Data processing: presentation processing of document inventions 10/07

20070250761 - System and method for synchronizing media presentation at multiple recipients: A network media delivery system includes client devices and a host device. Each client device has a network interface, an engine for processing media data, and a media interface. The host device, which can be a computer, establishes network communication links with the client devices, which can be networked media... Agent: Sean Mcdermott Wong, Cabello, Lutsch,

20070250762 - Context-aware content conversion and interpretation-specific views: Content encoding rendering is disclosed. An indication of a desired interpretation of a starting content having a first encoding is received. The starting content is processed to generate a representation data comprising a second encoding of the starting content, wherein the second encoding is determined automatically and at least in... Agent: Van Pelt, Yi & James LLP And Apple Computer, Inc.

20070250763 - Structure and method for linking within a website: A link structure and method for linking therein. The link structure includes a first page of a website and may include a global page of the website. The first page includes a link that has a default pointer and may have a local pointer, a global pointer, or both. The... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20070250764 - Using a spreadsheet engine as a server-side calculation model: This disclosure is directed to novel solutions for processing data in a manner similar to that employed by traditional spreadsheet applications (including, merely by way of example, evaluating expressions, producing reports and the like) without the need for a spreadsheet application. In an aspect, a spreadsheet calculation engine might be... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP

20070250765 - Office system prediction configuration sharing: A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer usable program code for embedding and importing content prediction instructions. Content prediction instructions are customized. The content prediction instruction is part of content prediction logic. The prediction instruction is embedded in a document in response to receiving a user selection to embed the... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20070250766 - Streaming validation of xml documents: A method and apparatus for streaming validation of XML documents is provided. A particular event of a series of events is received. The series of events is generated as an XML document is parsed by a parser, and the received particular event indicates that the parser has encountered a particular... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker/oracle

20070250767 - Sharing, managing and communicating information over a computer network: A egocentric network including an author, a document created by the author, the document for dissemination over a computer network, a recipient for receiving the document from the author, a first egocentric network monitor for presenting a visual and/or audio representation of a point of view of the author for... Agent: Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky & Popeo

20070250768 - Method, terminal device and program for dynamic image scaling display in browsing: There is provided a displaying method for displaying content, created for a first terminal device having a first display screen size, on a second terminal device having display means with a display width smaller than that of the first display screen, comprising the steps of: judging whether an object in... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20070250769 - Method and system to provide online application forms: A method and system to provide an application form via a network (e.g., the Internet) is described. The method may comprise accessing page flow data, page data and rules data stored in a storage media and generating a GUI that provides a first application page to capture data from an... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20070250770 - Document editing device, program, and storage medium: A document editing device includes: a data set storage unit that stores a plurality of data sets, each including a character string, an attribute of the character string, and a font size for the attribute; a threshold value storage unit that stores a threshold value indicating an acceptable range for... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070250771 - Display with message prompt function and playing method thereof: A display with a message prompt function and a playing method thereof are provided. A prompt message corresponding to a scheduled time is acquired and then played to remind a user, when the scheduled time set in a notepad is consistent with a real time after a comparison.... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070250775 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for providing hyperlinked video: Methods, systems and computer program products for providing hyperlinked video are disclosed. According to one aspect of the present invention, when a user pauses playback of a video on a video frame, the hypervideo media player is adapted to query a hyperdata function and request hyperlinked object information associated with... Agent: Peter Joseph Marsico

20070250773 - Apparatus for recording or reproducing multimedia data using hierarchical information structure and information storage medium thereof: A multimedia data recording apparatus, a multimedia data reproducing apparatus, and multimedia data storage include a first layer storing multimedia data; and a second layer in which, when the multimedia data is divided into a record unit and a reproduction unit, information of attributes of the record unit and a... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20070250774 - Apparatus for recording or reproducing multimedia data using hierarchical information structure and information storage medium thereof: A multimedia data recording apparatus, a multimedia data reproducing apparatus, and multimedia data storage include a first layer storing multimedia data; and a second layer in which, when the multimedia data is divided into a record unit and a reproduction unit, information of attributes of the record unit and a... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20070250772 - Clock-based user interface for hdd time-shift buffer navigation: A time-shift buffer of recorded programming whose time of recording extends between a predetermined lower limit up to the present time is navigated by the user by means of a displayed clock face in selecting a desired program for immediate or deferred playback. Rewinding of hands on the clock face,... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070250776 - Contents index structure, and method and apparatus for demanding contents using the same: A flat panel display apparatus includes a main plate, an organic light emitting element, a protecting layer and an attachable-detachable layer. The organic light emitting element includes a first electrode, a second electrode corresponding to the first electrode, and an organic light emitting layer disposed between the first and second... Agent: The Webb Law Firm, P.C.

20070250777 - Systems and methods for classifying sports video: Disclosed are systems, methods, and computer readable media having programs for classifying sports video. In one embodiment, a method includes: extracting, from an audio stream of a video clip, a plurality of key audio components contained therein; and classifying, using at least one of the plurality of key audio components,... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070250778 - Content display control method and content delvery server: An object of the present invention is to achieve an efficient and low-cost processing for switching contents on a display according to travel areas, time frames and vehicle attributions of a transportation object. To this end, the present invention provides a system constituted of a content delivery server and the... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20070250779 - Method and system for providing real-time clinical trial enrollment data: A method and system for enabling display of real-time clinical trial enrollment data. A set of computer forms corresponding to an application enable administrative personnel to define a plurality of clinical trial parameters, including trial protocols, clinical sites, and optional regions. As the data is entered, it is stored in... Agent: Campbell Stephenson LLP

20070250780 - System and method for user driven interactive application integration: A system and method is provided for integrating portlets. When viewing portlets within a portal container, a user is presented with a choice of one or more sources of data and, for each source, one or more actions that the user can take regarding the source. When an action is... Agent: Gerald R. Woods IBM Corporation T81/503

20070250781 - Methods and arrangements for supplementing static contents: Methods and arrangements to supplement static contents are contemplated. Embodiments include transformations, code, state machines or other logic to supplement static contents by receiving a command to play static contents, the static contents comprising primary content and an original preview. The embodiments may include deciding to replace the original preview... Agent: Ibm Corporation (jss) C/o Schubert Osterrieder & Nickelson PLLC

20070250783 - Method and system to provide online application forms: A system and method are provided to build an application form (e.g., an online application form). The method may comprise providing a graphical user interface (GUI) to a user, the GUI including page layout zone and page and a page type zone include a plurality of reference page types. User... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20070250782 - Selective coloring of a drawing surface to indicate a logical grouping: A method, apparatus and computer-readable medium for managing visual representations of relationships between active graphical areas such as text fields in a GUI and underlying software objects is presented. In one embodiment, the method includes the steps of receiving, by computer logic, a selection of an object graphical depiction of... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20070250785 - Display controller, image processing apparatus, and display control method: A display controller comprises: a control section 205 that displays, based on the information acquired by the relevance information acquisition section 203, the objects to be displayed extracted by the extraction section 202 in the display area 902 and 903, such that objects to be displayed having higher relevance than... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070250784 - Methods and apparatus to combine data from multiple computer systems for display in a computerized organizer: Methods and apparatus to combine data from multiple computer systems for display in a computerized organizer are disclosed. The system disclosed combines personal and business data from a plurality of different systems such as local systems, enterprise systems, and web services. In this manner, information workers can use a single... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, LLP

20070250786 - Touch screen device and method of displaying and selecting menus thereof: A touch screen device and method for displaying and selecting menus thereof are provided. The touch screen device includes a screen with a display for displaying menu images thereon and a detector for detecting a touch on a screen, and a controller which displays one or more menu bars on... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20070250787 - Enhancing visual representation and other effects for application management on a device with a small screen: One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that uses three-dimensional (3D) and other rendering effects within a graphical display environment on a mobile device to enable a new application to be displayed while a currently-running application window remains visible within a main viewing area of a screen. During... Agent: Sun Microsystems Inc. C/o Park, Vaughan & Fleming LLP

20070250788 - Optimal display of multiple windows within a computer display: An apparatus and method for optimally displaying multiple windows on a display is provided. The multiple windows can be sequentially or simultaneously resized and/or repositioned. The method performs at least one of resizing or repositioning operation on at least one of the multiple windows to fit within the available display... Agent: Ibm Corporation Intellectual Property Law

20070250789 - Method for displaying graphical data: A method for displaying graphical data includes displaying a first graph of a first data set, receiving a first open drag command indicative of a first handle position on the first graph, positioning a first handle on the first graph based on a first close drag command and receiving a... Agent: Ibm Corp. (clg) C/o Cardinal Law Group

20070250790 - Graphic user interface and establishing method thereof: A graphic user interface and an establishing method thereof are provided. Firstly, a first window is established. The first window has a window pattern and the first window is established by merging the window pattern with a desktop pattern of a desktop. Next, a second window is established. The second... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20070250791 - System and method for facilitating collaborative generation of life stories: Graphical user interfaces (GUIs) support the collaborative generation of life stories by helping the user view the development of the life stories of other users and facilitating interaction with them through these GUIs. A GUI according to a first type helps the user keep track of recent life stories and... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, L.L.P.

20070250793 - Multiple menus for use with a graphical user interface: An approach for using multiple menus with a graphical user interface is disclosed. A multiple menu comprises a menu panel with two or more selection regions, each of which is associated with a base menu. A user requests the menu panel without selecting a menu object displayed on a display... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, L.L.P.

20070250794 - Multiple menus for use with a graphical user interface: An approach for using multiple menus with a graphical user interface is disclosed. A multiple menu comprises a menu panel with two or more selection regions, each of which is associated with a base menu. A user requests the menu panel without selecting a menu object displayed on a display... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, L.L.P.

20070250792 - Presentation of service data in support of a user interactive application program during running of the program on a computer controlled display: The display of support service data on application programs being run for the interactive user of a computer controlled display system. The implementation combines offering to a user a plurality of selectable displayed items, each representative of a level of complexity at which service data is to be presented, enabling... Agent: Ibm Corporation Intellectual Property Law

20070250795 - Method of controlling display of options in user interface of moile communication device: A method for controlling a display of options in the user interface so as to hide or reveal some options not frequently used. The method includes determining whether all options in a list on a specific screen exceeds a give lines and determining whether an option to be hidden exists... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070245223 - Synchronizing multimedia mobile notes: A software-based mechanism for taking multimedia notes while using a mobile computing device and synchronizing with a desktop note taking application is provided. A note document containing textual data and objects representing other data types may be synchronized in whole or in part between the two applications. The documents including... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20070245224 - Web page editing system with database drill-down: A method of establishing a link in a first web page includes establishing a first component in the first web page capable of querying a first data source, establishing a variable named according to a predetermined naming convention, generating an argument to the variable having a field queried in the... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070245225 - System and method for translating between a global view of a system process and a set of interacting processes: A method, apparatus, and computer-usable medium for graphically depicting a behavior as a global process flow graph, wherein the global process flow graph includes a collection of actions performed by at least two roles; and transforming the global process flow graph into a collection of local processes, wherein each local... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20070245227 - Business transaction documentation system and method: A transaction documentation method includes loading a form including one or more hotspots from an indexed database of an electronic system that includes one or more scanned paper forms or imported externally-residing existing electronic forms or combinations thereof. The loaded form is displayed on a portable processor-based device. A transaction-specific... Agent: Jackson & Co., LLP

20070245226 - Data processing apparatus and method: A data processing apparatus discriminates a designated template and outputs a data registration sheet using the designated template. The data processing apparatus reads data that has been recorded on a sheet and registers the read data in accordance with the designated template. Further, the data processing apparatus outputs a data... Agent: Morgan & Finnegan, L.L.P.

20070245228 - Financial document change identifier: An apparatus for generating a comparison of related subject matter found in two different financial documents. The apparatus includes a first document with at least a portion of said first document in a tabular data format, a second document with at least a portion of said second document in a... Agent: Covington & Burling, LLP Attn: Patent Docketing

20070245230 - Method, system, and computer-readable medium to uniformly render document annotations across multiple computer platforms: A computer-implemented method, system, and computer-readable medium to uniformly display electronic annotations of a document across differing computer platforms of an imaging system where documents are stored as images on an image file server. An exemplary method comprises a user producing a textual representation of a document annotation, generating an... Agent: Mcintyre Harbin & King

20070245229 - User experience for multimedia mobile note taking: A software-based mechanism for taking multimedia notes while using a mobile computing device is provided. The interface is stream-based so as to enable complete control with a text or numeric keypad, a directional pad, and command button. A note document containing textual data and objects representing other data types may... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20070245233 - Method and apparatus for transmitting xhtml-print document in mobile device: Provided is a method and apparatus for transmitting a markup document in a mobile device, such as a cellular phone, which captures images The method includes creating a markup document indicating certain predetermined content as fixed parts and certain predetermined content as variable parts, and requesting a printing of the... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20070245234 - Method and system for outputting calendar by using mobile device: A method and system for outputting a calendar by using a mobile device comprises generating XHTML data of the calendar by using XHTML templates defining a layout of the calendar and transmitting the generated XHTML data to an image forming device, and analyzing the transmitted XHTML data and outputting the... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20070245232 - Apparatus for processing documents that use a mark up language: Document processing apparatus for processing a document described in a plurality of markup languages, represented by tag sets and by using plug-ins, such as an HTML unit and an SVG unit. In case a document to be processed is described in a plurality of tag sets, the document selects a... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070245231 - Optimization of storage and delivery of markup language files: A method receives a request at a server from a browser for at least one markup language page. The method can then determine which CSS classes are used with the requested markup language page using a usage map. Then, the method loads the markup language page and loads only the... Agent: Frederick W. Gibb, Iii Gibb & Rahman, LLC

20070245235 - Efficient storage of drawing objects in synchronizable electronic documents: A facility for efficiently storing drawing objects in a synchronizable document is described. The facility retrieves a template having a static portion and a dynamic portion, creates a record based on the retrieved template, computes information corresponding to the dynamic portion of the template, adds the computed information to the... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP/msft

20070245236 - Method and apparatus to generate xhtml data in device: A method and apparatus to generate extensible hypertext markup language (XHTML) data of a device such that a user can generate print data by editing a layout of digital content in a device.... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20070245237 - Image forming device and image forming method: An image forming device includes a display, a reading unit, a display controlling unit, and an operating unit. The reading unit reads at least one file stored in a removable memory. The display controlling unit displays on the display a first selection item together with at least one second selection... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 0166889, 006760

20070245238 - Timeline visualizations linked with other visualizations of data in a thin client: An apparatus in one example has: a controller having a data connector for inputting temporal data, and an item collection for providing timelines and overlays, and for providing linked visualizations of the temporal data in a timeline to other visualizations of the temporal data; and a display for displaying the... Agent: Patti, Hewitt & Arezina LLC

20070245239 - 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

20070245240 - Selectively displaying in an ide: A method and system for managing a display of resources in an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) navigation tree is presented. The method includes the steps of receiving an input that defines a user's criterion for viewing a resource in an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) navigation tree; and displaying, in the... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20070245241 - Computer program product, apparatus and method for displaying a plurality of entities in a tooltip for a cell of a table: A computer program product, electronic device and method are provided that enable a user to easily view, in a tooltip, all of the entities of a plurality of entities contained in a cell of a table when the width of the cell prevents the cell display from showing all of... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20070245242 - Method and apparatus for automatically summarizing video: One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that automatically produces a summary of a video. During operation, the system partitions the video into scenes and then determines similarities between the scenes. Next, the system selects representative scenes from the video based on the determined similarities, and combines the... Agent: Park, Vaughan & Fleming LLP

20070245243 - Embedded metadata in a media presentation: A method and system for linking a web page to a portion of a video is provided. Users can enter comments into a video that include a start and end time index for identifying a portion of a video. Comments are indexed to the media presentations such that they may... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20070245244 - Multimedia playback projection system and method of on-screen display control for multimedia playback projection system: A method of on-screen display control for a multimedia playback projection system includes establishing a command set including a first command subset for adjusting function parameters of a projection unit in a multimedia playback projection system, and a second command subset for adjusting function parameters of a multimedia playback unit;... Agent: Ladas & Parry

20070245245 - Searching and reference checking within social networks: A computer-implemented method for identifying a potential reference is disclosed. In one embodiment, a user interface (UI) object (e.g., a one-click reference search button) is provided, for example, on a web page displayed at a user's client device. When selected, the UI object causes a reference search query to be... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20070245246 - System and method for the dynamic improvement of internet browser navigability: A method and system for dynamically providing the on-demand addition of graphic and other information to a web browser's toolbar. The HotbarToolbar comprises a plurality of categorized or rated links, which in the presently preferred embodiment are organized under customized, newly and dynamically added toolbar buttons known as hotbuttons. The... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20070245247 - Grid-like guided user interface for video selection and display: A UI including a “Guide,” presenting a list of videos, having data fields relating to each entry, possibly including multiple data values for a single data field. When focusing on a single entry, the focused-upon entry is expanded and emphasized. The focused-upon entry is highlighted and centered, while other entries... Agent: Swernofsky Law Group PC

20070245248 - Systems and methods for displayng to a presenter visual feedback corresponding to visual changes received by viewers: Methods for providing to the presenter visual feedback regarding the screen data received by one or more viewers in an online presentation environment having a presenter transmitting screen data to one or more viewers over a network may include: transmitting data representing changed visual data; receiving confirmation of receipt of... Agent: Goodwin Procter LLP Patent Administrator

20070245249 - Methods and systems for providing online chat: The present disclosure relates generally to digital conferencing. A chat server causes a chat user interface to appear as a popup window hovering over a web page. In response to a first event, the chat server causes the chat user interface to appear as part of the web page.... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070245250 - Desktop window manager using an advanced user interface construction framework: An operating system's desktop window manager uses a presentation framework that enables many different visual effects and standardized mechanisms for graphic presentation, including data binding. The presentation framework may be available through a markup language for the desktop window manager as well as applications on the computer desktop. The presentation... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20070245254 - Display apparatus and image processing apparatus with flexible menu items and control method thereof: A display apparatus comprises: a user interface (UI) generator which generates a UI having a plurality of regions in which at least one of a plurality, of menu items is displayed to select an operation; a display unit which displays the UI; a user input unit which receives a command... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070245252 - Enhanced display of properties for a program object: A solution for managing a program object that generates an enhanced user interface for displaying properties of the program object is provided. A set of properties for the program object are obtained from the program object and/or deployment data for the program object. A property object that corresponds to the... Agent: Hoffman, Warnick & D'alessandro LLC

20070245251 - Rss hostable control: The embodiments described above utilize and leverage RSS to enable a user to interact more easily with different types of data, or data from different sources that are available over the web. In accordance with at least some embodiments, a hostable and/or customizable control is provided and gives the user... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20070245253 - Tool holder: A tool holder includes a body, a head, and a flange. The body is dimensioned to fit closely within a slot formed within a flight block. The head is positioned at a distal end of the body and has a recess to receive a cutting tool and hold the cutting... Agent: Indianapolis Office 27879 Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070245255 - Electrical or electronic cable system design tool: A computer-assisted design tool for identifying, specifying, ordering, pulling, connecting and labeling one or more types of electrical cable at a job site uses a job plan as a primary organizing concept. The job plan has one or more applications for which the cable is to be provided and one... Agent: Momkus Mccluskey Monroe Marsh & Spyratos, LLC

20070245256 - Sytem and method of windows management: A system and method of windows management. The system and method comprises at least one window having information displayed thereon and a processor for determining an application type associated with the at least one window and rendering the at least one window at a predetermined opacity level based on the... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070245257 - Graphical interface for direct manipulation of software objects: An intuitive user interface is provided for carrying out operations on software objects. The software objects may be databases, and the operations may be Boolean operations. The software objects may be represented by icons, and may be stored hierarchically within a system of folders. Each of Boolean operators may also... Agent: Medicinelodge Inc.

20070245258 - Graphical user interface of an external control device for controlling an implantable medical device while minimizing human error: A graphical user interface of an external control device for controlling operation of an implantable medical device while minimizing the occurrence of human error. The graphical user interface displays the operating parameter of the implantable medical device simultaneously as an Arabic numeral and a graphical representation. When a parameter value... Agent: Cheryl F. Cohen, LLC

20070245259 - Dynamic arrangement of characters in an on-screen keyboard: The characters on an on-screen keyboard are dynamically rearranged to facilitate text entry based on context. Specifically, a home position is established among a plurality of characters displayed on the screen. A user's selection of one of the characters is received by the system, and then the characters are rearranged... Agent: Fitch Even Tabin And Flannery

20070245260 - Method and system for organizing and displaying data: A method and system are provided for a user interface. The system can include a plurality of information categories and option nodes organized into a hierarchy. A plurality of menu columns can be contained within a window. The menu columns can each be configured to display a portion of the... Agent: Thorpe North & Western, LLP.

20070245263 - Graphical user interface for wireless device: The present disclosure generally relates to methods and systems for performing a variety of native and non-native tasks with a wireless device employing a user-configurable graphical user interface. In one exemplary embodiment, the graphical user interface can be envisioned as a very wide screen composed of segments, with only one... Agent: Baker & Mckenzie LLP Patent Department

20070245262 - Method for controlling access to digital content when using a mouse with two buttons: The invention relates to a method for accessing digital information content, with a computer system which has a display unit, wherein a menu which can be changed by a user is opened by clicking a first object, wherein the menu provides one or more references to one or more further... Agent: Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner LLP

20070245261 - Task oriented navigation: Multiple options, techniques, and procedures can be provided for navigating, accessing, and displaying tasks, task templates, or instances of task templates. Two options can be presented for navigating to a task template using a user interface. One option can comprise selecting a task from a contextual task list, and the... Agent: Klarquist Sparkman LLP

20070245264 - Method for generating an on-screen menu: A method for generating an on-screen menu comprising menu buttons and other menu items, e.g. help text, comprises one or more groups of menu buttons or menu items are defined, wherein a group comprises one or more menu buttons or menu items and has associated a defined area on the... Agent: Joseph J. Laks, Vice President Thomson Licensing LLC

20070245265 - 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

20070245266 - 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

20070245267 - Content-retrieval device, content-retrieval method, and content-retrieval program: A content-retrieval device includes first and second operation units, a display unit, storage storing contents, and a control circuit. The control circuit shows at least two thumbnails of the contents stored in the storage and an image of a mark indicating one of the thumbnails on the display unit, performs... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20070245268 - Image processing system for outputting scanned images in the specified sequence: An image processing system comprises a photocopier and an information processor. The photocopier scans and images each page of a document, creates a thumbnail image from each scanned image, and sends the thumbnail images to the information processor. Using the information processor, a user then specifies an image output sequence... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070245269 - Functional icon display system and method: A method for managing a graphical user interface (GUI) control component on a display of a mobile communication terminal is provided. The method comprises displaying a GUI control component on a first location of the display; selecting the GUI control component, in response to a first user interaction with the... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20070240029 - System, computer program product and method for selecting an application service provider: A method, system and computer program product for managing applications service provider (ASP) transactions between an ASP and an ASP user. The method on which the system and computer program product are based includes receiving an ASP transaction request from the user via a communications network such as the Internet,... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070240030 - Interactive podcast: A method for providing updateable content to a mobile device, in which links are included in a podcast with media data such as audio or video, to create an interactive podcast service for mobile communication devices. The method comprises the steps of: creating updateable content and formatting the content into... Agent: Albihns Stockholm Ab

20070240031 - Determining document subject by using title and anchor text of related documents: A system and method identifies a subject for a source document. The system and method identifies a collection of peer documents from the same domain as the source document. For each of the peer documents, a collection of linking documents containing a hyperlink to the peer document is identified. For... Agent: Google / Fenwick

20070240032 - Method and system for vertical acquisition of data from html tables: A method, system and computer program product for performing equivalence checking of a circuit design are disclosed. The method includes receiving the hypertext markup language document to a system and displaying the hypertext markup language document in a display window in a browser. Responsive to a user selecting data within... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20070240033 - Multiple document viewing apparatus and user interface: An apparatus for display of multiple electronic documents. The apparatus includes one or more tilting, rotatable, and detachable display devices coupled to a display stand, or to a personal computer or other data processing apparatus via a hinge or the like. A screen control user interface running on the data... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20070240035 - Efficient evaluation for diff of xml documents: A technique for differencing XML documents is provided. An edit graph is generated for computing the cost of possible edits that may be applied to a first XML document in order to generate a second XML document. A hash value is assigned to nodes included in the axes of the... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker/oracle

20070240034 - Streaming xml patch: A technique for differencing XML documents is provided. An edit graph is generated for computing the cost of possible edits that may be applied to a first XML document in order to generate a second XML document. A hash value is assigned to nodes included in the axes of the... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker/oracle

20070240036 - Document processing device and document processing method: A document processing apparatus 100 provides display/editing systems 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 using plug-ins. In a case of processing a document described in a vocabulary that is not supported... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070240037 - Methods and systems for website content management: Computer-implemented methods and systems for creating and managing website content involve, for example, providing a user at a computer terminal a data capture template for a user-selected content type, providing the user at the computer terminal presentation pages using content management tags, allowing the user at the computer terminal to... Agent: Kilpatrick Stockton LLP

20070240039 - Content server and layout system: A server system for generating information to be delivered to a client having an RSS reader according to this invention, includes a layout unit configured to execute layout processing of content data acquired from a content server in accordance with template data, a generation unit configured to generate, when an... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070240038 - Report generation with integrated quality management: Reports are generated by a computing engine using user inputs to a template and automatically added quality management values. Quality management reports can be automatically generated at selected intervals, such as daily, monthly, and yearly. Users are thus able to meet required quality assurance standards.... Agent: Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

20070240040 - Non-compiled portable algorithm: A method of sharing logic, such as algorithms, is provided which uses an extensible stylesheet language (XSL) standard as a medium for implementing a distributable algorithm. Using the XSL standard to distribute the shared logic, provides the portability of the XML standard while removing the dependence of the individuals on... Agent: Hamilton & Terrile, LLP

20070240041 - Methods and apparatus for generating an aggregated cascading style sheet: Methods and apparatus of generating an aggregated cascading style sheet (CSS) for display of a web page are disclosed. An example method includes receiving a first cascading style sheet (CSS) including a first element name related to the display of web page content. A second CSS including a second element... Agent: Hanley, Flight & Zimmerman, LLC

20070240042 - Virtual print previewing: A method and system for previewing an electronic document is disclosed. In one aspect, document information associated with an electronic document is transmitted from a client to a selected printing device. Upon receiving the document information, the selected printing device generates preview document data based on the received document information... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20070240043 - Handheld electronic device and method for performing optimized spell checking during text entry by providing a sequentially ordered series of spell-check algorithms: A handheld electronic device includes a reduced QWERTY keyboard and is enabled with a disambiguation routine that is operable to disambiguate text input. In addition to identifying and outputting representations of language objects that are stored in the memory and that correspond with a text input, the device is able... Agent: Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott

20070240044 - Handheld electronic device and method for performing spell checking during text entry and for integrating the output from such spell checking into the output from disambiguation: A handheld electronic device includes a reduced QWERTY keyboard and is enabled with a disambiguation routine that is operable to disambiguate text input. In addition to identifying and outputting representations of language objects that are stored in the memory and that correspond with a text input, the device is able... Agent: Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott

20070240045 - Handheld electronic device and method for performing spell checking during text entry and for providing a spell-check learning feature: A handheld electronic device includes a reduced QWERTY keyboard and is enabled with a disambiguation routine that is operable to disambiguate text input. In addition to identifying and outputting representations of language objects that are stored in the memory and that correspond with a text input, the device is able... Agent: Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott

20070240049 - \"for-each\" label components in cad drawings: Embodiments of the invention provide a method for generating labels for drawing elements of a computer aided design (CAD) drawing that may include some unknown number of associated or related drawing elements. The method includes receiving a selection of a set of drawing elements in the CAD drawing that are... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, L.L.P.

20070240048 - A standard communication interface for server-side filter objects: A filter object comprising a standard sending interface consumed from an object framework to send at least one filter value to at least one consumer object supported by the object framework and a user interface to allow a user to configure a connection between the filter object and a consumer... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20070240054 - Information processing apparatus, method, and information processing program: An information processing apparatus includes: a display section provided with a screen capable of displaying a content of an application; a user-input processing section for acquiring an instruction input from a user; and a screen-hierarchy control section for managing a screen hierarchical order of each application when contents of a... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070240046 - Method and apparatus for controlling view navigation in workflow systems: Embodiments of an apparatus, method, and article of manufacture for controlling view navigation in a workflow environment are disclosed herein. View navigation is controlled by incorporating and utilizing a user-interact operation in a workflow editing application. A workflow process designer may define the user-interact operation from one or more pre-designed... Agent: Campbell Stephenson LLP

20070240047 - System and method for graphically building business rule conditions: A system and method are disclosed for graphically building business rule conditions. The method of graphically building business rule conditions comprises displaying a menu of function icons for the user, and a menu of business rule attribute icons for the user. The method allows the user to freely drag and... Agent: Kunzler & Mckenzie

20070240050 - System and method for presenting to a user a preferred graphical representation of tabular data: A search engine is provided which responds to a user's queries by generating and presenting a graphed result. This graphed result is displayed in a manner that the invention has determined to be most preferred by one or more users. In various embodiments of the invention, this preferred manner may... Agent: Technology, Patents And Licensing, Inc.

20070240051 - System management user interface providing user access to status information for process control system equipment: A system management human-machine interface application for use in a process control system is described herein that enables users to view/monitor information regarding system status and performance and to initiate changes to the operation of system equipment, checkpoint control stations and execute diagnostics. A system management graphical user interface (GUI)... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20070240052 - System management user interface providing user access to status information for process control system equipment including a status monitor: A system management human-machine interface application for use in a process control system is described herein that enables users to view/monitor information regarding system status and performance and to initiate changes to the operation of system equipment, checkpoint control stations and execute diagnostics. A system management graphical user interface (GUI)... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20070240053 - Systems and methods for providing dynamic price axes: The invention relates to systems and methods that provide a user interface for use with an electronic trading system. The interface displays a bid price axis and an ask price axis, as well as corresponding sizes, and an indication of the inside market. When the inside market changes in response... Agent: Dean P. Alderucci

20070240055 - Methods and systems for providing responses to software commands: Software processes are automated by storing predetermined responses and recognizing the screens of server and/or web-based applications that require data to continue operating.... Agent: Goodwin Procter LLP Patent Administrator

20070240056 - Runway and taxiway turning guidance: A pilot is maneuvering an aircraft on a ground surface, such as a runway or taxiway. On a cockpit display, the pilot sees a scaled aircraft symbol overlaying a moving map on a cockpit display. The aircraft symbol represents the aircraft, while the moving map represents the ground surface on... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20070240057 - User interface element for displaying contextual information: A user interface element is provided near a focused-on button or control for providing an identification of an associated functionality and for providing display space for additional content such as help information and explanatory information related to the associated functionality.... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20070240058 - Method and apparatus for displaying multiple frames on a display screen: A playback method includes receiving input image data, displaying a main program based on the input image data on a main frame of the display screen, receiving a command corresponding to an index point which indicates a predetermined event type in the input image data, displaying information of a sub-program... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070240059 - Method for evaluating provision of commodity information: A commodity-information provision evaluation method for visualizing information contributing to evaluating of commodity information provided by a commodity provider, includes performing, according to an operator's selection operation, process display processing that includes superimposing and displaying at least two of intention information, expectation information and practical information on a screen in... Agent: Sughrue-265550

20070240060 - System and method for video capture and annotation: A video capture tool includes a video camera for capturing a communication, a computer receiving a video feed of the video camera, wherein a logical structure of the communication is previously input to the computer as computer readable code, a display, displaying a graphical user interface for annotating the video... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070240061 - Method for distributed tracking of approximate join size and related summaries: A method of distributed approximate query tracking relies on tracking general-purpose randomized sketch summaries of local streams at remote sites along with concise prediction models of local site behavior in order to produce highly communication-efficient and space/time-efficient solutions. A powerful approximate query tracking framework readily incorporates several complex analysis queries,... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, LLP/ Lucent Technologies, Inc

20070240062 - Method and system for restricting user operations in a graphical user inerface window: A method is presented for a GUI mechanism to restrict user input within a GUI window. A GUI control disablement function is activated by selecting a GUI control, which is dedicated to selecting enablement or disablement of the GUI control disablement function. When a user input event is received, the... Agent: Ibm Corporation Intellectual Property Law

20070240063 - Portlets having different portlet specific enablement states: A method for selectively securing portlets can include a step of providing a portal that includes multiple portlets. A portlet enablement event associated with a set of at least one of the portlets can be determined. The set include a number of portlets less than a total number of portlets... Agent: Patents On Demand, P.A.

20070240064 - Content processing device, change information generating device, content processing method, change information generating method, control program and storage medium: A digital television of the present invention includes: (i) a change pattern list generating section for generating change pattern list representing a list of change patterns applicable to a content, in accordance with change pattern information indicating the change patterns; (ii) a change information acquiring section for acquiring, from outside,... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070240065 - Multiple use of common perspectives: Systems, methods, and machine-readable media are disclosed to provide common perspectives across multiple end devices of potentially diverse types. In one embodiment, a method of providing common perspectives to multiple end devices can comprise reading one or more common perspectives from a central repository. The one or more common perspectives... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070240066 - System for providing information to a user: The present invention is directed to a system for providing information to a user comprising: a screen for showing the information to the user, wherein the screen is the screen of a portable device or of a personal computer, receiving means for receiving one or more values from a source... Agent: Dilworth & Barrese, LLP

20070240067 - Strategy editor supporting automatic designation of displayed line style based upon a connection data type: Enhancements to a strategy object editor for creating and modifying control strategies for process control systems (both distributed and discrete) is described. The improvements include: supporting a set of graphical depictions for individual control object (modified by an appearance object editor), drag and drop connections for declarations that connect control... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20070240069 - Appearance objects for configuring and graphically displaying programmed/configured process control: Enhancements to a strategy object editor for creating and modifying control strategies for process control systems (both distributed and discrete) is described. The improvements include: supporting a set of graphical depictions for individual control object (modified by an appearance object editor), drag and drop connections for declarations that connect control... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20070240070 - Strategy editor supporting designating execution order via control object graphical representations: Enhancements to a strategy object editor for creating and modifying control strategies for process control systems (both distributed and discrete) is described. The improvements include: supporting a set of graphical depictions for individual control object (modified by an appearance object editor), drag and drop connections for declarations that connect control... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20070240068 - Telemetry viewer for charting rfid events: A computer-implemented system can obtain operating metrics concerning multiple RFID edge servers and their associated RFID readers. The system can produce a graphical display of operating metrics versus time.... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20070240072 - User interface for editing media assests: An interface for editing media assets is provided. The interface includes a display for displaying a plurality of tiles, each tile associated with a media asset, and a timeline for displaying relative times of each of the plurality of media assets as edited by a user for an aggregate media... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20070240071 - System management user interface providing user access to status information for process control system equipment including a search function: A system management human-machine interface application for use in a process control system is described herein that enables users to view/monitor information regarding system status and performance and to initiate changes to the operation of system equipment, checkpoint control stations and execute diagnostics. A system management graphical user interface (GUI)... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20070240073 - Mobile communication terminal: A method for providing a user interface of a mobile communication terminal including a currently active display. The method includes displaying on the currently active display at least part of a menu, the menu having a plurality of menu items, one menu item of the plurality of menu items being... Agent: Perman & Green

20070240074 - Setting control using edges of a user interface: A setting control may be mapped to an edge of a user interface to facilitate control of various settings and access thereto. The mapping may be implemented based on a number of setting values associated with the setting control and a size of a specified edge of the user interface.... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 003797 & 013797

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20070240076 - System and method for visual history presentation and management: A method and computer program for managing and presenting a visual history of web pages accessed by a user. This method and computer program is able to create a screen of thumbnail snapshots of web pages for presentation to a user. These thumbnail snapshots are reduced images of the actual... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20070240077 - Mobile communication terminal and method therefor: A method and system for providing a user interface of a mobile communication terminal. The method includes displaying, on an active display, a first view having an application zone and a control zone, the control zone having a plurality of control items, one control item of the plurality of control... Agent: Perman & Green

20070240078 - Systems and methods for using and constructing user-interest sensitive indicators of search results: Techniques are provided to construct and use user-interest sensitive indicators of search results. A set of documents is determined based on one or more search terms. Passages within each selected document are identified based on the search terms. Condensation transformations applied to the passages to preferentially retain elements of the... Agent: Fay Sharpe LLP

20070240079 - Extensible, filtered lists for mobile device user interface: The subject disclosure pertains to systems and methods for providing an improved user interface for mobile devices. Access to data and services from multiple software applications can be provided through a group or list of items. Each group or list can include multiple items, which can be associated with data... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070240080 - Strategy editor for process control supporting drag and drop connections to declarations: Enhancements to a strategy object editor for creating and modifying control strategies for process control systems (both distributed and discrete) is described. The improvements include: supporting a set of graphical depictions for individual control object (modified by an appearance object editor), drag and drop connections for declarations that connect control... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20070240081 - Contact page: A computing system and a user interface display requested data corresponding with a contact at a display device. The requested data includes contact information, communication histories, and files associated with the contact. The requested data is obtained from one or more contact information directories located locally and/or remotely from the... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20070234192 - Encoding and distribution of schema for multimedia content descriptions: The encoding and distribution of schema for multimedia content descriptions are described. Before the schema is sent to a system for use, it is encoded by assigning a first token for each component in the schema and a second token for each attribute of each component. In one aspect, a... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070234193 - Method for simultaneous display of multiple video tracks from multimedia content and playback system thereof: A method and system for simultaneously displaying multiple video tracks from multimedia content onto different display units is described. The method includes reading a video source signal from the multimedia content, and demultiplexing the video source signal into a plurality of video tracks. Each video track of the plurality of... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070234194 - Content playback system, method, and program: A content playback system for playing comments and contents synchronously and efficiently includes an acquisition unit for acquiring comment information including comments attached to playback intervals where there are content items to be played in a predetermined order, and interrelating information interrelating the comments with the content items; a selection... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070234196 - Methods and systems for selection of multimedia presentations: Described are a variety of techniques for viewing multimedia-based information in accordance with user controls for the speed and direction of the multimedia presentation. Different techniques for presenting multimedia data items are disclosed. User controls providing control for speed and direction in accordance with a user selection device being in... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20070234195 - Simultaneous update of a plurality of user interface elements displayed in a web browser: A system and method for simultaneously updating a plurality of user interface elements displayed in a web page at a periodic time interval. In response to a web browser accessing the web page, the web server generates information for displaying the plurality of user interface elements in the web page... Agent: Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel, P.C.

20070234197 - Universal form filler software: A software program for completing electronic forms online, on a local network or on a local computer is described in this invention. This software can function as a plug-in for popular word-processors, databases, spreadsheets or PDF readers.... Agent: Frederick Njuki

20070234198 - Multidimensional metrics-based annotation: Persistent annotations are created on a scorecard that combines multi-dimensional as well as fixed value data. The annotations uniquely defined by the scorecard view definition and by the retrieved scorecard data, are independent of the data's dimensionality enabling persistence of the annotations with the data and definition even when the... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20070234199 - Apparatus and method for compact representation of xml documents: A method and apparatus for compact representation of extensible mark-up language (XML) documents are described. In one embodiment, the method includes the providing of XML document data of an input XML document to a document parser. In response to document events received from the document parser during parsing of the... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070234200 - Model view controller modeling language: A model view controller modeling language as an XML schema for creating and describing documents to be rendered on any server or client. The new modeling language contains distinct model, view, and controller sections as well as sections for header information, and session information. MVCML contains one or more forms... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20070234201 - 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

20070234202 - Navigating hierarchically organized information: Hierarchies are navigated easily through a user interface that is continuous in its presentation of node information and may be implemented using a small display space.... Agent: Goodwin Procter LLP Patent Administrator

20070234204 - Information processing apparatus and method: For each of a plurality of drawing objects, whether the drawing object is laid out on the rear side of one or more other drawing objects is determined based on an overlapped state of the plurality of drawing objects. The drawing object to be selected is decided based on the... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20070234203 - Generating image-based reflowable files for rendering on various sized displays: A computer-implemented method is provided for creating an image-based reflowable file. The image-based reflowable file is configured to automatically adapt itself to be rendered on various sized displays and windows, by permitting the lines of reflow objects to “reflow” according to the given size of a display or window. The... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, PLLC

20070234205 - Defining virtual shapes to position text and graphics: Virtual shapes are defined that are referenced to one or more actual, printable sheets for printing. The virtual shapes are referenced to the actual sheet using a rotation and x-axis (left-to-right) and y-axis (top-down) coordinates. The coordinates are typically specified with respect to the top-left corner of the sheet. In... Agent: Fulwider Patton LLP

20070234206 - Frame page displaying method, frame page displaying device, and program: In a state in which an operation screen for operating a frame in a frame page has been displayed, whether a change occurring to a frame in the page different from the currently displayed frame is a change arising from an operation satisfying a condition that is regarded to represent... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20070234207 - Method and apparatus for inserting and removing advertisements: The present invention relates to an apparatus and method of inserting any content, for instance commercial content and other dynamic or static content within the body of the original content and dynamically removing such commercial content based on a predefined action. For example, inserting and removing commercial content within IMAP... Agent: Welsh & Katz, Ltd

20070234210 - Targeted user interface fall-through: Targeted user interfaces of managed applications can be displayed in a number of ways. Targeted user interfaces can be displayed, at a management computer server, based on task templates associated with tasks selected in a user interface of a management application running on the management computer server. Targeted user interfaces... Agent: Klarquist Sparkman LLP

20070234211 - Content transformation engine: A system for accumulating and presenting data in web-based content, the system comprising a plurality of silos each having raw data, a plurality of feedlets that transforms the raw data of the plurality of silos into a plurality of high value data feeds, and at least one fuselet for receiving... Agent: Haynes And Boone, LLP

20070234208 - Method and apparatus for indicating mobile electronic device status or state: Apparatus for indicating mobile electronic device status comprising a database for storing mobile electronic device status information and associated colour information; a set of light emitting diodes (LEDs); a processor for retrieving the colour information based on the mobile electronic device status and transmitting a signal based on the colour... Agent: Borden Ladner Gervais LLP

20070234209 - Method and system for aggregating and presenting user highlighting of content: Highlighting of content is aggregated across a plurality of users, thus enabling the content to be presented with highlights that represent the collective highlighting of the users. Highlighted content may be presented to the users with varying levels of prominence. Accordingly, depending on the aggregated highlight information, some content may... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, PLLC

20070234212 - Selective window exclusion for captured content: Described is the selective exclusion of content returned in a requested screen capture operation, wherein exclusion may be determined by a window category and the requesting application program. For example, a magnification program will not received content captured from its own layered window or from any other layered magnification windows.... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20070234213 - Selection and presentation of context-relevant supplemental content and advertising: Media content is paired with context-relevant supplemental content, and the media and supplemental content are provided to a user. A media stream containing the media content may be received from a source system, and context information about the media content is determined from information about the media stream. The supplemental... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20070234214 - Web based video editing: A web based system for creating video compositions has a network connected interface generator for providing web pages to a user coupled to the network. A content library stores video clips and optionally images for use in creating the video composition or a sequence of video clips and/or images. A... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth, P.A.

20070234215 - User interface for creating and using media keys: User interface for creating and using media keys. A user interface is provided for outputting media data corresponding to one or more media keys. The same user interface may be used to output media data of different types. The user interface provides user selectable options for performing various actions such... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070234216 - Method and system for providing contact management to chat session participants: The present invention provides a method and system for providing contact management to participants engaged in a communication session. The invention permits chat session participants to a communication session to determine common contacts that exists between the chat session participants. Dependent on the accessibility of the particular chat session participants'... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20070234217 - Method and system for testing websites: A method and system is provided for testing and analyzing websites via a test-enabled web browser. In the representative embodiment a user controls a test-enabled web browser via a set of pull-down menus, thereby choosing between alternative testing and analysis functional capabilities, selecting files in which to store recordings (scripts),... Agent: Technology & Innovation Law Group, PC

20070234218 - User interface for variable access control system: To balance a tendency towards faceless decisions in using role based access control, photographic likenesses of people in roles can be used in access control user interface. For a meaningful representation of different people being in a role at a different times, a near future time chart of people who... Agent: Leo M Baschy

20070234219 - Medical diagnostic system interface: A medical diagnostic system and method having an application configured to generate a user-interface screen comprising a plurality of interface items. A configuration file is stored on the system and includes identification data of the items and a guarded designation for at least one guarded item. A dynamic link library... Agent: Ge Healthcare C/o Fletcher Yoder, PC

20070234220 - Large display attention focus system: A system that allows a user to spotlight a region of particular interest in a large-scale display, such as a wall panel display. The spotlight can be a circular or other shape area around which the display is de-emphasized, such as by being darkened or blurred outside the circle. The... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070234221 - Message window display control apparatus, method, and program product: A disclosed technology is for controlling the operation of displaying message windows. Plural message windows are not displayed at the same time in response to plural requests being made to start displaying the same message window.... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070234222 - Screen transmission device, screen display method and computer readable medium: According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided with a screen transmission device, including: a first receiver configured to receive usage state information indicating usage states of a plurality of screen display devices by a user from each the screen display device; a second receiver configured to... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070234224 - Method for developing and implementing efficient workflow oriented user interfaces and controls: A method for developing user interfaces to support efficient workflow implementation in an organization or in daily tasks of a typical consumer is disclosed. The method accounts for limitations in ability of a typical user of such interfaces to deal with more than about six elements of information or choices... Agent: Mark Clodfelter

20070234223 - User definable interface system, method, support tools, and computer program product: In a cursor-based computing environment generating a display, a user-definable interface is configured by a user and activated when needed by a user, wherein the user-definable interface comprises a plurality of buttons. Functions of the buttons are selectable by the user according to his preferences. These preferences may be derived... Agent: Mark Clodfelter

20070234225 - Information processing apparatus and method, and program: A content introduction screen linked to relevant sites can easily be created. In S1, a content-information input screen is displayed. When content information has been completely input in S2, then, in S3, link elements are extracted from the content information. In S4, one of the link elements is selected. In... Agent: William S. Frommer Frommer Lawrence & Haug

20070234227 - Apparatus and method for selecting multiple items in a graphical user interface: A computer readable medium includes executable instructions to identify an alternative selection mode within a graphical user interface. A set of selected items are linked during the alternative selection mode in response to single input action selection of each item.... Agent: Cooley Godward Kronish LLP Attn: Patent Group

20070234226 - Smart drag-and-drop: Methods and apparatus are described for manipulating objects in a user interface. The user interface includes a first interface object operable to be selected and moved within the user interface. In response to selection and movement of the first interface object in the user interface, at least one additional interface... Agent: Beyer Weaver LLP

20070234228 - Command interface: A method of provisioning a device through a command interface is described. A command interface capable of displaying a plurality of outputs is generated. A request is sent to a device and feedback from the device is received. The feedback is used to generate an output. Graphical display for the... Agent: Marger Johnson & Mccollom, P.C.

20070234229 - Server apparatus of computer system: When a display command received from a client apparatus is a real display command, a real display control unit extracts, out of the display data drawn in the drawing area, display data of an area corresponding to the display area of the client apparatus, and transferring the extracted display data... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070234230 - Image feature extraction: A method of extracting desired features from a cellular image including the steps of: (a) selecting an initial cell within the image; (b) selecting an additional cell, near the initial cell, appearing to be associated with a desired feature; (c) repeating step (b) for further cells, near at least one... Agent: Schlumberger-doll Research Attn: Intellectual Property Law Department

20070234231 - Method and apparatus for inputting text effect item: A function is implemented for inputting a text effect item to place various effects on text when the text is edited. By using the function, a user can easily select a text effect item for personalizing text in a text editing mode by reducing a panel in which at least... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070234232 - Dynamic image display: A plurality of indicia are downloaded during the rendering of a web page retrieved from a server. Each of the indicia corresponds to a respective one of a plurality of text entries in a database in communication with such server or any other server on the network. A predetermined number... Agent: Carr LLP

20070234233 - Method of shifting between viewpoints of layout edit windows: A method of shifting between viewpoints of layout edit windows includes: adjusting a display multiplier of the edit window to display a first electric element at a first coordinate in the edit window; establishing a first view point shifting command, which corresponds to the display multiplier and the first coordinate;... Agent: Morris Manning Martin LLP

20070234235 - Activities/applications menu for a mobile communication device: A mobile communication device having an interface for performing a function is provided. The interface comprises a reduced set of functions which are accessed by actuating one or more of the input devices, the reduced set of functions comprising a set of application-sensitive functions which are derived from a full-function... Agent: Borden Ladner Gervais LLP

20070234234 - Visually presenting information to a computer user: Information is visually presented to a computer user by receiving, in a computer system, a request to present a first visual item representing a first information portion selected from an information collection available in the computer system. It is determined, in response to the request: (i) which of several predefined... Agent: Fish & Richardson, P.C.

20070234236 - Slider control movable in a two-dimensional region for simultaneously adjusting values of multiple variables: The invention concerns methods and apparatus for generating and controlling a slider control for simultaneously changing values of two variables. In the methods and apparatus of the invention a graph having two axes is displayed, wherein the axes correspond to first and second variables. The values of the first and... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20070234237 - Two dimensional trees to edit graph-like diagrams: Dynamically laying out a graphical diagram based on a graph-like visual language into a two dimensional tree-like structure to allow ease of user interaction with and optimal display. A graphical tree-like structure is displayed that includes at least one branch that starts at the root of the tree-like structure and... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20070234238 - Document searching apparatus: A document searching apparatus 1 displays a document searching screen having a document map in which bars indicating the respective documents constituting the management objects are stacked and displayed, a pointer indicating one bar in the document map, and an image display region which displays an image of the document... Agent: SocalIPLaw Group LLP

20070234239 - Method for requesting and viewing an attachment image on a portable electronic device: A method for viewing a full image of a server stored original attachment on a portable electronic device including: building a graph structure within the server representing a map of the original image, downloading and displaying a re-sized image from the server to the portable electronic device, the original image... Agent: Brij K. Agarwal Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott, LLC