Data processing: presentation processing of document inventions 08/08

20080209307 - Representing sub-event with physical exertion actions: A live event may be broadcasted by producing a computer coded description of the sub-events that constitute the event. The coded description is stored in a centralized computer data base and the information thus stored is accessible by a viewer's computer. That viewer computer then produces a computer simulation of... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20080209308 - Content reference linking purchase model: A model for the distribution of additional content referenced inside of a file. Wherein a link is inserted into the work to allow users to purchase or receive additional content through non-invasive means.... Agent: Nicholas A. Brackney

20080209309 - Facilitating retrieval of information within a messaging environment: Techniques and mechanisms are provided that allow participants in an electronic messaging conversation (e.g. email or instant message) to retrieve information related to words and phrases in the electronic messaging conversation without leaving the electronic messaging environment. An electronic messaging environment is provided that includes user interface tools that allow... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20080209310 - Annotation validity using partial checksums: Embodiments of the present invention generally provide a system, method and article of manufacture for validating annotations describing one or more portions of a data object. In general, prior to displaying a requested annotation, a current change detection value may be calculated from current data extracted from portions of the... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20080209311 - On-line digital image editing with wysiwyg transparency: A method for editing includes processing a page of markup-language code using a browser program running on a computer so as to display the page content in a browser window on a computer screen. An embedded application embedded as an object in the markup-language code and running in the browser... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080209312 - Method for rendering information on a display: The method is for rendering information on a display. Content components in a container are provided. A content handler (style sheet) is used to transform the content components. A key word in the content component is identified. A real time link is provided between the key word and an outside... Agent: Fasth Law Offices (rolf Fasth)

20080209313 - System and method for document tagging templates: The present invention provides a system and method for tagging digital documents. A method for creating digitally tagged documents includes creating a data template for a digital document, assigning signature locations and data fields in the data template, and linking the template instructions with the digital document. A system for... Agent: Black Lowe & Graham, Pllc

20080209315 - System and method for providing a dynamic advertising content window within a windows based content mainfestation environment provided in a browser: System and method for providing a dynamic advertising content manifestation window within a windows based content manifestation environment provided within a web browser. The system and method include and involve an server system configured to transmit a software system and data related to a advertising content source via an electronic... Agent: Fulbright & Jaworski Market Square

20080209314 - System and method of retrieving and presenting partial (skipped) document content: Systems and methods of retrieving and presenting partial (skipped) document content are provided. A typical system includes a document parsing stage, a device request for content stage and a delivery of requested content stage. A target device can include a device presentation of the requested content stage. The system parses... Agent: Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott

20080209320 - Computer-based evaluation tool for selecting personalized content for users: The invention relates to a method and system for selecting personalized content for a user, the method being performed by an evaluation tool instantiated on a computing device and comprising the evaluation tool. The evaluation tool creates a content selection rule for the user for finding and filtering content items,... Agent: Rudoler & Derosa Llc Attn: Docket Clerk

20080209318 - Dynamic overlaying of content on web pages for tracking data: A computer system for overlaying content in a designated area of a web page is disclosed. The computer system may be used to run executable code configured to identify a data field in a received web page, insert a visible user control substantially adjacent to the data field, display the... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080209319 - Graphical user interface with a background class loading event system: According to one aspect of the invention, a method for searching for a particular type of class file and a graphical user interface for displaying the names of the class files of the particular type are provided. A first class file is searched for a particular feature. If the class... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080209317 - Invocation of sponsor-defined action on mobile communication device: A software application having a graphical user interface (GUI) is provided indicating labeled keys on a keypad of a user's mobile communications device. The GUI has sponsor regions for insertion of various sponsor provided content which may be cached on the communication device. The determination of which sponsors' content to... Agent: Fulbright & Jaworski L.l.p

20080209321 - Mobile terminal apparatus, and display control method therefor: In the state when the schedule function is activated, when a rotational motion of a display unit using a rotating mechanism thereof is detected, or when an acceleration of a predetermined acceleration value or greater is detected, the mobile terminal apparatus modifies the schedule display based on the above detection.... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080209316 - System and method of implementing an extensible command-line interface: A system and method of implementing an extensible command-line interface may be employed to extend a command-line application. In accordance with one aspect, a plug-in management engine may define a contract that allows access to a command-line interface and may allow plug-ins honoring the contract to interface with the command-line... Agent: Yahoo! Inc.

20080209323 - Method for processing still image and broadcast receiving apparatus thereof: A method for processing a still image and a broadcast receiving apparatus thereof is provided. The method for processing a still image includes transmitting to an external apparatus a still image selected by a user using a GUI window to select a desired still image from among still images of... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080209322 - Systems and methods for interactively displaying user images: In accordance with the present invention, an interactive user display application is provided. The application displays and refreshes images that are intended to represent users or members of a social network or other web-based service. Using these images, the interactive user display application allows a user of the application to... Agent: Wilmerhale/new York

20080209325 - Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and information processing program: An information processing apparatus includes: a content-list creating unit for selecting, on the basis of a predetermined subject, contents out of recorded program contents, information contents concerning receivable program contents, contents acquired from an outside, and contents stored in the information processing apparatus in advance to thereby create a content... Agent: William S. Frommer, Esq. Frommer Lawrence & Haug LLP

20080209324 - Pseudo drag-and-drop operation display method, computer program product and system based on the same: A computer-implemented method is provided for displaying a pseudo drag-and-drop operation of an object from a window of a Web browser out of the Web browser's window on a desktop of a computer system, wherein a first swf file is played by a Flash Player® upon a request by the... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, Pc

20080209326 - System and method for preparing a video presentation: A process, method and system for preparation of a video presentation including providing video content, selecting at least one presentation template from a library of presentation templates and assembling the video content and the at least one presentation template to provide the final video presentation.... Agent: Holland & Knight LLP Attn: Stefan V. Stein/ Ip Dept.

20080209327 - Persistent spatial collaboration: Persistent, spatial collaboration on the web supports a free-form, user-intuitive approach to a variety of projects and activities. Users can place differing object types at any time any where on a web page and/or the system can automatically, and with no user effort, affect object placement based on one or... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080209330 - System and method for collaborative and interactive communication and presentation over the internet: A novel interactive system for E-learning and Tele-conferencing via the Internet is described that integrates video, audio, slides, text and other required means of communication in a simple to use platform. The system allows presenter to poll audience and see the results. The system records the session for future Video-On-Demand... Agent: Maxvalueip Consulting

20080209329 - Systems and methods for sharing data: To share stored data with a recipient, a communication identifying the recipient may be received, the stored data to be shared with the recipient may be automatically determined from the received communication, and presentation of a human-readable card, which includes both textual and graphical information, may be caused. The human-readable... Agent: Goodwin Procter LLP Patent Administrator

20080209328 - User interface annotations: Some embodiments of user interface annotations have been presented. In one embodiment, comments are retrieved from a database coupled to a client machine executing an application program, wherein subjects of the comments comprise at least one of a graphical user interface (GUI) of the application program and one or more... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080209331 - Map interface with a movable map: A map user interlace is described, including a first view transmitted from a server computer system to a client computer system, the first view including a first area of a map, and a second view at least partially generated in response to the moving command received at the server computer... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080209332 - Map interface with directional navigation: A map user interlace is described, including a first view transmitted from a server computer system to the client computer system, the first view including a first area of a map and a plurality of directional indicators, each directional indicator being selectable by a user of the client computer system,... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080209333 - Method and apparatus for visualizing a network: A visualization tool for displaying the geographic location and connectivity of nodes within a network. More specifically, a method and apparatus determines a geographic position of each node in a plurality of nodes within a data network; determines an icon to represent each node in the plurality of nodes; overlays... Agent: Raymond R. Moser Jr., Esq. Moser Ip Law Group

20080209334 - User interface system and method for inter-router protocol and transport configuration: An interface system and method for creation and configuration of a connection between routers is provided. The interface comprises facility for entry of physical connection information, and entry of protocols selection and configuration information. Information for selection and configuring routing instances, network interfaces, and protocols for the connection is only... Agent: Ross D. Snyder & Associates, Inc.

20080209335 - Customizable kiosk software: A user-interactive device (300) includes a user input device (301, 302, 303, 304) to allow a user to enter information, a display device (301) to display information to a user, a memory (320), the memory containing (320A) a logic program, a browser program, and a preferences file, a processor (321)... Agent: Powell Goldstein LLP

20080209336 - Customizable web application navigation: A method for customizing display preferences for a web application. Ease of interaction with web content may be improved by customizing display preferences that affect the way content is rendered by a server and provided to a user. Elements of menus for navigation among web pages for various functions, for... Agent: Wolf Greenfield (microsoft Corporation) C/o Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.c.

20080209337 - Mobile communication terminal and method for accessing the internet using a mobile communication terminal: A mobile communication terminal and method for accessing the Internet is provided, by which internet access can be facilitated by displaying homepage information set by a user together with variable homepage information in accordance with access information on an accessed homepage. The present invention includes displaying user setup homepage information... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20080209338 - Browser supporting multiple users: A method and apparatus for a browser supporting multiple user identifying states. A plurality of browser instances are initiated on a client. One of a plurality of user identifying states is selected for each of the plurality of browser instances. Each selected user identifying state is used in a distinct... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080209340 - Peer-to-peer access of personalized profiles using content intermediary: A method for personalizing content for a particular user in a computing system comprising a user interface configured to display content. The method comprises identifying a content item accessed by a user, identifying features associated with the content item; using the features of the content item to identify one or... Agent: Workman Nydegger

20080209339 - Personalization techniques using image clouds: Systems and methods for personalization using image clouds to represent content. Image clouds can be used to identify initial user interest, present recommended content, present popular content, present search results, and present user profile information. Image clouds are interactive, allowing users to select images displayed in the image cloud, which... Agent: Workman Nydegger

20080209343 - Content recommendation using third party profiles: A method for personalizing content for a particular user in a computing system comprising a user interface configured to display content. The method comprises identifying one or more features of a short term profile of a user that are not included in a long term profile of the user, using... Agent: Workman Nydegger

20080209341 - Information processing device, computer readable medium, and computer data signal: There is provided an information processing device, which: causes a holding unit to hold a holding unit that holds selection elements to be displayed and to be targets for selection by a user on a screen and setting information for each of the selection elements about whether to display or... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080209342 - System and method for filter creation and use for building automation systems: A system for filtering items to be displayed on a graphical user interface provided to a client and for interaction by a user, the graphical user interface for a building automation system, is provided. The system includes a processor and memory communicably coupled to the processor. The memory includes computer... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20080209344 - Communicating shared electronic calendar modifications: A shared electronic calendar modification notice provides calendar users accessing the calendar with notification that a calendar modification has been made by another calendar user. A shared electronic calendar user accessing the shared calendar is identified. Upon identifying a shared electronic calendar user, calendar modifications that are new to the... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.l.p. (c/o Microsoft Corporation)

20080209345 - Web-based groupware system: The present invention relates to a system and method for providing a communication network. The system comprises a ‘network-connected server having input and access capabilities, a site builder, a transmitter, a communicator, and memory. The site-builder receives instructions input from a first user and creates a dedicated network site based... Agent: Winston & Strawn LLP Patent Department

20080209346 - Pointing-control system for multipoint conferences: A pointing-control system for multipoint conferences includes a plurality of computers, a gateway, a display, a conference-control module and a pointing-control module. The computers are connected through a wired or wireless network with the gateway. The computer with the highest priority number is defined as the host computer having the... Agent: Sinorica, Llc

20080209347 - Redirection of a message to an alternate address: Presence information of a first user in a messaging system, such as an instant messaging system, is relayed to a second user. A first communications client of a first user detects a change in the presence status of a first user and sends an alert message to a second communications... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP/ At&t Delaware Intellectual Property, Inc.

20080209350 - Active and passive personalization techniques: A method for personalizing content for a particular user in a computing system comprising a user interface configured to display content. The method comprises identifying a long term profile having one or more features in a feature set and a long term level of importance associated with each term in... Agent: Workman Nydegger

20080209348 - Composing integrated systems using gui-based applications and web services: A composer of integrated systems solves the technical problem of enabling graphical user interface applications (GAPs) to interoperate (e.g., exchange information) with each other and web services over the Internet, effectively and non-invasively. The system provides a user friendly visualization mechanism that interacts with an accessibility layer to enable organizations... Agent: Accenture Chicago 28164 Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080209353 - Graphical user interface and method thereof: There is described a graphical user interface in a computer system. The GUI comprises a window containing a plurality of user interface controls. The proposed GUI also includes means for grouping a set of user interface controls, from amongst said plurality of user interface controls, into a single control pane... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080209352 - Operating system and a program product: Some embodiments of the present invention comprise a first provider adapted to provide a first user interface configured to receive an input about an instruction about an operation of an apparatus, the first user interface being provided in a first direction; a second provider adapted to provide a second user... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20080209349 - Personalization techniques using image clouds: Systems and methods for personalization using image clouds to represent content. Image clouds can be used to identify initial user interest, present recommended content, present popular content, present search results, and present user profile information. Image clouds are interactive, allowing users to select images displayed in the image cloud, which... Agent: Workman Nydegger

20080209351 - User profile snapshots: A method for personalizing content for a particular user using profile snapshots in a computing system comprising a user interface configured to display content. The method comprises identifying a first snapshot of a user profile at a first point in time, identifying a second snapshot of a user profile at... Agent: Workman Nydegger

20080209355 - Apparatus and method for implementing user interface used for group communication: An apparatus and method for implementing a user interface used for a group communication. The apparatus includes a constructing unit to construct a plurality of user interfaces (UIs) in a predetermined format and an output unit to display in a first image the constructed UIs and objects selected by the... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080209354 - Interactive tooltip to display and navigate to different resources of a data point: Systems and methodologies for viewing locations of a data point within a system are provided. A system provided herein includes a locate component that determines locations of a selected data point and a display component that displays the locations of the selected data point in a location structure, which can... Agent: Rockwell Automation, Inc./(at)

20080209356 - Gui-based application to web services conversion system: A web service creation system converts legacy application functionality to web services. The system captures the operation of the legacy application through an accessibility layer that monitors operator interaction with the application. The system then defines, creates, and deploys a web service that provides control over the application operation. As... Agent: Accenture Chicago 28164 Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080209357 - Medical apparatus and method for setting up a medical apparatus: A medical apparatus comprises a user interface for setting parameters and includes: a screen for visualizing values of said parameters, a main control unit connected to the interface, a first memory and a video memory both connected to the main control unit for storing data corresponding to images on screen;... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20080209358 - Display apparatus, method for display, display program, and computer-readable storage medium: A mobile phone (1) includes: a blank area detection section (55) which detects a blank area whose size is determined by subtracting, from an entire area of a display screen, an image display area where an image is displayed and a character string display area where a character string is... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080209359 - Image display apparatus and display method for an image display apparatus: A computer connectable image display apparatus for presentation is provided. The image display apparatus has a candidate information obtaining unit, a selection screen display unit, a presentation execution instruction unit, and a drawing screen display unit. The candidate information obtaining unit obtains selection candidate information generated by the computer relating... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, Plc

20080209360 - Methods and systems for altering an axis of a graphical display: Embodiments of the present invention provide methods and systems for altering an axis of a graphical display. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.... Agent: Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt, P.c. Pacwest Center, Suite 1900

20080209361 - Receiving and reporting page-specific user feedback concerning one or more particular web pages of a website: A method for receiving page-specific user feedback concerning a particular web page of a website includes using a comment icon viewable on the page to solicit one or more page-specific open-ended comments concerning the page from a user. In one embodiment, the method includes using software associated with the comment... Agent: Baker Botts L.l.p.

20080209362 - Previewing next state based on potential action in current state: A method, program and system for displaying the consequence of an input in a graphical user interface (GUI) are provided. The invention comprises displaying a GUI including a plurality of interaction control mechanisms (controls) having a selected or a deselected state. An input to a first control may cause a... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates Pc

20080209363 - Data processing apparatus, method of registering electronic document, and computer program: An apparatus includes a temporarily registered document creating unit configured to create a temporarily registered document in which a document to be registered is temporarily registered; a condition setting unit configured to set a condition used for updating the temporarily registered document to a finally registered document; a condition determining... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20080201632 - System and method for annotating documents: Methods, apparatus and articles of manufacture therefor, are disclosed for annotating documents. An embodiment for annotating documents may be performed by the method of: retrieving a document selected for display by a user; locating sub-document elements in content of the retrieved document; computing a similarity measure for each of the... Agent: Cascadia Intellectual Property

20080201633 - Method and system for converting hypertext markup language web page to plain text: A method for converting an HTML web page to plain text includes extracting from HTML source code of the HTML web page a portion containing a plurality of character strings and tags, calculating length and position of each character string in the extracted portion so as to find a first... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20080201635 - Document edit device and storage medium: A document edit device includes: an object obtaining unit that obtains objects each being data expressing at least one of a text and an image which are included in a document as an edit target to be edited; an object selection unit that selects at least two target objects from... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080201634 - System and method for customizing a user interface: Described is a system and method for customizing a user interface. A method according to one embodiment of the present invention comprises receiving a given content item and scoring the given content item. When the score exceeds a threshold, at least a portion of the given content is highlighted. The... Agent: Yahoo! Inc. C/o Dreier LLP

20080201636 - Document management apparatus and document management method: A document management apparatus according to the invention is aimed at easily processing, managing and reusing newly taken image data in accordance with user's needs. The apparatus includes: a document area analyzing unit configured to analyze and extract a document area from image data; a text information analyzing unit configured... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080201637 - Image pickup apparatus, method for controlling display of image pickup apparatus, and computer program for executing method for controlling display of image pickup apparatus: An image pickup apparatus includes a touch panel used for displaying various screens, each including a plurality of buttons from which a user selects a desired button, a menu screen display controlling unit for controlling the touch panel to sequentially display menu screens through which the user navigates to a... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080201638 - Context avatar: Methods and systems for generating information about a physical context of a user are provided. These methods and systems provide the capability to render a context avatar associated with the user as a composite image that can be broadcast in virtual environments to provide information about the physical context of... Agent: Mpg, LLP And Yahoo! Inc.

20080201639 - Apparatus and method for prompting a sequence of timed activities: The Invention is an apparatus and method for prompting a sequence of timed activities such as a program of exercise. A computer is programmed to allow a user to select an activity or a plurality of activities and the duration of each selected activity. The computer is programmed to select... Agent: Robert J. Yarbrough, Attorney At Law

20080201640 - System and method for creating and navigating a linear hypermedia resource program: A method and system for creating and navigating linear hypermedia resource programs are disclosed. The system includes a distributed hypermedia resource network having a plurality of hypermedia resources residing on one or more remote information nodes. A common remote information node is in communication with a subscriber station and the... Agent: William A. Webb Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080201641 - Method and the associated mechanism for 3-d simulation stored-image database-driven spectacle frame fitting services over public network: A method of spectacle frame 3-D simulation fitting over public network, such as Internet, based upon database of product information and digitized user images as acquired via devices connected to computer. Particularly, consumers can take advantage of present method to choose spectacle frames from wide variety of selections, expeditiously by... Agent: Law Offices Of J.f. Lee

20080201642 - Problem determination in distributed enterprise applications: A method, system and computer program are provided for problem determination in an enterprise computer system in a distributed environment. In the method, information is obtained regarding the enterprise applications, and high-level information is presented to a user, with one or more prompts are provided to the user for more... Agent: Konrad Raynes & Victor, LLP Attn: Ibm54

20080201643 - System for creating customized web content based on user behavioral portraits: A method is provided for determining a website user behavioral portrait based on navigation on the website and dynamically reconfiguring web pages based on those portraits. In accordance with the method, data relating to the progress of a user through a website is recorded, and an ongoing behavioral portrait of... Agent: Fortkort & Houston P.C.

20080201644 - Hardware cursor snooping: A feedback subsystem may be used to control the positioning of a local cursor of a display in response to receiving remote cursor movement information from a remote computer system. The feedback subsystem may send the remote cursor movement information to an operating system (OS) which may send local coordinate... Agent: Orion Law Group

20080201645 - Method and apparatus for deploying portlets in portal pages based on social networking: A Portal Page Customizer (PPC) provides a tagging component and a portal page generator that enables a user to quickly display portlets most preferred by a community of portlet users. Each tag is associated with one or more portlet. A user can add new descriptive tags to portlets using tools... Agent: Ibm Corp. (raleigh Software Group) C/o Rudolf O Siegesmund Gordon & Rees, LLP

20080201646 - Tab order mapping of user interfaces: An approach is provided to display a common display page on a variety of display devices using the item's tab order property to determine the display order. Controls that are displayed on a display device typically have a tab order. When a window that has controls is displayed, the cursor... Agent: Gerald R. Woods IBM Corporation T81/503

20080201647 - Weather information in a calendar: A system receives location information from a user, retrieves weather information based on the received location information, retrieves calendar information associated with the user, and associates the weather information with the calendar information in a calendar application.... Agent: Harrity Snyder, L.L.P.

20080201648 - Web page-embedded dialogs: Various embodiments enable creation of dialogs in a manner that binds them to the page from which they were created. In at least some embodiments, dialogs can be created and rendered as part of a page's elements. In this manner, dialogs can be embedded in the web pages themselves or,... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080201649 - Visualization of information associated with applications in user interfaces: Methods, computer program products and apparatus are provided that enable a user interface or user interface element (e.g., an icon) to communicate additional contextual information for an associated application or file through attributes of the user interface or user interface element. For example, a simulated shadow of an icon or... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20080201650 - Web-clip widgets on a portable multifunction device: A computer-implemented method for use at a portable multifunction device with a touch screen display includes displaying a web page or portion thereof on the touch screen display. An activation of an options icon is detected. In response, a plurality of icons including a web-clip widget creation icon is displayed.... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP/ Ai

20080201651 - System and method for annotating documents using a viewer: Methods, apparatus and articles of manufacture therefor, are disclosed for annotating documents in a viewer. In one embodiment, the method includes: associating the document with a user; identifying one or more sub-document elements in the document; augmenting the document by making words within the document selectable; displaying the augmented document... Agent: Cascadia Intellectual Property

20080201653 - Method and system of deploying server-based applications: A computer implemented method of constructing a computer application for automatically implementing a complex comparison programming task provides a compare design wizard to a display of a user's computer. The user interacts with the compare design wizard to specify (a) at least first and second data groups each containing associated... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20080201652 - Techniques for viewing and managing work items and their relationships: Various technologies and techniques are disclosed for viewing and managing work items. A work item management application is provided to allow a user to view and manage a plurality of work items from a single view. An interactive viewing feature is provided to allow the user to interactively view complex... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080201654 - Information presentation apparatus: An information presentation apparatus, which presents an image of an object and information associated with the object to an operator, is composed of a user interface section including an operation section to be operated by the operator or a display section which presents information to the operator. And the information... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20080201655 - System and method for providing a dynamic user interface including a plurality of logical layers: A system and method for providing a dynamic user interface including a plurality of logical layers is presented. A user interface is provided via a heads-up display generator. Clusters including one or more concepts arranged proximal to each other such cluster to form a cluster spine is provided in a... Agent: Cascadia Intellectual Property

20080201656 - Application-based copy and paste operations: Various embodiments provide application- or browser-based, copy and paste operations. In one or more embodiments, a web browser supports copy and paste functionality thus enabling the user to easily move data from one location to another. The browser-based solution can thus relieve websites from having to include code that implements... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080201657 - Scalable property viewer for a massively parallel computer system: A method and apparatus for a scalable property viewer for a massively parallel computer system. The property viewer includes a graphical user interface to allow the user to view different properties of the computer system with several different types of views. The different views provide the user with both logical... Agent: Martin & Associates, LLC

20080201658 - Wireless media player device and system, and method for operating the same: A wireless media player device includes (a) a flash memory, (b) a main processor adapted to process digital signals and to control wireless communications, the main processor including first and second interfaces adapted to wirelessly communicate with an external host computer and an external headset, respectively, (c) a signal antenna... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080201659 - Computer system having multipurpose desktops: The computer system, used for an operating system and providing desktops for a user to switch, includes a memory, a desktop management unit and a control unit. The memory stores desktop storage units, in which each of the desktop storage units stores a desktop file, and the desktop file includes... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20080201660 - Method for setting image in terminal and terminal using the same: A method for setting an image in a terminal and a terminal using the same are disclosed. The image setting method includes according to an embodiment displaying a list of one or more files settable as an image of the second display, on the first display; moving an indicator to... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080201662 - Methods for controlling a navigation system: Methods for inputting a destination in a navigation system by manually controlling an actuating device are provided. In an example method, at least the following menu items can be selected when the actuating device is actuated using a first motion type: a CHARACTER menu item provides a list of characters... Agent: The Eclipse Group

20080201661 - Remote flash storage management: A computing host executes a web browser to access a utility application for managing or altering one or more storage devices connected to the computing host. Management or alteration of each storage device may include various purging of the storage device, encrypting the storage device, password protecting the storage device,... Agent: Stec, Inc. C/o Legal Department

20080201663 - Accessible markup language defined slider control: An accessible markup language specified slider control. A slider control which has been configured for rendering in a content browser in accordance with the present invention can include a script controlled slider track; a markup language specified text input field; and, coordination and control logic coupled both to the slider... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20080201664 - Displaying received message with icon: A method for displaying a received message on a terminal. The method includes receiving messages, displaying on a display unit of the terminal different icons according to a type of the received messages, and displaying on the display unit of the terminal information indicating a number of unread received messages... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080201665 - Electronic equipment having plural function keys: Electronic equipment capable of registering and changing shortcut functions. When a menu is displayed on an LCD of electronic equipment, a list of shortcuts assigned to respective function keys on a home screen is displayed in the form of a split screen as a result of operation of any of... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, PLLC

20080201666 - Webpage presentation method for mobile phone: A webpage presentation method for a mobile phone having a limited screen size is provided for efficiently presenting webpages. A webpage presentation of the present invention includes presenting a preset number of webpages including a current and previously visited webpages on a display screen in response to a zoom-out command... Agent: Cha & Reiter, LLC

20080201668 - Email communications system providing electronic file attachment folder hierarchy and related methods: An email communications system for operating over a communications network may include an email server for sending and receiving electronic mail (email) messages via the communications network, where at least some of the received email messages include electronic file attachments. The system may further include a communications device comprising a... Agent: Christopher F. Regan, Esquire Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist, P.A.

20080201667 - Interactive computer graphical user interface method and system: A graphical user interface includes a plurality of single-action-selectable primary navigation buttons arranged around at least a portion of a periphery of a display content window. Selection of a single-action-selectable primary navigation button of the plurality of single-action-selectable primary navigation buttons causes corresponding content to appear in the display content... Agent: Winstead PC

20080195924 - Method and apparatus for encoding multimedia contents and method and system for applying encoded multimedia contents: A method and apparatus for encoding multimedia content and a method and system for applying encoded multimedia content are provided. The method of applying encoded multimedia content includes: storing in a database, a multimedia application format (MAF) file, including at least one single track which includes a header having information... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080195925 - Compressed media files with intrinsic supplementary content: A method for combining compressed media files with intrinsic supplementary content includes, in one embodiment, obtaining a compressed media file and a digitally encoded supplementary content file. The digitally encoded supplementary content file is then combined with the compressed media file into a final compressed media file. In other embodiments,... Agent: Tips Group C/o Intellevate Llc

20080195926 - System for determining whether screen displayed by program satisfies specification: It is determined whether a plurality of screens to be sequentially displayed by a process of a program satisfies a specification without executing this program. A system of the present invention stores a first schema prescribing a specification of a first screen, a second schema prescribing a specification of a... Agent: Frederick W. Gibb, Iii Gibb & Rahman, Llc

20080195927 - Linking a user selected sequence of received world wide web documents into a stored document string available to the user at a receiving web station: The invention further provides for an extension of the selected documents into a string through selecting one or more subsequently received Web documents as a subsequent next document and creating a hyperlink in the first next document to the subsequent next document. The subsequent next documents are also stored at... Agent: Ibm Corporation Intellectual Property Law

20080195928 - Mapping raw spreadsheet data into graphs on arbitrary subsets of the data: Disclosed are a method, information processing system, and computer readable medium for graphically representing data in a spreadsheet. The method includes displaying a set of tabular data visually arranged at least in rows and columns. A user selection of a first dimension and second dimension of data in a series... Agent: Fleit, Kain, Gibbons, Gutman, Bongini & Bianco Pl

20080195929 - Simplifying understanding of procedure dependencies in a form definition: Simplifying understanding of procedure dependencies in a form definition used in user interfaces. In an embodiment, a form definition including a set of procedures (identified by a corresponding identifier) are examined to determine pairs of procedures such that a caller procedure of a pair invokes/refers a called procedure in the... Agent: Law Firm Of Naren Thappeta

20080195930 - User interface pane for an interactive chart: Configuration of an interactive chart is performed by user interactions with a user interface in a satellite pane, which is distinct from a chart pane used to display the data fields present on an interactive chart. Upon entry of a configuration selection, a query is executed to retrieve data to... Agent: Merchant & Gould Pc

20080195931 - Parsing of ink annotations: Annotation recognition and parsing is accomplished by first recognizing and grouping shapes such that relationships between the annotations and the underlying text and/or images can be determined. The recognition and grouping is followed by categorization of recognized annotations according to predefined types. The classification may be according to functionality, relation... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20080195933 - Document structures for delta handling in server pages: Methods, systems and apparatus, including computer program products, for delta handling in server pages. A server method, for processing a page document that has multiple page components, includes generating, for each page component of the page document, a corresponding browser component. The method also includes building a document structure of... Agent: Fish & Richardson, P.c.

20080195932 - Method and apparatus for re-editing and redistributing web documents: Re-editing and redistributing a WWW document with services embedded therein according to a user's will. Portions of Web pages are extracted and combined together to compose a new document. If a portion to be extracted contains a dynamic content, its copy is kept alive, that is, the content of the... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080195934 - Method of creating an xml document on a web browser: The invention concerns a method of creating an XML document on a web browser. The method according to the invention comprises the steps of: receiving data input from a web browser; duplicating a source XML document stored in advance, the source XML document including predefined structures and predetermined source data;... Agent: Cohen & Grigsby, P.c.

20080195935 - Document display device, word arrangement method, and document display method: A method and device for displaying a document written in a Western language in a readable form without decreasing the utilization efficiency of a display screen. When a tail of a word to be displayed goes beyond an end of a line on the screen and the number of characters... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080195937 - Document edit support device and storage medium: There is disclosed a document edit support device including: an object obtaining unit that obtains an object as data expressing at least one of a text and an image, which are included in a document as an edit target and are to be located in a layout area; a grid... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080195936 - Presenting content to a browser: There is provided a method that includes (a) requesting first data for a first region of a display, and second data for second region of the display, (b) presenting first information in the first region, based on the first data, (c) commencing processing of an input that results from a... Agent: Paul D. Greeley Ohlandt, Greeley, Ruggiero & Perle, L.l.p.

20080195939 - Document edit device, program and computer-readable storage medium: A document edit device includes: object obtaining unit configured to obtain an object; a calculating unit configured to calculate a golden division line, the golden division line being a line that divides at the golden ratio a distance between two reference lines, each reference line being determined on the basis... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080195938 - Media content alteration: Methods, systems, and computer-readable media provide for the alteration and insertion of media components within a media framework. According to implementations, a media framework is received and insertion parameters are defined for inserting a media component into the media framework. The media component to be inserted is identified and inserted... Agent: Hope Baldauff Hartman, Llc

20080195940 - Method and apparatus for automatic detection of spelling errors in one or more documents: Methods and apparatus are provided for automatically detecting spelling errors in one or more documents, such as documents being processed for the creation of a lexicon According to one aspect of the invention, a spelling error is detected in one or more documents by determining if at least one given... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20080195941 - Device and method for displaying delay analysis results, and computer product: Fluctuations of cumulative delay value and delay dispersion in a path of a circuit are displayed graphically. Cumulative delay values of circuit elements in the path are obtained from delay analysis results of the circuit and dispersion is obtained from a probability density distribution of the delay of the circuit... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20080195942 - Virtual device interactive recording: The present invention provides a mechanism for recording interactions with a Mobile Device to create a map of the structure of the menu system, Mobile Applications, and Mobile Service available on the device. A Recording/Control Environment is integrated with a physical Mobile Device, controls the Mobile Device, and records the... Agent: Morrison & Foerster, LLP

20080195943 - Distribution system for data items: Distribution system for data items where information on amounts of topics may be used to scope further actions on the information. Data items are created topically in various locations, provided with position-based annotation and made publicly available. Search on desired data items is scoped using views that show the amount... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, Plc

20080195944 - Avatar refrigerator: The present invention relates to a refrigerator for providing a user with a variety of information using an avatar. The present invention comprises a storage device for storing avatar data including a figure and/or a motion of the avatar, a display device provided on an outer surface of the refrigerator... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080195945 - Enterprise context: Systems, methods, media, and other embodiments associated with providing context relevant data and/or controls associated with an enterprise object processing application to a personal object processing application are described. One example system embodiment includes logic to receive an identifier of a selection associated with the personal object processing application, to... Agent: Kraguljac & Kalnay, Llc

20080195946 - Online personal coach for software applications: An “online personal coach” provides a mechanism for leading a computer application user in performing tasks using the application, by coaching the user while the user is executing real tasks. Once a user requests help, the coach provides the help inside the application context, step by step, while actually visiting... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20080195947 - Information processing device, information processing method and information processing program: Based on the music data identification information included in the received page information the music data corresponding to the music data identification information is retrieved from the hard disk drive 211. This allows showing a user whether the music data that matches the music data identification information included in the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080195948 - Method and apparatus for graphically indicating the progress of multiple parts of a task: In one embodiment, a computer-implemented method for graphically indicating a progress of multiple parts of a task involves 1) dividing the task, as a whole, into a plurality of work units, and 2) as the task is executed, and for each of the work units, separately indicating, via a graphical... Agent: Agilent Technologies Inc.

20080195949 - Rendition of a content editor: Example embodiments herein include a process executing in a browser that obtains a video editor application over a network. After obtaining the video editor application, a configuration process associated with the video editor application obtains a configuration file over the network. The configuration file identifies operable characteristics of the video... Agent: Barry W. Chapin, Esq. Chapin Intellectual Property Law, Llc

20080195950 - Document processing device and document processing method: A document processing apparatus 100 provides a function as a browser that allows the user to browse a document held by a Web server 25. Specifically, the document processing apparatus 100 acquires a document from the Web server 25 via the Internet 29, and displays the document thus acquired. A... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080195951 - Dynamic control configuration: A toolbar displays dynamically configured controls based on a size of a window in which an application is running and on the media type presented. A large set of available controls may be available for the toolbar; however, the size of the application window in which the application is running... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080195952 - Establishing contexts for use during automated product configuration: A method and apparatus for validating a user configuration of a computer system are provided. The method generally includes receiving, through a user interface of a configuration system, a user configuration selection, wherein the user configuration selection modifies the configuration of the computer system. Based on the user configuration selection,... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20080195953 - Messaging systems and methods: Described is a method of sending a plurality of message components to a plurality of recipients via an electronic communication network, including the steps of: a) creating a first list of one or more recipient addresses; b) creating a second list including one or more of the recipient addresses; c)... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080195954 - Delivery of contextually relevant web data: A web-browser plug-in is described herein that detects the type of content a user selects on a web page and allows the user to retrieve additional information about selected web content or initiate a communication application. The plug-in analyzes the user's selection to determine what type of web content was... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.l.p. (c/o Microsoft Corporation)

20080195955 - Load reduction and scalability: An improved networked computer communications system handles arbitrary streams of data, and transports at varying speeds those streams where intermediate updates can be dropped if they are obsoleted by later arriving data updates, optimizing the utilization of network and node resources. Complex buffering by system server software allows distributed, parallel,... Agent: Deepa Ravindranath Carr & Ferrell LLP

20080195956 - Virtual social interactions: Disclosed herein is a computer implemented method and system for enabling a first user and a second user to interact in a virtual social environment. A plurality of interactables is provided in the virtual social environment for enabling a first user and a second user to interact in the virtual... Agent: Ashok Tankha Of Counsel, Lipton, Weinberger & Husick

20080195957 - Methods, systems, and apparatus to design online advertising units via a web-based application: A system for creating a new advertisement unit is disclosed. The system can include a web browser, an ad server, and an advertisement creator server. The ad server is communicatively connected to the web browser, the ad server can be configured to store and deliver a plurality of advertisement units,... Agent: Baker & Mckenzie LLP Patent Department

20080195958 - Visual recognition of user interface objects on computer: A visual recognition of user interface objects on computer to recognize and localize objects on a computer screen such as input fields, buttons, icons, check boxes, text, and/or any other basic elements. A system captures the screen to an image, analyzes the image, and creates a layout with new virtual... Agent: William C. Milks, Iii Russo & Hale LLP

20080195959 - Method of constructing multimedia scenes comprising at least one pointer object, and corresponding scene rendering method, terminal, computer programs, server and pointer object: A method is provided for constructing multimedia scenes, which are intended to be reproduced on at least one terminal, including at least one multimedia object which can be assigned properties for controlling the behavior thereof in said scene. At least one of the scenes has at least one object, known... Agent: Westman Champlin & Kelly, P.a.

20080195960 - Providing auto-focus for a search field in a user interface: One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that provides auto-focus for a search field in a user interface, where the focus of the user interface specifies where in the user interface user input will be directed. During operation, the system receives an input from a user. The system... Agent: Park, Vaughan & Fleming LLP

20080195961 - Onscreen function execution method and mobile terminal for the same: An onscreen function execution apparatus and method are provided. The apparatus and method allow for intuitively executing various functions by manipulating function widgets arranged on an idle mode screen. The onscreen function execution method of the present invention includes displaying an idle mode screen having a widget box containing at... Agent: Jefferson Ip Law, LLP

20080195962 - Method and system for remotely controlling the display of photos in a digital picture frame: A system is provided for enabling a user to access a centralized account through a web browser on a terminal in order to remotely manage the display of digital photos on a digital picture frame. Any modifications made by user through the web browser are transparently sent to the digital... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, L.l.p.

20080195963 - Engineering system: There is described an engineering system for an automation system having data required for engineering the automation system stored in the engineering system, and a determination device to determine automatically in response to a user request from the engineered automation system, maintenance-relevant information for display in a diagnostics area on... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080195964 - Method and system for managing a plurality of processes or tasks: A computer-implemented method and system for processing data for monitoring, managing and/or displaying a plurality of processes, tasks or workflow events. According to an embodiment, the system includes an interface for inputting data, wherein the data comprises data associated with a business process, a processor configured for processing the data... Agent: Bennett Jones LLP

20080195965 - System for the distribution of data handling functions with separation and isolation of the handling of personally identifiable data from the handling of other data: A computer controlled data entry system for isolating user-sensitive personally identifiable entered data from general entered data comprising an implementation for requesting the entry of user data into an entry document, a first section in the entry document for all entered user-sensitive personally identifiable data, a second section in the... Agent: Ibm Corporation Intellectual Property Law

20080195966 - Device for aircraft dialogue: The dialogue device (1) comprises means (12) for deactivating layers of an interactive window (4) which are associated with systems of the aircraft that are not selected,... Agent: Stevens Davis LLP

20080195967 - System and methods for processing analyte sensor data: Systems and methods for processing sensor analyte data, including initiating calibration, updating calibration, evaluating clinical acceptability of reference and sensor analyte data, and evaluating the quality of sensor calibration. During initial calibration, the analyte sensor data is evaluated over a period of time to determine stability of the sensor. The... Agent: Knobbe, Martens, Olsen & Bear, LLP

20080195968 - Method, system and computer program product for transmitting data from a document application to a data application: In a method for computer-aided transfer of data from a document application into a data application having a set of data fields, a document is displayed in the document application opened on a computer with a display device, and wherein from the document data are to be transferred into the... Agent: Schiff Hardin, LLP Patent Department

20080195969 - Methods and arrangements to manage transparent windows: Methods and arrangements to manage transparent windows are described herein. Embodiments may comprise logic such as hardware and/or code to select one or more windows to make transparent and to switching the active window between source and target windows via the position of the mouse. Many embodiments provide a right... Agent: Ibm Corporation (jss) C/o Schubert Osterrieder & Nickelson Pllc

20080195970 - Smart genre display: Methods including steps of displaying at least one set of array elements in a screen area, with the array elements representing or associated with a set of particular media elements; cycling the array elements; and allowing a user to select an array element. Preferably, the cycling is continuous, and the... Agent: Kaleidescape, Inc.

20080195971 - Storage medium storing interactive graphics stream, and reproducing apparatus and method: A storage medium storing an interactive graphics stream providing a menu having a variety of screen conversion effects, and a reproducing apparatus and a reproducing method, thereof. The storage medium includes: video data; and graphics data displaying a menu overlaid on an image displayed based on the video data, wherein... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080195972 - System and method for accessing an icon of a handheld electronic device: The described embodiments relate generally to methods, systems and devices for accessing an icon on a display by shifting emphasis from one icon list to another icon list on the display. The icon may be a user profile application icon that can be used to access a user profile application.... Agent: Bereskin And Parr

20080195973 - System and method for electronic item management: A method of managing electronic items is provided. User-owned images of items are received and stored to a plurality of virtual closets. Each of the plurality of virtual closets are associated with a specific position in a stack. The stack has a plurality of positions. Retailer-owned images of items are... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20080195974 - Computer oriented way device by three-dimensional image: The invention is a computer-oriented device aimed for real-time location of a desired three-dimensional physical location by way of computer icons on screen or by voice activation.... Agent: K.f. Ross P.c.

20080195975 - Apparatus and method for providing preview of menu object: Provided are an apparatus and method for providing a preview of a menu object in a technique of displaying a menu object. The apparatus includes an input unit that receives an event from a user, an event processing unit that highlights objects, from among objects displayed on a screen, to... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080195976 - Method of setting password and method of authenticating password in portable device having small number of operation buttons: A method of setting a password and a method of authenticating a password in a portable device having a small number of operation buttons. The method of setting a password includes: determining whether there is an input through the operating of an operation button within a predetermined time; displaying a... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080195977 - Color management system: A color management system is disclosed wherein a video is color graded for a plurality of different display devices or groups of display devices and the color grading information is used to adjust the video for presentment with a given display device.... Agent: Baker & Daniels LLP

20080195978 - Method and apparatus for communicating navigation information: A computer program operable to interface with a browser and access a navigation device to utilize navigation information. The computer program may acquire information from the navigation device and provide the acquired information to the browser. The computer program may also acquire navigation information from the browser and provide the... Agent: Garmin Ltd. C/o Garmin International, Inc.

20080195979 - Selective display of cursor: An application may be provided with an interface for hiding a cursor from or showing a cursor to a video driver and for causing cursor information to be saved in data storage and retrieved from data storage. The interface may include an application program interface (API), which may be callable... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080195980 - System, apparatus and method for emotional experience time sampling via a mobile graphical user interface: A system, apparatus and method for experience time sampling via a mobile graphical user interface. A method includes receiving mood data from an individual in predefined time intervals via a mood mapping graphical user interface hosted by a mobile device. The mood mapping graphical user interface is comprised of a... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, Llc

20080195981 - System and method for creating portable interactive multimedia presentations: A system and method for creating portable multimedia presentations permits a user to select slides, select or create video and audio to associate with those slides to thereby create a multimedia presentation. A user may then use this multimedia presentation to create a single audio/video file for portable use incorporating... Agent: Kleinberg & Lerner, LLP

20080189591 - Method and system for generating a media presentation: Methods and systems are described for generating a media presentation. In one embodiment, the method includes receiving first media selection criteria associated with a media presentation for identifying a characteristic of media to be included in the media presentation. The method also includes retrieving a first set of media objects... Agent: Scenera Research, LLC

20080189592 - Method for displaying text in portable terminal: A method for displaying a text in a portable terminal includes setting a font, comparing a text with word forms stored in a database upon receiving a request to display the text, converting words in the text that match the stored word forms to the set font, and displaying a... Agent: H.c. Park & Associates, PLC

20080189593 - System and method for enabling flash playback of mp3 files available on a web page: A method comprises using a browser to navigate to a web address; downloading from the web address web page data including an MP3 file link to an MP3 file; downloading a playtagger script; using the playtagger script to generate a playback icon next to the MP3 file link; downloading a... Agent: Yahoo! Inc. C/o Dreier LLP

20080189594 - Method and system for creating a digital document altered in response to at least one event: A method and system are provided for creating a digital document, the digital document including content layout, additional information, and altering machine executable instructions, the method including, in response to, or subsequent to, a request or activation event, implementing the altering machine executable instructions which may apply auxiliary layout information... Agent: Barnes & Thornburg LLP

20080189595 - Chaining configuration sets in a content management system: Method and apparatus for chaining configuration sets in a content management system (CMS). A CMS groups configuration rules from multiple configuration sets and for rule inheritance between configuration sets. The configuration sets provide a set of processing rules or artifacts used with content managed by the CMS, (e.g., a collection... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20080189596 - Method and system for adding intelligent-graphic display elements to a non-intelligent-graphic display: A method for adding intelligent-graphic display elements to a non-intelligent-graphic display includes: (a) in no particular order: (1) generating a first data file containing a plurality of first display objects representing the non-intelligent-graphic display in a first data format; (2) providing a second data file containing a plurality of second... Agent: Law Office Of Donald D. Mondul

20080189597 - Cyclical and synchronized multi-source spreadsheet imports and exports: A system, method and program product for synchronizing spreadsheet data. A system is provided having: a scheduling system for scheduling a first import time, a second import time, a first export time and a second export time; an import system for obtaining a first spreadsheet from a first entity at... Agent: Hoffman Warnick LLC

20080189598 - Electronic filing system: The electronic filing system used in an embodiment of the present invention, which is an electronic filing system provided with a document file presentation means for presenting a user with a list of saved document files, is provided with a cost table specifying costs incurred by printing or communication in... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080189599 - Representation of mark-up of master documents: The present invention relates to the generation of customised documents using document templates or master documents in which a mark-up notation is used in a master document, for example to specify the content of a customised document generated from the master document.... Agent: Anderson Gorecki & Manaras LLP

20080189600 - System and method for automatic stylesheet inference: A method is provided for automatically applying named styles to existing documents including word processing documents. The existing document is scanned and parsed into style regions of uniform style. The style attributes of each uniform style region are identified, and these identified style attributes are used to create style groups... Agent: George A. Willinghan, Iii August Law Group, LLC

20080189601 - System and method for creating a compressed file: Systems and methods provide mechanisms to create documents in page descriptor formats using file utilities that create compressed file formats. The resulting files may be rendered with a compressed file utility as well as a reader for the documents in page descriptor format.... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20080189603 - Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and information processing program: An information processing apparatus for generating a template in which is arranged a plurality of areas where content data can be inserted, includes a setting unit configured to associate the areas with one another, a determination unit configured to determine based on the content data whether the areas are to... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20080189602 - Streamable interactive rendering-independent page layout: A computer output display system is provided. The system includes a layout component to determine one or more rendering rules that are applicable to a subset of display output controls. A format component communicates the rendering rules via a generic protocol that is employed by the subset of display output... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080189604 - Derivative blog-editing environment: Methods are described for editing a remote blog that has a certain appearance and includes identifying a remote location of the blog includes blog-rendering code (which may also include or be associated with formatting code), automatically creating a local instance of the blog-rendering code, and automatically utilizing the local instance... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. (c/o Microsoft Corporation)

20080189605 - Spell-check for a keyboard system with automatic correction: An adaptation of standard edit distance spell-check algorithms leverages probability-based regional auto-correction algorithms and data structures for ambiguous keypads and other predictive text input systems to provide enhanced typing correction and spell-check features. Strategies for optimization and for ordering results of different types are also provided.... Agent: Glenn Patent Group

20080189606 - Handheld electronic device including predictive accent mechanism, and associated method: A method for automatically adding one or more diacritical marks to text that has been entered into a handheld electronic is disclosed. The method includes detecting an input of the text, generating an output of the text, making a determination whether the text may require diacritical marks, and generating an... Agent: Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott

20080189607 - Least-effort variable length text replacement: A computer-implemented method of processing text. A method includes providing a unit of text to a text buffer. The unit of text is divided into one or more shift blocks and one or more replacement blocks. Based on a replacement operation of replacing each replacement block with replacement text, a... Agent: Fish & Richardson, P.C.

20080189608 - Method and apparatus for identifying reviewed portions of documents: A method including opening a document application in a device, determining in the device which sections of a document associated with the application have been reviewed and automatically highlighting the reviewed sections.... Agent: Perman & Green

20080189609 - Method and system for creating customized output: A system and method for design and creation of customized output is provided. The method includes establishing a template, developing a base output from the template, and customizing the base output to create a customized output. During each of these steps, the system and method provide flexibility such that the... Agent: Dorsey & Whitney LLP Intellectual Property Department

20080189610 - System and method for simultaneously commencing output of disparately encoded electronic documents: The subject application is directed to a system and method for simultaneously commencing output of disparately encoded electronic documents. Selection data representative of multiple electronic documents encoded in multiple disparate formats is first received. For example, the electronic documents are capable of being encoded in MICROSOFT OFFICE WORD, MICROSOFT OFFICE... Agent: Tucker Ellis & West LLP

20080189611 - Content presentation device, content presentation method, and information storage medium: To selectively display a presentation screen exhibiting a mutual content relationship according to a plurality of criteria, so that the user can readily find their desired content. A presentation screen production unit (42) produces display data about a presentation screen on which images representative of any subset of contents among... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20080189612 - Using unique help utility identifier as parameter in application to facilitate extraction of help tutorial from library: Plural guided help utilities are provided in a library and accessed using unique identifiers to guide a user in a “show me” mode or “do it” mode through help instructions.... Agent: Rogitz & Associates

20080189614 - Terminal and menu display method: A terminal, computer program product and method for displaying menu icons in groups and for designating one of the menu icons displayed in groups when a menu icon mode is entered.... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080189613 - User interface method for a multimedia playing device having a touch screen: A user interface method in a multimedia playing device having a touch screen is provided. The user interface method includes displaying, while playing a multimedia file, at least one sound source object in a first area of the touch screen, identifying, if an input event is generated for the sound... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20080189615 - Web site audio/video presentation system: A method, system, and computer readable storage medium to generate more effective sales leads for web sites. When a user clicks a link to open a destination page, both the destination page and an additional window behind the destination page can be generated. When the user closes out the destination... Agent: Muskin & Cusick LLC

20080189616 - Method to manage speaker notes in a computer implemented slide show: A method for managing speaker notes in a slide presentation is disclosed. A method for creating a plurality of speaker notes files to be used in support of a slide presentation includes: creating a first speaker notes file including a first plurality of speaker notes instances to be used each... Agent: Hoffman Warnick LLC

20080189617 - Distributed video content management and sharing system: The present invention relates to a system which enables cooperative rich media content management, sharing, and publishing across a distributed set of Web sites, Web servers, and media servers based on control information in an online database. Media files are housed on any number of heterogeneous media repositories. The system... Agent: Bond, Schoeneck & King, PLLC

20080189618 - Smart browsing providers: A web browser program is for execution by a client computer connectable to a plurality of server computers via a computer network. The web browser program automatically reconfigures chrome of a user interface to the web browser program to provide a user access to any one of a plurality of... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080189621 - System and method for dynamically generating and managing an online context-driven interactive social network: A system and method for calculating recommendations for a user is described. One embodiment includes a method for identifying users that are performing actions related to actions performed by a primary user, the method comprising: identifying an action performed by the primary user; identifying secondary users who performed the action;... Agent: Cooley Godward Kronish LLP Attn: Patent Group

20080189619 - System and method of scheduling and reserving virtual meeting locations in a calendaring application: A mechanism is provided for scheduling and reserving virtual meeting locations in a calendaring application. Participants use a calendaring application to schedule meetings. If the meeting takes place in a location within the virtual persistent world, then the calendaring application sends the meeting information, including virtual user IDs of the... Agent: Ibm Corp. (wip) C/o Walder Intellectual Property Law, P.C.

20080189620 - Templates for themed instant messages: A method for templates for implementing instant message themes is provided. For example, the user selects between a “to-do” theme, an “invite” theme, a “postcard” theme, a “reminder” theme, etc. If the user selects the “to-do” theme, the to-do template may prompt the user to input a description of the... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker LLP/yahoo! Inc.

20080189622 - Human interaction with application from email client: The embodiments described herein generally relate to systems and methods for providing human interaction with a business application from an email client. To complete a business process, individuals often must provide information to a business application. However, it may be difficult for the individual to interact with the application if... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20080189625 - Messaging system and method: A method for messaging personal pictures with others includes means for achieving a controlled level of sender's personal exposure with each recipient. A controlled level of sender's personal exposure is achieved by evaluating the picture and transmitting or displaying it only if predefined criteria regarding the evaluation results vs. characteristics... Agent: Idan Zuta

20080189623 - Method and system for enhancing communication with instant messenger/chat computer software applications: An invention is disclosed for providing instant messaging (IM)/chat computer software applications with an automatic secondary “pop-up window” feature that is optionally enabled by a communicating user to cause a separate dialog box window (i.e., a “child window”) to appear for every query or question asked (or other user input... Agent: Gerald J. Iwanejko, Jr.

20080189624 - Re-creating meeting context: In one embodiment, a method can include: (i) connecting to a conference server via a network; (ii) viewing a list of available past meetings and associated forms of access; (iii) selecting a meeting and form of access from the list; and (iv) re-creating the meeting in a context using the... Agent: Trellis Intellectual Property Law Group, PC

20080189626 - Web browser document modifier: An apparatus and method for modifying a document associated with a web browser is described.... Agent: Daryl Coutts

20080189628 - Automatically adapting a user interface: A portal server comprises memory, a profile manager, a profile selector, and a profile initiator. The profile manager is configured to manage a plurality of profile records in a profile database. The profile selector is configured to select at least one of the plurality of profile records based on context... Agent: Ibm Austin Iplaw (dg)

20080189627 - Execution of application based on task selection: When a processing device is started, configuration information may be automatically examined to determine applications for performing a number of tasks. As a result, a user interface including selectable task-focused user interface (UI) elements may be displayed to a user. The selectable task-focused UI elements may be orb-shaped and displayed... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080189630 - Information processing apparatus, display control method, and program: An information processing apparatus includes a detector and a display controller. The detector detects a user operation performed by using a first input interface and a user operation performed by using a second input interface. When the detector detects that an operation using the second input interface has been performed... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080189629 - User interface to support a user selecting content: A user interface provides a representation of content items that are selected based on a duration of time of a selection action of the content items if the duration of time of the selection action exceeds a given time interval. An association between a plurality of content items may be... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080189634 - Graphical prediction editor: A graphical prediction editor for an Internet based community is adapted to collect and compile member votes/predictions. Aspects of an item graph can be customized and tailored by individuals to permit ease of data entry and review.... Agent: J. Nicholas Gross, Attorney

20080189632 - Severity assessment for performance metrics using quantitative model: Performance metric scores are computed and aggregated by determining status bands based on boundary definitions and relative position of an input value within the status bands. A behavior of the score within a score threshold in response to a behavior of the input is defined based on a status indication... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20080189631 - Specification and management of consolidated ticket packages in workflows: Systems, methods, and/or techniques (“tools”) for specifying and managing consolidated ticket packages in workflows are provided. In some aspects, the tools may request and receive indications of capabilities of devices that may participate in a workflow, and may generate ticket packages based on the device capabilities, with the ticket packages... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20080189633 - System and method for processing multi-modal communication within a workgroup: There is disclosed a system and method for processing multi-modal collaboration. In an embodiment communication received from multiple modes are converted into a common format. Using various conversion modules, the communication may be converted into a common electronic text format (e.g. ASCII text) that contains keywords. Once the communication is... Agent: Bond, Schoeneck & King, PLLC

20080189635 - Portable terminal and display method and medium therefor: Provided are a portable terminal and display method and medium therefore for arranging a plurality of prepared tags according to a predetermined standard and displaying the plurality of prepared tags on a main display unit; and displaying one or more pieces of contents having a selected tag among the prepared... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080189638 - Bridging human machine interface technologies in a process automation and information management environment: An industrial control and automation human machine interface (HMI) technology migration scheme is embodied in object management, graphics technologies, and namespace handlers for HMI applications. New features of the second technology are supported for HMI graphics while retaining the functionality of systems embodying the first technology, including the ability to... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20080189637 - Data quality and status behavior for human machine interface graphics in industrial control and automation systems: An industrial control and automation human machine interface (HMI) technology is disclosed that includes a centralized definition of data quality and status behaviors for graphical elements. The centralized definition is thereafter applied to every graphical element that is linked to a data value for which status is maintained/provided. Centrally configured... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20080189639 - Dynamically detecting exceptions based on data changes: Fields contained in data expressed as tabular data having columns and rows can initially be marked as exceptions, wherein a column within a row can be the potential cause of the exception. A user configurable parameter can be utilized to change the sensitivity or allowable exceptions for each row and/or... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080189640 - Method and system for collecting user update requests regarding geographic data to support automated analysis, processing and geographic data updates: A system and method provide functionality for collecting user update reports of geographic inconsistencies between geographic data and the real world to enable automated processing of updates to the geographic data. A user's input is collected and describes an anomaly, which is a geographic inconsistency between geographic data and the... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20080189636 - Services for industrial control systems: A message component for an industrial automation system is provided. This includes a service component that is employed to locate functionality of applications associated with a control system message bus. An operations component exchanges messages with the message bus, where the service component and the operations component form an external... Agent: Rockwell Automation, Inc./(at)

20080189641 - Show oob and speed negotiation data graphically in a network diagnostic component: A network diagnostic component that is placed in-line between two nodes in a network. The network diagnostic component receives a low speed signal pattern from the first node for communication with the second node; records the low speed signal pattern in a memory writes one or more markers specifying information... Agent: Workman Nydegger

20080189644 - Method and system for enterprise monitoring based on a component business model: A method and system for enterprise monitoring maps monitor events to elements of a component business model of the enterprise and displays the mapped events using the component business model. Rules are used to determine whether events captured from a monitor source are monitor events. An enterprise monitor metamodel linking... Agent: Whitham, Curtis & Christofferson, P.C.

20080189643 - Method and system for visualization and operation of multiple content filters: A system for operation and visualization of multiple content filters, including a plurality of filter interfaces for setting parameters of corresponding content filters that filter a catalog of assets, each content filter having a lock status being in a locked or an unlocked state, and each filter interface having a... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080189642 - System, device, and method for extending a stroke of a computer pointing device: With respect to a system, device, and method for moving a graphical object, a computer system may include a display device, a processor configured to control movement of a graphical object in the display device, and an input device that includes a sensor for sensing movement of the input device... Agent: Aaron Grunberger

20080189645 - User interface component: A sliding tab tabbed pane user interface component implementable in an electronic device is presented. The user interface component provides a user interface of the electronic device with items belonging to a plurality of different categories, each category being associated with a different sliding tab. The sliding tabs are arranged... Agent: Hollingsworth & Funk

20080189648 - Attachment activation in screen captures: A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer program product for accessing information in screen captures. The process copies an image displayed on a display to form a screen capture. Next, the process receives a selection of an attachment image in the screen capture. Finally, the process links a document to... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20080189649 - Display image control apparatus and control method thereof: Pieces of attribute information classified as a first attribute type are stored as a sequence in a predetermined sorting order in a memory. Pieces of attribute information classified as a second attribute type different from the first attribute type, and the stored predetermined sorting order are stored in the memory... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080189646 - System and method for extending legacy applications with undo/redo functionality: In a system and method for recalling a state in an application, a processor may store in a memory data representing a first set of previously executed commands, the first set representing a current application state, and, for recalling a previously extant application state different than the current application state,... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20080189647 - System and method for inline viewing of file content: There is disclosed a system and method for viewing the contents of a file. A method in accordance with an embodiment comprises receiving a selection of a file in a list of files; opening an inline viewing window adjacent the position of the selected file; and displaying in the inline... Agent: Fasken Martineau Dumoulin LLP

20080189650 - Method and system for cueing panning: Panning the display of content on a computing device, particularly a handheld device, can be awkward using incorporated track wheels or track balls especially when walking and operating the device. A graphical user interface displays panning cues for directions associated with the content to be panned to instruct a user... Agent: Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP

20080189651 - Plug-in architecture for window management and desktop compositing effects: A system and method that relates to a plug-in architecture that enables accelerated rendering and compositing of one or more graphical effects instantiated by one or more separate visual effect plug-ins. The plug-in architecture enables setting up visual effects, accepting graphical output requests, customizing visual effects, and/or allowing enhanced graphics... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20080189652 - System and computer program for controlling screen focus for files and applications during presentations: A system and computer program for controlling screen focus for files and applications during presentations provides for protection of information in a computer-generated presentation setting and prevention of interruption of a presentation by unwanted computer activity. A list is built of applications and files for which screen access is permitted... Agent: Ibm Corporation (mh) C/o Mitch Harris, Attorney At Law, L.L.C.

20080189653 - Display container cell modification in a cell based eui: In a cell based EUI, existing display container cells nested within a “host” display container cell are automatically shifted and/or downsized, if necessary, to increase available space to facilitate the creation of another display container cell nested within the “host” display container cell, in response to a request to perform... Agent: Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt, P.C. Pacwest Center, Suite 1900

20080189654 - Visual indication of user role in an address bar: Apparatus, methods and computer program products relate to icons in an address bar of a browser indicative of roles of users as they visit web sites. In this manner, users (with many roles, such as in the context of an employer's business) are visually cued to remind them of their... Agent: King & Schickli, PLLC

20080189655 - Business query language: Methods and apparatuses enable providing a structured business query interface to receive a structured business query. The interface can be provided as an extension to a business productivity application. The query is made without having to change context from the application to another program, but rather can be made within... Agent: Sap/blakely

20080189656 - Adaptable transparency: By adjusting visual settings on a display behind a section of a background to emphasize menu options, a user can determine the status in the series of menus and sub-menus and can better read the menu options.... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP (microsoft)

20080189657 - Mobile communication device and method of controlling operation of the mobile communication device: A method of controlling a mobile communication device, which includes displaying a menu list and a scroll bar for scrolling the menu list on a touch screen of the terminal, receiving a dragging signal if a dragging operation has been performed from the scroll bar directly to the menu list,... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080189658 - Terminal and menu display method: A method, device and computer program product for efficiently displaying multiple menu icons on a display, including a method, device and computer program product for efficiently zooming in and out of a plurality of displayed menu icons.... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080189659 - Method and system for posting video: Methods and systems for posting video content on a website are disclosed herein. An input indicative of a selection of video content is received from a user. A placeholder image is inserted in an input field to act as a placeholder for the video content being selected. Image manipulation commands... Agent: Yahoo! Inc. C/o Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20080189660 - Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and information processing program: An information processing apparatus that controls reproduction of first content and second content to simultaneously reproduce the contents is disclosed. The information processing apparatus includes: first reproduction control means for controlling reproduction of the first content; selecting means for selecting, from first metadata attached to the first content, first theme... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080189661 - Video user interface: Embodiments of the invention provide methods and systems for providing user input to a system. For example, according to one embodiment, a video camera can be used to capture an image of a user and a background scene. Movements of the user can be detected from the video image and... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP