Data processing: presentation processing of document inventions 04/07

20070094585 - Information playback system using information storage medium: According to one embodiment, there is provided a data processing method. The method includes reading management information indicative of a playback and display procedure, acquiring a content from a certain storage position at a timing determined based on the management information, and performing playback and display of the content at... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070094586 - Information playback system using information storage medium: According to one embodiment, there is provided a data processing method. The method includes reading management information indicative of a playback and display procedure, acquiring a content from a certain storage position at a timing determined based on the management information, and performing playback and display of the content at... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070094587 - Information playback system using information storage medium: According to one embodiment, there is provided a data processing method. The method includes reading management information indicative of a playback and display procedure, acquiring a content from a certain storage position at a timing determined based on the management information, and performing playback and display of the content at... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070094583 - Methods and systems for use in maintaining media data quality upon conversion to a different data format: The present embodiments provide methods, apparatuses, and systems for use in maintaining data quality upon conversion to a different data format. Some embodiments provide methods that receive media data in a first format, initiate a first conversion of the media data at the first format to a second converted format,... Agent: Fitch Even Tabin And Flannery

20070094584 - Unit time synchronization techniques in a manufacturing environment: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide systems and methods for synchronizing computer time in a computer manufacturing environment. Briefly described, in architecture, one embodiment of the system, among others, can be implemented as follows. The system includes a computer network with a server maintaining timing information, the server communicatively coupled... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070094588 - Image stitching for mobile electronic devices: A device and method for modifying content for use on a mobile electronic device. The content includes (i) a plurality of content image files each including graphics information for generating an associated image and (ii) computer instructions including references to the plurality of image files for causing the associated images... Agent: Ridout & Maybee Suite 2400

20070094589 - Incrementally designing electronic forms and hierarchical schemas: A system and method that enables a designer to build electronic forms and corresponding hierarchical schemas are described. Displays of hierarchical schemas, electronic forms, and components used to build the hierarchical schemas and electronic forms are provided to the designer. The designer selects components and arranges them on a display... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20070094590 - System and method for providing dynamic process step annotations: A system and method for obtaining a process definition; determining the current process; determining the current process step; determining whether a whether a user has requested creation or modification of an annotation of the current process or step; receiving information from the user for creating the annotation when a user... Agent: Michael J. Buchenhorner

20070094591 - System and method for text legibility enhancement: In alternative embodiments, the invention comprises an apparatus, article, and method for modifying the properties of a style sheet having at least one rule associated with a document rendered by a display program on an output device, comprising: determining if the rule specifies a font size; comparing the font size... Agent: Ibm Corp. (raleigh Software Group) C/o Rudolf O Siegesmund Gordon & Rees, LLP

20070094592 - Data visualization methods, data visualization devices, data visualization apparatuses, and articles of manufacture: Data visualization methods, data visualization devices, data visualization apparatuses, and articles of manufacture are described according to some aspects. In one aspect, a data visualization method includes accessing a plurality of initial documents at a first moment in time, first processing the initial documents providing processed initial documents, first identifying... Agent: Wells St. John P.s.

20070094593 - Automated address formatting: The automated insertion of formatted address information includes the generation of one or more electronic documents based on a document template having specific guidelines for the format of the address information. From this template, address information is inserted therein. Prior to insertion, an address format command is received which indicates... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070094594 - Redaction system, method and computer program product: Disclosed herein is a redaction system, method and computer program product. Embodiments of the invention implement an automated redaction system for redacting electronic documents. A redaction system of the invention has a source of electronic documents to be redacted; a source of redaction rules; and a redaction engine coupled to... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20070094597 - Dynamic graphical user interface for a desktop environment: A method, system, and apparatus are directed to providing a graphical user interface over a network. A first selection of a button within a taskbar at a client is detected. A local menu of services is displayed in a display area that is visually independent of the taskbar. A second... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20070094596 - Glance modules: A system is described to enable a user of a mobile device, such as a cellular telephone, to easily switch the display from a home screen, shown while the mobile device is idle, to a glance screen associated with a “glance module.” Multiple glance modules may be installed on the... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070094595 - Survey portal system and method of use: Certain embodiments of the present invention provide a system and method for providing assessment content and services via a portal. Certain embodiments provide an assessment content and services portal. The portal includes an interface for access to assessment content at a portal, an administration engine for managing the portal, assessment... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070094598 - Image forming apparatus: The image forming apparatus includes a display portion that displays switchably at least two different operation screens, a timer that measures a time, an apparatus control portion that controls switching to one of the at least two different operation screens depending on the time, and a management portion that accumulates... Agent: Edwards & Angell, LLP

20070094599 - Method and system for training an operator of a paper folding machine: An interactive tutorial teaches an operator all of the required information needed to set up, operate, maintain, and troubleshoot a folding machine. The interactive tutorial includes graphic and text displays that provide all the necessary information to the operator or short videos to show exactly how an operation should be... Agent: Heidelberger Drucksmaschinen Aktiengeselischaft C/o Keating & Bennett, LLP

20070094600 - Automatic 3d object generation and deformation for representation of data files based on taxonomy classification: Disclosed are a system and method for generating three-dimensional objects to represent files in a three-dimensional environment. A primary classifier classifies stored files into groups based on a first set of properties and generates three-dimensional mesh objects to represent each file. The mesh objects are the same within each group... Agent: Frederick W. Gibb, Iii Gibb Intellectual Property Law Firm, LLC

20070094601 - Systems, methods and tools for facilitating group collaborations: There are disclosed systems, method and tools for facilitating group collaborations. In an embodiment, collaborative ideas are represented in a modified tree data structure in which ideas are stored in nodes of the tree (an “idea tree”). Each node may be associated with data storage means, such as a table... Agent: Bond, Schoeneck & King, PLLC

20070094602 - Display control device, and associated method of identifying content: A display control device is provided for specifying a notable scene in content based on characteristic data included in one of video data and audio data of the content to be reproduced. A predetermined scene in the content is detected, based on an evaluation value, and a related image is... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070094603 - System and method for providing for the secure management of mobile user interface customizations and personalizations: A system and method for preventing further customization and/or personalization of user interface elements and/or their properties. According to the present invention, locking attributes are defined in user interface definition files that are used to describe the application user interface. Element lockings may be used to prevent all modifications to... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20070094604 - Converting between user interface technologies: Converting components for a first user interface (UI) technology into components for a second UI technology includes enabling the second UI technology to access first components of the first UI technology, modeling second components of the first UI technology as native components of the second UI technology, the first components... Agent: Fish & Richardson, P.C.

20070094605 - System for transforming selected sections of a network, e.g. web documents accessed from network sites, e.g. web sites, into e-mail messages: A receiving computer controlled display terminal that has accessed and displayed a network, e.g. Web document, is enabled to select a section of the displayed Web document to designate, e.g. block off a section in the document, and to transform the designated section into an E-mail message. This E-mail message... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20070094606 - Reusable online survey engine: A computer system, method, and computer-readable medium for conducting an online survey including one or more questions are provided. A survey database contains the survey questions and data identifying the type of input field that should be provided for responding to each question. When a request is received for a... Agent: Attention Of D. Kent Stier Merchant & Gould P.C.

20070094609 - Executable and declarative specification for graphical user interfaces: Techniques for decoupling models created during design-time from the runtime environment. A declarative and executable representation for GUIs for applications is provided that is independent of any particular runtime platform, GUI framework, device, or programming language and which acts as an interface between the design environment and the runtime environment.... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070094607 - Integration of composite objects in host applications: A graphical object is generated according to a first application in a document of a second application. The graphical object is constructed as a composite, data-driven object. The graphical object's data is organized so that the semantic data (e.g., relationship among individuals on an organizational chart) is persisted separately from... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20070094608 - Runtime modification of data presented in a graphical element: The present invention provides ways for application programs to allow users to dynamically update data that is presented in a GUI element. In one aspect of the present invention, a method is provided that receives a command when a GUI element is displayed for the purpose of updating one or... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, PLLC

20070094610 - Display apparatus and control method thereof: A display apparatus including a user input unit and a display unit on which an image is displayed according to the input video signal, includes a user interface (UI) generator producing a UI information signal in order to display UI information; a processor which receives at least one of the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070094611 - Method and program for displaying information and information processing apparatus: An information processing apparatus includes a display unit configured to display a plurality of display information items, each corresponding to a content item, and an indicator for indicating one of the display information items, an operation unit, and a control unit. The control unit receives an instruction for updating the... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, PC

20070094612 - Method, a device and a computer program product for dynamically positioning of a pop-up window: A method, a device and a computer program product are shown for positioning of a pop-up window in a display of a mobile terminal device. In particular, the present invention relates to method, device and computer program product for dynamically positioning of the pop-up window in the display of the... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20070094613 - Method and apparatus for establishing and displaying wait screen image in portable terminal: A method and apparatus are disclosed for displaying a menu item selected by a user from a menu list that corresponds to various functions of a portable terminal, such as a wait screen image, so that the user can rapidly and easily access frequently used menus.... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070094614 - Data processing device: A cursor position determination unit 101 determines that a cursor 201 has been aligned, for instance, on an object 206 among a plurality of objects 202 to 209. Then, an object selection determination unit 105 receives selection instruction information indicating the selection of the object onto which the cursor 201... Agent: GlobalIPCounselors, LLP

20070094615 - Method and apparatus for comparing documents, and computer product: Thumbnails of pages of a key document are arranged sequentially according to a page order in a row. Thumbnails of pages of a target document are arranged sequentially according to a page order in a row parallel to the row of the key document. A key page of the key... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070094616 - Method and apparatus for displaying key information in portable terminal: A method and apparatus are disclosed for displaying key information in a portable terminal. Display of key information is provided such that a user can easily confirm information about a shortcut key set by the user or a function for each key of a key input module.... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070094617 - Mobile communication terminal and method therefore: A method, an electronic apparatus and a computer program product for controlling a cursor in a graphical user interface are disclosed. A direction signal is received from a cursor control device. Thereafter, a current mode is determined for said electronic apparatus in response to an actuation of an element of... Agent: Perman & Green

20070094618 - Multiple cursor system: A multiple cursor system includes multiple control devices for respectively controlling one of multiple cursors displayed on a display unit, a communication unit for simultaneously establishing multiple communication links with multiple control devices for data communication, a cursor operation recognition unit for recognizing a cursor operation on each of the... Agent: Posz Law Group, PLC

20070094619 - Cursor management method and program for the same: When a user inputs an instruction to execute cursor addition processing, an information processing unit (2a) of a computer (2) writes cursor information consisting of cursor number and index information indicating a position of a current cursor and the like, to RAM (2b), and registers the current cursor in memory.... Agent: GlobalIPCounselors, LLP

20070094620 - Mobile terminal providing graphic user interface and method of providing graphic user interface using the same: A mobile terminal providing a graphic user interface and method of providing a graphic user interface are disclosed. In one embodiment a mobile terminal may comprise a control unit, a touch screen display unit coupled to the control unit, and a memory storing instructions to be executed by the control... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20070089046 - Information processing apparatus: An information processing apparatus is comprised of a data input device for inputting informations, a memory for storing the informations input by the data input device, a processor for processing the informations in a form of a plurality of pages, a displaying device for displaying the informations formed in a... Agent: Hill, Van Santen, Steadman & Simpson A Professional Corporation

20070089047 - Visualization of collaborative portlet sequences: An improved method, apparatus, and computer usable code for managing a plurality of content portlets in a portal page. A workflow is identified for the plurality of content portlets in the portal page to form an identified workflow. The identified workflow specifies a sequence of tasks in which the plurality... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20070089048 - Displaying using graphics display language and native ui objects: A set of instructions include instructions written In a graphics display language (e.g., SVG) and instructions written in a Web form creation language (e.g., XForms). Graphics are rendered on a display of a device in accordance with the instructions which accord to the graphics display language. Parameters are extracted from... Agent: Smart And Biggar

20070089049 - Non-symbolic data system for the automated completion of forms: A system and method for paper-based, automated completion of forms allows a user charged with filling out multiple forms containing some common information to write each unique piece of information one time, and the system generates a set of completed forms with the required information on each form with no... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20070089050 - Populating a table in a business application: Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for populating a table in a business application. A computer-implemented method of displaying information on a computer display device includes displaying a first view on the display device, the first view including dropdown values and data in a table of rows and columns,... Agent: Holland & Knight, LLP

20070089051 - Ink thickness rendering for electronic annotations: A system and method for rendering ink annotations for a displayed image is disclosed. The invention adjusts the thickness of rendered lines for ink annotations when rendered. Ink annotations are created by capturing and connecting a set of data points input by a user. The invention outlines various pixels and... Agent: Banner & Witcoff Ltd., Attorneys For Client Nos. 003797 & 013797

20070089053 - Dynamic variable-content publishing: A product creator system includes a business application and a distribution utility. The business application enables a user to specify and/or edit (via a user client) a document. The business application generates a packet that is transmitted to the distribution utility. The packet describes the document, such as a document... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20070089052 - Systems, methods, and media for enforcing accessible content development: Systems, methods and media for enforcing accessible content development are disclosed. One embodiment provides a method for enforcing accessible content development comprising accessing a tag library descriptor for each of a plurality of markup tags for web content authoring where the tag library descriptor notes one or more tag sub-elements... Agent: Ibm Corporation (jss) C/o Schubert Osterrieder & Nickelson PLLC

20070089054 - Apparatus and method for controlling notification, recording media, and program: An object of the present invention is to urge a user to check a target to be checked by the user. A check condition detecting section 104 detects whether or not a user has checked a to-be-checked target to be checked by the user which is identified by a to-be-checked... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20070089055 - Method and apparatus for outputting a user interface (ui) event of 3rd party device in home network: Disclosed are a method and apparatus for outputting a user interface (UI) event of a 3rd party device in a home network having a server, a client and a control point, the server and the client joining a UI session by using a remote protocol, the control point controlling the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070089056 - Service providing system and service providing device that provides a specific service in response to user authority determination based on positional relationships of virtual objects: The invention provides a service providing system in which it is determined whether users have use authority to utilize a service providing apparatus, such as a projector, so that only users having the use authority can utilize the service providing apparatus. The invention also provides a service providing system and... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070089057 - Method and system for selecting media: A system and method for selecting media. In one embodiment, the media is selected based on a desired relationship measure, a user input, relationship data, and the identity of a media file. In another embodiment, the present method and system is implemented onto portable devices, car audio systems, consumer electronics... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20070089058 - Rich media event production system and method including the capturing, indexing, and synchronizing of rgb-based graphic content: A rich media event production method and system including the capturing, indexing, and synchronizing of RGB-based graphic content. The method includes capturing audio and video during an event production; capturing graphical content during the event production from an RGB source device; indexing and synchronizing the captured audio, video, and graphical... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20070089059 - Method of correcting channel change errors in a media center personal computer system: A method corrects channel change errors in a media center personal computer system. The media center personal computer system has a personal computer coupled to an infrared (IR) remote control device and a tuner card coupled to an output of an external tuner. The method determines when channel change instructions... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070089061 - Image reproduction apparatus and image reproduction program: In an image reproduction window, an image reproduction area in which images are reproduced, and an operating area in which a slide bar is displayed are provided. When a slider of the slide bar is moved, the number of images to be displayed in one frame in the image reproduction... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20070089060 - Imaged data and time correction apparatus, method, and program: An apparatus and method for performing collective correction for imaged date and time data attached to image data files obtained by a selected imaging device among image data files obtained by a plurality of imaging devices. Image data files obtained by a plurality of imaging devices, and imaged date and... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070089062 - Method and apparatus for reproducing multimedia files: In the present invention, a method and apparatus are provided for reproducing multimedia files, wherein the selection probability of the multimedia files is adjusted according to a user's preference and a multimedia file is randomly selected and played according to the selection probability. The selection probability of the multimedia files... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20070089063 - Graphical programs with fifo structure for controller/fpga communications: System and method for communicating between graphical programs executing on respective devices, e.g., a programmable hardware element (PHE) and a controller. The system includes a first node representing a first in, first out (FIFO) structure, and a second node providing a controller interface to the FIFO structure. A first portion... Agent: Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel, P.C.

20070089064 - Method, system, and program product for accessing undisplayed data: The invention provides a method, system, and program product for accessing and, optionally, displaying data not included in a graphical user interface (GUI) display. In one embodiment, the method includes accessing at least one filter object; and positioning a location indicator adjacent a first portion of the GUI, wherein the... Agent: Hoffman Warnick & Dalessandro LLC

20070089065 - Secondary navigation: A secondary navigation system for navigating through a form allows a user to easily and quickly navigate through a plurality of features supported by the underlying application. The secondary navigation system provides quick access to context sensitive documents, document lists, features and services. An implementation of the secondary navigation system... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP (microsoft)

20070089066 - Method and apparatus for displaying a window for a user interface: Methods and apparatuses to display windows. In more than one embodiments of the invention, a window is closed automatically (e.g., after a timer expires, or when a condition or criterion is met, or a system input is received) without user input. In some examples, the window is translucent so that... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070089067 - Dynamically displaying current status of tasks: The current status of a list of tasks to be performed is dynamically displayed. The tasks may be performed by a user (e.g., data entered by the user, words spoken by the user, actions taken by the user, and so forth) or alternatively by a computer (e.g., the steps it... Agent: Seed Intellectual Property Law Group PLLC

20070089068 - Method and system for defining page size when displaying a data list: A system for setting data list parameters for displaying a data list in pages. An application program receives a first and second user input, wherein the first user input defines a number of items displayed within a page, and wherein the second user input defines a page size tolerance. In... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20070089069 - Apparatus and methods of displaying multiple menus: A display apparatus and methods for displaying multiple menus are provided. In one embodiment, the display apparatus includes a screen and a frame connecting to the screen. The screen has a first menu region and a second menu region each displaying a menu therein. The menu in the second menu... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070089070 - Communication device and method for inputting and predicting text: A communication device comprising an input device for inputting text character-by-character from a sequence of characters, a memory device for storing a plurality of reference character sequences of characters and a prediction device for comparing individual ones of the input characters with the reference character sequences and for proposing at... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, LLP

20070089071 - Software mechanism for providing distinct types of time dependent event objects for display in a graphical user interface: At a computing device such as a wireless communication device, a software component receives a set of constraints for selecting objects representative of time dependent event objects. The constraints may be generated automatically by a software module for displaying a visual representation of different types of time dependent events, e.g.,... Agent: Smart And Biggar

20070083805 - Configurable system and method for order entry: Certain embodiments of the present invention provide for a configurable order entry form. In certain embodiments, the form may be configured by a user. In certain embodiments, the form may mimic a paper form to encourage doctors to use the computer to complete an order form. In certain embodiments, a... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070083806 - Electronic web sticky: A method to provide an electronic web sticky may include placing a web sticky icon proximate to a selected feature on a web page to which the web sticky may be associated. The method may also include providing a plurality of options for selecting a web sticky type.... Agent: Moore & Van Allen, PLLC For Ibm

20070083807 - Evaluating multiple data filtering expressions in parallel: The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for evaluating multiple data filtering expressions in parallel. A filtering module accesses an XML document containing a plurality of XML elements. The filtering module serializing the XML document into serialized XML. The filtering module accesses a plurality of filtering... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20070083809 - Optimizing correlated xml extracts: Queries that request fields that are contained in the same XML fragments are written to execute them more efficiently.... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker/oracle

20070083808 - System and method for measuring svg document similarity: A system and method for measuring the similarity between SVG documents. The present invention involves reducing the respective documents to their minimal logical representations and then analyzing the representations using tree isomorphism techniques. Applications can then use this comparison data to more efficiently perform actions such as content compression, content... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20070083810 - Web content adaptation process and system: An apparatus and method for adapting web page content are described. The adaptation of web page content for display on smaller intended display devices often requires the splitting of the content over a number of smaller pages. The apparatus and method relate to a procedure which integrates the process of... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070083811 - Contents editor and method of editing contents using the same: In a method of editing contents of a plurality of items on a single display, it is drawn, on the display, a first image including a plurality of input sections each of which is associated with one of the items and includes a text box. When one of the items... Agent: Edwards & Angell, LLP

20070083812 - Gui with improved mnemonic control: A system, method and computer program product are provided for controlling the operation of mnemonics so that mnemonics that are not in the user's notion of the active context (i.e., mnemonics that are not in the active pane in which the user is currently working) are blocked from operation. When... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20070083813 - Generic, multi-instance method and gui detection system for tracking and monitoring computer applications: Presented is a system and method for monitoring events derived from a computer target application presentation layer including the steps of providing, independent of recompiling the target application's source code, a script running at a level within the target application. The script scans run-time instantiations of objects of the target... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20070083814 - Online system and method for restoring electronic media on electronic storage devices: Copy protected materials are backed up or restored and made available for play on electronic media players through an online retrievable system. Corrupted segments of electronic media storage files are identified and located prior to being read, executed, or played. An uncorrupted copy from the network is then located, and... Agent: Law Office Of Delio & Peterson, LLC.

20070083815 - Method and apparatus for processing a video stream: Methods for processing a video stream are provided. One embodiment comprises generating a comparison signature for a frame of a video stream and comparing the comparison signature to a reference signature. In another embodiment, a method comprises generating a reference signature for a frame of a video stream and assigning... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070083816 - Height-adjustable game table: A game table is disclosed having a support structure including leg assemblies at either end supporting the table. The support structure includes release/lock mechanisms and counterbalancing elements causing an upward force against said tabletop to substantially offset the weight of said tabletop. The leg assemblies are adapted for adjustment to... Agent: Francis Edward Marino

20070083817 - Height-adjustable game table: Disclosed is an input device which is used to input control instructions into a data processing system, embodied more particularly in the form of a mobile telephone. The input device comprises a movement capture device used to capture a translator movement of a reference point of the input device and... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070083818 - Media variations browser: A system and method facilitating media browsing is provided. The invention includes a browsing component and a media display system that provides a focus media and related media. The focus media and the related media are associated based, at least in part, upon metadata. The invention further provides for an... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070083819 - Method and system for generating pyramid fisheye lens detail-in-context presentations: A method for generating a presentation of a region-of-interest in an original image for display on a display screen, comprising: establishing a focal region for the region-of-interest at least partially surrounded by a shoulder region; creating a focal region image for the focal region by scaling the original image within... Agent: Mccarthy Tetrault LLP

20070083821 - Creating viewports from selected regions of windows: A method, apparatus, system, and signal-bearing medium that, in an embodiment, create a viewport based on a selected region of a source window, determine data that is within the selected region, and display the data in the viewport. The source window is minimized to an icon, which represents the source... Agent: Ibm Corporation RochesterIPLaw Dept. 917

20070083820 - Input association: Embodiments of associating a plurality of inputs with one or more applications are disclosed.... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070083822 - Method and apparatus for use of rotational user inputs: Improved approaches for users of computing devices to interact with graphical user interfaces are described. According to one aspect, a rotational user action supplied by a user at a user input device is transformed into linear action with respect to a graphical user interface. According to another aspect, a portion... Agent: Technology & Innovation Law Group, PC

20070083823 - Scroll bar for computer display: An improved scroll bar arrangement for a window (canvas) displayed on a computer screen includes a computer display canvas comprised of a wire frame and a scroll button (fader cap) at a side edge and/or bottom edge of the canvas. The fader cap is actuated to place scroller markers at... Agent: Zimmerman & Cronen, LLP

20070083824 - Display apparatus and contents information display method: A contents information display method of a display apparatus includes storing mosaic display information related to a location and a size of a plurality of sub-screens which display a plurality of contents; receiving and storing contents information; extracting image data corresponding to respective contents of the plurality of contents from... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070083825 - Method and apparatus for displaying a window for a user interface: Methods and apparatuses to display windows. In more than one embodiments of the invention, a window is closed automatically (e.g., after a timer expires, or when a condition or criterion is met, or a system input is received) without user input. In some examples, the window is translucent so that... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070083826 - Method and system for scaling the area displayed in a viewing window: One exemplary method includes selecting an object feature, obtaining a scaling factor that is associated with the object feature, and adjusting the viewing area of the image displayed in accordance with the scaling factor.... Agent: Hewlett-packard Company Intellectual Property Administration

20070083827 - System and method for organizing application indicators on an electronic device: A device for and a method of dynamically refreshing presentation of icons for objects processed on an electronic device are provided. The method comprises: establishing a triggering event to initiate refreshment of a layout of the icons displayed on a display in the device; upon detection of the triggering event,... Agent: Mccarthy Tetrault LLP

20070083828 - Information processing program and information processing apparatus: A part of entry words included in entry word data is displayed in an entry word candidate display area 42. When the user taps a desired entry word in this state, a meaning of that entry word is displayed in an explanation sentence display area 40. When the user slides... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, P.C.

20070083829 - Application program initiation with initial display selection: A computer system, method and program are provided which offer a user a simple way to access alternatives to the “home page” web site on initiating operation of a browser program. In particular, a browser program in accordance with this invention offers a user the option of opening a session... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20070079227 - Processor for creating document binders in a document management system: A method and apparatus for manipulating an electronic document. Electronic document data representing pages to be rendered on an associated output device are received and displayed to a user as tiles. A user creates a binder document to which are added images of the pages of a document or documents.... Agent: Tucker, Ellis & West LLP

20070079228 - Information playback system using information storage medium: According to one embodiment, there is provided a data processing method. The method includes reading management information indicative of a playback and display procedure, acquiring a content from a certain storage position at a timing determined based on the management information, and performing playback and display of the content at... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070079229 - Method and system for automatically determining the server-side technology underlying a dynamic web site: An automated tool for determining the server-side technology underlying a dynamic Web site acquires one or more root Internet addresses, identifies hyperlinks within a specified link depth of each root internet address, extracts a file extension from a file name associated with each identified hyperlink, designates one or more dominant... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070079230 - Table column navigation: Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for table columns navigation. A computer-implemented method of displaying information on a computer display device includes loading data into a memory, displaying a first view of a table user interface (UI) on the display device, the first view including column navigation functions and... Agent: Holland & Knight, LLP

20070079231 - System and method for document construction: A document construction and management system is described. In one embodiment, documents are assembled by combining one or more modules. In one embodiment, the modules are combined according to one or more construction rules. The modules can be provided to a number of subscribers, each subscriber having one or more... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070079232 - Display system incorporating an electro-mechanical wave transducer: A display system (20) employs a light source (21), a display panel (31), and an optical filter (23). An optical path (OP) extends from the light source (21) through the optical filter (23) to the display panel (31) where light emitted from the light source (21) propagates along the optical... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070079235 - Dynamic creation of an application's xml document type definition (dtd): The system, method and program of the invention enables a new DTD to be dynamically created during runtime from a preexisting DTD. A next document is processed and validated according to the new DTD. An interface is provided that enables plug-in providers to provide fragments of DTD information for at... Agent: Ibm Corp (ap) C/o Amy Pattillo

20070079233 - Extensible remote tag markup system and method: Functionality available on an enterprise server is applied to HTML content from a remote server. HTML content is collected from remote servers including remote markup tags upon request from an end user. The HTML content for the remote markup tags is parsed and converted to content formatted for enterprise server... Agent: Jackson & Co., LLP

20070079234 - Modeling xml from binary data: The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for modeling XML from binary data. A rendering module receives a request for an XML document and retrieves binary data corresponding to the requested XML document. The binary data includes at least one data value and a template reference... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20070079236 - Multi-form design with harmonic composition for dynamically aggregated documents: An architecture employed to create a high quality document, which is a document that looks good given the type(s) of content to be displayed in the document and the size/dimensions of the displayed document. The architecture can utilize high level templates that broadly define layout constraints to adapt the content... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070079238 - Computer executable graphical user interface engine, system, and method therefor: A computer executable graphical user interface engine receives one or more text-based files and generates a user interface at least partially populated with data from the one or more text-based files. The computer executable graphical user interface engine enforces updates retrievable via a network from a remote device based on... Agent: Toler Schaffer, LLP

20070079237 - Computer system and method including an operation performed in a manner based on a determined activity: A computer system (and method) includes a determining device for determining an activity of a user, and a setting device for setting an operating manner of an operating device based on the determined activity.... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20070079239 - Data entry system: A data entry system includes a plurality of keys each of which has two or more symbols associated with each key and a means for receiving a second specific input from a user. A third correction key is provided, where a user enters a desired input by pressing one or... Agent: Sofer & Haroun LLP.

20070079240 - Method for integrating user interfaces of multimedia files: A method for integrating user interfaces of multimedia files is disclosed. Because the method supports multimedia files, such as audio, video, and picture files simultaneously, only one media player program is needed to play and edit media files. In addition, different user interfaces are designed corresponding to different media files.... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20070079241 - Apparatus and method for automatically selecting an audio play mode: An apparatus and method for automatically selecting an audio play mode mainly is provided. The apparatus includes an audio reading unit and a play mode selecting unit. The audio reading unit reads an audio data frame, obtains and recognizes a play mode identifier from a frame header of the audio... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070079243 - Monitoring performance of a computer system: A computer program is provided for monitoring the performance or state of a computer system or of an application operable within the computer system or of a computer hardware device in the computer system. The program permits a screen display to be provided of one or more visual components that... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070079242 - System and method for control state management: The present invention enables the scalable control tree state management/optimization, which compares the control's initial state with its current state and saves its state only if it is different from initial state. In addition, it can also reduce the size of the control tree's state by removing a control's state... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20070079245 - Method and apparatus for providing application with remote-controllable interface: A method of and an apparatus for providing an application with a remotely controllable interface. An application is displayed in a first mode, in which the user interface is controllable using a mouse or a keyboard. Predetermined data specifying an appearance of the application is collected, the predetermined data are... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20070079244 - Remoting redirection layer for graphics device interface: Remoting a display. A method that may be practiced, for example, in a networked computing environment including a local computer system running one or more applications and a remote computer that displays graphical information to a user for the one or more applications at the local computer system. The remote... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20070079246 - Method of selection of a button in a graphical bar, and receiver implementing the method: The present invention relates to a method of navigation around documents represented by identifiers displayed on a viewing screen. Navigation commands control the position of a cursor also displayed on the screen, independently of the position of the identifiers. The identifiers automatically scroll over the screen as a function of... Agent: Joseph J. Laks, Vice President Thomson Licensing LLC

20070079247 - User interface having quick views and full views: A quick-view user interface for assisting a user in performing a task and shielding the user from complex data. The quick-view user interface may include a window on a computer screen. The window may comprise a pane for displaying a subset of data, based on the user's role, from a... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070079248 - Automation tool to create text email with purchase order data out of purchase order business object: In a purchase order management system, with each purchase order request, a user can indicate to the computer to send a purchase order request to a supplier. A conventional groupware e-mail editor pops up with the data of the purchase order already embedded as text. The purchaser can add or... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070079249 - Distributed clipboard: Techniques for providing a shared clipboard to participants in a conversation are provided. The shared clipboard is specific to the conversation to which it is associated in that the shared clipboard does not “spill over” from one conversation to another. When a conversation between two or more participants is established,... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP/msft

20070079250 - Device home page for use in a device type manager providing graphical user interfaces for viewing and specifying field device parameters: A device management utility is described that includes a generalized graphical user interface facilitating access to a variety of resources associated with selected device types. In particular, the utility includes information interfaces communicatively linking the utility of a variety of data sources. In addition, the utility includes a graphical user... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20070079251 - Graphical user interface with intelligent navigation: Systems, methods, media, and other embodiments associated with facilitating intelligent navigation in a graphical user interface (GUI) are described. One exemplary system embodiment includes a control element configured to facilitate closing a window and identifying a GUI navigation target. The example system may also include a top-level object configured to... Agent: Mcdonald Hopkins Co., Lpa

20070079252 - Simulating multi-monitor functionality in a single monitor environment: The systems and methods of the present provide techniques for virtualizing, simulating or providing multiple displays for an environment having one display device or less display devices than desired. The techniques of the present invention virtualize a client's display environment by modifying and controlling the behavior and appearance of an... Agent: Choate, Hall & Stewart LLP

20070079253 - Hybrid tem/birdcage coil for mri: A radio frequency coil (30, 30′, 120, 120′) for a magnetic resonance imaging system (10, 10″) includes a birdcage section (34, 122, 122′) having a plurality of parallel spaced apart conductors (46, 130, 130′) and one or more cross or end conductors (48, 132, 144′, 154, 156) aligned generally transverse... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070079254 - Method for controlling search controller and system thereof: A method of controlling a search controller includes: monitoring a top level window which is activated on a top level among applications in execution; determining whether the monitored top level window corresponds to a File Open dialog box; attaching the search controller to the File Open dialog box, when the... Agent: Blackwell Sanders Peper Martin LLP

20070079255 - Graphical user interface for computers having variable size icons: A computer user interface is provided which allows a user to adjust the size of icons based upon a user's preference or based upon a characteristic of the objects that the icons represent. When the icon sizing is performed according to a user preference, a relative sizing scheme or an... Agent: Buchanan Ingersoll, PC

20070079256 - Method, apparatus and program for outputting images: A card reader loads thumbnail image data from a memory card. Plural thumbnail images are arranged in a matrix, and displayed as an index image on an image selection screen. The thumbnail image to be printed is selected on the image selection screen. The card reader loads principal image data... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070079258 - Apparatus and methods of displaying a roundish-shaped menu: A display apparatus and methods for displaying a roundish-shaped menu. In one embodiment, the display apparatus includes a screen and a frame connected to the screen. The screen has a first menu region and a second menu region. The menu in the second menu region is a sub-menu of a... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070079257 - Context debugger: Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for user a context debugger. A computer-implemented method of displaying information on a computer display device includes loading data into a context hierarchical data structure into memory during an execution of a business software application, the context hierarchical data structure comprising an arrangement... Agent: Holland & Knight, LLP

20070079259 - Predictive cursor interaction: Various embodiments can add predictability to user interactions with links that they encounter. In addition to adding predictability, various embodiments can enable a user to affect or change the behavior that is associated with a particular link selection. In at least some embodiments, a user is provided with discernible indicia... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20070079260 - Method and apparatus to transmit a calendar event in target calendaring system format: An agent may receive an event from a source calendaring system, wherein the event specifies a person, perhaps including a uniform resource locator, having disparate calendaring system. The disparate calendaring system may use a native event format for coordinating events. The agent may lookup a template to convert the event... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC