Data processing: presentation processing of document inventions 09/07

20070226604 - System and method for merging a sub-document into a collaboratively authored master document: The “Collaborative Document Merge Tool” or “CDMT” is a computer-implement process and accompanying product for merging a sub-document into a master document, the process comprising: identifying an author of the sub-document; reading metadata that specifies an authorized author of the sub-document; comparing the author to the authorized author, and merging... Agent: Ibm Corp. (raleigh Software Group) C/o Rudolf O Siegesmund Gordon & Rees, LLP

20070226605 - Systems and methods for dynamic display of revision indicia: Systems and methods for dynamic display of revision indicia are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method for dynamic display of revision indicia in an information product generated by a publishing system includes determining that at least one element of a structured content has been revised; adding a time-stamp metadata to... Agent: Lee & Hayes, PLLC

20070226606 - Method of processing annotations using filter conditions to accentuate the visual representations of a subset of annotations: A method of processing annotations is provided in accordance with an aspect of the present invention. The method includes the step of loading a plurality of annotations into a memory, each annotation being defined by properties. The method includes the step of displaying in a workspace window a first visual... Agent: Stetina Brunda Garred & Brucker

20070226607 - System and method for mixing media content: A visual display interface is provided that comprises an associated display icon. The display icon is dragged across the visual display interface in a movement so as to cause the mixing of a plurality of media streams. The output is a new mix of the various media streams.... Agent: Fitch Even Tabin & Flannery

20070226608 - System and method for rendering presentation pages based on locality: A system renders presentation pages such as in a wireless communications system. A server includes an extensible stylesheet transformation (XSLT) module. A storage medium contains at least one of images and text. The XSLT module is operative for calling an XSL extension and rendering the at least one of images... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist P.A.

20070226609 - Information processing apparatus and method of controlling the same: According to one embodiment, an information processing apparatus includes a main body, a display unit being connected to the main body so as to freely pivot and comprising a sensor, and a controller executing any one operation of turning on and turning off a power supply of the main body... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070226610 - Data processing system and method: A system and method for grouping separate elements, having a common characteristic, to produce at least one of an output document corresponding to a presentation or for producing such a presentation.... Agent: Ladas & Parry

20070226611 - Character display device and character display method: The present invention is intended to speed up rendering that is performed in the course of displaying a document that contains both icons and characters. A character display device that displays a document containing both icons and characters includes: a searching unit that searches the position in the document where... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070226612 - Server-side html customization based on style sheets and target device: A request reception module receives a request for an document stored within document server. A parsing module parses the document to generate therefrom a corresponding document object model (DOM) including at least one object. A style sheet access module obtains a style sheet including at least one rule directed to... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070226614 - Enhanced content manager: Delivering enhanced content is disclosed. An indication of content included on a webpage that is to be enhanced is received. Enhanced content is selected from a specified enhanced content provider previously specified from among a plurality of enhanced content providers. The selected enhanced content is associated with the content to... Agent: Van Pelt, Yi & James LLP

20070226613 - Methods and apparatuses for user interface management: A data driven, no-refresh, high-interactivity user interface framework, which can be used in (or with) web browsers to provide user interface for accessing product and service configuration through network connection. For example, the user interface can be used with web-based customer order management or product configurator. In one embodiment, the... Agent: Campbell Stephenson LLP

20070226615 - Fonts with feelings: Various technologies and techniques are disclosed that improve the instructional nature of fonts and/or the ability to create instructional fonts. Font characters are modified based on user interaction to enhance the user's understanding and/or fluency of the word. The font characters can have sound, motion and altered appearance. When altering... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20070226619 - Information processing apparatus: An information processing apparatus includes a display, an operation unit that allows a user to input commands, a storage unit that stores a plurality of setting items and setting values of the setting items required for carrying out a function of the apparatus, and a controller that is operable to... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20070226618 - Information processing device, device display processing method, and storage meidum: An information processing device has: an acquisition unit to acquire integrated values indicating use states of devices respectively connected on a network; a calculation unit to calculate a reference value of the use states based on the plural integrated values acquired by the acquisition unit; and a control unit to... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070226620 - Information reproducing apparatus and information reproducing method: Employment of system parameters can be controlled according to a disc type, and then, a proper operation can be obtained. Provided are means for, in the case where output setting information of any of an aspect, resolution, and audio is changed in the middle of playback of first contents, changing... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20070226617 - Graphical interface for rfid edge server: A console for an RFID edge server can include a graphical interface to receive ALE filer information such that the graphical interface allows the selection ALE filters on an RFID edge server.... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20070226616 - Method and system for wide area security monitoring, sensor management and situational awareness: A security system comprises a computer network and a plurality of sensors each connected to the computer network at a respective network address and each generating sensing data. A managing component is connected with the network and communicates with the sensors by access thereof through the associated network address on... Agent: Tiajoloff & Kelly

20070226621 - Computerized advertising method and system: Advertising is presented on a computer screen in the form of an animated multimedia character that will be referred to here as a “Shoshkele™.” The Shoshkele™ appears on the screen in an intrusive way at times which, to the user, are unpredictable, and it is entirely out of his control.... Agent: Mr. Daniel Rainer United Virtualities, Inc.

20070226623 - Information reproducing apparatus and information reproducing method: In an embodiment of the invention, the use of system parameters can be controlled according to the type of disc, thereby realizing a suitable operation. The embodiment includes means for changing the setting of a reproducing section according to output setting information, when any one of aspect, resolution, and audio... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20070226622 - Video signal processing apparatus and control method thereof: A. video. signal processing apparatus, comprises: a display unit; an user interface (UI) generating unit that generates a UI including a channel information array in which a plurality of channel informations are arranged to be displayed to the display unit; a user inputting unit that receives a first moving instruction... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070226624 - Content-based video summarization using spectral clustering: A method summarizes a video including a sequence of frames. The video is partitioned into segments of frames, and faces are detected in the frames of the segments. Features of the frames including the faces are extracted. For each segment including the faces, a representative frame based on the features... Agent: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.

20070226625 - System and method for unique labeling of animation display states in electronic slide presentations: A system and method for unique labeling of animation display states in electronic slide presentations, includes: receiving a plurality of slides, each slide comprising a plurality of animation display states; and applying a label to each animation display state wherein each label uniquely identifies an animation display state.... Agent: Michael J. Buchenhorner

20070226626 - Automating interval selection based on range and size of display area: A mechanism for automatically determining an optimal temporal interval for displaying data is provided. The mechanism receives information indicating a temporal range. The mechanism determines the size of a display area in which data corresponding to the temporal range is to be displayed. The mechanism further determines, based at least... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP And Sun Microsystems, Inc.

20070226627 - Methods and systems for signal analysis: Graphical user interfaces, methods and systems that enable the selection and grouping of data.... Agent: Agilent Technologies Inc.

20070226628 - System for supporting a virtual community: A browser-enabled system of software and services that focuses on connecting people across spatial, temporal, and organizational barriers to achieve specific objectives. The system includes a client server system that provides a virtual meeting place for a learning community and a structure through which that community can achieve its goals.... Agent: Choate, Hall & Stewart LLP

20070226629 - Apparatus, system, and method for displaying a complementary high-level graphical representation of an enterprise information technology system: An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for displaying a complementary, high-level graphical representation of an enterprise information technology system. A primary visualization module displays a primary visualization that is a schematic representation of one or more elements of a selected portion of an enterprise information technology system. A minimap... Agent: Kunzler & Mckenzie

20070226630 - Method and system for virtual private network connectivity verification: A method for testing connectivity of virtual private networks, the virtual private networks including customer edge routers and provider edge routers, the provider edge routers belonging to a network managed by a service provider, the method comprising: displaying a list of the virtual private networks on a display screen of... Agent: Kramer & Amado, P.C.

20070226631 - Apparatus, system, and method for dynamic adjustment of performance monitoring: An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for dynamically adjusting performance monitoring of storage area network (“SAN”) components. An initial violation module is included to determine that a threshold violation associated with a SAN component is an initial threshold violation. A violation entry module is included to record a component... Agent: Kunzler & Mckenzie

20070226632 - Method, electronic device and computer program product for enhancing contact list functionality: A method, electronic device and computer program product are provided for extending the functionality of an electronic device phonebook or list of contacts. In particular, certain configurable routines or sets of instructions associated with and unique to respective contact entries in the contact list are generated and embedded, or included,... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20070226633 - Copying and pasting portlets in a portal environment: The present invention provides the copying and pasting of a portlet in a portal environment. A method in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention includes: providing a first instance of a portlet, the first instance of the portlet including encoded information; copying the encoded information; and creating a... Agent: Hoffman Warnick & Dalessandro LLC

20070226634 - Report format setting method and apparatus, and defect review system: Generated is a template edition screen on which to display components of a report as modules by OSD by use of icons. One of the icons is selected by use of a pointing device including a mouse. By a drag-and-drop operation, the icon is placed at a desired position in... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070226635 - Multi-modal content presentation: A method is provided that includes receiving a user input, the user input having been input in a user interface in one of multiple modalities. The method also includes accessing, in response to receiving the user input, a multi-modality content document including content information and presentation information, the presentation information... Agent: Gregory A. Walters

20070226636 - Simultaneous input across multiple applications: One or more users may interact simultaneously with different applications on the same device through an input system such as a touch-sensitive display screen. Simultaneous user input may be detected by a multiple input system and subsequently transmitted to an application using a single transmission frame. An application corresponding to... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 003797 & 013797

20070226637 - Declarative task-based user interfaces: In one embodiment, a method for building wizard-style user interfaces (UIs) for a business task includes identifying a collection of metadata associated with the business task, and processing the collection of metadata to provide a set of wizard-style UIs pertaining to the business task.... Agent: Campbell Stephenson LLP

20070226638 - Selecting a stored content item for use in a task: A user interface, a device, a computer program and a method for using a stored content item in a task including: first means for presenting a first user selectable option for using a stored content item in a first task; second means, responsive to the first means, for presenting simultaneously... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20070226639 - System and method for providing dynamic media: Exemplary systems and methods for providing dynamic media are provided. In exemplary embodiments, the dynamic media comprises a media identifier configured to identify the dynamic media and a parent address configured to provide contact information for a media provider of the dynamic media. The media provider may provide the dynamic... Agent: Carr & Ferrell LLP

20070226640 - Apparatus and methods for organizing and/or presenting data: In some embodiments, a computer-implemented method for indicating a status change associated with at least one data element among a plurality of data elements represented on at least one web page, the plurality of data elements resulting from a search of at least one database, includes displaying a separate image... Agent: E. Randall Smith

20070226641 - Fonts with feelings: Various technologies and techniques are disclosed that improve the instructional nature of fonts and/or the ability to create instructional fonts. Font characters are modified based on user interaction to enhance the user's understanding and/or fluency of the word. The font characters can have sound, motion, and altered appearance. When altering... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20070226642 - Apparatus and method for displaying transparent windows when copying or moving items between windows: A computer readable medium includes executable instructions to identify that a first graphical user interface window is displayed in front of a second graphical user interface window. Executable instructions identify when a user is copying or moving an item from the first graphical user interface window. The transparency of the... Agent: Cooley Godward Kronish LLP Attn: Patent Group

20070226643 - System and method for controlling obscuring traits on a field of a display: A method and system in a processing system is disclosed. The processing system includes a display. The method and system comprise providing a field on the display such that its data obscuring characteristics can be altered. Accordingly, a user is allowed to control hiding or obscure data in a field... Agent: Sawyer Law Group LLP

20070226644 - Method and apparatus to control the display of windows in a processing system: A processing system may include a display device, a primary window manager, and an auxiliary window manager. The primary window manager may display a first remote-enabled window in the display device. The processing system may also include a program to generate a mouse-enabled window, and the primary window manager may... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, LLC

20070226645 - Mobile communication terminal and method therefore: A graphical user interface for an electronic apparatus such as a mobile terminal is presented. The graphical user interface gives a user access to a multi-level structure of selectable user interface items. The graphical user interface involves, on a display of the electronic apparatus, a focused region, an unfocused region... Agent: Perman & Green

20070226646 - Display apparatus and method, program of controlling same: A screen display apparatus includes an operation information reception unit that receives operation information regarding an inclination direction and an inclination angle of a joystick from the joystick, and a screen controller that performs a scroll process for scrolling a screen and a zoom process for zooming based on the... Agent: Posz Law Group, PLC

20070226647 - Methods of manipulating a screen space of a display device: Methods to manipulate a screen space of a display device are disclosed. A plurality of application windows of a plurality of applications are displayed on a screen space. At least a first application and a second application are executing to display a plurality of windows. A user interface of system... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070226648 - Graphical interface for interactive dialog: A system and method for creating conversation in a computer program such as a videogame. A plurality of classes of dialog is provided and a conversation segment is assigned to each class. A graphical interface is displayed during operation of the program that provides a choice indicator, wherein the choice... Agent: Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis, LLP

20070226649 - Method for predictive typing: A method for suggesting possible completions for a typed text to a user of a device having a reduced keyboard. The possibilities include reference to external data, such as date, time, location and weather, or words related to the last continuation used in the same context, wherein the words are... Agent: Soroker-agmon Advocate And Patent Attorneys

20070226650 - Apparatus and method for highlighting related user interface controls: An apparatus and method is described for highlighting related user interface controls to selected items in order to improve the ease of use and the intuitiveness of a graphical user interface. In preferred embodiments, user interface controls that are related to a selected object in the display are uniquely highlighted... Agent: Martin & Associates, LLC

20070226651 - Perception research system and method: A perception research system and method is configured to combine aspects of both quantitative research and qualitative research. The perception research system includes a user interface that allows users to interact with the system based in part on the graphical nature of the user interface to form qualitative associations between... Agent: Davis Wright Tremaine, LLP

20070226652 - Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and program thereof: The present invention provides an information processing apparatus that can make the user easily search for desired data. By mutually superposing and displaying icons of respective plural files and folders, and carrying out the flipping operation for thus superposed and displayed icons, an arbitrary icon is shifted and displayed such... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070226653 - Systems and methods for dynamically designing a product with digital content: A user interface configured to display a visual representation of a product from a plurality of product choices is used to select a background from a plurality of background choices for application to a surface of the product. An item of digital content is added to at least a portion... Agent: Carr & Ferrell LLP

20070226654 - Method and device for providing option menus using graphic user interface: A method and apparatus for proving option menus of the portable device using a graphic user interface (GUI) is disclosed. The method graphic includes displaying a menu having at least one menu item according to a menu request signal, determining if at least one submenu is associated with the menu... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070226655 - Electronic device: There is provided a mobile terminal device for processing icon image information corresponding an icon whose selection has been detected and continuously displaying the icon image according to the new icon image information. Here, the icon image which has been processed after the display end is erased and not held... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070226656 - Graphic user interface, a system, a method and a computer program for interacting with a user: The invention relates to a graphic user interface comprising an interaction area for interacting with a user, said graphic user interface being arranged to position a cursor within the interaction area, wherein a precision interaction point is assigned to the cursor in order to enable said positioning, said precision interaction... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070226657 - Pen-mouse system: The present invention is a system that provides a pen based computer user with a graphical user interface tool, a pen-mouse, that looks like and functions like a mouse but that is controlled by a limited input device such as a pen or stylus of the pen based computer. The... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070226658 - System and method for provisioning a mobile wireless communications device, including indicators representative of image and sound data: A system provisions a mobile wireless communications device for indicating account or device specific characteristics. A database stores a plurality of indicators that are indicative of different wireless carriers, email service providers and device types. A configuration module accesses the database and uploads an indicator that is indicative of at... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist P.A.

20070220411 - Method and system for creating customized news digests: A system is provided for delivering personalized digest documents to multiple users. The system includes a profile module, a content management module, a document creation module, and an interface. The profile module receives a delivery preference of one of the users, and receives at least one of a user attribute... Agent: Fleit, Kain, Gibbons, Gutman, Bongini & Bianco P.l.

20070220412 - Distributed interactive augmentation of display output: Systems, methods, and apparatus are provided for distributed augmentation. In one implementation, a system is provided. The system includes one or more presentation applications, each presentation application operable to provide a presentation output and a plurality of augmentation and presentation control (iAPC) modules operable to provide user augmentations of the... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070220413 - Method and computer medium for organising urls for affiliate referrals: A method of organizing a URL string and a computer readable medium encoding the referral of a visitor to a merchant website by an affiliate having a presence on the merchant website comprising attaching a token to the URL string of the merchant website, the token capable of being combined... Agent: Dla Piper Rudnick Gray Cary Us, LLP

20070220414 - User specified parallel data fetching for optimized web access: A hypermedia document display method can include presenting hypermedia content, the hypermedia content containing hyperlinlcs to additional hypermedia content; storing selected ones of the hyperlinks in a delayed viewing list; and, caching hypermedia content associated with the stored hyperlinks during the presenting step. The method can further include reconfiguring the... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20070220415 - Excel spreadsheet parsing to share cells, formulas, tables or entire spreadsheets across an enterprise with other users: Discloses a method and apparatus and user interface for parsing individual objects of a spreadsheet created on a client computer and sending the entire workbook, its binary and the objects for storage on a server computer in a master library. The master library can be opened, searched and objects downloaded.... Agent: Ronald Craig Fish, A Law Corporation

20070220416 - System and method for performing processing, such as spreadsheet processing: A system for performing a calculation processing for each cell in a sheet by setting a calculation formula to calculate values for the cell. The system includes: an input data selection unit for sequentially selecting, in response to association of a or a plurality of cells in a sheet having... Agent: Ibm Corporation Intellectual Property Law

20070220419 - Systems and methods of providing web content to multiple browser device types: Methods and systems for creating website templates are disclosed herein. An exemplary method includes: receiving a user selection indicating a master website template; deriving a plurality of device-specific template versions from the selected master website template; and combining web content with each of the plurality of template versions to provide... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070220417 - System and method for editing online documents: A system and method for editing documents available over a Web session. For example, one embodiment of the method comprises: establishing a Web session with a user computer; receiving a user request to edit a document from the user computer, the document having a particular document type and stored on... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070220418 - User interface apparatus, program and recording medium: Provided is a user interface apparatus with improved operability thereby allowing a desired alternative to be selected from a plurality of alternatives more smoothly than by conventional techniques. When an instruction is received from a user to display a contents selection reception screen, eight contents corresponding to eight ordinal ranks... Agent: Snell & Wilmer L.L.P. (matsushita)

20070220420 - System and method for efficient maintenance of indexes for xml files: System and method for efficient maintenance of indexes for XML files are described. In one embodiment, the method comprises storing an XML document in an XML database; providing a first XML index definition document (“XIDD”) for defining a first index for the XML document, wherein the first XIDD is applied... Agent: Haynes And Boone, LLP

20070220423 - Page builder system and method: Page builder system and method utilizes a user interface to maintain web pages. In accordance with a preferred embodiment, a user may change and maintain layouts, content, and page details simultaneously with little or no approval from a system administrator. Furthermore, a user may create layouts and content that may... Agent: North Oaks Patent Agency

20070220421 - Adaptive content service: Adaptive content techniques are described. In an implementation, content for display on a client device is adapted by forming a plurality of panels from a page of the content and forming an identifier for each of the panels. At least one of the panels is configured for output by the... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20070220422 - Method for achieving accurate page margins on a media and duplex imaging apparatus thereof: A method for achieving accurate page margins on a media and a duplex imaging apparatus thereof. The method comprises: detecting a leading edge position by an edge sensor and a first left-to-right position of the media by an alignment sensor in a first imaging path; imaging a first side of... Agent: Lexmark International, Inc. Intellectual Property Law Department

20070220424 - Visual guides for word processing application styles: A graphical user interface is disclosed for providing a visual and/or numeric aid facilitating the use formatting styles in word processing application programs and others. Visual and numeric indicators are assigned to all styles defined within the word processing application program. The visual indicator may be a unique color assigned... Agent: Vierra Magen/microsoft Corporation

20070220425 - Electronic mail editing device, image forming apparatus, and electronic mail editing method: In an electronic mail editing device, an analyzing unit analyzes attribute of input data to extract data elements. A display unit displays an input window in which the original input data is displayed and an email window used for creating email from the input data. In response to an edit... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20070220426 - Method and system to provide a certified lexicon for document drafting: The disclosure provides a lexicon tool including a database that includes a plurality of terms which may be words, phrases, paragraphs, documents, photographs, etc, and at least one definition for each term. Each definition is associated with a subject matter identifier that aids in determining how the definitions are presented... Agent: Gonzales Patent Services

20070220427 - Skin tone mobile device and service: A portable electronic device having an adaptable skin covering a substantial portion of the portable electronic device and configured to display a customizable image. The image to be displayed may be input from a user of the portable electronic device, or may be transmitted to the portable electronic device through... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C.

20070220428 - Dynamic help user interface control with secured customization: A method and system is disclosed for generating a help interface to present static help content and customized help content for an application. Help content data is accessed to define the static help content and a control command to support incorporation of the customized help content. The control command is... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP (microsoft)

20070220429 - Layered customization of a help user interface: A method and system are disclosed for configuring and generating a customized help user interface. The disclosed method and system are based on a technique that includes incorporating a reference to a help content source in a customizable metadata layer of a plurality of metadata layers. Each metadata layer of... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP (microsoft)

20070220430 - Content presenting device, content presenting method, and content presenting program: The present invention allows a user to select his/her desired music data easily. In the present invention, a database registration readout control module M2 detects an album name of music data corresponding to a retrieval key from a hard disk. A CD playback control module M3 and a MD playback... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070220431 - Data display apparatus, data display method, data display program and graphical user interface: A data display apparatus includes: an extraction condition setting section that sets, based on an original data row where a plurality of data are arranged in a predetermined order, an extraction condition of extraction data that is to be displayed on a predetermined display section; and an extraction data display... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20070220432 - Isochronous audio network software interface: A computer system includes a network interface that transmits and/or receives packets over a network. The packets may include isochronous audio packets and data packets. The computer system may have an operating system in which isochronous audio software is executable to extract audio data from the isochronous audio packets, or... Agent: Indianapolis Office 27879 Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070220433 - Information gathering system and method: A system and method for compiling selected information from a plurality of individuals is disclosed. The system and method of this invention may include a first portion comprising a plurality of criteria identifiers, such as a birth date, birth year, age, zodiac sign, name, profession, nationality, country of citizenship, favorite... Agent: John W. Goldschmidt, Jr. Esquire Dilworth Paxon LLP

20070220434 - Telepresence method and apparatus for simultaneous use by multiple active/passive users: A telepresence server is for connection to a telecommunications network for providing access to a reality engine for a plurality of passive users. The reality engine can be controlled by an active user or a professional director through the network or by a local professional director. Active/passive mode displays can... Agent: Francis J Maguire Bradford Green Building Five

20070220435 - System and method for using virtual environments: A system for establishing a virtual environment is disclosed. According to an embodiment, the system includes at least one computer terminal for use by a participant for interfacing to the virtual environment and an operation module coupled to the computer terminal for manipulating the virtual environment in response to one... Agent: Honigman Miller Schwartz & Cohn LLP

20070220437 - Visual toolkit for a virtual user interface: An Integrated Development Environment (IDE) (100) for creating a touchless Virtual User Interface (VUI) 120 is provided. The IDE can include a development window (152) for graphically presenting a visual layout of user interface (UI) components (161) that respond to touchless sensory events in a virtual layout of virtual components... Agent: Marc Boillot

20070220436 - Data templates in user interface elements: A data template that is used to generate arbitrary data of a user interface element that is part of the hierarchy of user interface elements used to render a user interface. The data template is used to generate the arbitrary data of the user interface element, even though that component... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20070220438 - Icon generating device, computer readable medium storing program for generating icon and method for generating icon: An icon generating device includes a mode selecting section and an icon generating section. The mode selecting section allows a user to select one display mode for each data file from among a plurality of display modes. The icon generating section generates icon data of each data file, for displaying... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20070220439 - Information management device: An information management apparatus 300 provides a display/editing system for each vocabulary via a corresponding plug-in. Examples of such display/editing systems include: an HTML unit 150 for displaying/editing an HTML document; and an SVG unit 160 for displaying/editing an SVG document. In a case that an XML document that includes... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070220440 - User interface method of multi-tasking and computer readable recording medium storing program for executing the method: Provided are a user interface method of enabling a user to conveniently use a terminal allowing multi-tasking, and a computer readable recording medium storing the method. The user interface method includes classifying applications capable of being executed by the apparatus into groups, in such a manner as to classify one... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070220441 - Systems and methods for organizing data items: Systems, methods, and software for organizing data are described. An organizational method is selected from one or more predetermined organizational methods, specified by a parameter, or determined from information about the data items. Data items are sorted based on the organizational method.... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth, P.A.

20070220442 - User interface and method therefor: A scrolling user interface comprises proportional scrolling responsive to contact in a proportional zone of a scrolling strip and multi-mode scrolling in response to contact in a multi-mode zone of the scrolling strip. Multi-mode scrolling can include proportional scrolling, continuous scrolling, or stepped scrolling.... Agent: Motorola Inc

20070220443 - User interface for scrolling: A user interface can include a directional navigation interface and a scrolling strip at least partially circumscribing said navigation device. The scrolling strip can include a proportional scrolling zone and a multi-mode scrolling zone.... Agent: Motorola Inc

20070220444 - Variable orientation user interface: A graphical user interface system is described in which users can be located at any angle. Different application interfaces can be generated on the display to appear in different orientations, such that different users sitting at different positions around the periphery of a display surface may each have an interface... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 003797 & 013797

20070220445 - Screen display in application switching: An application-switching program displays representations of applications, for example icons, on a screen of a device. As a user of the device navigates between the representations, a screen of the application to a representation of which the user has currently navigated is shown in the background of the display.... Agent: Integral Intellectual Property Inc.

20070220446 - Interactive inventor's menus within a software computer and video display system: An interactive menu apparatus and method for creating inventions or prospects for inventions via the juxtaposition of key concepts (which may be words, symbols, or pictures) over displays of elements of websites obtained using the Internet. The key concepts may be entered by a user or may be defined from... Agent: Dla Piper US LLP Attn: Patent Group

20070220447 - User interface having a search preview: A user interface having a search preview is described. In an implementation, one or more characters are received that are input via a search portion of a user interface. When a cursor is positioned proximally to one of a plurality of services in the user interface after the one or... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20070220449 - Method and device for fast access to application in mobile communication terminal: A method and device for fast access to an application in a mobile communication terminal are provided. The method includes upon user's selection of a specific application, displaying an execution picture of the specific application where one or more applications are disposed in a widget type; determining zoom-in requests to... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070220448 - Techniques for choosing a position on a display having a cursor: Techniques are provided for choosing a position on a display having a cursor. In one aspect, an exemplary method, which can be computer-implemented, includes the steps of automatically moving the cursor in a predetermined during-selection mode in response to a first user-initiated action, and, responsive to a second user-initiated action... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20070214404 - Writing style: A computer implemented method and system is disclosed herein for constructing reports, comprising the steps of providing the information of interest of a user and generating the writing style of a user. The step of generating the writing style further comprises the steps of generating a prose style and report... Agent: Ashok Tankha Of Counsel, Lipton, Weinberger & Husick

20070214405 - Method of multimedia file playback for optical storage medium: A method of multimedia file playback for an optical storage medium adapted for playing a multimedia file stored in the optical storage medium is disclosed. The multimedia file includes a playback information and a media data. The method includes the steps as follows: first, sorting the playback information to obtain... Agent: J.c. Patents, Inc.

20070214406 - Object processing employing movement: Directional albedo of a particular article, such as an identity card, is measured and stored. When the article is later presented, it can be confirmed to be the same particular article by re-measuring the albedo function, and checking for correspondence against the earlier-stored data. The re-measuring can be performed through... Agent: Digimarc Corporation

20070214407 - Recognizing, anchoring and reflowing digital ink annotations: A digital ink annotation process and system for processing digital documents and digital ink annotations therein. An annotation's position is maintained within a document such that the original intent and meaning of the annotation is preserved. This is true even if the document is edited, resized, displayed on a different... Agent: Microsoft Corporation C/o Lyon & Harr, LLP

20070214408 - Declarative web application for search and retrieval: Disclosed is a method and Declarative Web Application (DWA) for creating an abstraction layer between a web page and the complicated syntax required to access data to display on the web page. The abstraction layer is implemented with eXtensible Markup Language (XML) tags that permit a web page using simple,... Agent: Cochran Freund & Young LLC

20070214409 - Image-forming apparatus and control method thereof: An image-forming apparatus includes a database storing a layout template made up of containers, each representing a display area for a part of a user interface (UI). The user interface is configured by embedding display content in each container of the layout template in the database. On the occurrence of... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070214410 - Method and apparatus for converting the modality of multimedia contents to support the quality of service according to media resource: The present invention relates to modality conversion for supporting Quality of Service (QoS) according to media resources, which includes the steps of receiving a modality conversion descriptor in which the characteristics of the modality conversion of the multimedia contents are described, receiving the multimedia contents, and converting the modality of... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20070214411 - Reducing resource requirements when transforming source data in a source markup language to target data in a target markup language using transformation rules: 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 transformation rules (e.g., in an XSL) are preprocessed to identify and store source tags (“referenced tags”), which need to be... Agent: Law Firm Of Naren Thappeta

20070214412 - Method and system for generating a network monitoring display with animated utilization information: A method for displaying storage network information in a user interface. The method includes identifying a topology map for a storage network and gathering operating information, which is processed to determine a performance parameter, such as utilization. A performance monitoring display is generated including a topology map and a graphical... Agent: Hensley Kim & Holzer, LLC

20070214413 - Method and system for cascaded processing a plurality of data objects: Systems and methods are provided for cascaded processing a plurality of data objects. Each data object may be assigned to a folder among a plurality of folders, wherein a main process distributes the plurality of folders to a corresponding number of parallel processes of a first tier of processes. Each... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070214414 - Method for reducing booting time of mobile communication terminal: A method is for reducing booting time of a mobile communication terminal. The method includes the steps of driving a User Interface (UI) task concerning performing of communications created from a memory while the mobile communication terminal is being booted; simultaneously performing an initialization of an application program in a... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070214415 - Systems and methods for logo design: Systems and methods for interactively designing a logo present a list of desired characteristics to be conveyed by the logo, and allows the user to select from among the desired characteristics, such as image and/or type of industry. A group of symbols are presented to the user based on the... Agent: Koestner Bertani LLP

20070214416 - Context sensitive information management system and method: A context sensitive information management system and method for use in a system comprising a number of applications each able to display information in response to a user input and a contextual coprocessor. The method comprising the steps of: the contextual coprocessor storing a plurality of context definitions each defining... Agent: Silber & Fridman

20070214417 - Automatically authoring video compositions using video cliplets: A system and a method for automatically authoring video compositions from longer units of digitized video (or a source video) by using short segments of video (or video “cliplets”). The video composition authoring process provides an aesthetically-pleasing layout of data elements to create a video composition. The data elements include... Agent: Microsoft Corporation C/o Lyon & Harr, LLP

20070214418 - Video summarization system and the method thereof: The present invention discloses a video summarization system and the method thereof. A similarity computing apparatus computes the similarity between each frame to obtain multiple similarity values. A key frame extracting apparatus chooses the key frames from the frames wherein the sum of the similarity values between the key frames... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070214419 - Integrated service creation and execution platforms for the converged networks: A service creation and execution platform provides a unified representation for messages and network protocols. Specifically, the platform is flexible and relies on a bootstrapping approach which enables incorporation of new message formats and protocols. Additional capabilities of the platform include a Graphical User Interface which makes specification of network... Agent: Telcordia Technologies, Inc.

20070214421 - System and method for application flow integration in a portal framework: A system and a method for providing application flow integration in a portal framework. In accordance with one embodiment, the invention comprises a portal servlet, which handles all incoming servlet requests and determines whether the incoming request represents a request either for a portal page or for a non-portal page;... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20070214420 - Systems and methods for providing a portal including multiple windows: Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, are provided for providing a portal including a first portlet and a second portlet, each of which retrieves information from a service or an application. In one exemplary embodiment, the method may include receiving, at the portal, a first response from the first... Agent: Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky & Popeo, P.C.

20070214422 - Framework for implementing skins into a portal server: A method for user interface customization in a portal server that includes receiving a selection of a skin, wherein the skin comprises a plurality of files, customizing representation of content in each of a plurality of channels by using the plurality of files to obtain a customized user interface, wherein... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P./sun

20070214423 - Method of sharing a desktop with attendees of a real-time collaboration: A method of facilitating the reproduction of a presenter's desktop for attendees of a real-time collaboration. A bound portion of the desktop (the portion shared with the attendees) is logically divided into clusters. When the content of a cluster changes, the cluster is analyzed and one or more objects describing... Agent: Oracle International Corporation C/o Park, Vaughan & Fleming LLP

20070214424 - Networked chat technique: Chat conversations are managed in a networked chat communications system, in which facilities are provided for reordering a stream of chat messages. Options are provided to emphasize messages of importance by visual and audio effects, and to de-emphasize messages of lesser importance. Changes in a window display may be propagated... Agent: Stephen C. Kaufman IBM Corporation

20070214425 - Searching for commands to execute in applications: A user can access a searching component that allows the user to enter search terms to search for commands associated with a computer program. The most likely commands are provided to the user, and a command can be selected for execution.... Agent: Westman Champlin (microsoft Corporation)

20070214426 - Focus proirity in window management: A method for managing windows in a window-based display system, the method comprising providing a plurality of windows, each window being associated with an application, at least one of the plurality of windows being able to accept focus, assigning, to each one of the plurality of windows being able to... Agent: Welsh & Katz, Ltd

20070214428 - Apparatus and method for menu item selection: A user interface for a software-driven system includes a switch selectable between a plurality of discrete positions, a database of functions performable by an execution unit within the system, and software configured to correlate positions of the switch with functions within the database. Indicia may be provided at the various... Agent: Baker & Hostetler LLP

20070214427 - Automatic generation of documentation for specified systems: System and method for generating information regarding the functionality of a system. Input specifying at least a portion of functionality of a system may be received, e.g., from a user via a graphical user interface (GUI), and may specify one or more components of the system at a component level.... Agent: Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel, P.C.

20070214429 - System and method for managing application alerts: An alert queue module reduces presentation of alerts generated by applications running on an information handling system, such as system tray alerts, for selective subsequent viewing by an end user. For instance, inactive applications that are operating but not in focus at an information handling system display have their alerts... Agent: Hamilton & Terrile, LLP

20070214430 - Textpane for pushed and pulled information on a computing device: A method comprises obtaining text segments from information pushed to a computing device and displaying the text segments in a textpane on a display associated with the computing device. The method further comprises obtaining text segments from information pulled to the computing device and displaying them in the textpane as... Agent: Beyer Weaver LLP

20070214431 - Smart gadget resizing: A system and method is provided for displaying dynamic information in a dynamic information element in a designated area on a display and resizing the dynamic information element in the designated area based on resizing of the designated area. A command to resize the designated area on the display may... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 003797 & 013797

20070214432 - Quick naming system of graphics with the same property and method thereof: A method for quick naming graphics with the same properties comprises the following steps: selecting a plurality of graphics with the same properties from an operation window, then defining an object name and adding auxiliary symbols behind the object name by using the increment rule to generate a plurality of... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20070214433 - Method and apparatus for generating and managing parts-configuration information: An information output device, an information display device, and an information management system for the efficient management of the parts of an industrial product. Information about the parts constituting the product is included in a table at the engineering stage. In the subsequent production stage or service stage, information may... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20070214435 - Television broadcast receiver: A television broadcast receiver has an operation section including up, down, left, and right cursor keys and a function of displaying an operation guide composed of contents of a plurality of pages. In the television broadcast receiver, in a state in which contents of an arbitrary page among the contents... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20070214434 - User interface and navigation for portable electronic devices: An improved user interface for a portable electronic device that incorporates contextual navigation information with filter criteria to enable users to navigating through fewer views to achieve desired search results. The user interface enables a user to perform a search/filter by selecting a first filter level filter criterion and a... Agent: Warren A. Sklar (soer) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20070214436 - Positional navigation graphic link system: The present invention is a positional navigation link system for displaying an active graphic symbol or cluster of symbols at a user-selected location on a display screen. At least one active graphic symbol is stored on the system. The active graphic symbol(s) can represent, for example, close, minimize, go to... Agent: Raymond Myers

20070208990 - Method, medium, and system classifying music themes using music titles: A method, medium, and system classifying a music theme for music by using a corresponding music title, by generating a theme class vector in association with the music theme, generating a music title class vector in association with the music title, calculating similarity between the theme class vector and the... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070208991 - Dynamically configuring a web page: An approach to dynamically adding and removing items from a web-application list module is provided. The approach includes configuring a web page without changing to another web page, and operating a configuration program in a web browser. A user may change various user elements in a web page without accessing... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. (c/o Microsoft Corporation)

20070208992 - Collaborative, flexible, interactive real-time displays: The invention relates to a method and apparatus for providing information in an easily customizable, interactive and collaborative format. The invention can be looked at as the combination of one or more functional components in one aspect, the invention features aggregating raw data on at least one DataServer connected to... Agent: Gary A. Walpert Hale And Dorr LLP

20070208993 - Template-based creation of electronic document: Operations included in creation of an electronic document having a plurality of predefined fields include receiving an input that a user makes under guidance of an input area in a graphical user interface (GUI). The input includes a character string and is made to create an electronic document in a... Agent: Fish & Richardson, P.C.

20070208994 - Systems and methods for document annotation: Methods and systems for annotation documents are disclosed. For example, a method for annotating a document includes creating a collaboration, adding a document to the collaboration, adding a user to the collaboration, selecting the document, creating an annotation, associating the annotation with the document, and storing the annotation on a... Agent: Kilpatrick Stockton LLP

20070208995 - Document processing device and document processing method: A document processing apparatus 100 provides processing systems for displaying/editing a document, such as an HTML unit 150 for displaying/editing an HTML document, an SVG unit 160 for displaying/editing an SVG document, etc., in increments of vocabularies in the form of plug-ins. A calculation unit 190 is a plug-in for... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070208996 - Automated document layout design: A method and apparatus for automated document layout creation is disclosed. In one embodiment, the method comprises receiving a first layout of document image objects and creating a second layout of document image objects subject to placement constraints corresponding to placement of document image objects, at least one of the... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070208997 - Xsl transformation and translation: This disclosure describes systems, methods and software programs for transforming and/or translating a variety of documents, including without limitation XSL documents. In one aspect, any static information may be removed from XSL/FO files before transforming those files. This can greatly enhance the speed of transformation of such files. In another... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP

20070208998 - Displaying text intraline diffing output: Text intraline diffing output may be provided. Based on a comparison of each of a first plurality of lines to a second plurality of lines, a deleted line set and an added line set may be created. The deleted line set may comprise lines selected from the first plurality of... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20070209000 - Calendar-type media device: The present invention relates to a calendar-type device, such as an advent calendar, comprising a housing (11) having a user interface, said user interface comprising at least one actuable element (19), said at least one element representing a plurality of distinct events, means (29,30) for providing a plurality of distinct... Agent: Philippe M. Moisan

20070208999 - Interface unit for dentist's or dental treatment/workstation for passing on signals containing image information: An interface unit for employment at a dentist's or dental treatment/workstation, which is provided for the purpose of passing on signals containing image information, has at least two inputs for receiving input signals containing image information, at least two outputs for passing on output signals containing image information to one... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP

20070209001 - System and method for functional elements: Systems and methods whereby, for example, one or more functional elements can be established and/or employed. Such functional elements might serve a number of purposes. For instance, such functional elements might be employable in interoperating with devices, software, and/or the like, in working with entities, and/or the like. Such functional... Agent: Morgan & Finnegan, L.L.P.

20070209002 - Electronic device: When a jump instruction to display contents regarding a control out of contents in a help screen is given, if the jump instruction is given for a control with the same identification data as that of a control for which a preceding instruction is given, an explanation at a position... Agent: Morrison & Foerster, LLP

20070209003 - Image processing apparatus and method, program recording medium, and program therefor: An image processing apparatus includes a feature value extractor extracting a feature value from an image; a setting unit setting setting information for applying a process to the image; a recorder recording the setting information in association with the feature value in a data recording medium; a synchronizing unit synchronizing... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070209004 - Automated e-learning and presentation authoring system: A software system which automates the process of creating electronic screen based product, such as e-learning tutorials and electronic presentations, by analysing source content documents, generating screens and dynamically inserting relevant graphics onto resulting screens. There is no necessity for the user to tag on the source document where a... Agent: Gordon Layard

20070209005 - Systems and methods for a single development tool of unified online and offline content providing a similar viewing experience: The present invention provides a comprehensive development platform and client-side technology for intelligent and cost-effective delivery of video, audio and broadband content over a network, such as the Internet, to desktop, mobile computing, and network connected devices. In one embodiment of the present invention, a content development environment provides a... Agent: Choate, Hall & Stewart LLP

20070209006 - Display and installation of portlets on a client platform: A client computer system, method and software tool for displaying portlet content are provided. The system comprises a user interface, a portlet server and a portlet view tool. The user interface allows the display of a page including one or more view window(s), each displaying content provided by a component... Agent: Hoffman, Warnick & D'alessandro LLC

20070209007 - Methods, apparatus and computer programs for navigating within a user interface: A method, apparatus and computer program are disclosed for navigating within a user interface. Navigation within the user interface is monitored and, if detected navigation instructions satisfy a predefined criterion such as if they exceed a predefined rate of movement, one or more return points or bookmarks within the user... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20070209008 - Portal system: A system for providing, via a network, information to the users of terminals such as electronic devices, wherein a third party, who has illegally acquired the identifying information of a user, can be prevented from spoofing by use of another electronic device. A portal system comprises a portal image display... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070209009 - Display with settings changed according to user's id and method thereof: A display with settings changed according to a user's ID and a method thereof, suitable for being applied to a display are provided. After the display has been powered on, the corresponding display settings are stored according to the user's ID. After inputting a user's ID, having been compared by... Agent: Morris Manning Martin LLP

20070209010 - Computer implemented systems and methods for testing the usability of a software application: In accordance with the teachings described herein, systems and methods are provided for testing the usability of a software application. A test interface may be provided that executes independently of the software application under test. A task may be assigned via the test interface that identifies one or more operations... Agent: Patent Group 2n Jones Day

20070209011 - System and method for dynamic creation and customization of user interface in a web service environment: A method, system, and computer program product for dynamic creation and customization of a user interface in a web service environment, including dynamically generating and customizing a portlet; providing policy based access to the portlet depending on a consumer of the portlet; providing caching or cache refreshing of a feed... Agent: Nixon Peabody, LLP

20070209012 - Engine 3d by layer 2d: The present invention relates to a navigation and search engine on data bases of speakers (I) pertaining to a landscape (P), the lines of data characterizing the speakers (I) comprising a field of address (Ca) of the speakers (I) in the landscape (P) as well as a series of fields... Agent: Mazery

20070209013 - Widget searching utilizing task framework: A task framework and a semantic reasoning engine are combined to provide a scalable mechanism for dealing with extremely large numbers of widgets, allowing users to both find a widget and automatically fill-in whatever functionality is available on the widget. Calling applications are employed to obtain task information from each... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070209014 - Method and apparatus for secure data input: The invention provides a method for providing, a user to securely input sensitive data such as user name, password or other sensitive data such as trade secrets or social security number into a computing device such as computer system or website or any device that may require sensitive data to... Agent: Youssef Youmtoub

20070209016 - Character input technique without a keyboard: A technology to input a character without a keyboard is provided. A character input screen 400 for performing character input is displayed on a display device. On this character input screen 400 is provided an input character selection field 510, with the characters displayed in the input character selection field... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20070209015 - Value selection for electronic document: A method includes receiving in a computer system an input string that a user enters under guidance of a GUI configured for user entry of information for an electronic document that is to be created. The method includes searching, using the received input string, a repository for any value that... Agent: Fish & Richardson, P.C.

20070209017 - Controlling scroll speed to improve readability: A scrolling speed controlling system including a personal computer, a human interface device, an executable application, and a scroll speed adapter component. A user choosing to scroll an application window quickly may experience reduced readability of the information in the window because the speed at which the window is scrolling... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20070209018 - System and method for selecting an item in a list of items and associated products: The present invention concerns a system and a method for selecting an item in a list of items and associated products. The selecting system comprises means for repeatedly and simultaneously providing at least two sub-lists of items of the list for displaying on a screen, means for controlling an orderly... Agent: Joseph J. Laks, Vice President Thomson Licensing LLC

20070209019 - Method and device for displaying data: A method of displaying data on a display screen is provided wherein first and second display zones are provided on the display screen. The display zones are sized so that, in combination, they substantially occupy a predetermined display area of the display screen which may, for example, be the display... Agent: Csa LLP

20070209020 - Computer readable recording medium recorded with graphics editing program, and graphics editing apparatus: When an element is interactively arranged in cooperative with an input device and a display device, if at least a part of the arranged element is overlapped with an already arranged element, the relation of the already arranged element is inherited and association is made between these elements to provide... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20070209021 - Data input method and apparatus: A data input system has a key pad with a plurality of keys and a display. The selected key is displayed in the display, but the character size of the selected key on the display is small and difficult to recognize. The face of the selected key appears on the... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20070209022 - Graphical user interface for computers having variable size icons: A computer user interface is provided which allows a user to adjust the size of icons based upon a user's preference or based upon a characteristic of the objects that the icons represent. When the icon sizing is performed according to a user preference, a relative sizing scheme or an... Agent: Buchanan Ingersoll, PC

20070209023 - Information processing apparatus and method, and program: Disclosed herein is an information processing apparatus which may include list acquire means, thumbnail image acquire means, display means, selection means, and image acquire means.... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20070209024 - On-screen diagonal cursor navigation on a handheld communication device having a reduced alphabetic keyboard: Method an arrangement for affecting diagonal movement of a cursor 171 on the display screen 322 of a handheld communication device 300 having a reduced alphabetic keyboard. The method includes sensing movement at an auxiliary user input 328 of the handheld communication device 300 indicative of the user's desire to... Agent: Novak Druce & Quigg, LLP (rim Prosecution)

20070209025 - User interface for viewing images: A method and system for ranking content and providing a user interface for viewing the content is provided. The content system ranks content in a search result based on a combination of relevance of the content to a query and quality of the content. The content system may derive the... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP/msft