Data processing: presentation processing of document inventions 03/08

20080077844 - Apparatus and method for managing multimedia content in mobile terminal: An apparatus and method for managing multimedia content in a mobile terminal are provided. The apparatus includes a memory; a screen mapping unit; a speech balloon insertion unit; and a storyboard creation unit. The memory stores different varieties of multimedia content and a storyboard. The screen mapping unit adjusts an... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080077845 - Graphic user interface capable of collectively and selectively changing instances using master and method of collectively and selectively changing instances using master: Provided are a graphic user interface capable of collectively and selectively changing instances using a master and a method of collectively and selectively changing instances using a master. A graphic user interface capable of collectively changing instances using a master according to an exemplary embodiment of the invention includes: a... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080077846 - Table-display method, information-setting method, information-processing apparatus, table-display program, and information-setting program: A table-display method is provided to display an item relating to each of sections positioned on an axis, as a table. The table-display method includes the steps of reproducing and outputting information, as additional information, when the part corresponding to a specific section of the table is displayed in a... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20080077847 - Captions detector: To detect captions in a document that includes text fragments and objects of interest, a signature is assigned to each text fragment. The signature is the value for that text fragment of a text fragment representation comprising at least one text fragment attribute. A caption signature is identified as a... Agent: Fay Sharpe / Xerox - Rochester

20080077848 - Capturing and processing change information in a web-type environment: A source markup language document and a modification to the source markup language document can be identified. One or more delta documents specifying the modification to the source markup language document can be created. The delta document can be independent of the source markup language document and can be coded... Agent: Cuenot & Forsythe, L.L.C.

20080077849 - Mechanism for associating annotations with model items: A method, system and computer program product for maintaining an association between a marker and a model item in a data model is provided. A data model is loaded into a workspace. The data model is associated with the marker. The marker identifies the model item in the data model... Agent: Marcia L. Doubet Law Firm

20080077850 - Content management via configuration set relationships in a content management system: Method, system, and article of manufacture for a content management system (CMS) to bind a data object (typically, an XML document) to an associated configuration set (or sets) are disclosed. The configuration set may reference a set of configuration files such as XML schemas/DTDs, style sheets, CMS processing rules, and... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20080077852 - Customizing applications in a discovery interface: A system provides customized user interface data to a media application, such as a media discovery interface, or to any application for that matter, thereby extending the original application. Via a network connection, elements of the user interface can be downloaded to the application in a package of markup data... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080077851 - Method and apparatus for inserting jsr 168 portlet content into a j2ee java server page: Incorporating a plurality of tags into a Java server page (JSP) or JSP-compliant page fragment to insert portlet content from a portlet onto a page without using an enterprise portal application. Each of the plurality of tags conforms to Java 2 Platform Enterprise Edition (J2EE) and JSP. The portlet content... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - IBM Rsw

20080077853 - Method and system for processing the input in a xml form: System and method for processing the input in an XML form. The method may include providing a template XML form to the user, receiving a modified XML form from the user, identifying the differences between the template XML form and the modified XML form and further processing the modified XML... Agent: Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel, P.C.

20080077854 - Generation, documentation and presentation of mathematical equations and symbolic scientific expressions using pure html, css, and javascript: A comprehensive method for representing mathematical equations and symbolic scientific expressions using pure HTML and CSS is disclosed. This method renders the equations portable and editable and contrasts with previous procedures that represent equations using a single graphic object. A method of generating the equations using HTML and JavaScript is... Agent: Kehinde Alabi

20080077855 - Generic website: A system for interpreting data associated with a website, comprising an interface module adapted to receive data associated with a website, an interpreter adapted to interpret an unsupported portion of said data and a generator for generating standard data from the interpreted portion.... Agent: Empk & Shiloh, LLP

20080077856 - Method and system for xml multi-transform: A method of performing XSLT processing is disclosed herein disclosed. The method comprises defining a binary tree, each node representing either an XML document or XSLT stylesheet, each leaf representing a an existing file, and each non-leaf node having two child nodes, one representing an XML document, and one representing... Agent: Mayer Brown LLP

20080077857 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for navigating content: Methods, systems, and computer program products which enhance the use of digitized content by users are described. The methods, systems, and computer program products include causing portions of the content to be adjusted in size according to dimensions which would best facilitate electronic review of the content. The methods, systems,... Agent: Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner LLP

20080077858 - Data editing for improving readability of a display: Provides ability to analyze the readability of an image to be displayed on a screen as a web page, etc., and appropriately modify the image. It includes a rendering section for generating an image by rendering an HTML document; an image processing section for performing image processing on the image... Agent: Louis Paul Herzberg

20080077859 - Spelling and grammar checking system: System of correcting misspelled words in input text detects a misspelled word in the input text, determines a list of alternative words for the misspelled word, and ranks the list of alternative words based on a context of the input text. In certain embodiments, finite state machines (FSMs) are utilized... Agent: Choate, Hall & Stewart LLP

20080077860 - Method, system, and program product for processing an electronic document: The invention provides a method, system, and program product for processing an electronic document. In one embodiment, the invention includes determining a procedure applicable to the electronic document; defining at least one step of the procedure; in the case that the at least one step includes a plurality of steps,... Agent: Hoffman, Warnick & D'alessandro LLC

20080077861 - Information processing apparatus: An information processing apparatus includes an operating unit, a display, an attaching unit to which an external storage medium is attachable and a controller. The controller sequentially stores operation information corresponding to an input operating instruction and display information corresponding to a content displayed on the display in inputting the... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080077863 - Mobile communication terminal and method for providing wait screen thereof: A mobile communication terminal and method are provided. The terminal displays an animation icon associated with active information on a wait screen. A determination is made as to whether a motion of the animation icon is associated with active information of the mobile communication terminal, and the animation icon according... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20080077862 - Techniques for rendering media as layers: Techniques are provided for rendering media as layers. Logical units of media form a media stream. The media stream as a whole is processed to divide components within the units into assigned layers. The layers are then formatted to a desired output format in parallel with one another when dependencies... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20080077865 - Context-based user interface system: An electronic device user interface system comprising a user interface management module configured to select a user interface content mode based on a signal indicative of a context of the electronic device.... Agent: Hewlett-packard Company

20080077866 - Media system with integrated clip views: Techniques and systems for presenting graphical data and time data for audio and video clips. In some embodiments, a computer program product, encoded on a computer-readable medium, is operable to cause data processing apparatus to perform operations that include obtaining video data including multiple video clips and presenting the video... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080077867 - System and method for creating and distributing asynchronous bi-directional channel based multimedia content: A system for creating and distributing asynchronous bi-directional channel based multimedia content including means for creating a selectable list of channels, each channel to contain multimedia content related to each of the list channel; means for recording the multimedia content by a content author relating to the channels; means for... Agent: Patton Boggs, LLP

20080077868 - System and method for visually representing resource usage in a multi-node data processing system: A method, system, and computer-usable medium for visually representing resource usage in a multi-node data processing system. According to a preferred embodiment of the present invention a graphical user interface (GUI) stored in system memory visually expresses the multi-node data processing system as a collection of cubes, where each cube... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20080077869 - Conference supporting apparatus, method, and computer program product: A conference supporting apparatus acquires structured data recorded with conference content in time series, and acquires information input during a conference. Keywords are extracted from the structured data and the input information. An abstract level of each of the keywords is specified in accordance with predetermined rules. Importance level of... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080077871 - Detail-in-context lenses for interacting with objects in digital image presentations: Methods for initiating an electronic shopping transaction, for initiating a control operation for a user-selectable video game character, for emphasizing an advertisement in a computer generated display, and for presenting multiple GUIs in desktop user interfaces using detail-in-context graphical distortions. The method for initiating an electronic shopping transaction, for a... Agent: Mccarthy Tetrault LLP

20080077872 - Dynamic user interface: A method for creating a graphic user interface (GUI) for a computer application includes defining a relation that associates certain graphic elements (84, 86, 88, 90, 92) with corresponding user interface elements (64, 66, 68, 70, 72) that are linked to functions of the application. An image (80) is provided... Agent: Welsh & Katz, Ltd

20080077870 - Method and apparatus for producing structured sgml/xml student compositions: System and automated tools accessed from a variety of graphical user interfaces that students can personalize to enable them to author student compositions as structured documents using Standardized General Markup Language (SGML) and/or eXtensible Markup Language (XML) that may include tables, graphics, and equations, read educational material related to the... Agent: Young & Basile, P.C.

20080077873 - Apparatus, method and computer-readable medium for organizing the display of visual icons associated with information technology processes: A method, system and computer-readable medium are provided for enabling the organization, presentation and selection of icons related to information technology processes. In a first version, icons related to individual information technology processes are associated with an enclosing icon displayed by a computer. The user may direct the computer to... Agent: Patrick Reilly

20080077874 - Emphasizing drop destinations for a selected entity based upon prior drop destinations: An apparatus, program product and method that emphasize a least one drop destination for a selected entity based upon monitored drop destinations. Drop destinations may be emphasized by generating a plurality of path vectors between the selected entity and at least a portion of the plurality of drop destinations. Generally,... Agent: Wood, Herron & Evans, L.L.P. (ibm)

20080077875 - Method and computer system for displaying a weighted tree based on hyperbolic geometry: The invention discloses a method for displaying a weighted tree based on hyperbolic geometry, comprising: obtaining weighted tree data defining a weighted tree structure; positioning the root node in a negatively curved space as a center, based on the weighted tree defining data; based on the weighted tree defining data,... Agent: Anne Vachon Dougherty

20080077876 - Computerized method and apparatus for processing digital information for display thereof: In a computerized method and apparatus for processing digital information for display on a display unit, digital information representing a number of items of first superordinate information and a number of items of second detailed information, respectively associated with an item of superordinate information, are read from a memory; that... Agent: Schiff Hardin, LLP Patent Department

20080077877 - Method for displaying web user's authentication status in a distributed single login network: The invention provides a system and method for automatically displaying a user's logged-in status across an Internet based network of affiliated Web sites via a visual indicator such as a toolbar to help the user to be certain about his logged-in status when he stays with one or switches from... Agent: Glenn Patent Group

20080077878 - Information communication device: An information communication device includes a reading unit for reading information of an original; a display input unit for displaying a transmission destination setting screen to transmit the information, and for prompting an operator to input destination data indicating a transmission destination; and a transmission unit for transmitting the information... Agent: Takeuchi & Kubotera, LLP

20080077879 - Interface with multiple rows of tabs having tabs at fixed relative positions: A method that includes presenting in a first area of a graphical interface a plurality of graphical items arranged in one or more sequences of graphical items, each of the graphical items associated with a set of data items, with the plurality of graphical items arranged in a fixed relative... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20080077880 - Method and device for selecting and displaying a region of interest in an electronic document: A method is provided for selecting a region of interest in an electronic document and displaying the selected region in a manner that is adapted to the capabilities of a display. The method may comprise such steps as loading a document, selecting a position within said document, analyzing the layout... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080077881 - Variable i/o interface for portable media device: The present invention can include electronic devices having variable input/output interfaces that can allow a user to interact with the devices with greater efficiency and in a more ergonomic manner. An electronic device of the present invention can display icons associated with user-programmable parameters of a media file. By interacting... Agent: Ropes & Gray LLP Patent Docketing 39/361

20080077882 - Multimedia mirror assembly for vehicle: A user-interactive display system for a vehicle includes an interior rearview mirror assembly, a portable hand-held device, and a display device. The portable hand-held device is operable to communicate a first signal to a vehicle-based receiver. A user input is actuatable so that a user can select an item from... Agent: Van Dyke, Gardner, Linn & Burkhart, LLP

20080077883 - Apparatus and method for displaying relation-based information in mobile terminal: Provided is an apparatus and method for displaying relation-based information in a mobile terminal. The method includes, upon a receipt of a request for displaying the relation-based information, searching storage data for the relation-based information on a search target, sorting, by function, the searched relation-based information and creating and displaying... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080077885 - Portable device and method for displaying menu in portable device: A method and apparatus for displaying a menu on a display unit of a portable device having an input unit such as a jog input unit freely movable in multiple directions are provided. After the input unit is pressed, a display unit displays a reference point and first depth menu... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080077884 - System for use in data exchange and information retrieval: A user interface system employed in retrieving information from an information repository used in exchanging data between different electronic data systems includes the following method. A first menu is displayed which supports user selection of a bi-directional communication interface from a plurality of interfaces. The bi-directional communication interface is used... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080077886 - Selective detailed display of devices in a network: There is described a method, to a program and to a system for graphically displaying and projecting at least one network of devices of an automation system, a high density of information usually occurring at the user interface. To allow a user to selectively display devices in a network, in... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080077887 - Spatial and temporal graphical display of verified/validated data organized as complex events: Complex events for an entity are gathered, each including an event, the event's location, and the date of the event. A map encompassing the locations of the complex events is displayed. The location of each complex event is denoted on the map, such as by an icon corresponding to the... Agent: Don Carnegie

20080077888 - Calendar application user interface with free-form appointment entry: A method and system is provided to dynamically update the calendar display as the user is typing a new appointment in the appointment entry area so that the user can see where the appointment will be added. In addition, the user can see where an appointment will be added by... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, PLLC

20080072131 - Methods, systems, and devices for creating, storing, transferring and manipulating electronic data layers: Methods and systems for creating, storing, transferring and manipulating electronic data layers employ computer hardware and software including instructions embodied in program code encoded on machine readable medium to provide, for example, one or more first layers of electronic data and one or more second layers of electronic data associated... Agent: Kilpatrick Stockton LLP

20080072132 - Concurrent presentation of media and related content lists: The concurrent presentation technique provides information about content related to a source media currently being presented to a user in a fashion that allows the user to keep viewing the source media while either interactively or non-interactively perusing a list of related content. Thus, the user can see a list... Agent: Microsoft Corporation C/o Lyon & Harr, LLP

20080072133 - Form bundling: A form management system is provided that bundles individual electronic form instances into a single bundled form. Form field names in the electronic form instances and scripts are renamed at the time the form instances are merged into a bundle. In this manner, common names can be assigned to individual... Agent: Hensley Kim & Holzer, LLC

20080072134 - Annotating token sequences within documents: Token sequences within a number of documents are annotated. First, a base inverse index for unique tokens within the documents is received. The base inverse index includes a set of the unique tokens within the documents and a set of location lists for each unique token. Second, indices are created... Agent: Frederick W. Gibb, Iii Gibb & Rahman, LLC

20080072135 - Annotation validity using partial checksums: Embodiments of the present invention generally provide a system, method and article of manufacture for validating annotations describing one or more portions of a data object. In general, prior to displaying a requested annotation, a current change detection value may be calculated from current data extracted from portions of the... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20080072136 - Method and system for accelerating downloading of web pages: Web content based on markup language technology is delivered to a client device running a browser or similar application through a markup language file manipulator. Files requested by a client device are processed through the markup language file manipulator and the browser links embedded in the web content are traversed... Agent: Smith Frohwein Tempel Greenlee Blaha, LLC

20080072137 - Structured document browser: A structured document browser includes a constant user interface for displaying and viewing sections of a document that is organized according to a pre-defined structure. The structured document browser displays documents that have been marked with embedded codes that specify the structure of the document. The tags are mapped to... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080072138 - Dynamic external entity resolution in an xml-based content management system: Embodiments of the invention provide a method, system, and article of manufacture for dynamically resolving external entity references in a document managed by a content management system (CMS). In one embodiment, a wrapper transform may be applied to a source transform to generate a modified source transform. The modified source... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20080072139 - Mobilizing webpages by selecting, arranging, adapting, substituting and/or supplementing content for mobile and/or other electronic devices; and optimizing content for mobile and/or other electronic devices; and enhancing usability of mobile devices: The invention includes systems and methods for selecting, arranging, adapting, substituting, supplementing, and optimizing content for mobile and/or other electronic devices. Mobilized content is accessible from any web-enabled electronic device including mobile phones and game devices as well as desktops and laptops. Mobilized content includes media files such as images,... Agent: Kenyon D. Potter

20080072140 - Techniques for inducing high quality structural templates for electronic documents: Techniques are disclosed herein to automatically learn a template that describes a common structure present in documents in a training set. The structure of the template is compared to the structure of the documents (or at least a part of each document) in the training set, one-by-one, and generalized in... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker LLP/yahoo! Inc.

20080072141 - Computer-based system and computer program product for collaborative editing of documents: A computer-based system for collaborative editing of documents has a computer-based control module and computerized workstations. The system has a database connected to the control module that stores a document in the database as linked character objects. Each character object represents one particular character of the document, includes a unique... Agent: Siemens Schweiz Ag I-47, Intellectual Property

20080072142 - Code transformation method for an operation system: A code transforming method is provided for use in an operation system of a computer prior to displaying and printing out a text document and includes the steps: (i) transforming content of the text document into a temporary text file utilizing a data transformation service; (ii) coding each character of... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080072143 - Method and device incorporating improved text input mechanism: The invention relates to a method and device incorporating an improved text input mechanism. The text input method comprising the steps determining a list of candidates for the present context, a candidate being a possible textual continuation of the present context and having a relevance score assigned; arranging the candidates... Agent: Jonathan D. Feuchtwang

20080072144 - Online learning monitor: Content is transferred from one computer resource to another computer resource by receiving a first insertion point or replacement area from a first user interface to a destination computer resource, receiving an enablement to perform automatic paste operation, switching to a user interface to a source computer resource, receiving a... Agent: Ibm Corporation (rhf)

20080072145 - Method and apparatus for customizing the display of multidimensional data: A Tag Cloud Customizer (TCC) provides an interactive legend and a tag cloud generator that allows a user to customize a tag cloud. The interactive legend allows users to map custom display characteristics to a plurality of tag attributes. The tag cloud generator creates a custom tag cloud using the... Agent: Ibm Corporation (rus) C/o Rudolf O Siegesmund Gordon & Rees, LLP

20080072146 - Apparatus and method of composing web document and apparatus of setting web document arrangement: An apparatus and method of composing a web document and an apparatus to set a web document arrangement are provided. The apparatus to compose a web document includes a generation module which generates a plurality of frames by analyzing a source of a web document, a composition module which arranges... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080072147 - System and method for modifying documents sent over a communications network: A system and method applied to a communications network which transmits document portions in which an original document portion having an identifier portion and an information portion is replaced or swapped with a substitute document portion. A controller, typically a proxy server, reads the identifier portion of the original document... Agent: Health Hero Network, Inc.

20080072148 - Method and apparatus for abstracting telephony functions: A method and apparatus for abstracting telephony functions is disclosed. An apparatus that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a terminal device having a User Interface (UI) element that presents a plurality of Graphical User Interface (GUI) elements that abstract a corresponding plurality of telephony functions,... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20080072149 - Structured document browser: A structured document browser includes a constant user interface for displaying and viewing sections of a document that is organized according to a pre-defined structure. The structured document browser displays documents that have been marked with embedded codes that specify the structure of the document. The tags are mapped to... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080072151 - Context aware user interface for medical diagnostic imaging, such as ultrasound imaging: User interaction is provided for a medical imaging system. The user interacts with the display rather than programmed buttons. The context between the user input and the display, such as identifying user selection of a bottom edge of a displayed image, is determined. The imaging system is controlled based on... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080072150 - Event-based display and methods therefor: A system for presenting pertinent information to a user comprising a centralized server which stores at least one rule; a browser; and, a helper application associated with the browser, wherein the helper application retrieves the at least one rule from the centralized server, wherein the helper application can monitor user... Agent: Yahoo! Inc. C/o Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20080072152 - User interface for presenting media information: A user interface and methods for using a user interface for controlling processing of time-based media files. In one exemplary method, a graphical representation of a time line for a time-based media is displayed along with a graphical representation of a current time along the graphical representation of the time... Agent: Apple Computer, Inc./blakely

20080072153 - Method and earphone-microphone device for providing wearable-based interaction: An earphone-microphone device for receiving at least one physical data from a physical detector and providing wearable-based interaction between a user and a telecare system through a communication apparatus is disclosed. The earphone-microphone comprises an earphone, a microphone, and a control module. The control module is electronically connected with the... Agent: Kamrath & Associates P.A.

20080072154 - Audible computer user interface method and apparatus: A computing system is provided that includes a display 124 for displaying information and an audible locating agent 148 that, as a pointer moves over the display, plays audible locating signals to identify spatial locations of at least some of the displayed information.... Agent: Sheridan Ross P.C.

20080072155 - Method and apparatus for identifying hotkey conflicts: The hotkey conflict avoidance program identifies a set of hotkeys in a first application and a second set of hotkeys in a simultaneously running second application, compares a first hotkey in the first set of hotkeys to a second hotkey in the second set of hotkeys and returns an error... Agent: Ibm Corporation (rus) C/o Rudolf O Siegesmund Gordon & Rees, LLP

20080072156 - System and methodology of networked collaboration: A musical workstation system produces a display presentation in one of a musical composition responsive to musical composition data and responsive to one or both of input variables and a selected operating mode. The system is comprised of (1) means to provide the musical composition data (such as local storage... Agent: Sitrick & Sitrick

20080072157 - System for controlling objects in a recursive browser system: zspace sharing: Provided herein is a recursive web browser system including a recursive web browser and at least one computer application executing therein, including a computer application effective to enable sharing of one or more ZCubes over a networked recursive web browser system and to enable a plurality of functions comprising the... Agent: Dr. Benjamin Aaron Adler Adler & Associates

20080072158 - User collaboration system: A user collaboration system providing for the efficient utilization of an organization's resources, such as the bandwidth associated with call center activity. At the same time, the user collaboration system enables users to quickly and easily receive help in a particular subject matter area, without requiring the user to know... Agent: Accenture Chicago 28164 Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080072159 - Method and device for dynamic streaming archiving configuration: The present invention provides a system and a method allowing users to record/stream a video conference by dialing a Content Server from any endpoint using a personal alias or aliases, or by dialing an endpoint from a content server using a personal alias or aliases. The alias(es) will define their... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080072160 - Electronic data interchange transaction set definition based instance editing: An EDI document instance is generated or edited via an editor tool that also displays a corresponding EDI schema, thus allowing editing of an EDI document instance alongside its corresponding EDI schema, thereby interrelating EDI document creation or editing with the corresponding EDI schema. Either the EDI document instance or... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080072162 - Enhanced postition control of web pages: A solution is presented to keep track of the URLs that have been visited within an HTML file, identify the location or exit point of the last line that was displayed on a screen in a multi-screen HTML file, and return to the exact exit point location upon reentry to... Agent: Law Office Of Delio & Peterson, LLC.

20080072161 - Structured document browser: A structured document browser includes a constant user interface for displaying and viewing sections of a document that is organized according to a pre-defined structure. The structured document browser displays documents that have been marked with embedded codes that specify the structure of the document. The tags are mapped to... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080072163 - Electronic devices having complementary dual displays: Electronic devices having complementary dual displays are presented, the electronic devices including: a first display, wherein the first display is a refresh-based, high frame rate display; a first display controller for outputting an internal video signal to the first display; a second display, wherein the second display is a bistable,... Agent: Stevens Law Group

20080072164 - Methods and the program-recording medium for creating, editing and trading home page components to assemble a home page and a personal portal site directly in wysiwyg on web browser: The present invention is a method to create and edit the home page component in WYSIWYG directly on a web browser by wrapping the HTML code of each home page component inside the div tag to be two fold structure, storing the position information and the content information in XML... Agent: Ipla P.A.

20080072165 - Display method, computer program product and computer system: A display method wherein a labeled scatter chart is displayed on a graphical user interface, the scatter chart having a plurality of labels. A first modification of one of the labels is entered via a graphical user interface by a user. Execution of labeling instructions that implement a labeling algorithm... Agent: Fleit Kain Gibbons Gutman Bongini & Bianco

20080072166 - Graphical user interface for creating animation: In one aspect, the invention provides a graphical user interface for generating animation. The graphical user interface comprises a search pane which includes a text box to input a search string to search for an animation effect; and a preview pane to display a result of the search in the... Agent: Hahn And Moodley, LLP

20080072169 - Document interfaces: An interface system is disclosed, the interface system comprising a global interface for enabling navigation through a plurality of documents and a plurality of specific interfaces, at least some documents from the plurality of documents having a specific interface associated therewith.... Agent: Maya-systems Inc.

20080072167 - Method and system for changing skin of portable terminal: A method and a system for changing the skin of a portable terminal are provided. The method includes downloading and storing a selection skin, designating and activating the stored selection skin, determining whether to adjust characteristics of the activated selection skin, adjusting a script file to adjust the characteristics of... Agent: H.c. Park & Associates, PLC

20080072168 - Methods, apparatus and data structures for providing a user interface to objects, the user interface exploiting spatial memory and visually indicating at least one object parameter: A graphical user interface in which object thumbnails are rendered in a three-dimensional environment and which exploits spatial memory. The objects may be moved, continuously, with a two-dimensional input device. Pop-up title bars may be rendered over active objects. Intelligent help may be provided to the user, as visual indicators,... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080072170 - System and metod for utilizing a drag and drop technique to complete electronic forms: A system and method for utilizing a drag and drop technique to complete electronic forms are provided. A document browser computer (30) accesses one or more electronic forms provided by a document server (32) via an active Internet browser application window. A URL link to a fill server (34) is... Agent: American Express Travel Related Services Co., Inc. C/o Snell & Wilmer, L.L.P.

20080072171 - Display system for graphic representation of alarm reports of a technical plant or technical process: A display system is disclosed for graphic representation of alarm reports from measured values of a technical plant or technical process, with a processing device, wherein the measurement points of the measured values each have a hierarchically structured identifier, and the hierarchically structured identifier of the relevant measurement points is... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20080072172 - Electronic apparatus with display unit, information-processing method, and computer product: An electronic apparatus with a display unit that can display icons indicating an apparatus state or an operating condition based on an on-screen display function includes an apparatus-condition detecting unit that detects a change of the apparatus state or a change of a setting of the operating condition; an icon... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080072173 - Method and apparatus for resizing buffered windows: Methods and apparatuses for resizing buffered windows. In one aspect of the invention, a method to resize a buffered window on a data processing system includes: determining an estimated size for a window which has a first pixel image of a first size buffered in a first window buffer; allocating... Agent: James C. Scheller Blakely, Sokoloff, Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080072175 - Apparatus, system and method for context and language specific data entry: An apparatus, system and method that allow for context and language specific data entry via a user interface. A user interface is displayed on a display device, where the user interface includes a data entry menu having one or more menu selections. A menu selection is activated. A data entry... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, LLC

20080072174 - Apparatus, system and method for the aggregation of multiple data entry systems into a user interface: An apparatus, system and method that allow for the aggregation of multiple data entry systems via a user interface. An embodiment of an apparatus includes a processor to receive a control signal from a navigation controller and to display a user interface on a display device. The user interface includes... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, LLC

20080072176 - Structured document browser: A structured document browser includes a constant user interface for displaying and viewing sections of a document that is organized according to a pre-defined structure. The structured document browser displays documents that have been marked with embedded codes that specify the structure of the document. The tags are mapped to... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080072177 - Cascade menu lock: The present invention is directed to a cascade menu lock for locking a normally closed cascade menu in the open state. Various levels of a cascade menu can be locked in the open state using a lock shortcut key or other user input. Unconstrained cursor movement is then possible without... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20080072178 - Graphical user interface (gui) for displaying software component availability as determined by a messaging infrastructure: An IS monitoring approach is described that is capable of monitoring the availability of various software components. A further capability is that the availability of the individual software components upon which a specific business logic process depends may each be individually and continuously checked, in a combined fashion that is... Agent: Sap/blakely

20080072179 - On-demand hyperlink computer search tool: An on-demand hyperlink computer search tool implements a method of providing hyperlinked search results that overlay a computer document. The method includes selecting an object in a computer document, submitting the object to a search engine, receiving results, categorizing the results as clusters and displaying the clusters. The clusters are... Agent: George Mason University Office Of Technology Transfer, Msn 5g5

20080072180 - User readability improvement for dynamic updating of search results: Dynamic update of a displayed set of search results is disclosed. One or more search results in a displayed set of search results are shown to move within the display to create a space. One or more additional search results are displayed in the space. In some embodiments, animation techniques... Agent: Van Pelt, Yi & James LLP And Emc Corporation

20080065973 - Structured document browser: A structured document browser includes a constant user interface for displaying and viewing sections of a document that is organized according to a pre-defined structure. The structured document browser displays documents that have been marked with embedded codes that specify the structure of the document. The tags are mapped to... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080065974 - Template-based electronic presence management: A platform provides an intuitive and integrated management tool for disparate communications channels. Media such as web sites, web logs, electronic mail, instant messaging, and short messaging services may be combined and controlled through a single access point. The user interface for the access point may itself be deployed for... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20080065975 - Method for assigning multimedia data to distributed storage devices: The invention concerns a method for assigning parts of multimedia files to distributed storage devices, the number of said devices being an integer n, characterized in that it comprises the following steps: a step consisting in dividing each multimedia file in windows, which represent data for contiguous playback of a... Agent: Thomson Licensing LLC

20080065976 - Sound distribution system accompanied by composition and sound distribution system accompanied by charging: A system which distributes information from an information distribution device to an information reception device on the basis of selection information indicating one or more pieces of sound information which is selected from a plurality of pieces of sound information. The information distribution device creates a composite sound data file... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20080065977 - Methods for identifying cells in a path in a flowchart and for synchronizing graphical and textual views of a flowchart: The preferred embodiments described herein provide methods for identifying cells in a path in a flowchart and for synchronizing graphical and textual views of a flowchart. In one preferred embodiment, a method for identifying cells in a path in a flowchart is provided comprising the acts of displaying a flowchart... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080065978 - Xml based form modification with import/export capability: A form user interface modification engine for use in customizing forms of an application is provided. The modification engine includes an export component which retrieves a first binary format form for customization. The export component deserializes the first binary format form and converts the first binary format form into a... Agent: Westman Champlin (microsoft Corporation)

20080065979 - Document processing device, and document processing method: A technique is provided for adding an annotation to a document described in a markup language. Upon acquisition of a document described in a markup language from another apparatus via a network, a document processing apparatus 100 displays the document content. In a case of reception of an instruction from... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080065980 - Modifying a markup language document which includes a clickable image: The invention relates to a method, a computer program product and a computer device for modifying a markup language document which includes a clickable image. The method comprises the steps of extracting a clickable portion of the clickable image, generating a reduced image corresponding to the extracted portion, adding a... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080065981 - Custom document generation system and method: A custom marketing document system and method, including custom map information, is provided herein.... Agent: Axios Law Group. PLLC

20080065982 - User driven computerized selection, categorization, and layout of live content components: A computer application displayed document such as a Web Page, is manipulated by dragging snippets to and from graphically depicted icons created by the application. The snippets preferably comprise links to the original content for communicating with the content source and/or restoring removed snippets to the displayed document. Preferably links... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20080065983 - System and methodology of data communications: A musical workstation system produces a display presentation in one of a musical composition responsive to musical composition data and responsive to one or both of input variables and a selected operating mode. The system is comprised of (1) means to provide the musical composition data (such as local storage... Agent: Sitrick & Sitrick

20080065985 - Structured document browser: A structured document browser includes a constant user interface for displaying and viewing sections of a document that is organized according to a pre-defined structure. The structured document browser displays documents that have been marked with embedded codes that specify the structure of the document. The tags are mapped to... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080065986 - Structured document browser: A structured document browser includes a constant user interface for displaying and viewing sections of a document that is organized according to a pre-defined structure. The structured document browser displays documents that have been marked with embedded codes that specify the structure of the document. The tags are mapped to... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080065984 - Voice xml web console: The invention provides a method and apparatus, including computer program products, for interfacing communication between a warehouse management system and a portable device, the device being adapted for processing voice XML data, the method comprising: receiving, from the warehouse management system, GUI screen data comprising visual content; generating voice XML... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20080065987 - Integration of visual content related to media playback into non-media-playback processing: In accordance with an aspect, a method is provided to operate a portable electronic device including integrated operation of media playback processing with non-media-playback processing. A collection of information related to media playback processing may be maintained. The non-media-playback processing may be operated to include customizing the non-media-playback processing based... Agent: Beyer Weaver LLP/apple Inc.

20080065988 - Portable electronic device with local search capabilities: Improved methods and systems that assist a user in searching media items on a portable electronic device are disclosed. According to one aspect of the invention, a portable electronic device is provided with a search function that enables a user to search for media items resident on the portable electronic... Agent: Beyer Weaver LLP/apple Inc.

20080065989 - Playlist creation tools for television user interfaces: Systems and methods according to the present invention provide a user interface for playlist creation functionality.... Agent: Potomac Patent Group PLLC

20080065990 - Integrated product branding method: An improved method for advertising which provides synergism between published media and broadcast media. The method includes forming a video wherein the video has items of commerce in at least one frame. Capturing the frame. Annotating the captured frame with at least one product attribute of the item thereby forming... Agent: Sara A. Centioni Nexsen Pruet Jacobs & Pollard, LLC

20080065991 - Personalized content management: A personalized content manager is disclosed. The personalized content manager comprises an apparatus, system, method, and computer readable medium that includes or performs the steps of receiving input regarding the filtering of broadband content, filtering the broadband content with one or more content categories based on the filtering input, filtering... Agent: Dorsey & Whitney LLP

20080065992 - Cascaded display of video media: Instances of media items are generated from a selection of media items. The instances are scaled and rotated within a display environment.... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080065993 - Systems and methods for infrastructure and middleware provisioning: Systems, methods, and computer readable media are provided for provisioning a service using a web-based user interface. An exemplary method may include establishing, using the web-based user interface, a profile including one or more services; and configuring an environment by specifying a computer to use for provisioning the one or... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080065994 - Systems and methods for adapting service interface behaviors: In one embodiment, the present invention includes a computer-implemented method of adapting software component interfaces by providing a user interface for specifying a provided interface, a required interface and interface operators. In another embodiment the present invention includes a computer-implemented method of adapting interfaces comprising receiving an adapter specification, receiving... Agent: Chad R. Walsh

20080065995 - System and method for providing active tags: A computer-implemented data processing system includes tag logic for permitting a user to create an active tag. The active tag is associated with an object and includes configuration information that defines an action to be performed upon selection of the active tag. The configuration information is accessible by another user.... Agent: Lee & Hayes, PLLC

20080065996 - Desktop sharing method and system: A desktop sharing system and method are provided. A desktop sharing application permits a selected display region on a first computer's desktop to be shared with other computers. The desktop sharing application permits another computer to assume control and share a selected display region of the other computer's desktop during... Agent: Beyer Weaver LLP

20080065997 - System and method for enhanced messaging and commerce: A system and method for enhancing the experience of a user using a communication program over the Internet or other network. The system and method according to one embodiment utilizes a user's status indicator in a communication program to share content such as music or videos among users, and provides... Agent: Yahoo! Inc. C/o Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20080065998 - Teleforum apparatus and method: A method and apparatus of providing a teleforum. The method includes generating simultaneous outbound invitation calls to multiple invitees and transmitting a message to each invitee, inviting him or her to become a teleforum participant. Teleforum participants who accept the invitation are connected to the teleforum in a listen-only mode.... Agent: Swanson & Bratschun, L.L.C.

20080065999 - Conferencing system with document access: A conferencing system includes a plurality of users each of which is interconnected with a conferencing server that permits videoconferencing among the plurality of users. The conferencing server permits each of the plurality of users to access a file of the conferencing server using an authentication process. The conferencing server... Agent: Chernoff, Vilhauer, Mcclung & Stenzel

20080066000 - Panoramic ring user interface: A computer-readable medium and user interface for displaying media objects on a geographic map to a user are described. Indications from the user are received specifying a target location and a view direction on the geographic map. A database is accessed to retrieve media objects, either individually or in a... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. (c/o Microsoft Corporation)

20080066001 - Conferencing system with linked chat: A conferencing system includes plurality of users each of which is interconnected with a conferencing server. The users each can simultaneously view the same video stream provided by the conferencing server. The users may simultaneously textually communicating among themselves while viewing the video stream to create a textual communication. The... Agent: Chernoff, Vilhauer, Mcclung & Stenzel

20080066002 - Method for creation, management, and presentation of user-scoped navigation topologies for web applications: The present invention is directed to a method and system for designing a web portal or enterprise portal comprising a hierarchical structure of portal pages and portlets for accessing web content or enterprise content accessible via the portal. A method for modifying a given hierarchical navigation topology including nodes and... Agent: Hoffman, Warnick & D'alessandro LLC

20080066003 - User interface with looping menu: A looping menu is implemented through appropriate spacing and positioning of menu elements and by masking repeating menu elements. The starting position of the mask may be calculated with respect to the width of the initial set of menu elements presented before encountering repeating menu elements and the gap spacing... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080066004 - Process plant user interface system having customized process graphic display layers in an integrated environment: A method useful for providing a user interface for a process plant includes displaying graphical depictions of process plant elements of the process plant via the user interface. Information is generated for a plurality of content layers of a process graphic display of the process plant elements by processing data... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP (fisher)

20080066005 - Systems and methods of interfacing with enterprise resource planning systems: A user friendly graphical interface responds to a user designated Business Application Programming Interface (BAPI) of an enterprise resource planning system by presenting classes of information from the designated BAPI. The interface enables the user to review or edit parameters or data associated with the designated BAPI in a graphical... Agent: Welsh & Katz, Ltd

20080066006 - Method and system for displaying application windows for computer system using video data modulation: A method and system for displaying application windows are provided to facilitate multitasking by effectively managing multiple open application windows. The method for displaying application windows on a display screen that is divided into an active part and a non-active part includes modulating video data corresponding to the non-active part... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20080066007 - User interface for multifunction device: A graphical user interface for use in connection with a multifunction device is set forth. In one example, the multifunction device includes navigation and media functionality. The exemplary graphical user interface comprises a navigation interface, a media interface, and a source menu display. The source menu screen includes at least... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080066008 - Visual control interface for controlling multi-window display system: A visual interface for controlling a multi-window display system is disclosed. The visual interface includes at least one session icon, a multiple of window icons and at least one link icon. When the session icon receives a selection signal, the operation focus of the multi-window display system is transferred to... Agent: Law Offices Of Lai And Associates, P.C.

20080066009 - Visual test automation tool for message-based applications, web applications and soa systems: In one embodiment, a graphical user interface (“GUI”) enables the efficient composition and execution of a test of a message-based application, Web application, or SOA systems' capacity to receive, process and respond to message traffic. The GUI may be used to generate a test composition by dragging and dropping message... Agent: The Law Offices Of Bradley J. Bereznak

20080066011 - System and method for the visualization of sports information: The present invention is directed to a system and method for visualizing information, e.g., information regarding a sporting event. The method may comprise identifying an event type and generating a plurality of buttons, the plurality of buttons arranged in a button hierarchy. A first level of the button hierarchy comprising... Agent: Dreier LLP

20080066010 - User interface with menu abstractions and content abstractions: Media menu items are generated within a media interface environment. Media menu item abstractions are generated, one of the media menu item abstractions arranged in a foreground position, and one or more of the media menu item abstractions arranged in background positions in the media interface environment. Selection of a... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080066012 - Method and system for reconfiguring a selection system based on layers of categories descriptive of recordable events: A method and system for selection of recordable events from among a set of recordable events, based on categories and sub-categories, that cumulatively describe a substantial portion of the entire set of recordable events. After receiving a first set of categories, and first sets of sub-categories corresponding to the first... Agent: Mcdonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

20080066013 - Rendering icons along a multidimensional path having a terminus position: Icons are arranged in foreground background positions in an interface environment to define a multidimensional path extending from a terminus. The icons transition between the foreground position and the background positions along the multidimensional path.... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080066014 - Image based turing test: A system and method for determining if a computer user is a human or a computer program. A computer user is presented with a series of images, the series of images including: at least two related images of an object, at least one of the at least two related images... Agent: George Mason University Office Of Technology Transfer, Msn 5g5

20080066015 - Visual display of automated telephone system menus: An efficient method for dealing with automated telephone system menus is provided herein. The method includes a new signaling from origination of the phone menu system to allow for visual display of the phone menu and the means by which the end-user can view the phone menu choices.... Agent: Thomas Blankenhorn

20080066016 - Media manager with integrated browsers: Methods and systems that improve the way media is played, sorted, modified, stored and cataloged are disclosed. One aspect relates to a browse window that allows a user to navigate through and select images that are related to media items. Another aspect relates to a graphical user interface of a... Agent: Technology & Innovation Law Group, PC

20080066017 - Displaying items using a reduced presentation: To reduce the amount of space needed to display an item, while still retaining meaning for the item, a reduced presentation is determined for the item. The reduced presentation is based on analysis of a portion that contains information that may be less important for the user to see in... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker LLP/yahoo! Inc.

20080066018 - Agenda determination in an electronic device: A method of displaying an agenda at an electronic device includes retrieving, from at least one database of the electronic device, calendared events that meet a set of constraints, determining free time periods absent of the calendared events, and providing the calendared events and at least some of the free... Agent: Perry + Currier (for Rim)

20080066019 - Compact batch viewing techniques for use in batch processes: A data collection and viewing application associated with a batch process control system used within a process plant provides a user interface that allows a user to quickly and easily examine a particular batch process or a batch run, to compare separate batch runs and/or to determine whether the particular... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP (fisher)

20080066020 - System and method to capture and manage input values for automatic form fill: A system for automatically completing fields in online forms, such as login forms and new user registration forms, which employs a Master Cookie File containing sets of records associated with the user, his or her accounts or web sites, and registered values associated with form tags (e.g. username, password, address,... Agent: Robert H. Frantz

20080059870 - Method for ensuring synchronous presentation of additional data with audio data: A recording medium, method and apparatus for managing data are discussed. According to an embodiment, the present invention provides a method of reproducing main data and additional data. The method includes receiving the additional data associated with the main data, the additional data being divided into a plurality of segment... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080059871 - Automatic creation of motion control commands according to elements in drawing specifications and user input: System and method for utilizing a drawing specification for motion control. A plurality of elements in a drawing specification may be automatically identified. The elements may include one or more lines, polygons, arcs, splines, alphanumeric characters, and/or ellipses. Additionally, the drawing specification may be a drawing or digital drafting file,... Agent: Jeffrey C. Hood Meyertons Hood Kivlin Kowert & Goerzel PC

20080059872 - Video annotation method by integrating visual features and frequent patterns: A video annotation method by integrating visual features and frequent patterns is disclosed. This method is featured in integrating a statistical model based on visual features with a sequential model and an association model constructed by data mining skills for automatically annotating unknown videos. This method takes both of visual... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20080059873 - Indexing structured documents: Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for indexing structured documents. A method includes identifying a structured document in a file system for indexing, the structured document having an identifier and at least one indexing-property, extracting at least one index-value from the structured document in accordance with a pre-defined extraction... Agent: Fish & Richardson, P.C.

20080059874 - Facilitated generation of highly personalized communications: A method is disclosed for facilitating the generation of highly personalized communications, such as newsletters, for a specific recipient. The communication's content is determined by and format is arranged according to software-controlled rules called “Content Directives”. Information about the recipient is recorded in a database and is reviewed to determine... Agent: Sheehan Phinney Bass & Green, PA C/o Peter Nieves

20080059875 - Method for optimizing character string output processing: The present invention improves efficiency in processing for outputting a character string. A system of the present invention firstly acquires an output program for sequentially executing a plurality of character string output instructions, and thereby for outputting a text in which a plurality of output character strings are combined. The... Agent: Hoffman, Warnick & D'alessandro LLC

20080059876 - Methods and apparatus for performing spelling corrections using one or more variant hash tables: Methods and apparatus are provided for performing spelling corrections using one or more variant hash tables. The spelling of at least one candidate word is corrected by obtaining at least one variant dictionary hash table based on variants of a set of known correctly spelled words, wherein the variants are... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20080059877 - Method for automatically adjusting the components of a screen region to maintain layout integrity in multiple languages: A method for automatically adjusting the components of a screen region such as a dialog box to maintain layout integrity independent of displayed language. For example, if two components such as a label and text field are treated as a group and given a desired width, then if the displayed... Agent: Sap_dlg

20080059878 - Information processing apparatus, information processing method, program and control method of information processing apparatus: According to one embodiment, an information processing apparatus includes a data obtaining unit which obtains content data, and display screen generating unit which, based on the content data obtained by the data obtaining unit, generates a content display screen and a functional layout display screen displaying a portion associated with... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20080059879 - Combined sectional view producing method and apparatus: A combined sectional view is produced by obtaining a section plane based on one of a plurality of section lines, which is currently set as a target, and on a cut face along the target section line, obtaining an adjacent section plane passing a crossed point between a connected section... Agent: Patrick G. Burns, Esq. Greer, Burns & Crain, Ltd.

20080059880 - Child lock for electronic device: A method for controlling a display device, such as, for example, the display device mounted on a shopping cart, the shopping cart having a wheeled base and a basket portion in connection with the wheeled base and a handle in connection with the wheeled base, the method comprising: allowing a... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - IBM Research Triangle Park

20080059881 - Method and device for presenting calendar views on small displays: A method is provided for presenting a calendar view to a user on a device having a limited display size. The method comprises the following steps. Days are represented as a series of separator bars. At least one single day separator bar for representing a day that does not conform... Agent: Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP

20080059883 - Color and symbol coded visual cues for relating screen items to each other: Described is a system and method for visually delineating a relationship between diverse, but related graphical objects in a graphical user interface. An icon that has specified color scheme is associated with the diverse, but related but graphical objects. When one of the related graphical objects is displayed, the icon... Agent: Ip Authority, LLC Ramraj Soundararajan

20080059882 - Method and apparatus for providing instructional help, at multiple levels of sophistication, in a learning application: An apparatus and method for providing instructional help, at multiple levels of sophistication, in a learning application includes assistance in the form to at least two optional levels of sophistication. The user can select any level of sophistication according to desire or need. The levels allow for flexibility in learning... Agent: Mckee, Voorhees & Sease, P.L.C

20080059884 - Systems and methods for providing media guidance planners: Systems and methods for providing media planners for planning a user's media content viewing activities are provided. The media planner may include an interactive grid of content with scheduled viewing, recording, or reminders set within a user-selectable time window. The media planner may prioritize content within the planner grid and... Agent: Ropes & Gray LLP

20080059885 - Video structuring by probabilistic merging of video segments: A method for structuring video by probabilistic merging of video segments includes the steps of obtaining a plurality of frames of unstructured video; generating video segments from the unstructured video by detecting shot boundaries based on color dissimilarity between consecutive frames; extracting a feature set by processing pairs of segments... Agent: David A. Novais Patent Legal Staff

20080059886 - Smart picture selector and cache: A method for intelligently selecting a display image in a networked device is described. The method comprises receiving from a content provider image information and corresponding media data for display on a device. From the received image information, an image selection policy is determined. The image selection policy includes a... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20080059887 - System, method and computer program product for locating a subset of computers on a network: A system, method and computer program product are provided for computer management. Initially, a plurality of categories associated with computers on a network is provided. In addition, the plurality of categories each includes a plurality of values. In use, at least one of the values is received, and a subset... Agent: Zilka-kotab, PC

20080059888 - Orientation based multiple mode mechanically vibrated touch screen display: A system and method is disclosed for reconfiguring the graphical user interface (GUI) of a mechanically vibrated touchscreen display associated with a portable mobile communications device that is operable in a variety of modes. The reconfiguration of the GUI is based on the orientation of the portable mobile communications device.... Agent: Moore And Van Allen PLLC For Semc

20080059889 - System and method of overlaying and integrating data with geographic mapping applications: The present invention embodiments include a geographic overlay system including an information system, a mapping system interface to communicate with a mapping system and a database system including National Census geographic boundaries and data files. The geographic overlay system utilizes a client/server model that streams geographic data from a server... Agent: Edell, Shapiro & Finnan, LLC

20080059890 - Conflict checking and notification in an electronic device: A method of operating a portable electronic device is disclosed. The method includes receiving and storing calendared events at the portable electronic device, determining whether ones of the calendared events conflict, ordering the calendar events by time in a list based on respective start date/times, and whether plural calendared events... Agent: Perry + Currier (for Rim)

20080059891 - System and a method for improving digital media content using automatic process: There is provided herein a method of post review of content items previously posted on a shared network resource, the method may include receiving a suggestion from a viewer with respect to a proposed change to a previously posted content item and submitting the suggestion to a control group for... Agent: Eitan Law Group C/o LandonIPInc.

20080059892 - Owner identification of collaboration work object: To easily identify the owner of an object currently drawn on a collaboration work area, or an object already drawn thereon, to easily carry out an editing operation for the object of each owner by selectively identifying the object drawn by a particular owner. A user management table registers the... Agent: Ference & Associates LLC

20080059893 - Using a zooming effect to provide additional display space for managing applications: One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that uses a zooming effect to provide additional display space to manage applications. In one mode of operation, the system presents an image of a computer desktop to the user on a display device. When the system receives a request from... Agent: Sun Microsystems Inc. C/o Park, Vaughan & Fleming LLP

20080059894 - Conflict resolution in recovery of electronic data: Systems and methods are provided for resolving conflicts. In one implementation, a method relating to modifying a view in a user interface is provided. The method includes receiving, while a current view is displayed in a user interface, a first user input requesting that a history view associated with the... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080059895 - Data management apparatus and method, recording medium recording data management program, and camera: There is disclosed a data management apparatus having a display screen, which includes (1) a first area for displaying a list of title information representing data belonging to a specified category and capable of changing the list in response to changing the category specification, and (2) a second area in... Agent: Straub & Pokotylo

20080059898 - Method and apparatus providing configurable pop-ups: A method for configuring a pop-up that displays various types of information on a computer screen, includes providing a graphic user interface that displays a list of types of information capable of being displayed by the pop-up and providing a user configuration system that allows a user to configure the... Agent: Richard J. Jaworski Cooper & Dunham LLP

20080059897 - Method and system of social networking through a cloud: A method of social networking is disclosed. The method displays a user name on a web page. Further, the method receives an input that selects the user name. The method displays a display cloud, for the user name that is selected, that illustrates at least a subset of a personal... Agent: Greenberg Traurig LLP (la)

20080059896 - Mobile device user interface: A mobile device user interface is described. Data tiles are arranged as a stack of wheels, where each wheel has one or more data tiles. One data tile from each wheel is simultaneously displayed. Up/down navigation is used to move from one wheel to another, while left/right navigation is used... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20080059899 - System and process for presenting search results in a histogram/cluster format: A user interface system and process for graphically displaying the results of a standard search, such as a database search, to a user on a display device via an interactive search results window in which the user views and filters search results items. These results can be presented in either... Agent: Microsoft Corporation C/o Lyon & Harr, LLP

20080059900 - Tax-return preparation systems and methods: In an embodiment of the invention, a tax preparation method is implementable in an electronic system coupled to an electronic device, which is, in turn, coupled to a display device. A web page displayable on the display device is served to the electronic device. The displayed web page includes a... Agent: Black Lowe & Graham, PLLC

20080059901 - Method and system for modifying host application functionality based upon downloaded content: An application hosting a browser modifies its own functionality in some manner based on whether particular content (e.g., an identifier) is present in a document for rendering by the browser. In one embodiment, a financial statement page for rendering via the hosted browser is scanned to determine if an identifier... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20080059902 - Operation system: Each time an execution of a function is demanded in each functional operation window at the undermost layer, a frequency of uses for the each functional operation window is recorded. In an operation menu window at each layer, when a selection operation for selecting a certain item is continued equal... Agent: Posz Law Group, PLC

20080059903 - Image display method, image display apparatus and camera: Disclosed are an image display method, an image display apparatus and a camera, which display a list of a plurality of images arranged in such a way that individual images at least partially overlie one another, sequentially enlarge and display the images in the displayed list, and cause the enlarged... Agent: Straub & Pokotylo

20080059904 - Method, apparatus, and computer program product for implementing enhanced window focus in a graphical desktop: A method, apparatus and computer program product implements enhanced window focus in a graphical desktop. Checking whether a desktop is in focus is performed. Responsive to the desktop not being in focus, the desktop is explicitly distorted and then drawn. Responsive to identifying items to be updated, checking whether the... Agent: Ibm Corporation RochesterIPLaw Dept 917

20080059905 - Post-session internet advertising system: The present invention is directed to a post-session advertising system that may be used in media such as computers, personal digital assistants, telephones, televisions, radios, and similar devices. In one preferred embodiment, a first display is viewed in a first platform in the foreground of a media by a viewer.... Agent: Chernoff, Vilhauer, Mcclung & Stenzel

20080059906 - Device having bookmark thumbnail management function: There is provided a device having a function of browsing contents obtained through a network. The device includes a display unit, an operation unit, a storing unit configured to store a thumbnail corresponding to a part of a captured image of contents as a bookmark, and a thumbnail rearrangement control... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20080059909 - Enhanced list based user interface in mobile context: A mobile communication apparatus including a display and means for navigating among items displayed on the display, arranged to display a first list of items belonging to a higher hierarchical level on the display and being capable of enabling selection of a first item among the higher hierarchical level items... Agent: Perman & Green

20080059908 - Mobile communications terminal: A mobile communication apparatus including a display and means for navigating among items displayed on the display, arranged to display a first list of items belonging to a higher hierarchical level on the display and being capable of enabling selection of a first item among the higher hierarchical level items... Agent: Perman & Green

20080059907 - Saving the contents of the track list as a playlist file: A method is disclosed that includes browsing a media library for desired media items; selecting found desired media items from the media library; and saving the selected media items as a play list. Existing play lists can be opened and edited by the browsing and selecting. Applications, apparatuses and computer... Agent: Perman & Green

20080059910 - Rotationally dependent information in a three dimensional graphical user interface: A method for presenting digital objects in a electronic space that corresponds to a physical analog having N sides along a directional axis. The digital object can be rotated in an electronic space along the directional axis. A visual rendering of the rotated object is presented within a display, with... Agent: Patents On Demand, P.A.

20080059911 - Advanced player: A method for selecting an item in a multi-dimensional hierarchy is disclosed. The method includes displaying a first list of items belonging to a dimension of said multi-dimensional hierarchy in a display view; displaying second list of items representing other dimensions of the multi-dimensional hierarchy in the display view; enabling... Agent: Perman & Green

20080059912 - Selectable flattening hierarchical file browser: Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to hierarchical tree file browsers and provide a method, system and computer program product for selectably flattening a hierarchical tree object structure in a hierarchical tree object browser. In one embodiment of the invention, a method of flattening... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20080059913 - Radially expanding and context-dependent navigation dial: A method and system for displaying menus of menu items as a navigation dial is provided. A menu system provides a menu hierarchy for an application that includes menu items with menu sub-items and displays the menu items in a navigation dial. The menu hierarchy is dependent on the current... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP/msft

20080059914 - Intuitive tools for manipulating objects in a display: A method and system for providing a user with user-friendly handles for manipulating graphics and other displayed objects using a pointer. An initial toolset of handles can evolve into a toolset with enhanced functionality. Selecting an object can invoke a first toolset. Pausing the pointer over an object for a... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP/msft

20080059915 - Method and apparatus for touchless control of a device: A touchless sensing unit (110) and method (200) for operating a device via touchless control is provided. The method can include detecting (210) a finger (310) within a touchless sensory space (101), and handling (220) a control of the device (100) in accordance with a movement of the finger. A... Agent: Marc Boillot