Data processing: presentation processing of document inventions 06/08

20080155386 - Network discovery system: The present application relates to a system for enhancing management of a network, including discovery of resources and management of agents.... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20080155387 - Information processing apparatus, control method thereof, and program: Template layout processing is executed by inserted a template into a flow area set in a document. The size of the template when data is inserted into the field area in the template inserted in the flow area is required. It is determined wheterh or not the template can be... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080155388 - Publication service using web pages and web search engines: A server may receive publication information from a client and may create a unique key for the client. The server may generate one or more web pages that include the unique key, the publication information, and instructions for web crawlers not to index or crawl the publication information. In addition,... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20080155389 - Mobile terminal and method for providing hyperlink information: A method for providing hyperlink information in a wireless Internet-enabled mobile terminal is provided, in which the mobile terminal detects hyperlink tags including access information from an Hyper Text Markup Language (HTML) source forming a Web page when accessing a wireless Internet, extracts access information from each of the detected... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.c.

20080155390 - Automated generation of multiple versions of a publication: In one embodiment, a method for generating a publication is provided. The method includes determining a template for one or more pages of the publication. A structured document for the publication is generated where the structured document includes entry fields corresponding to the one or more addressable blocks. The structured... Agent: Trellis Intellectual Property Law Group, Pc

20080155391 - System and method for selective form configuration: A system and method for selective form configuration. According to an embodiment of the invention, an engine retrieves a form template from a data store, the form template specifying a plurality of form elements, parses the form template to identify one or more configurable form elements from the plurality of... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20080155392 - Integrity checker for web browser document: An apparatus and method for integrity checking of a document associated with a web browser is described.... Agent: Daryl D. Coutts

20080155393 - Method for aligning demonstrated user actions with existing documentation: There is provided an apparatus for aligning document actions specified in a documented procedure with demonstrated user actions. The apparatus includes an alignment device for computing an alignment between the document actions and the demonstrated user actions based on at least one similarity metric.... Agent: Keusey, Tutunjian & Bitetto, P.c.

20080155394 - Variable data printing: A method of printing a document is disclosed: A format template file is generated by defining locations and sizes on a page of at least two copy holes into which a content element is to be inserted. A group object is created which incorporates the two copy holes by generating... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080155395 - Method for aligning demonstrated user actions with existing documentation: There is provided an apparatus for aligning document actions specified in a documented procedure with demonstrated user actions. The apparatus includes an alignment device for computing an alignment between the document actions and the demonstrated user actions based on at least one similarity metric.... Agent: Keusey, Tutunjian & Bitetto, P.c.

20080155396 - Platform for rendering content for a remote device: A platform for customized rendering of markup language (ML) documents into a document in a device specific language that is subsequently provided for display by a target remote device. A rendering context for the target remote device and an ML document is received by the platform, which performs processes that... Agent: Yahoo! Inc. C/o Darby & Darby P.c.

20080155397 - Synchronizing data between different editor views: The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for synchronizing data between different editor views. Embodiments of the present invention can be used to incrementally parse a portion of a document using a mark-up language (e.g., HTML) snippet. The parsed snippet is then merged back into the... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20080155398 - System and method for adaptive spell checking: A system and method for adaptive spell checking and correction. The method includes tracking frequencies of historical replacement strings of characters, and providing a list of “n” number of the historical replacement strings of characters in response to a string of characters which were previously changed or are not recognized.... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080155399 - System and method for indexing a document that includes a misspelled word: Systems and methods are disclosed for indexing a document such as a webpage that includes one or more misspelled words based on an index classification of the document. Generally, a document is received and it is determined whether a word in the document is spelled incorrectly. If the word in... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione / Yahoo! Overture

20080155401 - Reproducing apparatus and file information display method: A reproducing apparatus includes a reproduction unit configured to reproduce a file recorded on a storage medium, a transfer unit configured to transfer a file recorded on the storage medium to an external device, an external device connection detection unit configured to detect a connection with the external device, and... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20080155400 - Terminal independent addressing system for access to a web page via a public mobile network: A terminal independent addressing system (1) for access via a public mobile network to a web page. The system—(1) operates the access (7) from a number of different types of mobile terminals (3). In the mobile terminals (3) an URL is utilized which is always the same, regardless if the... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20080155406 - Gui generation apparatus and method for generating gui: A GUI generation apparatus comprises: a storage unit adapted to store association information that associates an input/output GUI component relating to the input and output of data with a data model that stores data; and a reflection unit adapted to, upon receiving an input of data through the input/output GUI... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080155402 - Method for configuring a device using simple pictograms: A method for a user to easily securely configure a device is provided. The method includes displaying a user interface including a plurality of symbols available for user selection, accepting user inputs including an indication of any symbols selected by the user, converting the symbols selected by the user into... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20080155405 - Method for initializing an electronic system comprising several plug-ins: A method for initializing an electronic system which has a base interface and several module-like plug-ins connected to it. To allow for a flexible addition and removal of plug-ins, the base interface and the plug-ins exchange information in the process of initializing the system. The plug-ins communicate what processes (priority,... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20080155403 - Methods and computer program products for using participant-specified priorities of collaborative events to indicate composite availability levels for each of a plurality of timeslots: Receiving participant-specified priority levels for each of a plurality of collaborative events. The participant-specified priority levels are used to calculate relative availability levels for each of a plurality of participants in each of a plurality of timeslots. For each of a plurality of timeslots, the relative availability levels for each... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - Ibm Rsw

20080155404 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for calendar-based coverage monitoring: Methods, systems, and computer program products for calendar-based coverage monitoring are disclosed. According to one aspect, a method includes receiving a coverage rule defining multiple covering entities for performing an activity for a covered entity and at least one period of time during which the multiple covering entities is to... Agent: Scenera Research, Llc Jenkins, Wilson & Taylor, P.a.

20080155407 - On-line transactional display with multipe data type entry facility: There is disclosed an interface and architecture for a transaction system capable of collecting data for filing of intellectual property rights, which includes provision for collecting text data, image data, audio data, and/or video data, and supplying that data to a service provider in a form which enables the service... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080155408 - Systems, methods and computer programs to generate reminders at expiration of a calendar event: A system, method and computer readable medium are described that issue ending reminders to users. As a user goes through his day, he will be reminded of the beginning of the events he has entered into his calendar. The described systems, methods and programs stored on computer readable medium also... Agent: Motorola, Inc. Law Department

20080155409 - Internet search engine: A computer processor is programmed to provide a search engine service to one or more members. The search engine service may be programmed to assist each member in accessing the Internet. The search engine service may cause a navigation buddy to be displayed on a computer monitor screen. The navigation... Agent: Walter J. Tencza Jr.

20080155410 - Method for aligning demonstrated user actions with existing documentation: There is provided an apparatus for aligning document actions specified in a documented procedure with demonstrated user actions. The apparatus includes an alignment device for computing an alignment between the document actions and the demonstrated user actions based on at least one similarity metric.... Agent: Keusey, Tutunjian & Bitetto, P.c.

20080155411 - Method for ensuring internet content compliance: e

20080155412 - Quick reference card and on-line help for a computing system: Various technologies for generating a quick reference card. In one implementation, system settings information about a computing system may be read. Optional settings information about the computing system may then be queried and received thereafter. The system settings information and the optional settings information may then be displayed on the... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080155415 - Device and method for providing haptic user interface in mobile terminal: A device and method for providing a haptic user interface in a mobile terminal that can provide a haptic response to user manipulation are provided. The device for providing a haptic user interface in a mobile terminal includes a pointing device for receiving manipulation from a user to control a... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.c.

20080155414 - Display method of flash-based user interface, computer program product and system based on the same: A computer-implemented method is provided for displaying a Flash®-based user interface on a desktop of a computer system. The method comprises: interpreting a definition file including at least a statement concerning an swf file; requesting a Flash Player® to play the swf file on the basis of the interpretation of... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, Pc

20080155413 - Modified media presentation during scrubbing: A computer-implemented method includes displaying, within a user interface in a digital media system, a thumbnail representing at least a portion of a media clip, receiving user input corresponding to a play speed at which a media clip is to be played, determining whether the received user input exceeds one... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.c.

20080155416 - Volume control method and information processing apparatus: According to one embodiment, an information processing apparatus includes an audio output unit which outputs input audio data, a display, a user interface displaying unit which displays, on the display, a volume control user interface for controlling volume of the audio data output from the audio output unit, a storing... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20080155417 - Multimedia visual progress indication system: A multimedia visual progress indication system that provides a cache bar that is overlaid onto the program material or displayed on a dedicated display. A cache bar indicates the length of a recording session or the length of stored program material and expands to the right when material is being... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20080155418 - Multimedia visual progress indication system: A multimedia visual progress indication system that provides a cache bar that is overlaid onto the program material or displayed on a dedicated display. A cache bar indicates the length of a recording session or the length of stored program material and expands to the right when material is being... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20080155420 - Anchor point in media: A computer-implemented method includes displaying, within a user interface in a digital media system, a project pane, displaying video content within the project pane, the video content aligned relative to a time line, adding overlay content to the video content, and anchoring a first position in the overlay content to... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.c.

20080155419 - Method and apparatus for removing partially recorded program: A method and system for removal of partially recorded programs are disclosed. For example, the method presents a menu of options when interrupting a recording in progress, wherein one of the options is an option to delete a partial recording of a program. The method then receives a selection of... Agent: Motorola, Inc. Law Department

20080155421 - Fast creation of video segments: A computer-implemented method can include displaying, within a user interface in a digital media system, a media pane, and a project pane, displaying, within the media pane, a thumbnail group representing a media item, the thumbnail group comprising one or more thumbnails, a thumbnail comprising a plurality of frames, enabling... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.c.

20080155422 - Automated production of multiple output products: A system and method simplifying the creation process for multimedia slideshows, collages, movies, and other imaging products. Users can share their stories using imaging services, which will handle the formatting and delivery of content for recipients. Recipients can then easily request output from the shared stories in the form of... Agent: Frank Pincelli Patent Legal Staff

20080155424 - Network element abstraction within a network management system: Preferred embodiments of the invention provide systems and methods to receive a logical command associated with a network management system to be executed on a network element, convert the logical command into a physical command associated with the network element, communicate the physical command to the network element.... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20080155423 - Network management system integrated with provisioning system: Preferred embodiments of the invention provide systems and methods to receive input from a user, the input including information associated with a change to a network element configuration; process the information associated with the change to a network element configuration, receive an indication from the network element that the network... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20080155425 - Browser renderable toolbar: A method of creating a browser renderable toolbar or helper application, and a network architecture therefore. The browser renderable toolbar obviates the need for separately-installed software while still permitting a user to take advantage of the functionality provided by a traditional toolbar.... Agent: Yahoo! Inc. C/o Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20080155426 - Visualization and navigation of search results: Methods and computer-readable media are provided for the visualization and navigation of search results. Scaled visual representations of multiple search results may be displayed on a single display screen. The scaled visual representations of the search results may be organized by category. A user may fluidly zoom the display into... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080155427 - Mobile business client: A method of performing delta updates of a Web based application running on a client device in a client-server system. Partial object trees are exchanged between a client and a server, which causes the updates of an object model cache on the client either via the instantiation, destruction or modification... Agent: Brake Hughes Bellermann LLP

20080155428 - Method of displaying menu based on use record in mobile terminal: A method of displaying a menu in a mobile terminal based on a use record, such as a use ranking and a use history, is provided. The method of displaying a menu based on a use record in a mobile terminal includes selecting one of at least two highest level... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.c.

20080155430 - Integrating private metadata into a collaborative environment: Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to meta-data management for an activity thread in an activity-centric collaborative environment, and provide a novel and non-obvious method, system and computer program product for private metadata integration. In one embodiment of the invention, a private meta-data integration... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20080155429 - Sharing, accessing, and pooling of personal preferences for transient environment customization: Technologies for transient personal preference customization of environments, devices and systems based on user preference data. Such technologies enable users to maintain personal preference data on mobile or other devices, such as cell phones, personal data assistants (“PDA”), or the like, such that the data can be transferred to devices... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080155432 - Methods and systems for interrogating data attributes in a process environment: A computer program product and method for interrogating data attributes in a product development environment is provided. In one embodiment, a computer program product includes a product development application that includes an interrogate data selection device. A product development datastore stores attribute data associated with at least one of a... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080155431 - User interface supporting processes with alternative paths: A user interface dynamically builds the interface screen functionality from, among other things, a hierarchical definition of a process. The hierarchical definition may identify several process steps as alternatives for each other. During operation, to build a user interface screen, the user interface displays the content of all process steps... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20080155433 - Zooming task management: A user interface is provided that includes a focused view of a task and a user interface object for a second task. If the object is selected, the user interface is fluidly zoomed into the object and then out from the object to focus on the second task. A user... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080155434 - Metadata enrichment of alerts in an object-based navigation system: Embodiments of the present invention provide methods and systems for user interaction with alerts displayed in object-based navigation (OBN) systems. A worklist in an OBN system may display a list of alerts, notifications, system messages, and other similar information enriched with metadata. When a user selects such an alert, a... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20080155436 - Player streaks and game data visualization: A computer based method visually highlights achievements of sports teams or players in displays of statistical data, such as statistical tables, that represent the performance of sports teams or players. The achievements to be highlighted may include multiple-game streaks and single-game achievements. Multiple-game streaks occur when a team or player... Agent: Yahoo C/o Mofo Palo Alto

20080155435 - Spatially-defined boundary and predicate to provide information: An information seeker can graphically define a spatial sub-region of a geographic area and a predicate to be applied to objects and/or events in that sub-region. A system can then provide and/or evaluate information about entities that fall within the sub-region and that satisfy the predicate. The boundary of the... Agent: Peter M. Ullman Llc

20080155437 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for controlling presentation of dynamic content in a presentation element: Methods, systems, and computer program products for controlling presentation of dynamic content in a presentation element are disclosed. According to one aspect, a method includes detecting presentation of dynamic content in a first presentation element. The presentation of dynamic content is associated with a first application. A change is detected... Agent: Scenera Research, Llc Jenkins, Wilson & Taylor, P.a.

20080155438 - Graduated visual and manipulative translucency for windows: Methods and systems for providing graphical user interfaces are described. Overlaid, information-bearing windows whose contents remain unchanged for a predetermined period of time become translucent. The translucency can be graduated so that, over time, if the window's contents remain unchanged, the window becomes more translucent. In addition to visual translucency,... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney Pc

20080155440 - Graphical user interface to manipulate syndication data feeds: A pipe specification editor is provided to configure a plurality of modules for processing a syndication data feed. The editor is operable to provide a graphical user interface to receive a user specification of a plurality of modules and to receive a user specification of wires. Each module is characterized... Agent: Beyer Law Group LLP/yahoo

20080155439 - Method and apparatus for improved interaction with an application program according to data types and actions performed by the application program: A method and apparatus for performing actions while selecting objects on a user interface display. A user may select a first item in an area of a display controlled by a first process and drag that item to a second area on a display controlled by a second process. The... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20080155441 - Method for performing a data center hardware upgrade readiness assessment: A system and method are provided for assessing the readiness of a data center to support a hardware upgrade. In one embodiment, this method may employ a computer based system to administer a questionnaire to data center personnel, assess the data center and report the results. Using the data gathered... Agent: Lowrie, Lando & Anastasi, LLP

20080155442 - Methods and systems for controlling a semiconductor fabrication process: Software for controlling processes in a heterogeneous semiconductor manufacturing environment may include a wafer-centric database, a real-time scheduler using a neural network, and a graphical user interface displaying simulated operation of the system. These features may be employed alone or in combination to offer improved usability and computational efficiency for... Agent: Strategic Patents P.c..

20080155451 - Dynamic slabbing to render views of medical image data: Systems and methods for generating images of respective patients from multi-dimensional medical image data sets include a processor circuit in communication with a display having a graphic user interface (GUI), the processor circuit configured to define at least one grouping of a subset of slices selected from slices in a... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec

20080155443 - Methods and systems for controlling a semiconductor fabrication process: Software for controlling processes in a heterogeneous semiconductor manufacturing environment may include a wafer-centric database, a real-time scheduler using a neural network, and a graphical user interface displaying simulated operation of the system. These features may be employed alone or in combination to offer improved usability and computational efficiency for... Agent: Strategic Patents P.c..

20080155444 - Methods and systems for controlling a semiconductor fabrication process: Software for controlling processes in a heterogeneous semiconductor manufacturing environment may include a wafer-centric database, a real-time scheduler using a neural network, and a graphical user interface displaying simulated operation of the system. These features may be employed alone or in combination to offer improved usability and computational efficiency for... Agent: Strategic Patents P.c..

20080155445 - Methods and systems for controlling a semiconductor fabrication process: Software for controlling processes in a heterogeneous semiconductor manufacturing environment may include a wafer-centric database, a real-time scheduler using a neural network, and a graphical user interface displaying simulated operation of the system. These features may be employed alone or in combination to offer improved usability and computational efficiency for... Agent: Strategic Patents P.c..

20080155446 - Methods and systems for controlling a semiconductor fabrication process: Software for controlling processes in a heterogeneous semiconductor manufacturing environment may include a wafer-centric database, a real-time scheduler using a neural network, and a graphical user interface displaying simulated operation of the system. These features may be employed alone or in combination to offer improved usability and computational efficiency for... Agent: Strategic Patents P.c..

20080155447 - Methods and systems for controlling a semiconductor fabrication process: Software for controlling processes in a heterogeneous semiconductor manufacturing environment may include a wafer-centric database, a real-time scheduler using a neural network, and a graphical user interface displaying simulated operation of the system. These features may be employed alone or in combination to offer improved usability and computational efficiency for... Agent: Strategic Patents P.c..

20080155448 - Methods and systems for controlling a semiconductor fabrication process: Software for controlling processes in a heterogeneous semiconductor manufacturing environment may include a wafer-centric database, a real-time scheduler using a neural network, and a graphical user interface displaying simulated operation of the system. These features may be employed alone or in combination to offer improved usability and computational efficiency for... Agent: Strategic Patents P.c..

20080155449 - Methods and systems for controlling a semiconductor fabrication process: Software for controlling processes in a heterogeneous semiconductor manufacturing environment may include a wafer-centric database, a real-time scheduler using a neural network, and a graphical user interface displaying simulated operation of the system. These features may be employed alone or in combination to offer improved usability and computational efficiency for... Agent: Strategic Patents P.c..

20080155450 - Methods and systems for controlling a semiconductor fabrication process: Software for controlling processes in a heterogeneous semiconductor manufacturing environment may include a wafer-centric database, a real-time scheduler using a neural network, and a graphical user interface displaying simulated operation of the system. These features may be employed alone or in combination to offer improved usability and computational efficiency for... Agent: Strategic Patents P.c..

20080155452 - Microscope device and controller thereof: A controlling unit obtains microscope information about each configuration unit configuring a microscope main body, transmits the microscope information, receives control information, and controls the operation of each configuration unit based on the received control information. A controller receives the microscope information transmitted from the controlling unit, displays an operation... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, Pc

20080155453 - Systems and methods for displaying location-based maps on communication devices: Tickers are populated with location-based information that is selected according to the geographic location of communication devices. The location of a communication device is identified based on a GPS system, proximity to transmitters in a wireless network, user input, or using other techniques. Location-appropriate content is obtained either in real-time... Agent: Workman Nydegger

20080155455 - Notification of state transition of an out-of-focus application with clustering: A method, a computer program product, a computer system and a method for supporting an application. The method includes: starting one or more applications and creating a corresponding application task button representing each application of the one or more applications; grouping two or more of the applications into a group,... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20080155454 - Notification of state transition of an out-of-focus application with state and notification priority filtering: A method, a computer program product, a computer system and a method for supporting an application. The method includes: starting one or more applications, each application of the one or more applications having multiple possible states; displaying a taskbar on a computer screen, the taskbar having an application state filter... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20080155456 - Attachment integrated claims systems and operating methods therefor: Systems and methods for processing textual messages which are integrated with one or more digital attachments is described. These systems and methods are useful in the electronic filing and processing of, for example, image data, and of textual data associated with the image data. One particular application of these systems... Agent: Leffert Jay & Polglaze, P.a.

20080155457 - Embedding visual content of an embedder in an embedded component: In one aspect, there is provided a computer-implemented method enabling the implementation of reusable components in a framework, such as a model-view-controller (MVS) framework. The method may implement an embedder component and an embedded component in the reusable component framework. A first view area of a first interface view of... Agent: Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky & Popeo, P.c. Attn: Patent Intake Customer No. 64280

20080155458 - Interactive image thumbnails: A computer-implemented method includes displaying, within a user interface, a view pane having a vertical direction and a horizontal direction, displaying, within the view pane, a plurality of poster frames, each poster frame representing a corresponding media item, a first poster frame being displayed as positioned in a first row... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.c.

20080155459 - Associating keywords to media: A computer-implemented method includes displaying, within a user interface in a digital media system, a media pane and a tools pane, displaying, within the media pane, a thumbnail group representing a media item, the thumbnail group including one or more thumbnails, displaying, within the tools pane, a tool configured to... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.c.

20080155461 - Display control apparatus and method for controlling display control apparatus: An apparatus is capable of controlling a display of a plurality of images on a display screen. The apparatus includes a scroll speed determination unit configured to determine a scroll speed, a scroll display control unit configured to scroll a display of the plurality of images on the display screen... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20080155460 - System and method for panning content: Panning the display of content on a computing device, particularly a handheld device, can be awkward using incorporated track wheels or track balls especially when walking and operating the device. A graphical user interface that provides panning operations through key-based inputs and that teaches a user how to pan using... Agent: Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP

20080155463 - Content scrolling system and method: An exemplary content scrolling system includes a display unit for displaying content, a scroll bar for scrolling the displayed content, and a processing unit for scrolling the displayed content based on a scroll input of the scroll bar. The processing unit includes a scroll amount calculating module and a content... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080155462 - Independent scrolling of tabular data: A method and a system for manipulating columns and/or rows of tabular data are provided. A user of an electronic device displaying tabular data is allowed to select a column and to scroll the data within that column without scrolling the other columns. In this manner, a user is able... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080155464 - Method and system for providing a scroll-bar pop-up with quick find for rapid access of sorted list data: A pop-up window is generated when the user clicks on the slider within the scroll bar display object. The pop-up window displays information from one or more categories in a currently selected list entry, including the category on which the list is currently sorted. As the user moves the slider,... Agent: Lotus And Rational Software David A. Dagg, Esq.

20080155465 - Identifying items that have experienced recent interest bursts: Techniques are described for identifying items that have recently undergone an interest burst. Items that have recently undergone an interest burst are identified by comparing how many interest-actions have been performed on the items during a current time window against how many interest-actions have been performed on the items historically.... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker LLP/yahoo! Inc.

20080155469 - Apparatus and method for processing information, and program and storage medium: The present invention allows a user to efficiently perform a setting operation in an automatic layout system. To accomplish this object, an information processing apparatus has the following configuration. An information processing apparatus having an automatic layout function includes a function for, in editing containers, measuring a distance between a... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080155468 - Cad-based navigation of views of medical image data stacks or volumes: Systems, processors and methods display image views of stacks or volume image data and allow a user to navigate the data and/or views using CAD findings.... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec

20080155467 - Content selectable reproduction system, method thereof, and portable reproduction unit control apparatus: A content selectable reproduction system is disclosed. A content reproduction unit having a display function of a built-in or external display device includes a content reproduction section which reproduces content, an operation section which issues an operation command, and a first control section which inputs the operation command and controls... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080155466 - Image display device for displaying small-sized image and method thereof: An image display device capable of displaying a small-sized image and a method thereof are provided. The image display device includes a display unit, a display driving unit which controls an operation state of the display unit, a user interface unit which receives an input of a user's selection command,... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080155470 - Portable media device with list management tools: A portable wireless communications subscriber audio and/or video player apparatus and system and method for selecting, requesting, downloading, and playing audio and/or video data content files from an Internet-based database server. The wireless link is preferably implemented in accordance with the WiFi protocol, which allows connectivity to the Internet by... Agent: Gottlieb Rackman & Reisman Pc

20080155472 - Method and system for adapting interactions: A method and system for adapting automated interactions that allows the interactive behavior of an automated system, or the nature of the interaction elements implemented thereon, to be adapted to properties and/or behaviors of users of such systems in order to enhance operating convenience. Interaction adaptation is performed with reference... Agent: Darby & Darby P.c.

20080155471 - Method and system for providing auto-sorting of collaborative partners or components based on frequency of communication and/or access in a collaboration system user interface: A system for auto-sorting of lists based on most frequent component access or partner collaboration. The elements in the lists may represent collaboration partners (e.g. instant messaging contacts), and/or collaboration components such as Web addresses, events, collaborative documents, activity objects, and/or desktop applications. The system monitors component accesses and/or partner... Agent: Lotus And Rational Software David A. Dagg, Esq.

20080155473 - Scrolling interface: A method of browsing an ordered set of items on a display device is disclosed. The method displays the ordered set of items as ordered subsets (301-308) of the items, the subsets being arranged in parallel, each subset comprising a corresponding number (310, 311, 312) of a plurality of the... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080155474 - Scrolling interface: Disclosed is a method (600) of scrolling a list (510) including video items (504-508) on a display device (501). The list is scrolled to modify a displayed subset of the items. The scrolling of the list is terminated and at least one of the displayed video items (507) is played... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080155475 - Scrolling interface: Disclosed is a method of browsing a set of items on a display device. The method displays a plurality of items (303-307) of the set on a display device in a first arrangement (FIG. 3A) for browsing. Scrolling of the items can then occur in the first arrangement by responding... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080155476 - Methods, systems and computer program products for enhancing presence services: Provided are methods, systems, and computer program products for enhancing presence services. Such methods may include associating, in a database, a custom icon associated with a third party and a region and communicating a user presence in the associated region by transmitting a custom icon to a subscriber. Such systems... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec, P.a.

20080155477 - System and method for switching between running application programs on handheld devices: A handheld device has a memory for storing a plurality of software applications and a processor for running concurrently at least two of the applications, a one of them defining an active application. First and second buttons on the device are adapted to advance a one of the running applications... Agent: Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP

20080155478 - Virtual interface and system for controlling a device: This invention relates to a system and method for operating and managing real world devices through a three-dimensional virtual user interface. In a preferred form, the invention relates to using a three-dimensional virtual user interface to control the playing of content items on a display device or on multiple display... Agent: Peter S. Canelias Law Offices Of Peter S. Canelias

20080155479 - Method and apparatus for building interactive software applications: The system provides an application builder and an application player. The application builder is used to intuitively generate interactive software applications and can be operated by one or more subject matter experts with or without programming experience. By providing a natural framework for software generation, the system provides greater accessibility... Agent: Dla Piper Us LLP

20080155480 - Methods and apparatus for generating workflow steps using gestures: The present disclosure provides methods and apparatuses for generating workflow activities using gestures. Using the methods and apparatus herein, users can use gestures of the input device to create workflow activities. This allows users to quickly and intuitively create new workflow activities.... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, LLP

20080155481 - Idle screen arrangement structure and idle screen display method for mobile terminal: An idle screen arrangement structure and an idle screen display method for a mobile terminal are provided. The idle screen arrangement structure includes a base idle screen; and a plurality of different extended idle screens arranged in four or eight directions around the base idle screen. A first idle screen... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.c.

20080148137 - Document management system, document processing client device, and document management server device: There is provided a document management system including a document storage that stores an electronic document and a content identifier; a management information storage that stores management information, which includes a content identifier of an electronic document and a management identifier of a parent document of the electronic document, and... Agent: Gauthier & Connors, LLP

20080148138 - Method, apparatus and system for providing display information to an end-user display device: A device and method for providing display information blended or combined with multimedia content to an end user display device. The method includes receiving multimedia content, determining display points or other triggering events in the multimedia content, executing one or more display applications to access or generate display information, and... Agent: Motorola, Inc. Law Department

20080148139 - System and method for dynamic content processing with extendable provisioning: Data can be stored in a wide variety of formats, and it is recognized that not all terminals have the resources for storing the appropriate Application Program for processing and/or viewing the data as defined in a particular format. Systems and methods are described for dynamically processing a generic content... Agent: Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP

20080148140 - Spreadsheet in-cell graphical display method: An object of the present invention is to conveniently visualize data represented as a ratio or range in a cell of a spreadsheet. A ratio graph image having the length of the ratio to the width of the cell to which the ratio data is input is created and the... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, Plc

20080148141 - Method for encoding an xml document, decoding method, encoding and decoding method, encoding device, decoding device and encoding and decoding device: An XML document is encoded into a bit stream, particularly binary bit stream with at least one XML element having a simple content in which at least one absolute path is represented by a sequence of XML elements and/or XML attribute names. The XML document is represented by a tree... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080148143 - System and method for generating electronic patent application files: The present invention provides a method for generating electronic patent application files, which includes steps of: creating multiple extensible markup language (XML) templates; setting basic requirements of drafted files; mapping the XML templates to chapter headers in the drafted files; analyzing and verifying whether the drafted files meet the basic... Agent: Pce Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20080148142 - System and method for inserting data into a pdf document: A computer-based method for inserting data into a PDF document is provided. The method includes: generating a template based on contents and elements of the PDF document; reading data to be inserted into the PDF document from a database; processing the read data according to the elements of the PDF... Agent: Pce Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20080148144 - Document analysis system and document adaptation system: A document analysis system which can execute a layout analysis intended by a document provider and an exhaustive title analysis and output the analysis result which can be used by a third person is provided by the present invention. The input unit (11) obtains a structured or semi-structured document and... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080148145 - Method for learning portal content model enhancements: A method and respective system for adapting the user-visible structure of a portal to the needs of a user, wherein the portal structure is stored in a content model, wherein a user interface component is provided for controlling the layout of the plurality of pages rendered at said portal, and... Agent: Hoffman, Warnick & D'alessandro Llc

20080148146 - System and method for dynamically publishing a document in collaboration space responsive to room aesthetics and input text: Collaboration space object model provides for a Place consisting of rooms. A room is made up of pages. Folders are used to organize pages. Members belong to rooms, and are those users authorized to access them. Place type controls the creation of a place, including how many rooms it has,... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20080148147 - Method and system for facilitating the examination of documents: The user is enabled to move smoothly between viewing an entire document in a word by word display, through views that display only elements of increasing landmark value, to an overview of the document in a single display window. A document is parsed into a hierarchy, of which each node... Agent: Albihns Stockholm Ab

20080148149 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for interacting simultaneously with multiple application programs: Methods, systems, and computer program products for interacting simultaneously with multiple application programs are disclosed. According to one aspect, a method includes allowing a first application program to be associated with a second application program. The first and second application programs are responsive to inputs received via a user interface... Agent: Scenera Research, Llc Jenkins, Wilson & Taylor, P.a.

20080148148 - Providing modified notifications when inferring a user might not want to be notified: A notification system, upon receiving an indication of an event, determines whether the user has requested to suppress event notifications. When the user has requested to suppress event notifications, the notification system suppresses the event notification by not notifying the user of the event. When the user has not requested... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP/msft

20080148150 - User interface experiemce system: A method includes determining an initial experience-level of a user based on an initial usage of an application by the user, where the application includes a plurality of selectable features, selecting one or more first features from the selectable features to provide to the user, where the selected first features... Agent: Brake Hughes Bellermann LLP

20080148151 - One way sound: A method and a system for identity authentication are presented. In one example embodiment, audio data (e.g. a sound wave) may be received from a user. The audio data may be used to establish an identity of a first entity to the user. The audio data may be stored at... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/ebay

20080148152 - Systems and methods for providing a video playlist: Systems and Methods of presenting video on a display are disclosed. A video clip is displayed on a video display area. The video clip is one of a plurality of video clips in a video playlist. A playlist pane can be displayed and includes video thumbnails displayed in an order... Agent: Yahoo! Inc. C/o Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20080148153 - System, method and medium organizing templates for generating moving images: A system, method and medium organizing a template, which enables a user to easily create moving images, are provided. The system includes a template controller to generate a time tab indicating when to display the moving image and to identify one or more scenes of the moving image by parsing... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080148154 - Dynamic information publication enabling direct access to a preferred communication channel connection in integrated communication server: The method and system guides a user to easily and effectively communicate with a potential recipient via an integrated communication server. The integrated communication server will track and aggregate user presence information about the potential recipient. The aggregated user presence information includes the current state, activity, and/or availability of the... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20080148155 - Real-time monitor integrated activity thread snippets: Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to real-time monitoring of activity metrics in an activity-centric collaborative computing environment and provide a novel and non-obvious method, system and computer program product for real-time monitor integration of activity thread snippets in an activity-centric collaborative computing environment.... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20080148156 - Community network navigation: Methods and computer-readable media are provided for navigating a community network environment and viewing various network attributes at various network zoom levels. A user interface is displayed that includes a representation of each community network participant, with each representation including a community network attribute. A request is received to zoom... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080148157 - Extensible framework for template-based user settings management: Extensible architecture for template-baser user setting management by creating logical groupings of per-user settings using different template types. A manageable way to assign templates to sets of users based on different criteria is provided. Templates can be defined in a declarative format (e.g., XML), which declarative format is developed such... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080148158 - Method, system, and program product for differentially displaying an instant messaging (im) availability: The invention provides a method, system, and program product for differentially displaying an instant messaging (IM) availability to a plurality of potential interlocutors. In one embodiment, the invention includes creating a relationship chart of potential interlocutors based on an organizational chart; defining a willingness to communicate, including a temporal component;... Agent: Hoffman, Warnick & D'alessandro Llc

20080148159 - Activity centric project management tool: Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to project management tools and provide a method, system and computer program product for an activity-centric project management tool. In one embodiment of the invention, an activity-centric project management tool data processing system can be provided. The system... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20080148160 - Bitmap based application sharing accessibility framework: A method and mechanism captures the text that is associated with the screen image displayed on the host user's computer monitor, and a mechanism for either displaying or reading the shared text on the viewer systems. By adding additional components to a typical application sharing framework, a truly accessible image... Agent: Hoffman, Warnick & D'alessandro Llc

20080148162 - Device for providing user interface according to markup-language document: The present invention provides a device for providing a user interface according to a markup-language (ML) document. A storage medium is provided in the device. The device is installed with an operating system, a first software and a second software. The operating system executes the first software, so that the... Agent: Wpat, Pc

20080148161 - Webpage autorefresh: A system, method and apparatus is provided for automatic refresh of webpages. In one embodiment, the invention is a method. The method includes detecting a series of refresh requests for a first webpage exceeding a predetermined threshold within a period of time less than a predetermined time threshold. The method... Agent: Fountainhead Law Group, Pc

20080148163 - Device, method, and program for developing application programs: An application with a function for inputting feedback incorporated into it is created and presented with the present embodiment. By this means, feedback about the problems in the running of the application may be obtained efficiently. In addition, an application with a function for inputting feedback about the components that... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20080148164 - Toolbox minimizer/maximizer: A user interface is described, having a search box for entering a search query. The search box and other components remain stationary when conducting a search. A toolbox is provided with links to different views for conducting category-specific searches, and the links are editable.... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20080148165 - System and method of providing assistance over a network: A system and method relating to receiving manipulation data from a controller and a displaying a graphic representing the manipulation and the controller on a first display and transmitting the manipulation data for substantially-simultaneous on a second display remote from the first display.... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20080148166 - Priority controlled display: Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, are provided for priority-controlled displays. In one aspect, the information elements are received at a user interface. Priorities are determined for the information elements. The information elements and determined priorities are then provided to the user interface. The priorities include a first priority... Agent: Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky & Popeo, P.c. Attn: Patent Intake Customer No. 64280

20080148167 - Method for copying images: An apparatus for copying image data between computer applications running under at least one operating system, the apparatus comprising: a selector, operable by a user, for selecting an object from a computer application, and an image data importer, associated with the selector, and configured to automatically import image data of... Agent: Martin D. Moynihan Prtsi, Inc.

20080148168 - System and method for facilitating interactive selection and presentation of datasets: A system and method to facilitate interactive selection and presentation of datasets are described. An interactive data interface is presented to a user in a display window, said interactive data interface containing distribution of a dataset accessed by the user. A minimum range value and a maximum range value corresponding... Agent: Stattler - Suh Pc

20080148169 - Tool for configuring available functions of an application: Methods, systems and articles of manufacture for controlling accessibility to application functions and for configuring user interfaces to restrict access to available application functions. In one embodiment, a request is received for a web page comprising displayable content including user-selectable elements through which a user invokes one or more executable... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20080148171 - Configurable system and method for high reliability real-time transmission of data: The system and method of the present invention enable the user to build and/or use an interactive visual instrument panel for monitoring and/or managing one or more target systems locally or remotely in real-time, with the instrument panel being configured based on the user-defined requirements and based on the attributes... Agent: Edward Etkin, Esq. Law Office Of Edward Etkin, Esq., Pc

20080148170 - Control system apparatus with change updates: A system for process control comprises a server digital data processor and a client digital data processor that are coupled by a network, such as the Internet or an Intranet. The server digital data processor, which is additionally coupled to a control/sensing device and any associated interface equipment (collectively, referred... Agent: Nutter Mcclennen & Fish LLP

20080148172 - Use of uniform resource locators in process control system documentation: A uniform resource locator (URL) is embedded in computerized or digital documentation for a physical and/or a software process control element existing within a process control environment to thereby provide an automatic link to documentation or other applications that exist in other processing or data environments, such as in a... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP (fisher)

20080148173 - Un-intrusive display areas: A method and user interface permits the display of objects in a portion of a display. The objects may initial be a first size, then shrink to a smaller size after a period of time. The objects may stack on top of each other. In addition, the objects may disappear... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP (microsoft)

20080148174 - Slide and fade: A user interface is described, having a search box for entering a search query. The search box and other components remain stationary when conducting a search. A toolbox is provided with links to different views for conducting category-specific searches, and the links are editable.... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20080148176 - Data retrieval device with function for modifying retrieval condition classes: When a digital camera is set to retrieval mode, a map-style retrieval screen having a matrix structure is displayed on a display device. The digital camera searches for images photographed in the regions corresponding to each cell in the matrix structure, based on shooting location information appended to the images.... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, Pc

20080148175 - Visualizing location-based datasets using \"tag maps\": The visualization of datasets by associating text (keywords) with location and optionally with time is disclosed. This visualization may help the user better understand and analyze the contents of the dataset. The visualization takes as input a keyword and related parameters such as location, importance/relevance factors, time, visualization level, and... Agent: Yahoo C/o Mofo Palo Alto

20080148177 - Simultaneous document zoom and centering adjustment: A user may control automatic zooming and scrolling functionality with respect to a selected point in the document. A user may provide a first input to select an anchor point in the document. A user may then provide a second input to indicate a zooming level. In response to the... Agent: Vierra Magen/microsoft Corporation

20080148178 - Independent scrolling: A user interface is described; having a search box for entering a search query. The search box and other components remain stationary when conducting a search. A toolbox is provided with links to different views for conducting category-specific searches, and the links are editable.... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20080148179 - Displaying relatedness of media items: In a method in a computer system for displaying on a display device a plurality of media items as selectable media tiles, a focus media item and a plurality of related media items are received. The plurality of related media items are related to the focus media item. Relatedness information... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080148180 - Detecting anomalies in server behavior: A strategy is described for detecting anomalies in the operation of a data processing environment. The strategy relies on parameter information to detect the anomalies in a detection operation, the parameter information being derived in a training operation. The parameter information is selected such that the detection of anomalies is... Agent: Lee & Hayes Pllc

20080148181 - Techniques for use with a calendar and messaging component: Techniques are provided for displaying electronic calendar information. A calendar entry corresponding to a date is selected. In response to selecting the calendar entry, the calendar entry is expanded by increasing a portion of a display area associated with the calendar entry. Other calendar entries are compressed by decreasing a... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080148184 - Apparatus, system, and method for presenting images in a multiple display environment: An apparatus, system, and method for presenting images in a multiple display environment. The present invention includes a computer-readable medium with instructions for receiving from a primary user a selected portion from a primary screen, where the selected portion is one of an image and a portion of a program.... Agent: Kunzler & Mckenzie

20080148183 - Method and system for providing themes for software applications: A method includes providing a plurality of services to a user by a software application, each service having a plurality of service parameters and being capable of displaying a plurality of data to the user, each data having at least one associated data property including at least one of: a... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20080148182 - Method for providing options associated with computer applications in a mobile device and a menu and application therefor: A menu and application utilizing the menu is provided that provides a sub-list of outcomes associated with a list of options directly in the menu to avoid multiple sub-menus and/or navigation through multiple screens. The menu is particularly beneficial with mobile devices where screen area is at a premium and... Agent: Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP

20080148185 - Item editing device, item editing method, and program: An item editing device, an item editing method, and a program enable batch changing attribute information for a plurality of items that are laid out in the layout area without producing a result that is visually discordant to the user. The label editing unit 27 has an oriented item determination... Agent: Epson Research And Development Inc Intellectual Property Dept

20080148187 - Remotely operated input system: A display type input system is installed in a vehicle as an input machine. The display type input system displays various button selection determination screens of a menu screen, a destination setting screen, an audio setting screen, etc., on a display in the vehicle and allows the user to move... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20080148186 - Secure data entry device and method: A method for securely entering critical data in a computing device with a keypad, a keypad memory buffer, and a display, the keypad including a layout of keys. The method includes prompting a user to enter critical data into the computing device; generating a virtual keypad having substantially the same... Agent: Kyocera Wireless Corp.

20080148188 - Persistent preview window: A user interface is described, having a search box for entering a search query. The search box and other components remain stationary when conducting a search. A toolbox is provided with links to different views for conducting category-specific searches, and the links are editable.... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20080148189 - Systems and methods for providing a user interface: In embodiments of the present invention improved capabilities are described for providing a user with a convenient and intuitive user interface for performing tasks within projects, wherein the tasks may be related to content objects; for organizing content objects within projects, between projects, and with respect to one another; and... Agent: Strategic Patents P.c..

20080148190 - Multi-level graphical user interfaces: A method and a computer program product for directing users to locations within multi-level interfaces are provided. The method and the computer program product provide for graphically displaying an expandable hierarchical tree structure interface to a user, the expandable hierarchical tree structure interface comprising a plurality of nodes, identifying a... Agent: Sawyer Law Group LLP

20080148193 - System and method of efficient web browsing: A program for creating customized summaries of web pages operates on an Internet browser and is adapted to manage Internet research in a research session through use of the Internet browser. Navigation on the Internet by a user includes automatically associating URLs accessed by the user with a pre-defined project... Agent: Moetteli & Associates Sarl

20080148192 - Toolbox pagination: A user interface is described, having a search box for entering a search query. The search box and other components remain stationary when conducting a search. A toolbox is provided with links to different views for conducting category-specific searches, and the links are editable.... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20080148191 - Visualization of structured data: In one aspect, a device to facilitate the selection of an application provided for the processing of folder properties is provided. A first application is selected via a first link that is associated with the folder properties. A second application is selected via a second application link that is associated... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080141106 - Methods and systems for providng technology-assisted content development: A computerized system and method for personalizing a document. In one embodiment, a user at a computer retrieves a first message comprising at least one change point from memory. A change point is a word or phrase which may be substituted for other words/phrases by a user to slightly alter... Agent: David Wolpe

20080141107 - Media rich imaging report generation and presentation: A system and method that collects and converts raw data and other relevant information related to imaging procedures in order to provide medical personnel, patients, and other authorized parties with a comprehensive media rich report that can be accessed using a platform-independent interface. The invention facilitates the collection and conversion... Agent: Fulbright & Jaworski L.l.p

20080141108 - Electronic album creating apparatus, electronic album editing apparatus, information processing system, electronic album creating method, and storage medium storing program: An apparatus of an original album editor uploads to a server album data in which instructions of allowed object that allows editing and information on content type of editing allowed for the allowed object are embedded. An apparatus of an admitted subscriber downloads the album data from the server, and... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.c. John J Torrente

20080141109 - Osd system for achieving user-defined display mode and method for controlling the same: An exemplary OSD system (10) for a display device is provided. The OSD system includes an OSD menu (12), a memory (13), and a timing controller (14). The OSD menu is configured for building user-defined display modes for the display device. The memory is configured for saving the user-defined display... Agent: Wei Te Chung Foxconn International, Inc.

20080141110 - Hot-linked images and methods and an apparatus for adapting existing images for the same: Apparatus for displaying an image or other media in a hypertext mark up language context, the image comprising at least one delineated region, the delineated region comprising a hot link to another location in said hypertext mark up language context. An editing tool is also taught for preparing such images... Agent: Martin D. Moynihan Prtsi, Inc.

20080141111 - Method and system for annotating presence information: Methods and systems are described for annotating presence information. One method includes receiving a message from a first presence client associated with a first presentity, the message including annotation data and an identifier of at least a portion of a presence tuple associated with a second presentity. An association of... Agent: Scenera Research, Llc

20080141114 - Differencing and merging tree-structured documents: Differencing and merging tree-structured documents, such as eXtensible Markup Language (XML) documents, is disclosed. A differencing-and-merging system for tree-structured documents of one embodiment of the invention includes a difference processing unit and a merging processing unit. The differencing processing unit performs a difference operation on at least two tree-structured documents,... Agent: Law Offices Of Michael Dryja

20080141112 - Document processing device and document processing method: A namespace detection unit 310 reads out an XML document to be processed, and detects a line where the namespace is described. In a case that no correct namespace has been identified, the namespace identifying unit 312 searches for and identifies the namespace while inquiring of a namespace information storage... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080141115 - Multi-dimensional document locating system and method: A computer readable medium having computer executable instructions stored thereon is disclosed, the computer executable instructions providing a method for displaying documents, the method comprising enabling a first document array comprising a group of documents, displaying the first document array, selecting a first attribute among at least one attribute associated... Agent: Maya-systems Inc.

20080141113 - Really simple syndication for data: Really Simple Syndication (RSS) is extended to syndicate structured data as well as general content via Really Simple Syndication for data (RSSd). RSSd provides a mechanism by which tables of data can easily be made available to users and across applications. RSSd provides the ability to syndicate data directly into... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP (microsoft Corporation)

20080141116 - Editing web pages via a web browser: A browser-based web authoring tool that enables locally editing and rendering web pages comprising a master page and at least one content page and/or style sheets. Techniques are employed in one embodiment to identify areas of the web pages that correspond to master and content pages, such that when a... Agent: Wolf Greenfield (microsoft Corporation) C/o Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.c.

20080141117 - Adding value to a rendered document: A system for processing data captured from rendered documents is described.... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20080141118 - Mapping breakpoints between web based documents: The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for mapping breakpoints between Web based documents. Embodiments of the invention facilitate extracting corresponding client script blocks from different Web based documents to disassociate the client script blocks with their relative locations within the Web based documents. From the... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20080141119 - In-vehicle audio device and method for performing imaging and transmission of information in in-vehicle audio device: An in-vehicle audio device that can be connected to a portable audio device may include a display generating unit operative to generate transmission image data in a format that can be displayed in the portable audio device from tune information data corresponding to audio data read from the portable audio... Agent: Alpine/bhgl

20080141120 - Displaying scaled-down versions of documents on favorites and recent menu: A system for accessing the World Wide Web or other information sources using the Internet incorporates scaled-down versions of images associated with recently-viewed documents or documents designated as favorites into a recent menu or a favorites menu, respectively. As a user accesses a Web page, a scaled-down version of the... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20080141123 - Editing apparatus and editing method: An editing apparatus capable of editing data including colorable raster data, vector data, or character includes an output device configured to display the data, an input device configured to input a user's operation, a color extraction unit configured to allow a user to designate a color of a particular element... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20080141122 - Editing apparatus, editing method, and program: An apparatus includes an editing area display unit configured to display a screen including an editing area that enables a user to edit a document, a temporary storage area display unit configured to display a temporary storage area which differs from the editing area and temporarily displays a list of... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20080141121 - Information processing apparatus and information processing method: An information processing apparatus which manages amendment to overlay-displayed field data includes a setting unit which sets amendment information for defining display of an amendment result to field data of a form file, an amendment information generation unit which generates amendment information for displaying an amendment result to selected field... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080141124 - Methods, apparatus and systems for modifying and/or augmenting image displays in a graphical networked environment: Methods, apparatus and systems to modify and/or augment requested data file(s) encoding, directly or through a hyperlink, at least one graphic (static or motion) image (collectively “web page(s)”). Modifications of a web page according to embodiments of the invention include identifying and replacing unsolicited advertisements that are graphic/display based with... Agent: Graybeal, Jackson, Haley LLP

20080141125 - Combined data entry systems: A data entry system having a plurality of a first type of input means, such as keys, to provide input signals to which symbols, such at least the letters of the alphabet of at least one language, are distributively assigned, and such that at least two of the letters are... Agent: Sofer & Haroun LLP.

20080141126 - Method and system to aid in viewing digital content: A method designed to include a number of features which facilitate fast and accurate reading of text documents. The design of these features is based on research in the fields of visual perception, ergonomics, and usability. The method applies this research to create software which provides various assisted-reading modes.... Agent: Winstead Pc

20080141128 - Display processing device, display processing method and display control program: The image browse function is activated and the image is displayed. When the function key (playback) is depressed, the pointer is placed at the top of the image file chunk corresponding to the displayed image. The operation then judges whether or not the position of the pointer is the text... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, Pc

20080141127 - Information presentation device and information presentation method: The information presentation device includes: a status information obtaining unit 101 which obtains status information regarding a status of the user; an observed line of sight predicting unit 102 which predicts, based on the status information, an observed line of sight of the user who observes the outside world; a... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.l.p.

20080141129 - Operation apparatus for on-vehicle device: An operation apparatus for an on-vehicle device mounted on a vehicle includes a display device, a touch sensitive panel, a hard key, and a control device. The display device is configured to display a selection picture, in which a plurality of selection items are arranged. The touch sensitive panel is... Agent: Posz Law Group, Plc

20080141130 - Multimedia software system: A multimedia software system is provided, comprising: (1) a source of subject matter; (2) a subject matter delivery system operable to deliver the subject matter to a user via multiple modes of subject matter presentation; and (3) a user interface system in operable association with the delivery system, wherein the... Agent: Howard & Howard Attorneys, P.c.

20080141132 - Ad-hoc web content player: A system for dynamically playing information using conventional feeds and ad-hoc feeds to produce “playable” content includes a device that executes a player engine, the player engine collecting, combining and sequencing items to play based on selection criteria and device context, of text, image, video content by parsing selective tags,... Agent: Fish & Richardson Pc

20080141133 - Display control processing apparatus, display control processing method and display control processing program: Disclosed herein is a display control processing apparatus including: display control means configured to display pieces of metadata for a predetermined group of music each serving as a favorite with a user on a metadata display portion for displaying the pieces of metadata in a format allowing the user to... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080141131 - Graphics command management tool and methods for analyzing performance for command changes before application modification: Methods, systems, graphical computer interfaces, and computer readable media are disclosed to enable optimizing video frame rendering characteristics for an application. The method includes rendering a video frame and capturing push buffer settings representing the rendering of the video frame. The method also includes modifying an aspect of the push... Agent: Martine Penilla & Gencarella, LLP

20080141134 - Information processing apparatus, display control processing method and display control processing program: Disclosed herein is an information processing apparatus including: metadata display means; metadata specification means; first selection means; second selection means; third selection means; determination means; and reproduction means.... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080141135 - Interactive audio/video instruction system: A system for selecting and assembling previously-recorded video segments having at least some instructional content allows users to assemble a complete program. The complete program may include a workout session or instructions on for a complete activity. The programs may be saved to storage device and the storage device may... Agent: Michael L. Leetzow, Esq. Michael L. Leetzow, P.a.

20080141136 - Clipping synchronization and sharing: Systems, methods, data structures, and user interfaces associated with adding, storing, and using structured data clippings with a clipbook application are described. Such a clipbook application may also provide additional functionality including displaying various user interface representations of clipping data, enabling the categorization of clipping data, and communicating clipping data... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080141137 - Method and system of managing subscriber access to services associated with services provider: Method and system of managing subscriber access to services. The method and system including features for use in determining sub scriber entitlements to the services and managing presentation of the services for subscriber selection and access as a function of the subscriber entitlements.... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.c.

20080141138 - Apparatus and methods for providing a person's status: Disclosed are apparatus and methods for providing and reading status. In general, a user may select from a wide variety of status indicators so as to define his/her current status. The status indicators may correspond to any combination of the user's mood or location, as well as location at a... Agent: Beyer Weaver LLP/yahoo

20080141139 - Architecture and process for presenting application content to clients: A multi-layer software architecture permits efficient construction of server software applications for many diverse domains. A logic layer contains problem-solving logic that processes client requests for a given problem domain. Separate from the logic layer is a presentation layer that structures replies for return to the clients. The presentation layer... Agent: Lee & Hayes Pllc

20080141140 - Method for publicity and accessing the worldwide network by using software allowing identification of a user, navigation connection duration, and recorded data for transmission to a server: The present invention is a method for accessing the worldwide network by using software installed in each user's equipment generating a control and a proper screen, the so-called connection media. Navigating through the Internet allows the transmission of data about the duration of connection and the user's data to a... Agent: Egbert Law Offices

20080141141 - Widget runtime engine for enterprise widgets: An Enterprise widget interface in a computing device that receives input from a portable logic module soliciting operations from a backend server separate from the computing device, sends requests to the backend server to execute the operation and receives responses from the backend server including data related to the execution... Agent: Sap/blakely

20080141144 - Activity objectification for non-activity objects in an activity-centric collaboration: Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to activity thread management and provide a method, system and computer program product for activity objectification for non-activity objects in an activity-centric collaboration tool. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for activity objectifying non-activity/task objects in... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20080141145 - Hierarchical events: Systems and methods for the organization of hierarchical events are disclosed. A parent event in a first calendar application workspace classifies a hierarchy of events. A child event child event corresponds to a hierarchy of events. Identification of the parent event and a new child event results in the display... Agent: Carr & Ferrell LLP

20080141143 - Shared calendaring system and method: A shared calendaring system comprising a printed calendar for recording a desired calendar entry, and an electronic calendaring apparatus operable to process event data representing the desired entry, the system operable to provide feedback to a user of the system representing allowability of the entry in the system on the... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080141142 - Unified view of aggregated calendar data: Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to calendaring and scheduling and provide a novel and non-obvious method, system and computer program product for providing a unified view of aggregated calendar data in a C&S system. In one embodiment of the invention, a method for... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20080141146 - Method and system for selective sharing of flagged information in a group chat environment: A system for selective sharing of flagged information in a group chat (i.e. instant messaging) that generates a user interface object enabling a flag setting participant to indicate which of the other chat participants can see a visible flag they are setting in association with selected content of the chat... Agent: Lotus And Rational Software David A. Dagg, Esq.

20080141147 - Method and system for distributed collaborative communications: A method and system for collaborative communications is described. In one embodiment, a central virtual reality communications environment is created. A plurality of client communication devices are connected to the central virtual reality communications environment. Each one of the connected plurality of client communication devices are represented as an avatar... Agent: Motorola, Inc. Law Department

20080141148 - Image forming device and display control method: An image forming device is disclosed that is able to simplify customization of the display screen of an operational panel. The image forming device includes a unit for managing, in connection with each of plural display screen images to be displayed on the operational panel, composition information of displaying parts... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080141151 - Automated submission of folded print job: Embodiments herein include a method, system, computer program, and/or service that receives a user request (e.g., a handwritten job ticket or through a graphical user interface) for a document job. The document job includes printing characteristics for making markings on a sheet of media and an indication to perform a... Agent: Frederick W. Gibb Iii Gibb I.p. Law Firm, Llc

20080141149 - Finger-based user interface for handheld devices: A method and system for providing a user interface for a handheld device that can be operated with one hand renders multiple items on the screen of the handheld device that are designed to match the footprint of a thumb or other finger. A user selects an item in the... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP/msft

20080141150 - Graphical messages: A device, system, and method are directed towards facilitating composing, editing, and displaying a message that includes text and graphics inline. An edit window provides a mechanism for editing the text inline. The message, including text and graphics, may be sent to a remote device. The remote device may display... Agent: Yahoo! Inc. C/o Darby & Darby P.c.

20080141152 - System for managing electronic documents for products: A system (100) for managing electronic documents associated with respective products (i.e., product documentation) includes a database (40) and a server (30). The database selectively stores the electronic documents. The server is electronically connected to the database and includes a loading module (301) and a processing module (302). The loading... Agent: Pce Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20080141153 - Cooperating widgets: Methods and apparatuses enable interaction with an end-user application to perform functional operations with selected elements of the end-user application or an operating environment of the end-user application. An application runtime receives an indication of a selection of an item of the end-user application, and a command to have the... Agent: Sap/blakely

20080141154 - Direct manipulation of displayed content: The disclosed information describes a method, system, and computer-readable medium for performing direct manipulation of displayed content (e.g., dragging the displayed content in a particular direction or dragging a particular part of the displayed content). In particular, content is displayed to a user, and a variety of direct manipulations of... Agent: Black Lowe & Graham, Pllc

20080141155 - Interactive video tour system editor: A computer system, method, and apparatus for editing an interactive image video tour. The system may include a computer including an image editor for providing a visual program interface for editing an interactive image video tour; a database in communication with the computer containing data associated with a plurality of... Agent: Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Preston Gates Ellis LLP

20080141156 - Customization of applications on a computing device: A computing device comprises an application framework that handles both UI controls and user input and which provides user interface (UI) services required by applications. Embedded links are established between uniquely identifiable controls and uniquely identifiable tasks or service requests, which are stored in a data store of the device.... Agent: Harrity Snyder, L.l.p.

20080141158 - Graphical user interface for travel planning system: A user interface for presenting travel itineraries to a user includes an itinerary region for displaying travel itineraries and a filter region. Each travel itinerary has a corresponding value for a first travel criterion and the travel itineraries are grouped into categories based on the values of the first travel... Agent: Fish & Richardson Pc

20080141159 - Method and apparatus for setting programmable features of an appliance: An interactive interface facilitates the setting of preferences and other programmable parameters of an appliance. The interface is hosted by a server on a global computer network. The appliance owner initiates a connection to the server and is presented with a graphical user interface for setting the preferences and features... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20080141157 - Over-air content shuffling for mobile electronic device: Content shuffling for a mobile electronic device invokes the device's wireless interface to automatically refresh content stored on the device based on the content's history. Such a mobile electronic device in some embodiments comprises a wireless interface, a memory having refreshable content stored thereon and a processor communicatively coupled with... Agent: Sharp Laboratories Of America, Inc.

20080141160 - Systems, methods, devices, and computer program products for adding chapters to continuous media while recording: Systems, methods, devices, and computer program products are provided for creating chapters in recorded continuous media data at the time that the continuous media data is being recorded. More particularly, while recording continuous media data, a user may instruct the processor of a recording device to create a chapter at... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20080141161 - Dynamic tab control resizing in a user interface: Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to tab width truncation in a tab control and provide a method, system and computer program product for differentiated truncation of tabs in a tab control. In one embodiment, a differentiated tab truncation method can be provided. The... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20080141162 - Method and apparatus for controlling tab indexes in a web page: A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer usable program code for managing tab indexes. A Web page is displayed, wherein the Web page includes a plurality of tab indexes for a plurality of components in the Web page. User input is received for setting a position for a tab index... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates Pc

20080141163 - Retrieval and display device: A retrieval and display device includes an ascending-direction reading out section and an descending-direction reading out section, which read outs a folder name from a folder-name storing section, in response to an operating-direction signal from a storing and operation direction discriminating section and a display-linage signal stored in a display-linage... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080141164 - Automated control text truncation detection: A computer readable media includes instructions for retrieving a list of references to user interface controls included in a user interface. For each user interface control, information associated with the font specified for the control is retrieved. Information associated with the control itself, for example, the size of a text... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080141165 - Zoom-capable scrollbar: A graphical user interface displays a coarse control scrollbar to provide a user with coarse resolution sequential data control and a magnified view scrollbar proximate to the coarse control scrollbar. The magnified view scrollbar provides the user with fine resolution sequential data control. When the cursor is on the scrollbar,... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20080141166 - Using images in alternative navigation: Navigation of a hierarchical system is facilitated by a specialized graphical user interface in which graphical representations of different levels of the hierarchy are mapped to and coordinate with menu controls. The graphical representation may variously describe the topological arrangement of a hierarchy or a functional representation of a hierarchical... Agent: Abelman, Frayne & Schwab

20080141167 - Image forming apparatus, control method, and computer-readable recording medium storing control program: An image forming apparatus is disclosed. The image forming apparatus includes a displaying unit which displays a predetermined number of menu items in plural menu items on a screen, an inputting unit which selects a menu item from the menu items displayed on the screen by the displaying unit, and... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080141168 - Unified presentation of scattered message data: Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to e-mail processing and provide a novel and non-obvious method, system and computer program product for a unified presentation of scattered e-mail data. In one embodiment of the invention, a unified presentation of scattered e-mail data method can... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20080141169 - Article producing terminal apparatus, article producing method and program: An article producing terminal apparatus communicatable with an external apparatus holding article-producing job data including image data, production information for producing an article using the image data and terminal designation information is disclosed. The apparatus includes: a communication unit communicating with the external apparatus; an article producing unit producing an... Agent: David R. Metzger Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20080141171 - Electronic document modification: Electronic document design methods and computer programs allowing a user to separately control and modify layout and the design components of an electronic document. A number of possible document layouts and possible document designs are stored. A document is based on the combination of one of the stored layouts and... Agent: Vista Print Usa, Inc. Attn: Patent Counsel

20080141170 - Graphical deployment of a program to a device which displays the program proximate to the device: A system and method for creating and using configuration diagrams for configuring distributed systems. The methods described herein may be used for various types of operations in configuring distributed systems, including creating programs, managing programs in the distributed system, deploying programs to various distributed devices, configuring remote execution or inter-operation... Agent: Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel, P.c.

20080141174 - Graphical deployment of a program to a device which displays the program connected to the device: A system and method for creating and using configuration diagrams for configuring distributed systems. The methods described herein may be used for various types of operations in configuring distributed systems, including creating programs, managing programs in the distributed system, deploying programs to various distributed devices, configuring remote execution or inter-operation... Agent: Jeffrey C. Hood Conley, Rose & Tayon, P.c.

20080141173 - Method of managing information processing apparatus, program for method of managing information processing apparatus, recording medium recording program for method of managing information processing apparatus, information processing apparatus and informat: In a method of managing an information processing apparatus displaying a menu screen in which plural menus are arranged and receiving selection of the menus, the information processing apparatus includes a display unit displaying the menu screen, an image data storage unit storing image data of the menus which can... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20080141172 - Multimedia player and method of displaying on-screen menu: Favorable visual appearance and ease of operation are required in the user interface of digital home appliances using a television screen. An array of function icons including multiple function icons representing respective playing functions and an array of content icons including multiple content icons representing items of contents that can... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20080141175 - System and method for mobile 3d graphical messaging: Mobile 3D graphical communication is provided in a communication network for wireless devices. A sender can create and customize a 3D graphical representation that will convey the sender's content, and then provide the animation for the 3D graphical representation locally on a sender device or have a remote server provide... Agent: Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt, P.c. Pacwest Center, Suite 1900

20080141176 - Information processing apparatus and control method thereof, and program: The number of folders to be displayed required to restrict and display folders on a lower hierarchy of a folder expanded by the folder opening and closing module is determined based on the number of folders included in the lower hierarchy to be expanded, and the height of the window.... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20080141177 - Method of configuring hierarchical network of user group and resource group and key distribution center: Provided are a method of configuring a hierarchical network of user groups and resource groups, and a key distribution center. The method includes the steps of: analyzing hierarchical connection relationships between respective user groups and respective resource groups, comparing redundancy rates of the respective hierarchical connection relationships, and determining a... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20080141180 - Apparatus and method for utilizing an information unit to provide navigation features on a device: The present invention relates to a system and method for interacting with digital media that permits creating, editing, combining, producing, and using digital media content. In one aspect of the invention, these features are implemented using a “virtual container” or unit that contains structured information. This structured information includes the... Agent: Technology, Patents And Licensing, Inc.

20080141179 - Navigation connection points: Navigation connection points for separating navigation business logic from user interface elements. Computer executable instructions are used in a navigation framework for implementing navigation business logic separated from user interface elements. This allows the navigation business logic and user interface elements to be developed separately and later combined. A computer... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20080141178 - System and method for changeable dynamic directory: An embodiment generally relates to a method for displaying data. The method for displaying data includes a changeable directory module (CDM). The CDM is configured to determine a plurality of attributes for a data set. In determining a plurality of symbols, the CDM associates each symbol with a respective attribute.... Agent: Mh2 Technology Law Group, LLP (cust. No. W/xerox)

20080141181 - Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and program: According to one embodiment, there is provided an information processing apparatus. A hand-shape database stores first data representing a first hand shape and second data representing a second hand shape. A hand-shape recognition unit determines whether a received image includes one of the first and second hand shapes. The hand-shape... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20080141182 - Handheld electronic book reader with annotation and usage tracking capabilities: A handheld electronic book reader, program product, and method incorporate enhanced annotation and/or usage tracking capabilities. Users may create “contexts” for defined terms in an electronic document. Moreover, annotation data such as contexts, comments and highlighting may be associated with various users, and displayed in connection with the display of... Agent: Wood, Herron & Evans, L.l.p. (ibm)

20080134011 - Image forming apparatus: A disclosed image forming apparatus enables a report or list to be printed out in a manner optimized for each user. The image forming apparatus includes a user authentication unit for user authentication. A print mode for a report or list is registered for each user of the apparatus. Upon... Agent: Cooper & Dunham, LLP

20080134012 - Bundling of multimedia content and decoding means: Disclosed is a system and method of bundling full or partial decoding and/or post-processing mechanisms together with media content in the form of an electronic file. The combined file may be transmitted to another device that is able to execute the decoding and/or post-processing such that the receiving device can... Agent: Warren A. Sklar (soer) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20080134013 - Multimedia interface: A multimedia interface is provided, the interface comprising a first window adapted to display a multimedia document, a display bar associated with the first window, the display bar including a read position indicator representing a played portion of the multimedia document, a bookmark associated with the display bar, and a... Agent: Maya-systems Inc.

20080134014 - Low-latency, incremental rendering in a content framework: Techniques are disclosed for incrementally rendering content in a content framework (such as a portal page provided by a portal system). Upon receiving a request for a portal page, a portal server immediately returns a response including the results from portlets which have acquired their content. If some portlets have... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20080134015 - Web site structure analysis: A graph representation of a web site is generated by identifying blocks of links on web pages. Each block of links is represented by a node in the graph representation and connections between the nodes provide information on the re-use of blocks between pages.... Agent: Lee & Hayes Pllc

20080134018 - Component for coordinating the accessing and rendering of an application media package: A software application component for coordinating the accessing and displaying of Internet content operates to acquire and render media packages which include a definition of a graphical user interface and a network reference, such as a URL, pointing to Internet content to be downloaded and presented within said user interface.... Agent: Jas Ip Consulting

20080134016 - Device, system and/or method for providing schema-independent access to object in documents: A computer system supports the access of documents formatted according to different schemas. A model includes a relationship for different schemas. The relationship specifies a particular data and, corresponding to the particular data and one of the different schemas, a reference to one or more ontological-elements(s). An ontological-element defines a... Agent: Posz Law Group, Plc

20080134017 - Markup language document processing device, computer program product, and markup language document processing method: The present invention enables a focus to be moved easily among focus items in different frames when frames are displayed. To do so, the last focused item in an in-frame document once activated is stored (S11) and, when a frame movement event is caused by a focus movement operation (S12,... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20080134020 - Method and system for the generation of a voice extensible markup language application for a voice interface process: A method and system for Extensible Markup Language (XML) application transformation. Specifically, in one embodiment, a method is disclosed for the generation of markup language applications (e.g., a VXML application) for a voice interface process. First, a call flow diagram is converted into a in an XML format. The call... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP/msft

20080134019 - Processing data and documents that use a markup language: A data processing apparatus that comprises a data acquisition unit operable to receive a document in a first markup language. A definition file comprising logic for processing data in said document, said logic including logic for converting a complex editing operation on the document in a second markup language to... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080134021 - Document edit support device, document edit device, program and computer-readable storage medium: A document edit support device includes: obtaining unit for obtaining an object, the object being data showing at least one of a text and an image included in a document to be edited; important area determining unit for determining an important area, the important area being a part of an... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080134022 - Document attributes: A method for associating a characterization attribute with a document in a computerized system is disclosed, the method comprising providing a primary insertion of a document associating at least one intrinsic characterization attribute with the document, and providing a secondary insertion of the document associating at least one extrinsic characterization... Agent: Maya-systems Inc.

20080134025 - Computer-readable recording medium where document management program is recorded, document management apparatus, and document management method: A computer-readable recording medium on which a document management program capable of calculating an evaluation value for objectively judging information transparency in an organization is recorded. When an original document is inputted, a document input section stores the document in a document store section. After that, a document correction section... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20080134023 - Document processing device, computer readable recording medium, and computer data signal: According to an aspect of the invention, there is provided a document processing device, comprising a holding unit that holds document information and additional information in association with each other, and an additional information modification unit that modifies, when the document information held in the holding unit is changed, the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080134024 - Information processing apparatus, method therefor, and computer-readable memory: A plurality of kinds of electronic source documents are held, and an electronic binder builder selects a desired electronic source document page from electronic source document pages of the plurality of kinds of held electronic source documents. Based on the selected electronic source document page, an integrated electronic document is... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080134026 - Information processing apparatus, computer readable medium, computer data signal, and information processing method: An information processing apparatus includes: a storage that stores document information; an image formation processor that receives an instruction to form an image corresponding to target document information selected from the document information stored in the storage, and that performs an image formation processing with respect to the target document... Agent: Sughrue-265550

20080134027 - Image processing apparatus, image forming apparatus, and computer program product: A preview creating unit creates a plurality of previews of an image corresponding to a plurality of preset values each indicating processing to be applied to the image. A display unit displays the previews in a selectable manner, and, upon receiving a signal indicating a preview selected from the previews... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080134030 - Device for providing location-based data: An electronic device includes a processing circuit configured to operate at least a first application and a second application. The first application is configured to provide location-based data based upon a request for the location-based data. A display is configured to provide an image having a first image portion associated... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20080134032 - Method and system for upgrading a previously purchased media asset: Systems, graphical user interfaces and methods for upgrading from one or more digital media assets to a set of digital media assets over a network are described. A potential purchaser can be notified of available upgrade opportunities that are available for purchase. The potential purchaser can elect to pursue an... Agent: Technology & Innovation Law Group, Pc

20080134028 - System for sequentially opening and displaying files in a directory: A system for sequentially opening and displaying files in a directory, including a processor, at least one directory including a plurality of electronic files, software executing on the processor for receiving a request to open and display a first one of the plurality of electronic files, software executing on the... Agent: St. Onge Steward Johnston & Reens, Llc

20080134031 - System, method, and computer program product for placement of channels on a mobile device: The invention includes systems, methods, computer program products, and combinations and sub-combinations thereof for enabling channels specific to a user's interest (as well as other objects) to be loaded on mobile devices (as well as other types of devices), and for users of mobile devices to operate with such channels... Agent: Edell, Shapiro & Finnan, Llc

20080134029 - Tools for defining and using custom analysis modules: Tools for defining and using custom analysis modules are presented. A generic graphical user interface (GUI) custom analysis tool is presented to a user. The generic GUI custom analysis tool is adapted to receive selections and inputs from the user that define many-to-many relationships in a data store and that... Agent: James M. Stover Intellectual Property Section

20080134033 - Rank graph: The claimed subject matter provides a system and/or a method that facilitates conveying enhanced query results. An interface component can receive a query corresponding to data. A visual component can employ a search result based at least in part upon the query, wherein the search result includes a graphic identifying... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080134034 - Method and system for providing software robot service: Disclosed are a method and a system for servicing a SOBOT (SOftware roBOT). The SOBOT service can be supplied to various terminals such as a mobile terminal (a portable phone), an IPTV or the like, and if the owner goes out of home with carrying the mobile phone or returns... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080134035 - Method and system for aggregating and displaying an event stream: Embodiments of the present invention provide an aggregated event stream that indicates activities to a user across a range of online services. Embodiments may include a web site, a client application, or mobile device. In particular, a display is provided to a user that indicates various events in a “stacked”... Agent: Mh2 Technology Law Group (cust. No. W/red Hat)

20080134036 - Media state user interface: A media state user interface (UI) indicates a section of past recorded content corresponding to content prior in time sequence to the current viewing position via a first visual element and a section of future recorded content corresponding to content post in time sequence to the current viewing position via... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080134037 - Recording and reproducing device: When any undubbed data out of the recorded data in a hard disk device, is dubbed to a DVD, it sometimes occurs that dubbing-completed data and undubbed data are mixed together in the hard disk. For this reason, it is not easy to select only the undubbed data before start... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080134038 - Interactive information providing service method and apparatus: Provided are a method and apparatus for providing information according to a user's request, and more particularly, an interactive information providing service method and apparatus for analyzing a user's request and providing information corresponding to the request on the basis of a dialog input received from the user. The apparatus... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080134044 - Method and apparatus for dynamic web page arrangement: A browser renders a page for display according to user habits. When a user interacts with a page associated with a network address, an entry is made in a file that associates the element on the page of the user interaction with the network address. When the page is visited... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20080134041 - Method and device for scheduling follow-up events: A device and method for scheduling follow-up events in relation to an existing event record. The device receives an input follow-up request associated with the existing event record and automatically generates a follow-up event record having information in its field populated using the information contained in the existing event record.... Agent: Ridout & Maybee Suite 2400

20080134040 - Method and system for embedding an aggregated event stream into a third party web page: Embodiments of the present invention provide a way of embedding a display of activities relevant to a social network in a third party website. In particular, embodiments of the present invention provide for an embedded aggregated event stream. In particular, a display is provided to a user that indicates various... Agent: Mh2 Technology Law Group (cust. No. W/red Hat)

20080134039 - Method and system for preloading suggested content onto digital video recorder based on social recommendations: Embodiments of the present invention provide users with suggested content that is preloaded on a media player. The suggested content is selected based on playback data from individuals and groups in a social network or playback data from anonymous users, or explicit suggestions from peers of the user in the... Agent: Mh2 Technology Law Group (cust. No. W/red Hat)

20080134042 - Qkd system wth ambiguous control: Methods and apparatus for automatically generating a list of recommended links for a user are disclosed. For a particular user, one or more criteria for use in generating a list of recommended links are identified or selected by the user. A list of one or more recommended links is then... Agent: Opticus Ip Law, Pllc

20080134043 - System and method of selective media content access through a recommednation engine: A personalized entertainment and information platform (Sphere) which provides personalized content delivery across different platforms and modes of delivery. A personal media device (e.g., PC, television, and so forth) interacts with a control server configured for accessing media content and metadata over the Internet. In response to input from the... Agent: O'banion & Ritchey LLP/ Sony Electronics, Inc.

20080134045 - System and method for adaptively and dynamically configuring a graphical user interface of a mobile communication device: A system and method for dynamically configuring a graphical user interface (GUI) of a mobile communication device allow the GUI displayed by the application software running locally on the mobile device to be determined by a remote GUI server without the need for user intervention. The GUI need not be... Agent: Patent Administrator Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20080134046 - Aggregated computer health: An aggregated network-wide status for computer health may be generated by calculating a network health status for each computer on the network, then aggregating the results into a single icon or status based on the worst health of all the network computers. The computer health may be presented as a... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080134048 - Actionable reports: A method for managing an on-line catalog, including operating an on-line catalog system via an on-line catalog management interface, and displaying the on-line catalog on user interfaces by transmitting catalog information from the on-line catalog system to the user interfaces over a network in response to requests of end-users. The... Agent: Abelman, Frayne & Schwab

20080134049 - Apparatus and methods of linking to an application on a wireless device: The described apparatus and methods define a predetermined scheme or syntax for an application-specific Universal Resource Identifier (URI) operable to deep link to a specified point, portion, or view of a target client application executable on a wireless device. Accordingly, the described application-specific URI can be used to deep link... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080134047 - Method and system for combining rating and navigation/control flow into a single user selection: Users are often presented with navigation buttons, etc. in a hypertext environment like the World Wide Web. These are combined with ratings to provide a convenient, one-click rating system. For example, a Next button may be replaced by three Next buttons, for reporting Like, Indifferent, and Dislike ratings. Clicking the... Agent: Bruce Hayden

20080134050 - Backup reporting framework graphical user interface: A backup reporting framework Graphical User Interface (GUI) comprises a combination of components that make it possible to display a Reporting GUI to the customer on the customer's desktop. The framework includes three main components, a server component, a wag-server middleware component, and a monitor server middleware component. The Server... Agent: Emc Corporation C/o Daly, Crowley, Mofford & Durkee, LLP

20080134052 - Bootstrapping social networks using augmented peer to peer distributions of social networking services: A mobile device, system, and method are directed towards enabling a social network member to bootstrap another person's membership to a social network application and to send an invite using an augmented peer to peer distribution mechanism. The member may bootstrap membership by providing information about the invitee. A server... Agent: Yahoo! Inc. C/o Darby & Darby P.c.

20080134051 - System and method of providing for the control of a music player to a device driver: A system and method of providing for the control of a music player to a device driver. One embodiment of the system comprises an electronic music player that is connected to a plurality of music renderers via device drivers via a music renderer controller. The music renderer controller comprises a... Agent: Realnetworks, Inc. Graybeal Jackson Haley LLP

20080134053 - Automatic generation of content recommendations weighted by social network context: Embodiments of the present invention provide users with suggested content that is weighted based on the social network context of the suggestion. In particular, the suggested content is selected based on incorporating the preferences of users having a relationship with the user. For example, content recommendations from a family member... Agent: Mh2 Technology Law Group (cust. No. W/red Hat)

20080134054 - Method and system for community tagging of a multimedia stream and linking to related content: Embodiments of the present invention allow users to tag a multimedia program or stream with data or pointers to external information related to content of the multimedia program. Users in a social network may tag various aspects of the content, such as a particular actor, a type of car, jewelry,... Agent: Mh2 Technology Law Group (cust. No. W/red Hat)

20080134056 - Computer simulation method with user-defined transportation and layout: A multi-user process receives input from multiple remote clients to manipulate avatars through a virtual environment modeled in a host memory. The environment includes portal objects operable to transport avatars, which are modeled objects operated in response to client input, between defined areas of the virtual environment. The portals are... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz LLP

20080134055 - Systems and methods for communicating: A communication system (1) comprising: determining means operable to determine an attribute of a communication device; identifying means operable to identify an avatar by using the attribute, wherein the avatar is such that it conveys to a viewer thereof information about a person; and communicating means operable to communicate the... Agent: Davidm Crompton Crompton Seager & Tufte

20080134057 - Mobile communication terminal for video calling and method for saving chat messages thereof: A mobile communication terminal that performs video calling and a method for saving video chat messages are disclosed. The terminal includes a wireless communication unit to send and receive chat messages during a video call, a storage unit to save the chat messages that are sent and received, a display... Agent: H.c. Park & Associates, Plc

20080134059 - Generic chart interface: Methods and software to produce a chart from data and parameters supplied by a client through a generic interface. Created charts are accessible via a Uniform Resource Locator (“URL”) returned to the client through the generic interface. Multiple chart producers with different interfaces are supported.... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20080134058 - Method and system for extending dialog systems to process complex activities for applications: A dialog system that includes a dialog manager to manage a conversation between the dialog system and a user, and to associate the conversation with a complex activity, and a plan engine to execute a plan script in connection with the complex activity, the plan script including a set of... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20080134064 - Method and apparatus for dynamic web page arrangement: A browser renders a page for display according to user habits. When a user interacts with a page associated with a network address, an entry is made in a file that associates the element on the page of the user interaction with the network address. When the page is visited... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20080134062 - Method and apparatus for obtaining user interface information from executable program code: A technique to facilitate the automatic obtaining or extraction of dialogs or screens such as a graphical user interface from executable program code and saving a snapshot of such dialogs or screens in a graphical format. The executable program code is scanned or searched for particular modules within such program... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates Pc

20080134061 - Multi-display system and method supporting differing accesibility feature selection: A multi-display system and method supporting differing accessibility feature selection provides a suitable display for a user with limited visual acuity, while providing a second display having a different accessibility feature set to a second user. An application or operating system checks selected accessibility features and display settings corresponding to... Agent: Ibm Corporation (mh) C/o Mitch Harris, Attorney At Law, L.l.c.

20080134063 - System and method for displaying dynamic information content in a screen saver of a mobile communication device: A system and method are disclosed for displaying dynamic information content in a screen saver of a mobile communication device. The system includes a presence-enhanced mobile communication device. The mobile communication device includes a graphical user interface (GUI) display module. The GUI display module is configured to display information content... Agent: Patent Administrator Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20080134060 - System for creating a graphical visualization of data with a browser: Embodiments of a system for creating a graphical visualization of data with a browser, such as a web browser, are disclosed.... Agent: Berkeley Law & Technology Group, LLP

20080134065 - Icon label placement in a graphical user interface: To improve the art of graphical user interfaces, the present invention introduces a system that displays iconic resource representations having a salient dimension in a manner that provides the user with an indication of where the user is within that resource. The system of the present invention achieves this goal... Agent: Adeli & Tollen, LLP

20080134066 - Cad apparatus, method of editing graphic data, and computer product: A CAD apparatus includes a display unit, an input unit, and a control unit. On the display unit, elements included in each of layers that form graphic data are displayed in a superposed manner. The input unit at least receives an instruction about movement of a pointer indicating a certain... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080134068 - Accessories and clothes for ui elements: A method for a user interface is disclosed. The method comprises providing a plurality of items in a display view; retrieving a fashion indicator; and providing a visual effect. A user interface, an apparatus, a computer program, and a system for implementing the method is also disclosed.... Agent: Perman & Green

20080134067 - Modifying the visual appearance of bookmarks in an internet browser: A computer implemented method and apparatus for modifying a visual appearance of bookmarks in an Internet browser. A bookmark and a state corresponding to a website are obtained. The bookmark is placed in a first folder associated with the Internet browser based on the state. Responsive to a user visiting... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates Pc

20080134069 - 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

20080134070 - Image processing apparatus and image processing method: The user instructs a server apparatus to display thumbnails in a list. When an instruction for displaying the list is received at the server apparatus, a display screen control processing unit generates a thumbnail list display screen and transmits it to a client apparatus. The user browses the display screen... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20080134071 - Enabling user control over selectable functions of a running existing application: A function management tool detects a user selection to drag and drop a particular selectable button from a first interface of the management tool to a second interface of an instance of a running application of multiple existing applications accessible at a computer system, wherein the management tool runs separately... Agent: Ibm Corp (ap) C/o Amy Pattillo

20080134074 - Graphical user interface for in-vivo imaging: A graphical user interface is provided which allows the user to perform numerous operations suitable for analysis of in-vivo images within a single display screen or a single window. Using the in-vivo GUI, the user may create and manipulate analysis tools such as rectangle and ellipse tools to define regions... Agent: Beyer Weaver LLP

20080134072 - Graphical, matrixed method for sas fabric management: In an embodiment of the present invention, in a matrixed method for serial attached SCSI (SAS) fabric management, a user is provided with a graphical dynamic matrix table, which illustrates a plurality of matrixed cells corresponding to a plurality of zone groups in a one-to-one relationship. The matrixed cells are... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - Ibm Tuscon Division

20080134073 - Method for controlling and/or monitoring data processing device and computer program: A graphical user interface, implemented in a standard system management environment, accepts selections of logical instruction steps that are external to the standard system management environment. The logical instruction steps may include process steps, specify chemical formulae, or identify other components of master recipes that control drug manufacture or dispensing,... Agent: Accenture Chicago 28164 Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080134075 - Methods and systems for controlling a semiconductor fabrication process: Software for controlling processes in a heterogeneous semiconductor manufacturing environment may include a wafer-centric database, a real-time scheduler using a neural network, and a graphical user interface displaying simulated operation of the system. These features may be employed alone or in combination to offer improved usability and computational efficiency for... Agent: Strategic Patents P.c..

20080134076 - Methods and systems for controlling a semiconductor fabrication process: Software for controlling processes in a heterogeneous semiconductor manufacturing environment may include a wafer-centric database, a real-time scheduler using a neural network, and a graphical user interface displaying simulated operation of the system. These features may be employed alone or in combination to offer improved usability and computational efficiency for... Agent: Strategic Patents P.c..

20080134077 - Chameleon graphic user interface: A Chameleon graphical user interface (GUI) is adaptive to a display environment of a requesting application. In one embodiment, a process includes, but is not limited to, receiving a request from a requesting application, the request indicating a display environment of the requesting application; in response to the request, receiving... Agent: Sap/blakely

20080134079 - Method and apparatus to accelerate scrolling for buffered windows: Methods and apparatuses to accelerate scrolling for buffered windows. In one aspect of the invention, a method to scroll a buffered window on a data processing system includes: determining a second region of a second pixel image of a window in a frame buffer, which corresponds to a first region... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20080134078 - Scrolling method and apparatus: Provided are a method and apparatus for performing scrolling. The method includes receiving a first location and a second location, calculating the angle between the first location and the second location by using a predetermined reference point, determining a direction of and/or an extent of scrolling by using the calculated... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080134080 - Contextual alert bubbles for alert management: Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to alert bubbles for alert management and provide a novel and non-obvious method, system and computer program product for contextual alerts for alert management. In an embodiment of the invention, an alert management data processing system can be... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20080134081 - Information list display method for mobile terminal: An information list display method for a mobile terminal is disclosed. The information list display method includes registering an attribute option for information items stored in the mobile terminal; grouping the information items according to registered attribute options; displaying, in response to a list display request, an information list of... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.c.

20080134082 - Apparatus and method of displaying the status of a computing task: A computer implemented method includes displaying a window with a first section characterizing a computing task and a second section with a progress bar and an interaction button. An overlay pane is displayed with a status message and an animation indicating that the computing task is active. The overlay pane... Agent: Cooley Godward Kronish LLP Attn: Patent Group

20080134083 - Rendering document views with supplemental information content: Methods and computer-readable media are provided for rendering a document view with supplemental information. A view of a document is rendered such that the document fills a canvas. The client receives a request to view a supplemental information area associated with the document. In response to the request to view... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080134084 - Domain bar: A toolbar for WHOIS searching and interacting with a domain name registrar. The toolbar may include buttons, form fields and drop down menus, and performs WHOIS searches, WHOIS wildcard searches, provides domain registration services. Queries include WHOIS domain searches by domain, by IP address, and by Network Information Center (NIC)... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080134085 - Bi-directional widget for recording user feedback: Embodiments of the present invention provide a simple, bi-directional control that allows the user to express one of two opposing opinion on a particular item and make a comment. For example, the user may be provided a bi-direction widget that indicates whether a user loves or hates a particular subject.... Agent: Mh2 Technology Law Group (cust. No. W/red Hat)

20080134089 - Computer-assisted web services access application program generation: A computer-assisted application program creating system comprises a web service display unit, a service model display unit, an application editing unit, and a data hub. The web service display unit is configured to display a list of indicators of web services. The service model display unit is configured to display... Agent: Ibm Austin Iplaw (dg)

20080134088 - Device for saving results of location based searches: Results of a Location Based Search can be saved for later use. The results can be saved as a contact in a contacts application. The device may automatically populate various fields of a contact based on a request by a user to save the search result as a contact. Once... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20080134087 - Hvac zone control panel: A zone control panel that is easy and intuitive to use and to program. In some embodiments, a zone control panel may be configured to have an easy to use, single level menu structure with, for example, a configuration mode and/or a checkout mode. The configuration mode may, if present,... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20080134090 - Systems and methods for information presentation: Systems and methods of scheduling the play of video files, playing video files and displaying content related to video files on a computing device are described.... Agent: Daryl D. Coutts

20080134086 - User interface apparatus, method, and computer readable medium thereof: An apparatus, a method, an application program, and a computer readable medium thereof for processing and representing a user interface are provided. The user interface generates a plurality of options arranged in a two-dimensional menu, maps the options to a plurality of display units of a surface of a three-dimensional... Agent: Patterson, Thuente, Skaar & Christensen, P.a.

20080134091 - Content search method and mobile terminal having content search function: A method and a terminal for displaying content in a mobile terminal is disclosed. The method includes displaying a first content list collectively including a plurality of different content types, receiving a request from user, and displaying responsive to the request a second content list which only includes content items... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20080134092 - Dynamic creation of labels: A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer usable program code for dynamically creating labels are provided. Fulfillment of customer orders has labeling requirements for which labels must be created. One or more images are selected from a repository of label sub-images based on a customer order to construct a finished... Agent: Duke W. Yee Yee & Associates, P.c.

20080134094 - Apparatus and methods of producing photorealistic image thumbnails: Methods, systems, and machine-readable media for processing an input image are described. In one aspect, respective visual features of local input image regions of an input image having a first pixel resolution are analyzed to produce a result. Based on the result of analyzing the visual features, reduced-resolution visual representations... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080134096 - Image reproduction device and method thereof: An image reproduction device comprises: a thumbnail image read device which reads a thumbnail image file having recorded thereon two or more types of thumbnail images produced based on a stereo image composed of a plurality of images obtained by capturing the identical subject from a plurality of viewpoints; a... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080134095 - Methods and apparatus for displaying interprocess communication thumbnails: The present disclosure provides methods and apparatuses for generating a dynamic, live thumbnail representation of the underlying process. Using the methods and apparatus herein, users can easily understand the functions of a sub-process.... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, LLP

20080134093 - Web engine search preview: Presenting both hyperlinks and thumbnail versions of search engine results is described herein. More specifically, a graphical user interface (GUI) having multiple display areas is described. One display area is configured for displaying the hyperlinks returned from a search-engine query. Another display area is configured to display thumbnail versions of... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.l.p. (c/o Microsoft Corporation)

20080134097 - Data structure, recording media, authoring method, and disc manufacturing method: Disclosed herein is a recording media recorded with data of a plurality of buttons configuring a group arranged at a same position and selectively executed, each of the plurality of buttons is one of a button for use in an operator screen for prompting a user for an operation including... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080134098 - Hvac zone control panel: A zone control panel that is easy and intuitive to use and to program. In some embodiments, a zone control panel may be configured to have an easy to use, single level menu structure with, for example, a configuration mode and/or a checkout mode. The configuration mode may, if present,... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20080134099 - System and method for toy adoption and marketing: A method provides a virtual presentation of a product and includes registering at least one registration code for at least one product on a website; after successful registration, viewing a virtual replica of the at least one product on the website, accessing at a least a subset of features on... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20080134100 - Hierarchical data-driven navigation system and method for information retrieval: A data-driven, hierarchical information navigation system and method enable search of sets of documents or other materials by certain common attributes that characterize the materials. The invention includes several aspects of a data-driven, hierarchical navigation system that employs this navigation mode. The navigation system of the present invention includes features... Agent: Wilmerhale/boston

20080134101 - Sensing device with mode changes via nib switch: A sensing device for enabling a user to interact with a computer system, said sensing device being operable in a plurality of modes including a cursor control mode and a substrate-interaction mode, said sensing device comprising: a nib; a nib switch cooperating with said nib, said nib switch being actuated... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20080134102 - Method and system for detecting movement of an object: A system, method and computer application for electronic equipment 10 having a contact-less user input device that is capable of detecting and/or sensing user movement (e.g., gestures) and controlling one or more parameters associated with the electronic equipment and/or being executed on the electronic equipment based at least in part... Agent: Warren A. Sklar (soer) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP