Data processing: presentation processing of document inventions 05/08

20080126921 - Method and computer for displaying preset information: The present invention provides a method for a computer displaying user preset information and a computer using the method. The method comprises powering on the computer, and the computer executing basic input output system power on self test; executing boot loader started by an operating system to load a kernel... Agent: Ibm Microelectronics Intellectual Property Law

20080126920 - Method for creating fmea sheet and device for automatically creating fmea sheet: An method for creating an FMEA sheet includes the steps of, retrieving a plurality of documents, dividing words in each of the plurality of retrieved documents into a plurality of morpheme words by morphological analysis, calculating a co-occurrence frequency of each of the plurality of morpheme words, generating a co-occurrence... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20080126919 - Method, apparatus and system for managing access to multimedia content using dynamic media bookmarks: A method (30) and device (10) for accessing multimedia content. The method includes one or more end user multimedia devices receiving multimedia content, which may or may not include one or more dynamic bookmarks associated with particular portions of the multimedia content, e.g., portions of the multimedia content that have... Agent: Motorola, Inc. Law Department

20080126922 - Recording medium, reproduction apparatus, recording method, program and reproduction method: A BD-ROM has recorded therein an AV Clip generated by multiplexing a video stream and a graphics stream. The graphics stream represents an interactive display to be overlayed with the video stream, and includes a sequence of three Button State groups. The interactive display includes a plurality of buttons, each... Agent: Snell & Wilmer L.L.P. (matsushita)

20080126923 - Self-maintaining hyperlinks in method authoring content: Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to embedded hyperlinks in method content for a process modeler and provide a method, system and computer program product for self-maintaining hyperlinks in method content for a process modeler. In one embodiment of the invention, a self-maintaining hyperlink... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20080126924 - Apparatus and method for visualizing overlapping range-bands: A computer implemented method includes forming column range-bands, generating row range-bands, and establishing global range-bands in conjunction with the column range-bands and the row range-bands.... Agent: Cooley Godward Kronish LLP Attn: Patent Group

20080126925 - Using a backend simulator to test and develop xforms templates before linking the xforms templates to backend data processing systems: A solution for developing XForms projects can bind an XForms template to a backend simulator, during a development or test stage of a software development. The XForms template can be developed by an interface designer, such as a business analyst. The XForms template can be conveyed to remotely located clients.... Agent: Patents On Demand, P.A.

20080126926 - Host-based information system, client, host, information system, display terminal, and control device: A system including a plurality of clients and a host is provided. In the system, each client includes a storage-type display device holding a non-volatile display state; a unit storing data of a displayed document; client-side connection units that, when the host is connected, cause the client to communicate with... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080126928 - Methods and apparatus for controlling transition behavior of graphical user interface elements based on a dynamic recording: A dynamic recording including transition information is provided. Transition behavior of a graphical user interface (GUI) element on a display of an electronic device, such as a mobile terminal, is defined responsive to the dynamic recording. For example, in some embodiments of the present invention, the dynamic recording may be... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec, P.A.

20080126927 - Modular entertainment system with movable components: A system for playing audio content, visual content, or audio-visual content includes a base panel that incorporates loudspeakers, amplifiers, a display/control surface, charging circuitry for any objects placed upon the display surface, and capacitive sensors to display and control the user interface. Also included are one or more portable units... Agent: Fitch Even Tabin & Flannery

20080126929 - Remote ui for smart devices: The claimed subject matter relates to an architecture or arrangement that can facilitate a UI session between a smart device and a UI station in an application-agnostic manner. The UI station can expose a set of available peripherals to the smart device in order to provide the smart device with... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080126930 - Method and apparatus for dynamically varying one or more properties of a display element in response to variation in an associated characteristic: An method and apparatus is described for the dynamic use of a property of a rendered indicator to impart information about a dynamic characteristic of an object, event or data structure through a visual, audible or tactile user interface. In the case of a visual indicator, a component of a... Agent: Dimock Stratton LLP

20080126931 - System and method for recording and reproducing user operation: Systems and methods for recording and reproducing a user operation performed by a web browser on a web page or a content of a background communication are provided. Functions of recording and reproducing the content of background communication are realized by providing a function of modifying an object for the... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080126932 - Gui modeling of knowledge base in a modeling environment: This disclosure relates to methods, systems, and software for GUI modeling of at least one contextual help object, potentially representing a knowledgebase, in a modeling environment. For example, software for utilizing contextual help may be operable to identify a business object for an application and associate a contextual help object... Agent: Fish & Richardson, P.C.

20080126933 - Method and apparatus for multi-mode traversal of lists: Improved methods and systems that assist a user in navigating lists of ordered items are disclosed. According to one embodiment, a character scroll mode enables a user to conveniently and efficiently traverse a list in accordance with one or more significant characters of the items in the list. In one... Agent: Beyer Law Group LLP/apple Inc.

20080126934 - Computer-implemented display of ordered items: A method, in one embodiment, of displaying items arranged in a hierarchy, the hierarchy having predetermined levels and divisions. The method comprising: displaying divisions of a first level of the hierarchy along a first direction; and displaying the items on a plane in perspective view, each item arranged at a... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20080126935 - Audio visual entertainment system and method of operation: There is disclosed a jukebox self-contained audio-visual entertainment system capable of loading, storing, managing, retrieving, and playing music and other recorded audio content and any available related pictorial or video content. Content may be stored in the form of audio, pictorial, and video media files. The audio-visual entertainment system may... Agent: SocalIPLaw Group LLP

20080126936 - Electronic/software multimedia library control system and methods of use thereof: A media management system is described herein that includes: a) a computer, b) a media library comprising information related to a plurality of media, c) at least one device that can utilize and/or access at least part of the media library, d) a software code that executes a media library... Agent: Buchalter Nemer

20080126937 - Content-management interface: A content-management interface is implemented using superposition of graphical “widget” elements onto an on-screen display of the real-time image of a user. The widgets are motion-sensitive control elements which are responsive to user movement that produces motion of the user's displayed image at an on-screen location associated with that widget.... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080126938 - Customizing application page loading 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

20080126940 - Portable high speed internet device integrating cellular telephone and palm top computer: The invention discloses a portable device that is similar to a combination of a palm top computer and a cellular telephone, and which allows the user to access the Internet and World Wide Web. A host computer that may also be a Web server, is connected to the Internet and... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20080126939 - System, method and medium playing moving images: A system, method and a medium playing moving images including various content objects is described. The system includes a generating unit generating a script and an execution module, the script defining a structure of the moving image including at least one content object, and the execution module defining a dynamic... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080126941 - Generating voice extensible markup language (vxml) documents: A system receives a design document, parses the design document into voice extensible markup language (VXML) elements, and creates a VXML document from the parsed VXML elements.... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20080126942 - Apparatus, method, and medium for providing guideline for arranging images with story: Disclosed is a method, apparatus, and medium for providing a guideline for arranging images with a story. An apparatus for providing a guideline for arranging images with a story according to an aspect of the present invention includes a guideline control module controlling a guideline selected by a user according... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080126943 - System and method for recording a presentation for on-demand viewing over a computer network: A system and method for recording and playback of a live presentation that enables a reproduction of audio and visual aspects of the live presentation and enables on-demand viewing of the presentation at a later time. A live presentation comprising a plurality of presentation slides, audio content, and optionally, visual... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20080126945 - Automated method for coherent project management: A coherent interactive project management system has a dashboard including a graphic user interface (“GUI”) in communication with a GUI engine, where the dashboard provides links to a plurality of differing interactive hierarchical display screens. A data engine is connected to transmit information to and receive information from the dashboard.... Agent: George A Leone, Sr Citadel Patent Law

20080126946 - Menu bar providing method and information browsing screen configuration file creation program: It is an object of the present invention to enable displaying of a desired Web page and also displaying of a Web page including a menu bar without first displaying a predetermined Web page which a user does not want on a second display area of the Web browser, and... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP

20080126944 - Method for processing a web page for display in a wiki environment: A computer implemented method for processing a collaborative web page. An initiation method is invoked to locate commands within nodes in a tree. The commands may place events in a queue to form queued events. Events are processed on a data hub to deliver the queued events to the data... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20080126947 - Customizable user interface: Published themes are combined with user provided content to create instantiations of software applications which include a graphical user interface. Modification of a published theme results in modification of previous instantiations.... Agent: Newman & Newman, Attorneys At Law, LLP

20080126949 - Instant electronic meeting from within a current computer application: Real time communication is discussed that may be initiated and maintained from within an web-based application without leaving the context of the underlying application. Within the web-based application, a web frame or portlet is displayed that can maintain a separate and independent communication channel with a data resource and other... Agent: Fulbright & Jaworski, LLP (adobe)

20080126948 - Method for retaining and acting on rejected electronic meetings: A method for retaining and acting on rejected electronic meetings including accessing a calendar and scheduling application via a calendaring and scheduling system. Subsequently, reviewing an invitation to a meeting. Afterwards rejecting the invitation to the meeting. Then retaining information about the rejected meeting. Then displaying the information in all... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - IBM Lotus

20080126950 - Smart reply function on web pages: Method and computer program product for interacting with a website to obtain an electronic message (“e-mail”) address associated with the website's web address. A “smart reply” function is provided, optionally as part of a conventional web browser to provide a consistent user interface. The method includes identifying and obtaining an... Agent: Ibm Corporation (ss/roc) C/o Streets & Steele

20080126951 - System and method of dynamically prioritized electronic mail graphical user interface, and measuring email productivity and collaboration trends: A system and method for managing electronic communications more effectively utilizes electronic communications. The method assigns a prioritization score and category to each electronic communication so that a user can more effectively manage the communications. The user interacts with a graphical user interface to effectively manage electronic communications. The system... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20080126952 - Visual communications tool: A visual communications (VC) tool creating visual arrangements and presenting the visual arrangements to others for feedback and comment in an efficient and secure manner. An author uses the VC tool to generate a folio, storyboard, or presentation, and publishes the generated arrangement to desired recipients. The published arrangement is... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20080126953 - Method and system for role-based display of document renditions for web conferencing: A method and system for providing role-based renditions of a shared document during a Web conference, in which different renditions of the shared document are provided to different Web conference participants based on the participants' roles in the conference. A participant with sufficient privileges, such as a presenter, is allowed... Agent: Lotus And Rational Software David A. Dagg, Esq.

20080126954 - Method and system for optimum placement of a thread in an online forum: The present disclosure allows a user to influence the position of a thread in an Internet forum in exchange for payment. The user can sponsor a particular thread by paying the forum provider to position the thread in a favorable position within the list of threads on the forum. For... Agent: Wong, Cabello, Lutsch, Rutherford & Brucculeri, L.L.P.

20080126955 - Window display system, window display method, program development support device, and server device: An event processing program is associated with the first window structure 15, and this first window structure is assigned to a basic window 14. By executing an event processing program 11A, the second window structure 16 is assigned to the basic window 14. By changing or updating the basic window,... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.L.P.

20080126956 - Asynchronous wires for graphical programming: System and method for asynchronous communication in a graphical program. A first node and a second node are displayed in a graphical program, e.g., on a display device of a computer, possibly in one or more respective loops. The graphical program includes a plurality of interconnected nodes that visually indicate... Agent: Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel, P.C.

20080126958 - Adding graphical user interface to display: To operate a computer, a first graphical user interface of a server application is displayed in a first display region, which has user interface elements for presenting output from the server application and receiving runtime user input to the server application. A second display region is also provided, in which... Agent: Vedder Price Kaufman & Kammholz

20080126961 - Context server for associating information based on context: A system, method, and computer readable medium are provided for associating information (including information and services) based upon context. In one example, an apparatus includes interface logic for receiving, during a session (e.g., during a media object capture, upload session, data transfer session, or the like), context information from a... Agent: Yahoo C/o Mofo Palo Alto

20080126960 - Context server for associating information with a media object based on context: A system, method, and computer readable medium are provided for associating information (including information and services) based upon context. In one example, an apparatus includes logic for associating information with a media object based upon context. The apparatus including interface logic for receiving, during a session (e.g., associated with the... Agent: Yahoo C/o Mofo Palo Alto

20080126965 - Electronic device system: Provided is an electronic device system with improved user convenience that is capable of controlling plural electronic devices connected via a network or the like from any of such electronic devices. The electronic device system according to the present invention is composed of: a first electronic device (100) that includes... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20080126959 - Management of temporary application program settings: Method for managing temporary settings in an application program and a computer program product including instructions embodied on a computer readable medium for performing the method. The method detects entry of a new application setting, then automatically queries a user to designate the new setting as a default setting or... Agent: Ibm Corporation (ss)

20080126962 - Online closet management and organizer system and method: An online system and method for managing and organizing closets (i.e., “walk-in” closets and the like). The system and method uses captured images of clothing items and accessories stored in the closet for managing and organizing the closet. Images of the clothing items and accessories are first captured using a... Agent: Fidel D. Nwamu

20080126964 - 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

20080126957 - System and method for providing a parameter for an application operating on an electronic device: The invention relates to a system, method and device for modifying a parameter for an application operating on an electronic device. The method comprises the steps of: (a) upon activation of the device, determining a state of initial configuration for the device; (b) if the state indicates that the device... Agent: Mccarthy Tetrault LLP

20080126963 - User terminal to manage driver and network port and method of controlling the same: A user terminal to manage a driver and a network port and a method of managing the same can facilitate setup of the driver and the network port using a graphic user interface (UI). The user terminal includes a driver search unit to search installed drivers, a port search unit... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20080126967 - Document viewing and management system: A document management and thumbnail image viewing system enables a user to display separate pages in individual different documents as well as to expand an image to view more detail in a single document, move pages across documents, and insert/delete pages or documents. A document management and viewing system includes... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080126966 - Drag and drop utilities: The invention described herein includes a system, method, and computer program product for adding functionality to an application program. The invention includes a tool which can be used in conjunction with any of a plurality of application programs. The tool can be represented to a user by a tool icon... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20080126971 - Information processing device: An information processing device is provided with a display unit, a selecting unit which allows a user to select one of the icons displayed on a display unit. A relevance acquisition unit is provide to acquire the degree of relevance between a selected setting item corresponding to the selected icon... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20080126969 - Interface for medical infusion pump: A method of programming a medical infusion pump with a protocol is disclosed. The method includes providing a protocol including one or more patient specific pump parameters. The method further includes providing a user interface configured to allow user adjustment of at least one of the one or more patient... Agent: Merchant & Gould PC

20080126968 - Medical device user interface automatically resolving interaction between programmable parameters: This document discusses, among other things, a user interface capable of resolving interactions between programmable parameters for operation of a personal medical device. Programming these devices is a difficult task when many parameters are involved. The medical device interface attempts to reduce and minimize constraint violations between interdependent parameters using... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20080126970 - Natively retaining project documentation in a controller: An industrial controller comprises a processing component and a memory that comprises logic code that is executable by the processing component. The memory further comprises documentation associated with the logic code and other control components, wherein the documentation is stored in a native form to enable individualized access to a... Agent: Rockwell Automation, Inc./(at)

20080126975 - Method and system for button press and hold feedback: The present invention provides a method and system for providing a user with feedback as to the status of the command they have initiated by depressing a button, series of buttons or sequence of buttons on a human interface device (“HID”) for a time period beyond a fraction of a... Agent: O'melveny & Myers LLP Ip&t Calendar Department La-1118

20080126972 - Operator control panel event log selection: Storage apparatus containing removable media and related methods that filters and displays information regarding events relating to the health of the storage apparatus. A controller is configured to robotically manage the removable media and manage events related to the health of the storage apparatus, wherein the events are classified into... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080126974 - Presenting completion progress status of an installer via join points: In an embodiment, a test installer is executed that includes woven advice located at join points. The join points are associated with methods in the test installer. When the advice in the test installer is executed, the advice saves identifiers of the associated join points and times of execution. Subsets... Agent: Ibm Corporation RochesterIPLaw Dept. 917

20080126976 - Program list reproduction method and display method: A reproduction list is produced, in which audio data and still image data coexist and a reproduction order thereof is specified. Items of the audio data and the still image data are grouped so as to be associated with each other based on the point of transition between the audio... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080126973 - Sequential function chart validation tool: Automated program validation components are provided to facilitate software program development for industrial control systems and processes. In one aspect, a simulation tool is provided for an industrial automation system. The simulation tool includes a transform component that receives one or more program chart components as input and outputs a... Agent: Rockwell Automation, Inc./(at)

20080126977 - System and method for providing visual keyboard guides according to a programmable set of keys: A system and method for providing visual keyboard guides according to a programmable set of keys are provided. With the mechanisms of the illustrative embodiments, a user may select for which keys of a keyboard the user wishes to receive visual guides on a display of a data processing device... Agent: Ibm Corp. (wip) C/o Walder Intellectual Property Law, P.C.

20080126978 - System and method of enhancing computer security by using dual desktop technologies: A system and method of enhancing a computer sysem secuirty provides dual desktops for one user on one computer. One desktop is assigned low privileges and is used to handle potential risky tasks.... Agent: Likun Bai

20080126979 - Content viewing method, content viewing apparatus, and storage medium in which a content viewing program is stored: In a content viewing apparatus, an acquisition unit acquires a content set including one or more contents, and a conversion unit converts each content in the content set acquired by the acquisition unit into a predetermined format. An arrangement unit arranges indication information of each content subjected to the conversion... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20080126980 - Central display floor plan for displaying a plurality of data objects: A computer running executable code is operative to provide a floor plan for displaying a plurality of data objects. The method includes receiving a user input request for product information and retrieving a plurality of data objects from at least one object database. The object database may be local or... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20080126983 - Content-based ordering of a list of selectable entries for an auto-complete box: An auto-complete controller monitors a window including an auto-complete box for at least one content element of the window. Responsive to detecting the user selection to fill in the auto-complete box, the auto-complete controller accesses a list of selectable entries for filling in the auto-complete box. In addition, the auto-complete... Agent: Ibm Corp (ap) C/o Amy Pattillo

20080126981 - Custom ordering of an article: A manufacturer or other retailer provides a consumer with a graphical user interface for customizing an article. The graphical user interface includes an analog-style selection control that allows a user to select at least one characteristic of a feature of the article. With this type of selection control, a consumer... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20080126984 - Customizing a menu 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 a menu in a user interface can be downloaded to the application in a package... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080126982 - Imaging history display system and method: An imaging history display system and method is disclosed comprising diagnostic and patient summary interfaces for displaying, comparing and managing medical images. Imaging history display system displays studies in two interface modes in response to commands received from a user workstation. Display entities are displayed on display areas within display... Agent: Bereskin And Parr

20080126986 - Mobile communication terminal, information providing system, program, and computer readable recording medium: Information that is no longer valid due to the passage of time is not provided to a user. When a stock price information server acquires updated stock price information from a securities market network, a message that instructs that a predetermined application be started up and to which a term... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20080126985 - Remote ordering system: A remote ordering system is provided using an electronic menu having a series of input devices corresponding to various menu items aligned with the input devices, and a wireless transmitter to send selected menu items to a receiving device for processing. A display to show selected menu items, an alpha-numeric... Agent: Daniel J. Baril

20080126988 - Application management tool: An application management system comprises a graphical user interface that allows a user thereof to provide form configuration inputs that, in turn, are used to generate form metadata. The form configuration inputs may include various control options as well as control configuration options for control elements to be included in... Agent: Accenture C/o Vedder Price Kaufman & Kammholz, P.C.

20080126987 - Graphical representation of compatible workflow steps: Disclosed are a method, user interface, and computer readable medium for graphically representing compatible workflow components to a user. The method includes graphically displaying, in a graphical user interface, a plurality of steps in a workflow. A user's selection is received, wherein the selection is for at least one step... Agent: Fleit, Kain, Gibbons, Gutman, Bongini & Bianco P.l.

20080126989 - Method and user interface tool for navigation through grid of scheduled items: Methods and software tools are described for allowing users to navigate through a time schedule quickly and easily. The time schedule interface facilitates a user viewing multiple time periods on an information schedule on a client device quickly without having to completely remake or redraw the entire interface. A user... Agent: Yahoo! Inc. C/o Dreier LLP

20080126992 - Graphical access to data objects: A method, apparatus and system for accessing data objects from a storage medium includes rendering a combination of graphical structures. Each graphical structure depicts a storage hierarchy or logic, and can include a link or reference to stored data objects. The combination of graphical structures defines a number of graphical... Agent: Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky & Popeo, P.C. Attn: Patent Intake Customer No. 64280

20080126990 - Method and system for automatic generation and updating of tags based on type of communication and content state in an activities oriented collaboration tool: A system for automatic generation and updating of tags based on type of communication and content state in an activities oriented collaboration tool. Content type tags are automatically generated for content items received from different content sources and aggregated into an activities based collaboration tool. The automatically generated content type... Agent: Lotus And Rational Software David A. Dagg, Esq.

20080126991 - Mobile terminal and method for alerting a user of schedule information: A mobile terminal and a method for scheduling in the mobile terminal are provided. The method includes displaying a schedule information input screen in response to a schedule information setting request signal; inputting schedule information through the displayed input screen, and storing the input schedule information. The schedule information includes... Agent: H.c. Park & Associates, PLC

20080126993 - Reproduction apparatus, display control method and display control program: A reproduction apparatus for reproducing content data, includes: an inputting section to which content data, a plurality of button images, and button control information including display control information and a command to be executed are inputted. The apparatus further includes: an operation inputting section configured to accept a user operation;... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080126994 - Method of executing function on standby screen of mobile terminal: A method of executing a function on a standby screen of a mobile terminal capable of executing various functions on a standby screen by selecting a function icon displayed on the standby screen is provided. The method of executing a function on a standby screen of a mobile terminal includes... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080126995 - Three dimensional (3d) sequence diagram: A computer program product providing an interactive three-dimensional (3D) sequence diagram calls for reading sequence data; and generating the 3D sequence diagram including a side view and a top view, the diagram depicting objects, methods and calls relating the objects and the methods; wherein the side view and the top... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - IBM Rsw

20080126996 - Strategies for navigating through a list: A list navigation module (LNM) is described that allows a user to navigate among a filtered list of items, yet, in addition, also discover items within an original list items. In operation, a user inputs a search selection, which prompts the LNM to cull a filtered list of items from... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20080126997 - Method for enabling efficient navigation of video: A method of facilitating navigation of a sequence of source images the method using tokens representing each source image which are scaled versions of each source image and which are arranged adjacently on a display device in a continuous band of token images so that a pointer device can point... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080126998 - Selector: Sectors including selection elements are scaled (405) according to the location of a selector pointer so that a selector comprising several selector elements can also be implemented on a small screen and that the selection element is sufficiently large before selection.... Agent: Baker & Daniels LLP

20080120532 - Method for the common display of flow charts: There is described a system and method, with which a common data model/data file is used for different description formats of processes. The corresponding display is generated by interpreting the data model. It is thus possible to change to the different display formats by means of a view switch.... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080120533 - Handling external content in web applications: A media and method for detecting third-party content in web pages is provided. Computer software operates on a server or a client-side computer to identify and analyze third-party links and contents in web pages to determine if a third-party content sill exists, is available, has changed, or disrupts a web... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.l.p. (c/o Microsoft Corporation)

20080120534 - Model for layout animations: Described is a technology (e.g., in Windows® Presentation Foundation) by which user interface elements are reconfigured into a new configuration, with at least some of the elements transitioned from between configurations in an animated manner. To animate, elements have interim data computed therefor between the first configuration and the new... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080120535 - Systems and methods for mounting memorabilia: Systems and methods for mounting memorabilia in a manner that provides enhanced opportunity for the creative involvement of users. A page layout template is used as a basis for creating a page layout to which design elements are attached. The page layout is a pre-designed template that is configured to... Agent: Kirton And Mcconkie

20080120536 - Information processing apparatus, control method, and computer-readable medium: Automatic layout processing includes determining an area size based on a vertical size of sub-templates aligned in a row direction and a horizontal size of sub-templates aligned in a column direction, and locating each sub-template in a corresponding area.... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20080120537 - Domain transformation languages: A method and system for transforming documents from different domains into a common representation for viewing and editing is provided. The system prepares the domain-specific document for visual representation by performing a series of transformations in a pipeline that convert the document from its domain-specific input state to a series... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20080120538 - Visual web page authoring tool for multi-context web pages: A web page authoring tool apparatus and method are disclosed herein. A user interface module allows an author to manipulatively author at least two context-dependent views of a web page. Each view includes web content. A code page generation module automatically generates a context-aware code page from the context-dependent views... Agent: Stikeman Elliott LLP

20080120539 - Internet-based computer for mobile and thin client users: A web-based computer platform for users of Internet-capable thin client devices is disclosed. The systems and methods bring computer feel and functionality to users of cell phones, smart phones, PDA and other small screen and thin client devices. The system further includes means for storing and converting files, games, and... Agent: Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, LLP Ip Prosecution Department

20080120540 - System and method for inputting syllables into a computer: A practical and natural way of inputting syllables of scripts into a computer. In one example embodiment, This is achieved by selecting a base character from a set of characters using a digitizing tablet. The selected base character is then modified by drawing one or more natural handwritten modifying gestures... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080120541 - System and method for on-line retrieval and typing of non-standard characters: A network-based system and method are provided for permitting a user of a client computer to type in non-standard characters, i.e., characters that are not supported by the client computer. When a user downloads a Web font document from a Web server onto the user's client computer and requests to... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, Pllc

20080120542 - System and method for influencing display of web site content: A system uses geo-location information associated with a user's interaction with a web site portal to deduce a context for the user's interaction and then uses the deduced context to influence the display of web site content that is provided in response to the user's interaction. The context is deduced... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20080120544 - Automated generation of agent networks from standard ontologies: The development of a natural language interface component can be highly manual and time-consuming. This is especially true when the problem being addressed is based on a class of back-end applications rather than one particular back-end application. Aspects of the present invention support the automated generation of a natural language... Agent: Edell, Shapiro & Finnan, Llc

20080120543 - Visual resource profiler for graphical applications: A visual representation of performance data is displayed for a target application. The visual representation includes a visual indicator associated with a visual element of the target application. The visual indicator graphically illustrates a processing cost for the associated visual element with respect to other visual elements in the target... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080120545 - Interactive alert bubbles for alert management: Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to alert bubble management and provide a method, data processing system and computer program product for interactive alert bubbles for alert bubble management. In one embodiment of the invention, an interactive alert bubble can be provided for an... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20080120547 - Apparatus and method for managing multimedia information configuring graphical user interface: An apparatus to manage a multimedia-information-configuring graphical user interface includes a storage unit that includes a mapping information table to store a state of a widget and an action mapped to the state and a current state table to store a current state of the widget, an input unit to... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080120546 - System and method for creating interactive digital audio, video and synchronized media presentations: A system and method for creating interactive digital audio, video and synchronized media is disclosed. The invention overcomes the limitations of the prior art by recording the video on a server remotely as it is created, thereby allowing the user to complete the creation process and share the video immediately... Agent: Kleinberg & Lerner, LLP

20080120548 - System and method for processing user interaction information from multiple media sources: A system and method for processing data on user interactions with a workstation. The system comprises an information system that includes a data storage device. An audio microphone capable of capturing workstation user voice data is linked to the information system. An eye-tracking device capable of capturing workstation user eye-movement... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080120549 - System and method for displaying numbered descriptions: According to a method of the invention, a user can simultaneously display the text and drawings of a document containing a numbered description such as a patent. A computer-implemented system finds a reference number selected by the user/reader in the drawings and displays it in the graphic display, so that... Agent: Philip G. Meyers Philip G. Meyers Law Office

20080120550 - Example based video editing: Enabling creation of a user-specific storyboard style based on a storyboard edited by a user. Metadata defined by analyzing the editing decisions made by the user and the media content associated with the storyboard represents the user-specific style. The user-specific style may be applied to other media content to produce... Agent: Senniger Powers LLP (msft)

20080120551 - Display of software notes accessed by content recipient from content provider site: First program code is executed at a content recipient so as to identify a content provider having posted content of interest to the content recipient. Second program code is executed at the content recipient so as to automatically access the content provider and initiate receipt by the content recipient of... Agent: 3m Innovative Properties Company

20080120552 - Device and method for provision of customized system for optical transmission of data: Device and method for fiberoptic transmission for a plurality of different communication protocols. A single electronic card is adaptable to any of a plurality of communication protocol configurations designed by the user.... Agent: Donn K. Harms Patent & Trademark Law Center

20080120553 - Remote gui control by replication of local interactions: Under the present invention, an illustrative feature is to provide a method and system/structure for remotely controlling multiple computer systems by interacting with GUIs. Specifically, the present invention allows a controlled computer/system to be remotely controlled via a controlling computer/system. To this extent, data/action capture instrumentation is provided on the... Agent: Hoffman, Warnick & D'alessandro Llc

20080120554 - System & method for frame data management system (efdms): A method and system for implementing an electronic frame data management system for semiconductor manufacturing automation including the following steps: data is transferred and stored into a first database, product recipe status of the mask-making data is inspected using a double check UI, the mask-making data via a web page... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20080120555 - Wireless device grouping via common attribute: The connection of devices for wireless service is typically a tedious process that involves the user in the minutia of an underlying protocol used by a wireless adapter. The present invention enables users of wireless devices to configure a service by automatic connection through the use of a local environmental... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon, L.l.p. (c/o Intermec)

20080120556 - Systems and methods for displaying electronic mail messages: Systems and methods for displaying an e-mail message are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method includes the act of classifying at least one recipient as trusted or suspect. The recipient is specified by the e-mail message. The method also includes the act of displaying the at least one recipient using... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP/ At&t Delaware Intellectual Property, Inc.

20080120557 - Dynamic generated web ui for configuration: A computer-based system comprising a library module associated with an application, the library module using stored configuration data and configuration metadata for the application and a configurator to generate a web user interface using the configuration metadata. The web user interface allowing a user to input configuration information for the... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20080120561 - Network connected media platform: A system and method enabling the display of mixed reality objects on a computer operated by a user. The system comprises player software and a content module for operation with the player software. The player software may automatically or manually switch from mixed reality to virtual reality mode. The system... Agent: Louis Ventre, Jr

20080120560 - Region selection for image compositing: A technique for image compositing which allows a user to select the best image of an object, such as for example a person, from a set of images interactively and see how it will be assembled into a final photomontage. A user can select a source image from the set... Agent: Microsoft Corporation C/o Lyon & Harr, LLP

20080120559 - Switchable user interfaces: Facilities are provided for adapting the user interface functionality of devices based on a configuration of the user interface components. In various embodiments, a facility includes a communication device that provides switchable user interface functionality by receiving a user interface component, detecting a type associated with the user interface component,... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP/msft

20080120558 - Systems and methods for managing a persistent virtual avatar with migrational ability: Systems and methods for managing a virtual avatar with migrational ability, and brokering information, are provided. The persistent avatar exists in a plurality of virtual environments and includes attributes generated by an attribute generator, an enabler for enabling virtual environments to access the stored attribute data, and a migrator for... Agent: Kang Lim

20080120562 - Display control method and computer program product thereof: One aspect of the present invention can include a display control for a dialog box to be displayed on a display device, which includes determining if voice reading software for making pronunciation based on a character string displayed on the display device is available, and displaying a dialog box on... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 0166889, 006760

20080120566 - Device for displaying a moving locus: A device for displaying a moving locus in which a moving body is supported at its both ends by a pair of feed axes of a tandem structure so as to move in a opposite direction of the pair of feed axes, and has a point where a position is... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath (dc)

20080120565 - Graphical tool for defining a set of ranges: This disclosure describes, generally, tools to allow more intuitive display and/or definition of ranges in software applications. Merely by way of example, a software application might include a user interface that has a graphical element (such as a line, a bar, and/or the like) that represents a spectrum of values.... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP

20080120564 - System and method for networked software development: A host having a network interface communicating with a plurality of users and a plurality of target devices, a workbench tool including software development tools, the plurality of users having access to the workbench, at least one user creating a first sensorpoint module using the workbench and a database storing... Agent: Fay Kaplun & Marcin, LLP

20080120563 - Unified host application & associated methodology of integrating local service of a multi-function printer: A method of invoking a set of services corresponding to a plug-in application installed on an image handling device. The method including launching a host application of the image handling device, accessing a configuration file of the image handling device, the configuration file including an identification of at least one... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080120567 - Cooperative blade front panels: A computer program product and method for providing a central server having a plurality of displays with consistent displays of graphical content are presented and calls for inputting preferences; polling baseboard management controllers; and formulating the consistent displays of graphical content to provide the consistent displays of graphical content.... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - Ibm Research Triangle Park

20080120568 - Method and device for entering data using a three dimensional position of a pointer: A method and device for entering data enables intuitive and efficient displays of graphical user interfaces using three dimensional movements of a pointer (205). The method includes associating a first graphical user interface of an electronic device (100) with a first space (210) defined between a control surface such as... Agent: Motorola Inc

20080120569 - System and method for providing dynamic user information in an interactive display: The present invention is directed to a method and system for use in a computing environment to present and provide access to information that a user cares about. A scheme is provided for presenting frequently used controls and information in tiles within a sidebar. Tiles are hosted individually or in... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080120570 - Methods for managing windows within an internet environment and systems thereof: A method, computer readable medium, and system for managing windows within an Internet environment includes determining at a first system which of one or more of settings to use for one or more windows within an Internet browser window in a second system remote from the first system. At least... Agent: Nixon Peabody LLP - Patent Group

20080120572 - Method and apparatus for displaying menu in cross shape: A method and apparatus are provided for displaying and operating a menu in a cross manner. The method of displaying a menu includes displaying a group of menu item lists including a plurality of menu items in a cross shape, and performing functions corresponding to the menu items located at... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080120571 - Method for displaying icons of digital items: A method for displaying icons of digital items is provided. In the present invention, a stacking manner is used for displaying all icons of the digital items in a visible region of a window. As a result, no matter how many digital items stored in the corresponding window, a user... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20080120573 - Business process diagram visualization using heat maps: System and method for displaying information regarding a business process. A diagram of the business process may be displayed on a display. The diagram may include a plurality of icons connected by lines, where each of the icons represents a respective step in the business process and the lines indicate... Agent: Jeffrey C. Hood Meyertons Hood Kivlin Kowert & Goetzel Pc

20080120574 - Business process diagram visualization using timeline-based heat maps: System and method for displaying information regarding a business process. A diagram of the business process may be displayed on a display. The diagram may include a plurality of icons connected by lines, where each of the icons represents a respective step in the business process and the lines indicate... Agent: Jeffrey C. Hood Meyertons Hood Kivlin Kowert & Goetzel Pc

20080120575 - Molecule desing support apparatus and computer-readable storage medium: A molecule design support apparatus has an input part, a display to display on a screen thereof a three-dimensional molecular structure by a half vector format or a ball-and-stick format, and a determining part to determine, in the molecular structure, an end that is to become a target of a... Agent: Arent Fox LLP

20080120577 - Method and apparatus for controlling user interface of electronic device using virtual plane: Provided is a method and apparatus for controlling a user interface (UI) of an electronic device by using a specific region of a virtual plane. In the method, the virtual plane is initialized according to spatial coordinates of two or more images detected by using locations of the images displayed... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080120576 - Methods and systems for creation of hanging protocols using graffiti-enabled devices: Certain embodiments of the present invention provide methods and systems for hanging protocol generation using gesture recognition. Certain embodiments provide a method for creating a hanging protocol based on gesture input in a clinical environment. The method includes specifying a hanging protocol specification using gesture-based input. The method also includes... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080120578 - Mouse with a screen saver control function: A mouse with a screen saver control function is provided. The mouse includes a left button, a right button, a scroll button, a screen saver control button, a memory unit, and a micro-processing unit. The memory unit stores a simulation program. When receiving a signal from the screen saver control... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080115044 - Document managing system, image forming device, discarding device, discard certificate issuing device, document attribute managing device, and computer readable medium: A document managing system includes: an image forming device that includes an image forming part, and forms a document on a prescribed output medium; a discarding device that includes a document discarding part that discards the document formed on the output medium by the image forming device; and a discard... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, Plc

20080115045 - Hybrid media distribution with enhanced security: A method for use in playing content that is made up of data includes establishing in a device a physical media storing a first portion of the data making up the content, receiving a streamed second portion of the data making up the content, wherein the second portion of the... Agent: Fitch Even Tabin And Flannery

20080115046 - Program, copy and paste processing method, apparatus, and storage medium: A document storage unit stores, as a type of a document element in a document, an element sequence in which a text element which is a document element for text and an image element which has a server character image acquired from the server as a view, has a character... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080115048 - Providing resilient links: Embodiments are provided to create and maintain one or more links or associations to different types of data and other information. In an embodiment, one or more links be created and maintained, wherein the one or more links provide one or more pathways between structured information. A user can use... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20080115047 - Selecting and displaying descendant pages: In an embodiment, a link to a current page is received from a user. In response to receiving the link, a descendant page of the current page is selected that meets a policy associated with the domain of the current page. The current page and the descendant page are retrieved... Agent: Ibm Corporation Rochester Ip Law Dept. 917

20080115049 - Dynamically generating mini-graphs to represent style and template icons: Various technologies and techniques are described that enhance ease of selection of chart styles using dynamically generated icons to represent style and templates. As one non-limiting example, a gallery view of available chart styles for a currently selected theme is generated using the same rendering engine that processes data to... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20080115050 - Space-time trail annotation and recommendation: Space-time trails are annotated automatically and/or manually with meaningful information. Mechanisms are provided for receipt of implicit and/or passive data (e.g., provided by sensors) as well as explicit and/or active data (e.g., provided by users). Extraction techniques are provided to either or both types of data to produce useful information... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080115051 - Providing assistance with the creation of an xpath expression: Methods and computer-readable media are provided for assisting with the creation of an extensible markup language (“XML”) path language (“XPath”) expression. According to one aspect, an application program for editing XSLT stylesheets provides a user interface that assists with the creation and editing of XPath expressions. When an XPath expression... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080115053 - Method and device for the reproduction of images using glass pixels: A method and device are described for the reproduction of a certain image, previously digitalized and separated into a number of pixels and optimized into a number of colors below a certain limit, with the help of a specific software application. The method includes the construction of individual colored elements... Agent: Berenbaum, Weinshienk & Eason, P.c

20080115052 - User interface for performing load analysis: A user interface for performing load analysis on various geometries is provided. The user interface is especially useful for performing load analysis operations on mobile platforms, for example an aircraft. The user interface includes an object display that lists a plurality of load objects that include object data. A plurality... Agent: Ernest Caravalho

20080115054 - Handheld electronic device including auto completion of punctuation in numerical entry, and associated method: The disclosed and claimed concept describes a handheld electronic device that has the capability to automatically prefer a preferred punctuation arrangement in response to determining whether a first output has a predetermined characteristic.... Agent: Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott

20080115055 - Removal of redundant information from electronic documents: In accordance with certain aspects of the removal of redundant information from electronic documents, a package for an electronic document includes a plurality of parts. The package is accessed, and redundant information in one or more of the plurality of parts is identified. The identified redundant information is removed from... Agent: Lee & Hayes Pllc

20080115056 - Providing calculations within a text editor: Calculations within a text editor may be provided. First, a text string may be received within the text editor. The received text string may be configured to be displayed on a display by the text editor. The text string may comprise information entered by a user into the text editor.... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20080115057 - High precision data extraction: A system receives a document including a plurality of items. The system then processes the document to expose a plurality of item elements associated with one or more items of the document, the item elements including visual information used to render the document. The system then identifies each item of... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/ebay

20080115059 - Information processing apparatus, method of controlling same, program and storage medium: In a case where a plurality of service providing devices having different capabilities are operated in association and a service providing device is utilized, operability when setting functions is improved for the user. Provided is an information processing apparatus for utilizing services capable of being provided by a plurality of... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20080115058 - Presentation controlling device: A presentation controlling device includes a presentation controller, wireless transceiver and a timer program. The presentation controller includes a warning module. The timer program is installed in the computer. The timer program is executed to provide a presentation time control interface and issue a remaining time alert signal to the... Agent: Kirton And Mcconkie

20080115061 - Active human-machine interface system including an electrically controllable damper: An active human-machine interface system includes a user interface, one or more motors, one or more motor controllers, one or more electrically controllable dampers, and one or more damper controllers. The motors are coupled to the user interface and are configured, upon being energized, to supply a haptic feedback force... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20080115060 - Computer user interface menu selection process: A computer user interface menu selection process for allowing a user to use a finger, a pen or a stylus to manipulate a menu. The menu on a touch screen comprises multiple actuating zones which can be selected by the user. These multiple actuating zones are separated by multiple curve... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, Pllc

20080115062 - Video user interface: A video user interface allows video content to be manipulated to accommodate user-interface (UI) navigation and to enable UI customization. The video-user interface incorporates video contents into a user interface, manipulates selected video contents to accommodate UI navigation, and makes the video contents interchangeable so as to enable UI customization.... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20080115063 - Media assembly: Embodiments of media assembly are disclosed. In one method embodiment, the method includes manipulating at least one textual script file representing a number of component performance elements of a media program, presenting a visual representation of at least one of the number of component performance elements, cueing the artist to... Agent: Brooks, Cameron & Huebsch , Pllc

20080115064 - Systems, methods, and computer-readable media related to presentation software: An inventive presentation software, preferably for use on a portable computer, is disclosed. In one embodiment, the presentation software automatically detects whether a projector is connected to the portable computer, and automatically outputs to the projector only a predefined portion of the computer screen. In another embodiment, the presentation software... Agent: Sam S. Han, Ph.d.

20080115065 - Data tree structure display and navigation method and system: Embodiments for displaying and navigating electronic data tree structures are described generally herein. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.a.

20080115066 - Method and apparatus for editing heterogeneous media objects in a digital imaging device: A method and apparatus for editing heterogeneous media objects in a digital imaging device having a display screen, where each one of the media objects has one or more media types associated therewith, such as a still image, a sequential image, video, audio, and text. The method aspect of the... Agent: Flashpoint Technology And Withrow & Terranova

20080115067 - Method and system for controlling security of a user interface in a computer system: A method and system for controlling security on a user interface (UI) of a computer system are described. The method and system include allowing a user to mark a UI component as private. The UI component is separately renderable on the UI. The method and system also include displaying the... Agent: Sawyer Law Group LLP

20080115068 - System and method to enhance instant messaging: A method to dynamically generate a topic audience for a primary user to participate therein is disclosed. The topic audience is defined by users interested in a same discussion topic of a plurality of discussion topics within an electronic discussion group, the topic audience having a size value defined by... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - Ibm Rsw

20080115069 - Linking information: Embodiments are provided to create and maintain one or more links or associations to different types of data and other information. In an embodiment, one or more links can be created and maintained, wherein the one or more links provide one or more pathways between structured information. A user can... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20080115070 - Text analysis methods, text analysis apparatuses, and articles of manufacture: Text analysis methods, text analysis apparatuses, and articles of manufacture are described according to some aspects. In one aspect, a text analysis method includes accessing information indicative of data content of a collection of text comprising a plurality of different topics, using a computing device, analyzing the information indicative of... Agent: Wells St. John P.s.

20080115071 - System and methods for zero-configuration data backup: Methods, systems, and apparatuses used for backing up data stored on a source, comprising connecting a backup device to the source, the backup device having a backup application stored therein, launching the backup application from the backup device without user installation of the backup application, identifying the operating system and... Agent: Morris Manning Martin LLP

20080115072 - Method and apparatus for visually assisting language input mode indentification: A method and apparatus for visually assisting language input mode identification is provided. The method includes selecting a plurality of language modes and a plurality of language icons. The method associates each of the plurality of language modes with one of the plurality of language icons and selects at least... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - Ibm Lotus

20080115073 - Method and apparatus for remote display of drawn content: Method and system for the remote display of drawn content. In one embodiment, a drawing window is created at a source device, a location of a system mouse event is observed at a viewer device and the transparency of a pixel in the drawing window at the source device at... Agent: Goodwin Procter LLP

20080115074 - Graphics tiering strategy incorporating bitmaps and window geometries: Various embodiments employ a graphics tiering approach that utilizes multiple different tiers, each of which defines how a user interface is presented to a user. In accordance with at least some embodiments, a higher end tier is provided and utilizes a combination of both bitmaps and realtime window geometry computations... Agent: Lee & Hayes Pllc

20080115075 - Method and system for providing drag enabled date and/or time components: A system for providing date and/or time selections that can be applied across multiple operations and/or applications, in which the user is allowed to make complex date and/or time selections through a time selection user interface, where each date and/or time selection may describe multiple date and/or time ranges, and... Agent: Lotus And Rational Software David A. Dagg, Esq.

20080115076 - Query parser method: A computer-implemented method of searching a corpus of documents, the method involving: accepting a single free text query from a user, wherein the free text query includes one or more keywords and a reference to a domain; and based on said single free text query from the user, identifying a... Agent: Wilmerhale/boston

20080115077 - Persistent status indicator for calendar: A computer program product and method for providing a persistent status indicator color for a nearest scheduled event are presented and calls for inputting preferences; categorizing the nearest scheduled event; and displaying the status indicator color for the nearest scheduled event.... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - Ibm Lotus

20080115078 - Method for secure data entry in an application: A method and device for entering data in an application is disclosed. The method may comprise displaying a graphical user interface (GUI) keyboard within the application, the keyboard comprising multiple identifier keys. A detection module may monitor the position of a pointer of a pointing device in relation to the... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.a.

20080115079 - Systems and methods for dynamic display of orders: Systems and methods for dynamic display of orders and trades are provided. Financial instrument data is received from an electronic exchange or a pre-processing application. The financial instrument data may include a variety of information, such as, bid orders, ask orders, sell orders, cancelled orders, and the like. A scrolling... Agent: Faegre & Benson LLP Patent Docketing

20080115080 - Device, method, and computer program product for information retrieval: An information retrieval device includes an area splitting unit that splits the input information into a plurality of subareas by each information attribute, an extracting unit that extracts a retrieval key from the input information in each of the subareas, a display control unit that displays the input information in... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080115081 - Enhanced windows management feature: An enhanced windows management feature provides computing device users with the ability to view open windows simultaneously and unobscured on the computing device display. User satisfaction is increased when a user can cause all windows open on a computing device display to be exhibited simultaneously and unobscured with quick and... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080115082 - Knowledge discovery system: A knowledge model discovery system is configured to provide an interactive view having simultaneously displayed sub-views that include a relational data element view and a geophysical view. Using the interactive view, a user may perform search and analysis of information organized with a knowledge management tool in conjunction with geographic... Agent: Accenture Indy 33391 Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080115083 - Data object linking and browsing tool: A method of linking data objects, such as video objects, image objects, and audio objects, and displaying data associated with the data objects based upon the strength of the relationship between the data objects. Another method for navigating a data collection of data objects by linking groups of data objects... Agent: Senniger Powers LLP (msft)

20080115084 - Handheld electronic device having selectable language indicator and menus for language selection and method therefor: A method of enabling the selection of a language to be employed as a method input language by a disambiguation routine of a handheld electronic device having stored therein a plurality of method input languages and disambiguation routine number, includes detecting as an ambiguous input an actuation of one or... Agent: Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott

20080115085 - Method and system for displaying drop down list boxes: A method and system for displaying a drop down list box. The method and system may include associating a history record with a drop down list box. The method and system may also include associating a filter box with the drop down list box. the method and system may also... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20080115086 - System and method for recognizing and storing information and associated context: The present disclosure provides a system and method of collecting information and associated context. Information and associated context are collected by monitoring at least one application program executable using the computing system, so as to detect one or more events associated with the at least one application program; identifying contextual... Agent: Yahoo! Inc. C/o Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20080115087 - Tracking recent contacts: A method and system for tracking recent real-time conversation participants, or contacts, of a user is provided. The real-time communication system receives an indication of a conversation between a user and a conversation participant and adds the conversation participant to a list of the user's recent contacts. The real-time communication... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP/msft

20080115088 - Displaying overlaid calendars: Displaying calendars may be provided. In response to a first input initiated by a user, a first calendar may be displayed comprising a user's calendar. Next, a second calendar may be overlaid over the first calendar. The second calendar may be displayed transparently with respect to the first calendar. Then,... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20080115089 - Apparatus and method for displaying image in portable terminal: Provided are an apparatus and method for displaying an image in a portable terminal. The apparatus includes a display unit for displaying an image; a display buffer that stores the image to be displayed; a zoom buffer that temporarily stores an enlarged thumbnail to provide a better image quality; a... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.c.

20080115090 - Apparatus for presenting a hierarchically and thematically arranged plurality of concisely annotated pictograms for facilitating communication without speech: An apparatus and method are disclosed for efficient communication between a caregiver and a patient that cannot communicate using normal speech or writing. The apparatus includes presentation panels joined to facilitate rapid access, such as being bound as a book, upon which are printed a plurality of concisely annotated pictograms,... Agent: Russ Weinzimmer

20080115091 - Method for changing and rotating a mobile terminal standby screen: Disclosed is a mobile terminal having a pressure sensor with a plurality of pressure sensing areas that are used to change or rotate a standby screen image. The pressure sensor detects pressure applied by the user to the pressure sensing areas and outputs corresponding pressure sensing signals. The mobile terminal... Agent: Cha & Reiter, Llc

20080109712 - Method, system, and program product supporting automatic substitution of a textual string for a url within a document: A method of data processing includes detecting insertion of a uniform resource locator (URL) into text of a document of an application program. In response to detecting insertion of the URL, a web page corresponding to the URL is accessed, and a title of the web page is determined. The... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20080109713 - Method involving electronic notes and spatial domains: A computer-implemented method of interacting with a user, the method involving: enabling a user to post an electronic note with user specified contents; enabling the user to associate the electronic note with a location within a domain with a metric; and publishing the electronic note on a web page that... Agent: Wilmerhale/boston

20080109714 - Capturing screen information: Computer user interface screen layouts may be converted into an Extensible Markup Language (“XML”) string, and recreated later (or elsewhere) by processing the XML string. Software to identify software components associated with user interface features, to create a static data structure describing the state of those software components, and to... Agent: Sap/blakely

20080109715 - System and method for creating integrated web form and database applications: A system and method for creating integrated web form and database applications. One or more embodiments of the invention enable a system and method for creating integrated web form and database applications. The system enables click-and-drag form creation and automatically codes the markup, validation script and database schema. The system... Agent: Dalina Law Group, P.c.

20080109716 - Apparatus and method for editing and displaying web document: A method and apparatus for editing and displaying a web document, and a browser are provided. The apparatus for editing and displaying a web document includes a browser which classifies the content of the web document received through the Internet into two or more classified parts; and a display which... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080109717 - Reviewing editing operations: A method of reviewing editing operations applied in a document. The method includes using a processing system to determining a first sequence of first editing operations applied to first objects in the document. For at least one second object, the at least one second object being selected from the first... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080109718 - Combining calendar entries with map views: A method for displaying a calendar event on an electronic map includes steps of: receiving a request to generate a map view of a selected timeline of calendar events, wherein the calendar events are associated with event locations; converting event locations to geographic locations; generating a map view showing the... Agent: Michael Buchenhorner, P.a.

20080109719 - Electronic document display device and method: A keyword extraction section (108) extracts, from an electronic document (101), a plurality of character strings in accordance with information of a keyword management section (107). An action determination section (110) determines, with reference to an action definition management section (109), effect actions correlated with keywords which are corresponding to... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.l.p.

20080109720 - 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

20080109721 - Input device using slides and clicks and method thereof: An input device using slides and clicks and a method thereof are provided. A first table of M×N larger than a display region is produced on an electronic device having the display region and an input region, a character set corresponding to the input language is allocated in the first... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080109723 - Context-based user assistance: Provided are techniques for providing context-based user assistance. A request from a user for user assistance content for a first configurable element is received. One or more rules are retrieved for the first configurable element, wherein at least one of the rules describes a second configurable element that is related... Agent: Konrad Raynes & Victor, LLP. Attn: Ibm37

20080109722 - Direct presentation of help information relative to selectable menu items in a computer controlled display interface: A GUI interface on a computer display where contextual help on menu item is accessible, and displayable immediately adjacent menu item on which help is sought. A user is enabled to select a menu item for help data. An implementation links each of the plurality of menu items to a... Agent: Ibm Corporation Intellectual Property Law

20080109724 - System and method for controlling presentations and videoconferences using hand motions: A system and method are disclosed for controlling presentations and videoconference using hand motions. A camera captures video of an area relative to content displayed on a display device from a content source. A control unit is communicatively coupled to the content source, the display device, and the camera. The... Agent: Wong, Cabello, Lutsch, Rutherford & Brucculeri, L.l.p.

20080109725 - Apparatus for providing multiple screens and method of dynamically configuring multiple screens: An apparatus for providing multiple screens and a method of dynamically configuring multiple screens are provided. The apparatus includes a digital signal processing module which receives at least one of video information, audio information, and data information and restores a plurality of services based on the at least one of... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080109726 - Interactive user interface for displaying correlation: Interactive user interfaces that allow users to quickly and visually navigate the financial relationships between companies. In one embodiment, the interactive user interfaces may include a focal company field where a user can input an identifier for a focal company. The interfaces also include a focal company metric input field... Agent: Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Preston Gates Ellis LLP

20080109727 - Timing aspects of media content rendering: Timing for execution of certain user inputs and application instructions occurring during play of an interactive multimedia presentation is discussed. A current state is defined by a state of the presentation system at the time a current media sample is being played to a user. A predicted state is defined... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080109729 - Method and apparatus for control and processing of video images: An apparatus and method for controlling and processing of video images. The apparatus comprising a frame grabber for processing image frames received from the image-acquiring device, and Entire-View synthesis device for creating an Entire-View image from the images received, a Specified-View syntheses device for preparing and displaying a selected view... Agent: Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP

20080109728 - Methods and systems for effecting video transitions represented by bitmaps: Multi-media project editing methods and systems are described. In one embodiment, a project editing system comprises a multi-media editing application that is configured to enable a user to combine multiple different video clips into a video project. A bitmap processor coupled with the multi-media editing application receives a first bitmap... Agent: Lee & Hayes Pllc

20080109730 - Sna-based anomaly detection: A method, system, and computer program product for enabling dynamic detection of anomalies occurring within an input graph representing a social network. More specifically, the invention provides an automated computer simulation technique that implements the combination of Social Network Analysis (SNA) and statistical pattern classification for detecting abnormal social patterns... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20080109731 - Management system and method for wireless communication network and associated graphic user interface: A management system and method for a wireless communication network and an associated interface is provided. The management system provides a structure of data layers and a visualization design to upgrade the efficiency of network management. The management system includes a data generation module and a display module. The data... Agent: Troxell Law Office Pllc

20080109732 - Browser page with selectively inactive controls to safeguard against data errors: In a browser control method, a page to be rendered in a browser contains at least two elements of information content which can be rendered for the page. A first element contains content and browser controls through which the user interacts as appropriate to suit his needs. Some of the... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20080109733 - Method and apparatus for internet connection of mobile communication terminal: A method and an apparatus for Internet connection of a mobile communication terminal are disclosed. The Internet connection method includes extracting URL (uniform resource locator) information from web sites of the Internet and storing the URL information and connecting to a web site of Internet by using the extracted URL... Agent: Cha & Reiter, Llc

20080109734 - Remote control of apparatus with media player: An apparatus is disclosed which has a media player, a local user interface, the local user interface being a primary presentation resource for the media player, a wireless communication interface, a media output port for connection to a remote media presentation device as a secondary presentation resource for the media... Agent: Perman & Green

20080109735 - System and method for replying to an electronic mail message: There is disclosed a system and method for replying to an electronic mail (email) message containing questions or response objects. In accordance with an embodiment, the method comprises identifying a response object in the email message based on a response object marker; parsing the response object from the email message;... Agent: Fasken Martineau Dumoulin LLP

20080109736 - Setting destinations of electronic mail: A recipient selection window being displayed on a display device coupled to an input device via a processor. The input device accepts input from a user for determining recipients of an e-mail message. The recipient selection window concurrently includes: an address list section displaying an electronic mail address book that... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20080109737 - Method and apparatus for supporting real-time collaboration: A collaboration system synchronizes an application or applications running on one or more computer systems. Each of the applications has a local data copy and the applications commence operation by creating consistent local copies from a common third copy. The consistency is maintained by distributing address space independent selections and... Agent: Law Offices Of Paul E. Kudirka

20080109738 - Method for displaying and formatting messages in web applications using javaserver faces: Methods, machine-accessible media, and systems for displaying and formatting messages in web applications using JavaServer Faces (JSF). A JSF FacesMessage is intercepted before the FacesMessage is sent to a JSP page for display. The FacesMessage may be intercepted by a phase listener monitoring the JSF phases to obtain information from... Agent: Ibm Corporation (ss)

20080109739 - Automated documentation system and method: An automated documentation system and method includes a computer having a display providing first and second work areas. Narratives are generated in predefined formats from text placed within the first area. In a basic mode, text objects from the second area are selected by the user and automatically appended to... Agent: John C Shepard

20080109740 - Apparatus and method for displaying a variety of visualizations linked to one or more data source queries: A computer readable storage medium includes executable instructions to provide a Graphical User Interface with a plurality of visualization types and a semi-structured workspace. A drag-and-drop of a visualization type into a drop zone in the semi-structured workspace is received. The drop zone corresponds to a location in the semi-structured... Agent: Cooley Godward Kronish LLP Attn: Patent Group

20080109741 - User-generated content with instant-messaging functionality: Methods, apparatuses, and articles for user computing devices and a server are described herein. In various embodiments, a first computing device may receive an object or message associated with a user of a second computing device and may visually manifest the object or message to a user. In response to... Agent: Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt, P.c. Pacwest Center, Suite 1900

20080109742 - Method, program and system for manipulating images to perform unpredictable actions: Musical sounds are unpredictably generated to create unique musical compositions by manually manipulating images on a graphical user interface.... Agent: Kirschstein, Ottinger, Israel & Schiffmiller, P.c.

20080109743 - System and method for providing a navigable grid to allow for accessible drag-drop in visual modeling tools: The present invention is a method for providing a navigable grid to allow for accessible drag-drop in visual modeling tools. The method includes receiving an input which selects an object. The method further includes providing a visual canvas on a display device. The method further includes overlaying the navigable grid... Agent: Ibm Corporation (swp)

20080109744 - Clipboard augmentation: Systems, methods, and data structures for augmenting data placed on the clipboard with additional data are disclosed. Such systems, methods, and data structures may transform the data to produce data in other formats using, for example, transform specifications or executable code.... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080109746 - Method and device for accepting electronic appliances: A method for accepting electronic equipment at an acceptance device is disclosed. An exemplary embodiment of the method comprises recognizing the equipment with the acceptance device, associating the equipment with a recipient address, applying the associated recipient address onto an addressing indici attached to the equipment, removing the equipment from... Agent: International Ip Law Group

20080109745 - Pneumatic device selection system, pneumatic device selection method, recording medium, and pneumatic device selection program: The present system includes a standard circuit selection processing means for selecting a cylinder operating system based on input data, and independent characteristic calculation processing means for calculating characteristics of the cylinder operating system based on entered usage conditions, a branching and joining circuit processing means for selecting a branching... Agent: Paul A. Guss Paul A. Guss Attorney At Law

20080109747 - Dynamic input field protection: A computer implemented method and computer program product for protecting a pre-filled user input field on a returned webpage from an accidental overwrite. The method identifies the pre-filled input field by detecting a mouseover. In response to a user command to change the state of the pre-filled input field, the... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates Pc

20080109748 - Browsing system and method thereof: A browsing system and method thereof are applied in an electronic apparatus to browse a document data. The scope of the document data is greater than a screen of the electronic apparatus. The browsing system at least comprises a detection unit and a display processing unit. The detection unit is... Agent: Law Offices Of Lai And Associates, P.c.

20080109749 - Providing information while rendering content: A method comprising: rendering content while displaying at least a first screen; detecting that the rendered content is linked to data; interrupting the first screen to display an additional screen that is dependent upon the linked data.... Agent: Harrington & Smith, Pc

20080109750 - Automated scrolling of browser content and automated activation of browser links: An automatic scrolling mechanism converts an information repository into media that can actively present and “push” information to the users/viewers while retaining existing “pull” and interactivity functions. Automatic scrolling can be controlled by placing a cursor on control icons, such as boxes, lines, and arrow clusters. While the cursor is... Agent: Jean-marc Zimmerman

20080109751 - Layer editor system for a pen-based computer: The present invention is a system that provides a layer editor representing layers using box like controls. The layer controls are arranged in vertical stack representing the ordering of the layers in the paint application and provided with a highlight frame that indicates an active layer. The name or graphic... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080109752 - Expanding search query input box to support livesearch interaction: Techniques are described herein for a UI mechanism that supports interaction between user input and data related to the user input using a display screen. The UI mechanism first determines initial dimensions for an input region. As user inputs characters into the user input region, the UI mechanism enforces a... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker LLP/yahoo! Inc.

20080109753 - Most-recently-used task switching among parent and child windows: Task switching among windows on a graphical user interface. Responsive to user action (such as simultaneously pressing the ALT and TAB keys), a task selection window is displayed in which an iconic representation is provided for a plurality of windows, including at least one child window, and the iconic representations... Agent: Marcia L. Doubet Law Firm

20080109754 - Conditional text publication system and method: A conditional text publication system and method. Conditional text publication allows for the publication of text that varies based on data values associated with the text. More specifically, allows for the inclusion and exclusion of text to or from a publication based on clauses such as conditional clause, functions such... Agent: Sap_dlg

20080109755 - Scanning electron microscope with measurement function: A scanning electron microscope which efficiently makes measurements for plural measurement items at a time and allows easy entry, confirmation and revision of auto measurement parameters. Parameters for creation of a line profile from an image captured by the scanning electron microscope are entered as auto measurement parameters (AMP) to... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080109760 - Spatial organization and display of enterprise operational integration information: A Zeetix encompasses a collection of information organized around spatial domain, which may be around a geographical location in a real geography or a virtual geography, and all human-made constructs on it. A geographic Zeetix may show store locations for a franchise business, listing locations for a realtor, or police... Agent: Strategic Patents P.c..

20080109758 - Spatial organization and display of event ticketing information: A Zeetix encompasses a collection of information organized around spatial domain, which may be around a geographical location in a real geography or a virtual geography, and all human-made constructs on it. A geographic Zeetix may show store locations for a franchise business, listing locations for a realtor, or police... Agent: Strategic Patents P.c..

20080109757 - Spatial organization and display of hyperlocal publishing information: A Zeetix encompasses a collection of information organized around spatial domain, which may be around a geographical location in a real geography or a virtual geography, and all human-made constructs on it. A geographic Zeetix may show store locations for a franchise business, listing locations for a realtor, or police... Agent: Strategic Patents P.c..

20080109759 - Spatial organization and display of organizational research information: A Zeetix encompasses a collection of information organized around spatial domain, which may be around a geographical location in a real geography or a virtual geography, and all human-made constructs on it. A geographic Zeetix may show store locations for a franchise business, listing locations for a realtor, or police... Agent: Strategic Patents P.c..

20080109756 - Spatial organization and display of real-estate information: A Zeetix encompasses a collection of information organized around spatial domain, which may be around a geographical location in a real geography or a virtual geography, and all human-made constructs on it. A geographic Zeetix may show store locations for a franchise business, listing locations for a realtor, or police... Agent: Strategic Patents P.c..

20080109761 - Spatial organization and display of travel and entertainment information: A Zeetix encompasses a collection of information organized around spatial domain, which may be around a geographical location in a real geography or a virtual geography, and all human-made constructs on it. A geographic Zeetix may show store locations for a franchise business, listing locations for a realtor, or police... Agent: Strategic Patents P.c..

20080109762 - Visual document user interface system: Technologies and techniques for displaying a set of documents having associated attribute data in a generated, map-like geographic representation. Documents may be assigned positions within the geographic representation according to the associated attribute data. The geographic representation may include multiple display levels respectively having different levels of detail associated with... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080109763 - Computer system and method thereof: A computer system is connected to a display apparatus having a displaying part supporting a multi-view mode, and includes a touch screen panel, a cursor movement selecting part to move a cursor on the touch screen panel onto the displaying part, and a cursor driver to move the cursor on... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20080109764 - Interface for selecting audio-video sources in a limited display environment: Methods for the rendering of information regarding available audio and video sources in a limited display environment are provided. Display environments, especially in mobile devices, are limited with regard to physical space and technical capability. The present invention provides for the display and selection of available audio and video sources... Agent: Carr & Ferrell LLP

20080109765 - Display apparatus and information update method thereof: A display apparatus includes: a displaying unit; a signal processing unit which performs signal processing for displaying images on the displaying unit; a first controlling unit which controls the signal processing unit to perform signal processing; a first storing unit which saves a first control program for operating the first... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080104493 - Method of constructing a machine-readable document: A method of constructing a machine-readable document comprises applying a document construction process to first and second input machine-readable documents comprising a template document and a variable data document to produce an output document binding the variable data to the template. Each input document is declared to be of a... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080104494 - Matching a slideshow to an audio track: In a method for a matching a slideshow with an audio track, a slideshow is received. The slideshow comprises a timebase defining display times for slides of the slideshow. An audio track is received. The audio track is utilized to warp the timebase such that a display time for at... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080104495 - Profile display in virtual social networks: Systems and methods for profile display in virtual social networks are provided. Users of a virtual social network can share information with other users of the virtual social network through user profiles. Some users may have multiple user profiles, including user profiles from sources external to the virtual social network.... Agent: Carr & Ferrell LLP

20080104496 - Method and system for facilitating social payment or commercial transactions: A system and computer implemented method for providing a widget are described. The widget is embeddable, copyable and for dynamically displaying multimedia content. The method and system include receiving a campaign configuration for a campaign and a configuration of the widget. The campaign includes at least one goal related to... Agent: Strategic Patent Group, P.C.

20080104497 - Method of identifying an extractable portion of a source machine-readable document: A method of identifying an extractable portion of a source machine-readable document for extraction to an input machine-readable document is described. The method comprises inserting a reference to the extractable portion which includes a source document locator and an extractable portion identifier in an input machine-readable document which is processable... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080104498 - Dynamically merging columns within a table: In a computer system having a graphical user interface including a display and a selection device, a method of selecting and merging columns on a spreadsheet includes displaying a first data set residing in cells in a first column; displaying a second data set residing in cells in a second... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - IBM Tuscon Division

20080104499 - Method for exposing graphical user interface layout logic and parameters: A method is disclosed for exposing graphical user interface layout logic and parameters. The method may be used with any language or tool capable of creating a graphical user interface. The equations affecting an element's properties in the graphical user interface are exposed to the designer. The designer is able... Agent: Brian C. Kunzler Kunzler And Associates

20080104501 - Cross-tier intelligent document generation and management: This application relates to document generation and management and, more particularly, cross-tier intelligent document generation and management. Various embodiments provide systems, methods, and software to quickly generate document templates with fields associated with data items, instantiate documents from such document templates, and submit the documents for processing and dispatch to... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/sap

20080104500 - Method and system for recovering online forms: The illustrative embodiments provide a computer implemented method and system for recovering an incomplete, online form. A browser receives a document and determines whether the document is a first form. Responsive to the document being a first form, the browser initiates a handler to recognize a form exit event. Responsive... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20080104502 - System and method for providing a change profile of a web page: An improved system and method is provided for adaptively refreshing a web page. A base version of the web page may be partitioned into a collection of fragments. Then the collection of fragments may be compared with the corresponding fragments of a recent version of the web page to determine... Agent: Law Office Of Robert O. Bolan

20080104503 - System and method for creating and transmitting multimedia compilation data: This disclosure generally may disclose an efficient and easy to use system and method for sending combined captured data, and synchronized audio/visual annotation data.... Agent: Snell & Wilmer L.L.P. (main)

20080104504 - Method of controlling construction of a machine-readable document: A method of controlling construction, at a remote source, of a machine-readable document is described. The method comprises the steps of presenting a view of a machine-readable document template stored at the remote source and having static and dynamic portions, the dynamic portions being processable in conjunction with a variable... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080104505 - Method, system and program product supporting customized presentation of toolbars within a document: In response to a user marking a plurality of regions within a document of the application program, the application establishes a corresponding plurality of sections of the document including at least a first section and second section. In response to user selection of one or more toolbars from among a... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20080104506 - Method for producing a document summary: The summary textual units are used to form the document summary. The thematic segmentation is dependent on the category to which the document is associated and the summary textual units are selected for each text segment depending on the theme with which the text segment is associated.... Agent: Louis Tessier

20080104507 - Web page dependent browser menu: A web page is electronically retrieved from a remote site such as a server, using a web browser program. At a graphical display interface is simultaneously displayed a browser toolbar of menu items, at least a portion of the retrieved web page, and at least one pre-selected element of the... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20080104508 - Method of constructing an editable machine-readable document: A method of constructing an editable machine-readable document comprises processing a machine-readable template document and a machine-readable document defining an editable portion of the template document to construct a machine-readable template document including an identifiable editable portion.... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080104509 - Method and system for dynamic flowing data to an arbitrary path defined by a page description language: Improvements to a method for flowing variable data, such as text data, image data, bar code data, and the like, into a path of a template defined by a PDL specification in a high-speed printing operation.... Agent: Macmillan Sobanski & Todd, LLC

20080104510 - Graphical interface for search engine: The invention relates to presenting search query results to a user in a manner that displays hits organized by categories, thereby presenting the user with the ability to view the number of hits in a particular category and to then link to those individual hits. The invention includes various types... Agent: Technology, Patents And Licensing, Inc.

20080104511 - Automatic software application menu generation: A method and apparatus are provided that allow for automatic applications menu generations when an updated application is available to a vehicle diagnostic device. The applications are verified to ensure that they are authorized for the vehicle diagnostic device. Templates can be used to generate the applications menu by associating... Agent: Baker & Hostetler LLP

20080104512 - Method and apparatus for providing realtime feedback in a voice dialog system: A method and apparatus for providing feedback to the user of a voice dialog system. The apparatus includes a voice dialog processing module for receiving speech input from a user and conducting a dialog with the user. The voice dialog processing module determines dialog status data and passes it to... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20080104513 - System for retrieving information: A graphical user interface system for facilitating the retrieval of information relating to at least one predetermined category of information. The system comprises a computer, a user controlled pointing device and a graphic display, said graphic display comprising a number of pixels for generating an image comprising x times y... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20080104514 - Method and apparatus for controlling reproduction of audio/visual data: A reproduction apparatus and a method for controlling the reproduction of the audio/visual data in the apparatus includes: providing at least one input element selectable by a user to execute a predetermined function on a reproduction control screen so that the user controls the reproduction of the audio/visual data; and... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080104515 - System and method for slide presentation: Displaying slide presentations in a user interface (UI) on a display screen is enhanced by providing multiple display modes in a slide presentation viewer. A text mode shows text information distilled from the slides. A preview mode shows thumbnail slide images rendered from the slides and a mixed mode shows... Agent: Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott

20080104516 - System and method for editing slideshow: A slideshow editing system for editing images into slideshow comprises an input device for sending a control signal to a host. The host receives the control signal and executes application programs to preview and edit image files with real time feedback, and interactively edit the slideshow and display the slideshow... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20080104518 - Method and system for communicating user interfaces between first and second users over a network: A system generates a first user interface that includes a first plurality of items respectively associated with a first plurality of selection functions. Next, the system presents the first user interface to a first user over a communications network. Next, the system receives a first plurality of selections from the... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/ebay

20080104517 - Representation, decision models, and user interface for encoding managing preferences, and performing automated decision making about the timing and modalities of interpersonal communications: The present invention relates to a system and methodology providing a user interface that can be employed by contactors and contactees in conjunction with a communications architecture for identifying and establishing an optimal communication based on preferences, capabilities, contexts and goals of the parties to engage in the communication. The... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080104519 - Image data processing system, image data generating apparatus, terminal equipment and program product: In each of personal computers, information concerning an application software to process image data sent to a scanner is received. A dialog box is displayed and a user entry is made as to whether transmission is permitted or not. When transmission is rejected by the user, a notice of the... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080104520 - Stateful browsing: Systems and methods pertaining to maintaining and provisioning state information of user sessions are disclosed. In one embodiment, a system includes a plurality of web browsing engines adapted to run in an operating system instance, with the plurality of web browsing engines adapted for remote interaction via a corresponding plurality... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20080104521 - Methods and systems for providing a customizable guide for navigating a corpus of content: Methods and systems are described for navigating a corpus of content items stored in one or more information repositories within a distributed communications system. The content items may include video feeds, audio feeds, television broadcasts, website, a web log or the like. Using any browser application, the user views content... Agent: Yahoo! Inc. C/o Dreier LLP

20080104522 - Methods and systems for modifying raster graphics software programs: A method for enabling raster image editing software to work with geospatial imagery includes identifying geospatial metadata for an image upon opening of the image, and monitoring all raster image editing operations performed on the image to determine if the geospatial metadata is affected. The geospatial metadata is updated if... Agent: Patrick R. Scanlon Preti Flaherty Beliveau & Pachios LLP

20080104523 - Apparatus and method for extracting and sharing information: A message exchange unit receives and distributes a message in a community in which a plurality of users participates. A message memory stores the message received by the message exchange unit. An extraction rule memory stores an extraction rule applicable for the message. The extraction rule includes an extraction pattern,... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080104524 - System and method for facilitating ip telephony applications: A system and method enabling designers to create IP telephony applications without the need for the designers or IP telephone users to understand either the native data format used by the IP telephones or emulators or the programming language used to construct the IP telephony applications. IP phone devices such... Agent: Godfrey & Kahn S.c.

20080104526 - Methods for creating user-defined computer operations using graphical directional indicator techniques: Methods for creating user-defined computer operations involve displaying one or more graphical directional indicators in a computer operating environment in response to user input and associating at one graphic object with the graphical directional indicator to produce a valid transaction for the graphical directional indicators.... Agent: Wilson & Ham Pmb: 348

20080104525 - Modeless watch window in an iconic programming system: An iconic network communicates with test and measurement instruments. A watch window displays and updates data values of the iconic network as the iconic network is processed.... Agent: Agilent Technologies Inc.

20080104527 - User-defined instruction methods for programming a computer environment using graphical directional indicators: Methods for creating user-defined computer operations involve displaying one or more graphical directional indicators and a visual display object in a computer operating environment in response to user input and associating at one graphic object with said graphical directional indicator to produce a valid transaction for the graphical directional indicators.... Agent: Wilson & Ham Pmb: 348

20080104528 - Capturing a gui display environment: Methods, systems, and products are provided for capturing a GUI display environment. Embodiments include identifying a plurality of rendered GUI objects in the GUI display; selecting one or more GUI objects for non-functional re-rendering; selecting one or more GUI objects for functional re-rendering saving the content and display characteristics of... Agent: Ibm (roc-blf)

20080104529 - Draggable legends for sql driven graphs: A computer program product for providing a graphical user interface for graphing results of a Structured Query Language (SQL) is presented and calls for displaying fields identified by the query; identifying selected fields from the query for graphing; and graphing the data from the selected fields.... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - IBM Rochester Division

20080104530 - Senseweb: Senseweb is described. In an embodiment, a first selection identifying a region of interest is recognized. Additionally, a second selection indicating at least one selected condition potentially monitored within the region of interest is recognized. Then, at least one sensor in the region of interest monitoring the selected condition is... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20080104533 - Method and system for generation of a user interface: In a method, system, and computer medium encoded with a data structure, for generation of a user interface for a medical application to be executed by a medical apparatus only the parameters and/or parameter cards that are relevant for controlling the respective application are presented as control elements in the... Agent: Schiff Hardin, LLP Patent Department

20080104531 - Spatial organization and display of enterprise operational integration information: A Zeetix encompasses a collection of information organized around spatial domain, which may be around a geographical location in a real geography or a virtual geography, and all human-made constructs on it. A geographic Zeetix may show store locations for a franchise business, listing locations for a realtor, or police... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20080104532 - Spatial organization and display of enterprise operational integration information: A Zeetix encompasses a collection of information organized around spatial domain, which may be around a geographical location in a real geography or a virtual geography, and all human-made constructs on it. A geographic Zeetix may show store locations for a franchise business, listing locations for a realtor, or police... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20080104534 - Video apparatus having bookmark function for searching programs and method for creating bookmarks: A video apparatus having a bookmark function for searching a program, and a method for creating a bookmark are provided. The video apparatus includes a storage unit which stores at least one program, a program detector which detects whether the program changes, and a bookmark creator which creates a bookmark... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080104535 - Dynamic thumbnails for document navigation: A “Spatial Navigator” provides a document navigation environment that leverages user spatial memory. Graphical thumbnail-type representations (“thumbnails”) provide scaled versions of entire documents. Changes to documents are immediately reflected in corresponding thumbnails. Similarly, document search results are highlighted in corresponding thumbnails. One or more dynamic document selection windows present arrangements... Agent: Microsoft Corporation C/o Lyon & Harr, LLP

20080104536 - Information processing apparatus, control method for same, program, and storage medium: An information processing apparatus includes a display unit configured to display a plurality of objects, a first movement unit configured to move one or more of the plurality of objects to one or more movement destination areas on the display unit in response to a user's operation, a determination unit... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080104537 - Method of improved viewing of visual objects on a display, and handheld electronic device: An improved handheld electronic device and method facilitate use of the handheld electronic device by visually outputting certain visual objects on the display in an enlarged fashion. Icons and clickable buttons can be enlarged when a visual focus is thereon to indicate that a received selection input will initiate the... Agent: Brij K. Agarwal Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott, LLC

20080104538 - Method of operating popup window of browsers through remote controller: The present invention provides a method to operate a popup window of browsers through a remote controller adopted for use on a remote controller and an information appliance equipped with a browser. The method uses the remote controller to substitute a mouse or keyboard to maneuver operation of the popup... Agent: Nikolai & Mersereau, P.A.

20080104539 - Reproducing apparatus, reproducing method, and reproducing system: According to one embodiment, there is provided a reproducing apparatus including a communication unit which receives a fixed-term content from an external device via a network, a storage unit which stores the fixed-term content in a storage area via the communication unit, an input unit which inputs a warning condition,... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20080104540 - Declarative association of dialog fields: A computer-based user interface comprises a dialog control element for usage in creating a dialog. The dialog control element acts upon a data model containing an object defined by one or more properties and modifiable by one or more controls. The dialog control element can associate object properties with controls... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080104542 - Apparatus and method for conducting searches with a search engine for unstructured data to retrieve records enriched with structured data and generate reports based thereon: Records in databases or unstructured files are enriched with metadata and are indexed for retrieval by a search engine. In response to a search request, a graphical user interface (GUI) control based on the metadata associated with the search hits is constructed and displayed with the search results in a... Agent: Levine & Mandelbaum

20080104543 - Guidance apparatus, method and program of analysis work: An analysis purpose input means, an analysis process generation means, an analysis process display means, an analysis process execution means and an analysis process storage means are provided. Modeling techniques conforming to the analysis purpose, analysis techniques, analysis result evaluation techniques, information on computation period, cost and computer kind as... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080104541 - Method of assisting user interaction with a touch-screen device: Embodiments of methods of assisting user interaction with a touch-screen device are described. In some embodiments, the method comprises operating a touch-screen device under a responsive state, wherein a touch-screen of the touch-screen device is capable of receiving user input, displaying a first user interface having a first list of... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080104544 - User interface with variable sized icons: A method of presenting content on the user interface display screen of a portable electronic device includes the presentation of a plurality of icons. The icons scale in size in accordance with a position of the respective icons along a curved path.... Agent: Creative Labs, Inc. Legal Department

20080104545 - Multimedia viewing enclosure with predetermined content: A multimedia viewing booth is disclosed that includes a computer terminal with a touchscreen, a CPU, a payment processor and a digital media I/O unit. The touchscreen displays a certain number of icons with each icon linked to predetermined content. A first portion of the icons is linked to a... Agent: Salvatore J. Maiorino, Esq Sun Trust International Center

20080104546 - Systems and methods for creating an interactive 3d visualization of indexed media: A 3D graphical user interface includes a two-dimensional ground-plane layout representing the relationship between one or more leaf elements of a tree data structure The interface further includes at least one building-like structure, each of the at least one building-like structures corresponding to a respective one of the one or... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080104547 - Gesture-based communications: Application workflows can be improved using gesture recognition. Interpreting non-functional attributes of gestures, such as relative sizes and/or positions and/or locations, can indicate relative degrees of functionality of the gesture. Thus, gesture inputs trigger proportionate functionality at an application, whereby the gesture input can include a gesture component and at... Agent: Peter Vogel Ge Healthcare