Data processing: presentation processing of document inventions 05/06

20060112324 - Method and apparatus for creating printed documents and internet web pages: Embodiments of the invention provide a system, computer program product and method for creating printed documents and Web pages. A user interface is provided. Through the user interface a first user can select from among a plurality of document templates; complete each of the selected document templates simultaneously, and view...

20060112322 - Method for aligning demonstrated user actions with existing documentation: There is provided an apparatus for aligning document actions specified in a documented procedure with demonstrated user actions. The apparatus includes an alignment device for computing an alignment between the document actions and the demonstrated user actions based on at least one similarity metric....

20060112323 - Method, system, and storage medium for providing adaptive, selectable print options: A method for providing adaptive, selectable print options. The method includes parsing a document into logical sections, each of the logical sections identified by a reference. The method also includes creating a print map of references identified as a result of the parsing, displaying the print map along with selectable...

20060112326 - Electronic album management system, computer-readable recording medium storing electronic album management data, mobile communication terminal equipped with electronic album management system, data storage method for electronic album management, and data: Disclosed are an electronic album management system, a computer-readable recording medium storing electronic album management data, a mobile communication terminal equipped with an electronic album management system, a data storage method for electronic album management and a data readout method for electronic album management. The electronic album management system includes:...

20060112325 - Method and apparatus for controlling an experiential data stream in a social space: Apparatus, methods, and program products that enable an audience member of a local device to navigate, by activation of user selectable controls, through an experiential data stream presented on the local device....

20060112329 - Importing and exporting markup language data in a spreadsheet application document: Methods and systems are provided for importing markup language formatted data into a spreadsheet document and for exporting markup language formatted data from a spreadsheet document. XML data is associated with an XML schema file defining XML data types and data type definitions for applying XML data to the document....

20060112328 - Markup metalanguage: A computer-implemented method for processing markup includes the steps of detecting textual content, detecting a markup element, detecting a predicate segment, and detecting a body. The markup element includes an open character, a textual name, an optional predicate segment, an optional body, and a close character. The predicate segment includes...

20060112327 - Structured document processing apparatus and structured document processing method, and program: A structured document processing method selects elements of a first structured document in accordance with first designation information corresponding to the first structured document, and builds the elements of the first structured document selected in the selection step into a second structured document in accordance with second designation information corresponding...

20060112330 - Layout method, program, and device: A layout system for laying out a plurality of contents disposes the plurality of contents in a layout area, moves the plurality of contents in accordance with an overlapping of the disposed plurality of contents, and moves the plurality of contents again in accordance with weight information allocated to the...

20060112331 - System for supporting to develop an application, and data format producing method and data processing system using said supporting system: For achieving improvements on efficiency of designing and/or development of the data format for use of input/output screens, as well as, on efficiency of development of a reception program for achieving the format transformation, in an application having input/output screen, a system for supporting to develop an application, according to...

20060112332 - System and method for design checking: An aspect of the present invention is to provide a Virtual light table that is an implied or virtual representation of two plans overlaid onto one another. Embodiments of the invention allow the output to be configured and or filtered to allow various display modes and image combinations, and since...

20060112333 - Text edition device and program: A character string is stored in a character information storage module 11 as text data while the size of each character is stored in a character size storage module 12. The state of a frame in which the character string is displayed or printed is set to a “configuration fixed...

20060112334 - Diagnostic system having gaze tracking: A method of modifying a portion of a digital image. In one arrangement, a digital image is displayed on a display, and the gaze data of a user viewing the image on the display is determined. The portion of the image being viewed by the user corresponding to the determined...

20060112335 - Method and system for providing multiple input connecting user interface: A plurality of elements is identified by a user for input to the computing system by at least one of sequential and simultaneous selection of elements presented on a display of a computing system. Based on the elements thus identified, which may include at least one operator and at least...

20060112336 - Method and apparatus for providing content-owner control in a networked device: An apparatus and methods for providing content-owner control in a device is optionally networked. A method for accessing media content has steps of initiating a first view providing access to at least a portion of a first content within the first view, initiating a second view providing access to a...

20060112337 - Method and apparatus for summarizing sports moving picture: A method and apparatus for summarizing a sports moving picture based on audio and image data contained in the moving picture of sports such as a football game are provided. The method includes: segmenting the sports moving picture into shots and extracting audio and image data of the segmented shots;...

20060112338 - Device and method for editing, authoring, and retrieving object-based mpeg-4 contents: In a device for editing and authoring object-based AV (audio and visual) contents using the MPEG-4 method, an object-based MPEG-4 (moving picture experts group 4) contents editing and authoring device comprises: an extensible description generator for receiving either of an MPEG-4 textual format or internal data structure information of object-based...

20060112341 - Method of controlling an internet browser interface and a controllable browser interface: The present invention is directed to a method of dynamically controlling and displaying an Internet browser interface, and to a dynamically controllable Internet browser interface. In accordance with the present invention, a browser interface may be customized using a controlling software program that may be provided by an Internet content...

20060112339 - Mobile device interactions through objects on a computer: The present invention provides for assisting a user in efficiently interacting with a mobile device by providing a persistent graphical user interface, e.g., a sidebar tile. This persistent user interface allows direct exposure to the mobile device without requiring the user to launch or open an application for interacting with...

20060112340 - Portal page conversion and annotation: Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for displaying a portal page in a first graphical user interface window, the portal page including a content area for providing a view of an item of portal content associated with the portal page, wherein at least one other view of the item...

20060112342 - Virtualized protective communications system: A computer system having at least one CPU has as its only interface with the Internet and other external sources a virtual machine that contains a browser and/or other communications programs, so that e-mail and other external communications are opened within the virtual machine and stored within a virtual storage....

20060112343 - Methods, apparatus, and program products for aligning presentation of separately recorded experiential data streams: Apparatus, methods, and program products that determine whether a first and second experiential data stream are sufficiently similar to be used to establish a shared social space....

20060112344 - Methods, apparatus, and program products for providing supplemental content to a recorded experiential data stream: Apparatus, methods, and program products that provide content that is structured to be able to be presented in conjunction with at least one prerecorded portion of an experiential data stream....

20060112345 - Software configuration methods and common presentation layer: Methods and systems for backing up data of a client connected to a server. The methods and systems include operating a graphical user interface for displaying to a user information about the data of a client. At an administrator module and client module, initiating one or more wizard program modules...

20060112347 - Facilitating target acquisition by expanding targets: A system and method for facilitating target acquisition is presented. Upon detecting a triggering event to display expanded targets, i.e., icons representing applications, services, folders, and the like, the computer system generates expanded targets and displays them for target acquisition. The expanded targets typically include their source target, and are...

20060112348 - Multiple-mode window presentation system and process: A system and process for managing the presentation of windows on the display screen of a computing device is presented. In general, this is a multiple-mode window presentation system and process that displays one or more of the peripheral graphic user interface (GUI) elements typically displayed on the display screen...

20060112346 - System and method for directional focus navigation: A system and method for improved directional focus navigation in a user interface is provided. The directional focus navigation engine may receive directional input for changing the input focus of a user interface object in the user interface. A target candidate selector may select target candidates in a direction of...

20060112349 - Systems and methods for processing input data before, during, and/or after an input focus change event: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media process computer input data (such as electronic ink data, speech input data, keyboard input data, etc.), including focus change data, in a manner so that the input insertion range better comports with the user's original intent. More specifically, user input data may be accepted, before,...

20060112350 - Display apparatus, display method, display program, and recording medium with the display program: The present invention provides a display apparatus for zooming and displaying a portion of an object to be displayed on display means according to an instruction by a user and allowing scrolling a display portion for the object to be displayed. The display apparatus includes input means for accepting the...

20060112351 - Page scrolling control device and method for window: A page scrolling control device and method for window, using a device having a control module operative to switch and scroll window pages expressly, such that the user can perform real-time switch under whole-page mode, single-line mode or scaling display mode for an activated data display window. Thereby, the users...

20060112353 - Image processing apparatus and storage medium storing image processing program: An image processing apparatus includes a CPU core, and displays a related image according to selection of a main menu icon. For example, in a case that a timer counting for each frame holds a predetermined value, it is determined whether or not the display of the related image has...

20060112352 - Video program menu system and menu system control device thereof: The present invention relates to a video program menu system and menu control device thereof. The main structure comprises a video converting device, a display screen, and a menu control device. The video converting device can be used to receive at least one video on demand program data and comprises...

20060112354 - User interface for and method of managing icons on group-by-group basis using skin image: A user interface for and method of managing icons on a group-by-group basis using a skin image. The user interface includes an icon room which selectively provides a skin image or a reduced skin image on a desktop background depending on whether the skin image or the reduced skin image...

20060107194 - System and method for virtual router enabled electronic documents: A system and method provide for producing and/or implementing a virtual device enabled electronic document. The electronic document includes documentary information and one or more virtual device initiators corresponding to the same or different target devices, or further, to device systems. At least a portion of the documentary information and...

20060107195 - Methods and apparatus to present survey information: Methods and apparatus to present survey information are disclosed. In particular, the methods and apparatus present survey information based on media compositions and associated metadata information. The methods and apparatus are used to identify metadata associated with a media composition and generate a trigger compilation based on survey information and...

20060107196 - Method for expanding and collapsing data cells in a spreadsheet report: Data cells in a spreadsheet report are collapsed and expanded without disrupting other spreadsheet data. A user may want to drill down on data corresponding to a parent member of the report to display more detailed information about the parent member. Likewise, a user may want to drill up the...

20060107197 - Role-dependent action for an electronic form: Systems and/or methods that enable creation and/or use of an action for an electronic form dependent on a role of a user are described....

20060107198 - Electronic content publication management system and method: An electronic content publication management system (1) for publishing content to one or more electronically accessible sites, each site including at least one electronic page (40), the system comprising content database means (2) for storing a plurality of content objects (3); content management database means (4) for storing a data...

20060107200 - Hierarchical document cross-reference system and method: A hierarchical document cross-reference system comprises a document server computer remotely accessible by a user computer. The document server computer includes a database which stores the contents of a first document and a second document. The first document contains one or more segments and the second document contains one or...

20060107199 - Image stitching methods and systems: In one embodiment, image data that corresponds to a single image, received through multiple DDI calls, is analyzed and merged or otherwise combined into a single image element. This single image element can then be processed, as by being serialized into XAML, so that it can be somewhat more efficiently...

20060107201 - System and method for displaying patent classification information: A system for displaying patent classification information includes: a user processing module (301) for transmitting patent downloading queries and patent classification orders, and displaying star-hyperbolic trees on a display unit; a data downloading module (403) downloading summary data on the patents from the IP information website by converting the patent...

20060107204 - Display/layout methods and apparatuses including content items and display containers: Methods and apparatuses for generating rendering layout specifications for content items to be rendered, using display containers, and/or rendering the content items using the generated rendering layout specification are disclosed. In various embodiments, the generating of a rendering layout specification may include one or more of selecting a display container...

20060107203 - Electronic document style matrix: A method and system for rendering electronic document objects is provided in which a style matrix holds potential attribute values, and attribute references are used to address values in the style matrix. A mix of attribute references and actual attribute values may be used so make some attributes theme- and...

20060107202 - System and method for information encapsulation for providing multiple deliverable formats from one information source: A method for encapsulating information is provided for producing multiple deliverable formats from one information source. The information is encapsulated with associated descriptor elements and descriptor atoms. The method of the present disclosure is directed toward providing an efficient and consistent workflow for producing technical documentation and manuals which are...

20060107205 - Determining a main content area of a page: A method, a computer program, a computer program product, a device and a system for determining a main content area of a page, determines which area of the page contains a page element that is positioned substantially in the middle of the page with respect to a first direction, and...

20060107206 - Form related data reduction: The invention discloses a method, system, server and computer program product of automatically reducing the amount of form related data, e.g. extensible markup language data, sent to a receiving terminal. In the method, a user interface description is analyzed to determine, which parts of the form related data are relevant...

20060107207 - Information displaying apparatus, information displaying program and storage medium: An information displaying apparatus includes a mark displaying unit which displays on a display a file mark to identify each of files stored in a file memory and a folder mark to identify a folder by which the files are grouped, a viewer generating unit which generates on the display...

20060107208 - Operation management terminal program, operation management terminal, and relay program: An operation management terminal is controlled to display message information for system management output form a plurality of system management units in an integrated fashion. A rule is acquired for selecting a management screen most related to predetermined message information from among a plurality of Web-based management screens provided by...

20060107209 - Systems and methods for establishing an education web page template: A system for establishing education web page templates comprises an element container, template elements, and a template generation module. One of the template elements is added to the element container by dragging. The template generation module creates a format template and a content template based on the element container and...

20060107210 - Text entry for mobile station: A data input method in a mobile station comprises receiving first character input for a first word, the first character input for the first word associated with a first character of the first word. The method also comprises receiving total character input for the first word, the total character input...

20060107213 - Intelligent multimodal navigation techniques using motion of a mobile device sensed by a motion sensing device associated with the mobile device: Motion is used as an input to a program running on a mobile device. The mobile device may require input also from alphanumeric or text input device. The motion can be used for items such as selection from a list, or navigation on the map. The motion can be sensed...

20060107212 - Methods and sytems for transmitting content to an imaging device: Embodiments of the present invention comprise systems, methods and devices for sending content to an imaging device display wherein said imaging device comprises a browser and an embedded application that interact with at least one remote application....

20060107211 - System and method for displaying and using non-numeric graphic elements to control and monitor a vision system: This invention provides a system and method for employing GUI-based non-numeric slide buttons and bar meters to setup and monitor operating parameters of a vision system (the term “vision system” as used herein including the above-described vision detector). Such parameters can include, but are not limited to the threshold at...

20060107214 - Display apparatus and control method thereof: The present invention relates to a display apparatus including a display part displaying an image based on a video signal, an on screen display generator generating an on screen display menu including a plurality of on screen display items for adjusting a display state of the display apparatus, a selection...

20060107215 - Method and apparatus for providing content-owner control in a networked device: An apparatus and methods for providing content-owner control in a device is optionally networked. A method for accessing media content has steps of initiating a first view providing access to at least a portion of a first content within the first view, initiating a second view providing access to a...

20060107216 - Video segmentation combining similarity analysis and classification: Techniques for media segmentation are disclosed. A number of measures used to generate similarity values are compared. Two different approaches to calculate feature vectors based on pairwise frame similarity in combination with different kernel functions are disclosed. A supervised classification method is used with the feature vectors to assess segment...

20060107217 - Method and system of facilitating automatic login to a web site using an internet browser: A method and system of adding functionality to an Internet browser interface. In one embodiment of the present invention, the added functionality may facilitate automatic login to a web site using an Internet browser. In another embodiment, the added functionality may enable the user to perform various tasks using the...

20060107218 - View-based navigation model for graphical user interfaces: A graphical user interface for grouping a collection of objects having related categories or actions in a common product-neutral container of a navigation tree. The grouping permits a user to easily locate related objects from plurality of computer system or network product hierarchical trees in a single container....

20060107219 - Method to enhance user interface and target applications based on context awareness: A method (100) to enhance user interface and target applications based on context awareness can include tracking (102) the number of times an event occurs during a given time, tracking (104) the time between user initiated events, generating (112) a pattern from the tracking steps, associating (113) the pattern with...

20060107220 - Method and system for displaying an annotated file: A method and system for displaying an annotated file are described. The method includes associating an annotation with a programming module of a baseline file and displaying in a window of a graphical user interface the baseline file as a tree structure having a plurality of nodes. Each node represents...

20060107221 - Hierarchical selection box for e-mail addressing: The present invention provides a system and method for providing a hierarchical selection box for addressing an e-mail that allows a user to drill down to specific contacts using business organization data. A user may select a category such as employer, department, or specialty area to obtain a display of...

20060107222 - Dynamic generation of wrapper classes to implement call-by-value semantics: A system and method for dynamically generating proxy classes in order to enforce call-by-value semantics between clients and EJBs collocated with a virtual machine. The virtual machine can be a Java virtual machine (JVM) or some other type of virtual machine. The proxy classes are dynamically generated at runtime using...

20060107224 - Building a dynamic action for an electronic form: Systems and/or methods that enable a designer to build a dynamic action for an electronic data-entry form by selecting a triggering event and an action are described. These systems and methods may also, in one embodiment, enable a designer to build a dynamic action having a condition, which can permit...

20060107225 - Method and computer-readable medium for interacting with a portion of an electronic document: A method and computer-readable medium are provided for interacting with a portion of an electronic document. According to the method, a UI control is displayed that includes a border surrounding the portion of the electronic document and one or more UI items that allow actions to be performed on the...

20060107223 - System and method for assigning analysis parameters to vision detector using a graphical interface: This invention provides a system and method for automating the setup of Locators and Detectors within an image view of an object on the HMI of a vision detector by determining detectable edges and best fitting the Locators and Detectors to a location on the object image view following the...

20060107226 - Sidebar autohide to desktop: The present invention provides a system and method for convenient display of a user interface providing dynamic information. The user interface may contain a designated area that provides the dynamic information and a predetermined location. When a cursor hovers over the predetermined location, the user interface may be displayed in...

20060107227 - Device with a graphical user interface: A device (8), such as a multitasking mobile telephone or personal digital assistant (PDA), comprises a processor (15) and a user interface including keys (10, 11) and a display (12). In response to a request from a user to view a menu, the processor (15) compiles a list of menu...

20060107228 - Method for creating data files: A method, system, and article of manufacture such as software media is disclosed for creating a text input file and a text output file according to the requirements of a power generation party....

20060107229 - Work area transform in a graphical user interface: A method and apparatus for transforming a work area and displaying an information component in a graphical user interface is provided. The graphical user interface utilizes a three-dimensional transformation to move a presently displayed work area, for example a desktop with open windows, revealing a background presentation area behind it....

20060107230 - Application of paging to a dataset, graphical display window and graphical scrollbar grip: A dataset is divided into overlapping logical pages, each associated with a different page index. A graphical display window is then filled with data corresponding to a current page offset which is mapped into a subset of data in a logical page corresponding to a current page index. Events associated...

20060107231 - Sidebar tile free-arrangement: The present invention relates to a system and method for displaying information on a display such that access to applications or dynamic information through independent user interfaces may be attained in a designated area on a display and may be easily and conveniently moved from the designated area on the...

20060107233 - Method and system for navigating through a plurality of features: A method, system and apparatus are provided for navigating through a plurality of features in a user interface. A user may choose from a plurality of features made available by the user interface. The features are divided into to one or more sets. A feature may be selected by triggering...

20060107232 - User interface: A graphic user interface is provided on a mobile telephone (10) having a screen (12) and control buttons (14) which move and select choices. The screen (12) comprises a viewing area (18), for viewing icons (16), a context area (20) and a selection area (22). A first icon (16), in...

20060107234 - Computer-implemented graphical user interface previews: System and methods for generating previews of interfaces. When a user interface item receives focus via a user interface indicator, a preview of an interface that is associated with the user interface item is displayed to the user....

20060107235 - Image processing device including touch panel: A display unit displaying an image and selection buttons on a display screen is provided, and a touch panel in which a desired position on the display screen can be specified is provided on the display unit. Furthermore, a coordinate detection unit and a button processing unit are provided. The...

20060107236 - Accessible markup language defined slider control: An accessible markup language specified slider control. A slider control which has been configured for rendering in a content browser in accordance with the present invention can include a script controlled slider track; a markup language specified text input field; and, coordination and control logic coupled both to the slider...

20060107237 - Method and apparatus for navigating a menu in a display unit of an electronic device: A method and apparatus for navigating a menu shown on a display unit of an electronic device is provided. By measuring a time for moving a cursor on the menu and determining whether the measured cursor input time exceeds a pre-set threshold, one or more cursor moving methods may be...

20060107238 - Graphical language messaging: Techniques are disclosed for generating and transmitting a message from a first user (the “sender”) to a second user (the “recipient”) over a network. The message may, for example, include a sequence of graphical language elements selected by the sender using a first mobile communication device. The sender may select...

20060101321 - Method and system for document assembly: The assembly of documents assembled by a team is simplified. Document sections are assigned to a team member from within a word-processing document. Once a document template is opened by a user, the different sections within the document may be assigned to team members. Once a section is assigned, a...

20060101320 - System and method for the storage, indexing and retrieval of xml documents using relational databases: A system and method for assigning attributes to XML document nodes to facilitate their storage in relational databases and the subsequent retrieval and re-construction of pertinent nodes and fragments in original document order is provided. Since these queries are performed using relational database query engines, the speed of their execution...

20060101322 - System and method for media stream indexing and synchronization: An indexing method for allowing a viewer to control the mode of delivery of program material. By mapping from time to data position, data delivery can begin at any selected time in the program material. The indexing method also provides for controlling data delivery to begin at the beginning of...

20060101323 - Categorization of summarized information: A system for categorizing transactions includes a collection function gathering information concerning transactions, including at least date, description and amount of the transactions, for a particular person or enterprise, and a processing function categorizing individual ones of the collected transactions according to at least part of the transaction description....

20060101324 - Data viewer: Methods, systems, and machine readable mediums are disclosed for viewing multidimensional data. In one embodiment, a method is disclosed which comprises displaying multidimensional data in a table format, the table format having a plurality of rows, a plurality of columns, and a plurality of cells displaying data, a first column...

20060101326 - Error correction mechanisms in spreadsheet packages: A spreadsheet package allows a base formula to be copied to at least one adjacent cell to form a referencing array. The package maintains a list of bound arrays, at least one cell of a bound array being referred to from a referencing array formula. If a formula within a...

20060101325 - Liquid crystal display device and driving method of the same: The invention relates to an active matrix type liquid crystal display device and its driving method and provides a liquid crystal display device capable of omitting frame memory in image averaging processing among pixels for improving the smoothness of display and its driving method. For example, by providing an accumulated-charge-averaging...

20060101327 - System and method for comparing documents: The present invention relates to a system and a method for comparing information contained on at least two documents belonging to an entity. The present invention includes at least one device configured to receive information from at least one first document and at least one second document; then, compare at...

20060101328 - Multi-user, multi-timed collaborative annotation: A displayed document comprises an annotation widget, the widget associated with an annotation document and a corresponding annotation key in an annotation store. The annotation document associated with a workflow action program. A user with a predetermined privilege selects a widget and is presented with the annotation document. The user...

20060101330 - Browser sitemap viewer: A sitemap viewer application is provided for use with one or more web browser applications. The sitemap viewer includes a thumbnail image generation mechanism for creating a plurality of thumbnail images from a plurality of web pages. The sitemap viewer also includes a button for use by the web browser...

20060101333 - Importing and exporting markup language data in a spreadsheet application document: Methods and systems are provided for importing markup language formatted data into a spreadsheet document and for exporting markup language formatted data from a spreadsheet document. XML data is associated with an XML schema file defining XML data types and data type definitions for applying XML data to the document....

20060101331 - Methods and systems for automated test-case generation: A method for automated test-case generation. A first type SDL is translated to a second type SDL in accordance with translation rules. The second type SDL is analyzed using a coverage analysis algorithm for calculating the coverage of the second type SDL, and test cases corresponding to the second type...

20060101329 - Pivot analysis with xml/xsl mechanism: A pivot analysis with an XML/XSL mechanism is disclosed. The pivot analysis is utilized to acquire the raw data from a relational database and then the raw data is converted into a XML data by a pivot transformation mechanism. Furthermore, the XSL/XSLT mechanism is configured to modify the XML data...

20060101332 - Virtual tags and the process of virtual tagging: The present invention relates to a method and system for transformation of an electronic document through learning transformation rules during training from the original electronic document using visual user feedback and applying the learned transformation rules to either the original electronic document or a second electronic document having a similar...

20060101334 - Controlling hostile electronic mail content: A software module at an e-mail gateway server scans incoming e-mail messages suspected of being phishing messages and inserts a script program into the head or body of the message in HTML form. The message is converted into an HTML document if necessary. The script program is written in a...

20060101335 - Method and apparatus for generating and storing data and for generating a narrative report: An improved method for generating and storing data involves the use of a computerized device having an input apparatus, a processor apparatus, and an output apparatus. The output apparatus outputs on a display numerous choices, which enables a user to enter data merely by selecting a number of presented choices....

20060101336 - Enabling browser based applications through customized temporary browser profiles: A method, system and apparatus for browser based enablement through customized temporary browser profiles. A method for enabling a browser based application through a customized temporary browser profile can include the following steps. First, responsive to a request to provide a browser based application to a content browser in a...

20060101337 - Information terminal device having secret function: Whenever a character is input by a character input device, whether a character string containing the input character is stored in a prediction memory is checked. If a character string containing the input character is stored in the prediction memory, whether the stored character or character string is related to...

20060101338 - Touch-screen remote control for multimedia equipment: A multimedia control system presents program schedule information to a user in a visually and intellectually-intuitive manner. The multimedia control system can be used to display programming information, control multimedia devices, control home automation devices, etc. In one embodiment, a control screen used to display programming information is configured as...

20060101339 - Data processing apparatus, information processing system and computer-readable recording medium recording selecting program: The present invention provides a data processing apparatus comprising a first additional information acquisition unit for acquiring the first additional information with regard to a first processing target data; a second additional information acquisition unit acquiring the second additional information with regard to a second processing target data that is...

20060101340 - System and method for multi-level guided node and topology discovery: Systems and methods for user-guided iterative node discovery and topology discovery in a network of nodes involved in secure and reliable data transfer....

20060101341 - Method and apparatus for enhanced browsing, using icons to indicate status of content and/or content retrieval: A method and apparatus for enhanced browsing. The apparatus includes a user interface for presenting an enhanced browsing window of content identified by a link in a page displayed by a browser. The apparatus may include a prefetcher for fetching or prefetching the content and a cache for storing the...

20060101343 - Image forming apparatus, display screen customization method in image forming apparatus and display screen customization program: A customization information processing section generates and displays a customization setting screen corresponding to a menu screen, with reference to screen design information and customization information read from respective storage sections, and then registers information regarding a button, such as a size, position, and character string input and set by...

20060101342 - System and method for generating suggested alternatives for visual or audible submissions: Alternative representations are generated from a user's audible or visual data submission (e.g., user's picture) for use as part of an online account profile or user identification in an online service (e.g., online gaming user profile) or computer device. A specific representation is selected for use with the online account...

20060101344 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus, which display units the information relating to the job of the selected function on a first display screen of a display unit 4 when one of different functions is selected; changes over the display unit 4 to a second display screen including a first display area...

20060101346 - Device and method for designing and planning an operating interface: The invention relates to a device and a method for designing and planning an operating surface, in particular a human-machine interface of an automation component. The design and planning of an operating surface is hereby simplified for the project planner by showing the connections of the components to be planned...

20060101345 - Distributed service creation environment for intelligent endpoints: According to one embodiment, a method for creating telephony features for an endpoint includes receiving a plurality of instructions defining a graphical representation of an implementation of one or more telephony features for an endpoint. The graphical representation includes a plurality of graphical elements representing a state process of the...

20060101347 - Highlighting icons for search results: The present invention provides a search capability to allow a user to easily locate a preference control, file, folder, control, or other system resource or data item associated with a search result. In one embodiment, a user enters a search term (or a portion thereof) in a search field associated...

20060101348 - Method and device for composing sms message: A user of a mobile phone (20) composes a message on a display screen (21) of the mobile phone (20) by a selective application of various load levels upon various areas of the display screen (21) that correspond to keys of a virtual keypad (23). An application of a load...

20060101349 - Virtual data entry device and method for input of alphanumeric and other data: A data input device including an optically generated image of a data input device, the image including at least one input zone actuable by an action performed thereon by a user, a sensor operative to sense the action performed on the at least one input zone, and to generate signals...

20060101350 - Dynamic bar oriented user interface: Method and user interface for controlling an apparatus are provided. At least one dynamic bar is provided for displaying on a main screen of a graphical user interface for controlling the apparatus. Each dynamic bar is associated with respective one or more interfaces for applications and/or functions provided by the...

20060101351 - Event bookmarking: A method for temporary visual indication of received items in a list and a corresponding system therefore are described. The method includes receiving an item to be presented in a list to be displayed to a user, applying a temporary visual indicator to the received item in the list; and...

20060101352 - 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 rear-ranged in response to a rearrangement request by the user. Various alternative arrangements can be...

20060101353 - Multi-pane navigation model for graphical user interfaces: A graphical user interface for navigating a hierarchical tree of items wherein a top level pane, a first detail-level pane, and a second detail-level pane are utilized to display contents of tree items being navigated....

20060101354 - Gesture inputs for a portable display device: An application such as a web browser running on a portable display device is responsive to gestures to a touch-sensitive surface of the portable display device. The gestures are supplied by touching and then sliding on the touch-sensitive surface. Various operations of the application may be controlled based on the...

20060095831 - Document-management service device, authentication service device, document-management service program, authentication service program, recording medium, document-management service method, and authentication service method: In a document-management service device including a document-management service unit, a certification information acquisition request containing information specifying an entry limit and/or information specifying a valid duration is received from a client which requests acquisition of a certification information concerning a document. The certification information is created in response to...

20060095830 - System, method, and service for automatically and dynamically composing document management applications: A document management system applies relevant document analysis, metadata extraction, and business process association algorithms and methodology to automatically and dynamically classify documents for routing, processing, and executing customized business logic. The document management system accepts documents from one or more channels, classifies the document and extracts metadata, executes customized...

20060095832 - Embedded spreadsheet commands: A cell of a spreadsheet is automatically updated and a comment is determined to have a command associated with the update. In response to detecting the command, the command is processed....

20060095833 - Method and apparatus for automatically producing spreadsheet-based models: A designer builds a condensed, generic form of a spreadsheet which is a definition file. This can be designed in Microsoft Excel, following a set of guidelines, or using a high level symbolic language. If required, HTML files, can be produced directly from the Excel definition file to enable the...

20060095834 - Electronic document versioning method and updated document supply method using version number based on xml: Methods and apparatus for versioning an electronic document based on XML and methods and apparatus for providing an updated electronic document based on XML can use a version value. The electronic document being managed can use a syntax defining a structure of the structured electronic document. One method is characterized...

20060095836 - Document editing system and method of preparing a tag information management table: A document editing system is described and is to solve a problem of a background technology, that is, a problem of incapability of distinguishing, a plurality of document areas which are nested or which partially overlap and are specified through use of tags of the same type. Document area management...

20060095837 - Method and apparatus for processing data: A method of processing data associated with processing options, wherein selected processing options select variants within the data and selected variants are activated, and variants associated with unselected options can be selected in a further iteration of the process....

20060095835 - System and method for the modular generation of markup language: An exemplary system and method for the substantially modular design and construction of web pages and other markup language document content is disclosed as comprising inter alia: a database (5); a document code module (e.g., 135) that is at least partially derived from data in the database (5); and a...

20060095838 - Object-oriented processing of tab text: An object-oriented processor for managing tab text information. The processor includes a data object and a view object. The data object is for storing data representative of the tab text, related attributes, and properties of the media on which the tab text is printed. The view object stores data representative...

20060095839 - Usability of a portal application: The present system in one embodiment provides a conversion module that receives and converts webpage documents to an Adobe Acrobat compatible format for further processing. In some embodiments the present system provides and enacts a plurality of conversion rules to convert the webpage so that it may be stored, printed...

20060095840 - Method and system for capturing website information: A method for capturing website information through a container is introduced. The container is an application software having at least a function of web page browsing. The method comprises the steps of: providing a connection module through the container for accepting a wordlist, forwarding the wordlist to a search engine...

20060095841 - Methods and apparatus for document management: One embodiment of the invention is directed to the analysis of a document. The document may be retrieved and automatically analyzed to measure quality metrics defined for the document. A quality metric is any attribute of the document and may be, for example, a word count, a sentence count, a...

20060095842 - Word completion dictionary: A device, a computer program, and a method provide a word completion dictionary capable of editing by a user. The computer program includes computer code configured to present a word completion dictionary and to present a dictionary editing option. The word completion dictionary includes a plurality of words that may...

20060095843 - Multilingual input method editor for ten-key keyboards: A system and method is shown that is used to input multilingual text into an electronic device comprising a numerical keypad, or equivalent. The system comprises a language input method editor that accesses a character database. Asian and non-Asian languages can be intermingled within a line of text using the...

20060095845 - Method and apparatus for presenting a list of items: A method and an apparatus for presenting a long list of items are described. An apparatus (1) is designed to display one page of items and a set of browse control tools (40) which include page indicators, the apparatus having user input means (4). The apparatus is designed to display...

20060095844 - Object entry into an electronic device: A system for entering objects from a set of objects into an electronic device is arranged to determine a first pointer position (11) on a display (10) and display, surrounding the first point position, a first plurality of individually selectable fields (12), each of which represents a subset of objects...

20060095846 - Mobile communication terminal and method: A mobile communication apparatus comprising processor means and a user interface is disclosed. The user interface comprises a display and an input means. The input means comprises a rotating input means arranged to provide an angular movement signal in accordance with an angular movement of the rotating input means for...

20060095847 - Broadcasting service method and apparatus: Disclosed herein is a broadcasting service method and system for effectively performing a viewing restriction function. The broadcasting service method includes the steps of: a) generating a plurality of scenes according to each viewing rate classified by a predetermined rule with respect to specific scenes of a single program; and...

20060095848 - Audio user interface for computing devices: An audio user interface that generates audio prompts that help a user interact with a user interface of a device is disclosed. One aspect of the present invention pertains to techniques for providing the audio user interface by efficiently leveraging the computing resources of a host computer system. The relatively...

20060095849 - Method and apparatus for integrating phone and pda user interfaces on a single processor: Separate processors, a PDA processor, and a baseband processor are maintained in a PDA having an integrated telephone device. The PDA processor runs PDA related programs and a user interface for the telephone device. A link between the PDA processor and baseband processor transfers data and commands from the user...

20060095850 - Multimedia filter resilience: Providing resiliency to a multimedia application. A list of filters associated with the multimedia application is identified. It is determined if one or more filters of the identified list of filters are suitable for the multimedia application. The one or more filters are disabled if the one or more filters...

20060095851 - Methods and systems for facilitating acting in conjunction with performance of a movie: A computer-assisted method is disclosed for assisting a performer to act in association with at least a portion of a movie. In various embodiments, the method includes providing a screen configured to display the movie portion thereon; providing a library of movies for facilitating selection of the movie portion to...

20060095852 - Information storage and retrieval: An information retrieval apparatus for searching a set of information items and displaying the results of the search, the information items each having a set of characterising information features. The apparatus comprises a search processor operable to search the information items in accordance with a user defined characterising information feature...

20060095853 - Event analysis system and method: An event analysis system and method of analysing events are provided. The method comprises the steps of displaying event element icons in a user interface, updating the location of moved event element icons in the user interface, and determining an organization of the event elements based upon the location of...

20060095854 - Method and apparatus for content download: A method and apparatus is provided to send information to a video-on-demand (VOD) server. A VOD client device retrieves this information and performs download of multimedia content using this information for subsequent viewing. In one embodiment, this information is provided to the VOD server by a content server upon a...

20060095855 - Hmi reconfiguration method and system: Embodiments of the present invention relate to a system and method of reconfiguring a human-machine interface. In accordance with embodiments of the present techniques, a plurality of control objects may be accessed from a human-machine interface via a configuration station. The control objects may include properties for accessing inputs via...

20060095856 - Portable terminal and display data editing method for the same: The present invention is a portable terminal and a display data editing method for the same capable of easily changing preliminarily stored display data to any expression preferable to the user. A display processor 3e1 controls the writing and read-out data in and out of a memory unit 5, and...

20060095859 - Handheld electronic device including appointment and meeting conflict notification, and associated method: A method of checking a new entry in a calendar application having a cache that includes a first subset of existing entries falling within a first date range. Also, an electronic device implementing the method. The method includes determining whether the date of the new entry falls within the first...

20060095858 - Hierarchical dataset dashboard view: Receiving a hierarchical dataset including child data items that depend directly or indirectly from one or more parent data items. Processing the hierarchical dataset to generate nodes for each data item within the hierarchical dataset, wherein nodes for child data items are generated within nodes for parent data items and...

20060095857 - System, apparatus, and method for a singularity based user interface: A system, apparatus, and method for projecting data onto a terminal display having a multitude of visual queues to enhance the data content projected by the display of the terminal. A multi-dimensional display renders data relative to temporal and priority axes that reflects the relevancy of the data and inter-relationship...

20060095860 - Method and system of providing dynamic dialogs: Methods and systems for providing dynamic dialogs, used with a downloadable toolbar for an Internet browser. In an embodiment of the invention an add-on browser toolbar, which may be implemented as a downloadable toolbar application that adds functionality to a Web browser, receives downloadable toolbar data that comprises dialog display...

20060095861 - Information processing apparatus and recording medium having program recorded therein: An information processing apparatus which provides a graphical user interface via a display device includes: a dialog box display control unit which causes the display device to display a dialog box having plural tab pages; and a menu display control unit which causes the display device to display a menu...

20060095862 - System and method for improved scroll mouse operation: A system and method for improved scroll mouse operation is presented. A user operates a computer mouse, which includes a scroll ring that functions as a middle mouse button. During operation, the user configures a scroll suppression manager to discard a particular number of scroll commands when the user moves...

20060095863 - Creating views on a computer screen: To create a new view on a computer screen (3), the computer receives a request from a user, the request comprising location information such as a point indicated by the user. On the basis of the location information, the computer determines both the location of the new view and its...

20060095865 - Dynamic graphical user interface for a desktop environment: A graphical user interface (GUI) for a computer desktop environment that provides access to a plurality of services through a menu that is displayed in a large portion of the desktop environment independent of a taskbar. The menu comprises one or more icons arranged in a pattern and that represent...

20060095864 - Method and system for representing an application characteristic using a sensory perceptible representation: A portable electronic device (10) can include a user interface (12) enabling the representation of a characteristic of an application using a user perceptible representation of the application on a presentation device (14, 18 or 20) and a processor (15) coupled to the presentation device. The processor can be programmed...

20060095866 - Methods and apparatus for implementing a device menu: The present invention relates to an image having distinct image areas as part of the image, at least one of the distinct image areas configured to match determined device menu functions for functioning as a functional part of device menu. The present invention also relates to a method for defining...

20060095867 - Cursor locator on a display device: The present invention is a method and system which automatically presents a more visible cursor upon an occurrence of an event. For example, a cursor may be automatically relocated to a specified position on a computer display screen upon occurrence of an event, such as lapse of a period of...

20060095868 - Activity management system and method, active management apparatus, client terminal, and computer program: A CRM server sends to a client terminal activity data that has been read from a DB server, and directs the display thereof. When the activity data has been received from the CRM server, a client terminal obtains the screen data of a calendar screen is generated. Then a screen...