Data processing: presentation processing of document inventions 06/07

20070150800 - Unsupervised extraction of facts: A system and method for extracting facts from documents. A fact is extracted from a first document. The attribute and value of the fact extracted from the first document are used as a seed attribute-value pair. A second document containing the seed attribute-value pair is analyzed to determine a contextual... Agent: Google / Fenwick

20070150801 - Interactive learning-based document annotation: A document annotation system 10 includes a graphical user interface 22 used by an annotator 30 to annotate documents. An active learning component 24 trains an annotation model and proposes annotations to documents based on the annotation model. A request handler 26, 32, 34, 42 conveys annotation requests from the... Agent: Patrick R. Roche Fay, Sharpe, Fagan Minnich & Mckee, LLP

20070150802 - Document annotation and interface: A method for use in annotating documents provided in a collection. The method comprises determining, an annotation gain for a number of document clusters, the annotation gain being at least partially indicative of the effect of annotating at least one document associated with the respective cluster. A recommendation can then... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070150803 - Document segmentation for mixed raster content representation: In an array of pixels, a method for segmenting a selected pixel of the array between at least two layers including identifying an N-by-N window centered upon the selected pixel, evaluating at least one pixel in the N-by-N window to determine whether the selected pixel is a potential text element,... Agent: Lexmark International, Inc. Intellectual Property Law Department

20070150804 - Method, system, and computer program product for propagating remotely configurable posters of host site content: A method, system, and computer program product for propagating access to host site content to remote users over the World Wide Web are provided. Access to host site content is distributed more widely and easily through propagative posters. Remote users can access a host site and configure propagative posters in... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20070150805 - Ui taxonomy being abstraction of ui class: A method of organizing user interface information in a computer system includes receiving a user's definition of at least a user interface (UI) layout and a UI principle, and creating a UI taxonomy that is an abstraction of a class of UIs being consistent with the UI layout and the... Agent: Fish & Richardson, P.C.

20070150808 - Method for transformation of an extensible markup language vocabulary to a generic document structure format: A method determines structures and features of an original document to make style decisions. The extensible markup language of the original document is analyzed to produce instance mapping. The document type definitions of the original document are analyzed to produce document type definitions mapping. Lastly, the instance schema of the... Agent: Basch & Nickerson LLP

20070150807 - System and method for managing dynamic document references: Document fragments are managed by the use of fragment objects. Fragment objects contain a reference to a portion of a source document. Referencing documents contain a reference to a fragment object which delivers the content of the fragment of the source document to the referencing document. The source document can... Agent: Basch & Nickerson LLP

20070150806 - Systems and methods of validating templates: Embodiments of the present invention provide systems and methods of validating templates. One embodiment the present invention includes a computer-implemented method validating a template comprising receiving a target language schema, receiving a placeholder schema, generating a template schema that is based on the target schema and the placeholder schema, and... Agent: Fountainhead Law Group

20070150809 - Division program, combination program and information processing method: The present invention provides an information processing method converting a format of a structured document, comprising: a first step copying, a first storage unit, information of a pre-converted first structured document sequentially by a predetermined amount beginning from the head; a second step adding start tags and/or end tags, and... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070150810 - Virtual desktop: Virtual Desktop—Meta-Organization & Control System wherein a real-time-accessible memory media having at least one dynamic substantially cyclic electronic-data structure is associated (by an ongoing algorithmic activity for respectively regularly transforming each process of a plurality of processes running in the environment) into an associated graphic representation, and logically assigns the... Agent: Patent Department Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

20070150811 - Reaction information display system: To provide a reaction information display system that makes it possible, although simple in constitution without using special equipment, to grasp, easily in real time, the reaction, from a large number of users, to a single piece of evaluated object information supplied through an information communication network. A evaluated object... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20070150812 - User support system integrating faq and helpdesk features: A user support system and related user interface that integrates FAQ features and helpdesk features. The user interface screen includes menu windows that allow the user to select a main category and a subcategory of the support topic, and displays a list of frequently asked questions (FAQ) based on the... Agent: Ying Chen

20070150813 - Extending the gamut color generation in an optical flat panel display: A circuit for implementing a registration-free, contiguous conductive plane. A circuit may include a plurality of conductive structures in a first plane. The circuit may further include a contiguous conductive equipotential surface in a second plane parallel to the first plane. The circuit may further include activation means configured to... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070150814 - Method and system for presenting published information in a browser: A computer-implemented method and system is provided for presenting published information in a browser. Aspects of the preferred embodiment include providing a user control via a browser that allows for controlling a pacing of presentation of published information in the browser; receiving a pace setting from the user control; associating... Agent: Scenera Research, LLC

20070150815 - Program execution service windows: Techniques for guaranteeing that a software program is executed on a machine only during designated periods of time are provided. Service windows define time periods during which software programs targeted to execute on a machine are allowed to execute on the machine. On the machine, the service windows work in... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP/msft

20070150816 - User interface authoring utility for changing user interface elements on wireless devices: Embodiments of a user interface authoring tool for networked mobile communication devices are described. Resource profiles are defined by device manufacturers for each model of mobile device. The resource profiles specify the composition, format, and appearance of one or more user interface elements displayed or executed by the mobile device.... Agent: Courtney Staniford & Gregory LLP

20070150817 - User interface and method for composing services in a ubiquitous computing environment through direction and selection operators: A user interface and method for composing services in a ubiquitous computing environment through direction and selection operators is presented. A display of a ubiquitous computing environment is presented. One or more hosts operating in the ubiquitous computing environment is represented with host symbols. Components in the ubiquitous computing environment... Agent: Cascadia Intellectual Property

20070150818 - Remote control device and method: The present invention discloses a remote control device. Via the present remote control device, a remote computing device can operate a plurality of computing devices and further administrate the whole system constituted by the plurality of computing devices and a KVM switch via a network. The remote control device and... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070150819 - Graphical user interface: A system for monitoring a sensor includes a GUI (Graphical User Interface) such as a WebPage embedded in the sensor. The GUI is configured to display information relating to the sensor from a user computer connectable to the sensor via an Ethernet connection and having an internet web browser for... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070150820 - Data-driven user interface: A system for generating a data-driven user interface. The system comprises a network interface configured to communicate with a user device, a processor coupled to the network interface, and a memory coupled to the processor. The memory contains a product model, user-interface logic, and metadata. User interface specific metadata drives... Agent: Smith Frohwein Tempel Greenlee Blaha, LLC

20070150821 - Gui-maker (data-centric automated gui-generation): An apparatus and method for creating a data centric graphical user interface (GUI) having XML document, Style(s), unique functionality (if required or desired), and data pair(s). The XML document coded with the Style(s), unique functionality, and data pair(s) are compiled to generate GUIs where the data being displayed is of... Agent: John S. Beulick Armstrong Teasdale LLP

20070150822 - Platform-independent distributed user interface server architecture: A distributed user interface (UI) system includes a client device configured to render a UI for a server-based application. The client device communicates with a UI server over a network such as the Internet. The UI server performs formatting for the UI, which preferably utilizes a number of native UI... Agent: Dorsey & Whitney LLP Intellectual Property Department

20070150823 - Method for controlling on-screen display providing predetermined demo: An exemplary method for controlling an on-screen display includes: generating a control signal and sending the control signal to a micro-controller unit; setting up a demo parameter which is stored in a register and which represents a demo of an on-screen display menu of according to the control signal by... Agent: Wei Te Chung Foxconn International, Inc.

20070150824 - Osd controlling method for achieving user-definable menu: An exemplary on-screen display (OSD) controlling method for a display device is provided. The display device includes a micro-controller unit. The OSD controlling method includes: entering a menu ordering mode of an OSD menu of the display device; setting a new arrangement order of icons of the OSD menu, and... Agent: Wei Te Chung Foxconn International, Inc.

20070150825 - Custom presence icons: A presence system provides custom presence icons customizable by presentities to watchers of the presentities. The presence system includes a presence server for receiving icon information from a presentity, in which the icon information defines one or more custom presence icons associated with the presentity. The presence server also receives... Agent: Alcatel Usa Intellectual Property Department

20070150826 - Indication of progress towards satisfaction of a user input condition: In some embodiments of the invention, a graphical user interface in an electronic device includes one or more user-interface objects associated with a second user-interface state. While the device is in a first user-interface state, the one or more objects transition in optical intensity to indicate progress towards satisfaction of... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP/ Apple Computer Inc.

20070150827 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for protecting information on a user interface based on a viewability of the information: Methods, systems, and computer program products for protecting information on a user interface based on a viewability of the information are disclosed. According to one method, a viewing position of a person other than a user with respect to information on a user interface is identified. An information viewability threshold... Agent: Scenera Research, LLC Jenkins, Wilson & Taylor, P.A.

20070150828 - Content search method: A content search screen has a rectangular content list display area. A display area for the attribute “genre” is arranged above the content list display area, and a display area for the attribute “device (storage location)” is arranged at the left of the content list display area. The attribute “genre”... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20070150829 - System and method for dynamic zoom to view documents on small displays: A system and method for dynamic zoom adjustment based, in part, upon: the raster data in the user selected local area is disclosed; and/or the knowledge of a prevailing font size in a user selected region such that the text in that region is enlarged to be just readable. To... Agent: Basch & Nickerson LLP

20070150830 - Scrolling list with floating adjacent index symbols: Movement of a user's point of contact with a touch-sensitive display is determined. In response to the movement, a list of information items on the touch-sensitive display is scrolled. The list of information items may include a sequence of information item subsets corresponding to a sequence of index items. While... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP/ Apple Computer Inc.

20070150831 - Audio user-interface: Methods and systems for scrolling through content of media. An example method performed on a cell phone receives an index of segments from a server over a cellular network and a public data network. The received segment is presented based on the received index of segments. A request for a... Agent: Black Lowe & Graham, PLLC

20070150832 - Image output system, image output apparatus, information processing apparatus and program: An image output system configured of information terminals, each of which includes an identification information storage unit which stores identification information for identifying each of the information terminals and a transmission unit which transmits the identification information, and an image output apparatus which includes: an identification information receiving unit which... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070150833 - Method for the management of pop up windows displayed on user screen in television environment: The present invention relates to a method for the management of pop-up windows displayed on a user screen in a television environment. The pop-up window management method according to the present invention is characterized in that to each of pop-up windows is assigned a priority and the pop-up windows are... Agent: Hoffmann & Baron, LLP

20070150836 - Methods, systems, and software applications including tab panel elements: A graphical user interface is provided for defining parameters for a process to be executed by a computer. Additionally, methods, systems and software applications are provided for presenting the graphical user interface to a user. In one implementation, the graphical user interface comprises at least two tab panel elements, each... Agent: Sap / Finnegan, Henderson LLP

20070150834 - Extensible icons with multiple drop zones: Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to icon management in a GUI and provide a novel and non-obvious method, system and computer program product for extensible icons with multiple drop zones. In one embodiment of the invention, an icon data processing system configured for... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20070150835 - Integrated multidimensional view of hierarchical objects: Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to the display of multidimensional structures and provide a method, system and computer program product for managing an integrated multidimensional view of a structured collection of objects. In one embodiment of the invention, a data processing system can... Agent: Steven M. Greenberg, Esquire Christopher & Weisberg, P.A.

20070150837 - Graphics stack system and method: A system and method are provided for drawing graphics, such as to display a user interface on a display of a mobile device. A graphics stack is used to store pre-computed coordinate values to improve performance for drawing graphics, such as to display a user interface on a display of... Agent: John V. Biernacki, Esq. Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue

20070150838 - Method and system for finding and visually highlighting html code by directly clicking in the web page: The present invention is directed to a method and system for finding and visually highlighting HTML code by directly clicking in the web page. According to one embodiment of the present invention, an event interface of each browser Document Object Model (“DOM”) element that is rendered on the web page... Agent: Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP

20070150839 - Method for providing selectable alternate menu views: In a method for providing a menu display, in response to a menu item selection, the method may determine whether a menu map selection event or a cascading menu selection has occurred, may display a plurality of menus including those that are of a hierarchical level below and not immediately... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070150841 - Method for navigation through displayed medical image information: In a method for navigation through medical image information, upon selection of a second operating mode, slice images from different slices within a slice image set can be selected by a movement of a control device in the y-direction and slice images from further slice image sets acquired at different... Agent: Schiff Hardin, LLP Patent Department

20070150840 - Browsing stored information: A geographical field is displayed including indicia, representing respective items stored in a navigation system, that are displayed in positions that correspond to geographic relationships of the items on the geographic field. In response to a user manipulating a user interface control device, a visible feature of the geographic field... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20070150842 - Unlocking a device by performing gestures on an unlock image: A device with a touch-sensitive display may be unlocked via gestures performed on the touch-sensitive display. The device is unlocked if contact with the display corresponds to a predefined gesture for unlocking the device. The device displays one or more unlock images with respect to which the predefined gesture is... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP/ Apple Computer Inc.

20070143660 - System and method for indexing image-based information: An information processing system comprises an image acquisition device, a workstation, and a data store. The image acquisition device generates a representation of a source item. The workstation includes a rendering device which presents an application interface, an input device that provides a source identifier, logic that retrieves a set... Agent: Smith Frohwein Tempel Greenlee Blaha, LLC

20070143661 - Data mining and reporting: An integrated system is described that allows a user to easily mine and report data maintained by a customer relationship management (CRM) application. In general, the system automates the process of creating electronic reports, such as an electronic worksheet, in a format that can be directly manipulated and viewed from... Agent: Shumaker & Sieffert, P. A.

20070143662 - Inserting user interface elements into native applications: Custom user interfaces are inserted into native applications enabling various presentation formats to be used for integrating inserted user interfaces with existing user interface(s) of the native application. Inserted user interfaces may be presented as collapsible adjoining form regions, task panes, and/or large form regions as part of a tab... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20070143663 - System and method for collaborative annotation using a digital pen: A method and system for collaborative annotation by team members of a master document using a digital pen system is described. At least one hardcopy printout of the master document is printed on digital paper used with a digital pen system. Using the digital pen, annotations are made to the... Agent: Pitney Bowes Inc. Intellectual Property And Technology Law Dept.

20070143666 - Architecture for arbitrary extensible markup language processing engine: An extensible markup language document processing engine performs arbitrary processing on extensible markup language documents. The processing sequence of the extensible markup language document processing engine is not fixed, but rather can depend upon the information submitted with the job and upon determinations and analysis during the actual job processing.... Agent: Basch & Nickerson LLP

20070143664 - A compressed schema representation object and method for metadata processing: A compressed binary schema representation object for metadata processing and a related method are provided. The compressed binary schema representation provides savings in bandwidth and processing requirements as compared to textual schema representations. The binary schema representation makes it possible to select and decode only desired schema elements without the... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070143667 - Display system and method for displaying a multi-dimensional file visualizer and chooser: A multi-dimensional file visualizer and chooser allows the user to rapidly and effectively view and select their files. The visualizer and chooser is a computer software application that structures different file types and applies 3D GUI visualization technology to allow users an improved ability to visualize and select the file... Agent: Gregory Smith & Associates

20070143665 - Xml specification for electronic data interchange (edi): Extensible Markup Language (XML) specification for transforming electronic data interchange (EDI) transactions. A collection of EDI data is received in a batch. The batch of EDI data includes a plurality of EDI documents and each of the plurality of EDI documents has at least one EDI transaction corresponding to a... Agent: Senniger Powers (msft)

20070143668 - Determining document layout between different views: Determining document layout between different views is disclosed. The content of the document is reformatted between layouts while user experience elements are persisted between views. In general, a user may switch between document views. An anchor point for a first view is identified and the anchor point is mapped to... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20070143669 - Method and system for delivering documents to terminals with limited display capabilities, such as mobile terminals: A method and system delivers documents to terminals with limited display capabilities, such as mobile terminals. More specifically, a method and system adapt a document in order to make same displayable on a terminal with limited display capabilities. The method includes: determining the processing and display capabilities of a terminal;... Agent: Young & Thompson

20070143670 - Printing apparatus and method: A printing apparatus and method for capturing and formatting the content of a web page. The apparatus and method determining if a portrait formatted representation of the web page and a landscape formatted representation of the web page, include equivalent content, and outputting the portrait formatted representation of the web... Agent: Patrick R. Roche Fay, Sharpe, Fagan, Minnich & Mckee, LLP

20070143671 - Wysiwyg multifunction device finishing options: A method, document processing apparatus, and computer readable recording medium for performing document preparation of documents to be printed by a printing device capable of applying finishing functions to the printed document. A document preparation program further includes a WYSIWYG display function for displaying the document or portions of the... Agent: Patrick R. Roche Fay, Sharpe, Fagan, Minnich & Mckee, LLP

20070143673 - Extensible architecture for chart styles and layouts: Various technologies and techniques are disclosed that enhance chart customization. As one non-limiting example, a chart style reader reads the settings associated with available chart styles from one or more style files. A chart layout reader reads the settings associated with available chart layouts from one or more layout files.... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20070143674 - Ldap based scan templates: A system and method for sharing updated document templates. A user first selects whether to request a desired document processing operation involving one or more stored scan templates or to modify one of the stored templates. The document scan templates are stored on an associated storage, with each scan template... Agent: Tucker, Ellis & West LLP

20070143672 - Partial rendering of web pages: The updating of an original version of a Web page without having to download the entire Web page. After accessing an original version of a Web page, a browser client detects that the accessed original version of the Web page is to be updated. The browser client then requests an... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20070143675 - Method for entering text: A method of providing selected text into a computer includes selecting a character in a range of characters and selecting a word as a function of the selected character. The word is presented to the user and an action is received from the user pertaining to the selected character.... Agent: Westman Champlin (microsoft Corporation)

20070143676 - Electronic map with a drawing feature: An electronic map with a drawing feature is provided by the invention that allows user to border an area or depict a route as a graphic drawing line on the electronic map directly and make relationship between the drawing and the electronic map, whereby the drawing will be zoomed in... Agent: Cooper & Dunham, LLP

20070143677 - Independent link and bank selection: Provided is a memory system that has a plurality of memory banks and a plurality of link controllers. For each memory bank, there is first switching logic for receiving output for each link controller, and for passing on the output of only one of the link controllers to the memory... Agent: Smart & Biggar P.o. Box 2999, Station D

20070143678 - Method and apparatus for persistently resolving events to event source: A method, computer program product, and data processing system for recording GUI events and for persistently identifying the events' target GUI components for subsequent playback of the recorded events are disclosed. According to a preferred embodiment of the invention, each GUI component is assigned a numerical identifier by traversing the... Agent: Ibm Corp. (mrn) C/o Law Office Of Michael R. Nichols

20070143679 - Virtual character with realtime content input: An interactive virtual character which represents a real or imagined human or animal having perceptible attributes that are interactively varied by a processor in response data acquired from command accepted from a user as well as by data received from a remote source that is broadcast via a wireless data... Agent: Charles G. Call

20070143680 - Multi-contextual delta navigation in a compare view: Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to comparing artifacts and provide a novel and non-obvious method, system and computer program product for multi-contextual navigation of deltas in a hierarchy. In one embodiment of the invention, a method for multi-contextual navigation can include rendering objects... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20070143683 - Customizable web site access system and method therefor: A customizable web site access system is comprised of a software program incorporating both a composing portion and a performing portion. The composing portion of the software program is used to create a presentation. The presentation includes a list of URLs for display, a desired sequence of display of the... Agent: Patterson, Thuente, Skaar & Christensen, P.A.

20070143681 - Presentation navigation over voice link: During a presentation conducted between a presentation computer and a user/participant computer, synchronization of displayed pages on the presentation computer and a user/participant computer is achieved consistent with allowing the user/participant to browse the presentation pages by storing a page identifier responsive to each page change at the presentation computer... Agent: Whitham, Curtis & Christofferson, P.C.

20070143682 - Presentation navigation over voice over internet protocol (voip) link: During a presentation conducted between a presentation computer and a user/participant computer, synchronization of displayed pages on the presentation computer and a user/participant computer is achieved consistent with allowing the user/participant to browse the presentation pages by storing a page identifier responsive to each page change at the presentation computer... Agent: Whitham, Curtis & Christofferson, P.C.

20070143685 - Providing electronic distribution of filtered calendars: Systems and methods are disclosed for providing electronic distribution of filtered calendars. The disclosed systems and methods may include receiving control data. The control data may be configured to indicate a portion of master calendar data a user designates to transmit. Furthermore, the disclosed systems and methods may include filtering... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20070143684 - Providing schedulable calendars electronically: Systems and methods are disclosed for providing schedulable calendars electronically. The disclosed systems and methods may include receiving schedulability data. The schedulability data may comprise data indicating a user's desire to send a schedulable calendar. Furthermore, the disclosed systems and methods may include marking calendar data as schedulable based on... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20070143686 - System administration console that integrates manual and autonomic tasks: A system administration console integrates both manual tasks and autonomic tasks to the view of a human system administrator. The system administration console includes an autonomic administration indication mechanism that indicates to a human system administrator when autonomic managers are in the process of performing autonomic functions. The system administrator... Agent: Martin & Associates, LLC

20070143687 - Method for providing a user interface configured using three frames in a dlna system: A method for providing a user interface configured using three frames for a Digital Media Player (DMP) in a Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA) system. Each of all source, renderer, and menu items of the DLNA system is set to one axis of a set of axes. Two predetermined axes... Agent: Cha & Reiter, LLC

20070143688 - System and method for mark and navigation to facilitate content view: Systems and methods for facilitating a user's navigation through the contents in a viewer window are disclosed. In one embodiment a method is provided comprising receiving a user request to perform a navigation of displayed contents in a viewer window; determining if the navigation is associated with a content jump... Agent: Ibm Corporation Intellectual Property Law

20070143689 - User-relocatable self-defining buttons to control machinery: A method and system associate a user control in a user interface with a function of a controllable device by physically locating a self-defining user control which includes identification information at a first predefined location in a user interface, determining the identification information from the self-defining user control by a... Agent: Fleit, Kain, Gibbons, Gutman, Bongini & Bianco P.l.

20070143690 - Display of information for two oppositely situated users: Display of information for two oppositely situated users is improved. A computing device includes a display and a mechanism. A first user views the display at a first end thereof, and a second user views the display at a second end thereof opposite the first end. The mechanism orients information... Agent: Law Offices Of Michael Dryja

20070143691 - Method for conducting a clinical study: A method is disclosed for conducting a clinical study according to which an event occurs during the study that requires a collaboration of individuals responsible for the study. The method includes transmitting the event to a collaboration system. The collaboration system determines, based on parameters assigned to the event, a... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070143692 - Multi-type field processing in a wiki page: Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to Wiki page processing and provide a novel and non-obvious method, system and computer program product for multi-type field processing in a Wiki page. In one embodiment of the invention, a data processing system configured to serve Wiki... Agent: Steven M. Greenberg, Esquire Christopher & Weisberg, P.A.

20070143693 - Method of managing bulletin of internet and a system thereof: The present invention relates to a method of managing a bulletin board on the Internet and a system thereof. More particularly, the present invention relates to a method of managing a bulletin board on the Internet and system thereof, wherein the bulletin board is generated and operated so that a... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070143694 - Decentralised web annotation: Annotations relating to web sites may be based on blog posts relating to the web sites. A user viewing a web site may concurrently view related blog posts about the web site. More particularly, in one implementation, a method includes detecting when a user visits a web page and receiving,... Agent: Harrity Snyder, LLP

20070143695 - Production of a graphic user and/or display surface for a motor vehicle: A method for producing a graphic user and/or display surface on a display for a man/machine interface of a motor vehicle is provided, whereby the user surface includes graphic elements that are arranged in a menu-type manner. A main group and at least one subgroup below the main group is... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070143697 - Displaying dynamic graphical content in graphical user interface (gui) controls: Embodiments of the invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to user interface control groups and provide a method, system and computer program product for rendering a set of user interface controls with dynamic content in a GUI. In one embodiment, the invention can include a data processing system... Agent: Steven M. Greenberg, Esquire Christopher & Weisberg, P.A.

20070143698 - Image processing apparatus having enhanced display function: An image processing apparatus includes a display unit, which selectively displays a standby message, an operation message, and an additional message. The standby message indicates a standby condition of the image processing apparatus, and the operation message indicates an operation condition of the image processing apparatus. A message displayed on... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070143699 - System and method for sending and receiving electronic messages using graphic directional indicators: A system and method for sending and receiving electronic messages, e.g., emails, allows a user to simply draw a graphic directional indicator, e.g., an arrow, in a computer operating environment to send emails. Depending on the drawn graphic directional indicator, the entire computer operating environment or selected graphic objects in... Agent: Wilson & Ham

20070143696 - Uidesign: wysiwyg finishing: A method and system for applying user-specified finishing options to a printed output document. A finishing window is displayed showing a document mimic in the finishing window, and displaying finishing tool selection regions in the finishing window which enable the user to activate selective finishing tools. Finishing location identifiers are... Agent: Patrick R. Roche Fay, Sharpe, Fagan, Minnich & Mckee, LLP

20070143700 - Electronic document viewing system: The present invention aims to provide an electronic document viewing system meeting the convenience of users, while ensuring the security of electronic documents. A viewing apparatus has an acquiring unit for receiving a first layer and a second layer from a creating apparatus. The first layer contains a document laid... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20070143701 - Tab control: A tab control includes a tab and a tab region including the tab. The tab region is capable of displaying one or more objects when the tab is activated.... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070143702 - Method, computer program, and system improving the graphical user interface of a desktop: A method for managing application instance windows on a window based desktop, includes the steps of receiving a request to associate a logical group to an application instance; displaying a window for asking the user to associate a name of the application instance to a project name; and providing to... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20070143703 - Touch screen user interface with multi-text field display: Embodiments of the present invention provide a way of handling multiple text fields on user interfaces that are associated with relatively small screens, such as touch screen displays. Multiple text fields are presented in the same horizontal line. Contents of the currently selected text field are displayed in the horizontal... Agent: Min, Hsieh & Hack LLP

20070143704 - Integrating user interfaces from one application into another: The invention discloses a system and method for integrating user interfaces (UI) within an application. The invention can be configured to display an UI of a second application within a first application in a manner that the user cannot identify that the second application's UI is displayed on top of... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. (c/o Microsoft Corporation)

20070143705 - Indexed scrollbar: Embodiments of the present invention relate to an indexed scrollbar for document navigation. The scrollbar may comprise a plurality of indicators corresponding to a document structure. By selecting an indicator with an input device, a document viewer may jump to a corresponding portion of the document immediately without having to... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070143706 - Variable-speed scrollbar: Embodiments of the present invention relate to a variable-speed scrollbar that enables a user to speed up or slow down scrolling by manipulating an accelerator/decelerator field. For example, by changing the position of a speed selector within the accelerator/decelerator field, the user can speed up or slow down scrolling as... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070143707 - Display apparatus and control method thereof: Provided is a display apparatus including a display panel and a display frame to support the display panel. The display apparatus including an input unit, provided on the exterior surface of the display apparatus, for outputting a contact detection signal when a user contacts the input unit; a signal processor... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070143708 - Overloaded hyperlink: A user interface containing overloaded hyperlinks. The interface contains hyperlink areas containing a first hyperlink that is accessible in the hyperlink area. Second hyperlinks are indicated by emphasis on certain hyperlink displays and accessible through single or compound commands. The interface system is able to recognize location of operator input... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070143709 - Methods and systems for displaying information on a graphical user interface: Methods and systems for facilitating communications and commerce between remote device users and merchants or sponsors, particularly adapted for small-screen portable devices such as cellular telephones and personal digital assistants. The invention enables sponsors to quickly and easily, without the requirement for specialized or expensive equipment, establish Web sites to... Agent: Jlb Consulting, Inc. C/o Intellevate

20070143710 - Computing device and method of indicating status of application program: A computing device and computing environment displays a graphical user interface that presents a plurality of icons. Each icon is related to a different aspect of a resident software application. The icons are used to indicate the status of their associated aspects of the software application. Changes of state of... Agent: David A. Ruston Sim & Mcburney

20070143711 - Methods and apparatus for displaying a setup sequence: The disclosed system empowers technical and non technical users to author logical business objects, author intelligent business forms, and create automated workflows. The logical business objects include data definitions and methods from existing and new data sources. An object broker interprets the business object definition and brokers data/information and method... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, LLP

20070143712 - Computer directory display with enhanced navigational and/or visual attributes: A user customizable display of a quantity of elements arranged in a hierarchy having at least an upper level and a lower level comprises an interface allowing the user to specify properties of the display such as the quantity of elements displayed at a prescribed level of the hierarchy and... Agent: Pratt & Whitney

20070143713 - Interface apparatus, interface method in information processing apparatus, and interface program: An interface apparatus controls at least activation and termination of one or more registered application programs in accordance with user operations. The apparatus includes a first holding section configured to hold information of the application programs; a user operation acceptance section; a second holding section configured to receive and hold... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20070143714 - Method for creating an icon, representing a group of images, computer system, computer program product and a data carrier arranged for performing the method: The present invention relates to a method for creating an icon (11, 12), representing a group of images comprising a plurality of images (1, 2, . . . , N). The icon is composed of a selection of images from that group of images. The method comprises: —determining a relative... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070143715 - Method of providing information via printed substrate and gesture recognition: A method of enabling a user to initiate an action via a printed substrate, said substrate comprising user information and coded data indicative of a region identity associated with the substrate and of a plurality of locations on the substrate, said method comprising the steps of: receiving, in a computer... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070136650 - Low power multimedia playing method for portable computer: A computer system capable of playing multimedia files while in a power off mode or power-saving mode is provided. The computer system has a first operating system operated in a high power mode and a second operating system operated in a low power mode. The first operating system has a... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070136651 - Repurposing system: In one of many possible embodiments, a repurposing system is provided which includes an author mode configured to repurpose a plurality of media elements by partnering at least one media element with at least one repurposing element to form repurposed media content; and a player mode configured to display the... Agent: Steven L. Nichols Rader, Fishman & Graver PLLC

20070136652 - Extensible value types in cells: Individual cells within a spreadsheet may contain an extensible value as defined by an extensible value type. The extensible value type is a user defined value type that is incorporated into the spreadsheet as a supported data type. Generally, the extensible data types provide support for types that are not... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20070136653 - Spreadsheet calculation as part of workflow: A workflow includes an activity that takes advantage of spreadsheet calculations. For a spreadsheet activity, calculation and extraction of values from a spreadsheet is performed. Thus, spreadsheet calculations are integrated into workflows without user intervention. Values from previous activities in the workflow may be obtained and provided to the spreadsheet... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP (microsoft Corporation)

20070136655 - Method and system for linearly resizing columns in a table: A method and system is provided for resizing columns in a table when a table width is changed from a current table width to a new table width. The table may contain data and may be displayed to a user. The table may be resized responsively to the user's inputs... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070136654 - Method and system for ordered resizing columns in a table: A method and system is provided for resizing columns in a table when a table width is changed from a current table width to a new table width. The table may contain data and may be displayed to a user. The table may be resized responsively to the user's inputs... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070136657 - Process for automatic data annotation, selection, and utilization.: Systems and methods for the automatic annotation of data are disclosed, particularly a process and system for enabling users to generate automatic annotations, to select one or more of those annotations, and to utilize the selected annotations and their various relationships to the annotated data. Also disclosed are ways to... Agent: John Alexander Galbreath

20070136656 - Review of signature based content: Briefly, in accordance with at least one embodiment, a content creator/editor may have content reviewed by one or more reviewers. The content may include one or more signatures or characteristic values to correlate an annotation of the content made by one of the reviewers with respect to a flow of... Agent: Van Pelt, Yi & James LLP And Adobe Sys. Incorp.

20070136660 - Creation of semantic objects for providing logical structure to markup language representations of documents: Semantic objects are created that provide a structure for markup language representations of documents. The semantic objects include text runs that are produced from the markup language representation and that are placed into semantic blocks that group text runs according to how text is logically structured in the document being... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20070136658 - Handling events in a descriptive context: A method, computer program product, and data processing system for generating GUI code from a declarative specification is disclosed. In a preferred embodiment, a markup language, such as XML, is utilized to specify the hierarchical structure of an object-oriented GUI and the various attributes of its components. Additional special-purpose attributes... Agent: Ibm Corp. (mrn) C/o Law Office Of Michael R. Nichols

20070136659 - Interfaces for creation and access of extensible markup language paper specification documents: XPS documents are created and accessed via a collection of interfaces of various classes of an application programming interface. The application programming interface includes a document sequence class for reading and writing the document sequence of the XPS document, a fixed document class for reading and writing the fixed documents... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20070136661 - Adaptable transfer and publication of digital media: An adaptable method for facilitating user interaction with digital media objects. Representations of substantially-reduced data size of each of the digital media objects are transferred before the transfer of copies of the original data size of each of the digital media objects so as to enable earlier user interaction. The... Agent: Nixon Peabody LLP

20070136663 - Automatic authoring and publishing system: The invention relates to a system and method for automatically producing documents that incorporate one or more data elements. A guided/structured software environment is provided that assists users in creating manuals by defining the appropriate content for each manual in a document definition section, content rules and relationships, and tasks... Agent: Sheldon Mak Rose & Anderson PC

20070136662 - Editable information management system and method: An editable information management method for managing editable information. The method comprises storing a document as a plurality of segment objects, each segment object being editable independently of other segment objects. The method comprises combining said segment objects to create said document, displaying said document for editing, editing part of... Agent: Michael Best & Friedrich, LLP

20070136665 - Dynamic positioning and aligning tabs relative to margins indent and column width: Alignment and positioning of tabs in text-based applications is provided by dynamically positioning the tabs based on content, margins, page size, and indents. Tab positions are aligned relative to a size, at least one margin, or content of a document or text-containing object such as a text box. Tab positions... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20070136664 - Selecting and formatting warped text: Selecting and formatting warped text is disclosed. Text effects such as an underline effect and/or a strikethrough effect may be transformed along with rectangular text to form a warped text element. In such a situation, the text effects are warped with the characters of the text. Also, warped text may... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20070136666 - Spreadsheet cell-based notifications: A workflow includes an activity that takes advantage of spreadsheet calculations. For a spreadsheet activity, calculation and extraction of values from a spreadsheet is performed. Thus, spreadsheet calculations are integrated into workflows without user intervention. After the workflow is complete, or after a spreadsheet activity is calculated, or upon a... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP (microsoft Corporation)

20070136667 - System and method for providing context sensitive help information: A method includes receiving information identifying a plurality of selections made by a user. The method also includes updating a help index value based on one or more of the selections. The method further includes detecting a request for help from the user. In addition, the method includes retrieving help... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20070136668 - Multimedia short message template application system and broadcast system, multimedia short message template applying method and broadcast method: A multimedia short message template application system and a broadcast system, a multimedia short message template applying method and a broadcast method are disclosed. The multimedia short message template application system comprises a multimedia object, a multimedia database, a template database and an applying unit. The multimedia object includes an... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20070136669 - Display apparatus and searching method: A display apparatus and a search method are provided. The display apparatus includes a user selection unit which adjusts a search speed and a search function for searching contents information; a signal processor unit which processes a signal to be displayed on a display unit; and a controller which controls... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070136670 - System for storing and providing information for personalizing user devices: Systems (10) for storing and providing information for personalizing user devices (61-64, 71-72) comprise first means (11) for storing personalization information destined for user devices (61-64) of a predefined type and comprise second means (12) for providing the personalization information to these user devices (61-64) and are provided with third... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070136673 - Data processing apparatus and method: Processing is performed to make a user to certainly read information, e.g., a document, to be read by the user. In the processing, a database of an information management server stores information to be read by the user, an ID identifying the information, and status information identifying whether the information... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20070136671 - Method and system for directing attention during a conversation: A method and a system for directing attention during a conversation in virtual space are provided. The method includes receiving (402) the data streams from a plurality of participants and processing (404) at least one feature of each of the data streams. The method further includes altering (406) a representation... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070136672 - Simulation authoring tool: A method and computer program enable the creation of social simulations, which can be used to teach learning points to students. The program assists by providing an interface, which helps to input information about the simulation. The information includes a situation for the simulation, which is a problem or scenario... Agent: Hovey Williams LLP

20070136674 - Structured document browser: A structured document browser includes a constant user interface for displaying and viewing sections of a document that is organized according to a pre-defined structure. The structured document browser displays documents that have been marked with embedded codes that specify the structure of the document. The tags are mapped to... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione P.o. Box 10395

20070136676 - Managing information display: Systems and methods for managing information display include the ability, at least in one implementation, to receive a message indicating that the information of a resource is to be displayed and to form a user interface for displaying the resource information by defining a pane in which to display the... Agent: Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky & Popeo, P.C.

20070136675 - Methods and apparatus for updating a plurality of data fields in an elecronic form: The disclosed system empowers technical and non technical users to author logical business objects, author intelligent business forms, and create automated workflows. The logical business objects include data definitions and methods from existing and new data sources. An object broker interprets the business object definition and brokers data/information and method... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, LLP

20070136677 - Methods and apparatus for displaying information: A computer system receives a command to initiate setting a display mode of its corresponding display screen to one in which received input commands (e.g., mouse input, keyboard input, etc.) are directed to multiple display applications running on the computer system instead of only a single display application in a... Agent: Barry W. Chapin, Esq. Chapin Intellectual Property Law, LLC

20070136678 - Software process and method that allows a computer program to run in memory, but display as a digital graphic or text window: A software system and/or invention that allows a computer program to run in memory, but display as an icon or other digital graphic and/or a text window, also referred to as a minimized graphic. The software system allows the user to quickly and easily enable or disable a program to... Agent: Michael Brown

20070136679 - Circular multimedia playback progress indicator and method of indicating signals thereof: A circular multimedia playback progress indicator displayed on a screen during a multimedia playback and a method of indicating signals thereof is claimed. The circular indicator appears when playing or controlling a multimedia content and comprises a circular display area displayed on a screen during a playback or a control;... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20070136680 - System and method for selecting pictures for presentation with text content: One or more pictures may be selected for use with a text item, such as an article (news story, blog entry, online magazine) or post (e.g. informal blog entry). Pictures may be selected from a library, such as a collection of stock photographs. Stock photographs are pictures that are available... Agent: Shemwell Mahamedi LLP

20070136681 - On-screen display for configuring a display apparatus using graphic icons: An on-screen display (OSD) for configuring a television apparatus, computer monitor or the like is disclosed. The OSD uses primarily icons to represent menu items placed near a corner or edge of the screen. The menu icon depicts a three-dimensional polygonal wheel having three visible side faces and three icons... Agent: Ying Chen

20070136682 - Selective display of graphical user interface elements: A subset of a plurality of input elements associated with a form to be rendered in a graphical user interface may be identified. Thereafter, the rendering of the form may be initiated such that the graphical user interface renders a form to include the subset of the plurality of input... Agent: Fish & Richardson, P.C.

20070136683 - Graphical user interface for generic listing of managed objects: Methods for efficiently filtering and sorting a large number of managed objects of different object types are presented. A single context-sensitive listing form is employed, the operation and display of which changes dynamically according to the selection of a target object. Whenever the user changes the selected target object, the... Agent: Kramer & Amado, P.C.

20070136684 - Dynamic resizing of dialogs: A method and system is provided for dynamically resizing dialogs of a computer software application while the application is running. Dialog windows may be resized by user action, such as by hooking on to one side or to a corner of the dialog window and dragging the side or corner... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20070136685 - Adaptive media player size: A user interface and a method are disclosed for viewing digital videos. Responsive to resizing a window, a video region and associated controls are resized so that they remain visible. The video image within the video region is correspondingly resized to maintain the aspect ratio. The location of the video... Agent: Google / Fenwick

20070136686 - Pop-up repelling frame for use in screen sharing: A method, system, and computer program product for providing a pop-up repelling region (e.g., frame) for use in a screen sharing session that includes providing, or creating a region on a screen, during a screen sharing session, that includes a view of at least one application within the region and... Agent: Hoffman, Warnick & D'alessandro LLC

20070136687 - Display apparatus and user interface menu displaying method: The present invention relates to a display apparatus and a user interface menu displaying method. The display apparatus includes: a user interface forming unit which generates a user selecting menu having at least one selecting item; a memory in which history information on an operation of a function corresponding to... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070136688 - Method for predictive text input in devices with reduced keypads: A method of inputting text in an electronic device (201) including a display (203) and an input user interface (202) having a plurality of keys (210) arranged in a predetermined pattern includes a plurality of steps. In a first step, a list of potential characters is compiled and includes at... Agent: Motorola Inc

20070136689 - System for determining probable meanings of inputted words: A system is disclosed for determining probable meanings of words. An input of a word is obtained. Probable meanings of the word may be determined in accordance with a prior probability of probable meanings of the word and a context frequency probability of probable meanings of the word.... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione / Yahoo! Overture

20070136690 - Wedge menu: A unique menu user interface that facilitates more efficient viewing and selection of menu items is provided. The menu user interface involves arranging a plurality of menu items around a semicircular portion of an action area. The action area is constructed by creating a circle centered about a cursor or... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070136691 - Graphical user interface design utility: A method of validating a menu design for a computer program can include identifying a plurality of menu nodes, wherein each node is associated with at least one attribute, comparing attributes of different menu nodes according to a use case, and indicating whether a conflict exists between attributes of different... Agent: Cuenot & Forsythe, L.L.C.

20070136692 - Enhanced visual feedback of interactions with user interface: An item in a user interface is visually enhanced in response to an interaction with the item or in response to a request. In some implementations, the item (e.g., an icon, button, text, etc.) is visually enhanced and displayed in the user interface at a conspicuous location (e.g., the center... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070136693 - System and method for retrieving information while commanding operation of an appliance: When a command key of a controlling platform is activated, the platform performs an operation to initiate a playing of media content and also initiates the retrieval of information from an information source. The information retrieved is related to the media content and is displayed in a display of the... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20070136694 - Color and context-adaptable hardware button: Described is changing the perceived appearance of a switch by writing content (e.g., an icon) to a switch assembly to change the context of the switch based upon a hardware device's current operating context and/or by changing the perceived color of the switch based upon the hardware device's current operating... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20070136695 - Graphical user interface (gui), a synthesiser and a computer system including a gui: The present invention relates to a graphical user interface (GUI), a synthesizer and a computer system including such a graphical user interface. In the prior art, input signals may be modified using a variety of controls including rotatable knobs or levers or switches or effected via software controls. Hitherto, the... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070136696 - System and method for enabling at least one independent data navigation and interaction activity within a document: The inventive system and method are directed to novel embodiments of various tools and infrastructures that enable a user of a document viewed on a data processing system using a document handling application, to engage in at least one additional concurrent data navigation/interaction activity in the document, and/or in the... Agent: Edward Etkin, Esq.

20070136697 - Mobile terminal apparatus: The mobile terminal apparatus includes a wireless receiving/transmitting unit (10) receiving the electronic mail and a pictograph light driving unit (20) which, when the pictograph exists in the electronic mail received by the wireless receiving/transmitting unit (10), drives a pictograph light display portion (19) in a color and pattern registered... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20070130499 - Delivering web content in a message transmitted over a mobile wireless communication network: A mobile terminal having a limited browser for viewing content available on the Internet is provided. The mobile terminal in one embodiment comprises a conversion unit for converting web contents displayed by the limited browser into a multimedia message, the conversion unit comprising: a parser for parsing the web contents,... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20070130498 - Time-shifted presentation of media streams: For enabling a time-shifted presentation of at least one received media stream, at least one media fragment is created. The at least one media-fragment includes media data from a section of the at least one received media-stream and associated media data. The media data is stored to a media data... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20070130501 - Assigning a hot spot in an electronic artwork: Apparatus and methods implementing a technique for creating an electronic artwork with a hot area. For a selected layer of the artwork, a non-transparent region is identified and an action is assigned to an area corresponding to the non-transparent region, the action defining a function that will be activated when... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070130500 - Enabling electronic documents for limited-capability computing devices: System(s), method(s), and/or techniques (“tools”) are described that enable electronic document functionality for a limited-capability computing device. The tools may enable a computing device with limited display capabilities to present and enable navigation through nested items or hierarchical view levels of an electronic document. The tools may also build renderable... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20070130502 - Grid entry user interface extensions: A computer-readable medium has computer-executable instructions for generating a user interface on a display device, the user interface includes a grid having a plurality of cells. The user interface also includes a visual affordance presented on the grid and visually connected to one of the plurality of cells, the visual... Agent: Westman Champlin (microsoft Corporation)

20070130503 - Systems and methods providing dynamic spreadsheet functionality: An advantageous system and method are provided for supporting and/or enabling the creation of dynamic reports and/or data presentation(s) in connection with a spreadsheet-based application or program. The disclosed system and method offer a full complement of spreadsheet-based formatting and calculation capabilities. In addition, the system and method of the... Agent: Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale And Dorr LLP

20070130504 - Reusable xpath validation expressions: A method for validating input received from an XML based form using reusable XPath validation expressions. The method can include a step of identifying a reusable XPath validation expression including at least one substitution marker. The substitution marker can be mapped to one or more values specific to an XML... Agent: Patents On Demand, P.A.

20070130505 - Template filler, method, and computer program product: A system, method, computer program product and propagated signal for generating one or more forms in one operation using data identified in a dynamically generated user editable form that includes a list limited to the fillable fields of the form templates and prospective data to be substituted into those fields... Agent: Patent Law Offices Of Michael E. Woods

20070130506 - Method and system for improving usability of online forms via an automatic field completion functionality: A software tool populates an online interactive form with a set of values based on one or more basic values entered by the user in the online form.... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070130507 - Method and system for reducing the horizontal space required for displaying a column containing text data: A method and system for reducing an amount of horizontal space required when displaying a plurality of columns on a display screen is disclosed. The at least one column of the plurality of columns has at least one entry containing text data. The method and system include obtaining the at... Agent: Joscelyn G. Cockburn IBM Corporation 972/b656

20070130509 - Custom publication rendering method and system: A method and system renders a custom document by providing an interactive electronic portal that allows multiple users to communicate with each other via any number of communication types. The system selects content from the communications and stores the content in a content repository. When the system receives a request... Agent: Pepper Hamilton LLP

20070130508 - Hardware device with stylesheet for creating pictorial representation of device: A manufacturing or service installation has a number of hardware devices for performing tasks. At least one such device has a computer or other means (14) for generating and reporting status data to a central computer (10) indicative of a status of the device or the installation. A memory associated... Agent: The Boc Group, Inc.

20070130510 - Method and apparatus for improving user accessibility on the web: A method of coding a Web page for improving accessibility for a disabled user using assistive technology to read the Web page, includes coding a first element on a Web page and modifying the first element to include at least one coding block in a language not effected by a... Agent: Richard F. Jaworski Cooper & Dunham LLP

20070130511 - Method and apparatus for generating a data-entry form: A hierarchically structured knowledge base containing hierarchically ordered data elements is provided (101). One also provides (102) an interactive user interface, wherein the interactive user interface is operably coupled to the hierarchically structured knowledge base. One then generates (103) a data-entry form that is displayable on the interactive user interface... Agent: Fitch Even Tabin And Flannery

20070130512 - Systems and methods for report design and generation: A system and method for generating reports from a data source using a word processing template having at least one field that expresses a command and at least one field that expresses a reference to the data source. A processor generates a report using the data source and the word... Agent: Faegre & Benson LLP Patent Docketing

20070130514 - Dynamic data presentation: Methods and apparatus are provided, including computer program products, to receive a template for a dormant representation. The template includes a first visualization component definition occurring before a second visualization component definition. The dormant representation is created according to an output format, the dormant representation including a first rendering of... Agent: Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky & Popeo, P.C.

20070130513 - Printing device with an embedded extensible stylesheet language transform and formatting functionality: A digital printing device accepts text input with embedded metadata. The metadata is translated into print format instructions. The actual translation of the metadata into print format instructions is done with reference to an extensible stylesheet language transform (and, optionally, an extensible markup language schema) that may be retrieved from... Agent: Basch & Nickerson LLP

20070130515 - System for displaying images with multiple attributes: A system (30) for displaying a subset of images from an image data set, in particular for medical applications such as MRI or CT scanning. The images are associated with three attributes with a respective range of values. The images on the display have values within a subrange of the... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070130516 - Visually enhanced text and method of preparation: A visually enhanced text and methods of production are described. The visually enhanced teaching text comprises a first text and at least one additional text. The first text is displayed in horizontal lines. The at least one additional text displayed interlinearly with the first text and passages in the at... Agent: Altimatia, L.L.C.

20070130517 - Apparatus and method for delivering portions of reports: A computer-readable medium includes a report parts viewer. The report parts viewer is configured to identify a first report object of a first plurality of report objects included in a first report. The report parts viewer is configured to facilitate display of the first report object absent each remaining report... Agent: Cooley Godward Kronish LLP

20070130518 - Method and apparatus for a personalized web page: A method and apparatus for constructing and using a personalized web page, the personalized web page comprising an at least one module which is a fragment of a second web page having a locator, the second web page stored on a web site, the fragment identified by at least two... Agent: Davidson, Davidson & Kappel, LLC

20070130519 - Arbitrary rendering of visual elements on a code editor: Visual elements can be arbitrarily rendered in a code editor. Visual elements can be rendered at any location on a display. Visual elements can include text, images, graphics, video, and/or multi-media. Rendering of visual elements will not obstruct a view of rendered text. Nor will rendering of the visual element... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP (microsoft Corporation)

20070130520 - Extensible web service policy behavior: A system for remotely providing services includes an object model having a behavior option object that is indicative of one of a plurality of different ways in which a service behavior can be performed.... Agent: Westman Champlin (microsoft Corporation)

20070130521 - System and method for displaying advertisement using flash memory storage devices: A removable memory device is provided. The device includes a plurality of re-programmable non-volatile memory cells; and a controller including a processor and a controller memory, wherein an application is launched from the removable memory device and executed on a host system when the removable memory device interfaces with the... Agent: Klein, O'neill & Singh, LLP

20070130522 - Control system with customizable menu structure for personal mobility vehicle: A control system for a personal mobility vehicle has a menu structure that can be ordered so that commonly used areas of the menu are grouped together, thus avoiding the need to frequently navigate through seldom-used portions of a standard menu structure.... Agent: Macmillan Sobanski & Todd, LLC

20070130523 - User interface automatic transform system and method based on display device: Provided is a user interface automatic transform system and method based on a display device. The system includes: a graphic user interface (GUI) managing unit for storing and managing style information of the display device and managing mapping information of a GUI library; a transform rule managing unit for storing... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20070130525 - Methods for manipulating web pages: A method of filtering a web page or other computer file is provided. A web page is analyzed and segmented into regions or segments. At least one of the regions is selected for display. Selected regions are manipulated to enhance the visibility of preferred regions of the web page. In... Agent: Creative Labs, Inc. Legal Department

20070130524 - Supplying notifications related to supply and consumption of user context data: Techniques are described for providing information about a current state that is modeled with multiple state attributes. In some situations, the providing includes receiving from a module a request related to the modeling of the current state with the multiple state attributes. In such situations, the providing further includes, without... Agent: Seed Intellectual Property Law Group PLLC

20070130527 - Method for transmitting multimedia note using concept of groupware and system therefor: A method for transmitting a multimedia note using a concept of groupware and a system therefore are provided. A method for transmitting a note between users in a groupware service system environment within cyberspace based on an Internet network includes: accessing, by a user, a web server of a groupware... Agent: The Webb Law Firm, P.C.

20070130526 - Storing and recalling groups of electronic mail addresses on user interfaces of multifunction devices: A method for utilizing a graphical user interface for storing and recalling groups of electronic mail addresses to assist a user with document distribution from a scanning device provides functionality options on the user interface for scan to electronic mail capability. An electronic mail options menu displays electronic mail operation... Agent: Patent Documentation Center

20070130528 - Method and system for simultaneous testing of applications: A method and system for simultaneous testing of applications are provided. A first interface (119) for an application (102) is provided on a first configuration (110) of software and/or hardware. At least one further interface (129) for an application (102) of the same form as the application of the first... Agent: Ibm Corporation Intellectual Property Law

20070130530 - Application element group operations allowing duplication while preserving interdependent logic: In one embodiment, an application design method includes identifying one or more application objects selected by a user when designing an application. The method further includes duplicating the selected objects while preserving dependencies associated with the selected objects.... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070130529 - Automatic generation of user interface descriptions through sketching: A desired graphic user interface (GUI) is sketched and then scanned into memory or is sketched using a stylus whose movements are tracked and recorded in memory. Sketched objects such as windows, lists, buttons and frames are recognized automatically and normalized for the GUI to be created. Containment relations among... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070130531 - Data driven transfer functions: In one embodiment, a method for adding a new function type to an application development tool includes determining that a function specified by a user for a design of an application is of a new type, and presenting a user interface (UI) associated with the specified function. The method further... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070130532 - Hierarchical software navigation system: A hierarchical system for use with a patient monitoring device that controls the amount of display real estate utilized for the navigation system. The system includes a graphical user interface having a navigational interface of a fixed size such that as different menu levels are navigated, the navigational interface does... Agent: Andrus