

20060059439 - Constructing substantially equal-width pixel bar charts to enable visual data analysis: A graphical production system produces pixel bar charts, in various embodiments. In an embodiment, a pixel bar chart is constructed that may include multiple bars with substantially equal widths and potentially variable heights to enable visual data analysis. A bar may include a number of pixel units corresponding to a...

20060059440 - System for organization, display, and navigation of digital information: The present invention is a system and method for the organization, display, and navigation of digital information. The present system allows for the easy navigation of a primary source of information, as well as the navigation of secondary information related to the primary information source. The present system may be...

20060059441 - System and method for displaying a graphical tree hierarchy: A data processing system comprises a display device for displaying graphical information, a user interface device for receiving user input, and a processor communicating with the user interface for receiving the user input and communicating with the display device for controlling the output of the display device. The processor is...

20060059442 - Interactive document summarization: A real-time interactive document summarization system which allows the user to continuously control the amount of detail to be included in a document summary....

20060053363 - Graphically defining a formula for use within a spreadsheet program: A graphically defined formula is used within a spreadsheet implemented by a spreadsheet computer program by placing a reference to the graphically defined formula created by a tool. The reference is used to interface the spreadsheet computer program to an engine for evaluating the graphically defined formula. The graphically defined...

20060053365 - Method for creating custom annotated books: The invention relates generally shared annotation systems. More particularly, the invention provides a method for automatically navigating a document in a display having at least a first portion and a second portion, the method comprising: receiving an annotation related to the document, the annotation generated by a user at a...

20060053364 - System and method for arbitrary annotation of web pages copyright notice: The invention relates generally shared annotation systems. More particularly, the invention provides a method for automatically navigating a document in a display having at least a first portion and a second portion, the method comprising: receiving an annotation related to the document, the annotation generated by a user at a...

20060053368 - Conduit manager for occasionally-connected application server: Providing a framework for developing, deploying and managing sophisticated mobile solutions, with a simple Web-like programming model that integrates with existing enterprise components. Mobile applications may consist of a data model definition, user interface templates, a client side controller, which includes scripts that define actions, and, on the server side,...

20060053367 - Customization method and system for authoring web pages: A customization method and system enable a user to author or simulate one or more web pages flexibly and specially for an Internet appliance. The customization method and device provide the user with some predefined general devices and a plurality of capacities associated therewith. The user can acquire a customized...

20060053366 - Differencing and merging tree-structured documents: Differencing and merging tree-structured documents, such as extensible Markup Language (XML) documents, is disclosed. A differencing-and-merging system for tree-structured documents of one embodiment of the invention includes a difference processing unit and a merging processing unit. The differencing processing unit performs a difference operation on at least two tree-structured documents,...

20060053370 - Electronic album editing apparatus and control method therefor: An arrangement of images in an electronic document having multiple pages, such as an electronic album is disclosed. First, an image/images are arranged on each of the multiple pages in accordance with a first layout. When change of the number of image/images arranged on one page among the multiple pages...

20060053369 - System and method for managing template attributes: According to the invention, this invention redefines the concept of a template as a set of template attributes, such as font types and color schemes, that are accessed by document-generating applications to provide uniform functionality across an organization. The template attributes are stored and distributed throughout an organization in lieu...

20060053371 - Navigation and viewing in a multidimensional space: A display controller allows a user to control a base viewing location, a base viewing orientation, and a relative viewing orientation. The base viewing orientation and relative viewing orientation are combined to determine a desired viewing orientation. An aspect of a multidimensional space visible from the base viewing location along...

20060053372 - Systems and methods for teaching a person to interact with a computer program having a graphical user interface: Systems and methods are disclosed for teaching a person how to perform a task within a computer program with at least one graphical user interface object. A script is formulated that contains step-by-step instructions indicating to a person how to perform a task within a computer program through interacting with...

20060053374 - Localization of activity with respect to digital data: A system to perform localized activity with respect to digital data includes an interface component and an activity component. The interface component is configured to receive a marker location with respect to source digital data. The activity component is configured automatically to perform a parametrically-controlled activity with respect to the...

20060053373 - Method for adding interactivity to a recording: A user commands a recording device (10) to store a recording (71) on a removable recording medium (70). The user selectively adds interactivity to the recording (70). In response to any added interactivity, the recording device (10) links the recording (71) and an interactive module (72) that is based on...

20060053375 - Method and apparatus for a home network auto-tree builder: A method and system is provided for detecting, commanding and controlling diverse home devices currently connected to a home network. An interface is provided for accessing the home devices that are currently connected to a home network. According to the method, a device link file is generated, wherein the device...

20060053376 - Method and apparatus for managing a collection of portlets in a portal server: The invention provides apparatus and methodology for displaying to a user a web portal for a web application, the web portal displaying a plurality of associated portlets, sharing information with each other, accessible by the user; including: a portal server for operating a web portal to provide access to the...

20060053377 - Method and system for controlling presentation of information to a user based on the user's condition: A system for controlling presentation of information to a user based on the user's current condition. In particular, the system monitors the user and the user's environment, and creates and maintains an updated model of the current condition of the user. The user condition can include a variety of condition...

20060053378 - Mobile valet: Enhanced delivery of services are provided through a wireless mobile device and one or more location service channels, preferably at the direction of the user of the mobile device requesting the desired service through common context-based user interfaces. The mobile device communicates with local and remote service providers. The context...

20060053379 - Multimodal interface for mobile messaging: A system and method are directed towards providing a user interface for controlling a communication mode of a client device. The interface enables a user to set a presence and/or a communications mode, which the client device communicates to other devices directly or via an intermediary server. The presence generally...

20060053380 - Systems and methods for collaboration: In some embodiments, the disclosed systems and methods provide a client-server infrastructure capable of supporting a variety of asynchronous and synchronous collaboration activities in a so-called collaboration place. Some of these activities include chatting, viewing and/or editing one or more data files, and sharing one or more applications, data files,...

20060053381 - Floorplan manager: A method of generating a current user interface for an application includes receiving an indication of an event, obtaining a visual component for the current user interface based on the event, and building the current user interface using the visual component. The visual component is a constituent of the current...

20060053383 - Integrated method for creating a refreshable web query: The present invention allows a user to graphically create a refreshable Web Query by selecting tabular data displayed in a Web page. When the user invokes the refreshable Web Query command, an Internet browser module is launched within a Web Query dialog box open in the spreadsheet program. The user...

20060053382 - System and method for facilitating user interaction with multi-relational ontologies: The invention relates to a system and method for facilitating user interaction with multi-relational ontologies. The invention includes a graphical user interface for enabling user visualization and navigation through one or more multi-relational ontologies....

20060053384 - Customizable graphical user interface for utilizing local and network content: A graphical user interface for accessing, managing, organizing and using local and online content from a personal computer. The graphical user interface is divided into several modules, displayed on the display screen of the computer. Some of these modules are categories, which contain links to content online and on the...

20060053385 - Rearranging views on a computer screen: On a computer screen (3) various non-overlapping views (A, B, C, . . . ) or “windows” may be displayed simultaneously. To present the views more conveniently for a user, the views can be automatically rearranged in response to a single view (B) being moved by the user. Preferably, the...

20060053387 - Operation of a computer with touch screen interface: A touch screen computer executes an application. A method of operating the touch screen computer in response to a user is provided. A virtual input device is provided on the touch screen. The virtual input device comprises a plurality of virtual keys. It is detected that a user has touched...

20060053386 - System and method for inserting a graphic object in to a text based message: A system and method for selecting graphic objects to insert in a text message when composed on a wireless device, each of the graphic objects representing a set of individual alphanumeric characters. The system comprises an object table for display on a user interface of the device, such that the...

20060053389 - Graphical user interface for establishing data sharing relationships: Enhanced presentation techniques for modeling a connectivity universe associated with a particular user or device are provided. Example embodiments provide a WorldView Display System (a “WVDS”), which automatically organizes a user's online relationships with entities, such as devices, data collections, services, and people, and provides a user interface for accessing...

20060053388 - Manipulation of objects in a multi-dimensional representation of an on-line connectivity universe: Enhanced presentation techniques for modeling a connectivity universe associated with a particular user or device are provided. Example embodiments provide a WorldView Display System (a “WVDS”), which automatically organizes a user's online relationships with entities, such as devices, data collections, services, and people, and provides a user interface for accessing...

20060053390 - Configurable interface for template completion: Systems, methods and graphical user interfaces for creating interactive television applications are provided. A template author creates a template application and assigns placeholder objects do display elements. An episodic creator creates an episodic application by making changes to display elements associated with a presented placeholder object....

20060053391 - Method, apparatus, and computer-readable medium for key press determination: A system, method, and computer-readable medium having instructions for determining a key press from a current keyboard state at a current time is described. The system stores signals indicative of a last key press, a last key press time, and a last keyboard state. The system determines released keys and...

20060053392 - Multilevel sorting and displaying of contextual objects: An apparatus and method for displaying a plurality of icons on the display of a mobile terminal are provided. Icons are displayed in at least two different sections. The first section includes icons having sizes determined by comparing characteristics of associated messages to one or more context values, such as...

20060048042 - Individually personalized customized report document system with user feedback: A system and methodology is provided herein employing automated search, filtering, and automated document layout technologies conjoined with various delivery options to provide an end-to-end information push service. As such, it enables complete personalized custom report documents to be automatically created, thereby reducing cost in existing personalized document workflows, as...

20060048043 - Document management server: A document management server capable of transmitting to a client an electronic document in which linked information can be embedded, comprises a creation unit which creates an edited document by combining pages selected from the electronic document by the client; an addition unit which adds, to the edited document, linked...

20060048044 - Logical spreadsheets: A computerized spreadsheet system includes a set of cells and a separate set of logical constraints on the values of cells. The constraints may be many-to-many relationships that permit omni-directional propagation of values between cells. The constraints may be expressed in a language encompassing first-order logic. Cells are dynamically reclassified...

20060048045 - Systems and methods for efficiently generating table layouts using moveable items: An API is provided for positioning items in a table. The API allows a number of columns or a number of rows, or both, to be specified for a table. Any items to be placed in the table may be identified for the API. Items may be “moveable,” or not...

20060048046 - Marking and annotating electronic documents: A user can highlight text and provide accompanying annotations. Highlighted text, accompanying annotations, and time-stamp information are stored in a user profile that is maintained locally with a web browser, at the client side. A retrieved web page is presented to a user with annotations of some form, based upon...

20060048047 - Online annotation management system and method: An online annotation management system and method for creating annotations while browsing a web resource and managing the annotation information associated with corresponding web resources is disclosed. A computer-implemented method for enabling users to create annotations during an online session includes the steps of providing a switch module operable to...

20060048049 - Method and apparatus for self validating url links: A method, apparatus, and computer instructions for processing a set of links in a document. In response to receiving the document, the set of links in the document is displayed as being validated. The set of links are then processed to determine whether the links are valid or invalid. Whenever...

20060048050 - Method for providing both automated and on demand project performance measurements: A method and system for displaying and reporting project completion information of a large-scale project having a number of individual subprojects. A rollup agent is employed for acquiring project completion information from a number of subproject databases to provide overall project-wide display and reporting capabilities. The rollup agent collects and...

20060048048 - Systems and methods for supporting custom graphical representations in reporting software: Systems and methods for supporting custom report layouts allow features that may be available to supported report layouts to also be made available to custom layouts. A custom layout definition may first meet a set of report definition criteria so that it is recognizable to report processing software. A design...

20060048053 - Individually personalized customized report document system: A system and methodology is provided herein employing automated search, filtering, and automated document layout technologies conjoined with various delivery options to provide an end-to-end information push service. As such, it enables complete personalized custom report documents to be automatically created, thereby reducing cost in existing personalized document workflows, as...

20060048054 - Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and program: In an information processing apparatus for dynamically changing a container layout in accordance with inserted contents data, a user is made to understand a change of layout by explicitly displaying a change before and after the layout change, thereby improving the convenience for the user in layout correction. More specifically,...

20060048051 - Method for rendering formatted content on a mobile device: A method for transmitting formatted content to a mobile device having a small display screen comprises retrieving a page of formatted content, rendering the page as a graphic such as a JPEG that is sized for display on the small display screen, and transmitting the graphic to the requesting device...

20060048052 - System and method for automatic item relocating in a user interface layout: A layout including a plurality of items therein is instantiated on a display of a computing device. At least one of the items and the layout are changeable and may require relocation and/or resizing. Each item has a periphery and at least one of the items is defined to include...

20060048055 - Fault-tolerant romanized input method for non-roman characters: Fault-tolerant systems and methods to process and correct input spelling errors for non-Roman based languages such as Chinese, Japanese, and Korean (CJK) are disclosed. The method may be applied to a Chinese input method using pinyin. For example, the method may generally include receiving a pinyin input representing characters in...

20060048056 - Motion menu generation method and system: A motion menu generation method, implemented by a motion menu generation system. First, menu foreground elements are provided, and at least one still image is retrieved as an input of the motion menu generation system. Next, an animated image and animated image presentation data for presenting the animated image are...

20060048057 - System and method for automatic creation of device specific high definition material: There is provided herein a system and method for adapting high resolution input material to display specifications of a particular display device, thereby ensuring that the high quality of the input material is preserved as best as possible in the final video work. The instant invention is an improvement over...

20060048058 - System and method for electronic presentations: An electronic presentation system and method provides multiple display screens for presentation materials as well as permits dynamic annotations to presentation materials that do not permanently alter the presentation materials. In a multi-windowed display interface, a currently displayed slide or the next-to-display slide can be easily annotated or otherwise modified....

20060048059 - System and method for dynamically generating, maintaining, and growing an online social network: An on-line community/social network system and method for provide a novel technique that enables an on-line community system to obtain information necessary to provide additional and more robust features to its users, solely from the user's participation in the community, and without requiring the users to do anything else (i.e.,...

20060048060 - Intelligent personalization based on usage analysis: The present system provides a computer interface manager that allows the user to intelligently customize their personal interface with a computer application. The present invention provides an interface engine that enacts a plurality of algorithms that prompt and guide the user through the customization process. The interface management algorithms provide...

20060048061 - Systems, methods, and media for updating an instant messaging system: Systems, methods and media for updating an instant messaging system on a network are disclosed. More particularly, hardware and/or software for updating status indicators such as ‘away’ messages of an instant messaging system are disclosed. Embodiments include determining that a change in status of the user has occurred and automatically...

20060048062 - Software and method providing graphic user interface for graphics adapter configuration: A graphical user interface has a drag-and-drop region used to activate one or more display devices interconnected with a graphics adapter. Display devices interconnected with a graphic adapter may be activated by a user dragging-and-dropping icons representing the display devices. If multiple adapter configurations reflecting icons as dragged-and-dropped are allowed,...

20060048064 - Ambient display of data in a user interface: An ambient display of data in a user interface is described. In an implementation, a method includes generating a first representation of a plurality of events for output in a user interface. A second representation of one or more additional events is generated such that a change made in a...

20060048063 - Design request form: A design request form comprises a style selection portion having a plurality of user-selectable design styles from which one or more design styles suited to a product, business or service of a potential advertiser in a telephone directory are selectable by a sales representative. The style selection portion provides a...

20060048065 - Event handling system: The present invention is an event handling system executed in a computer with a Windows operating system. Event setup codes are used to setup which system events and application events are needed to be monitored, and to setup to use one of colors of a full-color notifying light corresponding to...

20060048066 - System for digital network communications in public places: An improvement to electronic displays of information in public places such as transportation terminals and retail stores. The system includes combinations of fixed display screens as well as personal devices such as portable computers communicating via radio networks and portable telephones communicating via telephone messaging protocols. The radio broadcasts to...

20060048067 - System and method for increasing the available workspace of a graphical user interface: An improved system and method for increasing the available workspace of a graphical user interface by providing reduced opacity of an element in the graphical user interface to make the workspace beneath the semi-transparent element visible. Later, the semi-transparent element may be made opaque again for better visibility to a...

20060048069 - Display apparatus and method for displaying screen where dragging and dropping of object can be executed and program stored in computer-readable storage medium: In the present invention, a user allows a computer to execute application software to display an object on a display and to move the object by dragging and dropping it using a pointing device, thus providing instructions of insertion or replacement of the displayed object. When the user drags and...

20060048068 - Method and system to facilitate access to a user interface element on a user interface: A method, to facilitate access to a user interface element on a user, includes receiving a first selection of a user interface element from a user interface control on the user interface and, based on the first selection, regenerating a retrieval content area on the user interface. The retrieval content...

20060048070 - Operator interface system for a touch screen device: The invention comprises, in one form thereof, an operator interface system for a touch screen device having a simplified graphic interface. The operator interface system includes a start screen having fewer than five start screen buttons. The touch screen device is generally a kiosk located within a store. A store...

20060048071 - Scrolling web pages using direct interaction: Aspects of the present invention provide a system and method for scrolling or dragging information on a display. A panning tool is provided that may scroll information, such as a web page, on a display in tandem with movement of a cursor. If interactive elements are present on the page...

20060048072 - Scrolling web pages using direct interaction: Aspects of the present invention provide a system and method for scrolling or dragging information on a display. A panning tool is provided that may scroll information, such as a web page, on a display in tandem with movement of a cursor. If interactive elements are present on the page...

20060048073 - Scrolling web pages using direct interaction: Aspects of the present invention provide a system and method for scrolling or dragging information on a display. A panning tool is provided that may scroll information, such as a web page, on a display in tandem with movement of a cursor. If interactive elements are present on the page...

20060048074 - Method and apparatus for managing a selection list: A computer implemented method and apparatus for managing a selection list include accessing previous entries in the history log for a particular field and displaying such entries in a selection list pull-down menu. A determination is made whether the selection is related to other recently made selections. Items from the...

20060048075 - Tear-away topology views: Enabling users to select a subset of elements represented by a rendered topology view, and in response, a new view comprising the selected elements is automatically created. Preferred embodiments render this subset view, referred to herein as a “tear-away view”, alongside the topology view from which the elements were selected,...

20060048076 - User interface having a carousel view: A carousel view is described. In an implementation, a method includes determining a number of items that are included in data. A carousel is then generated for output in a user interface. The carousel has a plurality of bins, each of which representing a corresponding one of the items. The...

20060048077 - Method, system, program product and user interface for displaying a topology: An improved solution for displaying a topology. A user can selectively adjust a baseline that is used to alter the emphasis of one or more topologic items for the topology. In response to an adjusted baseline, more or fewer topologic items can be displayed at full emphasis and/or de-emphasized. As...

20060048078 - Handheld electronic device providing visual indication of input routine, and associated method: An improved handheld electronic device and an associated method provide a visual indication that a particular input routine from among a plurality of input routines is active on the handheld electronic device. The visual indication of the active input routine can be provided as a visual depiction on a display...