Data processing: presentation processing of document inventions 08/06

20060195777 - Data store for software application documents: A data store is provided for storing, relating and for allowing use of data associated with a computer-generated document. Data for structuring information associated with a document, such as document metadata, is maintained in the data store where relationships between different pieces of data are maintained in a location distinct...

20060195778 - Document management systems and methods: A computer implemented method for managing documents includes the steps of: creating a document profile that includes fields of attributes of a document and generating a unique identifier for the document. The unique identifier includes at least a first portion including information descriptive of an attribute of the document and...

20060195779 - Methods, systems and computer program products for maintaining a separation between markup and data at the client: Methods, systems and computer program products are provided for communicating data between a web application running on a server and a browser running on a client in a network environment. Information is requested at the client from the server. The requested information is received at the client. The requested information...

20060195780 - Psychology hierarchical experiment spreadsheet with pre-release event time synchronization: Creating and executing real-time psychological experiments with sub-millisecond time precision uses a Hierarchical Experiment Spreadsheet (HES) providing a hierarchical data structure and interface. The user adds/modifies experiment levels in a spreadsheet multilevel table representation. New objects and properties are added while maintaining the hierarchical structure of the experiment and prohibiting...

20060195781 - Integrating computer applications using groupware products: Techniques are described to enable a user to define an interactive form template that includes application attributes that are included in the processing computer application and are not otherwise included in the groupware application. At runtime, an instance of the interactive form is populated with attribute values from the processing...

20060195782 - Method and system for classifying and displaying tables of information: A table system includes a classification system and a display system. The classification system trains a classifier to classify tables of display pages as a data table or not a data table based on certain features of the tables. The display system identifies the tables of a display page, identifies...

20060195783 - Programmability for binding data: An object model allows code to be developed using a programming environment to access the functionality of an application, in a word processing application, for example. The object model may be used to manipulate one or more data bindings in an application. Code may also be developed using a programming...

20060195784 - Presentation of large objects on small displays: This invention relates to a method, a computer program product, a device and a system for formatting an object to obtain a formatted object, wherein the object comprises a plurality of elements, and wherein the formatted object is affected by at least one constraint, wherein the constraint is scaled by...

20060195785 - Automatically generated highlight view of electronic interactions: A system and method for generating a highlight view of electronic interactions, such as, emails, instant messages, audio messages and/or video messages is provided. The highlight view can facilitate a user's understanding of the electronic interactions. The electronic interactions can comprise emails associated with conversation threads of a discussion list...

20060195786 - Method and system to process video effects: A system and method of processing a video Instant Message (IM) is provided. The method may comprise receiving a captured video stream from an image capture device and selecting at least one video effect from a plurality of video effects. A modified video stream is then generated (e.g., using a...

20060195787 - Methods and apparatus for the composition and communication of digital composition coded multisensory messages (dcc msms): Disclosed are methods and apparatus for composing and communicating Digital Composition Coded Multisensory Messages (DCC MSMs). The present invention also relates to the design, composition, creation, and communication of the multisensory messages. Multisensory messages, while rich in content and meaning, are to be composable from a great variety of platforms,...

20060195788 - Tree system diagram output method, computer program and recording medium: A tree system diagram output method of correlating a plurality of objects and outputting the plurality of objects as a tree system diagram includes the steps of: (a) storing, in a first storing part, an identifier specific to each of the plurality of objects written on a first worksheet; (b)...

20060195789 - Media engine user interface: A user interface and associated computer readable medium for a user interface within a media management application. In one aspect, the user interface comprises a plurality of panes displaying a list of one or more media file sources, a list of user selectable media file identifiers, selected information associated with...

20060195790 - Method and system for exploring similarities: A method and computer readable medium for exploring similar users and items of a media service. In one aspect, a user can explore for similar users iteratively. In one aspect, a user interface is generated that displays a user selectable indicia representing a similar member function for allowing a user...

20060195791 - Pointright based point-of-presence system and architecture: An interactive workspace with multiple users and machines is characterized by an input redirection method whereby user-specific information is associated to the user input device that the user is controlling on one of the machines. The system allows the associated information to follow the user input device as it is...

20060195792 - System and method for audio/video equipment and display selection and layout thereof: A system and method enable to the optimized selection and layout of a display and related components based on customer preferences, light sources, room dimensions, viewing distance and other factors. The system and method also enable the interior design of the room in which the display will be situated based...

20060195793 - Method for operation of a medical information system: A method is provided for operation of a medical information system that comprises automatically generating an overall report from a plurality of individual reports created based on a planning list and transmitted to a data processing device via a telecommunication device, which individual reports comprise data acquired aided by medical-technical...

20060195794 - User interface element property customization: User interface element property customization is provided. An application requiring a user interface attempts to load a user interface modification resource. If the resource fails to load, a default user interface is provided. However, if the resource successfully loads, modifications set forth in the resource are applied to appropriate user...

20060195795 - System, a method and a computer program for transmitting an input stream: A system for transmitting an input stream for use with an apparatus comprising a plurality of entities (e.g. applications, processes etc.) wherein each entity comprises an associated entity profile having associated profile data. The system comprises: a focus component for detecting focus of a first entity and an intercept component...

20060195796 - Device and method for controlling menu display of microwave oven: The present invention relates to a device and method for displaying various menus of a microwave oven onto one screen. In the present invention, the various menus can be displayed onto one screen by using a tree structure or window structure. To this end, display control data are stored such...

20060195797 - Efficient document processing selection: The present invention is directed to system and method for providing a user with ease of document processing operation selection and ready assistance in retrieving information regarding the document processing operations and options available on a document processing device. The system provides a one-touch document processing operation selection screen, enabling...

20060195799 - Graphical user interface for filtering a population of items: Graphical user interface for filtering a population of items. The graphical user interface may be implemented as a method on a system comprising a computer server or other computing device. The system defines a library of available criteria to be used in filtering a population of items to identify items...

20060195798 - Method and apparatus for displaying and interacting with hierarchical information and time varying rule priority: A graphical interaction and authoring system is provided that combines textual and graphical information to display hierarchical information via an interactive visual mechanism for the composition and manipulation of syntactic structures, enabling business users to view, operate, and compose information in a way that not only graphically preserves the structure...

20060195800 - Apparatus for displaying screen and recording medium recording a program thereof: In the present invention, when a client device sends mouse operation information to a server device, the server device performs image processing based on the mouse operation information received from the client device, creates image data including a mouse pointer and sends the image data to the client device. The...

20060195801 - User interface with thin display device: A user interface includes a thin display device and at least one control device. The control device is associated with a portion of the thin display device. A method of implementing a user interface for a device includes displaying data about a function of the device on a thin display...

20060195802 - Screensaver display method and information processing system: There are provided a screensaver displaying method and an information processing system in which characters arbitrarily selected or input by a user can be displayed with a simple operation during starting of a screensaver in the screensaver started at a time when an IC card or the like is pulled...

20060190805 - Graphic-aided and audio-commanded document management and display systems: A document management system is disclosed in this invention. The document management system includes a document reading means for reading a document having textual descriptions and at least a drawing consisted of graphic elements each with an associated alpha-numeral designation. The document reading means is further provided for converting the...

20060190807 - Patent optimizer: Systems and methods are disclosed to analyze a patent document by receiving patent application text including background, description of drawings, description and claims; generating a claim chart showing claim dependencies; checking for antecedent, support in drawings, support in the description; generating a navigable claim hierarchy; and generating a diagnostic message...

20060190806 - Systems and method for deploying a software application on a wireless device: In an embodiment of a system and method for designing and deploying a mobile application in an online environment, defining a group and a user in an online browser client software application, creating a mobile GUI in the online browser client software application, mapping the online browser client software application...

20060190804 - Writing and reading aid system: A writing and reading assistant system helps a user to create a structured document and read a document. A structured document contains not only information as an ordinary document does but also properties and rules for holding, organizing and processing corresponding portions of information. The system helps the user as...

20060190809 - Method and apparatus to determine and use audience affinity and aptitude: Embodiments of the present invention provide method and apparatus for determining audience affinity and/or aptitude in portions of media works and for developing information that represent measures of the audience affinity and/or aptitude. Further embodiments of present invention provide method and apparatus for utilizing the information to create altered media...

20060190808 - Methods, systems, and processes for the design and creation of rich-media applications via the internet: Rich-media applications are designed and created via the Internet. A host computer system, containing processes for creating rich-media applications, is accessed from a remote user computer system via an Internet connection. User account information and rich-media component specifications are uploaded via the established Internet connection for a specific user account....

20060190810 - Techniques for validating multimedia forms: Techniques for creating and processing electronic forms that include at least one field that is configured to accept multimedia information as input. Techniques are provided for creating an electronic form comprising at least one field that is configured to accept multimedia information. Techniques are provided for specifying and associating a...

20060190811 - Information processing apparatus, control method therefor, and program: Setting for detecting a region of interest from data to be inserted into a field region in a page is performed. When target data is inserted into the field region, a region of interest in the data is detected in accordance with the setting. a size of the destination field...

20060190812 - Imaging systems including hyperlink associations: Computer pointing systems include schemes for producing image map type hyperlinks which are associated and stored integrally with image data from which they are derived. An object being addressed by a pointing system of is implicitly identified by way of its location and position relative to the pointing system. A...

20060190814 - 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....

20060190813 - Mobile device having extensible sofware for presenting server-side applications, software and methods: Data from an application executing at a computing device is presented at a remote wireless device, by providing the device an application definition file, containing a definition of a user interface for the application at the mobile device. Based on the definition file, the wireless device may receive data from...

20060190815 - Structuring data for word processing documents: An open file format is used to structure the features and data within a document associated with a word processing application. The file format simplifies the way a word processing application organizes document features and data, and presents a logical model that is easily accessible. The file format is made...

20060190816 - Conditional text manipulation: A document generation system for generating a customised document using content elements selected by rules operating on input information, the content elements comprising conditional and unconditional text is provided. The system provides means to generate a program structure, containing information about the space characters to be inserted between the conditional...

20060190817 - Filtering a collection of items: A user interface is provided wherein a set of items is displayed as a set of item representations (such as icons or thumbnails), and wherein a filtered subset of those items are visually identified in accordance with a user-defined criterion. All of the item representations are displayed on the screen...

20060190818 - Embedded interaction code document: Methods and apparatuses that synchronize a paper document to an associated digital document by establishing a mapping. An embedded interactive code (EIC) Document is created as a digital file that serves as an intermediate tier between the paper document and the digital document. Both the paper document and the EIC...

20060190819 - Communication terminal having a predictive text editor application: A method of searching for records in a database matching the string of ambiguous key strokes received by the input means, said database includes a plurality of records containing at least two words, and comprises reception of information representing a string of ambiguous key strokes, searching in said records for...

20060190820 - Techniques for multi-lingual data processing: A method and system for providing a multi-lingual user interface such as to collect responses to questionnaires. The method consists of first defining a meta level specification for the interface (typically as one or more database entries) wherein the meta level specification includes a language specifier, one or more page...

20060190821 - Programmable object model for mathematical expressions: A programmable object model for one or more mathematical expressions in a section of a document. The model can include a buildup module programmed to build up the one or more mathematical expressions in the section. The model can include a linearize function module programmed to convert the one or...

20060190822 - Predictive user modeling in user interface design: Dynamic modification of user interfaces is disclosed, based upon identification of the current state of the user and the sensing of a particular situation in which the user is involved and/or environment in which the user is situated. In particular, emotional and mental states of a user are identified and...

20060190823 - Haptic interface for palpation simulation: A palpation simulator comprises an interface for interfacing a user with a computer running a palpation simulation. The computer generates a graphical environment comprising a cursor and a graphical representation of at least a portion of a living body. In one version, a method comprises providing an object in communication...

20060190824 - Systems and methods for sharing screen-saver content: Systems and methods are disclosed for distributing content by automatically selecting one or more images as a multimedia presentation based on one or more criteria; and automatically disseminating the multimedia presentation to one or more subscribers....

20060190825 - Method and apparatus for presenting services according to a context of use: A device (100) employs a method (300) comprising the steps of defining (302) a context of use, according to the context of use, selecting (304) one or more services, combining (306) functions of the one or more services into an application, and presenting (308) a user interface (UI) on the...

20060190827 - Intergrated experience of vogue system and method for shared intergrated online social interaction: A novel application and user interface for facilitating group interactions over a network integrates messaging, file sharing, media playing, journaling, profiles, and gaming into a cohesive environment. The groups facilitated by the invention are persistent and mobile in that a user does not have to recollect and reconfigure the group...

20060190828 - Intergrated experience of vogue system and method for shared intergrated online social interaction: A novel application and user interface for facilitating group interactions over a network integrates messaging, file sharing, media playing, journaling, profiles, and gaming into a cohesive environment. The groups facilitated by the invention are persistent and mobile in that a user does not have to recollect and reconfigure the group...

20060190829 - Intergrated experience of vogue system and method for shared intergrated online social interaction: A novel application and user interface for facilitating group interactions over a network integrates messaging, file sharing, media playing, journaling, profiles, and gaming into a cohesive environment. The groups facilitated by the invention are persistent and mobile in that a user does not have to recollect and reconfigure the group...

20060190826 - Methods and apparatuses for dynamically sharing a portion of a display during a collaboration session: In one embodiment, the methods and apparatuses include: detecting a profile associated a presenter device wherein the profile indicates a hidden window; selectively sharing desktop content and excluding the hidden window with an attendee device wherein the desktop content corresponds with the presenter device; detecting a change in status of...

20060190830 - Space-efficient mail storing and archiving based on communication structure: The present invention relates to electronic mail. In particular, it relates to a method and system for processing electronic mail, wherein mails are stored in a space efficient way by removing redundancy from the content. Prior art is known for doing a limited version of this on a mail client....

20060190832 - Method and apparatus for displaying real-time messages by a mouse cursor: A method and apparatus for displaying real-time messages by a mouse cursor are disclosed. A setting unit sets a trigger condition for an event, and a monitoring unit monitors the event according to the trigger condition and thus generates a monitor result. A determining unit determines whether the event is...

20060190831 - System and method for delaying pop-up window: Automatic display of a pop-up window on a computer is delayed until a time period has elapsed since the last user keyboard entry or mouse manipulation, to avoid distracting the user while the user is busy inputting data....

20060190834 - Multi-layer graphical user interface: A multi-layer graphical user interface provides multiple types of information in at least two layers of a common display space, such as a window. In one implementation, a shared network folder includes two layers of display objects to separately represent files contained in the folder and users with whom the...

20060190833 - Single-handed approach for navigation of application tiles using panning and zooming: The subject invention provides a unique interactive system and method that facilitate single-handed navigation and interaction with applications within a display space on any type of mobile computing device. The system and method include or employ scalable application tiles corresponding to applications, whereby the application tiles can provide or indicate...

20060190835 - System and method for automating manual transactions between disjoint systems: A system, method and program product for copying data between disjoint data processing applications. A system is disclosed that includes: a source application having a system for selecting a data record and a triggering agent that extracts relevant data from the selected data record, launches a dialog box and displays...

20060190836 - Method and apparatus for data entry input: An apparatus and method of inputting data for an electronic data entry device are provided. In one embodiment, main keys on a keyboard of a device are used in which the main keys have multiple symbols or functions associated therewith, and one or more assisting keys of the device are...

20060190837 - Method for representing graphics objects and communications equipment: A method for representing graphic, wherein the graphic objects are located on a virtual surface field, which is larger than a display field, on which a section of the virtual surface is represented. Graphic objects that are located outside the represented section of the virtual surface field are projected onto...

20060190839 - Application sharing user interface improvements: An improved application sharing system and method are described wherein shared window data is treated according to different sets of rules depending upon the fraction of the shared window data that corresponds to the actual shared window. In this manner, occlusions of a shared window on a sharer display may...

20060190838 - Window stack control method, window management program, and window management apparatus: When controlling a window stack for managing a stack of windows in displaying a plurality of windows on a display unit (11) by a computer (7), each of the application programs (101, 102, and 103) assigns a window to a group, and the window management program (104) collectively arrange the...

20060190843 - Apparatus operating system: An apparatus operating system includes a display unit and an input operation apparatus. The display unit displays an electronic map and an operation menu included in a multi-layer hierarchical structure. The input operation apparatus is a rotary switch or joy-stick enabled to input an operation direction or operation amount. When...

20060190841 - Display apparatus and control method thereof: The present invention relates to a method of controlling a display apparatus having a user input part to manipulate a user control menu including at least one control item. The method involves displaying the user control menu in a halftone when a user control function is selected via the user...

20060190842 - Hand held display device and method: A hand held device for displaying information, the hand held device comprising: at least one information store storing information, the information being indexed or arranged by an indexing scheme or arrangement that defines an information hierarchy; a display for displaying information retrieved from said information store, and user selectable menu...

20060190840 - Semi-automated pipetting aid: A semi-automated pipetting apparatus has a computer monitor with a screen lying in at least a nearly horizontal plane. A screen protector is mounted over the screen. A processing unit runs a computer program and is in communication with the computer monitor to generate a screen display shown on the...

20060190844 - Configuring data structures: Methods and systems, including computer program products, implementing techniques for configuring data structures. The techniques include receiving a description of a logical structure of a data model, the logical structure comprising a first set of elements; displaying a first display structure in a graphical user interface (GUI), the first display...

20060190845 - Portable storage devices: A portable storage device comprises a nonvolatile memory, a nonvolatile memory area, an indicator, and a controller. When machine-readable data stored in the nonvolatile memory is altered, the controller automatically calculates utilization information of the nonvolatile memory and stores the same in the nonvolatile memory area. The indicator is coupled...

20060184865 - Method and system for managing an electronic document: A method and system for managing an electronic document. User input defining an electronic document is received. The electronic document includes a plurality of items requiring input from a plurality of reviewers of the electronic document. A workflow is automatically generated a based on the electronic document, wherein the workflow...

20060184867 - Method for reusing definitions in documents and monitoring thereof: A method for reusing, managing and monitoring definitions in documents. The new method suggests using a dedicated process that manages the ‘life cycle’ of the definitions called ‘the definition transitional states process’. This process keeps track of each definition version in a dedicated versions tree, state transition process and history/log...

20060184866 - Method of managing multiple resource identifiers: A method of managing multiple resource identifiers in a machine readable document comprises allocating one or more resource identifiers to a context. A base identifier including an identified path element is assigned to the context. A context identifier is further incorporated into the base identifier as a discardable path element....

20060184868 - Method for synchronizing the slide show with the background music: In general, the playing time of the slide show is not always just equal to that of the background music. Hence, it is desired to adjust their playing time interval. The present invention therefore provides a pleasant way to synchronize the playing time of the side show with that of...

20060184869 - System and method for dynamically updating web page displays: A system and method for dynamically updating a web page display. Web pages modification is accomplished by receiving a uniform resource locator (URL) message having embedded application parameters, selecting desired portions of the application parameters, modifying the web page with the selected portions, and displaying the modified web page to...

20060184870 - Form generation and modification system: A system advantageously eliminates the need for a new software release to implement modifications or a new version of an existing form, or to create a new form. The system provides data for incorporation in a form. An acquisition processor automatically acquires data representing information for incorporation in a form....

20060184872 - Presentation viewing tool designed for the viewer: The subject invention provides a unique system and method that facilitates a viewer's viewing experience of a presentation as shown on the viewer's own machine. The system and method provide the viewer with navigation and annotation control of the viewer's view of the presentation without affecting the presenter's presentation and/or...

20060184871 - User friendly interface for installing and playing content: A content display format that contains at least two levels of detail. In the first, or top level, there is a configuration of objects that designate different types of content for installing and playing on a player—for example, movies, music, photos, home video and a fifth option. Each of the...

20060184873 - Determining an acceptance status during document parsing: A method of parsing a markup-language document includes detecting, in a markup-language document, a start of a first data node of a first node type and identifying a first data definition associated with the first node type. The first data definition specifies defined contents of the first node type. The...

20060184874 - System and method for displaying an acceptance status: A method of parsing a markup-language document includes detecting, in a markup-language document, a start of a first data node of a first node type and identifying a first data definition associated with the first node type. The first data definition specifies defined contents of the first node type. The...

20060184875 - Browser program and content display device: The present invention is a browser program for a content display apparatus, such as a TV set or a DVD player. This browser program displays the same number of windows provided correspondingly to at least a part of multiple buttons provided to a controller of the content display apparatus by...

20060184876 - Information processing apparatus, control method therefor, and program: A partial layout area using a template is created in a page. Setting information on the template used in the created partial layout area is set. The layout of the template used in the created partial layout area is controlled on the basis of the setting information set for the...

20060184877 - Post-printing process support system, post-printing process support program, and post-printing process support method: A post-printing process support system, which supports a post-printing process relating to a print medium, includes: a print setting information acquisition section which acquires print setting information including a setting relating to a print format; an animation data generation section which generates, based on the print setting information acquired by...

20060184878 - Using a description language to provide a user interface presentation: A system is described for building a dialog-related user interface presentation. The system includes description language content (such as markup language content) which describes different aspects of the dialog-related user interface presentation. The system also includes generic resource content for providing various general purpose user interface resources that can be...

20060184879 - Valuable display of identification information: A system of patients' identification information for labeling, cross-checking and verifying files adaptable to appear on a display screen of a digital voice recorder to effect a physician's dictations of health-care information of patients into appropriate patients' named files....

20060184880 - Discoverability of tasks using active content wizards and help files - the what can i do now? feature: A computer implemented method of suggesting tasks to a user based upon their graphical user interface (GUI) browsing behavior is provided. In the method, a GUI element is selected or identified based upon the user's browsing behavior, for example based upon the user hovering a pointer over the GUI element....

20060184881 - Content-producing device, output device and computer-readable medium: A tool capable of easily producing a presentation content based on image exhibition is provided. The system allowed for making a presentation while taking an image of a material put on a material base of a material-presenting device by an imager device and projecting the image onto a screen. The...

20060184882 - Methods and apparatus for providing graphical indicators and inline controls for relating and managing portlets in a graphical user interface: The present invention concerns methods and apparatus for implementing an interactive graphical user interface having the ability to graphically depict the relationships between or among multiple portlets. In one aspect, the present invention relates a child sub-portlet to a parent portlet with at least one graphical indicator when the child...

20060184883 - System and method for linking workflow to user input via a portal: A system and method are provided for linking workflow to user input via a portal application. The system includes a portal application having a plurality of portal pages and a workflow system running a workflow process including a plurality of activities, wherein an activity in the workflow process is linked...

20060184884 - Virtual window and room treatments: An online interface allowing designers, end users and store representatives, etc. . . . involved in material selection process for window treatment, furniture, wall finish, flooring, accessories, interior designing etc. . . . to select different materials from catalog books by multiple suppliers, view effects of it's combinations and exchange...

20060184885 - Scheduling parts of meetings using electronic calendars: Methods and computer program products for scheduling parts of meetings using electronic calendars. A recipient receives an electronic meeting invitation for a first period of time from an originator. The recipient may accept the invitation for a second period of time, where the second period of time is shorter than...

20060184886 - Spatial chat in a multiple browser environment: A web browsing environment that provides a graphical spatial context to associate web sites to one another and allows for interaction between users browsing the space is provided....

20060184887 - Method and apparatus for managing internet transactions: The object-oriented approach used by the present invention provides the ability to develop and manage Internet transactions. Local applications can be accessed using any workstation connected to the Internet regardless of the workstation's configuration. Some or all of a Web page can be generated dynamically using input received in a...

20060184888 - Using existing content to generate active content wizard executables for execution of tasks: A computer implemented method of converting existing content files into an active content wizard executable file is provided, along with systems and tools for doing the same. In the method, an existing content file is converted into a corresponding file in an active content wizard schema. A database of user...

20060184890 - Context menus for multi file operations: A computer-implemented method is presented for providing a user with entries of a context menu. The entries are selectable by the user for an operation of an application program requiring a plurality of files. The method comprises receiving a first identification of a first file selected from a context of...

20060184889 - Methods and apparatus for implementing inline controls for transposing rows and columns of computer-based tables: The present invention concerns methods and apparatus for implementing the ability to transpose rows and columns of a table displayed in a graphical user interface of a computer system. In embodiments of the invention, at least one in-line table row and column control is incorporated in the table; when selected,...

20060184892 - Method and system providing for the compact navigation of a tree structure: A method and system are described providing for the compact navigation of a tree structure. According to an exemplary embodiment, a path in the tree structure is displayed. A selection component is included in the displayed path to represent a level of the tree structure at which there exists a...

20060184891 - Simplified interactive graphical user interfaces for display systems by removal of inactive windows after a time-out period: A user friendly display interface system for simplifying the user interactive display interface through removal of inactive windows comprising the combination of an implementation for determining whether each of said plurality of windows is active, an implementation for presetting an initial time period for which each of said plurality of...

20060184893 - Graphics controller providing for enhanced control of window animation: A graphics controller providing for enhanced window control interfaces between a host and a graphics display device. The graphics controller includes a memory, a fetching module and a window translating module. The memory stores at least a portion of the image data corresponding to a first window of image data...

20060184894 - Global window management for parent/child relationships: A mechanism is provided for maintaining some global windowing context to parent/child relationships. When a current window spawns a child window, a data structure stores the parent/child relationship within the window hierarchy. A cascading menu indicates to the user the contextual relationship of a current window to related windows. The...

20060184895 - Visibly persisting one or more computer desktop windows: A method and system for allowing selected applications to be visually persistent without obscuring or being obscured by other visually non-persistent applications is presented. Selected visually persistent applications are permanently assigned a first portion of a Graphical User Interface (GUI) display area. Subsequently opened visually non-persistent applications are then assigned...

20060184898 - Context menu dependency on many objects of different type: A computer implemented method is represented for providing to a user a context menu with entries representing relationships. The relationships are applicable to relate objects selected from a set of objects. The method comprises following method operations: receiving a first identification of a first selected object from the set of...

20060184897 - Information retrieval apparatus and method: Apparatus for retrieving information from at least one information source, the information being indexed or arranged by an indexing scheme or arrangement that defines an information hierarchy, the apparatus comprising: a display for displaying information and user selectable menu items; a user input device for receiving user selections of displayed...

20060184896 - Process for optimized navigation in display menus of a mobile terminal and associated mobile terminal: p

20060184899 - System and method for context specific content handling: A system, method and computing device are provided for context specific content handling. An application program is executed which calls an information viewing and selecting program to select and retrieve content from a remote system. Information regarding the context from which the viewing and selecting program was called by the...

20060184900 - Apparatus and method for processing image, computer program and recording medium: An image processing apparatus including a storage unit for storing icons to be displayed on a display screen, and a table managing information relating to the icons, a creating unit for creating a list registering only displayed icons by referencing the table, and a generating unit for generating display data...

20060184901 - Computer content navigation tools: Computer content navigation tools and associated methods are disclosed. One aspect of the invention is directed toward a computer-implemented method for providing content navigation information that includes displaying a navigation tool that proportionally represents a range of locations in a displayable content set. The method can further include displaying one...

20060184902 - Method, apparatus, and computer program product for an enhanced mouse pointer: A method, apparatus, and computer program product are disclosed for selecting links in a page using an enhanced mouse pointer. The page is displayed in a data processing system that includes a mouse that includes a scroll wheel. Multiple links are included in the page. A standard mouse pointer is...

20060174186 - Computer generation of documents using layout elements and content elements: Bindings are used to describe a document (and a different document) by associating content elements with layout elements, the layout elements defining layout features or placement information to be applied to the associated content elements in the document, the bindings being stored separately from both the content and layout elements....

20060174187 - System and method for a look and feel designer with a page-view interface: The present invention relates to systems, methods, and computer readable media for editing the look and feel of web portal content. An editor enables a user to select a node in an HTML document and to view a list of style properties for the HTML document. The editor then presents...

20060174188 - System and method for a look and feel designer with a skin editor: The present invention relates to systems, methods, and computer readable media for editing the look and feel of web portal content. An editor enables a user to select a node in an HTML document and to view a list of style properties for the HTML document. The editor then presents...

20060174189 - Focusing on areas of the display of tabular data through hierarchical collapsing and expanding of cell areas: A method, apparatus and program product for focusing the display of tabular data wherein the display has multiple rows and columns of cells. A computer running a tabular data application includes a display for displaying the tabular data. The tabular data application includes a routine for defining a user defined...

20060174190 - Techniques supporting collaborative product development: A plurality of artifacts, in a plurality of repositories, are maintained under revision control. A plurality of artifact tuples, in another repository, are maintained under revision control. At least one first artifact tuple comprise first information providing access to at least one of the artifacts. At least one second artifact...

20060174191 - Information processing apparatus and method and storage medium storing information processing program: This invention provides an information processing apparatus including a display that displays document data and an annotation attached to the document data and a display controller that controls how and where the annotation is displayed, and when a display position of the annotation is fixed, causes the display to indicate...

20060174193 - Document processing apparatus and method, and document processing system: In a conventional system in which a structured document is uploaded, and a server performs layer management by dividing the structured document into page units, the user must designate a layer management instruction or must prepare for another batch designation file after uploading. In a document processing system according to...

20060174192 - Export to excel: The method may include generating a plurality of reports where the plurality of reports comprise data from a database, generating at least one report document from the plurality of reports, the at least one report document comprising a plurality of rows, the at least one report document further comprising at...

20060174194 - Layout decision method, apparatus, and program: This invention provides a layout decision method, apparatus, and program which can preferably hide a container by performing masking corresponding to a template whose layout is decided in accordance with the size of contents pasted within the container in variable data printing. For this purpose, data are inserted into a...

20060174195 - System and method for a look and feel designer with a style sheet editor: The present invention relates to systems, methods, and computer readable media for editing the look and feel of web portal content. An editor enables a user to select a node in an HTML document and to view a list of style properties for the HTML document. The editor then presents...

20060174196 - Advanced translation context via web pages embedded with resource information: A computer automatically changes a web page that would otherwise be normally generated by a first application program (such as a web-conferencing tool for example) in a first language (e.g. English), by adding metadata to one or more translatable text strings in the web page. The changed web page is...

20060174197 - Interactive visual interface for websites and other electronic media that will deliver both content and push content such as advertising: A system and method of designing electronic media, such as websites, that creates forced breaks in the viewing process. This system and method enables the delivery of advertisements or other push content to the viewer during said forced break....

20060174198 - Web page thumbnails and user configured complementary information provided from a server: A method for presenting content from the page in a distributed database. In a preferred embodiment, a server receives a request from a client for a page from the database wherein the page has a plurality of links to linked pages in the database. The server retrieves the page and...

20060174199 - Web-based design system: A system and method for designing or customizing a product, web page, or other item, via a global computer network. The system includes a web server, a client computer, a PDF rendering engine, and a manufacturing computer. A user may select preliminary design choices form a web page at the...

20060174200 - Method and system to layout topology objects: A method to correlate and consolidate a plurality of events may include consolidating each of the plurality of events to form a multi-personality event. Each event may be emitted from a respective one of a plurality of components forming an event producer in response to an incident affecting the event...

20060174201 - Strategies for alerting users to events that have transpired in their absence: While You Were Away (WYWA) functionality is described for alerting a user to events which have transpired between a time that the user ceases interaction with an electronic environment and a time that the user resumes interaction with the electronic environment. The detected events may include news stories, Email messages,...

20060174202 - Input to interface element: In one embodiment, a method determines whether a first input is directed at a first interface element defined in a hierarchical structure and a second input is directed at a second interface element defined in the hierarchical structure....

20060174205 - Estimating shared image device operational capabilities or resources: This disclosure describes a number of devices or techniques that can be capable of obtaining an operational capacity for a shared image device; estimating at least one operational resource to perform a transformation of one or more images based at least in part on the obtaining the operational capacity; and...

20060174204 - Shared image device resolution transformation: A mechanism or technique able to convert the resolution of at least a portion of an image at least partially at a shared image device, and the shared image device can share the at least the portion of the image....

20060174206 - Shared image device synchronization or designation: In certain aspects, designating an attribute of at least one shared image at least partially with a designating shared image device that can be utilized to capture an image with at least one capturing shared image device. In other aspects, synchronizing a capturing shared image device to a sharing session...

20060174203 - Viewfinder for shared image device: A technique includes receiving one or more captured shared image representations at a displaying shared image device from one or more shared image devices. At least one of the displaying shared image device and the one or more shared image devices configurable to capture one or more image representations. The...

20060174207 - Systems and methods for implementing a user interface for multiple simultaneous instant messaging, conference and chat room sessions: An exemplary method involves displaying a single user interface window having one or more of a list area, a messages area, and a message creation area. The method also involves displaying in the list area information about at least one one-to-one instant messaging session and/or at least one conference instant...

20060174208 - User interface in a mobile station: A method for processing a user interface in a mobile station comprises segregating application program data for constructing the user interface such that content data is separate from display style data, and storing the segregated application program data. The method also comprises constructing the user interface such that the content...

20060174209 - Graphic-information flow method and system for visually analyzing patterns and relationships: A novel display control and information management system seamlessly integrates layered and slotted formatted data from local and remote sources to provide a highly versatile information display. The system permits selective control of display and display features so that complex data and data flows can be seamlessly accessed with enhanced...

20060174210 - System and method for configuring electronic data capture and data management systems for clinical trials: The present invention includes aspects of a designer program or tool for customizing a clinical trial program to a particular protocol of a particular clinical trial. The designer program includes visual cues or mechanisms for organizing trial components within the designer program in a straightforward manner such that technically low...

20060174211 - Methods, apparatus and data structures for providing a user interface which facilitates decision making: A user interface for facilitating a decision making process, such as planning a trip. A unified view of various types of information related to an event may be provided. The unified view may be presented in a simulated three-dimensional environment having different types of information depicted on different windows. Different...

20060174212 - Information presentation on wide-screen displays: A graphic user interface optimized for the presentation of information from a file on a wide-screen display comprising: a) a windowed display having at least first and second information presentation sections for concurrently displaying portions of sequential information from the file; and b) a common scrolling mechanism for changing the...

20060174213 - Displaying apparatus, displaying method, displaying program, and recording medium holding displaying program: A displaying apparatus is disclosed which displays part of a target object in magnified fashion and scrolls what is being displayed of the target object in accordance with instructions from a user. The displaying apparatus includes an inputting device operable to input the instructions from the user, and a controller...

20060174214 - System and method for navigation of content in multiple display regions: A system and method for a user interface which allows for the navigation of content in multiple display regions. Each of two or more sets of content is associated with regions on a display. A unitary navigation control enables simultaneous navigation of the two or more sets of content in...

20060174215 - Method and system for a digital device menu editor: A method of creating a menu for a handheld digital device in a development environment includes selecting a target device which has an associated operating system available to the development environment. An editor is called for creation of the menu. The editor uses the constraints of the associated target device...

20060174216 - Providing additional hierarchical information for an object displayed in a tree view in a hierarchical relationship with other objects: Provided are a method, system and program for providing additional hierarchical information for an object displayed in a tree view in a hierarchical relationship with other objects. A representation of the hierarchical arrangement of the objects is displayed. Selection is received of one object in the displayed hierarchical arrangement and...

20060174217 - Method and system for a target device display simulation: A method of viewing a high resolution display on a low resolution development system display for a digital device includes selecting a target device and identifying an image form for the selected device. An image form displays a realistic form of the selected target device. A form factor is selected...