Data processing: presentation processing of document inventions 02/07

20070044009 - Information processing apparatus and method: According to an information processing method of generating a flow by coupling a plurality of processes, one of the plurality of processes is set by referring to a memory in which process information for defining input data and output data of each of the plurality of processes is registered, in... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070044010 - System and method for indexing, searching, identifying, and editing multimedia files: A method and system are provided for tagging, indexing, searching, retrieving, manipulating, and editing video images on a wide area network such as the Internet. A first set of methods is provided for enabling users to add bookmarks to multimedia files, such as movies, and audio files, such as music.... Agent: Jones Day

20070044011 - Creation and delivery of customized content: A method, apparatus, and software are disclosed for delivering customized content to clients with diverse content needs, such as clients from diverse geographical areas an language backgrounds. Customizable content is separated from the underlying code, which is used as a template for inserting localized content into a basic document framework... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, PLLC

20070044012 - Encoding of markup language data: Markup-language documents are converted into compacted markup-language form by using a number of parameterized macros. A parameterized macro takes at least one parameter. When compacting markup-language documents, a sequence of elements is replaced by references to a macro and to parameter(s), where the macro, when used with the parameters, yields... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP (microsoft Corporation)

20070044013 - Methods, devices and computer program products for saving content of a mobile terminal display: Methods, devices and computer program products are provided for saving content of a mobile terminal display. A request is received to store the content of a display associated with the mobile terminal. An image file is generated including the content of the of the display responsive to the received request.... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec

20070044014 - Automated markup language layout: Methods and computer programs for automatically creating a text layout in a markup language design for a product to be printed. A number of defined text elements are available for user text. The layout is based on the text elements having user text content. Text elements without text content are... Agent: Vista Print Usa Inc. Attn: Patent Counsel

20070044015 - Control apparatus and control method for controlling device connected to computer network: A control apparatus for controlling a controlled apparatus connected to a computer network via the computer network, the control apparatus including: a detection unit that detects a type of the controlled apparatus; a storage unit that stores operation guide information for generating an operation guide as a graphical user interface... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20070044016 - Employing partial evaluation to provide a page: A web page is generated by applying a partial evaluation technique. In one embodiment, at design time, a page designer enables a dynamic version of a page specification program to be generated, such as by way of a page customization interface. This dynamic version can be executed during the design... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20070044017 - Rich multi-media format for use in a collaborative computing system: A system, method, and article of manufacture that allow a document containing custom objects to be shared in a distributed collaborative computer system. This is accomplished by allowing custom objects to be embedded in a document. When the document is to be shared, the document with custom objects is converted... Agent: Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, LLPIPProsecution Department

20070044018 - Automated product layout: Methods and computer programs for automatically creating a text layout in an electronic design for a product to be printed. A number of defined text elements are available for user text entries. The product layout is based a user-selected image, if any, and on the text elements having user-supplied text... Agent: Vista Print Usa Inc. Attn: Patent Counsel

20070044021 - Method for performing presentation in video telephone mode and wireless terminal implementing the same: Disclosed is a method and wireless terminal for performing a presentation in a video telephone mode, wherein a presentation file is selected in the video telephone mode, and screen data in corresponding sequence of the selected presentation file is displayed and transmitted. Disclosed is another method and wireless terminal for... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070044022 - Method, unit and system for outputting data: Data is output from a sending unit to a receiving unit via a common description language. The sending unit defines a user interface to be output to a number of receiving units, whereby each receiving unit may have different output capabilities, specific to the receiving unit.... Agent: Edell, Shapiro & Finnan, LLC

20070044019 - Multi-campaign assignment apparatus considering overlapping recommendation problem: A multi-campaign assignment apparatus considers overlapping recommendation occurring when a plurality of personalized campaigns are simultaneously performed, thereby increasing marketing efficiency and client satisfaction. The multi-campaign assignment apparatus extracts clients' preferences for each campaign, predicts the clients' reactivities to overlapping recommendation of campaigns, and performs two-dimensional campaign-client assignment using the... Agent: Ipla P.A.

20070044020 - Service use device: According to the present invention, it is possible to automatically store user-specific information including a user's key input pattern and network use setting information as needed, as well as to detect a change of a user by comparing the stored user-specific information with a previous user-specific information. When the change... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070044023 - System and method for administering pluggable user interactive system applications: Systems and methods are described that allow for multiple pluggable user interactive system (UIS) applications to be added or removed from a UIS system while maintaining controlled access by users to each currently available application. Users can access the system using multimedia connections, such as voice, text, video, web, etc.,... Agent: Dallas Office Of Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P.

20070044024 - Derivative superposition circuit for linearization: The present invention relates to a derivative superposition circuit for linearization. The derivative superposition circuit for linearization includes a first active element that is provided with first to third terminals and in which the magnitude and direction of current flowing the second terminal to the third terminal changes on the... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Berner, LLP

20070044025 - Display device, wireless communication system, method of controlling display device, method of controlling wireless communication system, display device control program, wireless communication system control program and storage media for storing the progr: A display device including a communication function for performing wireless communication of data with each of a plurality of devices, and a display function for displaying and outputting information. First, reception quality of each device is obtained (S 100). Next, based on the reception quality of each device, average reception... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070044026 - System and method for sharing access to service provider controls and subscriber profile data across multiple applications in a user interactive system: A control system and method is described having a framework in which many applications in a user interaction system (UIS) can share common data regardless of which application obtained the data and all without prior knowledge of the other applications. The shared data is typically personal data of the current... Agent: Dallas Office Of Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P.

20070044027 - Creating an index page for user interface frames: A method of creating an index page that identifies at least one of several user interface (UI) frames includes receiving, in a computer system, information that identifies a category for the index page. The index page is provided with at least one index name identifying a UI frame that is... Agent: Fish & Richardson, P.C.

20070044028 - Virtual flip chart method and apparatus: A presentation system for presenting information to an audience within a space, the system comprising a control interface, a master presentation unit including a flat panel display screen and a processor, the screen including a master space and a slave presentation assembly including a slave presentation surface and a first... Agent: Quarles & Brady LLP

20070044031 - A method, system and computer program product for rendering a graphical user interface: A method of rendering a graphical user interface (GUI) model for a software application in a GUI builder, the method comprising the steps of: storing the application GUI model as a copy of the application GUI model in a buffer of the GUI builder; receiving a first GUI environment configuration... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20070044030 - Graphical programming methods for generation, control and routing of digital pulses: A system and method for configuring a target hardware device. The system receives user input selecting instances of circuit-like primitives and instances of dataflow primitives. The user may wire the instances together using wires of various kinds to specify a graphical program. The wires are distinguished into types depending on... Agent: Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel, P.C.

20070044029 - Sidebar engine, object model and schema: An engine is provided for displaying an application for hosting a second application. The hosting application can be a sidebar on a display. The engine can contain a part or program which can include a manifest file, a definition file and/or a script file. The manifest file may contain a... Agent: Banner & Witcoff Ltd., Attorneys For Client Nos. 003797 & 013797

20070044032 - Visualizing a complex network based on a set of objects of interest: A user interface of a device for displaying a representation of a network of objects wherein a plurality of selectable objects are rendered, and each of the plurality of selectable objects are rendered having a given positioning relative to each other of the plurality of selectable objects. One or more... Agent: Robert M. Mcdermott, Esq.

20070044033 - Method and system for providing tactical information during crisis situations: A computer-based method and system for storing and retrieving tactical information pertaining to a site during crisis situations. The method and system provides a graphical user interface comprising a computer screen display and a selection device wherein a user may select from a plurality of options to receive desired tactical... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20070044034 - Graphical user interface device and method for security application rack: Graphical user interface device and method for security application rack. The present invention provides a graphical user interface for a network appliance. The interface includes a computing device. The computing device is coupled to a world wide network of computers. The interface also includes a display coupled to the computing... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070044035 - Docking and undocking user interface objects: The present invention relates to a system and method for displaying information or a part within a second application, such as a sidebar application. The part can be docked in the sidebar application or undocked from the sidebar application and can send corresponding docking messages in a docking protocol to... Agent: Banner & Witcoff Ltd., Attorneys For Client Nos. 003797 & 013797

20070044036 - Information processing apparatus, information processing method, recording medium, and program: There is provided an information processing apparatus capable of handling a plurality of content. The apparatus includes: a display information generator adapted to generate display information related to each of the content; a state manager adapted to manage a display state of the display information; a display layer manager adapted... Agent: William S. Frommer, Esq. Frommer Lawrence & Haug LLP

20070044037 - Menu display device and method: The present invention provides a menu display device and a menu display method that can provide a menu for easy use by the user. The device has, for example, a liquid crystal display device, CRT or other display part for displaying the menu, a storage part for storing the attributes... Agent: Young & Basile, P.C.

20070044038 - Method for presenting menu buttons: Optical storage media often contain data structures for a menu suitable for selection of a title, a chapter, a parameter or others. Such menus usually comprise a number of buttons to be displayed, with each button having a state. Possible states of buttons are e.g. “unselected”, “selected” or “activated”. According... Agent: Thomson Licensing Inc.

20070044039 - Sidebar engine, object model and schema: An engine is provided for displaying an application for hosting a second application. The hosting application can be a sidebar on a display. The engine can contain a part or program which can include a manifest file, a definition file and/or a script file. The manifest file may contain a... Agent: Banner & Witcoff Ltd., Attorneys For Client Nos. 003797 & 013797

20070044040 - Box data management apparatus and method: A box data management apparatus extracts box data from a plurality of devices, connected to a network, to enable display of a list of the box data. An operational parameter collection part in the box data management apparatus collects operational parameters as information for processing the box data in the... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20070044041 - Methods, apparatus, and computer program products for dynamic generation of forms: Methods, apparatus, and computer program products for dynamic generation of forms on devices such as mobile telephones. A device user enters a form descriptor code comprising a set of alphanumeric characters. A form generator applies stored mappings between the input characters and a set of electronic form components. This identifies... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20070044042 - Auxiliary data provider: An exemplary software architecture allows for defining and accessing data and auxiliary data for an item in a navigable namespace. For example, such an exemplary architecture can include a provider engine operable to access data for an item in a navigable namespace, an auxiliary provider engine operable to access auxiliary... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20070038923 - Visual marker for speech enabled links: A method for notifying a user that a link is enabled for activation through voice input. The method can display a visual marker for a hyperlink to indicate that the hyperlink is activatable thorough voice input. The visual marker is not displayed for the hyperlink when the hyperlink is not... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20070038924 - Methods and systems for placing card orders: Methods and systems for processing an order for at least one card. One method can include electronically receiving a request for an order form file from a client computer; electronically transmitting the order form file to the client computer; electronically receiving the order form file from the client computer, the... Agent: Michael Best & Friedrich, LLP

20070038925 - Client-server interface to push messages to the client browser: An electronic document having a corresponding method, apparatus, and computer program for generating the electronic document comprises a plurality of markup language elements parseable by a browser application to display a page; a browser plug-in adapted to open a network connection with a server, to receive unsolicited event messages from... Agent: Epson Research And Development Inc Intellectual Property Dept

20070038927 - Electronic document conversion: Systems and/or methods (“tools”) are described that convert or present conversion problems for electronic documents. The tools may convert a generally unstructured electronic document to a generally structured electronic document using non-visual textual and layout information of the unstructured document. The tools can also present possible problems with this or... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20070038926 - Method for automatically embedding tabindex attributes: A method and apparatus are provided for specifying rules for embedding TabIndex attributes into an HTML formatted document, and for automatically formatting the document with the specified TabIndex attributes. The developer specifies the rules based upon specified parameters, including but not limited to priority of assignment of identified tags, and... Agent: Lieberman & Brandsdorfer, LLC

20070038928 - Delaying optimal paragraph layout during editing: Optimal formatting of a paragraph is delayed during the time a user is editing an optimal paragraph. When a user begins to edit a line within an optimal paragraph an attempt is made to preserve the current break point of the line during the editing. When the current break point... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20070038929 - Information processing apparatus, control method therefor, and program: Association information representing the association between the first information and the second information is set in the first record belonging to the first information and the second record belonging to the second information that are stored in a storage medium. A field area where data of the designated first record... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070038930 - Method and system for an architecture for the processing of structured documents: Embodiments of systems, methods and apparatuses for an architecture for the processing of structured documents are disclosed. More specifically, embodiments of the architecture may comprise hardware circuitry operable to parse a structured document and transform the document according to a set of transformation instructions to produce an output document.... Agent: SprinkleIPLaw Group

20070038931 - Distribution of content: Among other things, publishers of digital content are enabled each to define, for each of one or more digital content items, a style in which the digital content item is to be presented to a user and a condition under which the user may have the digital content item presented.... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20070038932 - Multimedia entertainment system: The invention is about a system installed in a computer, which shares the same audio output and video display with the computer, and can function independently without turning on the computer. The invention mainly contains a main device connected between the computer's motherboard and laser disk drive. The main device,... Agent: Leong C Lei

20070038933 - Remote coaching service and server: A Remote Nutrition Coaching Service (RNCS) is disclosed which is designed for the monitoring and analyzing of personal nutritional behavior and for the increasing of general nutritional awareness. The RNCS provides a daily consumption status and displays the results at the user's convenience. The RNCS also elaborates nutritional information in... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20070038934 - Service for generation of customizable display widgets: A system for presenting dynamically generated images in a computing environment is provided. The system generates visual elements, such as widgets, for example, by combining image data, user-defined data which may include alphanumeric data, and real-time data indicative of current conditions. The widgets may be implemented in a purely server-side... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070038935 - Techniques for capturing information during multimedia presentations: Techniques for capturing information during multimedia presentations. According to an embodiment, the presentation recording appliance (PRA) receives multimedia presentation information comprising video information and/or audio information. The PRA may also receive information from external sources other than the first source. The audio and video information received by the PRA is... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070038936 - Video directory for places, locations and/or services and a user interface for searching the said directory and displaying the result(s): A TCP/IP based application readable by a computer including but not limited to the Internet infrastructure and/or the World Wide Web which contains a database of plurality of video files in various formats that depict and describe a specific place, location and/or service, and implements the procedure of searching and... Agent: Brian S. Elmi

20070038937 - Method, program, and device for analyzing document structure: A device, a control method, and a program to increase the accuracy of voice read-out and text mining by automatically structuring a presentation file. The arrangement and practice of the invention involves an overlap grouping part for extracting overlap information between objects in a presentation file and grouping the objects... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20070038938 - System and method for automating the creation of customized multimedia content: A method and system for enabling the creation of custom-choreographed multimedia content by combining content selected by a user with additional predefined content not selected by the user using an intelligent scripting and video rendering engine. The system and method reduce the user's involvement in preparing the multimedia content to... Agent: The Walt Disney Company C/o Greenberg Traurig LLP

20070038939 - Display servers and systems and methods of graphical display: A display server according to one embodiment includes first and second server programs that are configured to receive drawing requests from clients and to write corresponding rendering commands to respective command queues. A graphics processing unit is configured to execute the commands, to write the resulting rendered pixel data to... Agent: Hartman Patents PLLC

20070038940 - User-interface servicing: A set of embodied Application Program Interface(s) (112) are provided for facilitating a method of presenting a presented user-interface shell (UIS) (114) that cooperates with a servicing user-interface shell (UIS) (116). The method includes receiving data indicative of one or more tasks to be completed, coordinating the completion of said... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. (c/o Microsoft Corporation)

20070038941 - Management of files in a personal communication device: Improved approaches for assisting a user interacting with a portable wireless communication device are disclosed. The improved approaches can provide a user interface for the portable wireless communication device that includes including a plurality of linked display screens and a plurality of physical keys.... Agent: Beyer Weaver & Thomas, LLP

20070038943 - Interactive text communication system: A communication system quarantines text and then automatically transmits the text across a network at the end of a quarantine time period. This text quarantine period gives a user the chance to edit or delete text for a brief amount of time after the text has been entered. This allows... Agent: Marger Johnson & Mccollom, P.C.

20070038942 - Method for managing email response history: A method for managing email history includes receiving an email and determining whether the email includes an unembedded response history. Based on the determination, the method deletes the unembedded response history. A computer usable medium including computer readable code and a system including means for accomplishing similar actions is also... Agent: Ibm Corp. (clg) C/o Cardinal Law Group

20070038944 - Augmented reality system with real marker object identification: An augmented reality system comprises means for gathering image data of a real environment, means for generating virtual image data from said image data, means for identifying a predefined marker object of the real environment based on the image data, and means for superimposing a set of object image data... Agent: Seed Intellectual Property Law Group PLLC

20070038945 - System and method allowing one computer system user to guide another computer system user through a remote environment: A system for enabling an agent to guide a client through a remote environment has an agent computer system that receives input from the agent. The system uses the input to generate a remote navigation instruction, and provides the remote navigation instruction to a server computer system via a communication... Agent: Law Offices Of Eric Karich

20070038947 - Method and device for generation of a parametric model associated with a 3d geometry: A device for generation of a parametric model associated with a 3D geometry includes a converter capable of converting a specifications tree into a graphical user interface in which, for at least one active element of the tree, there is associated a dialog box including at least one field associated... Agent: C. Irvin Mcclelland Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070038948 - Self-organizing report: A computer-based method for generating a report. The computer-based method includes: initializing a plurality of report parameters; determining a report editing mode based a selected report editing mode; generating a filtered list of report components based on the plurality of report parameters and the report editing mode; determining a report... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20070038946 - Systems, methods and devices for controlling a multifunctional product using a scriptable user interface: Methods for improved on screen creation for the Graphical User Interface (GUI) of an MFP (Multi-Function Product) by providing Java Virtual Machine (JVM) applications control of MFP built-in functions such as copy, scan, fax, e-mail and FTP. Flexible means of controlling the flow of application-user interaction are enabled to provide... Agent: Lexmark International, Inc. Intellectual Property Law Department

20070038949 - Copyholder graphical user interface: A user interface is provided that enables a user to view, navigate and perform actions on an online document. The user interface is represented as a sliding window which appears to move smoothly across the document text. The sliding window, from herein referred to as the copyholder, moves across the... Agent: Heller Ehrman LLP

20070038950 - Content delivery device and content reception device: With regard to content assigned correspondence to location information, the present invention enables content to be searched efficiently by distributing a content list in which content metadata is organized hierarchically based on location information from a server to a terminal, and having information of content limited to a user's region... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070038951 - Intelligent default selection in an onscreen keyboard: Systems and methods are described for intelligent default selection of characters to be entered via an on-screen keyboard. Based on one to several criteria, a character most likely to be selected for entry via the on-screen keyboard during a search request is determined and a selector is positioned at that... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20070038952 - Mobile communication terminal: Controlling displaying of a plurality of pages in a browser application for execution in a mobile communication terminal including a display. A first set of graphical representations of pages previously displayed in a first browser window is created. If a second browser window exists, creating a second set of graphical... Agent: Perman & Green

20070038953 - Method and system for dynamically providing scroll indicators: A method, system, and computer program product for visually indicating the last line(s) of text on a page displayed in a window so that the user can see this visual indication as they are scrolling the text. The user also has the ability to specify a hard stop for the... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20070038954 - Displaying apparatus of ui parts and displaying method of ui parts: An information processing apparatus obtains user interface data for displaying user interface parts onto a display screen of a displaying apparatus from an external apparatus, and discriminate whether the user interface part corresponding to user interface parts designation information of the user interface data obtained through an interface is displayed... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070038955 - Pen-based computer system having first and second windows together with second window locator within first window: A personal digital unit includes an image display together with a software-driven processor for managing the display. The display also includes a writing input capability. The display is divided into a more comprehensive window and a less comprehensive writing window. A locator rectangle is added to the image within the... Agent: Roy A. Ekstrand Ste. 150

20070038956 - System and method for displaying unrequested information within a web browser: A system and method for generating popup content in response to user's actions within an enabled web page is disclosed. Generation of the popup occurs in response to a user triggered event which invokes a script referencing a secondary web page to display within the bounds of the enabled web... Agent: American Express Travel Related Services Co., Inc. C/o Snell & Wilmer, L.L.P.

20070038957 - Menu promotions user interface: If a plurality of menu items in a menu includes a particular menu item that leads to a content item that is to be promoted when displaying the menu, a promotion for the content item is displayed beside the menu items. An up command is provided to move a cursor... Agent: Toler Schaffer, LLP

20070038958 - Item selection device and item selection method: The present invention intends to allow a user to intuitively select still image data extracted from moving image data, the extracted still image data being arranged in order based on times at which they are recorded and being displayed in a list view on a display device. A first plurality... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070038959 - Resource presentation convergence: A method, apparatus, system, and signal-bearing medium that, in an embodiment, find duplicate resource identifiers that originate from different applications, converge the duplicate resource identifiers into a converged interface object, and present the converged interface object. The duplicate resource identifiers identify the same resource, and the different applications manage the... Agent: Ibm Corporation RochesterIPLaw Dept. 917

20070038960 - Information processing apparatus and method, information processing system, and providing medium: The invention enables users to virtually attach information to situations in the real world, and also enables users to quickly and easily find out desired information. An IR sensor receives an IR signal transmitted from an IR beacon, and supplies the received signal to a sub-notebook PC. A CCD video... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, LLC

20070038961 - Minimizing indenting: A method for providing an array of visual elements, such as a directory tree, that include indented indicators that represent the level of the relationship between the visual elements of the array is disclosed. Visual elements include, but are not limited to, text, images, and/or combinations of text and images.... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, PLLC

20070038962 - System and method for associating text and graphical views of map information: A system and method for manipulating digital map information, that allows the operator to view or modify map object or item attributes from either a graphical window or a text window. In one embodiment, when the user selects a map item within the graphical window (202), the text window (210)... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20070038963 - Methods and apparatus for process thumbnail view: The structure and status of a process are displayed jointly. Multiple visualization mechanisms are used to provide the visualization of business process data. Drill-down of the data provides interactivity for a user to access information. In one embodiment color coding is used to provide a color distribution to visually indicate... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070033515 - System and method for arranging segments of a multimedia file: A method and system are provided for tagging, indexing, searching, retrieving, manipulating, and editing video images on a wide area network such as the Internet. A first set of methods is provided for enabling users to add bookmarks to multimedia files, such as movies, and audio files, such as music.... Agent: D.a. Stauffer Patent Services LLC

20070033516 - Enhanced favorites service for web browsers and web applications: The invention provides two enhancements for the use of favorites during a Web browsing session. A first enhancement identifies when a user is adding a favorite to his favorites list and auto-suggests a category under which the favorite could be stored. A second enhancement allows a user to review his... Agent: Glenn Patent Group

20070033517 - Enhanced favorites service for web browsers and web applications: The invention provides enhancements for the use of favorites during a Web browsing session. A first enhancement identifies when a user is adding a favorite to his favorites list and auto-suggests a category under which the favorite could be stored. A second enhancement allows a user to review his favorites... Agent: Glenn Patent Group

20070033518 - Computer-implemented method, system, and program product for hiding columns in an electronic table: Under the present invention, when a user resizes or otherwise hides a column in the electronic table, a graphical indicia is displayed that represents the hidden column(s). If a user interacts with the indicia (e.g., by hovering a mouse/input device over it), a pop-window will be displayed that identifies the... Agent: Hoffman Warnick & Dalessandro LLC

20070033519 - Method and system for the graphical modeling of data and calculations of a spreadsheet: A method and system for the graphical modeling of calculations in a spreadsheet which generates a graphical representation of formulas and relevant data contained in a spreadsheet. This graphical representation consists of tree or graph structures. Any changes made to the trees or spreadsheet cells can subsequently be translated to... Agent: Andrew Zdenek

20070033520 - System and method for web page localization: A system and method for localizing web pages automatically replacing strings with codes in a preselected way, associating the strings with the codes, localizing the strings, and compiling the web pages having the codes and localized strings. When a request for a web page arrives, the locale is determined, the... Agent: Avago Technologies, Ltd.

20070033521 - System and method for transcoding a multimedia file to accommodate a client display: A method and system are provided for tagging, indexing, searching, retrieving, manipulating, and editing video images on a wide area network such as the Internet. A first set of methods is provided for enabling users to add bookmarks to multimedia files, such as movies, and audio files, such as music.... Agent: D.a. Stauffer Patent Services LLC

20070033523 - Method, apparatus, and system for delivering information with improved user operability: An information delivery system includes an input apparatus configured to acquire predetermined information, and an information delivery apparatus connected to the input apparatus, and configured to perform an information delivery operation in cooperation with the input apparatus, to acquire specific information of the input apparatus, and to restrict setting for... Agent: C. Irvin Mcclelland Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070033522 - System and method for dynamic resizing of web-based guis: A HTML file defining a GUI is created and GUI elements defined therein for a default screen resolution can be reconfigured as appropriate when the GUI senses a new screen resolution.... Agent: Rogitz & Associates

20070033524 - Mapping codes for characters in mathematical expressions: Systems and methods for mapping character codes for characters of an mathematical expression based on changes in formatting for the characters. A system can include a document module configured for input of a mathematical expression including a plurality of characters, a format module configured to change formatting of the characters... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20070033525 - Electronic service manual display program and recording medium on which the program is recorded, electronic service manual display control method and electronic service manual display control apparatus, program transmission method and program transmission: Disclosed is a superior technique for performing an information search, whereby information related to parts included in a circuit diagram or a board diagram can be obtained by using conventional databases, and whereby the labor required to produce an electronic service manual can be reduced. According to this technique, a... Agent: Louis Woo Law Office Of Louis Woo

20070033526 - Method and system for assisting users in interacting with multi-modal dialog systems: A method and system for assisting a user in interacting with a multi-modal dialog system (104) is provided. The method includes interpreting a “What Can I Do? (WCID)” question from a user in a turn of the dialog. A multi-modal grammar (212) is generated, based on the current context of... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070033527 - Method for determining deviations of an end-system message from a reference message: The invention relates to a method for determining deviations of a modular end-system message, generated in a hierarchically structured end-system of a telecommunications device, from a reference message. Once a reference message has been read, an end-system message that has been generated in the end system is read. A message-structure... Agent: Ditthavong & Carlson

20070033528 - Enhanced capture, management and distribution of live presentations: Techniques are provided for converting live presentations into electronic media and managing captured media assets for distribution. An exemplary system includes capture devices that capture media assets of live presentations comprising a session, including image data of sequentially presented visual aids accompanying the live presentations and audio data. Each capture... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20070033529 - Methods and arrangements for performing desktop switching: A method for creating a complete data path between a user interface device (UID) and a second system device. The UID is coupled to a first system device via a UID switch prior to creating the UID, the first system device, and the second device being coupled to the UID... Agent: Ipsg, P.C.

20070033530 - Application unit monitoring and reporting system and method: A system for monitoring a user's usage of a target application. Such a target application can, as examples, be a software program running on a computer or a workstation, an image forming device, an appliance, etc. The target application includes a user interface with a plurality of commands which a... Agent: C. Irvin Mcclelland Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070033531 - Method and apparatus for context-specific content delivery: Methods and apparatus for generating and delivering selected primary content and contextually-related, targeted secondary content to users of a network. In an exemplary embodiment, the network comprises a packet-switched data (e.g., IP) network such as the Internet, and the primary content comprises video or media clips that are user-selectable via... Agent: Gazdzinski & Associates

20070033532 - Method and apparatus for generating web content: The invention is directed to techniques for generating web content to enable use of existing web content on a secondary web platform. Embodiments of the invention first extract an element of product content from product content for rendering a web page of a first web platform. The web content generator... Agent: E P Tremblay & Associates PC

20070033533 - Method for verifying inclusion of attachments to electronic mail messages: A method and system are provided for tagging, indexing, searching, retrieving, manipulating, and editing video images on a wide area network such as the Internet. A first set of methods is provided for enabling users to add bookmarks to multimedia files, such as movies, and audio files, such as music.... Agent: D.a. Stauffer Patent Services LLC

20070033534 - Method of conveying emotion in video telephone mode and wireless terminal implementing the same: Provided is a method and wireless terminal for enabling the user of the wireless terminal to transmit an emoticon representing an emotion to another party. The method and terminal are provided where at least one emoticon may be displayed in a video telephone mode and a selected emoticon may be... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070033535 - System and method for information entry in report section: A computer-based method is provided for media or data entry into a section of a report via an electronic network. The method includes: displaying a graphical user interface (GUI) comprising information indicating a plurality of program processes; receiving first user input selecting a first program process from the plurality of... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20070033537 - Method and apparatus for organizing information in a computer system: A method and apparatus for organizing information in a computer filing system. The method and apparatus include the creation of a pile comprising a collection of documents and displaying a graphical representation of the collection of documents. The method and apparatus further include browsing the collection of documents by pointing... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070033538 - Real time parallel interface configuration and device representation method and system: A machine can be accessed and controlled with the help of an interface device. The customizable interface device contains device elements that define features relating to the external representation and internal functionality of the interface device, as linked to one or more machines. An operator can use a configuration station... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070033536 - Time registration system: The present invention relates to a method of establishing a time registration comprising the steps of graphically presenting at least two sets of items (HL, VL), thereby establishing a set of nodes (NO), each node (NO) representing a combination of a specific item (IT) from a first of said sets... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20070033539 - Displaying information: Embodiments of displaying information are disclosed.... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070033540 - Systems and methods for directory and file manipulation using a multifunction device: A method and system of rendering a graphical user interface of a multifunction device. In an embodiment, the method comprises displaying, by the multifunction device, a graphical user interface including a plurality of user-selectable elements. The user-selectable elements include at least one first element configured to trigger a directory creation... Agent: Lexmark International, Inc. Intellectual Property Law Department

20070033541 - Operation device, electronic book device and electronic apparatus: An operation device includes: an operated boy; an operation signal producing part that produces an operation signal based on an operation on the operated body; and a tactile information presenting part that presents tactile information through the operated body. The operation device may be applied to an electronic book device... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070033542 - Virtual magnifying glass system architecture: A display screen magnifier is controllable by a user to magnify selected portions of a desktop including windows open on the screen. A magnified image is presented within a moveable magnifier frame. The magnified image corresponds to screen content located within a magnification region underlying the magnifier frame, magnified to... Agent: Banner & Witcoff Ltd., Attorneys For Client Nos. 003797 & 013797

20070033543 - Virtual magnifying glass with intuitive use enhancements: A display screen magnifier is controllable by a user to magnify selected portions of a desktop including windows open on the screen. A moveable magnifier frame is provided, within which a magnified image is presented. The magnified image corresponds to screen content located within a magnification region underlying the magnifier... Agent: Banner & Witcoff

20070033544 - Virtual magnifying glass with on-the fly control functionalities: A display screen magnifier is controllable by a user to magnify selected portions of a desktop including windows open on the screen. A moveable magnifier frame is provided, within which a magnified image is presented. The magnified image corresponds to screen content located within a magnification region underlying the magnifier... Agent: Banner & Witcoff Ltd., Attorneys For Client Nos. 003797 & 013797

20070033545 - Method, system, and computer program product for providing enhanced dropdown selection lists and combination boxes: The present invention provides enhanced dropdown selection lists and combination boxes. A method in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention includes: providing a graphical user interface (GUI) control that displays a dropdown list when actuated, and displaying indicia in the GUI control indicating a number of entries in... Agent: Hoffman Warnick & Dalessandro LLC

20070033546 - Data visualization for service requests: A method for generating information associated with items being serviced comprises receiving information associated with at least one item for servicing, wherein a priority value, a due date and at least one service request are associated with each item and receiving at least one message for each item, wherein a... Agent: Shimokaji & Associates, P.C.

20070028159 - Change-oriented electronic spreadsheet application: The present invention provides a change-oriented method for organizing electronic spreadsheet data, comprising: saving the contents of the cells in the electronic spreadsheet and valid updates into the same electronic spreadsheet document, wherein the valid updates comprise the updates to the contents of the cells and the time information associated... Agent: Hoffman, Warnick & D'alessandro LLC

20070028158 - Data processing method: A process definition method is disclosed. The method is typically for use with a report compiled from source data stored in a database and displayed to a user as a table having a plurality of cells. The method comprises: a) presenting the table of cells to the user; b) selecting... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20070028160 - Re-use wizard: The present application is directed to a re-use wizard. Embodiments of the re-use wizard are directed at recording data input during a wizard session into a stored “template” which may be used to re-use data when the wizard is subsequently executed. More specifically, in one aspect the re-use wizard performs... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, PLLC

20070028161 - Displaying text in variable width display fields: Methods, systems, and products are provided for displaying text in variable width display fields. Embodiments include receiving a plurality of lines of text for display in variable width display fields produced by a computer program; receiving field display parameters; calculating, for each line of text, the width of a plurality... Agent: International Corp (blf)

20070028163 - Lightweight application program interface (api) for extensible markup language (xml): An architecture that leverages support for markup language operations, e.g., extensible markup language (XML) queries, via a lightweight application program interface (API). The API defines an object model that can simplify construction of XML values in languages that do not natively support XML. The novel aspects of the described innovation... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070028162 - Reusing content fragments in web sites: Reusable content fragments are managed in a web site. The reusable content fragments are saved in a reusable content library in response to the fragments being created in a web page of the web site. When the web page is rendered for viewing, the reusable content fragment is rendered according... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20070028164 - Computer readable storage medium and document processing method: The present invention provides a signal for carrying a document processing program for making a computer process a document with a mixture of descriptions of first and second languages, wherein the program makes the computer carry out at least one of a first process of converting the description by the... Agent: Patrick G. Burns Greer, Burns & Crain, Ltd.

20070028165 - Dynamic layout system and processes: A completely free form layout of the physical content of a publication. The publication is represented as an unstructured set of content objects whose design relationships are specified as separate relationship objects, all of which interact with objects representing the properties of the display media. Through this representation, the present... Agent: Faegre & Benson LLP Patent Docketing

20070028167 - Incrementally parsing style sheets: A style sheet is incrementally parsed when a change is made. Instead of parsing the entire style sheet text each time a change is made, only a portion of the style sheet is parsed in response to the incremental change. As a result of the incremental parsing the number of... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20070028166 - System and processes for dynamic document construction: The present invention provides the capability for dynamically constructing layouts for documents and generating rendered versions of such documents in a variety of output formats. In a preferred embodiment of the present invention, the system of the present invention provides a specialized application server that enables a user to remotely... Agent: Faegre & Benson LLP Patent Docketing

20070028168 - Phonetic searching using multiple readings: Some spoken languages can be written, for example, by using a single character to represent a single word. Some characters can be represented different sets of phonetic codes. A character from a datastore can be retrieved and compared against an input string which might contain the same phonetic codes.... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20070028170 - Application assistance: An application assistance user interface guides, educates, and provides application functionality to a user to reach a goal that relates to their application. For example, a goal may be to provide marketing assistance while creating a publication using a publishing application. Rather than requiring the user to extensively search through... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20070028169 - Getting started assistance: A list of goals is displayed that may be selected by user to get started on a project using an application. Rather than requiring the user to know how to best achieve the selected goal using the functionality of a specific application, a user may choose a goal and a... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20070028172 - Multimedia communication system and method: Systems and methods are disclosed for creating, editing, sharing and distributing high-quality, media-rich web-based communications. The communications are created in a layered fashion that integrates user-selected text, colors, background patterns, images, sound, music, video, or other media. The systems and methods are used to generate, edit, broadcast, and track electronic... Agent: Fish & Richardson, PC

20070028171 - Selection-based item tagging: Item selections along with user inputs are leveraged to provide users with automated item tagging. Further user interaction with additional windows and other interfacing techniques are not required to tag the item. In one example, a user selects items and begins typing a tag which is automatically associated with the... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070028173 - Method and system for application broadcast: Methods and apparatuses are described for application broadcasting. For one embodiment, pixel data being broadcast from a moderator to one or more participants is divided into tiles. Display data is generated for each tile. Each display data segment (segment) contains the pixel data for the tile, and also contains a... Agent: Tom Van Zandt Blakely, Sokoloff, Taylor & Zafman LLP

20070028174 - Grid processing dynamic screensaver: A screensaver displays tools for use by a grid trading network participant. The tools can be interactive to allow the participant to access information related to the grid trading network.... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070028175 - Grid processing user tools: Grid user tools enable access to information related to a grid network by a user. The grid user tools may provide interactive access to data objects, to allow the user to access additional information, and/or process/operations related to the data objects. The grid user tools can provide dynamic information displays,... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070028176 - Method and system for providing limited access to a locked computing device: A method (100) of providing limited access to a computing device (26) can include limiting (102) access to the computing device by requiring a predetermined user input (e.g., password) during active operation of a screen saver application, presenting (104) a first screen layout having at least one web site link... Agent: Motorola, Inc Intellectual Property Section

20070028177 - Method of doing business providing litigation services using a virtual scripting room: A method for preparing a presentation connects a plurality of geographically dispersed contributors to a controller through a network to collaborate to prepare the presentation, allows the contributors to propose contributions to the presentation residing on storage devices under the control of the contributors, makes the proposed contributions available for... Agent: Irell & Manella LLP

20070028178 - Method and system for providing a fully accessible color selection component in a graphical user interface: A system for providing a fully accessible color selection component in a graphical user interface, in which multiple selectable colors are represented using a set of selectable color name display regions, each of which includes a text name for a color and has a background color made up of the... Agent: Lotus And Rational Software Steubing Mcguinness

20070028179 - Method and apparatus to present an integrated process modeler: A method and apparatus for an integrated process modeler is described. The modeler comprises a non-technical interface to permit design of a business process by a non-technical use and a technical interface to implement substeps of the process to automate technical aspects of the process by a technical user, using... Agent: Csa LLP

20070028182 - Device and method for displaying a user interface window: A user interface display device and method are provided. The apparatus includes a process history storage unit for storing path information of a displayed user interface window, a user interface unit for displaying one or more second user interface windows, and a control unit for outputting a multiple-up instruction signal... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070028181 - Interface and method for extensible grouping of screen elements in real time: When a set of screen elements are identified as a family a bounded extent is placed around the identified elements. Items can be automatically grouped based on their association with a set of data defined in a DBMS as a family, for example. When one of the elements within the... Agent: Dalina Law Group, P.C.

20070028180 - Tab order management in a portal environment: Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to managing tabbing order in a portal environment and provide a novel and non-obvious method, system and computer program product for tab order management for portlets in a portal environment. In a first embodiment, a tab order management... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20070028183 - Media user interface layers and overlays: Embodiments of a media user interface are presented herein.... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20070028184 - Automatically generating a search result in a separate window for a displayed symbol that is selected with a drag and drop control: A system and method are directed towards using an icon, animation, or other indicator to search for content associated with one or more words, language characters, or other symbols on a display. A pointing device, such as a mouse, is used to drag and drop the indicator onto a displayed... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20070028185 - System and method to allow authorized pop-ups on a website: A system and method to allow authorized popup windows on a website are provided. With the system and method, one or more identifiers of authorized popup window sources are associated with website content. When the website content is downloaded to a client device in response to a request, the one... Agent: Ibm Corp. (wip) C/o Walder Intellectual Property Law, P.C.

20070028187 - Apparatus and method for performing display processing, and computer program product: A display processing apparatus includes a display processing unit that displays an input indicating area and an output indicating area. Input functions are displayed in the input indicating area and output functions are displayed in the output indicating area. The output indicating area can be displayed where the input indicating... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070028186 - Digital image processing apparatus having efficient input function and method of controlling the same: Provided is a digital image processing apparatus including: an array of a plurality of input buttons; and a display panel which displays icons respectively corresponding to the input buttons at positions respectively corresponding to positions of the input buttons, and a method of controlling the apparatus.... Agent: Gardner Carton & Douglas LLP Attn: Patent Docket Dept.

20070028188 - Bubbling up task severity indicators within a hierarchical tree control: Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to hierarchical tree controls for application server monitoring and provide a method, system and computer program product for bubbling up condition severity indicators within a hierarchical tree control. In a first embodiment, a computer automated method for bubbling-up... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20070028189 - Hierarchy highlighting: Indicating degrees of relatedness between a visual element in a graphical user interface (GUI) representing a software object and other visual elements in the GUI representing other software objects is disclosed. The visual elements may, or may not, be in the same view in the GUI. Embodiments may indicate degrees... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, PLLC

20070028190 - Dynamic hyperlinking approach: A method of returning target scenes from a user link request is disclosed. The method comprises the steps of: receiving a user link request on a user interface; comparing the received user link request to a plurality of entries in a lookup table; for each entry in the plurality of... Agent: Potomac Patent Group, PLLC

20070028191 - Electronic device and storage medium for control program thereof: An electronic device is disclosed that can scroll a display screen displayed by means a display apparatus thereon in line units as well as in page units by means of operating only the up and down cursor keys. With this electronic device, a mode setting means sets a page scroll... Agent: GlobalIPCounselors, LLP

20070028192 - Method for providing serialized technical support: A method and system for obtaining service information procedures implementing serialized status identifiers. Wherein, the provided information involves the implementation of at least one motion picture demonstrating at least one service procedure of an apparatus.... Agent: Frank John Williams