Data processing: presentation processing of document inventions 12/07

20070300143 - Electronic documentation: An embodiment of a method includes receiving a selection of an original content item, deriving a supplemental content item from the original content item, designating a unique identifier to the supplemental content item, and inserting a reference including the unique identifier into the primary document. A system includes a candidate... Agent: Hensley Kim & Holzer, LLC

20070300141 - Method and system for document interaction: A method is disclosed. The method includes creating a document object model, where the document object model models document objects on a document. The document object model is reviewed, and after reviewing the document object model, a code version is selected from a library of code versions.... Agent: Townsend And Townsend Crew LLP

20070300142 - Contextual dynamic advertising based upon captured rendered text: A system for processing text captured from rendered documents is described. The system receives a sequence of one or more words optically or acoustically captured from a rendered document by a user. The system identifies an electronic version of the rendered document and associated an action. The system then performs... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20070300144 - A method, apparatus, and computer program product for displaying data in a spreadsheet format: A method, apparatus and computer program product for creating and displaying derivative data created from a spreadsheet or table. Templates are used to dynamically create and display the derivative data while viewing the originating spreadsheet.... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20070300145 - Method and system to persist state: A system, to persist state in a dynamic electronic form, may include a communications module to receive a request to load an electronic form, a merge module to merge a template associated with the electronic form and data values associated with the electronic form, a delta extractor to access delta... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20070300146 - Form output control apparatus, form output control method, and computer readable program: An apparatus places contents data of plural records of a database, in a template, which is represented by template data, and outputs the template data in which the contents data are inserted. The apparatus stores the template data defining a field area in which the contents data are placed, and... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20070300150 - Building rich web site applications with an embedded device: An apparatus and a method for developing web site applications within an embedded device that may be easy to implement, debug, modify, deliver and maintain are provided. The apparatus and method remove all HTML from the embedded device firmware and utilizes web browser scripting to render the web pages properly.... Agent: Rutan & Tucker, LLP. Hani Z. Sayed

20070300147 - Compression of mark-up language data: Markup-language data, such as extensible Markup Language (XML) data, is compressed. A first node generates compressed markup-language data. The compressed markup-language data is decompressable in accordance with a first general compression scheme that is not particular to data formatted in accordance with a markup language. The compressed markup-language data is... Agent: Law Offices Of Michael Dryja

20070300149 - Computer system: A web page element updating system comprising a central data source, having a processor and a memory, a plurality of primary web pages, an embedded web page within each of the plurality of primary web pages, means for obtaining data from the embedded webpage to an element of the primary... Agent: Barnes & Thornburg LLP

20070300151 - Content converting device, content display device, content browsing device, content converting method, content browsing method, and computer program product: A content converting device includes a structure description parser, a zooming description parser, a converting unit, and a generating unit. The structure description parser parses a structure description related to a display format of content including objects to be zoomed. The zooming description parser parses a zooming description that describes... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20070300148 - Method, system and computer program product for creating a resume: Computer implemented method, system and computer program product for creating a resume that facilitates generating and updating multiple versions of the resume. A computer implemented method for creating a resume includes storing resume information. Rules are specified by which a resume for a particular job application is to be created,... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20070300152 - Formatting a user network site based on user preferences and format performance data: A system and method for formatting an electronic document. Format preference information related to the format of a user network site associated with a user is received. Document format criteria based on the format preference information and format performance information is automatically determined. An electronic document associated with the user... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070300153 - System and method for presenting message threads: A system and method for presenting message threads is provided. A main body and one or more excerpts are parsed from each of a plurality of messages into nodes structured to form a message tree through a procedural top-down recursive descent. The nodes in the message tree are related by... Agent: Cascadia Intellectual Property

20070300154 - Ole simulator for chemical drawing programs: The invention is a method for the creation of documents containing chemical formulae such that users can edit chemical formulae from within a word-processing program. In a preferred embodiment, the invention allows Macintosh users of ChemDraw to enjoy the advantages of Object Linking and Embedding (OLE) currently available only to... Agent: Peter S. Canelias Law Offices Of Peter S. Canelias

20070300155 - Method and system for controlling video selection and playback in a portable media player: A method and system in accordance with the present invention provides a system that allows a portable media player to control settings of portable media player when receiving video from an accessory, to control playback of the portable media player and to provide for navigation between video tracks in a... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070300156 - Multi-lingual dynamic assignment and management of user interface label mnemonics: Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to mnemonic labels and provide a method, system and computer program product for multi-lingual dynamic assignment and management of user interface label mnemonics. In one embodiment of the invention, a dynamic label mnemonic assignment method can be provided.... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20070300157 - System and method for collecting and analyzing event data: A computer-based system is disclosed for the gathering and analysis of data and planning associated with that data captured during or related to events. The system is based on existing core technology that allows for the use of a digital pen land marked with respect to some spatial location on... Agent: Miller Thompson, LLP

20070300158 - Dynamically modifying a theme-based media presentation: A system and method for dynamically modifying a media presentation is disclosed. A first presentation theme associated with a media presentation is determined. A plurality of multi-media data files are accessed, wherein each of the plurality of multi-media data files comprises associated metadata. A first of the plurality of multi-media... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20070300159 - Drag and drop quoting mechanism for use with discussion forums: A method of quoting content from a post in a discussion forum can include selecting content within a source post of the discussion forum and performing a drag operation. A representation of the selected content can be dragged in coordination with motion of an onscreen pointer. The method further can... Agent: Cuenot & Forsythe, L.L.C.

20070300160 - Distributing web applications across a pre-existing web: An embodiment is a system and method for a user to organize web content and applications and to share web content and applications with other users. A user may bubble web pages that interest them. The bubbles may be linked or stitched together to form a trail of pages that... Agent: Stoel Rives LLP

20070300162 - Display apparatus: A portable terminal includes a page storage section, in which a Web page is temporarily stored while the Web page is being browsed. Thus, when the same Web page is browsed the next time, a control section compares the Web page with the previously stored page contents and moves the... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20070300161 - Systems and methods for context personalized web browsing based on a browser companion agent and associated services: Computer software, systems and methods for providing context personalized browsing over computer networks. In the foregoing, an intelligent agent referred to as a “browser companion agent” includes a service component for holding one or more service modules that may assist a user by providing services that are contextually relevant to... Agent: Ganz Law, P.C.

20070300163 - Managing flexible events within an electronic calendar: A method, system, and program are provided for managing flexible events within an electronic calendar. A calendaring controller schedules fixed events requiring a fixed time slots and flexible events that are flexible for scheduling over a particular time period for a particular duration, wherein the particular time period is greater... Agent: Ibm Corp (ap) C/o Amy Pattillo

20070300164 - Method and system for managing instant message logs from within a calendar application: A computer implemented method, computer usable program code, and system for managing the logs of instant message sessions. In response to a user opening an instant message session, a calendar application displays an identifier representing the instant message session in the calendar application. The calendar application links the log of... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20070300165 - User interface for sub-conferencing: The present breakout room technique provides breakout rooms, or smaller sub-sets of a larger meeting, with full collaboration capabilities in live web-based conferencing applications. It provides for the capability to easily create sub-meetings or breakout rooms and the ability to assign individuals to breakout rooms. It provides a seamless experience... Agent: Microsoft Corporation C/o Lyon & Harr, LLP

20070300166 - Method and system for showing a display panel in a graphical user interface: A method for showing a display panel in a graphical user interface involves associating a client-side script variable with a display panel wrapper, where the display panel is embedded in the display panel wrapper, and where the client-side script variable indicates that the display panel is hidden. The method further... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P./sun

20070300167 - Integrated development environment and related methods: Described is an integrated development environment for building an application and related methods. The integrated development environment comprises a first form corresponding to a first set of data input devices, a second form corresponding to a second set of data input devices, and a data input control. When the data... Agent: Fay Kaplun & Marcin, LLP

20070300168 - System for programming processing operations on an ordered set of objects: A method of programming processing operations, e.g. printing, on an ordered set of objects, e.g. the pages of a document, the objects being characterizable according to a plurality of different properties defining, or at least relevant for, the processing. The method includes displaying the objects of the set in a... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070300169 - Method and system for flagging content in a chat session and providing enhancements in a transcript window: A system for flagging content in a chat session and providing enhancements in a transcript window. The system allows a user to set visible flags at the starting pointing of lines in the transcript area of the live chat window. Once one or more visual flags has been set in... Agent: Lotus And Rational Software Mcguinness & Manaras LLP

20070300170 - Method, apparatus, and program product for efficiently detecting relationships in a comprehension state of a collection of information: Aspects of the disclosed technology present a workspace window responsive to a belief graph and a relationship data structure that represents a comprehension state by presenting an instance-representation of a first separately-movable instance object that represents a first entity/relationship object in the relationship data structure wherein the instance-representation of the... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070300171 - Multicurrency display: A computer-implemented method of providing information to a user is disclosed. The method includes providing a user interface that includes a data element containing a first numeric value. An input is received from the user and represents a selection of the data element. The input is responded to by displaying... Agent: Westman Champlin (microsoft Corporation)

20070300172 - Manipulating a data source using a graphical user interface: A target audience for a marketing campaign is selected using a graphical user interface. A first graphical representation of a customer data attribute is dragged from a first window and dropped in a second window. A second graphical representation of a customer data attribute is dragged near the graphical representation... Agent: Fish & Richardson, P.C.

20070300173 - Apparatus and method for coordinated views of clustered data: A data display apparatus uses a cluster display window and an item display window that appear simultaneously on a display screen. The cluster display window depicts underlying data elements using clustering icons arranged according to a clustering algorithm. The item display window depicts the data elements using textual information. The... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P./sun

20070300174 - Monitoring group activities: A unique monitoring system and method is provided that involves monitoring user activity in order to facilitate managing and optimizing the utilization of various system resources. In particular, the system can monitor user activity, detect when users need assistance with their specific activities, and identify at least one other user... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070300175 - Electronic device and key setting method: A key setting method is used in an electronic device, which has a touch panel. The method includes the following steps. First, a Keyboard format having at least one key is selected. Then, a pattern is set to be displayed on the touch panel corresponding to the key of the... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070300176 - Entering information in input field: A method of supporting a user in entering information in an input field includes receiving a string that a user enters under guidance of an input field in a graphical user interface (GUI) in a computer system, the GUI being associated with creating an instance of a first object. There... Agent: Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky & Popeo, P.C.

20070300177 - User interface for specifying multi-valued properties: A system, apparatus, method, and computer-readable media are provided for specifying and editing the values of a multi-valued property. According to one method, a field is displayed for entering the values of the multi-valued property. A selection or alphanumeric characters may be received in the field. In response to receiving... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20070300178 - Handling of secondary pop-ups or pop-behinds within a web browser: A method and computer program product are disclosed for controlling a software program, such as a web browser, that automatically displays an active window and one or more secondary windows, such as pop-ups or pop-behinds during the viewing of the active window. The user of the software program is provided... Agent: Mcgrath, Geissler, Olds & Richardson, PLLC

20070300179 - User-application interaction recording: A method for recording user/application interaction is provided. The method may include intercepting, by a user/application monitoring agent, an application window running on a computer and currently being visited by a user, and generating a unique window identifier for said application window based on one or more structural elements of... Agent: Empk & Shiloh, LLP

20070300180 - Information processing apparatus, information processing method, information processing program and storage medium containing information processing program: There is provided a novel menu selection method in a mobile phone. Also provided is a cursor displaying method with which a user can intuitively recognize a moving direction and moving speed. In addition, a novel scrollbar with which the user can recognize, in a case of displaying menus beyond... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug

20070300181 - Method, program, and data processing system for modifying shape of display object: To provide a method, a program, and a data processing system for efficiently operating the shape of a display object that contains a content display area. A method for modifying a shape of a display object containing a content display area on a display device is provided. The method includes... Agent: Ibm Corporation Intellectual Property Law

20070300182 - Interface orientation using shadows: A graphical user interface system may position and orient a user interface element to be displayed on an optically-sensitive display surface. The position of the object may be based on the position of a point of contact that an object (e.g., a person's finger, a block of wood, etc.) makes... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 003797 & 013797

20070300183 - Pop-up notification for an incoming message: A method including: receiving an incoming message; parsing the content of the incoming message to identify content of the incoming message; and creating a pop-up notification that depends upon identified content.... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20070300184 - Method and apparatus for displaying 3-dimensional menu, and computer readable recording medium storing computer readable program for executing the method: Provided are a method and apparatus for displaying a 3 dimensional (3D) menu, and a computer readable recording medium storing a computer readable program for executing the method. The method includes displaying at least one menu item on the screen, if a menu item is selected, dividing the selected menu... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070300185 - Activity-centric adaptive user interface: The innovation enables “total system” experiences for activities and activity-specialized experiences for applications and gadgets that allow them to align more closely with the user, his work, and his goals. In particular, the system provides for dynamically changing the user interface (UI) of the system level shell (“desktop”), of applications,... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070300186 - Method for providing menu screen and video apparatus adopting the same: A method for providing a menu screen and a video apparatus adopting the method are provided. The method includes generating a menu screen which displays a selected menu item and a selected sub-menu item of a plurality of sub-menu items of the selected menu item on a reference line, indicates... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070300187 - Information processing apparatus, information processing method, information processing program and storage medium containing information processing program: There is provided a novel menu selection method in a mobile phone. Also provided is a cursor displaying method with which a user can intuitively recognize a moving direction and moving speed. In addition, a novel scrollbar with which the user can recognize, in a case of displaying menus beyond... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug

20070300188 - Method and apparatus for displaying information about external devices and computer readable recording medium storing program executing the method: Provided are a method and apparatus for displaying information about an external device and a computer readable recording medium storing a program executing the method. The display method includes receiving an input signal from the external device; determining an icon to be displayed with reference to information related to the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070300189 - Methods and apparatus to provide dynamic messaging services: Methods and apparatus to provide dynamic messaging services are disclosed. One example method includes determining supported dimensions for display of information on a display screen, restricting the supported dimensions, wherein the restricted dimensions define a boundary between a first screen portion and a second screen portion, and displaying content of... Agent: Hanley, Flight & Zimmerman, LLC

20070300190 - Method, apparatus, and program product for efficiently defining relationships in a comprehension state of a collection of information: Aspects of the disclosed technology present a workspace window responsive to a relationship data structure that represents a comprehension state including a presentation of a first instance-representation that represents a first separately-movable instance object and a second instance-representation that represents a second separately-movable instance object. This aspect enables the first... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070294611 - Methods and apparatus for delivering and sharing real estate transaction documents, including title insurance documents: In one embodiment, a method of delivering a title insurance document involves 1) electronically reading title insurance information and identifying a number of documents referenced therein; 2) electronically locating the documents in one or more electronic storage locations; and 3) preparing an electronically-deliverable title insurance document having i) title insurance... Agent: Holland & Hart, LLP

20070294610 - System and method for identifying similar portions in documents: A document comparison system comprising a computer and software accessible to and executable by said computer. Said computer is operable to compare a first document and a second document; based on said comparison, identify one or more similar portions of said first and second documents; provide a display containing simultaneously... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070294612 - Comparing and managing multiple presentations: Sections of two or more sequential visual media are compared to identify correspondences between the two or more sequential visual media. A visualization of section correspondences between the two or more sequential visual media is generated.... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20070294613 - Communication system for remote collaborative creation of multimedia contents: A communication system for remote collaborative creation of a final multimedia content produced from a plurality of individual multimedia contents. The system comprises a module for generating a scenario for said final multimedia content, said scenario having a tree structure including at least one multimedia sequence, a plurality of terminals... Agent: Cohen Pontani Lieberman & Pavane LLP

20070294614 - Visualizing document annotations in the context of the source document: In a document annotator (8), a document converter (12) is configured to convert a source document (10) with a layout to a deterministic format (14, 64) including content and layout metadata. At least one annotation pipeline (20, 22) is configured to generate document annotations respective to received content. A merger... Agent: Fay Sharpe / Xerox - Rochester

20070294615 - Personalizing a search results page based on search history: The invention discloses a system and method for personalizing a search results mix based on a user's search history. The invention can use an individual user's search history to personalize a search results page that may be unique for the specific user. The invention can be configured to monitor the... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. (c/o Microsoft Corporation)

20070294616 - Image processing apparatus, image displaying method, and computer-readable recording medium storing program of the method: An image processing apparatus which displays a thumbnail image of a stored image is disclosed. When a thumbnail image of a stored image is displayed, it is determined whether the stored image is open or secret by using an attribute attached to the stored image. When the stored image is... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070294617 - System, method, and article of manufacture for scheduling and document management integration: A network-centric project scheduling and management system provides services via a computer network such that users can interact with the system using existing computer hardware and software. The program receives from the user a plurality of project task records, identifies critical project tasks, and creates a critical task schedule based... Agent: Hovey Williams LLP

20070294618 - Character input system including application device and input server: Since a editing character string is managed by an input server, an application device cannot know whether scroll is necessary. Accordingly, there has been a problem that it is impossible to realize the scroll function. A receiving unit (221) receives an instruction from a user operation or an application device... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20070294619 - Generating media presentations: A presentation application provides for authoring and playback of a presentation. A presentation is an interactive collection of activities. An activity may include one or more frames, wherein each frame includes one or more modules. A module may consist of media content such as video, text, images or other content.... Agent: Vierra Magen/microsoft Corporation

20070294620 - Apparatus and method for displaying java application in portable terminal: An apparatus and method for displaying a Java application in a portable terminal. In the apparatus, a category searcher searches a category of the Java application and a corresponding category icon, a Java processor controls a displaying of the searched category icon when the Java application is executed, and a... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070294621 - System and method for displaying information: A method for displaying information includes receiving input from a user and adjusting a location of a cursor within a user interface based on the input. The method also includes determining whether the user has moved the cursor into a first portion of the user interface and initiating display of... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20070294622 - Methods and systems for online video-based property commerce: Video data may be extremely useful in online property commerce. However, the current methods of handling this video data fail to provide users of the data with effective and convenient ways of conveying and consolidating footage of multiple viewpoints and other property features. Among other things, embodiments of the invention... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070294623 - Methods and systems for receiving feedback from a scalable number of participants of an on-line presentation: Methods and systems for receiving feedback from a scalable number of participants of an on-line presentation. One method includes analyzing a screen change data set at a first computing device of an on-line presentation environment, tagging the screen change data set as requesting acknowledgement by the one or more viewers,... Agent: Goodwin Procter LLP

20070294624 - System and method for customizing user interfaces on a document processing device: The subject application is directed to a system and method for customizing a document processor interface. A user successfully logs onto a document processing device and selects to generate a customized graphical user-interface. When the user has previously created such an interface, the device retrieves stored selection data associated with... Agent: Tucker Ellis & West LLP

20070294625 - User interface system for a vehicle: A user interface system and method for a vehicle enables access to services available through an electronic device. The user interface system includes a networking gateway configured to receive a first data set from the electronic device. A service engine is included, which is operable with the networking gateway. The... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.C./fgtl

20070294626 - Controlling application sharing: A facility is provided for controlling application sharing. In various embodiments, the facility shares an application from a sharer computing device to a viewer computing device so that the viewer computing device displays information that the sharer computing device displays, receives an indication from the first viewer computing device to... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP/msft

20070294627 - Suppressing dialog boxes: A method for browser software with a tabbed interface to suppress, or delay, the display of a dialog box that is initiated by an inactive, or background, tab. An indication may be provided to the user that a dialog box needing user attention may be provided. When that tab becomes... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20070294628 - Interface for directing a user to build a website: An interface directs a user to build a website. A first interface element directs the user to create an account. A second interface element directs the user to create a home page. A third interface element directs the user to create a directory. A fourth interface element directs the user... Agent: Kramer & Amado, P.C.

20070294629 - Failure handling and debugging with causalities: Various technologies and techniques are disclosed that improve failure handling and debugging in message driven environments. A diagramming tool allows a user to graphically nest one or more functional components of the data flow diagram to create a fault handler. The fault handler is associated with a failure component to... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20070294631 - Apparatus and method for embedding and utilizing report controls within an online report: A computer implemented method includes adding a web element to a report, generating a segment of code for the web element, embedding the segment of code within the report, and publishing the report, such that in the published report the web element operates as a web element control.... Agent: Cooley Godward Kronish LLP Attn: Patent Group

20070294632 - Mutli-user multi-input desktop workspaces and applications: Multi-user multi-input desktop workspaces and applications are described. In one aspect, a single computing device presents multiple workspaces on a desktop area. The desktop area is designed for multiple users to provide in parallel inputs. Each workspace is configured for use by a particular set of users. Responsive to user... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20070294630 - Snipping tool: Systems and methods for capturing content and performing operations associated with the content are described. A stylus or other pointing device may be used designate content to be captured. After content is designated, a new window is generated that includes the designated content and user interface elements for annotating, conveying... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 003797 & 013797

20070294633 - Improvements in or relating to electronic devices: A portable electronic apparatus arranged to be able to perform a plurality of functions, one or more of a plurality of functions being selectively performable when the apparatus is placed in a corresponding functional mode, the apparatus having a user interface to allow user operation of the plurality of functions,... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20070294634 - Graphical user interface and related method: A graphical user interface that is embodied in a computer-readable medium for execution on a computer, and configured for processing of an image that is displayed on a screen. The graphical user interface includes an original version of a control element, and a blurred version of the control element. The... Agent: Nik Software, Inc. C/o Sheldon Mak Rose & Anderson

20070294635 - Linked scrolling of side-by-side content: Methods are disclosed for linked and intelligent scrolling through a plurality of containing elements. The methods include a software scrollbar display engine, a software resizing engine and a software scrolling engine for affecting linked scrolling of the plurality of containing elements.... Agent: Vierra Magen/microsoft Corporation

20070294636 - Virtual user interface apparatus, system, and method: A system, apparatus, method, and article to provide a virtual user interface are described. The apparatus may include a processor to receive a control signal from a navigation controller and to define a virtual user interface on a display device. Based on the control signal, the processor is to locate... Agent: Kacvinsky LLC C/o Intellevate

20070294637 - Grouped cascading user interface: Systems and methods for displaying a graphical user interface are disclosed. In some embodiments, the method can include displaying a primary user-selectable control in a graphical user interface, receiving a user selection of the primary displayed control, displaying a first group of user-selectable controls based on the selected primary control,... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20070294638 - Input apparatus and method using optical masking: An input apparatus and method using optical masking which enable a user to intuitively manipulate a menu by mapping light sources of an optical masking sensing unit and icons displayed on a display panel to corresponding positions. The input apparatus includes a display panel displaying a plurality of icons and... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070294639 - Touchless manipulation of images for regional enhancement: The invention provides a method and a system for manipulating an image displayed on a screen (11), where an operator uses e.g. a finger to identify a region of interest (ROI) without touching the screen (11). The spatial position of the finger relative to the screen (11) is detected, i.e.... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070294640 - User interface and computer software product and a method for implementing the same: The invention relates to a user interface of a player of a mobile device (10). The user interface comprises graphical icons (16) representing the functions of the player, of which icons only the ones that can be performed in the current mode of operation of the player are shown on... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070294641 - Automatically preparing streaming video programming guides: A programming guide for streaming video files may be automatically compiled in response to a user request. The user may provide keywords for categories of streaming video files that are of interest. A graphical user interface is automatically developed which splits responsive streaming video files into categories requested by the... Agent: Trop, Pruner & Hu, P.C. Suite 750

20070294642 - System for managing the navigational usability of an interactive map: A graphical user interface for graphically managing the navigational usability of an interactive map is described. In one embodiment, the graphical user interface includes a layer hierarchy having a first layer and a second layer. The graphical user interface also includes a first display range bar associated with the first... Agent: John C. Carey Moser, Patterson & Sheridan, L.L.P.

20070294643 - System for managing the navigational usability of an interactive map: A graphical user interface for graphically managing the navigational usability of an interactive map is described. In one embodiment, the graphical user interface includes a layer hierarchy having a first layer and a second layer. The graphical user interface also includes a first display range bar associated with the first... Agent: John C. Carey Moser, Patterson & Sheridan, L.L.P.

20070294644 - System of gui text cursor, caret, and selection: The invention's features improve the user interaction of Caret and Selection manipulation in text GUI components. The Precaret, like the Caret, indicates a position between text characters, but unlike the Caret, the Precaret continually tracks the Cursor, jumping from position to position to indicate exactly where the Caret will be... Agent: David Yost

20070294645 - Method and apparatus for determining the proximity of a client device: The present invention discloses an apparatus and method for a method for determining proximity of a device (e.g., a client device). In one example, a key management request is acquired from the device. A measurement request is then transmitted to the device. Afterwards, a measurement reply is received from the... Agent: General Instrument Corporation Dba The Connected Home Solutions Business Of Motorola, Inc.

20070294646 - System and method for delivering mobile rss content: System and method for delivering mobile RSS content is described. The system, upon receiving a URL or feature list from a user of a feature phone, retrieves the target Web page and delivers to the feature phone Web content that is comparable to that which the user would enjoy at... Agent: John A. Smart

20070288851 - Systems and methods for facilitating the peer review process: The present invention provides methods for integrating the peer review process with other applications and facilitating peer review using a user interface linked to a peer review application having knowledge base information and defined rules for: accepting a paper for peer review, assigning the paper to one or more of... Agent: Medlen & Carroll, LLP

20070288852 - Presence and geographic location notification based on a setting: A user of an instant messaging system may store names of other users of the instant messaging system on a participant list (which may be referred to as a “buddy list”), and the names may be categorized into one or more groups. Similarly, a user of a mobile device, such... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070288854 - Reusable xforms processor: Systems and methods are provided for invoking user interface (UI) functionality by a client application. Data is received from a server, such as a web server, parsed and used to create a hierarchy of application UI objects. A corresponding hierarchy of XForms objects is created, such that each XForms object... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20070288853 - Software, methods and apparatus facilitating presentation of a wireless communication device user interface with multi-language support: At a wireless communication device, a markup language document defining a format of a user interface (e.g. for presenting data from a remote application) is received. The markup language document includes at least one descriptor for locating a textual component of the user interface within a separate file. The separate... Agent: Smart And Biggar

20070288855 - Resolution independent vector display of internet content: Apparatus, methods and software for facilitating resolution-independent vector display of Internet (Web) content to allow Web pages to be scaled (zoomed) and panned for better viewing and/or to fit any resolution or screen size. According to one aspect, novel server-side processing of HTML-based Web content is provided that translates the... Agent: Law Office Of R. Alan Burnett

20070288857 - Capturing user interface switch states: The invention is directed to the capturing of user interface switch states. A method according to an embodiment of the invention includes: adding a state attribute to a UI switch control, the state attribute containing an expression; evaluating the expression relative to a UI binding of the UI switch control,... Agent: Hoffman, Warnick & D'alessandro LLC

20070288856 - Layered user interface: A user interface for a device comprises a plurality of layers. The content for the user interface is associated with one of the plurality of layers.... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070288858 - Engine for rendering widgets using platform-specific attributes: A widget engine renders widgets using operating system platform-specific attributes. A widget application written at least partly in platform non-specific code is rendered by the widget engine through a series of system calls and callbacks. Upon interpreting particular code, the widget engine issues a system call to a module for... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20070288859 - Method and apparatus for selective forwarding of e-mail and document content: A telecommunications method includes selecting and copying a portion of a document; detecting said selecting and copying; and automatically generating an e-mail editing window responsive to said detecting and pasting said portion into said e-mail editing window. In some embodiments, a method further includes generating a dialog after said detecting... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070288860 - User interface for providing consolidation and access: Methods and systems for providing graphical user interfaces are described. To provide greater access and consolidation to frequently used items in the graphical user interface, a userbar is established which includes a plurality of item representations. To permit a greater number of items to reside in the userbar, a magnification... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20070288861 - Method and system for intelligent storage management: A storage management system is provided. The storage management system may includes a data collector configured to receive storage management information for storage. The storage manager includes an agent configured to collect storage management information for a storage object and to communicate the storage management information to the data collector.... Agent: Andrew L. Reibman Kenyon & Kenyon

20070288863 - Computer interface having a virtual single-layer mode for viewing overlapping objects: A computer-human interface provides a mechanism to manage the available space of a computer display in a manner that facilitates navigation among multiple windows that are overlaid upon one another. The interface includes a user-selectable mode in which the windows are rearranged, and resized if necessary, so that all open... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20070288862 - Time-based, non-constant translation of user interface objects between states: The present invention relates to a method for moving objects within the graphical user interface (GUI) of an operating system in a manner that provides a transitional effect between window states, which is pleasing to the user. This transitional effect includes changing the shape of a window while scaling and... Agent: Buchanan Ingersoll, PC

20070288864 - Prioritized presentation of content: A method is provided for determining content to present on a display of a device. The method comprises presenting a first content in a first location in an application window of an application and presenting a second content in a second location in the application window of the application. The... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20070288865 - Information processing apparatus for project management and its computer software: The information processing apparatus for project management comprises: a function of displaying on a screen a task area 12 where a symbol 123 representing a document relating to a task constituting a project is displayed; and a function of performing document work according to an operation instruction for the symbol... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070288866 - List display with redundant text removal: A computer-implemented method for a list display with redundant text removal, the method including firstly displaying within a display area on a computer display at least a portion of a first item of a group of consecutive list items that share either of a common prefix and a common suffix,... Agent: Stephen C. Kaufman IBM Corporation

20070288867 - Visual helps while using code assist in visual tools: A method, apparatus and computer-readable medium for improved correlation between source code in a source code view pane and a corresponding control in a graph view pane in an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) is presented. In one embodiment, the method includes the steps of receiving, from a user of a... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20070288868 - Portable device and method of providing menu icons: According to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, a portable device includes a button signal determination unit, a focus location checking unit, a background screen management unit and a icon management unit. The button signal determination unit determines whether an input button signal is the signal of a function... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070288869 - Laser marking user interface: A laser printing system includes a computer, a user interface device, laser electronics and a laser. A first software application at the computer creates and edits fonts. The computer sends the fonts to the laser electronics, and the laser electronics use the fonts to convert text data to images for... Agent: Fish & Richardson, PC

20070288870 - Method of real-time incremental zooming: A method for navigating a pointer on a graphical user interface (GUI) includes the steps of: scrolling an input device to locate the pointer corresponding to the input device on a point of interest within the GUI, depressing an actuating button associated with the input device on the point of... Agent: Potomac Patent Group PLLC

20070283235 - Montage method: A computing system, composed of a series or set of algorithms which are relevant to either the layout or composition of a photomontage, is applied to a plurality of images. This system can be operated either by a human user specifying placement and location of a plurality of digital images,... Agent: Eastman Kodak Company Patent Legal Staff

20070283237 - Systems and methods for multimedia content distribution and playback: The present invention relates generally to multimedia playback devices, and more particularly to systems and methods for multimedia content distribution and playback. In accordance with one preferred embodiment, a method for distributing multimedia content to a playback system includes the steps of converting the multimedia content into an intermediate format,... Agent: Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, LLPIPProsecution Department

20070283236 - Content creation apparatus and content creation method: A content creation apparatus (10) has a playback control module (32) which plays back a multimedia template; an input module (26) which accepts a user's instruction relating to selection of media data to be inserted into the multimedia template during playback of the multimedia template by the playback control module... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.L.P.

20070283238 - Multi-layer interactive multimedia presentation: A method and apparatus by which information of similar or different types may be combined to form an integrated interactive multimedia presentation which may be used to provide marketing and conducting commerce is provided. An apparatus for providing a multi-layer interactive multimedia presentation comprises means for providing a layer of... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20070283239 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for providing a user interaction model for use by a device: Methods, systems, and computer program products for providing a user interaction model for use by a device to match the capabilities of a display connected to the device or an input interface used by the device are disclosed. According to one aspect, an indication to use at least one of... Agent: Scenera Research, LLC Jenkins, Wilson & Taylor, P.A.

20070283240 - Freeform digital ink revisions: A computer-implemented system for digital ink revisions is provided. The system comprises an annotation module that recognizes a handwritten annotation in an image of a document. The system further comprises a command module that executes a command associated with the recognized handwritten annotation. Methods for using the system are also... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070283241 - Systems and methods for annotating objects when the annotation device differs from the viewing device: Allowing annotations to occur remotely from the device in which they are viewed enables the optimal viewing device and optimal annotation device for generating annotations. Specifically, the annotation systems allow a user to associate annotations with one or more portions of an object. An object identifier is created to identify... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070283244 - Displaying html text on a non-graphical console: Text from an HTML document is displayed without the use of a browser. The method includes receiving an HTML coded message that includes a text message that has been encoded using a sender's character set; identifying a character map pseudonym of a current character map of the receiving console; identifying... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20070283245 - Event-based parser for markup language file: A parser uses SAX-like APIs for efficiency and provides DOM-like APIs for simplicity and convenience. The parser can read an XML document, for example, and parse its contents into a set of abstract information containers called nodes. The nodes are used to represent the structure and content of the document,... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20070283243 - Method and apparatus for adapting external controls to a portal design: A method and apparatus for adapting the looks of an at least one control developed in an environment to a portal developed in a different environment. The apparatus and method enable the preview of a component comprising the control without deploying the changes to the portal, so other users can... Agent: Charles N.j. Ruggiero Ohlandt, Greeley, Ruggiero & Perle, L.L.P.

20070283247 - Automatic display of resized images: Systems and methods for automatic display of scaled and/or resized images that fit within pre-defined areas in a web browser are disclosed. The method may be implemented using an image scaling JavaScript component embedded within a HTML document. Upon resizing the a client document browser in which the document is... Agent: Jung-hua Kuo Attorney At Law

20070283246 - Processing documents in multiple markup representations: A document processing system comprising a document processor operable to process a document described in a first markup language, the first markup language conforming to the document processor. A document converter operable to map a document to the first markup language if the document is described in a second markup... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070283242 - Xml processor and xml processing method in system having the xml processor: A significant drawback of the conventional XML parsers is that such parsers require relatively large software components, which causes load of a system that processes the XML documents to increase. Provided is an XML processor in which a part of XML processing is performed in a hardware manner based on... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20070283248 - Electronic paper recording apparatus: An electronic paper is mounted on a paper mounting unit on which the electronic paper is mounted detachably. When a user operation is performed on the display screen of the electronic paper, the user operation position with respect to the display screen of the electronic paper is detected by the... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070283249 - Label creating apparatus and program: If a model data file 84 cannot be entirely displayed in the data file display area 82, the display scale of the model data file 84 is compressed to make display setting such that the coordinate X3, Y3 on the right end portion at the lower end side in the... Agent: Day Pitney LLP

20070283252 - Adding tag name to collection: Adding a new tag name to a collection of tag names includes receiving, in a computer system, a new tag name that is to be added to a collection of existing tag names that conform to a standardized protocol for defining semantics of contents in electronic communications, the new tag... Agent: Fish & Richardson, P.C.

20070283251 - Web-based experience editor in a recursive browser system and uses thereof: Provided herein is a recursive browser system including a recursive web browser and means for interactively editing content within the recursive browser window using a thin web-browser based environment or zCubes. Also provided are user-implemented methods of interactively manipulating content within a recursive browser environment.... Agent: Benjamin Aaron Adler Adler & Associates

20070283250 - Document processing method and system: The present invention provides a document processing method which can be realized even in an ordinary document processing device such as a document copying machine. The document processing method provides easy document editing. The document processing method includes a document creation step which creates a document, and a document editing... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20070283253 - Image forming apparatus capable of managing configuration information of multiple modules: An image forming apparatus is disclosed that includes multiple application modules configured to perform image processing including scanning, printing, and copying of an image; multiple service modules configured to perform an image forming operation and to control the image forming apparatus; a nonvolatile configuration information storage part configured to contain... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070283254 - Spell checking urls in a resource: Methods, systems, and computer program products are provided for spell checking URLs in a resource. Embodiments include identifying within a resource a URL, determining whether the URL is valid, and marking the URL as misspelled if the URL is invalid. In typical embodiments, determining whether the URL is valid is... Agent: International Corp (blf)

20070283255 - Character display method: Conventionally, when a document is displayed on a mobile telephone whose screen size is limited, all the information cannot be displayed at a time. This drawback has resulted in a problem that grasping the content requires the button operation and screen switching. A Chinese-character Index is automatically created from the... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20070283256 - Image tiling in ink jet printing systems: A system or method of removing whitespace between tiled or repeated patterns generated during a printing operation. The system takes an initial image and determines if there exist extraneous bits of whitespace around the edge of actual image. Once this information is established, the printer application program uses that information... Agent: Law Office Of James Trosino

20070283257 - Image tiling in ink jet printing systems: A system or method of removing whitespace between tiled or repeated patterns generated during a printing operation. The system takes an initial image and determines if there exist extraneous bits of whitespace around the edge of actual image. Once this information is established, the printer application program uses that information... Agent: Law Office Of James Trosino

20070283258 - User-implemented handwritten content in a recursive browser system: Provided herein is a recursive browser system including a recursive web browser and a unit for handwriting content within the recursive browser window. The handwriting may be written from user-created VML-formatted handwriting objects or derived from typed text mapped to user-created VML-formatted handwriting objects. Also provided is a computer-implemented method... Agent: Benjamin Aaron Adler Adler & Associates

20070283261 - Gesture-based transient prioritization processes scheduling: A method for allowing a computer user to allocate additional computing resources to a specified priority process comprises indicating with a pointing device a specified priority process by a predetermined user gesture using the pointing device. The motion of the pointing device is detected and the predetermined user gesture is... Agent: Frederick W. Gibb, Iii Gibb & Rahman, LLC

20070283260 - Human-machine interface system with device bridge and method for designing and operating the same: A human-machine interface system includes a master unit and a device bridge. The master unit includes a first processor and the device bridge includes a second processor, where the second processor is connected to the master unit through a bus and a device end through a device communication port. The... Agent: Hdsl

20070283259 - Method and system to search data: An interactive user interface (UI) to manage searching of data is disclosed. The UI has a first display panel and a second display panel. At least one facet, corresponding to a category of the data, and at least one of elements and subelements of the data, organized within the facet,... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - IBM Tuscon Division

20070283263 - Proximity sensor device and method with adjustment selection tabs: A proximity sensor device and method is provided that facilitates improved usability. Specifically, the proximity sensor device and method provides the ability for a user to easily select the type of adjustment inputted by the proximity sensor device. In one embodiment, the proximity sensor device includes an adjustment region and... Agent: Ingrassia Fisher & Lorenz, P.C. (syna)

20070283262 - Recursive browser system and uses therefor: Provided herein are a recursive browser system including a recursive web browser, a computer medium storing a plurality of web addresses and/or web location designators and/or action triggers and a matching unit matching the same to one or more corresponding complete Uniform Resource Locator (URL) addresses on the World Wide... Agent: Benjamin Aaron Adler Adler & Associates

20070283264 - Method of display control using portable equipment with an image sensor: A method of display control using portable equipment (602) provided with an image sensor including the capture of a series of images; the estimate of the movement made in the displacement of the portable equipment; and the modification of the display according to the movement estimate, according to the invention,... Agent: Eastman Kodak Company Patent Legal Staff

20070283265 - Interactive gaming system with animated, real-time characters: A gaming system enables users to interact with one another during electronic game play with animated imagery. The system comprises a central processing unit having certain character-building menus and certain character-directing commands. Users thereof, via user-based hardware, communicate with one another by way of the central processing unit and a... Agent: Meroni & Meroni, P.C.

20070283266 - Administering devices with dynamic action lists: Methods for administering devices, including creating a user metric vector including a plurality of disparate user metrics, creating a user metric space including a plurality of metric ranges, determining whether the user metric vector is outside the user metric space, creating, in dependence upon the user metric vector, a dynamic... Agent: Biggers & Ohanian, PLLC

20070283267 - Document management system having automatic notifications: A method for storing, organizing and providing remote electronic access to documents. A cover sheet including a standard set of identification data characterizing each document is developed and stored. A digital version of each document is created and stored by scanning each contract. Each digital version includes a scanned image... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20070283268 - Advertising delivery: Among other things, information associated with presentation of video material on a presentation device to a single user is used to select video material to be presented to the user on another presentation device.... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20070283269 - Method and system for onboard camera video editing: A method and system are disclosed for onboard camera video editing. A video clip is segmented into at least one video segment having frames and the video quality of at least one frame is assessed to derive a quality score per frame and an average quality score for the video... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070283270 - Context sensitive text recognition and marking from speech: A visual presentation system and method for synchronizing presentation data being viewed in a display with speech input. A system is disclosed that includes: a speech recognition system for recognizing speech input; an association system for determining a context of the speech input and matching the context with a relevant... Agent: Hoffman, Warnick & D'alessandro LLC

20070283272 - Portal-based podcast development: A computer-implementable method, system, and computer program product that creates a podcast template within a portal definition environment is presented. In one embodiment, the method includes the steps of: creating a standard two-dimensional portal page; and rendering a one-dimensional portlet from the standard two-dimensional portal page to create a podcast.... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20070283271 - System and method for providing indicators of component interaction capability across navigation elements: A system and method for providing indicators of component interaction capability across navigation elements is presented. A user selects an emitter portlet that is located on a viewable page. In turn, a property broker identifies compatible handler portlets located on different pages, and displays handler icons on navigation elements whose... Agent: Ibm Corporation - Rsw (jvl) C/o Van Leeuwen & Van Leeuwen

20070283273 - System, method, and computer program product for internet tool: A method, apparatus and computer program product for an interface for receiving a user input and a user selection signal and for concurrently supporting a set of service templates; and a specification compiling system communicable to a network supporting the network resource for combining the user input with a user-specified... Agent: Patent Law Offices Of Michael E. Woods

20070283274 - Strategies for providing a customized media presentation based on a markup page definition (mpd): Strategies are described for providing a media presentation based on a markup page definition (MPD). In operation, an operations center provides an MPD in response to a triggering event. The MPD may be expressed as an HTML page. The MPD includes one or more references to respective media streams. A... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20070283275 - System and method for instructing a processor to reposition desktop icons: In accordance with embodiments, there are provided mechanisms and methods for instructing a processor to reposition desktop icons. These mechanisms and methods for instructing a processor to reposition desktop icons can enable embodiments to provide a screen at a computer system using information from another computer system and a portable... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20070283276 - Mosaic-like user interface for video selection and display: A UI involving selection and display from a library of videos, including a “Mosaic” mode of operation, in which a primarily visual display is made of information about possible videos, with the effect that a user might select one such video in response to such visual display. The Mosaic includes... Agent: Swernofsky Law Group PC

20070283277 - Information processing apparatus, thumbnail management apparatus, content processing method, storage medium, and program: A content processing method is executed by an information processing apparatus that carries out communications with a server apparatus that processes a request for viewing a registered thumbnail. The content processing method includes selecting, at the information processing apparatus, display control information specifying a manner of display of at least... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20070283278 - Method and system for selective information sharing across team spaces: A publication-and-subscription mechanism for team rooms, referred to as team room “channels”, through which teams are able to selectively share resources from their team rooms with non-members, and that allows selective contributions, modifications, and discussions from non-members. The team room channels operate as bidirectional information pipelines to other team rooms.... Agent: Lotus And Rational Software Mcguinness & Manaras LLP

20070283279 - System for customizing outlook: A COMM Addin for Microsoft outlook, the COMM Addin adding a plurality of menu buttons to at least one page of Microsoft outlook viewable on a users screen, the menu buttons operable by the user, such that when the user receives a mail item in the users inbox operation of... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C.

20070283280 - Virtual file system: The virtual file system is described that enables both real data resources, such as a content file, and virtual data resources, such as a field within a database or a state determined by a mark-up language element, to be accessed through a single root.... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070283281 - Portlet communication arrangements, portlet containers, methods of communicating between portlets, and methods of managing portlet communication arrangements within a portal: A portlet communication arrangement includes a first portlet associated with a first application, and a second portlet associated with a second application which is different than the first application. The portlet communication arrangement also includes a mapping system for allowing the first portlet to communicate with the second portlet and... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20070283282 - Systems and methods for on-demand deployment of software build and test environments: Systems and methods are described that allow for the dynamic allocation and re-allocation of hardware and software resources to support the build, integration, and test phases of complex software development projects. The invention provides customers who have medium to large development teams, which may be geographically distributed, with an integrated... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP

20070283283 - Method of editing default graphic object for man-machine interface and editor using the same: A method of editing default graphic object for man-machine interface installs an editor comprised of a graphic object editor, a graphic object database and a PC screen editor connected to a man-machine interface device, such that users can self define or modify an old graphic object to form a new... Agent: Hdsl

20070283284 - Structuring graphics with placeholders: Structuring graphics with placeholders may be provided. A first diagram may be displayed configured to display data associated with a data model. The first diagram may have a first diagram type. Next, a request may be received to display the data model in a second diagram configured to display the... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20070283285 - System for controlling display content for multiple electronic display units: According to one embodiment, a system for controlling display content for multiple electronic displays includes software operable to generate a graphical user interface (GUI) and control instructions. The GUI includes a plurality of virtual display unit icons and a plurality of display content icons, each of the display content icons... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20070283286 - Method, apparatus and article of manufacture for configuring multiple partitions to use a shared network adapter: A graphical user interface, method, and apparatus for configuring a logical partition (LPAR), comprises one or more screens for configuring an LPAR having allocated resources residing on a server computer, the LPAR being uniquely identified by a partition ID; the one or more screens comprising an SNA selection element configured... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20070283287 - Customer relationship management system and method: A software-based customer relationship management system and method.... Agent: Dla Piper US LLP

20070283288 - Document management system having bookmarking functionality: A method for storing, organizing and providing remote electronic access to documents. A cover sheet including a standard set of identification data characterizing each document is developed and stored. A digital version of each document is created and stored by scanning each contract. Each digital version includes a scanned image... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20070283289 - Communication system for communicating via a graphical element: A communication system for communicating includes a window-based graphical user interface and a graphical element. The window-based graphical user interface is displayed on a display device. The window-based graphical user interface includes an area defined as a window, and the area is displayed transparently. The graphical element includes non-transparent pixels... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20070283290 - System and method for visualizing the temporal evolution of object metadata: An improved system and method for selecting and visualizing object metadata evolving over time is provided. An application may generate a visualization depicting the temporal evolution of metadata describing objects in an object store over a plurality of time intervals. The application may switch between a visualization of object metadata... Agent: Law Office Of Robert O. Bolan

20070283291 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for characterizing links to resources not activated: Methods, systems, and computer program products for characterizing links to resources that are not activated are disclosed. According to one aspect, a page is presented via a user interface of a client device, the page including a link to a resource accessible via a network through activation of the link.... Agent: Scenera Research, LLC Jenkins, Wilson & Taylor, P.A.

20070283292 - Contextual-based and overlaid user interface elements: A portable electronics device for displaying a graphical user interface (“GUI”) element on a screen of the device includes a screen, a user input device, a GUI element, and a port for receiving audio headgear. Content is displayed on a screen of the device, the content being associated with a... Agent: Workman Nydegger

20070283293 - Display control system, image procesing apparatus, and display control method: A display control system comprises: an identification information acquisition section 201 that acquires identification information for identifying a user who uses a second device 41; an operation determination section 202 that determines whether there is any uncompleted job among those for which the relevant operation has started in the first... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070283294 - Content reproducing method: According to a content reproducing method, when contents are from a recording medium, one of the presence or absence of menu contents and a title indicating the body of the contents is analyzed, and some of necessary key operations are automatically performed according to the contents of the analysis to... Agent: Steptoe & Johnson LLP

20070283295 - Multifunctional apparatus, method for controlling multifunctional apparatus, control apparatus, method for controlling control apparatus, system for controlling multifunctional apparatus, control program, and computer-readable storage medium: A multifunctional apparatus is capable of switching between a standard operation mode in which a Web service layer stops operating and an OS mode in which the Web service layer operates. In the OS mode, the multifunctional apparatus informs an external control apparatus of pressed-hardware-button information indicative of a pressed... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20070283296 - Camera based control: A communication device may include a lens and processing logic. The lens may receive a gesture made by a user of the mobile terminal and the processing logic may identify the gesture. The processing logic may also generate a command based on the identified gesture, where the command instructs the... Agent: Harrity Snyder, L.L.P.