Data processing: presentation processing of document inventions 12/06

20060294450 - Action stickers for nested collections: A user affixes one or more action stickers to a collection coversheet to identify, by location on the coversheet, target documents within a previously stored collection of documents. The action stickers also specify actions to be performed on the target documents. The coversheet is scanned and the affixed stickers are... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20060294452 - System and method for managing document data, image forming apparatus and recording medium: A system and method are provided that are capable of managing data of documents such as materials and data of information that is written into the documents in a user-friendly manner compared to conventional systems and methods. An image forming apparatus is provided with an original document registration process portion... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20060294451 - Template for rendering an electronic form: Systems and/or methods are described that enable an electronic form to be rendered using a template. The template may be independent of the electronic form's current state or instance. In one embodiment, the systems and/or methods build a rendering file to render a current instance of an electronic form using... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20060294453 - Document creation/reading method document creation/reading device document creation/reading robot and document creation/reading program: The audio/image inputting means 10 generates image data by recording a meeting and audio data by recording the contents of the meeting. The document inputting means 20 generates document data including a drafted minutes of a meeting or the like inputted by a person who creates the minutes of a... Agent: Whitham, Curtis & Christofferson & Cook, P.C.

20060294454 - Program, information processing method, and information processing apparatus: An information processing method displays information including at least one processing region subject to processing and displays a cursor on the displayed information. The method includes assigning the processing region to an operating element of an operation input device in accordance with a positional relationship between a cursor display position... Agent: C. Irvin Mcclelland Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20060294455 - Method and system for efficiently processing comments to records in a database, while avoiding replication/save conflicts: A method and system for displaying comment documents within a parent document that avoids replication/save conflicts regardless of the number of users having local document replicas. The graphical user interface to a parent document provides the user with the ability to enter a comment with regard to the parent document.... Agent: Lotus And Rational Software Steubing Mcguinness

20060294459 - Method and apparatus for end-to-end content publishing system using xml with an object dependency graph: The system for end-to-end content publishing using XML with an object dependency graph is based on the following two design principles: First, separation of content and style: Information stored in the content management system is independent on how it is going to be presented. The presentation style is encapsulated elsewhere... Agent: Fleit, Kain, Gibbons, Gutman, Bongini & Bianco P.l.

20060294458 - System and method for a subsection designer: Embodiments provide methods and mechanisms for organizing portal content that can enable a newly created portal element, i.e., a subsection of a portal, to be persisted as an externally, self-contained entity that can be created for the element and referenced by a control tree for the portal. A control tree... Agent: Fliesler Meyer, LLP

20060294457 - System and method for configuring a document: Embodiments of the present invention enable efficient presentation of user information. A user identifier is presented on a page. In response to a selection of a user identifier, one or more user information modules are utilized to return information relating to the user. The user information modules are modules that... Agent: Fliesler Meyer, LLP

20060294456 - Voice mark-up language and interpreter: A voice markup language for a service for a telecommunication service platform, the telecommunication service platform having a communication layer and a session layer, the language comprising an application transfer tag, the application transfer tag comprising an identifier corresponding to a further service provided on the telecommunication service platform, wherein... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20060294460 - Generating a text layout boundary from a text block in an electronic document: Methods, systems and machine-readable instructions for processing an electronic document are described. In one aspect, logical blocks that were extracted from the electronic document, including a text block comprising text lines each encompassed by a respective bounding rectangle, are received. Edges of ones of the bounding rectangles are extended to... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20060294461 - Related web contents synchronization and presentation system and method: A system including a site specifying portion for receiving an identifier of a base site that becomes the basis of a displayed presentation and receives an identifier of a compared site displayed in a language different from that of the base site, a base page specifying portion that specifies a... Agent: Snell & Wilmer LLP

20060294462 - Method and apparatus for the automatic completion of composite characters: The automatic completion of composite characters is supported by the generation of lists of candidate words or characters. Such lists may be generated by specifying letters or word shapes that are required to be included in candidate words or characters, independent of the order in which a specified letter or... Agent: Sheridan Ross P.C.

20060294463 - Localizing a java gui application without source code modification and rebuilding: A method, computer system and computer program product localize a source language user interface of software application to a target language user interface. While the software application is executing using the source language user interface, source language GUI component text of a GUI component is extracted from bytecode of the... Agent: International Business Machines CorpIPLaw

20060294464 - User interface apparatus capable of providing support to user: Necessity/no necessity for user support (such as enlarged display) is registered for each user or for each screen displayed on the apparatus. A user using the apparatus is specified by means of user authentication. Every time the screen is to be displayed, it is done based on information of necessity/no... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20060294465 - Method and system for creating and distributing mobile avatars: A method and system for creating mobile avatars, customizing or personalizing mobile avatars and distributing mobile avatars including real-time updates thereof across a wireless network. A mobile avatar of a service subscriber is stored in mobile clients across the wireless network, and the mobile avatar is retrieved from the mobile... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20060294466 - Accessible list navigation: Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, apparatus and computer program product for accessible list navigation. In one embodiment of the invention, a user interface article of manufacture configured for accessible list navigation can include markup defining a list including multiple list item, an obscured marker associated with at... Agent: Steven M. Greenberg, Esquire Christopher & Weisberg, P.A.

20060294467 - System and method for enabling collaborative media stream editing: A system and method for editing multimedia content. A server transmits multimedia content to a plurality of electronic devices. Each of the plurality of electronic devices enables a user to perform at least one action in relation to the multimedia content. A a voting engine gathers information concerning the actions... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20060294468 - Storage and utilization of slide presentation slides: Slide presentation files may be separated into one or more individual slide files, and the one or more individual slide files may be stored in a remote or local slide library. Stored individual slide files are populated with metadata for allowing subsequent search and location of individual slide files. A... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20060294469 - Storage and utilization of slide presentation slides: Slide presentation files may be separated into one or more individual slide files, and the one or more individual slide files may be stored in a remote or local slide library. Stored individual slide files are populated with metadata for allowing subsequent search and location of individual slide files. A... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20060294470 - Method and apparatus for binding user interface objects to application objects: A graphical user interface (GUI) and accompanying functionality for binding Web page definitional elements to a back-end state (e.g., client- or server-side back-end state) and custom logic is provided. In one embodiment, a template containing definitional elements, custom logic, and bindings are generated that define all or a portion of... Agent: Van Pelt, Yi & James LLP And Apple Computer, Inc.

20060294471 - Method for data transfer: A method for dragging and dropping data from secondary html to primary html. The method includes the steps of selecting secondary html data in a first window; dragging the secondary html data to a second window; converting the secondary html data to primary html data; and saving the primary html... Agent: Devine, Millimet & Branch, P.A.

20060294472 - User interface with figures mapping to the keys, for allowing a user to select and control a portable electronic device: The present invention relates to a user interface with figures mapping to the keys, for allowing a user to select and control a portable electronic device, the portable electronic device comprises a display device, and a plurality of hardware keys are disposed on the portable electronic device to form a... Agent: Troxell Law Office PLLC One Skyline Place

20060294473 - Page bar control: Graphical user interfaces for computer display devices include a page bar control element that allows a user to easily and quickly navigate among the pages of a multiple page electronic document and/or among the pages of a plurality of electronic documents. In some examples, the page bar control element displayed... Agent: Banner & Witcoff Ltd., Attorneys For Client Nos. 003797 & 013797

20060294474 - Methods and systems for providing a customized user interface for viewing and editing meta-data: Systems and methods are disclosed for providing a user interface. The disclosed systems and methods may include receiving a request to initiate an application program configured to generate a data file. Furthermore, the disclosed systems and methods may include displaying, by the initiated application program, a property panel in response... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20060294476 - Browsing and previewing a list of items: Integrating the browsing and previewing of a list of items. A list of items is provided for display in a first display area. A list of content abstracts corresponding to the list of items is displayed in the second display area. As the user selects one of the items displayed... Agent: Senniger Powers (msft)

20060294475 - System and method for controlling the opacity of multiple windows while browsing: A method referred to as x-ray browsing for allowing a user to browse through windows on their desktop is provided. Aspects of the invention include responsive to a command, making a first window the window in focus on the display screen and changing the relative opacities between a content portion... Agent: Banner & Witcoff Ltd., Attorneys For Client Nos. 003797 & 013797

20060294477 - Portable electronic device with the ability of directly inserting image data into a menu and its method: The present invention relates to a portable electronic device with the ability of directly inserting image data into a menu, which comprises: a display device, for displaying data; an image capturing device, coupled to the display device, for capturing image data; a memory device, for temporarily storing the image data;... Agent: Troxell Law Office PLLC One Skyline Place

20060288266 - Asynchronous distribution of stage-based information in printed format: A system and method for asynchronously distributing stage-based information in printed format, such as a newsletter, book, or printed magazine. Stages of a process are identified that are independent of a continuum of time. A customized magazine edition is prepared for each of the stages. Based upon registration information provided... Agent: Philip S. Johnson Johnson & Johnson

20060288265 - Multi-layered data model for determining image choice across a set of audience-specific documents: A multi-layered data model for determining image choice across a set of audience-specific documents comprising language, regional, regulatory and/or cultural differences. Enables generation of audience-specific documents with audience specific images and audience-specific image placement based on inheritance of images and image metadata associated with hierarchical audiences. For data entry, enables... Agent: Dalina Law Group, P.C.

20060288267 - Pre-formulated spreadsheet cell groups: A computer-readable medium having computer-executable modules includes a computer spreadsheet application including a series of cells arranged in addressable rows and columns, and at least one set of linked cells having an embedded function and position relative to other cells in the series of cells, the embedded function being linked... Agent: Vierra Magen/microsoft Corporation

20060288268 - Method for extracting, interpreting and standardizing tabular data from unstructured documents: A system, method, and computer program for automatically identifying, parsing, and interpreting tabular data from unstructured documents stored in various formats such as ASCII text, Unicode text, HTML, PDF text, and PDF image format is provided. A set of table identification, parsing/tokenizing, and interpreting/mapping rules are developed with grammar descriptors.... Agent: William L. Botjer

20060288269 - System and method for electronic document generation and delivery: A system and method for generating and delivering an electronic form to a user. One embodiment of the disclosed system comprises a file management sub-system for receipt and management of at least one standard form in electronic format. The system also includes a user sub-system for selection of a desired... Agent: Ice Miller LLP

20060288270 - Automated presentation layer generation: systems and methods of automatically generating user interface forms (e.g., templates), from messages associated with Schemas, via employing a normalizer component, which normalizes a schema into a hierarchy of objects containing complex schema nodes, and a mapping component that maps the nodes to user interface (UI) controls. As such, a... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20060288271 - Conceptual apportionment and ordering in columns of the written speech for easier comprehensible and fasten readable texts: Production of printed or otherwise produced easier comprehensible and faster readable texts in the mode of columnar notional arrangement, in which the texts are written in columns and consecutive lines in these columns comprise sets of consecutive words, wherein phrases of the original text have been apportioned so as to... Agent: Gerou George

20060288272 - Computer-implemented method, system, and program product for developing a content annotation lexicon: A method, system and program product developing an annotation lexicon are described. Under aspects of the present invention, annotation(s) to piece(s) of content are received and analyzed using one or more computational analyses. Based on the analyses, feedback will be generated to improve the annotation lexicon and/or the ontology thereof.... Agent: Hoffman, Warnick & D'alessandro LLC

20060288273 - Event-driven annotation techniques: Techniques for annotating or bookmarking digital information. The digital information is annotated based upon events determined from the digital information. The digital information that is annotated may comprise one or more types of information including but not restricted to video information, audio information, images, documents, slides information, whiteboard information, notes... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20060288275 - Method for classifying sub-trees in semi-structured documents: A method and system for classifying semi-structured documents by distinguishing sub-tree structural information as a distinct representative characteristic of a fragment of the document structure identified by a sub-tree node therein. The structural information comprises both an inner structure and an outer structure which individually can be exploited as representative... Agent: Fay, Sharpe, Fagan, Minnich & Mckee, LLP

20060288276 - Structured document processing system: When analyzing two XML documents and merging data, record tags are specified in each XML document, and data enclosed with the record tags is stored as a group of text data. Then, by retrieving text from the text data, data needed for a process is detected and used for the... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20060288274 - System for creating markup language documents at a receiving display station having multiple contexts from multiple secured sources on a communication network, e.g. the web with visual indicators for identifying content and security: Creating a markup language hypertext document having multiple contents, respectively, from multiple sources comprising an implementation for providing multiple contents for a created markup language hypertext document from a plurality of sources including said interactive display stations, and for tracking the source of each of the multiple contents in the... Agent: Ibm Corporation Intellectual Property Law

20060288277 - Communication apparatus and display method: A communication apparatus and display method are capable of displaying one frame of a plurality of frames, and displaying automatically an appropriate frame for a user in the case that there are changes in display contents. A display part displays screen data while enlarging a frame which is specified by... Agent: C. Irvin Mcclelland Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20060288278 - Document processing apparatus and method: A document processing apparatus includes a layout analysis unit which extracts document elements by analyzing data of a document, determines relationship between the document elements, extracts a group of mutually related document elements as an object and an independent document element as an object, and generates structure information defining one... Agent: C. Irvin Mcclelland Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20060288279 - Computer assisted document modification: A method, apparatus, and system are disclosed for computer assisted document modification. One embodiment is a method for software execution. The method automatically extracts articles, in a first phase, from documents to generate different zones of the articles. Different zones of the extracted articles are displayed. In a second phase,... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20060288280 - User-defined changing of page representations: This invention relates to a method for generating a changed representation of a page object, wherein the page object is one of a page and a part of the page, the method comprising retrieving (201; 301) the page object in response to a request (200; 300) for the page; dividing... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20060288281 - Method of determining unicode values corresponding to the text in digital documents: A method of determining Unicode values corresponding to the text in digital documents includes: providing a digital document containing information related to the text in the document, the information including at least one set of data selected from the group consisting of: the numerical character code comprised by a single... Agent: Jansson, Shupe, Munger & Antaramian, Ltd

20060288282 - Least-effort variable-length text replacement: A computer-implemented method of processing text. A method includes providing a unit of text to a text buffer. The unit of text is divided into one or more shift blocks and one or more replacement blocks. Based on a replacement operation of replacing each replacement block with replacement text, a... Agent: Fish & Richardson, P.C.

20060288283 - Presenting message detectable by screen reader application: A method of visually presenting a message includes detecting that a screen reader application is being used in a computer system having a graphical user interface (GUI). The GUI presents messages of a first type by displaying a popup window and presents messages of a second type in a predefined... Agent: Fish & Richardson, P.C.

20060288284 - System and method for visualizing contextual-numerical data of source documents as corresponding transformed documents: A system and method are provided for visually distinguishing a plurality of numerical elements from a plurality of non-numeric elements in source data, in which the plurality of non-numeric elements providing context for the numerical elements. The system and method comprise the modules and corresponding functionality for selecting a portion... Agent: Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP 1 First Canadian Place

20060288285 - Method and system for validating the content of technical documents: An automatic document validation system that can be trained to extract domain-specific entities and their linguistically-associated physical, abstract or relational properties, as described within an electronic document. Training of the system can be achieved through the provision of a set of example documents representative of the domain and that have... Agent: Fulwider Patton

20060288287 - Method of recording a plurality of graphic objects and processing apparatus thereof: A method for recording a plurality of graphic objects is disclosed. Each graphic object includes at least one common parameter and at least one object data. The method includes recording the at least one common parameter corresponding to the plurality of graphic objects in a common parameter section; and respectively... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20060288289 - Method of reproducing previous audio file in multimedia device and multimedia device using the same: Provided is a method of reproducing a previous audio file in a multimedia device having a main memory and a hard disk drive. According to the method, when a user inputs a previous audio file reproduction command, whether the multimedia device is in an audio file reproducible state is determined.... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20060288288 - Methods and interfaces for event timeline and logs of video streams: Techniques for generating timelines and event logs from one or more fixed-position cameras based on the identification of activity in the video are presented. Various embodiments of the invention include an assessment of the importance of the activity, the creation of a timeline identifying events of interest, and interaction techniques... Agent: Fliesler Meyer, LLP

20060288286 - User interfaces for collaborative multi-locale context-aware systems management problem analysis: A method to provide user interfaces for multi-locale context-aware systems management problem analysis comprises receiving a request for information associated with a systems management event, dynamically identifying a first locale designation associated with a first user of a systems management tool and a second locale designation associated with a second... Agent: Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel, P.C.

20060288290 - Recording medium, reproduction apparatus, recording method, program, and reproduction method: A BD-ROM has recorded therein an AV Clip generated by multiplexing a video stream and a graphics stream. The graphics stream represents an interactive display to be overlayed with the video stream, and includes a sequence of three Button State groups. The interactive display includes a plurality of buttons, each... Agent: Snell & Wilmer L.L.P.

20060288291 - Anchor person detection for television news segmentation based on audiovisual features: A video segmentation method for segmenting video clips according to content of the video clips is disclosed. The method comprises scanning pixels of video frames with a first horizontal scan line to determine if colors of the pixels fall within a predetermined color range; creating a color map utilizing pixels... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20060288292 - System and method for displaying information of a media playing device on a display device: A system and a method for displaying the information of a media playing device on a display device are provided. The system includes a media playing device and a display device. The media playing device includes an interface for outputting the information thereof. The display device is connected to the... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20060288293 - Creation of image designating file and reproduction of image using same: A technique for enabling scenario files and image files for supply to a scenario generating device to be created easily is provided. The scenario creating device creates a scenario file supplied to a scenario reproducing device capable of reproducing only image files of a predetermined format. The scenario creating device... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20060288295 - Information processor and information processing program stored on a computer-readable recording medium: Data input processing is initiated when an ADD-IN button is pressed in a condition where a data cell of a spreadsheet application is selected. Whether an editor is already activated is determined and, if such is the case, a current mode of the currently activated editor is detected and, if... Agent: Pitney Hardin LLP

20060288294 - Method, graphical interface and computer-readable medium for forming a batch job: A method, graphical interface and computer-readable medium for forming a batch job includes selecting at least one input file to reformat in the batch job. A batch job tree is formed for constructing a batch job with each of the input files being associated to a corresponding branch of the... Agent: Trask Britt

20060288296 - Receptor array for managing network traffic data: Systems and methods are provided for filtering and processing network traffic data and for providing visual representations of the processed data. A lens may identify or filter source and destination addresses in an address space, or identify and filter other network information of interest. A receptor array can be configured... Agent: Telcordia Technologies, Inc.

20060288297 - System, method and technique for enabling users to interact and edit address fields of messaging applications: An input is received for an address field of a message that is to be transmitted from a messaging application. A contact record is associated from the input with the message. A recipient address is selected from the identified contact record for use as an address field value. An input... Agent: Shemwell Mahamedi LLP

20060288298 - System, method and technique for enabling users to interact with address fields of messaging applications: An input is received for an address field of a message that is to be transmitted from a messaging application. A contact record is associated from the input with the message. A recipient address is selected from the identified contact record for use as an address field value. An input... Agent: Shemwell Mahamedi LLP

20060288300 - Configurable controlling device and associated configuration upload and download system and method: A configurable controlling device and associated editor 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... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20060288299 - System and method for performing an interface save/restore procedure: A system and method for performing an interface save/restore procedure in an electronic device includes a processor that begins to execute a first task in conjunction with a host interface of a display processor. The processor subsequently receives an interrupt request for executing a second task that has a higher... Agent: Epson Research And Development Inc Intellectual Property Dept

20060288301 - Automatic user interface generation: A user interface generation system comprises a reception component that facilitates receipt of instantiated objects from within a programmable logic controller, wherein the objects conform to a hierarchically structured data model. A view generation component communicatively coupled to the reception component utilizes a subset of the objects to dynamically generate... Agent: Rockwell Automation, Inc./(at)

20060288302 - Recording medium, reproduction apparatus, recording method, program, and reproduction method: A BD-ROM has recorded therein an AV Clip generated by multiplexing a video stream and a graphics stream. The graphics stream represents an interactive display to be overlayed with the video stream, and includes a sequence of three Button State groups. The interactive display includes a plurality of buttons, each... Agent: Snell & Wilmer L.L.P.

20060288303 - Portable electronic device and window control system: A portable electronic device includes a controller configured to operate applications on at least two frameworks, a display configured to display windows of the applications, and a manager configured to manage a display order of windows to be displayed on the display. The manager inserts a dummy window between the... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20060288304 - Printing control apparatus, information processing apparatus, control method therefor, computer program, and computer-readable storage medium: This invention allows the user to select files to be printed from arbitrary folders, easily designate a folder selected in the past, and confirm data files in the folder, thereby improving the operability of selecting a file to be printed. For this purpose, the display window has a folder view... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20060288305 - Method for displaying a resized window: A method for displaying a resized window includes receiving a resizing message, generating a window having a second size according to the resizing message and a window having a first size and located at a position corresponding to a first reference point, and displaying the window having the second size... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20060288306 - Enabling a graphical window modification command to be applied to a remotely generated graphical window: Techniques relating to enabling a graphical window modification command to be applied to a remotely generated graphical window are described. In one instance, a process detects a user command to modify a remotely generated application graphical window in a remote terminal session. The process determines whether to initiate the user... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20060288307 - Manipulation menu display location control apparatus and program: A manipulation menu display location control device includes a display for displaying a screen on which a plurality of predefined selection items are shown, a display location information table for storing information indicating the locations of the selection items on the display, and a receiving program for receiving an item... Agent: Patrick G. Burns Greer, Burns & Crain, Ltd.

20060288308 - Information processing device, control method for information processing device, and information storage medium: To provide an information processing device for facilitating a user's recognition of relevant information when relevant information concerning a predetermined menu item is presented to the user. The information processing device displays an image representative of a basic menu item list which includes one or more predetermined basic menu items,... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20060288309 - Displaying available menu choices in a multimodal browser: Methods, systems, and products are disclosed for displaying available menu choices in a multimodal browser including presenting a user a plurality of GUI menu fields; selecting one of the plurality of GUI menu fields; and displaying, in a GUI display box for the plurality of GUI menu fields, menu choices... Agent: International Corp (blf)

20060288310 - System and method of dynamically displaying a function icon set in a handheld data processing device: A system and method of dynamically displaying a function icon set applies in a handheld data processing device. The system includes a function icon set database used to store a plurality of function icon sets, a function icon data pointing unit capable of reading a selected function icon set, a... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20060288311 - Method, apparatus, and program product for visualizing tree structured information: Apparatus, methods, and computer program products are disclosed that perform computationally efficient layout of hierarchical data structures.... Agent: Patent Documentation Center

20060288312 - Information processing apparatus and recording medium storing program: An information processing apparatus includes a pointer symbol display portion for displaying a pointer symbol, a function executing portion for executing any of a plurality of functions, a selection symbol display portion for displaying selection symbols respectively representing the plurality of functions, a function selecting portion for detecting that any... Agent: Arent Fox PLLC

20060288313 - Bounding box gesture recognition on a touch detecting interactive display: The invention provides a method and apparatus for identifying gestures performed by a user to control an interactive display. The gestures are identified based on a bounding box enclosing the points at which a user contacts a touch sensor corresponding with the display surface. The invention thus permits the use... Agent: Glenn Patent Group

20060288314 - Facilitating cursor interaction with display objects: A system and method for facilitating location of cursor position and cursor movement in a computer display. A computer system obtains a user manipulation of a cursor and calculates a movement vector. The computer system then displays visual cues related to the movement vector. The visual cues can correspond to... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, PLLC

20060282759 - Adding an arbitrary number of placeholders to a custom layout: A custom layout may be created that includes an arbitrary number of placeholders. Instead of having to use one of the predefined slide layouts available from a presentation program, a user may create their own set of custom layouts that may be used in zero or more presentations and applied... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20060282758 - System and method for identifying segments in a web resource: A robust, lightweight, bottom-up segmentation method for Internet content. According to the present invention, individual segments are created based upon weights assigned according to document structure and markup elements and semantics. Smaller segments are then merged into larger segments by determining which portions of the content page are related to... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20060282760 - Apparatus, method and system for document conversion, apparatuses for document processing and information processing, and storage media that store programs for realizing the apparatuses: An apparatus for document conversion that are capable of facilitating conversion of document image data to an electronic document having table of contents data even with a limited storage resource. The document image analysis section 302 extracts character regions from a document image 301. The contents/index/footer conversion section 307 generates... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20060282762 - Collaborative document review system: The present invention is directed to collaborative document review. In one embodiment, the method includes creating a review version of an original document and storing the review document in a location that is simultaneously accessible by more than one reviewer, where each reviewer might be in a different location. Each... Agent: Perman & Green, LLP

20060282763 - Method and apparatus for persistent access to web resources using variable time-stamps: A method and apparatus are disclosed for providing persistent storage of Web resources. Uniform Resource Locators (“URLs”) that identify Web resources are augmented to include a time stamp. A web browser and a web server are disclosed that accommodate a time stamp parameter and allow a user to refer to... Agent: Ryan ,mason & Lewis, LLP

20060282761 - System and method for controlling versions of documents: A method of generating electronic and/or paper versions of electronic and paper documents that represent the documents contained in a document set, by placing an identification on at least one document in a set of documents that uniquely identifies the set of documents; and placing an identification on each paper... Agent: Pitney Bowes Inc. 35 Waterview Drive

20060282765 - Depth indicator for a link in a document: A method, apparatus, system, and signal-bearing medium that, in an embodiment, determine a tree representing links embedded in documents, create a depth indicator having a size proportional to the size of the tree, and display the depth indicator with a root link in a root document. The tree is determined... Agent: Ibm Corporation RochesterIPLaw Dept. 917

20060282764 - High-throughput pipelined fft processor: The invention proposes a pipelined FFT processor for UWB system, comprising a first module for implementing radix-2 FFT algorithm; a second module is to realize radix-8 FFT algorithm; a third module is to realize radix-8 FFT algorithm; a plurality of conjugate blocks; a division block; and a plurality of multiplexers.... Agent: Bucknam And Archer

20060282766 - Markup language stylization: Markup language stylizations that may be applied to a source document are defined in overlay documents such that no special tags or markers are required in the source document to enable stylization via the overlay document. A manifest document defines an association between a source document and one or more... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20060282767 - Web content customization via adaptation web services: A user agent in a Web access device transmits an HTTP request for Web content to an origin server. The request contains a set of capabilities of the Web access device. A content authoring mechanism and adaptation determination service on the origin server process the request to determine what transformation... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20060282768 - Methods and systems for treating overflow conditions and for re-sizing printable content: Various embodiments evaluate content that is to be printed and ascertain whether the content is going to overflow or be “orphaned” onto a second page when printed. If some content will create an orphan when printed, then the content is scaled to fit onto a single page when printed. In... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20060282769 - Method of identifying redundant text in an electronic document: A method of identifying redundant text fragments, which create artificial artifacts only, in an electronic page description language document includes a) providing a page having a plurality of text fragments, each text fragment comprising at least one glyph, the document including Unicode values for all glyphs and geometric information of... Agent: Jansson, Shupe, Munger & Antaramian, Ltd

20060282770 - Methods and systems for providing editable messaging forms: Systems and methods are disclosed for providing editable messaging forms. The disclosed systems and methods may include receiving a template having at least one template field. Furthermore, the disclosed systems and methods may include mapping the at least one template field to at least one handler corresponding to the at... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20060282771 - Verifying document compliance to a subsidiary standard: Described are methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, for verifying document and/or web page compliance to a subsidiary standard. A set of rules representing one or more aspects of the subsidiary standard are obtained. It is determined, using a first rule from the set of rules, if an... Agent: Proskauer Rose LLP

20060282772 - Device driver setting profile lock-down: A method for providing a menu for a device, by providing a GUI for an administrator to select and lock-down device driver setting profiles, and providing a GUI for displaying to a user the locked-down profiles and permitting the user to select only from the listed profiles. Allowing a user... Agent: Kyocera Technology Development Intellectual Property Administration

20060282773 - Apparatus for providing applications according to users' preferences and method for the same: An apparatus and method are provided for providing applications according to users' preferences. The apparatus includes a receiving unit, a memory unit, and an application control unit. The receiving unit receives a plurality of applications having different features. The memory unit stores information about a user's preferences of features preset... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20060282774 - Method and system for improving interactive media response systems using visual cues: Embodiments of the present invention recite a method and system for providing visual cues in an interactive media response system. In one embodiment, at least one visual prompt for display on a thin device is generated. The visual prompt is then sent to the thin device where it is displayed.... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20060282775 - Recording medium, reproduction apparatus, recording method, program, and reproduction method: A BD-ROM has recorded therein an AV Clip generated by multiplexing a video stream and a graphics stream. The graphics stream represents an interactive display to be overlayed with the video stream, and includes a sequence of three Button State groups. The interactive display includes a plurality of buttons, each... Agent: Snell & Wilmer L.L.P.

20060282776 - Multimedia and performance analysis tool: Events and tags are assigned to recorded multimedia content through the use of different tools and interfaces to segment the content as well as to provide commentary corresponding to the content and/or to reference other content. One interface includes a timeline corresponding to the multimedia content, which is displayed with... Agent: Workman Nydegger (f/k/a Workman Nydegger & Seeley)

20060282777 - Batch processing of images: Methods and apparatus are disclosed for manipulating digital images. The methods comprise the steps of: providing input data including image data specifying one or more digital images and template data comprising one or more masks, each mask specifying a region of the images having a predetermined status; and modifying each... Agent: Nutter Mcclennen & Fish LLP

20060282778 - Handheld electronic book reader with annotation and usage tracking capabilities: A handheld electronic book reader, program product, and method incorporate enhanced annotation and/or usage tracking capabilities. Support is provided for user creation of “contexts” for defined terms in an electronic document. Moreover, annotation data such as contexts, comments and highlighting may be associated with various users, and displayed in connection... Agent: Wood, Herron & Evans, L.L.P. (ibm)

20060282779 - Applying a design to a slide using equivalent layouts: A new design is applied to a slide. A search is made within layouts associated with the new design for an equivalent layout to the slide's layout. When an equivalent layout is found, the placeholders are mapped from the slide to a new slide base on the equivalent layout. An... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20060282782 - Image processing apparatus operating as based on history of utilized function and method of controlling the same: An image processing apparatus is connected on a network to another image processing apparatus and has an operation portion displayed at a display portion for implementing a function setting of a combination corresponding to a condition when a history of a function utilized in the other image processing apparatus by... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20060282780 - Networked monitor: The present invention provides a digital monitor that can be fully network connected, without including unnecessary components therein, similar to the way fully functional Digital Televisions (DTVs) are connected to a network.... Agent: Kenneth L. Sherman, Esq. Myers Dawes Andras & Sherman, LLP

20060282781 - Using a graphics system to enable a multi-user computer system: A graphics system and a multi-user computer system are disclosed. The graphics system comprises a graphics processing unit (GPU) for processing pixels. It further includes a multi-user manager for allocating pixel processing capability for each one of a plurality of users, wherein each user uses a display and an input... Agent: Wagner, Murabito & Hao LLP Third Floor

20060282783 - Method and system for enhancing the quality of video prompts in an interactive media response system: Embodiments of the present invention recite a method for enhancing the quality of visual prompts in and interactive media response system. In one embodiment, a video coder/decoder (codec) used by a thin device is determined. A visual prompt to be displayed on the thin device is accessed and the display... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20060282784 - Providing smart user interfaces based on document open and/or edit context: Methods, systems, and computer program products provide intelligent user interfaces based on a context or mode of a document. A method involves opening the document in a context that only facilitates reading, disabling editing commands associated with the document and/or disabling typing functionality for editing the document, and displaying a... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20060282785 - System and method of displaying content in display windows: A display device comprising a first window displaying a first content item and a second window displaying a second content item is disclosed. The first content item is displayed through use of a first communication path having a first bandwidth. The second content item is displayed through use of a... Agent: Toler Schaffer, LLP

20060282787 - User interface method and system for application programs implemented with component architectures: A computer implemented system is disclosed for providing a graphical user interface (GUI) for an application program. The system includes a renderer, a proxy, and a workflow manager. The renderer is defined to render the GUI. The proxy is defined to provide to the renderer each component necessary for rendering... Agent: Martine Penilla & Gencarella, LLP

20060282786 - User interface state reconfiguration through animation: The size of a tool displayed in a user interface can be dynamically adjusted based on the current needs of the tool. When the user chooses a new function to perform using the tool, the tool's size and appearance is adjusted to an interface tailored for the selected function. To... Agent: Vierra Magen/microsoft Corporation

20060282789 - Browsing method and apparatus using metadata: A browsing method and apparatus using metadata are disclosed. In the browsing method, multimedia content and metadata about the multimedia content are stored. The multimedia content is classified based on corresponding metadata of the multimedia content. Virtual folders containing the classified content are created. The content is browsed using the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20060282788 - System and method for creating and utilizing context-sensitive popularity data: A system and method for preprocessing context-sensitive content on an electronic device. A plurality of properties are monitored for a plurality of files. A probability is determined for each of the plurality of files regarding whether each particular file will be accessed by a user when the user is browsing... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20060282790 - Operating system program launch menu search: An operating system program launch menu, such as a Start menu, provides various mechanisms for a user to quickly and efficiently locate and launch desired data items such as programs, data files, storage locations, and the like. A search box within the program launch menu may be used to quickly... Agent: Banner & Witcoff Ltd., Attorneys For Client Nos. 003797 & 013797

20060282791 - Character input apparatus and method for mobile communications terminal: A method for inputting characters on a terminal, which includes displaying virtual character sets on a display screen of the terminal, in which each of the virtual character sets includes a plurality of virtual characters corresponding to physical keys included on a keypad of the terminal. The method also includes... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20060282792 - Method of displaying and interacting with information on a rotary fabric: A system and method by which menus, displays, charts, maps and pictures may be presented to a user and very quickly seen and used in the context of a larger display without obscuring key elements of that display. Menus or other graphical displays are anchored to the sides of a... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20060282793 - System and method for display input selection: Input sources to a display, such as a television, are depicted with a first indicator if active, such as active with a signal having visual information, and are depicted with a second indicator if inactive, such as lacking an active signal. A selection module allows a user of the display... Agent: Hamilton & Terrile, LLP

20060282794 - Method of generating summary menu for storage medium: In the present invention, a method of generating a summary menu for a storage medium having a plurality of folders for storing a plurality of multimedia data is provided. The method includes steps of (a) reading the storage medium, (b) generating a plurality of menu buttons by searching the folders... Agent: Silicon Valley Patent Group LLP

20060282795 - Domain bar: A toolbar for WHOIS searching and interacting with a domain name registrar. The toolbar may include buttons, form fields and drop down menus, and performs WHOIS searches, WHOIS wildcard searches, provides domain registration services. Queries include WHOIS domain searches by domain, by IP address, and by Network Information Center (NIC)... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20060282796 - Electronic service manual display control device: Disclosed is a technique whereby a superior information search function, for example, is acquired, and a correlation between a drawing, such as a board diagram or a circuit diagram, and parts included in the drawing can be precisely expressed, and whereby the labor required to produce an electronic service manual... Agent: Louis Woo Law Office Of Louis Woo

20060282797 - Handheld electronic book reader with annotation and usage tracking capabilities: A handheld electronic book reader, program product, and method incorporate enhanced annotation and/or usage tracking capabilities. Support is provided for user creation of “contexts” for defined terms in an electronic document. Moreover, annotation data such as contexts, comments and highlighting may be associated with various users, and displayed in connection... Agent: Wood, Herron & Evans, L.L.P. (ibm)

20060277452 - Structuring data for presentation documents: An open file format is used to represent the features and data associated with a presentation application within a document. The file format simplifies the way a presentation application organizes document features and data, and presents a logical model that is easily accessible. The file format is made up of...

20060277453 - Methods and apparatuses for synchronizing mixed-media data files: A method for synchronizing mixed-media data files that comprises receiving a streaming media file, receiving a static media file, producing a streaming media output from the streaming media file, querying the streaming output for a time marker upon receiving an input, and associating the static media file with the time...

20060277454 - Multimedia presentation system: A multimedia presentation system. The multi-presentation system is used to display a presentation using a presentation script and a plurality of presentation assets. The presentation script defines how the presentation assets are used to create a complete presentation. The presentation may be edited by editing the presentation script without editing...

20060277455 - Recommendatory information provision system: A recommendatory information provision system includes: a management apparatus; and a user terminal device, wherein: the management apparatus includes: a browsed information acquisition unit for acquiring information of a browsed document; a recommended document retrieval unit for retrieving a recommended document relevant to the browsed document; a recommendation history management...

20060277457 - Method and apparatus for integrating video into web logging: An efficient, useful and practical way to integrate video into blogs such that the paradigm of text blogging can be applied to video. The user is provided the ability to post, revise, comment (and have others comment) on, syndicate and track video. Video is integrated into a blog environment such...

20060277456 - Method for handling annotations: A taxonomy for annotations found in program code. The taxonomy includes a set of meta-annotations associated with an annotation definition and a set of values for each meta-annotation. The meta-annotations describes properties of each annotation. The values describe one quality of its associated meta-annotation. The taxonomy is used in a...

20060277462 - Managing internet pornography effectively: A process of managing Internet pornography based on detection of the phrase “18 U.S.C. 2257 Record-Keeping Requirements Compliance Statement” or a discernable variation. The top level domain “xxx” may instead or in addition be examined....

20060277458 - Object persister: Here is described an implementation of an object persister, which serializes an object to preserve the object's data structure and its current data. The serialized object is encoded using XML and inserted within a message. That message is transmitted to an entity over a network. Such a transmission is performed...

20060277461 - Real time parallel interface configuration and device representation method and system: A device interface includes device elements that are programmed to execute respective functionality and that have visual representations for inclusion in interface screen views. The elements are queried to provide images in a memory display context that is converted to dynamic content for inclusion in a design-time environment. The elements...

20060277459 - System and method of accelerating document processing: Embodiments include methods and systems for processing XML documents. One embodiment is a system that includes a tokenizer configured to identify tokens in an XML document. A plurality of speculative processing modules are configured to receive the tokens and to at least partially process the XML document and to provide...

20060277460 - Webview applications: An implementation allows a user to select an area of interest in a content source and to clip content from the area of interest. A variety of content types may be clipped and presented to a user, and the clipped content may be refreshed from the selected area of interest....

20060277463 - Relegendable interface device design-time environment system and method: A technique is provided for adapting or “relegending” interface device views. The views include static content and dynamic content. At least a part of the static content defined a look and feel of the interface screens, including screens in a design-time environment and a run-time environment. The adaptable static content...

20060277464 - System and method for displaying text: A method for displaying text including the steps of providing a text, arranging the text into a plurality of word clusters, wherein at least one selected word cluster of the plurality of word clusters includes at least two lines of words and each line of words includes at least two...

20060277465 - System and method of textual information analytics: This invention provides a method and system for analyzing and deriving analytical insights from textual information. The information structuration process determines the structure in which the text information is rendered. A cyclical extraction process using the parameters of co-frequency, co-dependency, and co-relatedness and parts of speech, determines various textual aspects...

20060277466 - Bimodal user interaction with a simulated object: A method of providing user interaction with a computer representation of a simulated object, where the user can control the object in three dimensions. The method can provide for two distinct states: a “holding” state, and a “released” state. The holding state roughly corresponds to the user holding the simulated...

20060277467 - Device dream application for a mobile terminal: The invention provides a method, computer program product and device for generating a dream-like multimedia presentation, which can be displayed on a mobile terminal, or other digital device, based at least in part on contextual information relating to the mobile terminal and the mobile terminal user. The presentation provides the...

20060277468 - System and method for dynamic, embedded help in software: Improved online help is provided, which is easier to use, provides improved effectiveness and content quality, and provides improved user satisfaction. A method for providing help information to a user of software comprises providing a user interface of the software, determining an element or function of the software that the...

20060277469 - Preview and installation of user interface elements in a display environment: Methods, apparatus, and computer program products are provided including a method for displaying a user interface element in a display environment. The method includes receiving a selection of a user interface element to be displayed in a display environment, and selectively displaying the user interface element in a preview environment...

20060277470 - Binding interactive multichannel digital document system: A digital document comprising a multi-channel interface is provided that achieves improved user interaction. The digital document includes a plurality of content channels providing primary content continuously in a looping manner and at least one supplementary channel on a single page. The supplementary channel is configured to provide supplementary content...

20060277471 - Page bar control: Graphical user interfaces for computer display devices include a page bar control element that allows a user to easily and quickly navigate among the pages of a multiple page electronic document and/or among the pages of a plurality of electronic documents. In some examples, the page bar control element displayed...

20060277472 - Screen display program, computer readable recording medium recorded with screen display program, screen display apparatus, portable terminal apparatus, and screen display method: The present invention provides screen displaying technology allowing improvement in operability and convenience for the user. A screen display apparatus receives a content, displays a plurality of tabs in a display screen, corresponds content information to any one of the plurality of tabs, and displays the content information corresponding to...

20060277473 - System and method for transferring personalization information among computer systems: A system and method transfers personalization information to a portable storage device from a first computer system, and then adds personalization information to a second computer system from the portable storage device....

20060277474 - Automated selection of appropriate information based on a computer user's context: A system filters received messages (e.g., unsolicited advertisements) to determine if they are appropriate for a user based on the non-static, constantly evolving, context of the user. The system can track the user's context by monitoring various environmental parameters, such as related to the user's physical, mental, computing and data...

20060277475 - Content management application for an interactive environment: The content management application is an intranet application which provides a process for implementing changes to an internet website of a company by providing the company the ability to define and enforce a common style of page layout. The application can be accessed via a desktop browser and multiple users...

20060277479 - Abstracted display building method and system: A technique is provided for configuring and interface device. The interface device includes a plurality of device elements, each having visual representation and a state engine defining a functionality. A server module in the interface device receives a query from a user viewable screen that includes the visual representations. The...

20060277476 - Method and system for dynamic generation of graphical content using a markup language: A method for dynamically generating an HTML-defined chart having node and line elements to be rendered on a display area is disclosed. Node and line element content, relationships between node elements and display settings are received. Node elements are created for the chart using the node content, the node elements...

20060277477 - System and method for generating enhanced depiction of electronic files such as web files: A system and method for providing enhanced content communicated in a Web or file page via a graphical element that is temporarily accessed when the user places his cursor or pointer over a pre-designated portion of the page is provided by the invention. Such a graphical element may constitute a...

20060277478 - Temporary title and menu bar: A determination is made as to when to display and hide obstructive user interface elements. Obstructive user interface elements are removed from the display when not needed by the user and displayed when needed by the user. When the obstructive interface elements are removed from the display, the user has...

20060277480 - Facilitating communication between user interface components that transmit information in incompatible formats: A system that facilitates communication between user interface components (or parts) that transmit information in incompatible formats is provided. The system includes an adapter that receives information in an information communication format of any one of the parts, and transforms the received information into an information communication format of any...

20060277483 - Document-management device and document-management method: In a document-management device in an embodiment of the invention, a printing unit prints an automatic registration request page on a sheet in response to a print request from a user on a screen displayed on a client. A data receiving unit receives scanned image data containing image data of...

20060277482 - Method and apparatus for automatically storing and retrieving selected document sections and user-generated notes: A method for selecting and saving information in a single user action. A user selects, with a computer input device such as a mouse, a document section having text and/or images from a primary document such as a web page displayed in a window of a primary document display program...

20060277481 - Presenting clips of content: An implementation allows a user to select an area of interest in a content source and to clip content from the area of interest. A variety of content types may be clipped and presented to a user, and the clipped content may be refreshed from the selected area of interest....

20060277484 - System and method for smart graphical components: A system and method in which a graphical component determines its appearance and runtime behavior based upon the type of container to which it belongs is provided. The container type corresponds to an implementation construct such as a class in C++ and Java, or a struct in C. This implementation...

20060277485 - Digital multimedia data recording/playback device and operating method thereof: Provided are digital multimedia data recording/playback device and operation method thereof. The device includes a user interface and a system controller. The user interface selects a source apparatus having a recording medium on which multimedia data to be copied is stored, and a target apparatus for which a copy operation...

20060277486 - File or user interface element marking system: A file marking system for marking a computer file so that it is visually distinguishable from other computer files. The system includes a selecting sub-system for allowing a user to determine how the computer file is marked based on predetermined criteria. The system also includes a marking sub-system for marking...

20060277487 - Project manager system and method: A Network Diagram Application arranges multiple activities relative to a timeline to improve user visualization, facilitate editing, and provide a user-friendly interface for linking activities. The Network Diagram Application enables creation of store points which reflect the state of activities at that point in time. Store points may be accessed...

20060277488 - 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 scroll mechanism associated with each information...

20060277489 - Scroll control according to input of cursor movement: In a main area of a display device, buttons and a map display area where a map is scrolled are provided. A cursor can be moved to an arbitrary position of the main area according to directional input received from an input device. When a decision input is performed with...

20060277490 - Scrolling of ordered series with item highlighting indicating relevance: A graphical user interface displays an ordered series of items. Each of the items has an index value indicating a position of the item within the series. The graphical user interface includes a scroll bar to scroll through the first ordered series. Items with index values that are outside of...

20060277491 - Information processing apparatus and display control method: According to one embodiment, an information processing apparatus capable of displaying a window on a display screen, includes: an input device which inputs an event for instructing a scale-up or a scale-down of an image displayed inside a window; a detection unit which detects the window set so as to...

20060277492 - Operating system program launch menu search: An operating system program launch menu, such as a Start menu, provides various mechanisms for a user to quickly and efficiently locate and launch desired data items such as programs, data files, storage locations, and the like. A search box within the program launch menu may be used to quickly...

20060277493 - System and method for transferring personalization information among computer systems: A system and method transfers personalization information to a portable storage device from a first computer system, and then adds personalization information to a second computer system from the portable storage device....

20060277494 - System and method for transferring personalization information among computer systems: A system and method transfers personalization information to a portable storage device from a first computer system, and then adds personalization information to a second computer system from the portable storage device....

20060277495 - Centralized control and management system for automobiles: In a control and management system for automobiles, a central processor in the system connects traditionally unrelated vehicle subsystems together to realize synergistic functions such as smart driving, automatic parking, etc. A master interface having a display is employed in the system to help a user control and manage the...

20060277496 - Systems and methods for displaying meta-data: Techniques are presented to display values for a set of icons by controlling their assignment to a set of rows and their placement within these rows. A plurality of icons to be displayed is determined. An abacus attribute taking a finite set of values is associated with the set of...

20060277497 - Transmission and reception of display information that configures a screen with multiple screen elements: A cellular phone does not store information unnecessary for displaying a screen and fits a screen display request including an identifier of a screen to be displayed next to a server apparatus. In response to the screen display request, the server apparatus reads a display information file including screen elements...

20060277498 - Dynamic representation of component configuration method and system: A technique is provided for configuring an interface device. Individual device elements are stored on the interface device and each element includes a functionality and a visual representation. A general purpose engine resident on the interface device enumerates properties of the device elements in response to a query in a...

20060277499 - Enhanced speed interface method and system: A technique is provided for enhancing the performance of an interface device. A collection of device elements having properties including a visual representation and a functionality are instantiated in a global container. The global container includes the device elements that are required for various screen views. Device elements that are...

20060277500 - Interface: An interface for displaying icons or input control portions corresponding to a plurality of functions on screen and pointing each icon or input control portion on screen selectively includes display control means which, along with repeatedly changing and displaying the icons or the input control portions in succession on screen,...

20060277501 - Systems and methods for navigating graphical displays of buildings: A display for identifying a floor of a building being monitored presents a plurality of groups of floors and a plurality of floors in a group. The groups can be of floors and selected plurality of floors automatically presented to identify one or more floors that are exhibiting a selected...

20060277503 - Pointer movement display for selecting desired available object: A right link of each button to be displayed on a display device is set in such a way that the position of an anchor moves through all the buttons from the left to the right. In response to an initial input of the right direction key, the position of...

20060277502 - Setting next destination of pointer to each of multiple objects: A menu screen includes multiple buttons. Assigned to each button for each direction is another button to which an anchor is moved according to a directional user input of up, down, right or left. A button B and a button C both located downstream of a button A are candidates...

20060277504 - Displaying messages on handheld devices: A method of displaying messages on handheld devices. The device displays messages in a scrollable viewport of vertically arranged fields. Date separators inserted into the vertically arranged list of messages to enable the user to associate the messages with a date. The date separators have “sticky” operation, meaning that the...