Data processing: presentation processing of document inventions 07/07

20070174758 - Information storage medium, information reproducing apparatus, and information reproducing method: According to one embodiment, an information storage medium, and the program comprises referring to a manifest from a playlist that manages playback presentation of a playback presentation object, referring to one of a markup and a script from the manifest, monitoring defining of a name corresponding to an event in... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070174759 - Information storage medium, information reproducing apparatus, and information reproducing method: According to one embodiment, an information storage medium, and the program comprises referring to a manifest from a playlist that manages playback presentation of a playback presentation object, referring to one of a markup and a script from the manifest, monitoring defining of a name corresponding to an event in... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070174760 - Multiple conditional formatting: Generally described, embodiments of the present invention relate to applying and evaluating an unlimited number of conditional formatting rules to a given range of cells. Additionally, multiple conditional formatting rules may be evaluated to TRUE for the same cell contained in a user interface and multiple formats applied to that... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, PLLC

20070174762 - Personal web page annotation system: An annotation service that is functionally deployed between a web browser and a web server, and in communication with at least the web browser. The annotation service provides tools, methods, and infrastructure to permit existing unmodified web content published via any URL as static or dynamic web pages to be... Agent: Bond Schoeneck & King, PLLC

20070174761 - Strategies for processing annotations: Annotation engines are described for handling annotations added to a base document. The annotation engines automatically classify the type of annotations, including, but not limited to: a highlight annotation; a blob annotation (comprising an enclosing-type annotation); an underline annotation; a vertical bracket annotation; a call-out annotation; and a free-note annotation.... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20070174763 - System and method for developing and enabling model-driven xml transformation framework for e-business: A system and method for developing and enabling model-driven extensible Markup Language (XML) transformation to XML Metadata Interchange (XMI) format incorporate a strong built-in validation capability. A platform independent framework applies multiple passes of transformation, where each pass performs specific operations on internal models. Different source models are then merged... Agent: Whitham, Curtis & Christofferson, P.C.

20070174764 - Data collection: Data collection is described. A network-based data collection service enables users to define and manage data collections. Data items can be selected from any type of data source (e.g., a web page, a local document, an image file, an audio file, a video file, etc.) and added to a data... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20070174765 - Content communication system and methods: A system and methods are disclosed to facilitate communication to, with, and for persons with special needs. The system can provide assistance with reading, test-taking, language development, or other forms of communication. The system is compatible with a variety of types of input (173), and provides a variety of options... Agent: Sommer Barnard Attorneys,p.c.

20070174766 - Hidden document data removal: Technology for finding and acting on hidden data contained in documents generated by a user in productivity applications is disclosed. The technology uses a user configurable document release policy file and a document inspector which parses a document file based on the configuration policy and either presents options to the... Agent: Vierra Magen/microsoft Corporation

20070174770 - Time conditioned digital map and information display: A time-conditioned digital map and information display method and apparatus includes establishment of a time condition applicable to composing the display, reference to time-related information associated with displayable items, identification of indicated state(s) or propertie(s) of said displayable items by means of evaluation of the time-related information relative the time... Agent: Michael J. Safoutin

20070174768 - Adaptive alert management: Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to alert management and provide a method, system and computer program product for adaptive alert management. In one embodiment of the invention, an adaptive alert management data processing system can include an alert server and multiple different alert... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20070174767 - Display process device and display process method: A screen definition information interpretation section (12) interprets a screen definition information (11a) which defines a moment in which a first screen event is to be issued, and issues a first screen event, which is for executing an action, which corresponds to an instruction inputted from an input I/F section... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20070174769 - System and method of mapping images of the spine: The present invention provides systems and methods for enhancing the delivery and display of medical images for preoperative planning and diagnosis. Various characteristics of the data associated with the image or images being viewed may be manipulated and stored. The system and method provide automated annotation of the images to... Agent: Haynes And Boone, LLP

20070174771 - Digital user interface for inputting indic scripts: A system and method for displaying a base character in response to user input and displaying characters related to the base character to allow the user to select one of the displayed characters for a message string.... Agent: Senniger Powers (msft)

20070174772 - Method and system for integrated network multimedia distribution: A method, system and apparatus for network audio distribution may be provided. The method may include providing a list of characteristics for an audio file to be created to a creator. The method may also include receiving a text of the audio file from the creator. The method may also... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070174773 - System and method for controlling lighting in a digital video stream: A system for and method of controlling lighting in a digital video stream is presented. A user loads digital content into a light tracking system. The digital content includes three tracks, which are a video track, an audio track, and a light control track. After loading, the user selects either... Agent: Ibm Corporation- Austin (jvl) C/o Van Leeuwen & Van Leeuwen

20070174774 - Browser editing with timeline representations: Embodiments of the present invention provide browser-based clip manipulation methods and systems for rendering and editing a clip. Without limitation, the clip may be a video clip. The clip manipulation facility is associated with at least one editing function, where the editing function is presented as a visual element as... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20070174775 - Facial feature-localized and global real-time video morphing: A method and apparatus for modifying, or morphing, a video image. A video feed is received which include an image of a person's face. A number of facial features are detected from the video feed. One or more of those facial features are selected and modified, with the modification being... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070174776 - System and method for scripting explorer for server configuration: The present invention provides provide GUI-type server scripting explorer that allows a user to browse, invoke, and update via its GUI all kinds of management objects available on a server. The explorer embeds a command interpreter through which the user can invoke server scripting commands directly from within the tool.... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20070174777 - Three dimensional graphical user interface representative of a physical work space: A user interface supporting a virtual three dimensional virtual environment is described. The virtual environment supports representations of actual computer hardware and user interaction with the representation is optionally used to control the corresponding computer hardware. Similarly, interactions with the computer hardware are optionally shown by the representations of the... Agent: Freedman & Associates

20070174778 - System and method for combining multiple software panes: A user interface messaging system and method that determines whether the substance of a message relates to information contained in more than one pane, provides the user with an option to merge the panes containing the information related to the substance of the message, and merges the panes into one... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070174779 - Multi-layer focusing method and apparatus therefor: A method of and an apparatus for efficiently navigating a plurality of contents which are reproduced in a device for reproducing interactive contents, such as a computer, a DVD player, a PDA, or a cellular phone, by using a device having a limited number of input keys. Focusing layer values... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20070174780 - Control method for digital image processing apparatus for convenient movement mode and digital image processing apparatus using the method: Provided is a control method for a digital image processing apparatus having a movement mode in which a user moves a target object to a target position, the method including: displaying icons including an image icon of a target object and an icon indicating a target position; displaying an icon... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP Attn: Patent Docket Dept.

20070174781 - Parameter visualization: A parameter visualization method and apparatus are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method includes processing a selection of a parameter based on an action associated with one parameter, algorithmically calculating compatibility of other parameters based on the selection, and simultaneously displaying at least one allowable parameter (e.g., of the other... Agent: Raj Abhyanker, LLP C/o Portfolioip

20070174782 - Smart icon placement across desktop size changes: Intelligent rearrangement of icons on a desktop in response to changes in desktop size, such as orientation, may be provided using a number of approaches. Desktop area in multiple orientations may be divided into a grid having equal numbers of rows and columns, and placement of icons in each orientation... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 003797 & 013797

20070174783 - System and method of intelligent window placement for digital video: A method, apparatus, and computer-usable medium for displaying a primary presentation on a display, where the primary presentation includes a collection of frames; in response to receiving a request to overlay the primary presentation with a secondary presentation, analyzing the plurality of frames to identify at least one safe region... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20070174784 - Method for presenting objects of the windows operating environment on multiple display devices: The present invention discloses a method for presenting objects of the Windows operating environment on multiple display devices, which is implemented with a series of computer-executable steps, wherein the attribute values of the display regions of multiple display devices (such as the resolutions thereof) and the attribute values of at... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070174785 - Mobile communication terminal and method therefore: Method in a mobile communications device comprising a display unit and an input unit, the method comprising: in a first navigation mode displaying, on said display unit, an image comprising at least one application icon, said application icon being selectable and representing an application executable on said mobile communications device,... Agent: Perman & Green

20070174786 - Computer-readable recording medium having recorded message display control program and message display control apparatus: A computer-readable recording medium having recorded a message display control program for notifying that a message has been generated, without interfering with the operation of the user. A notification acceptance block accepts a notification that an event has occurred in a window and obtains notification information related to the event.... Agent: Patrick G. Burns Greer, Burns & Crain, Ltd.

20070174787 - Device and method for providing information about relationships between respective sharers based on shared information: A device and method for providing information about the relationships between a user of a device and sharers sharing data with the user is provided. The device includes a search unit, a storage unit, a User Interface (UI) generation unit, and a display unit. The search unit searches for information... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070174788 - Operation of a computer with touch screen interface: A touch screen computer executes an application. A method of operating the touch screen computer in response to a user is provided. A virtual input device is provided on the touch screen. The virtual input device comprises a plurality of virtual keys. It is detected that a user has touched... Agent: Beyer Weaver LLP

20070174789 - Filtering device and filtering method: There are provided a filtering device and a filtering method capable of easily filtering information with an excellent operability. A first display means 101 displays a plurality of icons representing elements of conditions and a designation area for receiving the icons on a screen. A second display means 102 displays... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20070174791 - Apparatus and method for displaying multimedia contents: Provided are an apparatus and method of displaying multimedia contents, more particularly, an apparatus and method of displaying stored multimedia contents to accommodate a user's preference using limited buttons of a remote control device or a cellular phone. The apparatus for displaying multimedia contents includes an alignment condition determination unit... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070174790 - User interface for viewing clusters of images: A method and system for providing a user interface for presenting images of clusters of an image search result is provided. The user interface system displays the search result in a cluster/view form using a cluster panel and a view panel. The cluster panel contains a cluster area for each... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP/msft

20070174792 - Graphic subselection in a computer aided design: In one implementation, a computer-implemented method for graphical subselection is provided. The method includes presenting an image to a user. The image includes an original graphic selection set of graphical elements. The method also includes receiving a first user input identifying a first subselection of elements in the original graphic... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070168851 - File system for a stage lighting array system: A file system for a stage lighting system that maintains the different files associated with the stage lighting system. Each of the files that can represent an effect are maintained within the system within a configuration file. The configuration file can be updated on each start of the system so... Agent: Fish & Richardson, PC

20070168853 - Apparatus, system and method for creation, delivery and utilization of recommended multimedia filter settings: An apparatus, such as a DVD player, system (client-server, etc.) and method for creating and deploying recommended filter arrangements for a multimedia presentation, such as a movie set forth on a DVD type optical disc. The recommended filter arrangements are selected from some number of possible filter arrangements for a... Agent: Dorsey & Whitney, LLP Intellectual Property Department

20070168852 - Methods for computing a navigation path: A method, apparatus and article of manufacture for creating visualizations of documents are described. In one embodiment, the method comprises receiving audible, visual, and audiovisual document elements, computing time attributes associated with the audible, visual, and audiovisual document elements based on display and application constraints, computing information content attributes associated... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070168854 - User interface for presentation of solutions in multi-passenger multi-route travel planning: A graphical user interface includes a first set of columns for displaying details for a first passenger group, a second set of columns for displaying details for a second passenger group and a third set of columns for displaying details for joint solution properties of a joint solution involving the... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20070168855 - Screen splitting for web browsers: A computer implemented method, data processing system, and computer usable code are provided for splitting a screen in a Web browser window. User input is received requesting splitting of the screen in the Web browser window. A position for a split in the screen is identified. The screen is split... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20070168856 - Tree pruning of icon trees via subtree selection using tree functionals: A method and apparatus for creating visualizations using tree functionals is described. In one embodiment, the method comprises representing a group of document images using a plurality of visualizations that visualize document layout information for the group of document images based on one or more display device characteristics and based... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070168857 - Transformation of source data in a source markup language to target data in a target markup language: Transforming source data in a source markup language to target data in a target markup language using transformation rules mapping source tags to corresponding target tags. In an embodiment, the tags in the source data (e.g., XML) are retrieved sequentially (e.g., by SAX parser) and hierarchical memory objects (e.g., DOM... Agent: Law Firm Of Naren Thappeta

20070168858 - Style extensibility applied to a group of shapes by editing text files: Style extensibility is provided to shapes in a diagram by editing text files. A structured data model is used to render the diagram representing items provided by the user in a text-based format such as a bulleted list. A style engine determines style properties for style labels assigned to key... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20070168860 - Communication system, storage medium having stored thereon communication program usable for the same, and connection control apparatus: A communication terminal transmits, to an access point apparatus, a connection request which includes communication terminal information for identifying the communication terminal and display manner information representing a display manner in which the communication terminal information is displayed on a display device of the access point apparatus. The access point... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, P.C.

20070168859 - Adaptive layout for content: Aspects of the subject matter described herein relate to arranging content in single and multi-column formats to be displayed using a graphical user interface (GUI). Aspects also relate to utilizing user feedback to determine available screen area for displaying multiple items of the content and arranging and formatting the content... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20070168861 - Method for indicating completion status of user initiated and system created tasks: In a computing environment, a display shows the progress of the execution of a user or system initiated task. The display includes the current completion status of the task, and the completion results of the task. The completion results indicate the amount of the task that has been completed and... Agent: Ibm Corporation C/o Darcell Walker, Attorney At Law

20070168862 - File system for a stage lighting array system: A file system for a stage lighting system that maintains the different files associated with the stage lighting system. Each of the files that can represent an effect are maintained within the system within a configuration file. The configuration file can be updated on each start of the system so... Agent: Fish & Richardson, PC

20070168863 - Interacting avatars in an instant messaging communication session: An avatar that represents an user in a communications session is animated, without user manipulation, based on the animation of another avatar that represents another user in the same instant messaging communication session. The avatars may be displayed in a single instant messaging window, and the displayed animations may create... Agent: Barbara A. Benoit Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070168865 - Operation screen generating method, display control apparatus, and computer-readable recording medium recording the same program: Provided are a selection item arrangement unit for arranging selection items in an operation screen and a back area setting unit for setting an area having a position and size corresponding to an area of all the selection items, which can be arranged as selection items, as a back area... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070168864 - Video summarization apparatus and method: A video summarization apparatus stores, in memory, video data including video and audio, and metadata items corresponding to video segments included in the video data respectively, each of metadata items including keyword and characteristic information of content of corresponding video segment, selects metadata items including specified keyword from metadata items,... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070168867 - Video reproduction device: The present invention relates to a technique for displaying a characteristic image or scene of video data as a thumbnail so that a user can easily understand the contents of the video data. Video data is inputted, the data describing an important scene in the video data is inputted or... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070168866 - Method and system for constructing composite video from multiple video elements: A set top box circuitry receives television channels, receives a viewer input, constructs a composite video from the television channels using the viewer input and forwards the composite video for display. The viewer input identifies a selection of at least two of the television channels and another selection of portions... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20070168868 - Method and system for integrating calculation and presentation technologies: A presentation is generated, and spreadsheets objects are embedded therein. The presentation may be customized prior to downloading. Mark-up language technology may be used in connection with the integration of spreadsheet and presentation technologies.... Agent: Danie H. Golub

20070168869 - Method for updating a calendar and computer program element therefor: The invention relates to a method for updating a calendar in a device like a mobile telephone and a computer program element configured to perform the update. The method comprises: connecting the device to a calendar database containing a set of calendar items; synchronizing the calendar in the device with... Agent: Albihns Stockholm Ab

20070168870 - Content management system and content management method: A plurality of templates are provided in which, in the case of managing a work condition of a content editing work, a work item corresponding to a processing privilege assigned to each user is indicated. A template corresponding to the processing privilege of the user is registered in advance in... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070168871 - Web-enabled transaction and collaborative management system: Method and apparatus for a Web-enabled transaction and collaborative management application in the form of a software application are described. In one embodiment, the application is the first Web-enabled, fully interactive transaction and collaborative management application designed from the user's perspective. In this embodiment, the application is centered around a... Agent: Haynes And Boone, LLP

20070168872 - Multi-monitor, multi-jvm java gui infrastructure with layout via xml: A method and system are provided which allows enhanced support to graphical user interface (GUI) displays on multiple monitors. An extended markup language file provides code to configure each GUI. GUI software need not be re-compiled in order to implement changes in the layout of displays or to accommodate additional... Agent: Norris, Braden, Melton & Gregersen, P.l.l.c.

20070168873 - Computer controlled user interactive display interface for accessing graphic tools with a minimum of display pointer movement: A computer controlled graphical user interface implementation comprising displaying a set of graphic tools in a primary container location on the display in combination with an implement for using a selected tool to create a graphic object at a selected display location that is changeable as the object is being... Agent: Ibm Corporation Intellectual Property Law

20070168875 - Folded scrolling: A system that displays content on a computer display. During operation, the system displays the content items within a display area on the computer display, wherein content items surrounding a current point of interest are displayed within a visible region of the display area. If the visible region has insufficient... Agent: Sun Microsystems Inc. C/o Park, Vaughan & Fleming LLP

20070168876 - Method and system for selecting objects: A method, system, and computer program product for selecting an object from nested group of objects. Upon the determination of an incorrect selection, the selection of an object that is different from the current selected object is accomplished using a predetermined path.... Agent: Richard A. Henkler

20070168874 - Service and application management in information technology systems: Systems and techniques for managing services and applications of a client system, such as an enterprise computer system, reduce the operational workload and optimize daily support process by deliverying embedded services in client system with direct connection of services into a back-end system so that back-end system processes can analyze... Agent: Fish & Richardson, P.C.

20070168877 - Visual cue discernment on scattered data: Displaying a visual cue is disclosed. A value of an attribute for a member of a set of data is obtained. The visual cue for the member is determined based at least in part on the value of the attribute. The visual cue for the member is displayed, where the... Agent: Van Pelt, Yi & James LLP

20070168878 - Method and system for providing a primary window overlay: A method for providing a primary window overlay includes providing a primary window on a desktop and designating an overlay window. The method further includes implanting the overlay window on the primary window, receiving activity input to the primary window, and maintaining the overlay window on top of the primary... Agent: Ibm Corp. (clg) C/o Cardinal Law Group

20070168882 - Active path navigath system: A method for navigating within a multi-level hierarchical collapsing menu structure is disclosed. Each level in the menu structure contains plural items, each item being at least one of a function, a pointer to a location, and a pointer to another level. The method of the present invention includes a... Agent: Jonathan D. Feuchtwang

20070168880 - Method and system for question tracking and information presentation: To develop a computerized questionnaire, a plurality of options are provided in a template. The options include a section option, an open text option, a single choice option, a multiple choice option, a yes/no option, a message only option, a required attribute option, an attachment option, a next question option,... Agent: Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & Mccloy

20070168881 - Multifunction apparatus, server, and server system: A distribution server and includes a communicator that communicates with multifunction apparatuses via a network a menu generator that generates menu information based on information obtained by the communicator, the information including display capability information and job capability information for each multifunction apparatus. The menu information includes information for execution... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070168879 - Traversal of datasets using positioning of radial input device: Items can be displayed radially by positioning representative icons in a circular or helical fashion on a display. Upon receiving an angle input from a radial input device, an item at a corresponding angle on the display can be selected. The set of selectable items can be recalculated with each... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP (microsoft Corporation)

20070168883 - Electronic display device, electronic display method, electronic display program, and recording medium: The purpose of the present invention is to provide an electronic display device capable of displaying content written horizontally and written vertically in an electronic display device with a plurality of display screens. The electronic display device includes a plurality of display screens that are bound and can be opened... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20070168884 - Systems, methods, and computer program products for providing interactive content: Exemplary embodiments include a system for providing interactive content including: an input for receiving a hot key signal related to interactive content, the hot key signal indicative of an availability and a location of an alternate content; and a processor which indicates that the hot key signal has been received,... Agent: John S. Pratt Kilpatrick Stockton LLP 36968

20070168885 - Sorting and filtering activities in an activity-centric collaborative computing environment: Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to managing the scatter and flood problem of the activity-centric computing environment and provide a method, system and computer program product for sorting and filtering activities in an activity-centric computing environment. In one embodiment of the invention, a... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20070168886 - Virtual address bar user interface control: A virtual address bar user interface control is presented. The virtual address bar includes a plurality of interactive segments, each segment corresponding to a predetermined filter for selecting content in a computer file system. Collectively, the interactive segments represent a virtual address for selecting content. Selecting an interactive segment in... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 003797 & 013797

20070168887 - Apparatus and method for providing user interface for file search: An apparatus and method for providing a user interface for file search are provided to achieve easier and more convenient search, storage and management of files. The apparatus includes a user interface providing a graphic user interface by which a user searches for a file; an additional information storage unit... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20070168888 - Method and software for navigation of data on a device display: Preferred embodiments of the present invention comprise methods and software for providing a navigable, context-sensitive electronic display. A preferred embodiment comprises providing a cross hairs that consists of objects forming an intersection, each object corresponding to a different geometrical dimension of the display; communicating with an input device that provides... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20070168889 - Method, system, and program product for indicating a state of a value of a property of an application: The present invention provides a method, system, and program product for indicating a state of a value of an application. Specifically, under the present invention a graphical state indicator is displayed for a property (e.g., background screen color) of an application. The graphical state indicator will indicate a “state” of... Agent: Hoffman Warnick & Dalessandro LLC

20070168890 - Position-based multi-stroke marking menus: Provided is multi-stroke marking menu techniques that increase menu breath over an eight-item limit of some orientation-based marking menus. Zone and polygon menus can be provided wherein the breadth can be increased by a factor of about two or more while providing quick selection and maintaining selection accuracy. Various geometric... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070168891 - Custom summary views for screen reader: A screen reader software product feature referred to as a custom summary view, or custom summary, has been developed. The custom summary feature solves the major problem faced by blind users when working with large sets of data. That problem occurs as a result of an inefficiency of gleaning important... Agent: Smith Hopen, Pa

20070168892 - User interface for an inkable family calendar: The subject application relates to a user interface(s), system(s), and/or methodology that facilitate improved management and coordination of activities, events, and occasions using a digital calendar format that can be accessed anywhere, changed or edited with ease, and readily synchronized on different devices. Various input modes can be employed including... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070162839 - Syndicated audio authoring: A technique for authoring multimedia presentations is provided such that a user may specify visual data to be displayed during the entirety of the playback of the presentation except for portions that have been defined to display alternate visual data. The authoring workflow utilizes a timeline within which may be... Agent: Hickman Palermo Troung & Becker LLP And Apple Inc.

20070162840 - Converting spreadsheet applications to web-based applications: A networked version of a spreadsheet application can be automatically created from an existing “conventional” spreadsheet. In one implementation, a server may obtain a data file, where the data file represents a networked version of a spreadsheet application that was converted from the “conventional” application and the data file defines... Agent: Harrity Snyder, LLP

20070162841 - System and method for generating customized and/or personalized documents: A system and method for rapidly customizing and printing documents is disclosed. The system supports product lines having a plurality of customizable products therein, through the use of a single Web page that is continually updated in a data-driven fashion. The system is robust, easily expandable, and quickly deployable across... Agent: Fulwider Patton LLP

20070162842 - Selective content imaging for web pages: Selective imaging of webpage content is disclosed. It is determined automatically whether an item of content or a portion thereof satisfies one or more of a set of one or more criteria to be included as an image in a webpage as published. An image of the item of content... Agent: Van Pelt, Yi & James LLP And Apple Computer, Inc.

20070162843 - System and method for serving multiple data objects and formatting functions in a single request: Disclosed is a novel framework by which the sources of data objects and/or formatting functions can be easily requested and managed. More specifically, the invention provides a system for and method of serving multiple data objects and/or formatting functions to a subscribing client via a single request. The system comprises... Agent: Steven Fischman, Esq. Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser

20070162844 - Automatic layout of objects: In some implementations, selected objects are arranged within a view. Each object is assigned an ordinal value, regardless of data type, according to the object's position in a first direction (e.g., horizontal position) relative to other objects of the layout grouping. The objects are linearly aligned along a line parallel... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20070162846 - Automatic sub-template selection based on content: Enabling a user to create or edit a webpage is disclosed. A content type of a content item to be included in the webpage is determined automatically. Code appropriate to the content type as required to include the content item in the webpage as published is generated.... Agent: Van Pelt, Yi & James LLP And Apple Computer, Inc.

20070162845 - User interface for webpage creation/editing: Enabling a user to create and/or edit a webpage is disclosed. A selection of a selected template from a set of one or more webpage templates selectable by a user to create and open for editing an instance of a webpage is received. An instance of a webpage based at... Agent: Van Pelt, Yi & James LLP And Apple Computer, Inc.

20070162847 - Spell checking in network browser based applications: Spell checking of a document in a network browser based application is performed automatically. Spell checking may be performed in a content page in response to user editing of the document text. Text entered into a document through a browser application interface is divided into nodes. The nodes may be... Agent: Vierra Magen/microsoft Corporation

20070162848 - Predictive styling: Determining a style attribute is disclosed. An indication of a new object to be added to a content document associated with a template data is received. The style attribute for the new object is determined based at least in part on the template data.... Agent: Van Pelt, Yi & James LLP And Apple Computer, Inc.

20070162849 - Interactive kitchen recipe workstation: A specialized workstation for accessing, entering, and amending recipes and shopping lists. A user can create new, or access stored, recipes and grocery lists via the touch-sensitive screen by tapping or scrawling on the screen with a stylus or finger, or by utilizing a keyboard which can be displayed on... Agent: Elizabeth Marciano

20070162850 - Sports-related widgets: Systems, methods, computer-readable mediums, user interfaces and other implementations are disclosed for defining, installing, launching, managing, displaying and operating sports-related widgets in a display environment. The sports-related widgets can be configured to provide information related to sporting events.... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070162851 - Input device and method for menu control on a portable computing device: An auxiliary input device for menu control on a portable computing device is provided. The auxiliary input device includes a lighting unit, an optical lens, and an optical sensor. The lighting unit is for projecting light to a surface upon which the portable computing device is moved upon. The optical... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070162852 - Method and apparatus for changing codec to reproduce video and/or audio data streams encoded by different codecs within a channel: A method and apparatus for changing codecs to reproduce video and/or audio data streams are provided. The method and apparatus are capable of seamlessly reproducing video and/or audio data streams encoded with two or more different codecs when a change of codecs occurs by determining in advance the start position... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070162853 - Controlling behavior of elements in a display environment: In one implementation, a computer program product, encoded on a computer-readable medium, is provided. The computer program product is operable to cause a data processing apparatus to perform operations including generating a menu screen template, the menu screen template including one or more menu elements. The computer program product also... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070162854 - System and method for interactive creation of and collaboration on video stories: A system for creating videos on a network includes a server with network access for serving source objects and scripts used to generate videos, a data storage facility for storing the source objects, and an application for editing the source objects and scripts used to generate a video. A user... Agent: Central Coast Patent Agency, Inc

20070162855 - Movie authoring: A movie authoring process is disclosed which includes: selecting a theme, determining theme elements based on the theme selection, and adding the theme elements to a movie. An automated movie authoring process is also disclosed which includes: automatically capturing raw video footage from a video source; automatically dividing the raw... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070162856 - System and method for delivery and utilization of content-based products: A system for delivery of content-based products. The system includes a content library which provides advanced interfaces for adding, manipulating, arranging and storing multimedia presentations, and for interacting with rich multimedia presentations.... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20070162857 - Automated multimedia authoring: Methods and computer program products related to multimedia applications are provided. In one implementation, a computer program product, encoded on a computer-readable medium is provided. The computer program product is operable to cause a data processing apparatus to perform operations including generating a user interface for receiving user input. The... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070162858 - Integrated information presentation system with environmental controls: An integrated information presentation system that includes environmental controls is described that at least enhances the experience of giving or viewing a presentation. During the giving of a presentation, multiple controls are available in the system which enable the presenter to have direct control of the presentation environment. The system,... Agent: Sheridan Ross P C

20070162859 - Computer-implemented node-link processing systems and methods: Computer-implemented methods and systems for displaying nodes on a display device, wherein the nodes have a hierarchical context. Positional information associated with a plurality of nodes is used to generate a display for the nodes. The generated node display maintains hierarchical contextual information about the nodes.... Agent: Patent Group 2n Jones Day

20070162860 - Remote console for observing multiple workstations: A remote viewing system includes a plurality of local workstations and a remote console. Each of the local workstations provides screen update data. The remote console is operable to receive the screen update data from the plurality of local workstations and display the screen update data for at least two... Agent: Peter Vogel Ge Healthcare

20070162861 - Keypad user interface and port sequence mapping algorithm: A method of generating a port knocking sequence which includes providing a port knocking user interface which allows a user to enter an input string, mapping the input string received via the port knocking user interface to a corresponding port knocking sequence, and generating the corresponding port knocking sequence which... Agent: Hamilton & Terrile, LLP

20070162862 - Selective user monitoring in an online environment: A subject user may selectively monitor one or more other users in an online environment. In one embodiment, a subject user may access a directory of available online users that are located within a particular predefined portion of the online environment. The order of the available online users in the... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070162863 - Three dimensional virtual pointer apparatus and method: A selectable three dimensional virtual pointer (501) that can be selected by a collaborator and displayed within a virtual collaboration environment (200) as being sourced by an avatar (202) that corresponds to the collaborator who selected the pointer. This pointer can be used, for example, to point towards a given... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070162864 - User-directed repartitioning of content on tab-based interfaces: A method, system, and computer program product for providing user-directed repartitioning of content on tab-based interfaces that includes providing a tab-based interface, having a plurality of tabs, wherein each tab has an associated content view and allowing for the manipulating of one, or more, tab, so as to repartition the... Agent: Hoffman Warnick & Dalessandro LLC

20070162865 - Application clippings: A method, apparatus and computer-usable medium for: receiving a user input to activate a clip utility within an open application window; enabling a selection of a particular portion of the open widow using a selection functionality of the clip utility, wherein the particular portion is less than a total area... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20070162866 - Supporting user multi-tasking with clipping lists: A method for managing windows in a display is disclosed. The method comprises forming clippings for windows located in a focal region of a display; displaying the clippings in a peripheral region of the display; hiding the windows in the focal region of the display; indicating the states of the... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, PLLC

20070162867 - System and method for customizing electronic messages: A plug-in is provided to existing electronic message programs, such as electronic mail message programs, to provide a virtual toolbar therein. The virtual toolbar includes one or more virtual buttons that allow a user to select multimedia content to be added to an electronic message. The multimedia content may include,... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20070162868 - Window positioner/sizer: Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for a window positioner/sizer. A computer-implemented method of displaying information on a computer display device includes displaying a first popup window on a primary window, the first popup window comprising controls enabling selective positioning and sizing of the first popup window relative to... Agent: Holland & Knight, LLP

20070162869 - Ultrasonic diagnosis system: An ultrasonic detecting portion 1 that transmits an ultrasonic wave to a subject and receives a reflected wave therefrom, an image display portion 6 that has a diagnostic image display region 8 for displaying a diagnostic image based on an image signal from the ultrasonic detecting portion and displays a... Agent: Hamre, Schumann, Mueller & Larson P.C.

20070162870 - Information display method and information display system: A virtual space including a model in place of each user is displayed on a terminal of a user. About an item in which the user is interested, the level of interest is previously registered so that the figure of a model of the other user can vary depending on... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20070162871 - Information processing apparatus, control method therefor and control program: The present invention provides an information processing apparatus, including: a display unit; and a screen control unit for setting a plurality of different focus modes which selectively focus each of first objects displayed in a main display zone of the display unit and of second objects output to a status... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070162872 - Method of displaying at least one function command and mobile terminal implementing the same: A method of displaying at least one function command and mobile terminal implementing the same are disclosed, by which a user is facilitated to select and execute a function command by excluding a tree-structured function command configuration from the mobile terminal. The present invention includes displaying an object list, which... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20070162873 - Apparatus, method and computer program product for generating a thumbnail representation of a video sequence: A system, method and computer program product are provided for generating an image, such as a thumbnail, representation of a video sequence, where the video sequences includes a plurality of frames, at least some of which include an image of a scene that may include one or more objects. The... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20070162874 - Method and computer system for evaluating the complexity of a user interface: Method and computer system for evaluating the complexity a user interface. A complexity indicator (121) receives (430) device class specific representations (301, 302) of the user interface. Each device class specific representation (301, 302) refers to a respective device class (DC1, DC2). The complexity indicator (121) determines complexity values of... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth/sap

20070162875 - Enabling and disabling hotkeys: A computer program product may include instructions that, when executed, cause a processor to perform operations that include monitoring an electronic device to determine whether the electronic device is in a specific state. The electronic device may define one or more hotkeys, and each hotkey may correspond to an input... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070162876 - Contextual album browsing: Methods and apparatuses for facilitating a user in browsing albums of digital media data in accordance with an indicated criterion applied in an indicated context are described herein.... Agent: Realnetworks, Inc.

20070162877 - Internet-based method for enabling users to determine what is missing from their website: A process for enabling a visitor to a website to make a criteria-based decision, which is accomplished by implementing a question and answer navigation tool that leads the visitor through a criteria search, teaching the visitor how to make a best informed decision based on their own criteria and unique... Agent: Zarley Law Firm P.L.C

20070162878 - Method for automatically displaying data in wireless terminal: A method for automatically displaying data in a wireless terminal, the method includes displaying selected data in the wireless terminal; when the data are enlarged and displayed as partial data, extracting an automatic display value for displaying the partial data enlarged through automatic shift; and automatically displaying the automatically shifted... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070157071 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for providing multi-media messages: Methods, systems, and computer program products for providing multi-media messages. Methods include receiving multi-media content and a theme identifier. A template associated with the theme identifier is accessed. The template defines a display format for the multi-media content including a rich text format (RTF) document for containing the multi-media content.... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - Bellsouth

20070157072 - Portable content sharing: The system of the invention comprises creating a bookmark file for a multimedia content file where the bookmark file includes a URL or other address identifier for the content file and a bookmark pointer that identifies a specific location within the content file. To share the selected content with a... Agent: Moore And Van Allen PLLC For Semc

20070157073 - Software weaving and merging: There is disclosed transforming an electronic plain text to an electronic anchored text, comprising inserting anchors located between characters in said plain text. Each character has a unique association with a nearest preceding or succeeding anchor. Each anchor serves as a join point and specifies a predetermined state and a... Agent: Ibm Almaden (ave) C/o Law Office Of Anthony England

20070157074 - System for and method of providing overview of a worksheet in an electronic report: A worksheet overview system comprises an item information handler, an overview element handler, an overview area handler, and an overview synchronizer. The item information handler obtains item information relating to items of a worksheet. The overview element handler manages overview elements based on the item information. Each overview element represents... Agent: Perman & Green

20070157075 - Key command functionality in an electronic document: Key command functionality is provided in an electronic document through a recognition of input data. The input data is received in a data field of the electronic document. If the input data is a help command, a help application is launched. The help application provides for the determination of a... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070157076 - Annotation detection and anchoring on ink notes: Systems and methods for detecting annotation digital ink strokes and further associating annotation digital ink strokes with word digital ink strokes are presented. Ink strokes are captured on a writing surface and then classified as words or annotations. Annotations are then anchored to corresponding words. When words are relocated or... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 003797 & 013797

20070157077 - Accessible role and state information in html documents: Accessible role and state information may be included in hypertext markup language documents by encoding an accessibility definition into a class attribute. The accessibility definition corresponds with an object of a hypertext markup language document and comprises role information and state information if state information is applicable to the corresponding... Agent: Stevens & Showalter, L.L.P.

20070157078 - Method for combining input data with run-time parameters into xml output using xsl/xslt: A system and method is disclosed for adding dynamic information to XML source data without substantial, or preferably any, modification of the underlying source code and without requiring the writing of any XSLT extension functions. The addition of dynamic information enables a user to customize XML source data for display... Agent: Snell & Wilmer L.L.P. (main)

20070157079 - Apparatus and method for negotiating and generating contract documents on-line: An apparatus adapted to generate contract documents includes a plurality of computing platforms; a plurality of memory storage devices coupled to the computing platforms, the plurality of memory devices including a first memory storage device storing a database of items, a second memory storage device storing rules corresponding to each... Agent: Plevy, Howard & Darcy, P.C.

20070157081 - Browser with screen-reading function and browsing processing method: A browser, with a web page screen-reading function, displays a web page easy to read in synchronism with text screen-reading is possible. The browser determines whether lateral scroll during normal page displaying is occurred reduces, if occurred, the width of displayed component of the display page below the width of... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20070157080 - Systems and methods for re-purposing content objects for media production: Various systems and methods for re-purposing content objects are described herein. As just one example, a method is disclosed that includes receiving a content element and reducing the content element to a maintenance form. The content element in the maintenance form is a content object and the maintenance form can... Agent: Faegre & Benson LLP Patent Docketing

20070157082 - Web portal layout manager system and method: In accordance with the teachings of the present invention, a web portal layout manager system and method are provided. In particular embodiments of the present invention, the method includes receiving at a layout manager an indication selecting one of multiple predetermined layout types, receiving at the layout manager a set... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20070157083 - Formatting content by example: A method generates a document by: inserting one or more placeholders in the document; binding each placeholder to a content source; and compiling the placeholders into code to generate content for the document based on the content source. The method then executes the code to generate the content and presenting... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070157084 - User interface device and image displaying method: An operation displaying unit displays thereon a preview image of input information. A receiving unit receives a request for rotating displayed preview image. A processing unit rotates the displayed preview image in response to received request for rotating the displayed preview image, and displays rotated preview image on the operation... Agent: Cooper & Dunham, LLP

20070157085 - Persistent adjustable text selector: Embodiments of the present invention provide a computer interface that allows for the amount of text selected using a text selection utility to be changed after the selection has been made. A user may make an initial selection, then later change the amount or portion of text that was selected... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070157086 - Time-controlled presentation of content to a viewer: A method of displaying a document on an electronic display device includes creating a document file, delimiting at least a predetermined portion of the text of the document file, to define delimited content, and displaying the document file such that the delimited content is displayed differently with respect to timing... Agent: Ip Strategies

20070157088 - Method and apparatus for graphically displaying compatible workflow steps: A method, apparatus, and computer program product for graphically presenting compatible workflow steps to a user through a graphical user interface are disclosed. The method includes graphically displaying a plurality of steps in a workflow. A user's selection for at least one step in a plurality of steps to denote... Agent: Fleit, Kain, Gibbons, Gutman, Bongini & Bianco P.l.

20070157087 - Method and system for automatically generating user interfaces for integration: Embodiments of the present invention relate to automating the creation of user interfaces for integration. Integration is a process that involves accounting for the differences between two different types of software to enable the exchange of information between the two types of software. Typically, the initial work of the integration... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070157089 - Portable electronic device with interface reconfiguration mode: A portable electronic device displays a plurality of icons (e.g., graphical objects) in a region in a touch-sensitive display; detects a predefined user action, with respect to the touch-sensitive display, for initiating a predefined user interface reconfiguration process; and varies positions of one or more icons in the plurality of... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP/ Apple Computer Inc.

20070157090 - Timescale selection window for temporal selection in computer applications: A timescale selection window provides an application user interface, wherein the window includes a hierarchy of interactive selection zones. Each zone may display temporal information at a respective temporal granularity. User commands may be entered via the selection zone to select date ranges, to navigate among presented dates by units... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070157091 - System and method for providing user help: In a system and method for providing user help information, based on a user history it may be determined that an event has previously occurred, based on the determination a portion of stored user help information that includes information indicating how to avoid recurrence of the event may be automatically... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070157092 - System and method for providing user help according to user category: In a system and method for providing user help information, based on a user history, a user proficiency category may be determined, at a point during execution of a sequence of program instructions, it may be determined based on the user proficiency category whether to output a portion of stored... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070157093 - Systems and methods for adaptive help mechanisms for a user: Systems and methods are provided for offering a user of an application one or more help pages associated with a function of the application. In one exemplary embodiment, the method may comprise analyzing the user while the user is interacting with the application, determining when the user needs help completing... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070157094 - Application user interface with navigation bar showing current and prior application contexts: A graphical user interface for a portable electronic device includes an application display region that displays a current application context of an application and a navigation bar adjacent to the application display region. The navigation bar includes two horizontally adjacent regions, comprising a current context region for displaying an indicator... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP/ Apple Computer Inc.

20070157095 - Orientation free user interface: Generation and display of a dynamically orientable graphical user interface (GUI) is described. The GUI can include user input controls that are configured to receive user input. In one exemplary embodiment, the GUI is displayed as a band around a perimeter of a horizontally oriented interactive display surface. The user... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20070157096 - Gui modeling of web services: The disclosure provides various embodiments of systems and methods for GUI modeling of web services. One method is a computer implemented method including presenting a plurality of web services to a user through a graphical user interface, with each web service comprising at least one web method. A first graphical... Agent: Fish & Richardson, P.C.

20070157097 - Multifunctional icon in icon-driven computer system: An icon-driven computer system collects a plurality of data files under a common graphical icon. Commands entered into the computer system with respect to the icon may be interpreted as a command to repeat the same action on each of the data files linked to the icon. Related commands provide... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070157098 - System and method of a web browser with integrated features and controls: A web browser for Internet access distinguishes between client users and supervisory users. Supervisory users are authorized to create and/or modify local content access settings to Internet resources that are stored in a local data structure and/or a remote data structure. Client users are prevented from accessing these local content... Agent: Smith Frohwein Tempel Greenlee Blaha, LLC

20070157102 - Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and a computer-readable storage medium containing a computer program for image processing recorded thereon: An image processing apparatus according to the present invention comprises a reference image extracting section for extracting a reference image as an object for display; a parameter managing section for managing a plurality of parameters and their values for the extracted reference image; a parameter setting section for selecting any... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070157100 - System and method for organization and retrieval of files: A system and method for selectively handling data. The method includes determining data-handling instructions for a piece of data, such as a file. One or more tasks associated with the file are automatically performed in accordance with the data-handling instructions in response to activation of the data-handling instructions via the... Agent: Trellis Intellectual Property Law Group, PC

20070157101 - Systems and methods for transferring data between computing devices: Systems and methods for extending the drag-and-drop data transfer mechanism to the remote access environment are described. The extension allows the end-user to select data located on the remote host or the local viewer, drag the selected data to a window on the host or viewer, and drop the selected... Agent: Goodwin Procter LLP Patent Administrator

20070157099 - Taskbar configuration tool for computer systems: A taskbar control permits system operators to group application instances according to their own preferences. The taskbar control system groups application instances according to a default grouping scheme but permit the default grouping to be managed by operator control. The operator may move application instances among groups or to new... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070157103 - Method and apparatus for mapping corresponding functions in a user: A first user interface is presented (101) within a portable electronic device. The selection of a first function by the user via the first user interface is then detected (102). In response to detecting (102) the user's selection of the first function, the first user interface is then replaced (103)... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070157105 - Network user database for a sidebar: Sidebars group a plurality of Internet and other services in one easily accessible location on the desktop. In one embodiment, a user's sidebar preferences, such as, for example, the types of applications modules that populate their sidebar are stored by an Internet content provider on a network server. A user... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20070157108 - Community information updates in a sidebar: Members of Internet community websites, such as for example, social networking sites, photo sharing sites, review site, and other community sites, regularly make updates to the websites. Therefore a member of those sites is constantly checking those sites for new updates. In one embodiment, an application module of a sidebar... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20070157106 - Multiple sidebar module open states: Typical sidebars comprise a plurality of application modules stacked in a vertical column. Thus, each application module has a limited amount of space to display useful information to the user. In one embodiment, the application module of a sidebar can exist in one of a plurality of display states comprising,... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20070157107 - Sidebar information sharing: The Internet comprises a wealth of information that is regularly shared amongst its users. In one embodiment, information sharing buttons are provided to a user at the bottom of a slidesheet of a sidebar. Thus, if the user sees information that they are interested in, they can easily share the... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20070157104 - Toolbar document content sharing: A system may provide a toolbar in a browser at a client, where the toolbar permits user selection from multiple different services for sharing document content. The system may receive a selection of a first one of the multiple different services from a user via the toolbar and may receive... Agent: Harrity Snyder, LLP

20070157109 - Multifunction peripheral and control method thereof: A multifunction peripheral and a control method thereof include an input to provide an input screen through which an item is selected from a plurality of items to execute a plurality of operations, and data corresponding to the selected item is input, and a controller to control the multifunction peripheral... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20070157110 - Targeted sidebar advertising: Methods and apparatus for providing an advertisement in a sidebar, and/or in a slidesheet associated with an application module displayed in the sidebar. The advertisement is targeted to the sidebar user based upon user specific information maintained by a content provider. The user specific information can comprise, sidebar application information,... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20070157111 - Method for displaying roll-down messages on an aircraft display, and a device employing the said method: with Lc=Lv−Lr, where Np is the total number of pages, Lm is the total length of the message, Lv is the visible length of the message in the display zone, Lr is the repeated length of the message and Lc is the non-repeated length of the message. The invention also... Agent: Patterson, Thuente, Skaar & Christensen, P.A.

20070157112 - On-demand scrollbar: Embodiments of the present invention relate to an on-demand scrollbar for electronic documents. The scrollbar may comprise a plurality of indicators respectively corresponding to portions of an electronic document. In response to selection of an indicator, a download of a corresponding document portion may be initiated. Thus, a user is... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070157113 - Sidebar email: Email functions, such as, for example, reply, reply to all, forward, delete, mark as unread, and mark as spam are made accessible to a user through a browser independent sidebar. In one embodiment, email messages stored by an email service provider comprise a first identifier used by a first email... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20070157114 - Whole module items in a sidebar: Some application modules of a sidebar comprise a list of items. For example, an email module comprises message items while a photo slideshow does not comprise items. In known sidebars, the number of items in an application module display area is not discrete. For example, in an email module the... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20070157115 - Command line provided within context menu of icon-based computer interface: In an icon-based computer interface, a context menu includes a command line prompt for entry of textual parameter data for application programs. Computer operators may enter textual parameter data for the application via the command line prompt and launch the application corresponding to the icon in a manner that is... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070157116 - System and method for visual messaging: A user interface messaging system and method that determines the cause of a message and displays the message in a message layer located on the display device in proximity to the cause of the message. The message layer is movable to allow a user to place it wherever he or... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070157120 - Traffic information display method and apparatus: A traffic information display method includes creating a highest-level traffic information selection menu among traffic information categorized in multiple levels, and displaying the created traffic information selection menu, creating a low-level menu including associated travel speed data, and displaying the created low-level traffic information selection menu and repeating the creation... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070157117 - Apparatus, method and computer program product providing user interface configurable command placement logic: In accordance with but one exemplary embodiment of this invention a computer program is embodied on a tangible computer-readable medium. The execution of the computer program by a data processor of a device results in operations that include operating a command placement manager to map an instance of a user... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20070157118 - Customizable, multi-function button: A device includes a toolbar. The toolbar includes a button whose function changes based on context and whose visual interface changes based on the function the button is performing.... Agent: Harrity Snyder, LLP

20070157121 - Method for managing menu function in mobile station: The method for managing menu functions in a mobile station includes the steps of executing menu edition, selecting menu items the user uses frequently in the executed menu edition, to set up a menu, executing the menu, and displaying the menu of the selected menu items at first. The basic... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20070157119 - Sidebar photos: A sidebar can be used to display images stored on a local computer and/or retrived from the Internet. In one embodiment, a slidesheet of a photo application module of a sidebar provides a sidebar user with a search field, so that the user can search an Internet photo sharing website... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20070157123 - Character string processing method, apparatus, and program: In order to solve the above problem, disclosed as a first aspect is a method including the steps of analyzing a character string in a document into partial character strings; calculating, with respect to each of the partial character strings, a score incorporating appearance frequency of the partial character string;... Agent: Duke W. Yee Yee & Associates, P.C.

20070157122 - communication terminal having a predictive editor application: A communication terminal having a display; a keypad having a plurality of keys associated with several letters each; processor means controlling the display means in accordance with the operation of the keypad;a selectable predictive editor program for generating an output containing words matching a received string of ambiguous key strokes,... Agent: Perman & Green

20070157124 - Reduction of graphical clutter in computer displays: Embodiments of the present invention relate to a method and system for reducing graphical clutter in computer displays. According to the embodiments, one or more graphical control elements may be hidden, and only displayed on a computer screen when needed, for example in response to detection of an interactive event... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070157125 - Desktop management scheme: The present invention introduces a “contextual icon” to an icon-driven interface in which a single icon represents a shortcut to a suite of computer applications. The icon is associated with a single main application that may be invoked if an operator double-clicks on it or enters some other predetermined quick... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070157126 - Three-dimensional display and control image: A device for controlling a plurality of electronic appliances is disclosed. The device includes a display, a processor and computer memory. The display presents a three-dimensional image. The processor is in communication with the display and the plurality of electronic appliances. The computer memory device is in communication with the... Agent: Visteon

20070157127 - Active path menu navigation system: A method for navigating within a multi-level hierarchical collapsing menu structure is disclosed. Each level in the menu structure contains plural items, each item being at least one of a function, a pointer to a location, and a pointer to another level. The method of the present invention includes a... Agent: Jonathan D. Feuchtwang

20070157128 - Efficient control of calendar information in computer graphics: Embodiments relate to a method and system for providing calendar controls in computer displays in a compact, uncluttered format. According to the embodiments, multiple calendar control functions are brought together in a streamlined graphical design that conserves space and minimizes the number of manual operations needed... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070157129 - System and method for search queries and results preview using drag and drop interface: A system and method that that interactively provides search previews to users from one or more data sources is provided. In addition, the user interactively combines searches using a drag and drop interface and receive previews of the combined searches. A palate of graphical objects (icons) are displayed to the... Agent: Ibm Corporation - Rsw (jvl) C/o Van Leeuwen & Van Leeuwen