Data processing: presentation processing of document inventions 07/08

20080184097 - Graphical user interface for visualizing person centric infection risk: A system and method provide for determining and displaying on a user interface a patient's infection risk associated with a specific healthcare provider encounter. Specifically, a patient's infection risk assessment is presented in the form of a graphical representation of a set of infection risk values determined through utilization of... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. Intellectual Property Department

20080184098 - xml-based textual specification for rich-media content creation-systems and program products: Video, stills, panorama, sound and all forms of media as Rich Media in a Multimedia Vehicle Repository (MVR) file editable with a Rich Media Content description file. The Rich Media Content description file enables users to specify a vocabulary that defines the media elements and relations among the media elements... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20080184099 - Data-driven presentation generation: Scorecard data including scorecard views, and the like are exported to a presentation application for generating a presentation based on the scorecard data. Briefing book definitions are generated based on the scorecard data, default parameters and user-defined parameters for providing a user selections for the presentations. Using composite objects, scorecard... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20080184100 - Browser extension for web form fill: Methods and other embodiments associated with a web browser extension are described. One example browser extension includes a web form capture logic that identifies a web page that includes a form and an editable field on the form. The capture logic may acquire information about the field and about the... Agent: Kraguljac & Kalnay, LLC

20080184101 - Marking and annotating electronic documents: A user can highlight text and provide accompanying annotations. Highlighted text, accompanying annotations, and time-stamp information are stored in a user profile that is maintained locally with a web browser, at the client side. A retrieved web page is presented to a user with annotations of some form, based upon... Agent: Frederick W. Gibb, Iii Gibb & Rahman, LLC

20080184102 - Browser extension for web form capture: Methods and other embodiments associated with a web browser extension are described. One example browser extension includes a web form capture logic that identifies a web page that includes a form and an editable field on the form. The capture logic may acquire information about the field and about the... Agent: Kraguljac & Kalnay, LLC

20080184103 - Generation of application specific xml parsers using jar files with package paths that match the sml xpaths: A method of XML parsing is provided. In an exemplary embodiment, the method may include: parsing of an XML document; constructing an XML XPATH which includes at least one XML XPATH tag; constructing a JAR file of Java classes which include at least one package path that matches the at... Agent: Ibm Corporation (swp)

20080184105 - Method and apparatus for processing a parseable document: A data processing method comprises receiving an electronically parseable document, scanning the document according to at least one predefined rule to determine if the document is suspicious, and, if the document is determined not to be suspicious, parsing the document with a first parser, and, if the document is determined... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20080184104 - Systems, methods, and media for enforcing accessible content development: Systems, methods and media for enforcing accessible content development are disclosed. One embodiment provides a method for enforcing accessible content development comprising accessing a tag library descriptor for each of a plurality of markup tags for web content authoring where the tag library descriptor notes one or more tag sub-elements... Agent: Ibm Corporation (jss) C/o Schubert Osterrieder & Nickelson PLLC

20080184107 - Method and apparatus for creating a tool for generating an index for a document: A method creating a tool for generating at least one index element for an examined document configured according to a format includes: (a) ascertaining at least one textual characteristic-set of an exemplary document configured according to the format for identifying the at least one index element; (b) expressing the at... Agent: Law Office Of Donald D. Mondul

20080184106 - Multi-mode ivr: Included are embodiments of systems and methods for providing information. At least one embodiment of such a method includes facilitating establishment of a communication between a user on a communications device and an interface server, the interface server being configured to provide data related to an information tree to the... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP/ At&t Delaware Intellectual Property, Inc.

20080184108 - Editing and printing system, editing system, method and computer-readable medium: There is provided an editing and printing system, including: a layout information memory that stores layout information including information on a layout area for each original article on a page and information indicating whether or not each original article is replaceable; a replacement candidate memory that stores replacement candidate articles;... Agent: Gauthier & Connors, LLP

20080184109 - Generating a relational view for a base model schema: Disclosed is a technique for generating a relational view. Initially, identification of a base model, a relational schema, and a ViewType are received. Then, a statement to create a relational view of the instance data for the base model using the ViewType is automatically generated.... Agent: Konrad Raynes & Victor, LLP Attn: Ibm54

20080184110 - Monitoring performance of a data processing system: A method for monitoring the performance of a computer system via a result size including a result set size of accesses to a database and a page size. Preferred embodiments are directed to a performance monitor that correlates data from existing tools that report data concerning access to the database... Agent: Martin & Associates, LLC

20080184111 - Overriding layer properties in computer aided design viewports: Embodiments of the invention provide techniques for overriding layer display properties in computer-aided design (CAD) viewports. A method of generating a display representation of a CAD drawing includes identifying one or more layers of the CAD drawing to include in the display representation. Each of the one or more layers... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, L.L.P.

20080184114 - Production status display apparatus and production status display method for molding machines: An object is to provide a production status display apparatus which can grasp the production status of each injection molding machine (Mi) and recognize the production end time. On a screen of a display apparatus connected to controllers of a plurality of molding machines, molding machine identifiers for identifying the... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20080184113 - Relevance slider in a site analysis report: In the context of a site analysis report showing paths between nodes, a relevance slider allows a user to dynamically specify how many node-to-node connections should be shown at any given time. The user can position the slider as desired, so as to specify a threshold level. Only those node... Agent: Raubvogel Law Office

20080184112 - System and method for organizing icons for applications on a mobile device: A method for moving icons on a display of a mobile device, either on the display or into a folder is provided. When an icon has been selected to be moved, its appearance is altered with respect to the other icons so as to provide a visual cue to the... Agent: Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP

20080184115 - Design and design methodology for creating an easy-to-use conference room system controller: In embodiments, a user interface provides for manipulating one or more physical devices for use in a conference room setting. The user interface includes a touch screen for presenting a variety of options to a user. The touch screen includes controllers, such as buttons, to enable the user to select... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20080184116 - User simulation for viewing web analytics data: A system creates and shows a display that simulates the websites during a visit, the flow of the visit and the pace of the visit. The system includes a web analytics tool, a data storage, a focus group module and a virtual focus group user interface module. The focus group... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20080184117 - Method and system of media channel creation and management: Methods and systems for creation, distribution, and providing advertising in video content over a network or communications medium such as via the Internet.... Agent: Quine Intellectual Property Law Group, P.C.

20080184118 - Method for providing graphical user interface (gui) for generating list and image apparatus thereof: A method for providing a Graphical User Interface (GUI) for generating a list, and an image apparatus having the same are provided. The method for providing a GUI for generating a list provides the GUI for generating a list to generate a list including desired items by using a pointer... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080184119 - Tool for creating content for video sharing platform: A method for use in providing content includes hosting a network site on a computer network, displaying on the network site links to one or more videos, and displaying on the network site at least an on-demand preview of a first video in response to a corresponding one of the... Agent: Fitch Even Tabin & Flannery

20080184121 - Authoring tool for providing tags associated with items in a video playback: An authoring tool for post-production insertion of tags and pointers into a video sequence is disclosed. Such an authoring tool can facilitate tag and pointer coordinate capture and tracking by using position detection (e.g., via a touchscreen) coupled to a display system. In one embodiment, a method can include: (i)... Agent: Charles J. Kulas

20080184120 - Concurrent presentation of video segments enabling rapid video file comprehension: A concurrent presentation of video segments of a video file enables rapid comprehension of the video file. A video file is segmented into video segments and a condensed representation of the video file is generated. The condensed representation corresponds to a concurrent presentation of the video segments in respective windows... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080184122 - System and method for conducting on-line discussions.: A system for conducting on-line discussion which facilitates said discussion by means of allowing contribution of asynchronous audio-visual segments from at least one class of users, standardizing these segments according to common parameters, linking these segments into smooth streams that are visible by at least one class of user as... Agent: Jeffrey Sieracki

20080184124 - Remote workspace sharing: Existing remote workspace sharing systems are difficult to use. For example, changes made on a common work product by one user often appear abruptly on displays viewed by remote users. As a result the interaction is perceived as unnatural by the users and is often inefficient. Images of a display... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20080184123 - System and method for providing a secure connection between a computer and a mobile device: A system for providing a connection between a computer and a mobile device, including a mobile device, a system server for providing a secure connection between the mobile device and a computer including a plurality of electronic files, software executing on the system server for sending a unique key to... Agent: St. Onge Steward Johnston & Reens, LLC

20080184125 - System and method for extending web-based storage to a local operating system graphical user interface: The subject application is directed to a system and method for integration of web-based storage to a local operating system graphical user interface. A workstation detects a remote storage location via a network interface and stores login data to access the remote storage location. Identification data is then communicated to... Agent: Tucker Ellis & West LLP

20080184127 - Shared home media platform to support multi-user control: A system for and method of enabling people to share a common application context for media presentation and playback is described herein. The presentation results from input from a set of active participants where the input includes a set of media types such as music, artwork, visualizations, photographs and text... Agent: Haverstock & Owens LLP

20080184126 - System and method for addressing audiovisual equipment issues: A system and method for addressing audiovisual equipment issues are disclosed. A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a display device having a housing component at least partially defining an interior space. In some cases, a memory may be fixed within the interior space,... Agent: Larson Newman Abel Polansky & White, LLP

20080184128 - Mobile device user interface for remote interaction: Systems and methods pertaining to displaying a web browsing session are disclosed. In one embodiment, a system includes a web browsing engine residing on a first device, with a viewing application residing on a second device and operatively coupled to the web browsing engine, where the viewing application is adapted... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20080184129 - Presenting website analytics associated with a toolbar: Site metrics are presented through a toolbar. The site metrics are derived from site analytics that uses clickstream data collected from a panel of internet users to generate and present internet activity metrics. Data collected from a community of internet users may be augmented by clickstream data store content, third... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20080184130 - Service architecture based metric views: Scorecard associated content is provided to limited user interfaces of desktop visualization applications on a user's computing device (e.g. a mobile computing device, an ultra-mobile computing device, a personal digital assistant, an in-car computing system, and a tablet computing device) for delivery of personalized and scalable metrics. Users are enabled... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20080184131 - Method for providing an asset criticality tool: A computer system for a asset criticality system is provided. The computer system has a platform, at least one input device, and a central processing unit in communication with the platform and the at least one input device. The central processing unit is configured to receive project information from a... Agent: Caterpillar/finnegan, Henderson, L.L.P.

20080184132 - Media content tagging: A system comprises control logic and a display coupled to the control logic. The display is adapted to play media content. The control logic retrieves information via a network interface based on viewer selection of a location within a frame of the media content.... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080184133 - Apparatus for increasing social interaction over an electronic network: In one embodiment, a system includes a server that hosts webpages facilitating user interaction between multiple endpoints. The system monitors for a user input requesting initiation of a happy hour, and when the input is detected, modifies the webpages to alert users of the happy hour. The users are notified... Agent: Marger Johnson & Mccollom, P.C.

20080184134 - Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and program: An image processing apparatus facilitating an edit process and a check process of data. A UMID of material data is added to a composition table. A UMID of the composition table and the UMID of the material data are added to an edit list. The UMID of the material data... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug

20080184135 - Web authoring plugin implementation: Methods are described for implementing a plugin in a blog or other structured online document. One embodiment of the method includes providing an interface between a blog-editing application and a plugin, receiving an indication that the plugin is to be invoked; presenting a user interface based on the plugin to... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. (c/o Microsoft Corporation)

20080184136 - Caller initiated distinctive presence alerting and auto-response messaging: Presence information of a first user is relayed to a second user. Briefly described, in architecture, one embodiment of the system, among others includes, can be implemented as follows. A first communications client of a first user detects a change in the presence status of a first user and sends... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP/ At&t Delaware Intellectual Property, Inc.

20080184137 - Search results clustering in tabbed browsers: Search results can be clustered into useable groups and provided to a user. The search results can be categorized according to a clustering algorithm associated with a search engine. The clustered search results can be categorized and provided into separate tabs for each category. In another aspect, multiple tab windows... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. (c/o Microsoft Corporation)

20080184138 - System, method and apparatus for selecting content from web sources and posting content to web logs: A method, system and apparatus for selecting, displaying, managing, tracking tagging and transferring access to specific content of Internet web pages and other sources, permitting the user or recipient to navigate quickly to a source of a content item in the custom selection, and posting content to web logs. A... Agent: Schweitzer Cornman Gross & Bondell LLP

20080184140 - Analytics planning in a visual programming environment: Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for remote function calls, including write remote function calls, to a system from an application modeled in a visual modeling language environment. Data in a visual modeling tool may be received that characterizes connections between first and second data sources and first and... Agent: Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky & Popeo, P.C. Attn: Patent Intake Customer No. 64280

20080184141 - Menu creation browser extension: Methods and other embodiments associated with a browser extension that provides menu manipulation functionality are described. One example browser extension includes a drag logic to identity an item in a first frame, where the item is to be added to a menu in a second frame. The browser extension may... Agent: Kraguljac & Kalnay, LLC

20080184139 - System and method for generating graphical user interfaces and graphical user interface models: A system and method for generating graphical user interfaces is described. In one embodiment a list, forming a first group of images, is received and the list includes a name for each corresponding image. In addition, image data is retrieved for each of the images in the list, the image... Agent: Cooley Godward Kronish LLP Attn: Patent Group

20080184145 - Computer user interface for document auto-summarization: A relativity controller is a scroll bar/window combination that provides a way to see data in relation to both the context of its wholeness and the salience of its contents. To accomplish this, the linear density or other appearance of the scroll bar (acting as a ruler or scale) varies... Agent: Heinz Grether PC G2 Technology Law

20080184142 - Content reproduction apparatus, recording medium, content reproduction method and content reproduction program: Disclosed herein is a content reproduction apparatus for reproducing a content based on a playlist to which a plurality of contents belong, including, a reproduction section configured to reproduce a content, and a control section configured to select a predetermined one of playlists in response to an input to an... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080184144 - Display screen generating apparatus: According to an aspect of an embodiment, a display screen having multiple functions is displayed by making the computer function as a screen part provided per display screen and that displays the display screen, and receives an event from the user and making the computer function as a functional part... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080184143 - Methods for identifying actions in a flowchart: Tools, methods and systems for identifying coordinated actions in a flowchart representing a multimedia experience. These include displaying a graphical view of a flowchart representing a multimedia experience and defining, within the flowchart, a cell including a primary action configured to trigger playback of a primary media asset and secondary... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080184146 - Customized user interface based on user profile information: A user interface including one or more references to content is customized. Several user profiles are provided from which a user may be associated. Each user profile includes user profile information. The user profile associated with a user to whom a user interface will be provided is accessed. A user... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080184147 - Method and system to look ahead within a complex taxonomy of objects: A method for providing a graphical user interface (GUI), where the GUI allows a user to look ahead to object relationships at the additional navigational layers in a taxonomy, without navigating to other layers in the taxonomy, wherein the method includes: selecting an object on a display screen to view... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - IBM Rsw

20080184148 - Drag and drop browser extension: Methods and other embodiments associated with a browser extension are described. One example browser extension includes a drag logic to identity an item to be uploaded from a local source to a remote destination. The browser extension may also include a drop logic to identify the remote destination. The browser... Agent: Kraguljac & Kalnay, LLC

20080184149 - Decision assistance device and methods of using same: A decision assistance device provides a user the ability to access and obtain actionable intelligence or other information to make tactical and strategic decisions. The decision assistance device allows the user to obtain information for future, near-future, and/or real time scenarios. The device advantageously provides the information to the user... Agent: Black Lowe & Graham, PLLC

20080184150 - Electronic circuit design analysis tool for multi-processor environments: One or more technologies described herein can be used for viewing results of a simulation of a software executable in a multi-processor electronic circuit design. A debug environment can display simulation results related to the multiple processors, for example, as a correlated software debug view of the processors. In at... Agent: Klarquist Sparkman, LLP

20080184153 - Analyzation apparatus and control method thereof: An analyzation apparatus which performs an analysis simulation in accordance with analysis condition data. An analysis condition modeling unit generates an analysis condition model data by assigning an analysis condition to each region of a three-dimensional model represented with analysis object model data of the analysis simulation based on analysis... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.C. John J Torrente

20080184154 - Mathematical simulation of a cause model: Computer software allows for users to easily construct and simulate operation of cause models in which elements interact as parts of a system. A graphical user interface (GUI) allows a user to place cause model elements and connect the elements with relationships that allow changes in one element to cause... Agent: Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20080184151 - Standardized mechanism for firmware upgrades of rfid devices: The claimed subject matter provides a system and/or a method that facilitates managing a device within a radio frequency identification (RFID) network. A radio frequency identification (RFID) network can include at least one device that receives data from a tag. An upgrade component can evaluate at least one device and... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080184152 - System and method for historical task sequence progress tracking: The subject application is directed to a system and method for task sequence progress tracking. Following the receipt of data representative of a multi-step document processing operation to be performed on an associated electronic document a linear display is generated including multiple segments. Each segment corresponds to a specific step... Agent: Tucker Ellis & West LLP

20080184155 - System and method for generating a graphical user input interface via an associated display: The subject application is directed to a system and method for generating a graphical user input interface via an associated graphical user interface. Data representative of a user input interface from storage. Preferably, this data includes graphical representations of each character associated with a standard QWERTY keyboard, inclusive of modified... Agent: Tucker Ellis & West LLP

20080184156 - Controlling apparatus, controlling method and computer readable recording medium storing controlling program: There is described a controlling apparatus which makes it possible to improve the user's maneuverability at the time of setting operations to be conducted in a first screen in which represented are a plurality of tabs and a plurality of items corresponding to a selected one of the tabs. The... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20080184157 - Enterprise web browser extension: Systems, methodologies, media, and other embodiments associated with web browsers are described. One exemplary embodiment includes a browser extension for a web browser that can communicate with a remote web service from an enterprise application to retrieve content. The content can then be displayed in sidebar window panes within the... Agent: Kraguljac & Kalnay, LLC

20080184160 - Method and computer system capable of presenting program graphics user interface on title bar window: The invention relates to a method and computer system capable of presenting program graphics user interface on the title bar of a window. The method includes the following steps. First whether a new operating window is established is determined; if it is yes, whether the new operating window conforms to... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20080184161 - Musical contents storage system having server computer and electronic musical devices: A musical contents system comprises a contents providing server comprising a connecting unit that connects to a communication network, and a contents storage unit that stores musical contents in a storage area corresponding to a user of an electronic musical device; and an electronic musical device comprising a connecting unit... Agent: Morrison & Foerster, LLP

20080184159 - Toolbar/sidebar browser extension: Methods and other embodiments associated with a web browser extension are described. One example browser extension includes a toolbar logic to provide a toolbar. The toolbar may include, for example, a set of graphical user interface elements displayed in connection with a browser window. The browser extension may also include... Agent: Kraguljac & Kalnay, LLC

20080184158 - Web browser window management: Systems, methodologies, media, and other embodiments associated with web browsers are described. One exemplary embodiment includes a graphical user interface having a window arrangement option for display on a display screen and being configured to initiate, when selected, an arrangement of open windows having a selected window type. An arrangement... Agent: Kraguljac & Kalnay, LLC

20080184162 - Method of printing, scanning, and faxing using device location: A computer implemented method of printing includes the steps of: (a) providing a computer server linked via one or more data links to a plurality of printers, where the computer server has access to identification information, location information and configuration information pertaining to each of the plurality of printers, where... Agent: Taft, Stettinius & Hollister LLP

20080184163 - Resizing internet document for display on television screen: Methods and systems for scaling down a Web page image enables the image to be displayed on a standard television without horizontal scrolling of the image. A Web page image that initially has a horizontal dimension larger than the horizontal dimension of a television display is received from a web... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20080184164 - Method for developing a dialog manager using modular spoken-dialog components: A method of developing a dialog manager for a spoken dialog service is disclosed. The method comprises selecting a top level flow controller based on application type, selecting available reusable subdialogs for each application part, developing a subdialog for each application part not having an available subdialog and testing and... Agent: At&t Corp.

20080184166 - Aircraft avionic system having a pilot user interface with context dependent input devices: An avionics system having a pilot user interface, and method of interfacing with a pilot, includes providing a display screen and a video processor driving the display screen. A plurality of context dependent input devices is provided. Operation of at least one of the input devices may cause the processor... Agent: Van Dyke, Gardner, Linn & Burkhart, LLP

20080184165 - System and method for evaluating content on the internet network and computer readable medium processing the method: Disclosed is a system for evaluating contents in an Internet network, including a user terminal for accessing contents information registered in real time and provided through a web page and performing evaluation on the contents information; and a value analysis server for calculating hubness of each evaluator according to an... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20080184167 - Method and apparatus for choosing ranges from a multi-range slider: A multi-range slider that simplifies the process for a user to pick multiple value ranges for various applications and saves a user's display area by providing multiple value selectors arranged in a single, possibly non-linear scale. The multi-range slider has the ability to display massive amounts of data and information... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080184168 - Image display apparatus: An image display apparatus according to the present invention includes a display unit that displays a series of intra-subject images capturing an inside of a subject along time series, and additionally displays a thumbnail corresponding to an intra-subject image selected from the series of intra-subject images; a grouping processor that... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20080184169 - System and method for managing toolbars on a web page: A method for managing toolbar on a web page includes the steps of: separating a web page into a toolbar area (1) and a content area (2); registering a function button (3) in the content area by means of registering an identification of the function button; creating an image icon... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20080184171 - Hierarchical structure display device: The hierarchical structure display device includes a hierarchical structure storing unit, a display unit, and a display control unit. The hierarchical structure storing unit stores information about a hierarchical structure of menus where each item contained in a menu is linked to a directly beneath level menu. The display control... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20080184170 - Systems and methods for customized instant messaging application for displaying status of measurements from sensors: Some embodiments of customized instant messaging application for displaying status of measurements from sensors are proposed. These include: simultaneous use of multiple avatars for a given source where one or more of the avatars represent sensor presence; selective assignment of avatar and associated presence information to recipients; dynamic changes to... Agent: Shalini Periyalwar

20080184172 - Methods and systems for displaying input items on a display: Methods and systems are described for displaying input items on a display. In one embodiment, a first activation of a button representing a displayable input item is detected. Responsive to the first activation of the button, the displayable input item is displayed on a display at an initial display size... Agent: Scenera Research, LLC

20080184173 - Controlling multiple map application operations with a single gesture: A technology for controlling multiple map application operations with a single gesture is disclosed. In one method approach, data describing a single gesture that was inked on a map application output displayed on a device is received. The data is utilized to control multiple operations of the map application.... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080178067 - Document performance analysis: Various embodiments can provide a tool aimed at identifying document conditions that can lead to processing bottlenecks when an associated document is consumed, such as by being rendered or printed, by a particular device. In at least some embodiments, the tool can identify or diagnose such conditions and report those... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080178068 - Automated creation of media asset illustrations: The invention pertains to techniques for creating media asset illustrations for media assets are disclosed. The created media asset illustrations are useful for media assets that lack associated media asset illustrations. The techniques can analyze media asset data or media asset metadata when creating the create media asset illustrations. The... Agent: Technology & Innovation Law Group, Pc

20080178069 - Content authoring system and method: A method and computer program product for defining a selected non-sequential content template. The selected non-sequential content template defines a plurality of data objects and includes at least one non-sequential navigation object that allows for non-sequential navigation between at least a portion of the plurality of data objects defined within... Agent: Holland & Knight LLP

20080178071 - Interactive user interface for displaying supply chain information: An interactive user interface is disclosed. According to various embodiments, the interface includes a first field and at least one additional field. The first field lists a focal item and the at least one additional field contains a listing of items related to the focal-item. Certain of the related items... Agent: Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Preston Gates Ellis LLP

20080178070 - Method, a hypermedia communication system, a hypermedia server, a hypermedia client, and computer software products for accessing, distributing and presenting hypermedia documents: The present invention relates to accessing, distributing, and presenting hypermedia documents (5, 6). In particular the invention relates to a method for a hypermedia communication system comprising the steps of generating a hypermedia by presenting the hypermedia in a hypermedia description at a hypermedia server, requesting the hypermedia at a... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080178072 - Apparatus and method for enabling composite style sheet application to multi-part electronic documents: An apparatus and method for enabling composite style sheet application to multi-part electronic documents is provided. The apparatus and method identify content of a requested electronic document and determine subset style sheets that correspond to the identified content. Certain ones of these subset style sheets are selected based on, for... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20080178073 - Visual editor for electronic mail: A visual editor for generating a custom email message. An editor interface may display an approximation of an email message. A user may customize content and layout of an email message through the editor interface. A user interface system may track such customizations to enable faster remote operations to be... Agent: Lowrie, Lando & Anastasi, LLP

20080178074 - Data presentation system and method: A method and computer program product for generating a data file. A selected physical media emulation format is defined, which is chosen from one or more available physical media emulation formats. The data file is formatted in accordance with the selected physical media emulation format, thus generating a formatted data... Agent: Holland & Knight LLP

20080178075 - Configuration data store for overriding a web application configuration involving multiple customers: Described are methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for overriding configuration for web application involving multiple customers. A user of one of the customers requests a Web page. A dynamic Web page is generated using default values associated with the user. At least one of the default values is... Agent: Proskauer Rose LLP

20080178076 - Method and apparatus for spellchecking electronic documents: A computer implemented method, an apparatus, and a computer program product for spellchecking an electronic document. In response to receiving the electronic document, the process parses the electronic document for a set of non-standard words that are absent from a dictionary used by a document editing program. In response to... Agent: Duke W. Yee Yee & Associates, P.c.

20080178077 - Citation processing system with multiple rule set engine: A citation system parses, error checks, corrects, and transforms citations between citation systems. The system may determine the available citation systems, such as The Bluebook, The Chicago Manual of Style, or other citation systems available for selection. The system also determines a selected citation system from among the multiple citation... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080178078 - Differential dynamic content delivery to alternate display device locations: Differential dynamic content delivery including providing a session document for a presentation, wherein the session document includes a session grammar and a session structured document; identifying a recording period within a presentation session; recording, during the recording period, a presentation control instruction; selecting from the session structured document a classified... Agent: International Corp (blf)

20080178079 - Apparatus and method for a graphical user interface to facilitate tuning sql statements: A computer program product, apparatus, method, and system for SQL tuning analysis runs an SQL advisor summary process using predetermined SQL tuning advisors on a user selected SQL statement, generates an advisor summary containing a prioritized list of the predetermined SQL tuning advisors and a first user selectable component, and... Agent: Kunzler & Mckenzie

20080178080 - Removable hard disk with display information: A system and method is disclosed for visually communicating disk storage meta information comprising a removable data storage device (RDSD). An RDSD enclosure comprising a disk storage drive, input/output interface, one or more connectors, a storage information module (SIM), a power storage device, and a display is implemented to be... Agent: Hamilton & Terrile, LLP

20080178081 - System and method for guiding non-technical people in using web services: The method and system for guiding a user to operate simplified computing operations for common web services activities via a web service interface standard to the web service itself include recognizing a user's activity with the web service. The method and system includes providing a first interface to the user... Agent: Dreier LLP

20080178082 - Device with highlighted menu: The invention relates to a device (1) with an interaction dependent user interface (2). Particularly a value of a parameter of an object (5) of the interface is dependent of the user activities, i.e. an object of the interface behaves differently in dependence of how fast the user is navigating... Agent: Warren A. Sklar (soer) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20080178083 - Methods and apparatus for customizing user-interface control in existing application: Techniques for altering application user-interface controls are provided. More particularly the customization of a new or existing user-interface control in an application user-interface is provided. In one aspect of the invention, a method for customizing user-interface controls of an existing application comprises the recording of a procedure description performed by... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20080178084 - Essay writing system: A computer based system for composing an essay comprising at least one computer-readable medium having one or more executable instructions stored thereon, which when executed by at least one processing system, causes the at least one processing system to implement one or more essay generation tools for assisting a user... Agent: Robert M. Schwartz, P.a.

20080178085 - Audio/visual amplifier, selection method, program, and recording medium: An audio/visual amplifier for processing video signals and audio signals includes a display controller operable to control display of a menu such that an input name, which is an item of the menu and represents a unit of an input to be selected by a user, a name of a... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080178086 - Web-based video browsing: A system for web-based video browsing includes a web server and a web client. The web server and the web client cooperatively provide a set of video browsing functions. The video browsing functions enable a user of the web client to browse a source video and select a video frame... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080178087 - In-scene editing of image sequences: Using in-scene editing, an added title, or object, moves as the camera moves through the imaged scene. Previously this has been complex to achieve, requiring expert users to explicitly align 3D coordinate systems in the image sequence and on the added title or object. For example, this has been used... Agent: Lee & Hayes Pllc

20080178088 - Method and device of customizing headphones: At least one exemplary embodiment is related to a method of device customization comprising: entering physiological data, where the physiological data is obtained from a visual image loaded by a web based software program; selecting device features using the web based software program; and selecting the device appearance using the... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20080178089 - Dynamic presentation generator:

20080178091 - Method of presenting contents based on a common relationship: A method is disclosed for providing a requested contents and associated contents to a user of a client computer system. A provider's server receives a request from the client computer system to send a first object in an HTML page for display on the client computer system. The provider examines... Agent: Louis Ventre Jr

20080178090 - Universal medical imager: A medical viewing device includes a primary viewing box for displaying medical records including a first processor to control the primary viewing box, a CD/DVD driver to drive a CD/DVD which includes the medical records and a first touched screen to display the medical records. The medical viewing device further... Agent: Wilson Daniel Swayze, Jr.

20080178092 - Condition editor for business process management and business activity monitoring: A system for monitoring processes of a distributed business application an integration builder tool. The integration builder tool includes a condition editor having a user interface providing an editing area on a display in which to receive a text-based expression of one or more conditions of a business application process.... Agent: Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky & Popeo, P.c. Attn: Patent Intake Customer No. 64280

20080178093 - Method, system and computer program product for resource orientated multi-project management: A method, system, and computer program product for managing projects via a web-based system. The method includes receiving a username and password for a user and determining whether the user is a first-level-access-user. After determining that the user is a first-level-access-user, displaying a field configured to receive budget-distribution information, receiving... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080178094 - Server-side peer-to-peer (p2p) media streaming: The present invention is a method and system of exchanging data between client computers and a server in a P2P network, wherein the server acts as a client in a pure P2P network and client computers exchange data from the servers. Further, the present invention uses thin client software installed... Agent: White-welker & Welker, Llc

20080178095 - Method of changing idle screen template type of mobile communication termianl, computer readable recording medium in which program for executing the same is recorded and mobile communication terminal having function thereof: The present invention relates to a mobile communication terminal having an idle screen function, and more particularly, to a method of changing idle screen templates of the mobile communication terminal. A method of changing an idle screen template type of a mobile communication terminal according to the present invention comprising... Agent: Wolf, Block, Schorr & Solis-cohen LLP

20080178096 - Collaborative chat system: [Constitution] A plurality of terminal devices 100 and a chat server 300 supporting a chat are provided. By managing a display position, on a display screen, of a chat window for performing a chat in the terminal devices 100 and the chat server 300, display positions of chat windows are... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20080178097 - Multiple focus control: An embodiment of the present invention includes a technique to provide multiple focus controls. First and second focus managers manage first and second focus owners, respectively. The first and second focus owners correspond to components of media planes displayable on at least one of a plurality of output display devices.... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080178098 - Method of displaying browser and terminal implementing the same: A method of displaying a browser including a text field and a terminal for implementing the same are discussed. According to an embodiment, the method includes displaying a browser including at least one or more text fields, selecting a specific text field from the at least one or more text... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080178100 - Agenda display in an electronic device: A method of controlling an electronic device includes retrieving from at least one database of the electronic device, calendared events that meet a set of constraints, displaying the calendared events in a time-ordered list including a start date/time of each of the calendared events, and providing a user-selectable option to... Agent: Perry + Currier Inc. (for Rim)

20080178102 - Automated learning system for improving graphical user interfaces: An automated learning system for improving graphical user interfaces. Information about a user transaction which caused an error is obtained from an input to an element in a graphical user interface. Associations are created between the error and one or more elements in the graphical user interface which generated the... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates Pc

20080178103 - Copying data between computer systems: In one embodiment, a method to copy data from a first computer system to a second computer system comprises receiving, in a first computer system, a first signal initiated by an input/output device, wherein the first signal indicates a cut operation or a copy operation on at least one selected... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080178099 - Method of using block diagram to combine logic expressions: A complicated logic expression uses 4 operators “and”, “or”, “not” and “( )” to combine simpler logic expressions. A method is provided to use lines and blocks to represent these operators and separate the logic expressions.... Agent: Tao Feng

20080178105 - System and method for planning student assignments: A system for aiding a student define, plan and/or execute tasks related to homework. The system provides user interfaces that guide the student through processes of defining tasks, scheduling work time to complete tasks and tracking progress against completing the tasks. The system may plan time for completing tasks during... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.c.

20080178101 - Systems and methods for navigating, finding, and presenting data objects: Various systems and related methods involve navigating, finding, and visually presenting data objects or sets of data objects. In one implementation, a set of data objects is visually presented as a graphical element and one or more semantic relationships between the graphical element and other sets of data objects are... Agent: Fish & Richardson, P.c.

20080178104 - Terminal and method of displaying content thereof: A method of displaying contents on a mobile terminal. The method includes displaying a plurality of contents on a display of the mobile terminal, selecting a content from the plurality of displayed contents, and displaying the selected content and similar contents having a similar type as the selected content to... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080178106 - Method, system, and computer program product for user commercialization of menu items: A method, system, and computer program product is disclosed that enables a user to customize selection elements of a GUI. For example, menu entries in a GUI can be customized so that the user can specify the font, the language, character sets, color, and other attributes of the text of... Agent: (saul-aus) Patent Docketing Clerk Ibm Corporation (saul-aus) C/o Saul Ewing LLP

20080178107 - System and method for dynamically presenting a directory tree: An exemplary method for dynamically presenting a directory tree is disclosed. The method comprises the steps of: providing a database for storing a default directory tree having a plurality of nodes, contents of each node, and logical regulations among the nodes; reading the contents of each node, and putting the... Agent: Pce Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20080178111 - Method for multidimensional visual correlation of systems management data displaying orchestration action threshold: A method, apparatus, and computer program product for monitoring the performance of a system. The mechanism of the present invention provides an interface in the form of a graphical user interface (GUI) to communicate multiple layers of system performance data to an operator. An operator monitors this display of information... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates Pc

20080178110 - Side-by-side shared calendars: Methods and systems are provided for presenting a plurality of shared calendars in a single electronic display frame or window where each of the plurality of shared calendars is displayed in a common view mode relative to other displayed shared calendars. Users may select one or more shared calendars to... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20080178108 - System and method for thin client development of a platform independent graphical user interface: The subject application is directed to a system and method for thin client graphical user interface development. Primitive data is stored in associated memory corresponding to graphical user interface primitives. Each primitive corresponds to a display or a control of an associated document processing device. Selection data is received via... Agent: Tucker Ellis & West LLP

20080178109 - Virtual dynamic pattern rendering system that changes its display status according to external information: This specification discloses a virtual dynamic pattern system that changes its display status according to the external information. A host is built in with a virtual dynamic pattern rendering procedure. The host controls a display to show a dynamic pattern. The rendering procedure sets the internal/external parameters of an initial... Agent: Joe Mckinney Muncy

20080178113 - Managing display of user interfaces: Managing a display of a user interface. In one implementation, a first user interface and an option to change the first user interface to a second user interface may be displayed. A selection of the option to change the first user interface to the second user interface may be received.... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080178112 - System and method for rendering multiple user interfaces: A method, computer program product, and multimodal user interface system for rendering a first graphical user interface on a display screen. The first graphical user interface includes a first functionality mapped to a first input option of a multi-option input device. The first functionality is configured to be enableable when... Agent: Holland & Knight LLP

20080178114 - Method for preparing a claim tree in the preparation of a patent application: A method and computer program for preparing a patent application including independent and dependent claims by running a software macro to display a claim dependency tree with the ability to insert word or phrases within the tree. The claim dependency tree shows a diagram of the claims within a patent... Agent: Dickinson Wright Pllc

20080178115 - Display control device and computer-readable recording medium storing display control program: A display control device controls a display of a cursor and a window on a display screen of the device. The control device includes an instruction receiving section that receives instructions from a pointing device and a position sensor that detects a change to move the cursor. A dragging operation... Agent: Casella & Hespos

20080178116 - Displaying scroll bar on terminal: A method and a mobile terminal for scrolling data on a screen. The method includes storing scroll bar information, displaying at least one data file and a scroll bar for scrolling a screen displaying the data file, and selectively changing a characteristic of the scroll bar. Changing the characteristic of... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20080178117 - Document changes: In various embodiments, a user may be prompted to “view changes” associated with a document after electing to close the document without having saved.... Agent: Dean P. Alderucci

20080178118 - Navigation device: A navigation device includes: a display device; a control device that controls the display device so as to display a plurality of indexes to be selected in order to operate predetermined functions; and an instruction device with which a user gives an instruction to select among the plurality of indexes... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20080178119 - Substrate processing apparatus: To provide a substrate processing apparatus which can prevent a reduction in quality of a product, and damage to the apparatus. In a control program which operates on a substrate processing apparatus, a recipe storage portion and a parameter storage portion configure a data storage device which stores data relating... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, Plc

20080178120 - Document retrieving apparatus, document retrieving method, program, and storage medium: A document retrieving apparatus includes a document retrieving unit adapted to retrieve document data which include images that match an input retrieval condition, a retrieval result list display unit adapted to display, on a display unit, a list display of document data that match the retrieval condition based on the... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080178121 - Menu in a user interface: d

20080178122 - System and method for website configuration and management: A web publishing enhancement application is discussed that provides a tool for visually creating an enhanced site map for a web site. The site map provides a location for creating web site content and site navigation. A user is also able to edit pages directly from the site map. The... Agent: Lahive & Cockfield, LLP

20080178124 - Apparatus, method, and program for display control: A display control apparatus includes the following elements. An accepting unit accepts selection of one of objects displayed in a window in either a cursor mode, in which a cursor is moved to select an object, or a pointer mode, in which a pointer is moved to select an object,... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080178123 - Method of controlling an electronic device in a calendar viewing application: A method of controlling a portable electronic device includes retrieving from at least one database of the electronic device, calendar events that meet a set of constraints, and providing the calendar events that meet the set of constraints in a month-view calendar graphical user interface including a week number displayed... Agent: Perry + Currier Inc. (for Rim)

20080178125 - Providing dynamic content in a user interface in an application: Providing dynamic content in a user interface page in an application is disclosed. The user interface page is rendered in the application, in which the user interface page includes at lease one menu items. Responsive to a selection of a menu item, at least one tile corresponding to the selected... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080178126 - Gesture recognition interactive feedback: Example embodiments provide for (i) suggesting proper gesture sequences based on a user's initial gesture input; and/or (ii) providing visual or other gesture example(s), which may alternatively be compared with the user's mimic thereof For example, a user may input a gesture into a touch/display surface. Based on the user's... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20080172595 - Document link management: Document links may be efficiently managed by providing automated techniques for organizing them. In particular implementations, a system and process for automated management of document links may include the ability to determine that a link is to be established for a document and identify at least one descriptor for the... Agent: Fish & Richardson, P.C.

20080172596 - Systems, methods and apparatus for multimedia document interchange architecture between heterogeneous computer systems: Systems, methods and apparatus are provided through which multimedia objects that include design specifications are completed, aggregated, reviewed and distributed among computers in a heterogeneous network.... Agent: Ramirez & Smith

20080172597 - Data field referencing text processing system: A system identifies document (e.g., text processing application document) data fields similarly to the way a spreadsheet application references cells, to facilitate copying data fields that contain references to other fields. A text processing system enables user creation or editing of a document. The system includes a display processor for... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080172598 - Electronic form automation: Some embodiments may provide a method comprising receiving, from a remote machine, entity-identifying data and form identifying data, the form identifying data to identify a sequence of one or more electronic forms, the sequence including a target electronic form having a form element, determining an entity identifier, based on the... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/ebay

20080172599 - Method for reassigning a section of a printed product to a new signature: A method for reassigning a section out of a plurality of sections of a digitally represented printed product from an original signature to a new signature for producing said section, the method including (i) displaying a table on a computer display, wherein the table includes a list of items, each... Agent: Agfa Corporation Patent Department

20080172600 - Method and system for dynamically assembling presentations of web pages: A method and system for dynamically assembling presentations of web pages. A web designer defines attributes including business rules, properties and standard user interface library components. These attribute definitions allow look and feel specifications of a web page to be dynamically changed without requiring code modifications to any web application.... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20080172601 - 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

20080172602 - Markup language formatted report generation: A method and apparatus for receiving a message that includes a markup language associated with text in the message. Set of formatting instructions for generating a file based on the message are received and amending the markup language in the message responsive to the set of formatting instructions.... Agent: Sap Ag

20080172603 - Xml-based translation: Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with providing an XML-based translation service are described. One method embodiment includes accessing a translation-aware XML document that may comply with a translation-enabling XML schema. The document may store a first XML element that stores translatable data and a second XML element that stores... Agent: Kraguljac & Kalnay, LLC

20080172605 - Method and system for aligning and laying out drawing elements in cad drawings: Embodiments of the invention include a method for aligning and laying out drawing elements in a computer-aided design drawing and computer-readable medium storing instructions for implementing the method. Specifically, one embodiment of the present invention sets forth a method, which includes the steps of receiving a selection of an insertion... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, L.L.P.

20080172604 - Time reduction mechanism in schematic design entry page setup: A method and system for schematic design entry page setup are provided. In one aspect, the method may comprise presenting a user interface for entering information associated with a page layout for designing hardware logic schematics, retrieving the entered information and creating a specified number of pages for schematic design... Agent: Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, P.C.

20080172606 - System and method for related information search and presentation from user interface content: A method of providing information related to content presented within a first window, the method comprising extracting primary information from the content in response to activation of an interactive mechanism, the primary information including entities mentioned in the content, obtaining related information from content sources based on the primary information,... Agent: Holland & Knight LLP

20080172607 - Selective undo of editing operations performed on data objects: An undo process performed on a data object includes selecting a stored prior state of the data object; comparing the stored prior state with the current state of the data object to determine differences between the stored prior state and the current state of the data object other than the... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20080172608 - Site builder: Embodiment of the present disclosure can also be viewed as providing methods for creating a web site. In this regard, one embodiment includes the following steps: receiving a choice of a design template to be used in creating the web site, the design template providing an initial layout for pages... Agent: Hope Baldauff Hartman, LLC

20080172610 - Customizable user interface for electronic devices: Techniques and devices (110, 310, 350) for providing a customized user interface for a programmable electronic device (101, 330, 340) originally equipped with a user interface different from the customized user interface. The operation of programmable electronic devices such as mobile phone (101) and game consoles (330, 340) can be... Agent: Fish & Richardson, PC

20080172609 - Multiple application handling: A user is provided with a simple way of selecting a number of “favourite” applications to be visible on the display of, e.g., his/her communication terminal or PDA. By customizing the apparatus in this manner the user will find it easier and more convenient to make full use of his/her... Agent: Perman & Green

20080172611 - Three-dimensional content-navigation systems and terminals incorporating the same: Stationary or portable devices that include a first user interface member residing on a front portion of a housing configured to electronically navigate data on a display; and a second user interface member residing on a back portion of the housing configured to electronically navigate data on the display.... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec, P.A.

20080172612 - Dynamic help references for software documentation: Embodiments of the invention provide techniques for providing help content to users of software application, where the help content includes references to interface elements of a graphical user interface. A method for providing help information includes receiving a request for help content, where the requested help content includes a reference... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, L.L.P.

20080172613 - System of phonetic notation for multitude of languages and method thereof: Disclosed is a system of phonetic notation common for a multitude of languages and a method to create such a notation system common for a chosen group of languages.... Agent: Zbigniew Stein

20080172614 - Action-based menus for a portable media device: A software and/or hardware facility for presenting action-based menus on a portable media player. An action-based menu is a list of action options contextually displayed to a user of the portable media player that includes actions that are relevant to the particular piece of media or group of media. Each... Agent: Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt, P.C. Pacwest Center, Suite 1900

20080172615 - Video manager and organizer: An online video search system, including a tag discoverer including a web encyclopedia crawler for (i) accessing a web encyclopedia to find web pages related to at least one designated reference topic, and (ii) retrieving a plurality of web pages by performing an n-level depth recursive traversal of the web... Agent: Soquel Group, LLC

20080172616 - Document information workflow: A method is presented for extracting information from a document by separating the document into segments and organizing the segments into a hierarchical structure. An audio rendition of the segments is generated and presented aurally to the user for selection of the segment to be presented. The selected segment is... Agent: Fay Sharpe / Xerox - Rochester

20080172617 - Information processing apparatus, display method and recording medium: An information processing apparatus and method configured to display content in a content display screen area, which is at least one of a plurality of screen areas, displayed. The information processing apparatus includes an event detector configured to detect generation of a predetermined event concerning a content, a notifying unit... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080172618 - Navigation system of web browser and method thereof: Provided are a navigation system of a web browser and a method thereof. The navigation system includes: a link area determination unit that determines whether a selected area is a link area; a computation unit that computes a distance from the link area if the selected area is not the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080172619 - Generating a short-cut of functions from pluggable components: A tool is provided that generates a short-cut of functions from a plurality of pluggable components within an infrastructure container. A historical trail monitoring component is configured to monitor user interactions with the plurality of pluggable components. A pattern detection component is configured to infer a pattern of usage with... Agent: Hoffman Warnick LLC

20080172620 - Web page control program, method, and server: An external link receiving and responding unit of a server subjects a plurality of HTML files including file identification information to responding transmission with respect to an access request from a client by a hyperlink of a web page of another server and causes a web page composed of the... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080172621 - Augmenting service description with expected usage information: A system and method for constructing a high-quality interface for interacting with a Web service are provided. The method in one aspect includes specifying a service description to associate with an interface of a Web service in a service description language, specifying expected usage information of the Web service, the... Agent: Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, P.C.

20080172624 - Display screen structuring apparatus: A screen program described with a non-object-oriented language is divided into a View performing a screen display and a Model that is an external processing logic of the screen display, and the View is associated with the Model by a binding setting. By associating plural Views with a Model, when... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080172623 - Method and system for processing, by an information retrieval system, user input modifying the information retrieval system: In a method and system for hosting a programming environment and processing user input within an information retrieval system, a definition of an expression is received from a user, during a first session between the user and an information retrieval system, the definition specifying an expression format, a response type,... Agent: Choate, Hall & Stewart LLP

20080172622 - Method and system for receiving a user-defined display format and user-identified computer program and displaying a user interface modified responsive to the received input: In a method and system for processing user input, a resource is received during a session between a user and an interaction environment, the resource including predefined markers and a first program executable by a browser, at least one of the predefined markers identifying a display format of at least... Agent: Choate, Hall & Stewart LLP

20080172626 - Portable computer: A portable computer is provided. The portable computer includes a main system and an auxiliary system. The main system includes a motherboard and a first display. The auxiliary system includes a second display and a microprocessor, wherein the microprocessor includes a general purpose input output (GPIO) interface and a display... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20080172625 - Virtual workspace for project management coordination: A computer-implemented method for managing a project. A board having rows and columns forming a grid of cells is first created or accessed. Security rules may be assigned to each of the cells. A number of task files each containing information about one of the project tasks are then created.... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080172627 - Information display apparatus, information providing server, information display system, method for controlling information display apparatus, method for controlling information providing server, control program and recording medium: A digital television of the present invention includes an object information storage section and a key assignment control section. The object information storage section contains one or more numerical attribute values indicative of an attribute(s) of each object in association with the object. The key assignment control section ranks the... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080172631 - Determining a contributing entity for a window: A method, system, and computer program product for presenting content indicative of one or more entities which contributed to a window being displayed using a processing system. The method comprises determining one or more properties of the window; identifying, using the one or more properties and a set of rules,... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080172629 - Geometric performance metric data rendering: Users are enabled to utilize data from performance metrics to drive the behavior of geometric shapes to visualize business performance and create new composite objects that show magnitude, patterns of structured and unstructured data, interrelationships, causalities, and dependencies. Presentations are then rendered in a performance metric application or in another... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20080172630 - Graphical representation of aggregated data: A method for enabling graphical representation of aggregated data is provided. The method includes accessing aggregated data retrieved from a plurality of on-line sources and receiving selection of a portion of the data through a graphical user interface. The method further includes identifying attributes associated with the portion of the... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080172628 - User experience for creating semantic relationships: A computer user interface may be used to create and maintain semantic relationships between data objects on a computer system. Multiple sets of data objects identified by user selections, queries, searches, or other criteria may be presented in display panes on the user interface. Users may then select data objects... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20080172632 - Distributed web-based processing, spatial organization and display of information: A Zeetix encompasses a collection of information organized around spatial domain, which may be around a geographical location in a real geography or a virtual geography, and all human-made constructs on it. A geographic Zeetix may show store locations for a franchise business, listing locations for a realtor, or police... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20080172633 - Touch screen device and method of displaying and selecting menus thereof: A touch screen device and method for displaying and selecting menus thereof are provided. The touch screen device includes a screen with a display for displaying menu images thereon and a detector for detecting a touch on a screen, and a controller which displays one or more menu bars on... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20080172634 - Mobile terminal having rotating input device and method for operating the mobile terminal: A method for displaying icons on a mobile terminal having a front side and an opposing rear side includes displaying a plurality of icons on a display located on the front side of the mobile terminal, receiving user input responsive to user-driven rotation of a rotatable wheel located on the... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20080172635 - Offering menu items to a user: The invention relates to an electronic device 1 offering a plurality of menu items to a user. In order to enable a user friendly selection of the menu items, the electronic device 1 comprises a screen 60, user input means 70, storing means 50 adapted to store parameters for a... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20080172636 - User interface for selecting members from a dimension: For a multi-dimensional database, members of the dimension are displayed using names of the members of the dimension and property information associated with each of the members of the dimension. A selection interface to select at least one member of the dimension is provided while continuing to display the members... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20080172637 - Method and system for using image globalization in dynamic text generation and manipulation: An invention is disclosed for achieving “image globalization” through dynamic text generation and manipulation by independently translating textual elements within a graphic image into different languages (or other domains of use). This concept can be used in creating multiple text-containing graphic images (each customized for a specific domain of use)... Agent: Gerald J. Iwanejko, Jr.

20080168340 - Method of efficiently managing file location awareness for client applications: A system and method for sorting and organizing file locations when saving website bookmarks, and downloading, uploading and saving files from or to a website. The system automatically generates and displays a file path for each bookmark or file based on selectable options, including domain, file type, user configurable options,... Agent: Cahn & Samuels, LLP

20080168341 - Digital spreadsheet formula automation: A digital spreadsheet system that recognizes formula names and formula variables in real-time, that constructs a formula in accord with the formula's name and that enters it in the associated cell. The digital spreadsheet method consists of recognizing a formula's name, of traversing the spreadsheet's used range to identify the... Agent: Raymond Payette

20080168342 - Packages that contain pre-paginated documents: Modular content framework and document format methods and systems are described. The described framework and format define a set of building blocks for composing, packaging, distributing, and rendering document-centered content. These building blocks define a platform-independent framework for document formats that enable software and hardware systems to generate, exchange, and... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080168343 - System and method of automatically mapping a given annotator to an aggregate of given annotators: A document corpus is annotated by given annotators and aggregates of the given annotators to generate a corpus of pre-annotated documents with given annotations. The same document corpus is annotated by a subject annotator to have subject annotations. The subject annotations are decomposed into superpositions of the given annotations. The... Agent: Whitham, Curtis & Christofferson, P.C.

20080168344 - Incrementally updating and formatting hd-dvd markup: Systems, methods, and/or techniques (“tools”) for incrementally updating and formatting high-definition digital versatile disk (HD-DVD) markup are described herein. The tools may receive first markup representing a first scene description to be read from a HD-DVD, and may map the first markup into a first area composite for presentation to... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20080168345 - Automatically collecting and compressing style attributes within a web document: In one embodiment, a style compressor for improving compression of a web document collects all the style attributes referenced by elements of the web document into a central style repository. The style compressor replaces each reference by each of the elements with a class attribute assigned in the central style... Agent: Ibm Corp (ap) C/o Amy Pattillo

20080168346 - Navigation device and method for using special characters in a navigation device: A method and device are disclosed for navigation. In at least one embodiment, the method includes receiving an input including a plurality of ordinary characters; displaying the ordinary characters, on the display device, as the ordinary characters are input; and replacing, on the display device, a group of ordinary characters... Agent: Tomtom International B.v.

20080168348 - Device-directed default list naming for mobile electronic device: Methods and systems for ensuring that a default contact list display name presented on a mobile electronic device is meaningful to a user of the mobile electronic device. Such a mobile electronic device in some embodiments comprises a user interface, a wireless interface and a processor wherein in response to... Agent: Sharp Laboratories Of America, Inc.

20080168347 - Geographical email presentation: An email content management method, system and program are provided for mapping a plurality of received electronic mail (email) messages to a plurality of predetermined graphical representations of an email Inbox. Predetermined sender and originating information is associated with an email. When the email is received by the recipient, the... Agent: Hamilton & Terrile, LLP IBM Austin

20080168349 - Portable electronic device, method, and graphical user interface for displaying electronic documents and lists: In a computer-implemented method, a portion of an electronic document is displayed on a touch screen display of a portable multifunction device. The displayed portion has a vertical position and a horizontal position in the electronic document. An object is detected on or near the displayed portion of the electronic... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP/ Apple Inc.

20080168350 - Method and system for movie karaoke: A user's recorded voice and/or image is played back in the context of a scene from a pre-recorded movie such that it replaces an actor's recorded voice and/or image of the pre-recorded movie, thus giving the illusion that the user is participating in the scene. The replacement may occur in... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20080168351 - Method for contextual assistance management: A method for contextual assistance application management is disclosed. The method comprises launching a help application, determining, by the help application, that a predefined event has occurred with a target application and presenting, in response to the occurrence of the predefined event, a help feature on a user interface. Then,... Agent: Motorola Inc

20080168352 - System and method for displaying related entity information: When displaying various types of information, an application may identify whether any related entities exist. For example, when displaying an e-mail message, the sender information may relate to a contact entity. As such, information associated with the contact entity may be displayed along with the message. The related entity data... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20080168353 - Voicemail set-up on a portable multifunction device: A computer-implemented method is performed at a portable multifunction device with a touch screen display. The method includes: displaying a voicemail setup user interface on the touch screen display, the user interface including a password setup icon and a greeting setup icon; detecting a user selection of the password setup... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP/ Apple Inc.

20080168354 - Device command shell system function through a web browser interface: Numerous hardware and software devices provide a text-based command-line interface known as a command-prompt or command shell. These command-line user interfaces only take in text-based input from the user to perform commands and/or interact with the device in some way. For network-enabled devices, these command-line interfaces can be exercised remotely... Agent: Scott Thompson

20080168355 - Web-enabled presentation device and methods of use thereof: A presentation device includes an embedded web server for transmitting images representative of presentation information to network-connected terminals concurrently with the display of such presentation information at the presentation site. The images may be viewed at the terminals by pointing a conventional web browser to a DNS name or IP... Agent: Wong, Cabello, Lutsch, Rutherford & Brucculeri, L.L.P.

20080168356 - Presentation system for abnormal situation prevention in a process plant: A system for visually presenting data receives signal processing data generated signal processing data collection blocks corresponding to devices associated with a process plant. The signal processing data collection blocks may generate data such as statistical data, frequency analysis data, auto regression data, wavelets data, etc. The system displays an... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP (fisher)

20080168357 - Selection accelerator in topology views: A selection accelerator in topology views is presented. A user uses a topology view to manage a computer network whereby the topology view includes a plurality of nodes and their relationships that correspond to computer network components. When a user selects a primary node, processing identifies related nodes, and displays... Agent: Ibm Corporation - Rsw (jvl) C/o Van Leeuwen & Van Leeuwen

20080168358 - Single-page web signup facility: Embodiments of the invention provide a single-page signup facility that provides the user with a clear visual indication of the information to be provided, and steps to be completed, during a signup process. The single-page signup facility presents a plurality of modules, each designed to collect a portion of the... Agent: Wolf Greenfield (microsoft Corporation) C/o Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20080168359 - Streaming to media device during acquisition with random access: Playing a media file can include receiving input from a user identifying a playback location associated with a media file; downloading media content corresponding to the identified playback location from the media file; displaying a status bar to the user on a display device; and presenting a download indicator associated... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080168360 - Recipient classification management utility for e-mail replies: Methods and Systems are provided for managing the reply recipients field of a reply e-mail. In response to creating a reply e-mail the recipients are displayed in a format convenient for specifying their recipient classification. Typical recipient classifications include reply recipients (Reply To), carbon copy recipients (CC), blind carbon copy... Agent: The Brevetto Law Group, PLLC

20080168361 - Portable multifunction device, method, and graphical user interface for conference calling: In some embodiments, a portable multifunction device with a touch screen display performs a method that includes: displaying a phone call user interface on the touch screen display, wherein the phone call user interface includes: a first informational item associated with an active phone call between a user of the... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP/ Apple Inc.

20080168364 - Adaptive acceleration of mouse cursor: Disclosed herein are methods and systems for providing a user interface (UI) having a selector controllable by a physical input device. The response of the selector is adaptively adjusted to facilitate executing desired operations within the UI. A response factor defines how far the selector moves for a given movement... Agent: Wong, Cabello, Lutsch, Rutherford & Brucculeri LLP

20080168365 - Creating digital artwork based on content file metadata: A computer-implemented method is disclosed. The method applies to a set of content files including a subset of the content files that do not have associated digital artwork. For each content file in the set of content files, whether the content file has associated digital artwork is determined. For each... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP/ Apple Inc.

20080168363 - Extensible mechanism for context selection in a multi-dimensional domain: The present invention relates to a method for configuring the appearance and presentation of a widget that is represented in a multi-dimensional graphical user interface, the method comprising the steps of determining available resource items that are to be displayed within a context chooser window GUI, and organizing and displaying... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - IBM Tuscon Division

20080168362 - Task manager: A computer system is configured as a task manager that provides interfaces both for designing an abstract activity and for defining a concrete instantiation of such an activity by replacing the abstract activity's abstract information with concrete information. In executing concrete instantiations of the abstract activities thus defined the task... Agent: Foley Hoag, LLP Patent Group, World Trade Center West

20080168371 - Apparatus and method for choosing an ad provider: An apparatus and method for facilitating the selection of an ad provider for a computing device is described.... Agent: Daryl D. Coutts

20080168367 - Dashboards, widgets and devices: Dashboards and widgets are tailored for use with a variety of devices having different capabilities. In some implementations, a portable device includes a display and a processor operatively coupled to the display. The processor is operable for generating a dashboard environment including at least one widget, and for presenting the... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080168368 - Dashboards, widgets and devices: Dashboards and widgets are tailored for use with a variety of devices having different capabilities. In some implementations, a device includes a touch-sensitive display and a processor operatively coupled to the display. The processor is operable for presenting a widget on the display in response to touch input. The widget... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080168370 - Method and system for providing alerts to clients engaging in security or commodity trading: A system and a method for monitoring and evaluating trading opportunities in financial or commodity products is disclosed. Clients are provided, based on their current and/or historic trading pattern, with targeted, up-to-date information about financial products and services. This information provided to the client is client-specific and confidential, subject to... Agent: Norris, Mclaughlin & Marcus

20080168366 - Method, system, and graphical user interface for providing word recommendations: One aspect of the invention involves a method that includes: in a first area of the touch screen, displaying a current character string being input by a user with the keyboard; in a second area of the touch screen, displaying the current character string or a portion thereof and a... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP/ Apple Inc.

20080168369 - Methods and systems of online mapping and planning driving tours: This invention is directed to methods and systems of online mapping and planning driving tours. The invention may include a user interface capable of displaying a map with one or more destinations and/or displaying a travel route to visit each destination. The travel route may vary based on customizable options.... Agent: Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

20080168372 - Displaying objects using group and object priority levels: A display device which displays a plurality of objects on a screen has a group configuration storage section for storing association information indicating the association between each of the plurality of objects and one of a plurality of groups, a group priority level storage section for storing group display priority... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20080168373 - Drag and drop forward e-mail reply utility: Methods and Systems are provided for efficiently forwarding e-mail. The e-mail is forwarded in response to being dragging and dropping it into another e-mail. A user selects the e-mail to be forwarded, drags and drops it into another e-mail with the desired distribution list, resulting in a third e-mail being... Agent: The Brevetto Law Group, PLLC

20080168374 - Method to manage external indicators for different sas port types: By use of a GUI (Graphical User Interface) or CLI (Command Line Interface) a user can issue a command to configure an external SAS Port as table routing mode or subtractive mode. The SAS switch receives and decodes the command. Subsequently, the SM asserts the appropriate indicator behavior for the... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - IBM Tuscon Division

20080168377 - Content level navigation systems and methods: An exemplary system includes a media content processing subsystem configured to provide a first interactive graphical user interface to a display for presentation to a user in response to a transmission of an input command, provide an end interactive graphical user interface to the display for presentation to the user... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20080168375 - Systems and methods for simultaneous summarization of data cube streams: In an exemplary embodiment, some of the main aspects of the present invention are the following: (i) Data model: We introduce tensor streams to deal with large collections of multi-aspect streams; and (ii) Algorithmic framework: We propose window-based tensor analysis (WTA) to effectively extract core patterns from tensor streams. The... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Yorktown

20080168378 - Tobacco product stamping machine interface: Disclosed herein are embodiments of a user interface associated with a tobacco product stamping machine. In one embodiment, the user interface includes a visual representation of a batch of tobacco product containers. The visual representation includes an indication of a plurality of tobacco product types included in the batch. The... Agent: Westman Champlin & Kelly, P.A.

20080168376 - Visual designer for non-linear domain logic: User interface that enables a user to manipulate visual representations of non-linear business logic to define and run data-centric “what-if” simulations. The visual interface models non-linear calculations based on the mapping of an input value in a non-linear domain to a score range, which score range can be continuous or... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080168379 - Portable electronic device supporting application switching: A portable electronic device displays, on a touch screen display, a user interface for a phone application during a phone call. In response to detecting activation of a menu icon or menu button, the UI for the phone application is replaced with a menu of application icons, while maintaining the... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP/ Apple Inc.

20080168380 - System and method for generating a user interface having a customized function indicia: The subject application is directed to a system and method for customizing a user interface for a document processing device. Data representing the document processing operations capable of being performed by the document processing device is first stored and used to generate indicia representing first level document processing operations on... Agent: Tucker Ellis & West LLP

20080168381 - Non-modal search box with text-entry ribbon for a portable media player: A non-modal search box with a text-entry ribbon for a portable media player. The non-modal search box enables a user to quickly and efficiently locate media on the portable media player, without having to enter a specific search mode. The non-modal search box may be present on one or more... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20080168382 - Dashboards, widgets and devices: Dashboards and widgets are tailored for use with a variety of devices having different capabilities. In some implementations, a device includes a touch-sensitive display and a processor operatively coupled to the display. The processor is operable for generating a dashboard environment including at least one widget, and for presenting the... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080168383 - Flexible rendering of user interface elements: A content processing device is in selective communication with a remote server. A graphical user interface is provided. A rendering application is included within the content processing device. The rendering application is configured to: retrieve a set of presentation elements from the remote server, the set of presentation elements including... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20080168384 - Application programming interfaces for scrolling operations: At least certain embodiments of the present disclosure include an environment with user interface software interacting with a software application. A method for operating through an application programming interface (API) in this environment includes transferring a set bounce call. The method further includes setting at least one of maximum and... Agent: Apple Computer, Inc./blakely

20080168385 - System and method for navigating displayed content: Methods and systems are provided for displaying scrollable information with an improved indicator of relative position. Certain embodiments may be use a focus element that indicates, by its relative position within the display, the relative position of the scrollable information displayed.... Agent: Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Preston Gates Ellis LLP (formerly Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Nicholson Graham)

20080168386 - Scrollable computing device display: The display of a scrollable list of items is described. In one disclosed embodiment, a list of items may be displayed on a scrollable computing device display in such a manner that, upon receiving an input requesting movement of a select indicator to a different list item, the select indicator... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080168387 - User interface for a multimedia service: Methods, systems, and machine readable media are disclosed for providing a user interface for a service distributing multimedia content. According to one embodiment, providing a user interface accessing a media service can comprise generating a representation of a stage for presenting graphical elements related to multimedia content provided by the... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080168388 - Selecting and manipulating web content: Systems, apparatus, methods and computer program products are described for automatically resizing or repositioning an area of interest, identifying a portion of a document for display, so that the area of interest aligns with one or more edges of a structural element in the document. A method is provided that... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080168389 - Poetry screen saver: A computer poetry screen saver including loading an author analysis model, randomly selecting a seed word from the author analysis model, completing a poem following the seed word and displaying the poem on an output device.... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20080168393 - Method for operation of an automation device: In the English translation document, please replace the abstract with the following: A method for operation of an automation device for obtaining information about a control program provided as an automation solution for control and/or monitoring of a technical process is specified in which, especially from a database in conjunction... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080168390 - Multimedia object grouping, selection, and playback system: A multimedia organization and playback system intelligently organizes media objects, such as music files, and plays back their contents. The system considers and analyzes multiple media object attributes to determine groups of similar songs. As a result, the system delivers a consistent selection of media to the listener despite wide... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080168392 - Visualization of firewall rules in an auto provisioning environment: Various aspects of the invention provide a method, apparatus, and software for selecting interconnectivity rules for a computer network environment and visualization on a display of a data processing system interconnectivity rules in an auto provisioning environment, including: selecting a network environment specification having characteristics describing the environment, the characteristics... Agent: Heslin Rothenberg Farley & Mesiti P.C.

20080168391 - Widget synchronization in accordance with synchronization preferences: Improved techniques and apparatus for managing data between a host device (e.g., host computer) and a client device. The data being managed can, for example, pertain to portable computer programs, such as widgets. The managing of the data thus can involve transfer of portable computer programs (e.g., widgets) between the... Agent: Technology & Innovation Law Group, PC

20080168394 - Information processing device, and control method: [Solution] A digital camera 10 as an information processing device comprises a storage unit 20 which stores a taken still image and which includes a history information storage section 20A to store history information associated with the still image, a CPU 38 which includes a history information processing unit 30A... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20080168395 - Positioning a slider icon on a portable multifunction device: In accordance with some embodiments, a computer-implemented method is performed at a portable multifunction device with a touch screen display. The method includes: detecting a finger contact with a predefined area on the touch screen display, wherein the predefined area includes an icon that is configured to slide in a... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP/ Apple Inc.

20080168396 - Portable multifunction device, method, and graphical user interface for providing maps and directions: A portable multifunction device, method, and graphical user interface for providing maps and directions is disclosed.... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP/ Apple Inc.

20080168397 - Menu trails for a portable media player: A software and/or hardware facility for generating menu trails for a portable media player. A menu trail is a visual cue to a user, repeated on each menu item in the media player navigation interface, that highlights a path for the user to follow to a content item stored on... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20080168398 - Navigation device and method for displaying a rich content document: A method and a navigation device are disclosed for displaying a rich content document. The navigation device includes an input device to receive an input for selecting a rich content document and a display device to display the rich content document. The rich content document is at least one of... Agent: Tomtom International B.v.

20080168399 - User interface facilitating control in a virtual three-dimensional environment: A computer interface makes it easier to control a 3D virtual device on a display screen with a 2D pointing device such as a mouse. A virtual device having an associated movement and underlying function is rendered on a display screen. A cursor is moved to the device, and if... Agent: Gifford, Krass, Sprinkle,anderson & Citkowski, P.c

20080168400 - Apparatus and method for providing feedback of item transition probability in tilt-based list search: Disclosed is an apparatus and method of providing feedback of a location of a cursor in a tilt-based list search. An apparatus for providing feedback of a location of a cursor in a tilt-based list search according to an aspect of the present invention includes a cursor location control module... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080168402 - Application programming interfaces for gesture operations: At least certain embodiments of the present disclosure include an environment with user interface software interacting wit a software application to provide gesture operations for a display of a device. A method for operating through an application programming interface (API) in this environment includes transferring a scaling transform call The... Agent: Apple Computer, Inc./blakely

20080168403 - Detecting and interpreting real-world and security gestures on touch and hover sensitive devices: “Real-world” gestures such as hand or finger movements/orientations that are generally recognized to mean certain things (e.g., an “OK” hand signal generally indicates an affirmative response) can be interpreted by a touch or hover sensitive device to more efficiently and accurately effect intended operations. These gestures can include, but are... Agent: Apple C/o Morrison And Foerster ,llp Los Angeles

20080168404 - List scrolling and document translation, scaling, and rotation on a touch-screen display: In accordance with some embodiments, a computer-implemented method for use in conjunction with a device with a touch screen display is disclosed. In the method, a movement of an object on or near the touch screen display is detected. In response to detecting the movement, an electronic document displayed on... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP/ Apple Inc.

20080168401 - Method, system, and graphical user interface for viewing multiple application windows: Methods, systems, and graphical user interfaces for viewing multiple application windows are disclosed. In one embodiment, a portable electronic device with a touch screen display: displays an application, which includes a displayed window and at least one hidden window; displays an icon for adding windows to the application; detects activation... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP/ Apple Inc.

20080168405 - Portable multifunction device, method, and graphical user interface for translating displayed content: A computer-implemented method, for use in conjunction with a portable multifunction device with a touch screen display, comprises displaying a portion of page content, including a frame displaying a portion of frame content and also including other content of the page, on the touch screen display. An N-finger translation gesture... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP/ Apple Inc.

20080163038 - Method and apparatus for identifying features of multidimensional image data in hypermedia systems: In one embodiment, a method of serving information to a distributed hypermedia browser comprises receiving a request from the browser at an Internet server to locate information, transmitting a message from the Internet server to a database server in response to receiving the request to locate information, searching a database... Agent: Law Office Of Charles E. Krueger

20080163039 - Invariant referencing in digital works: A method of presenting a digital work includes displaying a portion of the digital work on a display screen under a set of display conditions, and providing one or more invariant location reference identifiers corresponding to the portion of the digital work on the display screen. The invariant location reference... Agent: Lee & Hayes, Pllc

20080163040 - Ubiquitous visited links: Where a user logs on to a web page server, the server can maintain a history of links to web pages hosted by the server to indicate which links are visited by the user. In consequence, a user may log on to the web page server from any web page-enabled... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20080163041 - Activity recording module: The invention refers to a system of recording the activities carried out by an individual person during specific time intervals. This system will normally be on an electronic device, but the initial method of recording may be paper-based. This system involves recording activity and associated attributes as a function of... Agent: Roberts, Mardula & Wertheim, Llc

20080163042 - Activity recording module: The invention refers to a system of recording the activities carried out by an individual person during specific time intervals. This system will normally be on an electronic device, but the initial method of recording may be paper-based. This system involves recording activity and associated attributes as a function of... Agent: Roberts, Mardula & Wertheim, Llc

20080163044 - Information processing apparatus, its control method, and program: In the case of editing document data having a plurality of fields, by allowing the user to identify the field whose degree of relation to the selected field is large, operability of the editing operation of the document data is improved. A selection field detecting unit detects one of the... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080163043 - Method and apparatus for data analysis in a word processor application: A computer-implemented method for generating data-analysis results in a word processing program is disclosed. The method may entail the following: providing a data-analysis template, wherein the data-analysis template comprises a word processor document comprising a data-analysis parts container; including at least one data-analysis part in the data-analysis parts container; communicating... Agent: Paul Van Eikeren Blue Reference, Inc.

20080163045 - Processes and systems for processing, displaying and/or otherwise presenting non-program data: A process of processing, displaying and/or otherwise presenting non-program data may include: receiving and processing, displaying and/or otherwise presenting program data at a client device; analyzing the program data processed, displayed and/or otherwise presented at the client device; and processing, displaying and/or otherwise presenting non-program data at the client device... Agent: Echostar Technologies, L.l.c.

20080163046 - Method, system and program product for managing controls within an mdi environment: Aspects of the present invention provide a solution for managing a multiple document interface (MDI) environment. Specifically, an embodiment of the present invention allows a user, administrator, etc., to create a customized user interface for the user. This interface may include a specification of a location of a particular control,... Agent: Hoffman Warnick Llc

20080163048 - System and method for displaying multimedia events scheduling information and corresponding search results: A system for displaying information may include memory, one or more processors, and one or more modules stored in memory. The one or more modules are configured for execution by the one or more processors and may include instructions for: presenting a subset of a collection of data on a... Agent: Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, LLP.

20080163047 - System and method for downloading multimedia events scheduling information for display: A system for displaying information may include memory, one or more processors, and one or more modules stored in memory. The one or more modules are configured for execution by the one or more processors and may include instructions for: presenting a subset of a collection of data on a... Agent: Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, LLP.

20080163049 - Entertainment system with unified content selection: A content selection interface for an entertainment system having apparatus for receiving signals broadcast on at least a first band and signals from at least one non-broadcast content source. The interface has a single content selector actuable by a user and a mechanism responsive to the content selector for selecting... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.c.

20080163050 - Information processing apparatus and method, program, and recording medium: An information processing apparatus includes a determination unit configured to determine whether incorrect updating processing in which information stored in a memory of the information processing apparatus is incorrectly updated has been executed in a first application program for receiving an instruction issued by a user and for controlling execution... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20080163051 - Localized haptic feedback: A surface for generating an isolated haptic feedback includes an isolated region having a perimeter and a gap surrounding the perimeter, with the gap separating the isolated region from the rest of the surface. The surface further includes a deformable sealing material that is filled within the gap.... Agent: Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, Pllc

20080163052 - Method and system for multi-modal fusion of physical and virtual information channels: A method and system for multi-modal fusion of physical and virtual information channels is provided. The method and system include a virtual information channel and physical information channel. The method and system also provide for tracking virtual events and physical events corresponding to the virtual event and altering delivery of... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Yorktown

20080163053 - Method to provide menu, using menu set and multimedia device using the same: A method to provide a menu using a movable menu set, and a multimedia device using the method. The method to provide a menu includes moving a menu set including at least according to a user manipulation on a touch screen, and displaying the menu set. Therefore, a user can... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20080163055 - System and method for product marketing using feature codes: An Entertainment System including a website, in combination with a commercially purchased product, wherein the system allows a product user to register a primary product online using a registration code, allowing the user access to various activities and scenarios in a “virtual world” including a virtual representation of the product,... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20080163054 - Tools for product development comprising collections of avatars and virtual reality business models for avatar use: Virtual reality tools for product development including collections of avatars and virtual reality business models for avatar use. A method of designing a product to be worn by an individual includes selecting a population of avatars, where each avatar provides a representation of at least a portion a human body,... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, L.l.p. Attn: Gero G. Mcclellan / Kimberly-clark

20080163056 - Method and apparatus for providing a graphical representation of content: A technique is provided for identifying user accessible content items, organizing the content items by characteristics of the content items and providing a graphical representation of the content items to the user based on the characteristics. A path may be traced within the graph and a playlist of the content... Agent: Thorne & Halajian Applied Technology Center

20080163058 - Computer-readable recording medium storing display control program, and display control device: An electronic equipment has a display that can display a plurality of screens and a display controller that can switch displays of the screens. The display and the controller enable an operator to change a set value of at least one item. A setting change receiver can receive from the... Agent: Casella & Hespos

20080163057 - Method for displaying objects to be positioned on a display of a positioning device, a positioning device and an application: More than one object to be positioned can be set simultaneously in mobile satellite positioning devices, and these objects can be either fixed coordinate points or moving objects. The objects are shown as graphical symbols on the display of the positioning device. Positioning devices can be set in a map... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.c.

20080163059 - Systems and methods for creating custom video mosaic pages with local content: Systems and methods for providing custom video mosaic pages are provided. The custom pages may be locally-generated, remotely-generated, or partially locally-generated and partially remotely-generated. The custom pages may include local content, such as content recorded to a digital video recorder (DVR), overlaid on a multi-video composite feed. A local compositing... Agent: Ropes & Gray LLP

20080163060 - Motion desktop: A motion desktop, including a moving image, may be presented on a display screen of a processing device. Foreground items such as, for example, icons and associated text, or other information, may appear on a surface of the motion desktop. In embodiments consistent with the subject matter of this disclosure,... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080163061 - Split edits: A method and apparatus is described that is related to split editing. An indicia of a first time based stream of information is displayed at a source media. An indicia of a second time based stream of information is displayed at the source media. This is followed by an editing... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20080163062 - User interface method and apparatus: A user interface method and apparatus includes determining whether a command for user interface (UI) event occurrence is input, reading a pre-stored auditory user interface (AUI) element if the command for UI event occurrence is input is determined, generating an AUI based on the AUI element, and outputting the generated... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20080163063 - Graphical user interface system and method for presenting information related to session and cache objects: A system and method for visualizing information related to session and cache objects within an object network. For example, a computer-implemented method according to one embodiment comprises: analyzing relationships between session and/or cache objects within a network of sessions and caches to determine an object network structure for the session... Agent: Sap/blakely

20080163064 - Load balancing service: A load balancing service for a plurality of customers performs load balancing among a plurality of customer Web servers. Requests for Web content are load balanced across the customer Web servers. The load balancing service provider charges a fee to the customers for the load balancing service. A caching service... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20080163066 - Configurable metric groups: A dashboard application can enable a user to quickly view data (and, in a particular aspect, data from one or more business applications) in an efficient manner. The dashboard application can be used to view data about one or metrics that reflect the performance of a business, as derived from... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP

20080163068 - Method and system for visualizing weblog social network communities: A system for providing a visual representation of electronic, on-line journals, such as those generally referred to as “Weblogs” or “Blogs”, that uses a treemap display object in a graphical user interface to represent social networking characteristics discovered in, and aggregated from a set of on-line journals. The generated display... Agent: Lotus And Rational Software David A. Dagg, Esq.

20080163067 - System for visualizing weblog social network communities: A system for providing a visual representation of electronic, on-line journals, such as those generally referred to as “Weblogs” or “Blogs”, that uses a treemap display object in a graphical user interface to represent social networking characteristics discovered in, and aggregated from a set of on-line journals. The generated display... Agent: Lotus And Rational Software David A. Dagg, Esq.

20080163065 - Using a light source to indicate navigation spots on a web page: A method and system for identifying navigation points on a web page using light sources. A user browses to a web page and at least one area on the web page is selected. The selected area is defined as a navigation point, and the navigation point is highlighted by being... Agent: Perman & Green

20080163069 - Electronic product design using layered images: A system and method for online product design. An electronic product template having a number of pre-defined text fields and template editing tools for allowing the user to incorporate user text into the text fields are downloaded to a user computer. The current state of the product design is retained... Agent: Vista Print Usa, Inc. Attn: Patent Counsel

20080163070 - Method and system for automating a user interface: Certain embodiments relate to providing automated, custom displays of images and tools for manipulating the images. Certain embodiments include a method for providing an automated user interface for healthcare workers. Certain embodiments of the method employ a network to execute the steps of retrieving an image from an image archive,... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080163071 - Systems and methods for selecting advertisements for display over a communications network: Systems and methods are provided for selecting advertisements for display over a communications network and, more particularly, to systems and methods for selecting video advertisements for display within internet web pages based on relevance, bid price, past performance, or a combination thereof.... Agent: Troutman Sanders LLP

20080163072 - Managing requirements planning in a collaborative computing environment: Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, system and computer program product for managing requirements planning in a collaborative computing environment. In one embodiment of the invention, a requirements planning management method can include identifying each approving stakeholder for a version of a requirement in a requirements plan, creating... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20080163073 - System and method for providing multiple participants with a central access portal to geographic point of interest data: A system and method of providing multiple participants with a centrally accessible content portal for geographic point of interest (POI) data, for subsequent use in creating map-based or spatial applications. Different entities can dynamically upload, update, retrieve, and use digital map and POI data. Additional features include the ability to... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20080163074 - Image-based instant messaging system for providing expressions of emotions: Emotions can be expressed in the user interface for an instant messaging system based on the content of a received text message. The received text message is analyzed using a text-to-speech engine to generate phoneme data and wave data based on the text content. Emotion tags embedded in the message... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20080163075 - Server-client interaction and information management system: An information-sharing system includes a server in a wide-area network coupled to a data repository, software executing on the server, providing services for a first person, wherein the first person is enabled to create one or more personae stored in the data repository, at least one interactive window associated with... Agent: Central Coast Patent Agency, Inc

20080163076 - Replacing web browser images with view finder or gallery pictures: A method including downloading a document for presentation on a device and replacing at least one image in at least one image box of the document with at least one different image from the device.... Agent: Perman & Green

20080163077 - System and method for visually generating an xquery document: A computer-based method for visually generating an XQuery document include: opening a Web page, the Web page is an HTML document and consists of different basic components; converting the Web page into an HTML DOM; expressing the contents of the Web page with visually editable basic components; selecting needed basic... Agent: Pce Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20080163081 - Graphical user interface using a document object model: Methods and apparatus are provided for producing dynamic display characteristics on a container widget. One method comprises creating a container widget (210) including at least one child widget (230, 240) utilizing a document object model (DOM) (220). A first display characteristic and a second display characteristic are associated with the... Agent: Ingrassia Fisher & Lorenz, P.c. (mot)

20080163078 - Method and apparatus for composite user interface creation: A method and apparatus for modelling and generating a composite user interface comprising a plurality of user interface elements provided by at least one source application. Modelling the composite user interface comprises modelling at least part of a user interface provided by the or each source application, and modelling relationships... Agent: Foley & Lardner

20080163079 - Method and system for switching views of data displayed in tabular format in computer applications: A method and a system are provided for switching the view of data displayed in tabular format in computer displays. According to some embodiments, a view switch tool is incorporated into a graphical design that minimizes view changing time and permits the user to maintain concentration on the data.... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20080163080 - Multi-platform graphical user interface: The invention provides systems and methods for developing multi-platform graphical user interface (GUI) for a target software application. In invention includes assessing one or more functional requirements of the target software application and defining a functional specification for the multi-platform GUI using the assessed functional requirements. The functional specification is... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20080163084 - System and method for controlling actions within a programming environment: This patent discloses tools, methods and systems for dynamically visualizing, controlling and modifying the timing of actions that are implemented as part of an interactive multimedia experience. The tools, methods and systems include a timing region that dynamically reflects the timing of at least some of the cells along a... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080163083 - Tailored object: A system for managing user interface events in user interface of a client system. The system includes a service layer including a business object. The system also includes an intermediate object layer comprising an intermediate object associated with the business object, wherein the intermediate object handles user interface messages raised... Agent: Sap / Finnegan, Henderson LLP

20080163082 - Transparent layer application: An apparatus comprising a processor and a display connected to the processor, the display being configured to present a first and second application on the display so that the second application is transparently presented over the first application wherein the first and second applications are active applications.... Agent: Perman & Green

20080163085 - Multi-criteria decision support tool interface, methods and apparatus: A visual interactive multi-criteria decision-making method and computer-based apparatus for portfolio management. The method/apparatus supports partitioning of a portfolio of physical or other assets into two mutually exclusive categories, such as assets recommended for sale and assets recommended for retention. The method/apparatus utilizes one or more coupled 2-D projections of... Agent: Buckley, Maschoff & Talwalkar Llc

20080163089 - Interactive virtual thematic environment: The present invention is directed to a method of integrating information, including real-time information, into a virtual thematic environment using a computer system, including accessing the stored information from a database or downloading the real-time information from a source external to the thematic environment; inserting the real-time information into the... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20080163086 - Method and apparatus for transitions in a user interface: 1. A method and an electronic device of operating an electronic device (1) comprising an input device (2) and an output device (3), the method comprising: generating one or several parameters based on information from the input device in connection with a transition from a first state to a second... Agent: Harrity Snyder, L.l.p.

20080163087 - Method, apparatus and computer program product for providing multi-feature based sampling for relevance feedback: An apparatus for providing multi-feature based sampling for relevance feedback may include a user interface element. The user interface element may be configured to receive a query image, provide a first set of images determined to be relevant with respect to the query image, and provide a second set of... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20080163088 - System and method for managing browser extensions: The invention describes a method and system for managing browser extensions. The method includes dynamically creating a user interface for a business object based on metadata, the user interface including a menu. A service from the menu is launched, the service corresponding to the business object. Information is retrieved from... Agent: Sap Ag

20080163091 - Filtering data: Systems and techniques for filtering data. In one aspect, an article includes one or more machine-readable media storing instructions operable to cause one or more machines to perform operations. The operations include rendering at least a portion of a first collection of data in a first visual rendition that includes... Agent: Fish & Richardson, P.c.

20080163090 - Interface overlay: A method and apparatus for providing a user interface overlay. In one embodiment, a toolbar remains visible and can be selected at any time to activate the interface overlay. The interface overlay provides an easily visible list computing options, such as contacts, that overlays the entire display area. The background... Agent: Yahoo! Inc. C/o Darby & Darby P.c.

20080163093 - Onboard device for managing data exchanged by an aircraft with the ground or other aircraft: The invention concerns the device, on board an aircraft, of data received or exchanged without any audio communication with the ground or with other aircraft by means of a data management device provided with display means showing, in a dedicated area of an interactive multi-purpose screen, shared with the flight... Agent: Lowe Hauptman & Berner, LLP

20080163092 - One stop install, un-install, and update of software products: A system and method is provided for effecting an installation, uninstallation, and/or an update of one or more software products and/or components with a single action. A distribution server may have an installation toot to read the installation server databases on both the distribution server and a workstation to determine... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20080163094 - 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..

20080163095 - 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..

20080163096 - 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..

20080163097 - User interface with toolbar for programming electrical stimulation therapy: The disclosure is directed to a user interface with a menu that facilitates stimulation therapy programming. The user interface displays a representation of the electrical leads implanted in the patient and at least one menu with icons that the user can use to adjust the stimulation therapy. The user may... Agent: Shumaker & Sieffert , P.a

20080163099 - Drill down functionality in a dashboard application: A dashboard application can enable a user to quickly view data (and, in a particular aspect, data from one or more business applications) in an efficient manner. The dashboard application can be used to view data about one or metrics that reflect the performance of a business, as derived from... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP

20080163100 - Dynamically specifying a view: Systems and methods to provide a UI includes providing a program with a dynamic content to specify a view; and rendering the view based on the dynamic content.... Agent: Brooks, Cameron & Huebsch , Pllc

20080163098 - Method for presenting data on a small screen: A method and apparatus for controlling display of data on a screen of a portable electronic device. The method includes launching an application that includes at least one field for receiving data and at least one field label for identifying the at least one field, entering data into the at... Agent: Perry + Currier Inc. (for Rim)

20080163101 - Managing display windows on small screens: A technique and apparatus are provided for managing display windows that are too large for viewing on a screen. A screen manager via a re-positioning apparatus, such as a scroll bar, hardware keys, a separate user-interface widget, or the like, re-positions a display window on the screen. The re-positioning apparatus... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080163102 - Object selection in web page authoring: Tag selection in web page authoring is facilitated without losing the advantages of WYSIWYG editing. A reference point for object selection is set in response to a user action performed on an editing screen. A reference area enclosing the reference point is set and a view object closest to center... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20080163103 - Apparatus and method for identifying edges of documents: An apparatus including a display having a viewable area and a processor connected to the display, the processor being configured to present a border along edges of a document so that the border indicates a proximity of a corresponding edge of the document to the viewing area.... Agent: Perman & Green

20080163104 - Multiple window handler on display screen: A software method and/or system is provided which may enable a user to handle multiple application windows The user may use this tool to configure and save multiple window views. A user selection interface permits the user to choose a window view among saved view arrangements and, in response the... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20080163105 - Weather information display apparatus and program: A weather information display apparatus comprising a map information retrieving device, a weather information retrieving device, a display device, a command receiving device, and a display controlling device. Each of weather information sets has a predetermined display priority. When a first region of a map associated with first weather information... Agent: Posz Law Group, Plc

20080163106 - Storage medium having interactive graphic stream and apparatus for reproducing the same: A storage medium including an interactive graphic stream providing menus using various transition effects regardless of reproducing modes of multimedia data and an apparatus for reproducing the same. The storage medium in which multimedia information is recorded includes: video data; and graphic data to provide a menu screen overlaid on... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080163107 - Method and system for organizing multiple user interfaces on a display screen: A method and system are provided for organizing multiple user interfaces. At least two files are opened for at least one application. Information from the first user interface file is recorded into a temporary buffer. Information from the second user interface file is recorded into a temporary buffer. A differential... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20080163112 - Designation of menu actions for applications on a handheld electronic device: A system and method is disclosed that provides for running an application on a handheld electronic device and thereby causing an application page to be displayed on a display screen of the handheld electronic device. The system and method further provides for displaying a menu listing of user-selectable actions relevant... Agent: Novak Druce + Quigg LLP (rim)

20080163114 - Image processing apparatus, image display control apparatus and control method thereof: An image processing apparatus, includes: a menu generating part which generates and outputs a plurality of menu items which include at least one activated menu item; a user inputting part which receives instruction of a user to select one of the plurality of menu items; and a control part which... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080163108 - Method and apparatus for dynamically changing the position of a user interface element in a user interface: Changing the position of a user interface element in a user interface (UI) of a software application during runtime, persisting the position data representing the change in position of the UI element in a database and rendering the UI using the position data from the database.... Agent: Sap Ag

20080163113 - Method for user customized single screen order taking: A method is described for user customized single screen order taking. The method saves users time to submit subsequent orders by storing their selection of items and having the system use that stored information to avoid selecting the desired items for each subsequent order. In practice, upon initial logon, a... Agent: Walter Ewald

20080163110 - Selective viewing of information: A system and method is disclosed that provides for the displaying, on display screen of an electronic device, a list of contact names, and further provides for the designating, by sequentially scrolling through the list of contact names, individual contact names in the list of contact names and wherein designation... Agent: Novak Druce + Quigg LLP (rim)

20080163115 - Storage medium having interactive graphic stream and apparatus for reproducing the same: A storage medium including an interactive graphic stream providing menus using various transition effects regardless of reproducing modes of multimedia data and an apparatus for reproducing the same. The storage medium in which multimedia information is recorded includes: video data; and graphic data to provide a menu screen overlaid on... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080163111 - Streamlined entry of appointment record: A system and method is disclosed that provides for displaying, on a display screen of a handheld electronic device, a listing of user-selectable events comprising dates produced by a calendar program and further provides for selecting one of the user-selectable events using an auxiliary user input device and thereby causing... Agent: Novak Druce + Quigg LLP (rim)

20080163109 - User configurable action button: An embodiment of the invention is directed to a method comprising associating at least one action with at least one of a plurality of action buttons; customizing associations of the associated actions; and including the customized associated actions, corresponding to one of the plurality of action buttons, in an expandable... Agent: Sap Ag

20080163116 - System and method for pannning and zooming an image on a display of a handheld electronic device: Method and arrangement for panning and zooming a displayed image on a display screen of a handheld electronic device 300 using the same auxiliary user input device 328 is described. The displayed image can be toggled between panning and zooming modes that respectively pan and zoom the displayed image by... Agent: Novak Druce + Quigg LLP (rim)

20080163117 - User interface for appointment scheduling system showing appointment solutions within a day: Two parallel time lines are displayed. On a first time line all possible solutions for scheduling an appointment within a preset period of time, such as a day or a part of the day, are displayed. Such a possible solution can be selected. Triggered by such a user selection of... Agent: Houston Eliseeva

20080163118 - Representation of file relationships: A first visual icon representing a first grouping of files from a plurality of files associated with file properties may be displayed. Relationships between the first grouping and one or more secondary groupings from the plurality of files may be determined, based at least in part on the file properties.... Agent: Brake Hughes Bellermann LLP

20080163119 - Method for providing menu and multimedia device using the same: A method for providing a menu and a multimedia device using the method are provided. The method for providing a menu includes converting a menu set including at least one icon displayed on a touch screen into a manipulation set including at least one manipulation icon used to input a... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080163120 - System and method for notifying actions: What is described is a method and system for notifying actions. The method includes a method comprising performing an action, storing an action detail in a memory, retrieving the action detail from the memory in an expandable action menu, and displaying the action detail in the expandable action menu.... Agent: Sap Ag

20080163121 - Method and arrangement for designating a menu item on a handheld electronic device: A system and method is disclosed that provides for running an application on a handheld electronic device and thereby causing an application page to be displayed on a display screen of the handheld electronic device. The system and method further provides for displaying a menu of user-selectable actions relevant to... Agent: Novak Druce + Quigg LLP (rim)

20080163122 - File content preview tool: A system may include a selection tool configured to determine a selection of a file icon that is displayed on a user interface and that represents a file associated with an application. The selection tool may be further configured to determine a result-class associated with the selection. A parser may... Agent: Brake Hughes Bellermann LLP

20080163124 - Graphical user interface system and method for presenting objects: A system and method for visualizing objects within an object network. For example, a computer-implemented method according to one embodiment comprises: receiving object graph data from a remote computing system, the object graph data representing characteristics of objects and relationships between objects in object-oriented program code executed on the remote... Agent: Sap/blakely

20080163125 - Multi-dimensioned data hierarchies: A dashboard application can enable a user to quickly view data (and, in a particular aspect, data from one or more business applications) in an efficient manner. The dashboard application can be used to view data about one or metrics that reflect the performance of a business, as derived from... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP

20080163123 - System and method for improving the navigation of complex visualizations for the visually impaired: The present invention relates to a system and method for improving the navigation of complex visualizations on a computer display for the visually impaired persons to toggle between objects or nodes. An object or node may be a square, a circle or other object which a display screen may show.... Agent: Hoffman Warnick Llc

20080163127 - Enhanced user navigation in a media environment: Described herein is technology for, among other things, performing navigation in a media environment. The technology involves the presenting a user with only a portion of the previously visited pages or areas as he or she moves to previously visited pages or areas. As the user moves around the media... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080163126 - Product installation user interface tree presentation: A system and method for displaying data involves loading at least one database for each product of a plurality of products each product having a globally unique identifier and a respective product tree which includes a listing of contents. The listing of contents may be displayed and manipulated by a... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20080163128 - Click-fraud prevention: A method, system and computer-readable medium for defeating clickbots are presented. In a preferred embodiment, the method includes, but is not limited to, the steps of: detecting a click on a Pay Per Click (PPC) link on a first webpage; in response to detecting the click on the PPC link,... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20080163129 - On-screen cursor navigation delimiting on a handheld communication device: A handheld communication device and method for affecting movement of a highlighting cursor amongst an array of icons on a display screen is described. In an embodiment, the handheld communication device includes a lighted display, a keyboard and an auxiliary user input, e.g. a trackball, located essentially between the display... Agent: Novak Druce + Quigg LLP (rim)

20080163130 - Gesture learning: Systems and methods that incorporate various techniques for teaching gestures to a user of a multi-touch sensitive device are disclosed herein. Such techniques can include presenting visible feedback of gestures, such as animated motion trails and/or hand motions, along with affirmative feedback for correctly performed gestures and negative feedback for... Agent: Apple C/o Morrison And Foerster ,llp Los Angeles

20080163131 - User interface system: A user interface system having an improved usability is provided. The user interface system comprises: an operation section (21) an operation section for receiving an instruction inputted by a user; a finger position detecting section (32) for detecting a group of first coordinate values, each indicating a current position of... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.l.p.

20080163133 - Sophisticated sort mechanisms on a limited interface: Entertainment devices often display interfaces that are perceived from a distance. To render the interface intelligible at a distance, a limited interface is used. However, often the user is presented with a large number of choices, which can be tedious and time-consuming to review using such a limited interface. The... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080163132 - Streamlined navigation of a handheld elecronic device: A system and method is disclosed that provides for progressively displaying sequential pages on a handheld electronic device for user viewing. The system and method provides for displaying a first page of a plurality of sequentially linked pages on a display screen of a handheld electronic device, and displaying two... Agent: Novak Druce + Quigg LLP (rim)