Data processing: presentation processing of document inventions 01/07

20070022366 - Methods and apparatus for providing web site creation services: Methods and apparatus are provided for providing web site creation services for end users. A packaged product including an access code, such as an alphanumeric serial number or other similar code, is provided for distribution to an end user. After the end user provides the access code to a web... Agent: Law Office Of James Trosino

20070022367 - Multidimensional tabbing for electronic devices: The invention relates to a method for displaying and manipulating a data object on a display of a mobile electronic device utilizing multi-dimensional tabbing. The invention relates also to a means for creating the data object. The method utilizes information arranged in a tree like hierarchy in the memory of... Agent: Harrington & Smith, LLP

20070022368 - Method and system for hiding sensitive data in an electronic spreadsheet environment: A method and system for hiding sensitive data in an electronic spreadsheet. A first output equation expresses output data as a function of at least one first input data and at least one first intermediary result. The at least one first and second intermediary result are assigned as content of... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20070022370 - Data input apparatus and method: An apparatus is disclosed for providing data into a template document, the template document having a number of portions for completion by a user. The apparatus comprises: a verbal input device (72) arranged to receive and record a verbal passage, the verbal passage including information for a specific one of... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070022369 - Storage for interactive display system: A storage is provided for an interactive display system that both provides a graphic display and responds to objects disposed proximate to or in contact with a display surface. Due to a limited available volume within a housing of the interactive display system, the storage is provided either external to... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20070022371 - Freeform digital ink revisions: A computer-implemented system for digital ink revisions is provided. The system comprises an annotation module that recognizes a handwritten annotation in an image of a document. The system further comprises a command module that executes a command associated with the recognized handwritten annotation. Methods for using the system are also... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070022372 - Multimodal note taking, annotation, and gaming: A multimodal, multilanguage mobile device which can be employed to enhance note taking and/or annotation of a document, and gaming. Input data types such as optical character recognition (OCR), speech, handwriting, and visual information (e.g., image and/or video), etc., can be fused to generate rich documents with a multidimensional level... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070022375 - Apparatus, system, and method for an electronic payment system: The present contrivance is an apparatus, system, and method for an electronic payment system. The present contrivance provides an electronic payment system that provides advertising for compensation. Further the present contrivance provides an anonyfier that can separate accesser identity information from transaction information. Further, the present contrivance provides an advertising... Agent: Morgan & Finnegan, L.L.P.

20070022373 - Probabilistic learning method for xml annotation of documents: A document processor includes a parser that parses a document using a grammar having a set of terminal elements for labeling leaves, a set of non terminal elements for labeling nodes, and a set of transformation rules. The parsing generates a parsed document structure including terminal element labels for fragments... Agent: Fay, Sharpe, Fagan, Minnich & Mckee, LLP

20070022374 - System and method for classifying electronically posted documents: A method for classifying electronically posted documents includes receiving two posted documents and generating corresponding metadata summaries for each, wherein each of the metadata summaries includes at least one sub-tree structure. The structures of the two summary sub-trees within the respective metadata summaries are subsequently compared. If the two summary... Agent: Fleit, Kain, Gibbons, Gutman, Bongini & Bianco P.l

20070022376 - Process of treatment of data with the aim of the determination of visual motifs in a visual scene: m

20070022377 - Method for optimizing the implementation of measurements with medical imaging and/or examination apparatus: A method and apparatus for optimizing the implementation of measurements with at least one imaging medical examination apparatus, includes the followings steps: determination by a user executing a measurement of an existing first item of measurement-related information given a program means-based measurement, which information is in the form of an... Agent: Schiff Hardin, LLP Patent Department

20070022378 - Digital mixer: A screen displayed in response to the selection of a tag button is called a tag screen and groups of the tag screens corresponding to the tag buttons are called screen groups. One of the screen groups is assigned to a home button as a home screen group, and clicking... Agent: Morrison & Foerster, LLP

20070022379 - Terminal for displaying distributed picture content: Terminals 10 operate under the control of a computer program. An instruction made by a reproduction/stop switch BL1 causes a data inputting portion BL2 to input streamed moving picture data in which a plurality of moving picture data sets respectively representative of moving picture items shot from respectively different viewpoints,... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070022380 - Context aware task page: A mobile device operates in several contexts, where a context is specific to a particular operation of the mobile device. The context can include particular activities performed by the mobile device. Depending on the context, a specific context aware task page which includes a specific list of tasks is provided.... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20070022382 - Digital content management user interface, apparatus and system thereof: A digital content management user interface is based on Internet communications. The digital content includes items, each item having a media file and arranged to be visible as a thumbnail on the user interface. The items are arranged to establish at least one playlist so that a series of thumbnails... Agent: Young & Thompson

20070022383 - Mechanism for converting after image data to a delta level change: A mechanism is provided for converting after image data into a delta level change. An after image business graph is first transformed into a generic after image business graph. Another transformation is performed transforming the generic after image business graph into a second after image business graph, using delta information... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20070022381 - World wide web receiving display station with a web browser generating a graphical user interface with a universal web site logoff button enabling a browser routine for user logoff from selected web sites: An implementation for a user at a receiving Web station keeping track of logged on Web sites, and a convenient universal logoff interface button to logoff the logged on Web site. The combination of an implementation at a receiving display station generating a GUI including a universal logout button, means... Agent: Ibm Corporation Intellectual Property Law

20070022384 - Thematic response to a computer user's context, such as by a wearable personal computer: Techniques are disclosed for creating, modifying, categorizing, modeling, distributing, purchasing, selling, and otherwise using themes and theme-related information. Themes can represent various types of contextual aspects or situations, and can model high-level concepts of activities or states not reflected in individual contextual attributes that each model a single aspect of... Agent: Seed Intellectual Property Law Group PLLC

20070022385 - Software module, method and system for managing information items by bookmarking information items through activation of said items: A software module, method and system for managing and retrieving information items through activation, especially by bookmarking information items, are disclosed. User's attention strengths and activation of information items are monitored and measured. Information items are ranked and prioritized accordingly to its activation for ease in retrieval of information items.... Agent: Stephen B. Salai, Esq. Harter, Secrest & Emery LLP

20070022386 - Method and system for improving selection capability for user interface: In a graphical user interface or other similar processing environment, functionality is provided that enables the selecting of multiple portions of non-contiguous content, and enables such functionality within the same application and also across different applications. Further, a “direct save” function is enabled that allows the user to directly save... Agent: Ibm Corporation (syl-end) C/o Synnestvedt & Lechner LLP

20070022387 - Media management system: A method of configuring a media facility having at least one media source, an output device having one or more output windows, and a media integration system having a media space icon, the method comprising: generating a first icon representing the at least one media source, the at least one... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20070022388 - Presence display icon and method: A user interface for a communication device is provided. The user interface comprises a presence display icon to display presence states of at least one user. Each presence state of the user indicates the availability status of the user in video, audio and text based modes of communication. An optimal... Agent: Trellis Intellectual Property Law Group, PC

20070022389 - Computer interface having a virtual single-layer mode for viewing overlapping objects: A computer-human interface provides a mechanism to manage the available space of a computer display in a manner that facilitated navigation among multiple windows that are overlaid upon one another. The interface includes a user-selectable mode in which the windows are rearranged, and resized if necessary, so that all open... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20070022391 - Method and apparatus for changing a shape of a mouse cursor corresponding to an item on which the mouse cursor is located: A method and apparatus to change a mouse cursor corresponding to an item on which mouse cursor is located, with the method to change the mouse cursor including: locating the mouse cursor on the predetermined printing option item on the User Interface (UI) corresponding to a printing option setting; and... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20070022390 - Method and apparatus for utilizing prescribed aspect(s) of feedback object select operation to indicate user feedback of hypermedia content unit: A computer implemented method for gathering user feedback of one or more units of hypermedia content. Notice is made available to a user explaining a preestablished mapping between (1) at least one prescribed aspect of an operation of performing a predefined SELECT function to feedback objects and (2) user-indicated opinion... Agent: Glenn Patent Group

20070016844 - Document management system, document management method and document management program: The present invention provides a technique that can retrieve the locality of documents based on a retrieval key even though electronic data of the documents to be managed do not exist, or some items of information (tag, bar-code, etc.) are not appended to the documents themselves. The present invention provides... Agent: SocalIPLaw Group LLP

20070016845 - Generation of serial routing rules for an electronic document using reverse cone of logic: Creating a serial self-routing rule within an electronic document using programmatic means that evaluate a reverse cone of logic from final process backward through intermediate processes to initial data entry.... Agent: Patentry

20070016846 - Apparatus and method for reproducing text file in digital video device: Apparatus and method for reproducing texts in a digital video device, are discussed. According to an embodiment of the present invention, the method includes automatically selecting a text conversion table for the digital video device, and reproducing text data stored on a recording medium using the selected text conversion table... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070016847 - User speech interfaces for interactive media guidance applications: A user speech interface for interactive media guidance applications, such as television program guides, guides for audio services, guides for video-on-demand (VOD) services, guides for personal video recorders (PVRs), or other suitable guidance applications is provided. Voice commands may be received from a user and guidance activities may be performed... Agent: Fish & NeaveIPGroup Ropes & Gray LLP

20070016848 - System, method, and software for inserting hyperlinks into documents: On the Internet, millions of documents are electronically linked via embedded hyperlinks. The hyperlinks, which function as network addresses for specific documents, can be selected by a user to “jump” electronically from a document on one computer to a document on another computer. One problem with conventional hyperlinks is that... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth, P.A.

20070016849 - System and method in a data table for managing insertion operations in recursive scalable template instances: A method and system for managing insertion operations in a recursive scalable template instance (RSTI) of an electronic data table having dimensions D1 and D2. The RSTI includes contiguous recursive element instances (REIs) ordered and aligned along D1. The REIs include scalable template instances (STIs). Contiguous elements are inserted, upon... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20070016850 - System for controlling the display size of a formula bar in a spreadsheet: The present invention discloses a system for controlling the display size of a formula bar in a spreadsheet. Application of this system will make operation of the spreadsheet more convenient. The system for controlling the display size of the formula bar and a formula bar module are parallel in a... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070016851 - Grammar and method for integrating xml data from multiple sources: A grammar for mapping a first grouping of XML data into a second grouping of XML data and a method for accomplishing same to incorporate the first grouping into the second grouping. The grammar includes a first rule for computing a first child element attribute and a second rule for... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, LLP/ Lucent Technologies, Inc

20070016852 - Refrigerator for managing food by using rfid: Refrigerator for managing food by using RFID including a plurality of storage portions divided in the refrigerator for storing food, RFID devices each having storage information of each kind of food stored in the storage portions, and controller for reading the storage information and setting up the storage portion which... Agent: Fleshner & Kim, LLP

20070016853 - Structured documents and systems, methods and computer programs for creating, producing and displaying three dimensional objects and other related information in those structured documents: A structured document file which includes graphical and non graphical information. The graphical information includes the vector and coordinate description of a representation of at least one three dimensional object and at least one of the following group of view attributes or features: rotation, translation, view angle, lighting, colors, specific... Agent: Law Office Of Michael P. Eddy

20070016855 - File content display device, file content display method, and computer program therefore: The present invention relates to a technique for displaying the contents of a file on a display of a computer. Upon receiving an enlargement instruction for performing an enlarged display of a file, a computer detects whether an object included in the file is to be included in an enlarged... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20070016854 - Positioning of floating objects in electronic documents: An approach for positioning a floating object in a workspace of an electronic document is disclosed herein. To accomplish this, the workspace is divided into a plurality of available portions in which floating objects may be positioned. For example, these available portions represent geometrical areas within the workspace that do... Agent: Merchant & Gould PC

20070016856 - Automatic adaptive document printing help system: An automatic printing assistant application for documents in electronic form is provided by virtue of the present invention. In certain embodiments, an elongated thumbnail image of all or part of an electronically stored document is displayed. A section of the document of interest to the reader is emphasized. Movement of... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070016857 - Method and system for non-intrusive portlet rendering for printing: A system for printing data in a portlet. A portal server receives a request for a portal page from a requestor. In response to receiving the request for the portal page, the portal server retrieves the portal page, which includes a set of portlets. Subsequent to retrieving the portal page,... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20070016858 - Method for inputting chinese characters, english alphabets, and korean characters by using a numerical keyboard: A method for inputting Chinese characters, English alphabets, and Korean characters by using a numerical keyboard. The numerical keyboard includes a switching key set for switching the numerical keyboard to a respective software for presenting the Chinese characters, English alphabets and Korean characters. The Chinese characters, English alphabets, and Korean... Agent: Chien-hsing Lee

20070016859 - Alignment and breaking of mathematical expressions in documents: Embodiments relate to systems and methods for formatting a set of expressions in a document. In embodiments, the systems and methods provide the ability to format a set of expressions by aligning expressions or parts of expressions to each other or to the margins of the document, while also supporting... Agent: Merchant & Gould PC

20070016861 - Apparatus and methods for implementing modular, context-aware active graphical user interface objects: The present invention concerns methods and apparatus providing an operating system of a portable communications device with modular active graphical user interface functionality. In methods and apparatus of the present invention, multiple separate and distinct active graphical user interface objects are available for selection by users to perform active graphical... Agent: Harrington & Smith, LLP

20070016862 - Input guessing systems, methods, and computer program products: Provided are systems for acceleration of text input for electronic devices, such as efficient and user-friendly input guessing systems for mobile phones. An input guessing system disambiguates user input to decrease the number of required key strokes for entry of desired input. An input guessing system uses one or more... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20070016860 - Shortcut for predetermined application: There is read information on a system indicative of how to reach at least one pre-configured, pre-designated application in the system. The information is used to build at least one software button in at least one group of software buttons that allows launching of the pre-configured, pre-designated application.... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070016863 - Method and apparatus for extracting and structuring domain terms: A method of automatically categorizing terms extracted from a text corpus is comprised of identifying lexical atoms in a text corpus as terms. The identified terms are extracted based on a relation that exists between the terms. A weight is assigned to each relation. A graphical representation of the relationships... Agent: Jones Day

20070016865 - Data preparation for media browsing: A media browsing system prepares various media content and synchronizes the content with a media player for playback. A user can specify the content and preconfigure the manner in which the content will be subsequently accessible through a common user interface on the media player. A variety of media players... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20070016864 - System and method for enriching memories and enhancing emotions around specific personal events in the form of images, illustrations, audio, video and/or data: A system and method for enriching memories and enhancing emotions about a specific personal event is disclosed. The system allows an easy to use enrichment of memories in terms of emotions and feelings around personal events such as vacations, promotions, sports, celebrations, etc. in form of still images, illustrations, templates,... Agent: Dla Piper Rudnick Gray Cary Us, LLP

20070016866 - Apparatus and method for generating a control signal for a film event system: An apparatus for generating a control signal for a film event system is described for synchronizing film events with an image reproduction, wherein a film comprises film information applied in a time sequence, and the apparatus comprises a means for storing the film information, wherein a time scale is associated... Agent: Glenn Patent Group

20070016867 - Presentation mode/full-screen mode interrupting action prevention: A method and program for preventing an interrupting action in a computer resource for a full-screen mode or presentation mode of a user application are disclosed. Such a method includes: detecting, for example by a window manager, that a user application is entering into full-screen mode in a display space... Agent: Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser

20070016868 - Method and a device for managing digital media files: A method and an electronic device such as a digital camera or a camera phone for managing digital media files such as photo images. A user of the device may define link areas on the latest image captured via a camera to be automatically associated with the subsequently taken images.... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20070016869 - Method, apparatus, and system for managing commands in a client server environment: According to one aspect of the present invention, a method is provided in which it is determined whether a command item associated with a user-interface control object is enabled. If the respective command item is enabled, indicate to a user that the respective command item can be selected to initiate... Agent: Csa LLP

20070016870 - Control panel framework: A control panel having task pages is described. State information is retained through interaction with various task pages and pushed to other task pages to eliminate redundant information or requests for previously provided information.... Agent: Banner & Witcoff Ltd., Attorneys For Client Nos. 003797 & 013797

20070016871 - Method of visualising data: A method for visualising data on a computer screen is provided, where the data is held in any type of computer database. The data is displayed in the form of discrete visual objects that represent records in the database, arrayed about an x- and a y-, and optionally a z-axis.... Agent: Nawrocki, Rooney & Sivertson Suite 401, Broadway Place East

20070016872 - Rich drag drop user interface: In an electronic file system, preview information is provided to the user during a drag operation of a selected object onto a target object. The information indicates what type(s) of action is to be taken should the selected object be dropped onto the target object. The action(s) to be taken... Agent: Banner & Witcoff Ltd., Attorneys For Client Nos. 003797 & 013797

20070016873 - Visual expression of a state of an application window: A method for changing a visual state of an application window representation is described. The method includes steps of displaying an application window representation with a default visual state, and changing the default visual state of the application window representation to one of at least two different visual states. The... Agent: Banner & Witcoff Ltd., Attorneys For Client Nos. 003797 & 013797

20070016874 - Method and apparatus for determining font attributes: Methods and apparatuses for text formatting. In one exemplary embodiment of the present invention, a method to determine a font attribute includes: determining a first number and a second number; receiving input resulting from a sliding (or other repositioning method) of a thumb of a slider to a position; and... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070016875 - Method and system for partial sizing adjacency constraint in a multi-pane window frame: A system for managing panes in a multi-pane window frame. A multi-pane window frame application program displays the multi-pane window frame in a graphical user interface. Subsequent to displaying the multi-pane window frame, the multi-pane window frame application program receives a user pane configuration input and identifies a sizing constraint... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20070016876 - Method, system, and computer program product for preventing unwanted application behavior: The present invention provides a method, system, and computer program product for preventing unwanted application behavior. A method in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention includes: determining when a window assumes a focus of a user interface; and preventing predetermined user input from being applied to the window... Agent: Hoffman, Warnick & D'alessandro LLC

20070016877 - Communication system, data terminal apparatus, server apparatus, and menu screen updating method: There is provided a communication system, a data terminal apparatus, a server apparatus, and a menu screen updating method that succeed in enhancing the ease-of-use of a menu screen with additional functions. The service server transmits to the receiving apparatus additional menu data for permitting selection of additional functions. In... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070016878 - Instant messaging real-time buddy list lookup: The invention disclosed is a computer program for displaying one or more entries from a buddy list. The computer program receives a partial input in a text entry field and displays a result set in a result field, wherein the result set comprises entries from the buddy list having data... Agent: Ibm Corporation (rus) C/o Rudolf O Siegesmund Gordon & Rees, LLP

20070011602 - System and method for securely transmitting data to a multimedia device: A system and method is disclosed for securely storing and performing digital media files in a multimedia device. The method can include the operation of storing one or more digital media files on a digital storage medium in a predetermined file format. The digital storage medium can located within the... Agent: Thorpe North & Western, LLP.

20070011603 - Method, system, device and software product for showing tooltips for page segments and generating content for the page segments: A method, system, device, and software product are presented for describing to a user a section of a page on a small display, such as a mobile phone display. A section selection signal indicates a section of the page, and then a tooltip describes content of that section of the... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20070011604 - Content integration with format and protocol conversion system: An interactive multimedia system that converts media content in real-time or near-real-time from a variety of input data formats to data formats accepted by a user's available output devices, and to output protocols that can communicate with the user's devices. The multimedia system acquires content from remote sources and delivers... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20070011605 - Dynamic generation of wsdl documents based on database metadata: Methods for generating WSDL (“Web Services Description Language”) documents to describe types and function entry points based on database metadata are disclosed. Such a method may include resolving the endpoint metadata by querying based on parameters about the request collected by the HTTP stack. From the endpoint metadata, the list... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP (microsoft Corporation)

20070011606 - Comment field inclusion with an order collaboration form: Order collaboration forms include encoding providing comment fields associated with individual term fields. The comment fields are provided in secondary displays, typically in a floating window display. The window is activated based on the location of a position indicator, such as a cursor or a highlight window. In the floating... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070011607 - Business method, system and process for creating a customized book: A business method, system and process is described by which a person is enabled, through payment of money, or its substitute, to produce a customized book. The process for producing the customized book includes the selection of one of a plurality of previously developed stories having fixed text and variable... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20070011608 - System and method for auto-reuse of document text: A system and method for automatically reusing document text (e.g. repeated phrases or lists) in a newly created document having a predetermined document type (e.g. medical record). The present invention determines whether business rules exist for the predetermined document type associated with the newly created document. If business rules for... Agent: Kelley Drye & Warren LLP

20070011609 - Configurable, multimodal human-computer interface system and method: Disclosed herein is a method of configuring a human-computer interface system having an eye gaze device that generates eye gaze data to control a display pointer. The method includes selecting a user profile from a user profile list to access an artificial neural network to address eye jitter effects arising... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP

20070011610 - Customized mobile device interface system and method: The idle screen of a mobile device is enhanced to show information of interest to the user. The information is updated regularly in the background and always provides up to date information for the user without requiring the user to navigate the device or network to locate the information. The... Agent: Hansmeet Sethi

20070011611 - Digital tv and software download method therefor: A software download method for digital TV is provided. The method comprises generating a GUI for inputting download option information, storing the download option information input through the option-selection GUI, determining whether software corresponding to the stored download option information exists in a broadcasting signal based on update information in... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070011612 - Information processing apparatus and methods, and program: According to the claimed invention, an information processing apparatus for displaying a help screen based on help screen information, comprising a determination unit adapted to determine whether a detailed help file corresponding to a program is present or not; and a display control unit adapted to, when said determination unit... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070011613 - Automatically displaying application-related content: An engine automatically generates links to relevant information, and displays those links on a display of an application. The content represented by the links can be filtered based on user-scoped filters, and the particular links displayed can be displayed based on a context within which the user is currently working.... Agent: Westman Champlin (microsoft Corporation)

20070011614 - User interface for presenting media information: A user interface and methods for using a user interface for controlling processing of time-based media files. In one exemplary method, a graphical representation of a time line for a time-based media is displayed along with a graphical representation of a current time along the graphical representation of the time... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070011615 - Optical disc reproducing apparatus: A selected file on an optical disc is read to obtain the file information thereof, and if, based on the obtained file information, the selected file is judged to be a reproducible file, it is decoded to be displayed as a slide show image. When the image starts to be... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20070011617 - Three-dimensional graphical user interface: A three-dimensional graphical user interface includes a graphical display, and a memory storing a geometric space including a plurality of three-dimensional cells. Each cell is linked to at least one other cell through an adjoining surface. A program memory includes instructions for causing the graphical user interface to display an... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070011616 - User interface for dynamically managing presentations: Methods and systems for managing presentations to a user. In one exemplary method, presentations (e.g. a series of web pages) accessed by a user are monitored and at least some of these presentations are selected and organized (e.g. organized to reflect their relevance to the user). In another exemplary method,... Agent: James C. Scheller. Jr Blakely, Sokoloff, Taylor & Zafman LLP

20070011618 - Gui-supplying management beans: A technique is provided by which a JMX management console can be created that reduces the time and expense needed to create the console, and which reduces the likelihood of errors being introduced. A method for providing an interface comprises providing a software object including a representation of a graphical... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20070011619 - Method, system, and graphical user interface for dynamically updating transmission characteristics in a web mail reply: A method, system and graphical user interface for dynamically updating transmission characteristics in a web mail reply are described. In one embodiment of the invention, a graphical user interface includes a web mail reply form that includes: one or more address fields; an input area for inputting a reply message;... Agent: Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, LLP.

20070011620 - Dynamic interface component control support: A system, computer program and method for developing a graphical user interface (GUI) in a computer program. The invention allows developers to control the properties of interface components according to the state of a program during execution. According to the invention, a GUI development environment may be configured to provide... Agent: Ido Tuchman Suite 503

20070011621 - Methods and systems of graphical user interface presentation: Methods and systems for graphical user interface (GUI) presentation. First, an application comprising a GUI is executed. The application triggers an analyzer analyzing a description file depicting attributes of components of the GUI. The analyzer provides and stores the attributes in a data structure. When a GUI component is to... Agent: Quintero Law Office

20070011622 - Apparatus and method for displaying icon: An apparatus and method of displaying an icon displayed on a desktop or a file explorer by assigning a transparency to the icon and changing the transparency of the icon according to a date when a program linked to the icon was last accessed. The apparatus includes a scanning unit... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20070011623 - System and method for focused navigation within a user interface: A sequence of cards is stored that graphically represents available options within an information system. In response to a single user action, the sequence of cards is successively displayed within a focus area of the user interface. In response to a subsequent user action, the successive display is discontinued to... Agent: Digeo, Inc C/o Stoel Rives LLP

20070011624 - Task navigator including a user based navigation interface: A task navigator or system generates a navigation interface display. In illustrated embodiments, the navigation interface display includes multiple task segments and a find segment. Tasks are segmented in the navigation interface based upon whether they are primary or secondary tasks.... Agent: Westman Champlin (microsoft Corporation)

20070011625 - Method and apparatus for authoring and storing media objects in optical storage medium: A method and apparatus for authoring and storing media objects in an optical storage medium, including the steps of: (a) providing two or more built-in menus, each built-in menu including at least one built-in navigation command; (b) associating the media objects each to a dedicated navigation command so as to... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070011626 - Apparatus and methods for preventing a screen saver or screen lockout feature: Techniques for preventing activity monitoring software such as a screen saver or screen lockout program from interrupting other software applications running on a computer are disclosed. To this end, the apparatus includes a processor programmed to produce an output emulating activity on a time basis to preclude the activity monitoring... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20070006059 - Repeating panel sets: A panel set is defined within a grid area. The grid area enclosing the panel set is then used to tile a sheet. Instead of defining each panel's position within an entire sheet, a single panel set is defined, and then that single panel set is tiled. The definitions for... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20070006064 - Aspects of media content rendering: Media content is arranged into a number of sets of video, audio, or data samples, referred to as clips, which are rendered by a media content manager. A playlist, which is handled by a presentation manager, specifies the time-ordered sequence of clips playable to a user. Certain actions are taken... Agent: Microsoft Corporation Attn: Patent Group Docketing Department

20070006065 - Conditional event timing for interactive multimedia presentations: An interactive multimedia presentation has an interactive content component that includes an application, which has instructions for rendering a media object. By nesting a declarative language event instruction inside of a declarative language timing instruction, a particular event can arise and/or be handled (for example, a media object is rendered)... Agent: Microsoft Corporation Attn: Patent Group Docketing Department

20070006060 - Gpu timeline with render-ahead queue: Video editing and video playback utilizing a render-ahead queue for storing rendered video frames. The render-ahead queue facilitates the smooth playback of video in forward and reverse timeline direction, avoiding video glitches that occur when video frames are rendered at a rate that is less than the timeline rate of... Agent: Senniger Powers (msft)

20070006061 - Synchronization aspects of interactive multimedia presentation management: Methods and systems for determining a total elapsed play time of an interactive multimedia presentation having a play duration, a video content component, and an interactive content component include identifying two time intervals within the play duration. During the first interval, no video is scheduled for presentation, and a first... Agent: Microsoft Corporation Attn: Patent Group Docketing Department

20070006062 - Synchronization aspects of interactive multimedia presentation management: An interactive multimedia presentation has a presentation play duration (“PPD”), a video content component (“VCP.” which may include video, audio, data, or any combination thereof), and an interactive content component (“ICP”). Time references are formed to synchronize the ICP and the VCP. A title time reference measures the elapsed time... Agent: Microsoft Corporation Attn: Patent Group Docketing Department

20070006063 - Synchronization aspects of interactive multimedia presentation management: An interactive multimedia presentation has a predetermined presentation play duration, a video content component (which may include video, audio, data, or any combination thereof), and an interactive content component. Methods and systems for playing the presentation include specifying a time when a particular media object is renderable. The time is... Agent: Microsoft Corporation Attn: Patent Group Docketing Department

20070006067 - Electronic apparatus with a web page browsing function: A Web page browsing apparatus has stored keywords such as a “next” which is a clue to pass to a next page. When an “Advance” key of a key-in unit is operated, a HTML file of a Web page displayed presently on a display is searched for a character string... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20070006066 - Interactive document information storage and delivery: Indexing and storage of context of a plurality of interactive points within an interactive document is provided. The context of the interactive points within the document is stored in a server such that it can be located by the server via the index. Furthermore, information may be received at the... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP (microsoft Corporation)

20070006068 - Extensible framework for handling different mark up language parsers and generators in a computing device: A computing device programmed with an extensible framework that accepts one or more mark-up language parsers and/or generators, each implemented as plug-ins to the framework, with different plug-ins enabling different kinds of mark up languages to be handled by the device. In this way, the client is no longer tied... Agent: Synnestvedt Lechner & Woodbridge LLP

20070006070 - Joining units of work based on complexity metrics: A method, apparatus, system, and signal-bearing medium that, in an embodiment, determine units of work in a page, join selected pairs of the units of work with lowest complexity metrics until all of the units of work have complexity metrics that are less than a threshold. The joining is subject... Agent: Ibm Corporation RochesterIPLaw Dept. 917

20070006071 - Method for transforming a tree structure into a more human-comprehensible document: A recursive method based on three rules by which tree structures representing data, e.g., XML, is transformed into a table-based format so as to be more easily read and understood by a human being without requiring customization based on the particular application and/or the nature of the data contained within... Agent: Lucent Technologies Inc. Docket Administrator

20070006069 - System and method for improved web portal design through control tree file utilization: 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

20070006072 - Constraint-optimization method for document layout using tradeoff generation: A method for automated document layout using interactive tradeoff generation during the optimization of a constraint satisfaction problem (CSP) is provided. The method includes generating a constraint satisfaction problem describing the layout of the items in the document as a problem having constraints, finding inconsistent constraints which are incapable of... Agent: Fay, Sharpe, Fagan, Minnich & Mckee, LLP

20070006073 - Semantically applying style transformation to objects in a graphic: A graphics software program automatically generates a style transformation scheme for graphics. The graphics software program receives a selection of a style transformation and a semantic model describing a graphic. The graphics software program assigns style values for different objects of the graphic according to the style transformation and semantic... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20070006074 - Web page title shortening: A method for shortening a web page title. The method includes determining if a title of a current web page fits in a title display area of a display. If the title fits the title is displayed in the title area. If the title does not fit, it is determined... Agent: Perman & Green

20070006075 - Independently refreshing portlet content in a portal view: Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to portlet content refreshing and provide a novel and non-obvious method, system and apparatus for independently refreshing portlet content in a portal view. In an embodiment of the invention, a system for refreshing portlet content in a portal... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20070006076 - System and method for providing asian web font documents: A system and method are provided for browsing Web page documents containing Asian characters with multiple font faces which were not recognizable by a browser in the prior art. The system and method permit a computer user to view the Web page documents containing Asian characters in their original (and... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, PLLC

20070006078 - Declaratively responding to state changes in an interactive multimedia environment: Using declarative language application instructions, actions associated with playing interactive content of an interactive multimedia presentation are triggered based on a state change of a particular media object. Certain application instructions specify the characteristic of the media object, while other application instructions specify the actions associated with playing the interactive... Agent: Microsoft Corporation Attn: Patent Group Docketing Department

20070006077 - Sectorizing a display to present audience targeted information within different ones of the sectors: A media presentation method can include the step of identifying a display capable of presenting audio/video content. A viewing area of the display can be divided into more than one sector. Programmatically established criteria can be used to selecting a media production from a pool of available productions to be... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20070006079 - State-based timing for interactive multimedia presentations: Using declarative language application instructions, one or more actions associated with playing interactive content of an interactive multimedia presentation are conditionally triggered based on a state change of a style or non-style characteristic of a particular media object. Certain application instructions specify the characteristic of the media object, while other... Agent: Microsoft Corporation Attn: Patent Group Docketing Department

20070006080 - Synchronization aspects of interactive multimedia presentation management: Playing an interactive multimedia presentation involves pre-rendering a media object at certain times based on a frame rate of the interactive content, a frame rate of the video content (which may include video, audio, data, or any combination thereof), and a play speed of the presentation. Certain actions taken include... Agent: Microsoft Corporation Attn: Patent Group Docketing Department

20070006081 - Display device and method of adjusting sounds of the display device: A display device equipped with an acoustic control unit for controlling the volume and the tone quality of sounds at the seats in a vehicle. The display device is capable of displaying, on one display panel, a first image that can be observed from a first direction and a second... Agent: Fogg And Associates, LLC

20070006082 - Speech application instrumentation and logging: A speech enabled application is defined in terms of tasks. Information indicative of completion of tasks and/or information related to turn data is recordable relative to the tasks as the speech enabled application is executed.... Agent: Westman Champlin (microsoft Corporation)

20070006083 - Stacking portlets in portal pages: A portal is comprised of a plurality of portlets. Each portlet accesses hardware and software to gather data. Each portlet offers information to the portal page. Each portlet's information has a specific content type and markup. A subset of portlets are determined stackable if the subset of portlets have in... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20070006084 - Independent submission of forms in a portal view: Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to processing forms submissions in a portal environment and provide a method, system and computer program product for independently refreshing a forms submission in a portal view. In one embodiment, a system for independently submitting forms in a... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20070006085 - Integrated work management and tracking: The present application describes a work management/tracking framework that allows users to organize work around goals that may utilize several applications. Goals may encompass smaller individual tasks that span more than one application. An action object is used to represent a goal and can have one or more task items... Agent: Microsoft Corporation Attn: Patent Group Docketing Department

20070006086 - Method of browsing application views, electronic device, graphical user interface and computer program product: The invention relates to a method of browsing application views in an electronic device, to an electronic device, to a graphical user interface, and to a computer program product. The electronic device is configured to: display an initial application view on the display; provide a browse control area displayed on... Agent: Hollingsworth & Funk, LLC

20070006087 - Soft keys of the active idle plug-ins of a mobile terminal: The invention relates to a method for utilizing specialized primary and secondary menus for different applications included in a mobile terminal. The invention also relates to a menu display controller and mobile terminal using the method. In the method a cursor movement between items of the primary menu causes a... Agent: Harrington & Smith, LLP

20070006088 - System and method for providing collaboration resources between web applications: Embodiments of the present invention enable an interface for sharing resources between applications. An indicator can be used to identify resources that are selectable. Additionally, indicators can identify locations of the page that can accept resources and a function to be performed when a resource is dragged into a section... Agent: Fliesler Meyer, LLP

20070006089 - System and method for sharing resources between web applications: Embodiments of the present invention enable an interface for sharing resources between applications. An indicator can be used to identify resources that are selectable. Additionally, indicators can identify locations of the page that can accept resources and a function to be performed when a resource is dragged into a section... Agent: Fliesler Meyer, LLP

20070006090 - Apparatus and method for printing file using toolbar button: An apparatus and method for printing by using a toolbar button is provided. The apparatus includes a user interface for receiving printing options to be selected by using the toolbar button, and a controller for creating the toolbar button to allow a user to print the file based on a... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070006091 - Image processing method and image processing apparatus: A shadow body generation unit 1711 generates a shadow model defined by a limited numbers of lines extending from a position of a light source to an outline of a hand. If the virtual object is partially or fully included in the shadow model and a position of the virtual... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070006092 - Apparatus, method and computer program product enabling zoom function with multi-function key input that inhibits focus on a textually-responsive element: Disclosed is a method, a computer program, a device, an apparatus and a browser operable with a user interface having an output display and an input to receive signals from a plurality of user inputs, where at least one user input is a multi-function input operable in a first mode... Agent: Harrington & Smith, LLP

20070006093 - Canceling window close commands: A method, apparatus, system, and signal-bearing medium that, in an embodiment, receive a close command directed to a window, and determine whether the close command was received within a close threshold time of the display of the window. If the close command was received within the threshold time, in various... Agent: Ibm Corporation RochesterIPLaw Dept. 917

20070006094 - Instant messaging interface having a tear-off element: A user interface on a display enables user perception of information regarding a communications session that leverages an instant messaging platform. The user interface includes an instant messaging application user interface and one or more tear-off elements corresponding to ongoing instant messaging communications sessions. Each tear-off element is configured to... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070006095 - Auto layout of user interface elements in a window: A method is provided for laying out a child element in a parent element in a window. If a dimension of the child element is fixed, the method includes (1) allocating a fixed dimension to the child element from a remaining dimension of the parent element that has not been... Agent: Patent Law Group LLP

20070006096 - Display apparatus and control method thereof: A display apparatus and a control method are provided in which a size menu item is changed, when the menu item is directed by a user. A display apparatus includes a user input part; a menu generator generating a user menu including at least one or more items; a display... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070006097 - Apparatus, method and computer program product enabling storage of state of temporary display screen magnification view: Disclosed is a method, a computer program, a wireless communications device, a browser and an apparatus to display an object to a viewer, where the displayed object has an associated area. In response to the viewer selecting the displayed object, the method, computer program product, wireless communications device, browser and... Agent: Harrington & Smith, LLP

20070006098 - Integration of location logs, gps signals, and spatial resources for identifying user activities, goals, and context: Described are methods that utilize a geographic location technology (e.g., GPS) to determine user location data, and existing network-based websites (e.g., Internet websites) for searching and accessing data related to the location data such that the user context can be developed and stored. A location component is provided that determines... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070006099 - Restricted user interface navigation: A method and system that permits a user to navigate or browse a long list on a handheld device with a restricted user interface, such as a limited display and a limited user input device. The user first uses a coarse search to find a generally desired area in the... Agent: Stephen J. Perry Perry + Partners

20070006100 - Mobile communication terminal: It is presented a method for controlling displaying of a plurality of pages in a browser application for execution in a mobile communication terminal comprising a display. Said method comprises the steps of: creating a first set of graphical representations of pages previously displayed in a first browser window, if... Agent: Perman & Green

20070006101 - Instrumentation interface display customization: Disclosed herein is a method of producing an instrumentation interface for a vehicle having a display device. The method includes initializing a display format for the instrumentation interface in accordance with one or more characteristics of the vehicle, collecting customization data to configure a display site defined by the display... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP

20070006102 - Rendering with gpu during screen saver activation: Pausing a graphic processing operation in order to continue processing a thread on a different desktop. When a graphic processing unit (GPU) is lost when a screen saver desktop is activated, the buffer containing the video frame that is currently being processed is discarded and a device is attempted to... Agent: Senniger Powers (msft)