Data processing: presentation processing of document inventions 06/06

20060143555 - Apparatus and method for extracting information from a formatted document: The present invention discloses an apparatus for extracting information from a formatted document, comprising: an input unit (1) for inputting a formatted document; a unit (2) for analyzing the input formatted document and saving the particular typographic information, a unit (3) for identifying special character strings on the basis of...

20060143556 - Flexible electronic document that receives data insertion from one or more data sources: One embodiment in accordance with the invention relates to generating a completed unified data format template that includes data inserted from one or more data sources. Initially, an electronic template can be created using a template application (e.g., Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, and the like). The electronic template is embedded...

20060143557 - Method and apparatus for secure processing of xml-based documents: Method for providing controlled access to an XML document includes defining at least one access control policy for a user of the XML document, deriving a security view of the XML document for the user based upon said access control policy and schema level processing of the XML document and...

20060143560 - Annotations for multiple versions of media content: Multiple different versions of the same multimedia content are available to a multimedia server. An annotation server maintains annotations corresponding to the multimedia content, each such annotation corresponding to each of the different versions of the multimedia content....

20060143558 - Integration and presentation of current and historic versions of document and annotations thereon: A method and system for displaying annotations is provided. The method includes displaying current data to a user through a GUI, displaying at least one of current and historic annotations to a user through the GUI, providing a user selectable link between the historic annotations and historic data associated with...

20060143559 - Method and apparatus for annotating a line-based document: To facilitate the use of audio files for annotation purposes, an audio file format, which includes audio data for playback purposes, is augmented with a parallel data channel of line identifiers, or with a map associating time codes for the audio data with line numbers on the original document. The...

20060143562 - Self-describing editors for browser-based wysiwyg xml/html editors: A method and system for editing arbitrary XML formatted web content within a graphical user interface (GUI), where user-edited XML is converted according to the rules of a XSL style sheet using a XSLT Processor into a mark-up document specific to the browser software running on a client side operating...

20060143561 - System and method for author-driven template switching in the development and modification of web pages: A system and method for authoring web pages that permits a user to select a schema for the web page and a template for visually rendering the web page. Once a web page has been visualized and published, a second template may be used to revisualize the web page without...

20060143563 - System and method for grouping data: In a system and method for grouping data, a processor may, with reference to metadata identifying relationships between sets of data to be displayed in columns of a table, generate a display template from the identified relationships, the template defining that related columns of data are presented adjacent to each...

20060143564 - Automated spell analysis: An apparatus, program product and method utilize automated analysis techniques to assist in the determination of acceptable usages of linguistic terms (e.g., words, phrases, acronyms, etc.). In particular, an acceptable usage of a linguistic term may be determined by scanning a plurality of documents for variants (e.g., based on differing...

20060143565 - Method to promote branded products and/or services: A method to promote branded products and/or services is disclosed. The method includes integrating a brand-specific graphical user interface with a global informational networked-based media station resulting in an integrated web site. The integrated web site is accessible via a global informational network (e.g., the Internet) using a personal computer...

20060143566 - Recording medium, method for previewing on-demand digital multimedia data on the recording medium: A recording medium and a method for previewing and selecting digital audio/video data unit on the recording medium are provided. The recording medium includes an audio/video pack of the original film, an audio/video pack of the preview film, a background page, and a page control descriptor. After having received a...

20060143567 - Method, system and article of manufacture for linking a video to a scanned document: Video recordings of meetings and scanned paper documents are natural digital documents that come out of a meeting. These can be placed on the Internet for easy access, with links generated between them by matching scanned documents to a segment of the video referencing the scanned document. Furthermore, annotations made...

20060143568 - Method and apparatus for enhanced browsing: A method and apparatus for enhanced browsing. The apparatus includes a user interface for presenting an enhanced browsing window containing a second page of content identified by a link in a first page displayed in a browser. The apparatus may include a prefetcher for prefetching the content, a cache for...

20060143569 - Communication using avatars: A messaging method is described in which avatars, representative of attributes of users and individuals, are used for capturing information and/or selecting users or individuals. In one embodiment, an avatar is rendered in response to attributes input by a user, and a matching and retrieval selects records from a database....

20060143570 - Automatically generating a sub-graphical program in response to user input configuring a graphical program node: A system and method for configuring a node in a graphical program by programmatically generating graphical source code associated with the node. The node may initially have no functionality or may have default functionality and may be able to take on different functionality in the graphical program, depending on configuration...

20060143571 - Multiple mouse cursors for use within a viewable area for a computer: Methods are disclosed for displaying and manipulating a plurality of mouse cursors at different locations in a viewable area for a computer. As preferred, only one mouse cursor is active and moveable at any one time, with the user being allowed to switch or toggle among them to activate an...

20060143572 - Configurable controlling device and associated configuration distribution system and method: A configurable controlling device and associated program that allows a consumer to modify on a personal computer for downloading to the controlling device configuration data which is used to cause the controlling device to perform a function, such as to transmit a command to an appliance, to change the user...

20060143573 - Conserving space on browser user interfaces: A user interface enables the display of browser information in a space conserving fashion. A plurality of icons may be displayed along a bar adjacent a browser display window. When an icon is selected, an appropriate panel may be displayed. A uniform resource locator text entry block may only be...

20060143574 - Display method, portable terminal device, and display program: A display method includes displaying a plurality of icons in list form on a display device by a list-form displaying section, enlarging, to a predetermined size, an icon selected from the icons displayed, when a different icon is selected, reducing the icon selected and enlarged to the predetermined size so...

20060143575 - Method and system for implementing enhanced buttons in a graphical user interface: A method and system are provided for implementing enhanced buttons in graphical user interface of a software application running on computer system. The enhanced buttons allow additional options to be presented to the user in a context-sensitive manner in the same graphical user interface screen that the user is interacting...

20060143576 - Method and system for resolving cross-modal references in user inputs: A method and a system for resolving cross-modal references in user inputs to a data processing system (100) are provided. The method includes generating (502) a set of multimodal interpretations (MMIs), based on the user inputs collected during a turn. The set of MMIs includes at least one reference, and...

20060143577 - Graphical user interface for manipulating graphic images and method thereof: A method for enabling the manipulation of a plurality of items in a graphic user interface (GUI) is provided. One embodiment of the method includes steps of: dividing the plurality of items to a plurality of groups, each group and item are represented by a graphic image; arranging the plurality...

20060143578 - Maintenance of shortcut keys in a mobile device: A device and method provide for maintenance of a shortcut key to an application accessible at the device. The method includes assigning a first application to a shortcut key at a device, wherein the shortcut key at the device is a button on the device; storing an identifier of the...

20060143579 - System and method of navigating and creating electronic hierarchical documents: A method of navigating and creating hierarchical documents is disclosed. The illustrative embodiments of the present invention enable a user to navigate quickly through multiple levels and sub-levels of hierarchichal documents without having to manually change the displayed view. Additionally, the method enables a user to create connections between objects...

20060143580 - Method and system for quick screen switching in a multi-monitor environment: A cursor control device such as a mouse allows a user to quickly switch between screens in a multi-monitor computing environment. Available programmable buttons on the cursor control device are programmed to achieve a functionality for switching between display regions on different screens, or within a screen. With a click...

20060136803 - Creating visualizations of documents: A method, apparatus and article of manufacture for creating visualization of documents. In one embodiment, the method comprises identifying document information associated with a document and converting the document information to one or more constrained time-based media channels....

20060136804 - Generating a relational view for a base model schema: Disclosed is a technique for generating a relational view. Initially, identification of a base model, a relational schema, and a ViewType are received. Then, a statement to create a relational view of the instance data for the base model using the ViewType is automatically generated....

20060136806 - System and method for analysis of neurological condition: Embodiments of the present invention comprise computer-based tools facilitating visualization and assessment of progression of neurological disorders in a patient. In one embodiment, data is received in the form of the results of standardized neurological examination of the patient. This input is compared to a rule set defining progression of...

20060136805 - Using viewtypes for accessing instance data structured by a base model: Disclosed is a technique for manipulating instance data of a base model. A ViewType, a root object representing an object of the base model, and an operation are received. Whether the ViewType and the root object are compatible is determined. When the ViewType and the root object are compatible, the...

20060136808 - Block properties and calculated columns in a spreadsheet application: Block properties and improved calculated columns properties are provided in a spreadsheet application. Once block properties are set for a group of spreadsheet cells or a spreadsheet list, the properties may be applied to the entire group of selected cells or list as opposed to requiring application of properties to...

20060136807 - Method and system for creating a table in a text editing application: A table is created using keystrokes on a keyboard. Text to the left of a cursor is contained in a first column of the table when the table is created. Text to the right of the cursor is contained in a second column of the table when the table is...

20060136809 - Method and apparatus for generating instances of documents: A composition model, which specifies a set of all possible facets that may be used to render a composition template, is used to bind unresolved elements in the composition template with a set of document components in a container. Different instances of a rendered document are produced by altering the...

20060136810 - Electronic form generator: An automated form generation service within a computer system dynamically creates form templates from a plurality of template documents. For each root node present in a first template document, the service determines whether a matching node is present in a second template and, if so, it merges node structure from...

20060136811 - Method and computer-readable medium for generating a multiple column layout: A computer-implemented method and computer-readable medium are provided for generating a multiple column layout. According to the method, a layout is defined that includes two or more columns and one or more spans that extend across two or more of the columns. Each span is defined as being either content...

20060136812 - Method and system for linking data ranges of a computer-generated document with associated extensible markup language elements: Methods and systems are provided for separating the data of a structured document from markup structure applied to the document and for linking the separately maintained data with associated markup structure applied to the document. The data stream in an Extensible Markup Language (XML) represented document is moved outside of...

20060136813 - Systems and methods for annotating pages of a 3d electronic document: To annotate a three-dimensional electronic object, e.g., document, a user specifies, on a two-dimensional screen, a portion of a page of a three-dimensional document as a specified page area to be annotated by making a stroke. The annotation may be displayed to the user by a hybrid technique where the...

20060136815 - Apparatus and method for reproducing content and information storage medium therefor: A content reproducing apparatus and method in which transferring of information and/or sharing system parameters between markup documents are enabled without heavily loading a central processing unit, and there is no need to define a new browser, and an information storage medium having a computer program therefor. The content reproducing...

20060136814 - Efficient extensible markup language namespace parsing for editing: Methods and computer products provide for an efficient XML namespace analysis and parsing. Extensible Markup Language (XML) structure of an XML document is passed through an XML parser as plain text, and the result is an internal data structure that represents the XML. The XML parser keeps track of all...

20060136816 - File formats, methods, and computer program products for representing documents: File formats, methods, and computer program products are provided for representing a document in a modular content framework. The modular content framework may include a file format container associated with modular parts. A file format includes logically separate modular parts that are associated with each other by one or more...

20060136817 - Method and computer-readable medium for providing page and table formatting services: A computer-implemented method and computer-readable medium are provided for providing page and table layout services. According to the method, a layout manager program provides layout services to client application programs. The layout manager receives requests from client application programs to format document content. In response to such requests, the layout...

20060136818 - Method and computer readable medium for optimized paragraph layout: A method and computer-readable medium are provided for optimized paragraph layout. According to the method, a line-by-line paragraph layout is generated determine a maximum penalty for a paragraph. One or more layout nodes may be generated that include data representing a possible layout of the paragraph to a point within...

20060136819 - Method, system, ane computer-readable medium for applying a global formatting scheme to a chart in an electronic document: A method, system, and computer-readable medium are provided for applying a global formatting scheme to a chart in an electronic document. According to a system, a chart application program receives a selection of a chart object in the electronic document and a document theme. The document theme includes a combination...

20060136820 - Information processing apparatus and method for handling forms: An information processing method and apparatus are provided which are capable of processing form data in which fields are defined and each of the fields contains record data. The method includes specifying fields in which at least one break is set from the field being contained in form data, in...

20060136823 - Image processing device: An image processing device includes a file memory, an editing unit and an operation unit. The editing unit includes a page number editing unit and an assigning unit. The file memory stores image information of a plurality of pages and page number information of each of the pages as a...

20060136821 - Method and system for highlighting modified content in a shared document: A shared document is displayed in a customized form with highlighted content that identifies significant portions of the document. The highlighted content draws a user's attention to the portions of the document that may have been modified, deleted or added by others since the last time the user accessed the...

20060136822 - Target web page edited using overlay on host web page: A system and method are disclosed for allowing a target web page to be edited on a host web page by a Designer. A scaled view of the target web page may be displayed on the host web page so that the Designer may view the target web page during...

20060136824 - Process official and business documents in several languages for different national institutions: An improved method and document management configuration to allow a person to conveniently control a sentence structure by easily shuffling different phrases in a sentence such that better, faster, and more accurate document translations can be accomplished among a team of patent attorneys/agents in working together to draft a patent...

20060136825 - Method, system, and computer-readable medium for the layout of automatically-placed elements and user-placed elements in a chart: A method, system, and computer-readable medium are provided for determining a layout of automatically-placed elements and user-placed elements in a chart created in a chart application program. User-placed elements in the chart include chart elements that have been moved and/or resized by a user. User-placed elements include chart elements that...

20060136826 - Riding simulation device: A riding simulation device allowing a rider to pseudoexperience the running state of a motorcycle, more specifically, to pseudoexperience an operating feeling similar to an actual braking, to be able to switch the operating feeling of an operating lever according to the types of transmissions, and to pseudoexperience roll feeling...

20060136827 - File formats, methods, and computer program products for representing presentations: File formats, methods, and computer program products are provided for representing a presentation in a modular content framework. The modular content framework may include a file format container associated with modular parts. A file format includes logically separate modular parts that are associated with each other by one or more...

20060136828 - System and method for sharing display screen between information processing apparatuses: A system includes a server information processing apparatus having a server function to provide a shared display screen to another information processing apparatus, and a client information processing apparatus having a client function to become a client of the server function, wherein the server function includes a virtual display screen...

20060136829 - Customizable user interface for exposing customized application functionality sets: A customized user interface for exposing customized application functionality sets is provided. A variety of customized user interface “skins” are provided for selectively overlaying a standard application user interface for hiding unwanted functionality and/or for exposing certain desired or non-standard functionality. While a standard application user interface is overlaid with...

20060136830 - System and user interface for creating and presenting forms: A user interface system provides an electronic form supporting simplified navigation using table driven values and decisions. A display processor provides a display image enabling a user to perform a hierarchically ordered selection of a first parameter and a second parameter from a set of parameters associated with the selected...

20060136831 - Method and apparatus for non-parametric hierarchical clustering: In one embodiment, the present invention includes a method of forming windows corresponding to a data point of a data set, successively expanding the windows, determining a local hill for the windows, re-centering the windows on the local hill, and merging any of the windows within a selected distance of...

20060136832 - Flexible and extensible combination user interfaces: Flexible and extensible combination user interfaces are described. Combination user interfaces combine task-based and deductive user interfaces in such a manner that complex user interactions can be facilitated using a more meaningful and intuitive user interface than would have been possible using task-based or deductive user interfaces exclusively. The described...

20060136833 - Apparatus and method for chaining objects in a pointer drag path: An apparatus and method for a graphical user interface allow performing operations simply by dragging a first object to touch a second object. The selection of the first object places a corresponding first object in a chain of objects. When the selected first object touches a second object, a corresponding...

20060136835 - Computer display control system and method: A computer display control system comprises an input module adapted to receive a user input corresponding to a composited desktop display where the composited desktop display displays at least two active desktops corresponding to at least two different computers. The input module is adapted to automatically determine to which of...

20060136834 - Scrollable toolbar with tool tip on small screens: A toolbar includes a first toolbar area and a second toolbar area. The first toolbar area includes a plurality of icons and a cursor visually identifying one of the icons. When a user moves the cursor beyond a position, the icons shift so that at least one of the icons...

20060136836 - User interface with scroll bar control: A user interface is provided for displaying content supplied by a content provider in a view window. When the user interface detects user selection of zoom view mode, display settings of the view window are saved and a resized form of the document is displayed in the view window. When...

20060136837 - Application sharing single document sharing: An improved application sharing system and method allow sharing of documents on a per document basis rather than on a per application basis, in order to simplify the user experience and to provide a more secure sharing environment. A window marking method is used to construct a window list describing...

20060136839 - Indicating related content outside a display area: This invention relates to a method, a computer program, a computer program product, a device and a system for displaying portions of an object, wherein at least a first portion of an object is displayed, wherein it is decided if a second portion of said object, which second portion is...

20060136838 - Mobile communications terminal and method: A method for controlling display of graphical information in a display window is presented. A scroll region, i.e. a scroll bar, is provided with a “memory” that indicates to the user where to return after scrolling away from a current position within, e.g., a large document. This is advantageous in...

20060136840 - Pen-based interface for a notepad computer: A notepad computer with a page display region displaying a page of a document on which a user can write using a pen or stylus type writing tool is provided. Associated with the page is an interface that can be used with the pen. The interface includes a core task...

20060136841 - Entry of data in a data processing system: A method and a system for entering data (12-15) in a data processing system is provided. In this case, the data is entered in a number of steps, with a view being displayed at a step in a display region of a display means, with the entering and/or display taking...

20060136842 - Method and computer system for interacting with a database: The invention proposes interacting with a database having data related to modeled products and parts using a graphical user interface displayed by a computer. The graphical user interface is adapted to allow a user to access the database. The method also includes providing within the graphical user interface a toolbar...

20060136843 - 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...

20060136844 - Method of making a graphic button: A method of making graphic buttons for an application program, in which frames under various conditions are provided. Hot keys and texts according to each condition are set up. The application program is then operated to provide a display command. According to the display command, the corresponding frames, hot keys,...

20060136845 - Selection indication fields: A system and method for selectively displaying selection indication fields is described. A user may select multiple items using various selection indication fields. The fields may be displayed all the time or may only appear if a pointing device or cursor is near the field or an associated item....

20060136846 - User interface apparatus using hand gesture recognition and method thereof: Provided is a user interface apparatus that can control a telematics terminal safely and comfortably while driving, by recognizing a hand gesture image received through a camera in the telematics terminal as a corresponding control signal, and a method thereof. The interface apparatus using a hand gesture recognition, includes: an...

20060136847 - Method and computer program product for verifying a computer renderable document for on-screen appearance: A method and computer program product for verifying on-screen appearance of a document. A selected window is provided to an application. An image of the document is rendered at the selected window resolution on a screen of a reference display monitor of a reference computing platform on which the application...

20060129905 - Acquisition of user data over a network: An embodiment includes a method that includes intercepting, by an intermediary, a form destined for a device used by a user over a network that is from an application executing on a different device on the network. The form includes parts to be completed by the user. The method also...

20060129906 - Component models: A system comprising a plurality of components comprising data and a component assembly engine. The component assembly engine performing the steps: (1) receiving one of the plurality of components, the one of the plurality of components comprising a root component, (2) determining, as a function of the root component, at...

20060129907 - Syndicating multimedia information with rss: System and method for adding descriptive information to a Real Simple Syndication (RSS) document. The descriptive information describes the content of media objects syndicated through the document. The descriptive information can be used to provided additional information to a subscriber, and can be used in searching for syndicated media content....

20060129909 - Multimedia distribution system: A multimedia file and methods of generating, distributing and using the multimedia file are described. Multimedia files in accordance with embodiments of the present invention can contain multiple video tracks, multiple audio tracks, multiple subtitle tracks, a complete index that can be used to locate each data chunk in each...

20060129908 - On-content streaming media enhancement: Methods for displaying descriptors in conjunction with a streaming media presentation are disclosed. Descriptors may be positioned on top of a streaming media image to provide association with image elements of the presentation. The availability of descriptors for an image element may be indicated highlighting the element, highlighting the element...

20060129912 - Image processing apparatus, information processing method, program, and storage medium: In providing an image processing apparatus having a browser, it is aimed to improve the operability of the web browser and enhance access restriction. In order to solve conventional problems, an information processing method according to the present invention has the following steps. That is, an information processing method for...

20060129911 - Method for automatically cataloging web element data: A system, method, and related computer program for automatically cataloging Web elements, such as text and color, in a Web document for use by those performing searches for Web documents containing specific Web elements. The present invention allows users to scan Web elements into a Web site database where they...

20060129910 - Providing useful information associated with an item in a document: A method includes recognizing an item within a first document based on a pattern associated with the item but not the exact content of the item. The method further includes identifying a link for the item and providing a second document that includes information associated with the item when the...

20060129913 - System and method for formatting a cell in response to data stored in a separate location: A data cell included in a document supporting cell structured data is conditionally formatted according to data that is stored in a separate location from the document. A user is allowed to select from a drop-down menu of related data sets a particular data set for conditionally formatting the data...

20060129914 - Filter and sort by color: The present invention comprises methods and user interfaces for organizing data displayed within a data application. Specifically, the present invention provides methods and systems for arranging the display of the data by a format applied to one or more portions of the data. The formats comprise different visual characteristics of...

20060129915 - Blinking annotation callouts highlighting cross language search results: The invention provides a system and method for translingually searching a piece of information from an electronic document, a website or the Internet. The system first dialectally standardizes the primary query in the input language entered by the user and then translates the standardized query into an optimized search string...

20060129918 - Electronic document request/supply method based on xml: There is provided a method for requesting an electronic document based on XML in which the electronic document is created using a syntax defining a structure of a constructed electronic document. The electronic document request method can include creating a request document including an element name/attribute name based on a...

20060129916 - Rss rendering via a media player: System and method for syndicating media objects through a link to a media player using Real Simple Syndication (RSS). A content provider may not want to give direct access to a media object to a subscriber. Instead a content provider can give the subscriber a link to a media player...

20060129917 - Syndicating multiple media objects with rss: System and method for syndicating more than one media object in an <item> element using Real Simple Syndication (RSS). In one embodiment, multiple media objects with at least one shared characteristic are syndicated under the same <item>element. For example, a single media object can come in multiple formats and/or compression...

20060129919 - Disparate gis file format management system and method: A system, method, and computer program module for managing the conversion and distribution of disparate file format GIS files. The method involves the steps of first uploading source files to a server. Next, the steps of determining a list of desired formats for each source file, converting each source file...

20060129920 - Declarative mechanism for defining a hierarchy of objects: Described is a method and data structure that enables an object to be specified declaratively within a markup document. The markup document may be XML-based. In accordance with the invention, the object is written based on a mapping. The mapping includes a URL attribute for defining a location for a...

20060129921 - Declarative mechanism for defining a hierarchy of objects: Described is a method and data structure that enables an object to be specified declaratively within a markup document. The markup document may be XML-based. In accordance with the invention, the object is written based on a mapping. The mapping includes a URL attribute for defining a location for a...

20060129922 - Reading product fabrication methodology: A text enhancement method and apparatus for the presentation of text for improved human reading. The method includes extracting text specific attributes from machine readable text and varying the text presentation in accordance with the attributes. The preferred embodiment of the method: extracts parts of speech and punctuation from a...

20060129923 - System and method for identifying line breaks: Method, system, and computer code for preparing markup language documents containing multi-line text elements for WYSIWYG printing. The document is rendered in a prepress server system by a duplicate of the browser that was used to prepare the document in the client system. User-imposed line breaks are identified by reviewing...

20060129925 - Portable terminal and method of controlling the same: There are provided a portable terminal and a method of controlling the same with which it is possible to choose and display only data that is useful for users among contents existing on a communication network. A browser unit acquires a desirable contents source from a website by using reference...

20060129924 - System and method for yearbook creation: A yearbook system is provided. The yearbook system provides a single, extensive resource to plan, create, educate about, sell, and distribute yearbooks. The system further provides an integrated yearbook system management and yearbook production system to enable the production of the yearbook to a printed output. A yearbook server hosts...

20060129926 - User interaction when editing web page views of database data: An efficient approach is provided for handling changes made to the appearance of data in a Data View within a Web page editing program. Instead of immediately modifying the data to reflect each change entered by a user, the changes are accumulated until the user pauses in interacting with the...

20060129927 - Html e-mail creation system, communication apparatus, html e-mail creation method, and recording medium: A HTML e-mail creation system for creating a HTML e-mail message includes a display unit and a control circuit. The control circuit extracts one or plural character strings expressing emotions from text-formatted document information; determines an overall emotion of the HTML e-mail document information based on the one or plural...

20060129928 - Use of pointing device to identify ideographic characters: The invention includes methods and devices for selecting an ideographic character. A pointing device may be used to select a pinyin character, then one of more pinyin-groups and finally an ideographic character....

20060129929 - System and method for automatically completing spreadsheet formulas: A system and method for automatically completing a formula of a spreadsheet application, calculator application, accounting application, business application or banking application. One aspect of the present invention is a computer-implemented method for automatically completing formulaic cell data. The computer-implemented method includes a step for substantiating an autocomplete process in...

20060129930 - Display device, control method and program product: Software optimized to use fewer computer resources provides a more appropriate user interface. The invention provides a display device for displaying a screen specified by an instruction. The display includes a display screen, a display frequency setting and a transitioned destination screen. Display control responds to instructions to set the...

20060129931 - Integrated client help viewer for internet-based and local help content: An integrated help content viewer (user interface) is provided that gives a consistent user interface across multiple applications and that smoothly transitions between offline and online help content sources. A single client-side help content viewer is provided that is displayed over or adjacent to a given application user interface (e.g.,...

20060129932 - Task helpers: The present invention provides a set of task-based helpers that automatically generate formulas that complete a task for the user. In one embodiment, the task helpers automatically create a formula from one or more functions that help complete more complicated tasks. The present invention also provides embodiments of user interfaces...

20060129933 - System and method for multimedia authoring and playback: A multimedia authoring and playback system and method in which the playback of multimedia content is presented in one or more windows or displays called “playback displays,” and in which additional windows or displays called “control displays” are included in some embodiments to provide various management and control functions. Included...

20060129934 - Presentation engine: A presentation engine adapted for performing a presentation in accordance with a predefined decision tree is described. The decision tree is represented by an action table comprising a set of entries, each entry comprising an entry identifier. The presentation engine comprises an entry tracking unit adapted for finding a current...

20060129935 - Integrated information management system and method: Embodiments of present invention provide a portal to various applications to allow for easy and quick access to data. In some embodiments, a portal is configured to provide access to the data required to manage, create, and oversee contract data related to one or more programs for a government agency....

20060129936 - Method and system for implementing a browser object container: A method and system for implementing a browser object container is disclosed. In one exemplary embodiment, a method for implementing a browser object container comprises the steps of identifying content data for inclusion in a browser object container; defining one or more navigation options for defining how one or more...

20060129937 - 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...

20060129938 - 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...

20060129939 - Method for visualization of optical network topology: A method for the simultaneous graphical display of paths of optical wavelength channels in a telecommunications network together with one or more channel attributes is provided. The graphical display of the network also shows the direction of data flow transported by the channels. An audible or visual alarm for an...

20060129940 - User interface for managing multiple network resources: A method and system for displaying information related to a plurality of resources in a network environment. The system uses web technology to receive and store information related to back-end resources and to provide a framework by which client computer systems can manage the plurality of back-end resources in a...

20060129941 - System with macrocommands: In a home system, sequences of received user commands are stored. A matching unit determines whether matching sequences of commands are received repeatedly, or whether a sequence accomplishes an opposite effect. If so, the system adds a new macrocommand to a user interface. The new macrocommand becomes user-selectable so that,...

20060129942 - Collaborative platform: A system and method for providing a collaborative platform, the system including a server configured to create a collaborative back room folder environment on the server in response to a request from a renter, wherein the collaborative back room folder environment includes at least one parameter configurable by the renter,...

20060129943 - User interface and method for viewing short messages on a wireless device: A user interface and method for viewing short messages on a wireless device includes a viewing screen, a processor, a memory device and a message software interface module. The memory device stores electronic messages that have been transmitted or received by the wireless device. The message software interface module is...

20060129944 - Software notes: In a data processing system, a note can be displayed and an image can be displayed in the note. The image may be acquired by a camera such as photographic camera, a digital camera, or other camera....

20060129945 - Apparatus and method for pointer drag path operations: An apparatus and method for a graphical user interface allow performing operations simply by dragging a first object over a second object. One or more attributes of the second object are effectively “picked up” by virtue of dragging over the second object. In this manner, the user interface is more...

20060129946 - Seamless activation of a gui window in a computing environment: A method in a computing system with a graphical user interface (GUI) for installing a desk band is provided. The computing system comprises an operating system and a shell. An installation program is used to instantiate a desk band activator object within the context of the shell. The desk band...

20060129948 - Method, system and program product for a window level security screen-saver: Screensaver functionality is provided at the individual window level. A windows security module monitors the windows displayed by the computer to detect when a window becomes inactive in the display, for example by the user clicking and working within another window in the display. Upon becoming inactive, the windows security...

20060129947 - Method, system and program product for screensaver breakthrough of prioritized messages: Authorized priority alerts are permitted to “pop up” on top of a running screensaver in a computer display without suspending operation of the screensaver. A windows manager monitors for priority alerts from applications. If the screensaver is active in the display, the windows manager determines if the alert issuing application...

20060129949 - Multi-window information platform user interface: A multi-window information platform user interface is proposed, which is designed for use in conjunction with an information platform, particularly a portable intelligent electronic device, for providing the information platform with a multi-window user interface that allows the user to operate the various functional options of the information platform concurrently...

20060129950 - Red eye removal user interface for a portable device: A method of a user interface for red eye removal in a portable device includes displaying a first screen having an image and a first menu. If a user selects a first icon in the first menu, the method further includes displaying a second screen having the image after automatic...

20060129951 - Method and device for browsing information on a display: Information is browsed on a display device of a hand-held device naturally and logically essentially in a mirror-like way when the portion of the virtual data object displayed on the display device is moved in the same direction as the hand-held device is tilted. That is, the movements of the...

20060117246 - System and method for performing over time statistics in an electronic spreadsheet environment: A method and system for computing statistical parameters for sets of data items, by executing instructions of a computer program that is coded within a spreadsheet. Each set is generated in a time sequence that is specific to each set. For each time sequence, each data item is one data...

20060117247 - Web based data collaboration tool: A web based data collaboration tool includes a dynamic international collaborative environment in which system partners, including customers, technology partners and suppliers, can exchange information between one another in a truly collaborative environment. The web based data collaboration tool includes unique “fine grain” security at both the document and sub-document...

20060117249 - Document editor and method for editing document: The present invention provides a document editor and a method for editing document to facilitate the collaboration between users. The document editor comprises a user interface for editing and displaying document information; a dispatcher for identifying objects in the user interface and their identifiers according to object definition, and providing...

20060117251 - Method and system for converting a schema-based hierarchical data structure into a flat data structure: A method and system are provided for converting a hierarchical data structure into a flat data structure based on a schema. The format of the hierarchical data structure may be XML. A hierarchical data structure conforming to a schema is loaded into an application program. The data structure includes elements...

20060117250 - Method and system for inferring a schema from a hierarchical data structure for use in a spreadsheet: A method and system are provided for inferring a schema from an electronic document containing hierarchical data for use in a spreadsheet application program. The electronic document containing the hierarchical data is received into an application program. The application program may be a spreadsheet application program. The format of the...

20060117248 - Web screen creation method, program and server: Literal character strings and are described directly without using a JSP extension tag in a portion of source statements that displays a component displaying the content repeatedly on a web screen. A mechanism is prepared to construct a component tree containing components generated from the literal character strings through the...

20060117252 - Systems and methods for document analysis: A system for document analysis. A library stores a plurality of technical terms and relationship indices specifying relationships therebetween. A parser extracts first and second object hierarchies from a first and second document, wherein the first and second object hierarchies comprise a plurality of first and second reference objects, respectively....

20060117253 - Methods for altering the display of table data suitably for visualization within visible display widths: Computer-implemented systems and methods are provided for reformatting tabular data based on the known characteristics of a target display device that would otherwise be insufficient in terms of display resolution to retain the visual cues indicating relationships between data items, in a manner that introduces visual and positional consistency for...

20060117254 - Adding and removing white space from a document: A method, a computer system and a computer-readable medium having instructions for a processor stored thereon are provided for growing a page on a display. Input indicating a first position or designation of content on a page of an electronic document and an amount of white space to be inserted...

20060117255 - Applying type fitting across grouped text frames in a page layout application: Methods are disclosed for type-fitting text in multiple text frames of a page layout application. The text frames are associated with a group, and permissible variances of parameters of type fitting attributes are assigned to the group using a graphical user interface. In one embodiment, to type-fit the text, a...

20060117256 - Method of operating a web: A method of operating a web page includes the steps of displaying an article having an iframe on a web client. A website is inserted in the iframe....

20060117257 - System and method for processing javascript resource files: A system and method that locates and utilizes JavaScript national language resource files. A national language processing system for providing national language specific resources to be displayed in the Web page, including: a Web resource manager for providing a location of a JavaScript national language resource, wherein the Web resource...

20060117258 - User interface device: A device comprises a manipulandum moveable in at least two degrees of freedom including a first link rotatably moveable about a pivot axis and a second link rotatably moveable about a pivot axis. The first link and the second link are coupled to a ground member. A first actuator is...

20060117259 - Apparatus and method for adapting graphics contents and system therefor: Apparatus and method for adapting graphics contents and system therefore is provided. The apparatus and method provide the best experience of digital contents a user by adapting the digital contents to the user's graphics presentation preference. The apparatus for adapting graphics contents includes a graphics usage environment management unit and...

20060117260 - Grouping of representations in a user interface: Grouping of representations in a user interface is described. In an implementation, a method includes distinguishing a plurality of on-demand content items from a plurality of time-dependent content items that are described in data. A plurality of linearly-arranged groupings is formed, based on the distinguishing, for output in a user...

20060117261 - Method and apparatus for enabling a user to amend an audio file: There is a provided a method and apparatus for enabling a user to amend an audio file, via a user interface for controlling a driver for re-authoring the audio file. The method comprises the following steps: a) associating an icon on said user interface with one or more instruments or...

20060117262 - Creation of structural diagram of web site based on both physical links and semantic links of web pages of web site: A structural diagram for a web site based on both the physical links and the semantic links of the web pages of the web site is created by determining the physical links among the web pages of the web site and the semantic links among the web pages. The physical...

20060117264 - Graphical user interface for 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...

20060117263 - Method and system for inhibiting overlooking notifications in applications: The erroneous overlooking of notifications in applications is inhibited. In response to a request for closure of an application interface, for example, an instant messaging session window, two checks can be used. In the first, a check is made to see if the application interface has been selected since the...

20060117265 - Method for constructing user interface: One or a plurality of first components are selected, instructions to convert the first component into a second component which is different from the type of the first component are provided, the data corresponding to the first component is converted into the data corresponding to the second component, and the...

20060117266 - Information processing device, method for indicating items, and computer program product for indicating items: An information processing device, includes an indicating part capable for indicating plural items on an indication picture, an indication switch configured to switch the number of the items indicated on the indication picture of the indicating part, and an items indication control part configured to switch the number of items...

20060117267 - System and method for property-based focus navigation in a user interface: An improved system and method for focus navigation behavior specification in a user interface is provided. To this end, an application may include declarations that may associate a focus navigation resource with a user interface object and a focus navigation behavior may be dynamically selected for changing the input focus...

20060117268 - System and method for graphical element selection for region of interest compression: Systems and methods for graphical element selection with region of interest compression. The method includes determining a region of interest on a page and identifying a graphical element on the page. The method further includes associating the identified graphical element with the region of interest based on the position of...

20060117270 - Display parameter adjustment: A user interface for the adjustment of display parameters. The user interface includes a plurality of selectable icons arranged in a matrix, each icon having a visual cue indicating the display adjustment achieved by the selection of the icon. The visual cues may include level and window number values and...

20060117269 - Method for displaying multiple frames on small screen of communication device: The present invention discloses a method for displaying multiple frames on a small screen of a communication device, which comprises the steps of setting display width for all subwebs and root web of a webpage to its maximum while the communication device is used for browsing the webpage on the...

20060117271 - Pattern-based keyboard controls: Systems, methods, and computer program products implementing techniques for pattern-based keyboard controls. In one aspect, the techniques include storing a set of interaction patterns, storing a set of keyboard controls, and associating each of the interaction patterns with one or more of the keyboard controls. Each interaction pattern includes a...

20060117272 - Display and display program: A WebTV (a WebTV main unit) has: a display controller for displaying a Web page including a plurality of link information in which a linked page is set and which is divided into a plurality of areas on a display unit; an area switcher for inputting an area switching command...

20060117273 - High density visualizations for threaded information: High-density computer display visualization formats provide improved visualization of large amounts of threaded information. These visualization formats are suitable for a wide variety of threaded information environments including newsgroups, threaded Web discussions, chats, e-mail inboxes, etc. In one implementation, the threaded message visualization represents each post with a generally one-dimensional...