Data processing: presentation processing of document inventions 12/08

20080320377 - Document management system: A document management system including a repository for storing electronic documents, a portable display for displaying an electronic document stored in the portable display, a folder adapted to physically receive the portable display. The repository may include a digital representation of the folder. The system may link in the repository... Agent: Thorne & Halajian Applied Technology Center

20080320378 - Accelerated visual text to screen translation method: A method of communicating, translating and producing digital visual texts. The inventive method prescribes the translation of a common set of visual conventions occurring in printed visual texts into rhythmic sequential arrangements on screen. These are constructed in synchrony with a carefully designed audio track. The sequential images and audio... Agent: Stefan Kirchanski

20080320379 - Method for generating and opening computer forme file: The present invention relates to a method for generating and opening computer forme file. The method for generating the computer forme file includes the following steps. A content of the printer spool file of the word processing document under the current environment is transformed into a picture; forme file information... Agent: IntechIPLaw Group

20080320380 - Method for inserting and broadcasting slides in a document: A method for inserting slides in a document is disclosed in the present invention. Whether the file selected to be inserted is a slide file; if the file is the slide file, a file type of the slide file is set. A file name, a file path, the file type... Agent: Stout, Uxa, Buyan & Mullins LLP

20080320382 - Method and apparatus for stream based markup language post-processing: Systems, methods and apparatus operate to receiving a markup processing program containing a set of markup processing instructions. Each markup processing instruction includes an operation defining a processing operation to be matched to a markup language representation and a corresponding action to be performed upon matching the operation to the... Agent: Barry W. Chapin, Esq. Chapin Intellectual Property Law, LLC

20080320381 - Web application hybrid structure and methods for building and operating a web application hybrid structure: A web application hybrid structure is disclosed. The structure combines third party content from third party websites with applications on the structure website into an integrated view. A blind template is developed on the web application hybrid site. The blind template comprises framing and organizing information for hosting of the... Agent: Steinfl & Bruno

20080320383 - Presentation of numerous and arbitrarily sized figures within a document: Various technologies and techniques are disclosed for displaying content with figures. All figures on a page of content are scaled so that each of the figures fits within a single column. The figures are placed as close as possible to corresponding figure references in text on the page. The page... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080320384 - Automated addition of images to text: After an electronic document that comprises text is input or received, a method embodiment automatically divides the electronic document into sections, such as paragraphs, chapters, pages, etc. The method automatically identifies a “theme” for each of the sections based on an automated analysis of words within the sections. Once the... Agent: Gibb & Rahman, LLC

20080320385 - Graphical object insertion during preparation of production data for a print job using a still image proxy of a page description language image file: Production data is prepared for a print job wherein the production data includes an electronic document defined by a page description language (PDL). The electronic document is stored in a PDL image file. First, a still image proxy of the PDL image file is created, Next, one or more graphical... Agent: Panitch Schwarze Belisario & Nadel LLP

20080320386 - Methods for optimizing the layout and printing of pages of digital publications.: Systems, methods, graphical user interface elements and other implementations are described for optimizing the layout and printing of pages of digital publications to improve legibility of key content while preserving the layout (e.g. without materially altering the position and size of the bounding boxes of content elements featured on the... Agent: Advancis.com, Inc

20080320388 - Gene information display method and apparatus: Apparatus and method for appropriately processing gene information in order to allow an easy estimation of haplotypes in large quantities of genome data. A list of genotypes at a plurality of gene loci in a plurality of individuals is displayed, using individual data and gene locus data. The individual data... Agent: Reed Smith LLP

20080320387 - Information displaying device and information displaying method: An information displaying device 1 reads and analyzes each screen information defined as information showing a predetermined screen, and displays a screen for each screen information. An analyzed information managing unit 5 stores and manages analyzed displaying information which is displaying information after analysis. A reading unit 2 reads the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080320390 - Logon management software, control device, and logon management method: A logon management software application is executed in a print control device (4) connectable to an information processing device (1), and performs the steps of: detecting if a hardware keyboard (38) is connected to the print control device during a logon process; displaying on a display (35) a first logon... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20080320389 - Mobile information terminal and display control program: The present invention aims at grasping comprehensively files including contents that meet a search condition and also improving a convenience. A mobile information terminal of the present invention having a display portion 10 for displaying contents of a plurality of files corresponding to respective applications, includes a contents search results... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20080320391 - Portable multifunction device, method, and graphical user interface for playing online videos: A portable electronic device with a touch screen display: displays a first list of information about online video items in a plurality of lists; displays a plurality of icons corresponding to at least some of the plurality of lists; in response to detecting a moving finger gesture on the first... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP/ Ai

20080320392 - State-sensitive navigation aid: Navigation logic and related methods are described for assisting a user in using a remote control (RC) device. The navigation logic determines a current state of a user's interaction with an application, and then determines the keys of the RC device that are relevant to the determined state. The navigation... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20080320393 - Program guide 3d zoom: Interactive program guide data is received and elements to be included in an interactive program guide are generated based at least in part on the interactive program guide data. Each of the elements is positioned in a graphical user interface with respect to each of an x-axis, a y-axis, and... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20080320394 - Method and system for presenting a visual notification and delaying an action responsive to an onscreen selection: A method and system for presenting a visual notification and delaying an action responsive to an onscreen selection. A computing unit displays a presentation of a software application or a web page including a selectable item. The computing unit receives a position of the cursor and a selection of the... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20080320395 - Electronic apparatus, an imaging apparatus, a display control method for the same and a program which allows a computer to execute the method: An electronic apparatus is disclosed. The electronic apparatus may include a plurality of terminals that output a predetermined item of information; a connecting appliance selecting means for selecting a type of another electronic apparatus to be a target for connection among other electronic apparatuses having a terminal connectable to at... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20080320396 - Method and system for displaying data on a mobile terminal: The present invention provides a method and system for acquiring, storing and displaying content on a mobile terminal. The mobile terminal mobile terminal is adapted to acquire content from content providing devices or sources such as the Internet, e-mail, or direct download from a PC to the mobile terminal for... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20080320397 - Integrated sharing of electronic documents: An online service that allows multiple users to share electronic documents over a computer network. Each user may access the online system after specifying the user's credentials, after which the user may view the user interface specific to that user. The user interface may contain multiple panes, such as a... Agent: Wolf Greenfield (microsoft Corporation) C/o Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20080320398 - Method for providing notification service of electronic mail transfer: Provided is a method for providing an electronic document transmission notification service for notifying transmission of the electronic mail That a sender creates and transmits to a receiver. The method is achieved by storing an email address of the receiver with a mobile phone number and a name on a... Agent: Saltamar Innovations

20080320399 - User management of display properties of shared display window in shared display window environment: Computer implemented method, system and computer usable program code for managing display properties of a shared display window in a shared display window environment, wherein the shared display window environment includes a host for managing display properties of shared display windows in the shared display window environment, and at least... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20080320400 - String customization: Techniques are described to provide string customization. In an implementation, a menu document is generated that specifies one or more menu items to be included in a menu that correspond to one or more actions available via code of a module. A string document is generated that specifies one or... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080320402 - Device and method for generating a user interface configuration for a field device: A device for generating a user interface configuration for at least one field device, measuring device, in particular a sensor or actuator, is provided. The device comprises a database and a user interface generating device, wherein the database is designed to store a plurality of device data for the field... Agent: Fay Kaplun & Marcin, LLP

20080320401 - Template-based deployment of user interface objects: A system may include reception of a model describing a plurality of user interface elements, modification of a markup language template based on the model, and deployment of the modified template to a runtime environment. Further aspects may include reception of a second model describing a second plurality of user... Agent: Sap Ag C/o Buckley, Maschoff & Talwalkar LLC

20080320403 - Accessing data using its chart symbols: A method for data representation by an icon that graphically depicts numerical relations within the data, comprising (a) deriving a chart of the data; (b) generating an icon as an object comprising a displayable image depicting the chart; and (c) associating the icon with the data.... Agent: Martin D. Moynihan D/b/a Prtsi, Inc.

20080320404 - Method for generating object properties related to user interface: A method for generating an object attribute related to a user interface of a digital displaying device is disclosed. The method includes: utilizing a development tool to develop the user interface to generate an editing result; checking the editing result according to a checking rule of the development tool to... Agent: Muncy, Geissler, Olds & Lowe, PLLC

20080320405 - Methods and apparatus for providing context sensitive templates for a web based workflow design: The present disclosure provides methods and apparatuses for providing context sensitive templates for a web based workflow design. Using the methods and apparatus herein, users can create business processes using pre-built templates that define process logic via a web browser. This allows business process designers the ability to design processes... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, LLP

20080320406 - Image displaying apparatus, image displaying method, program for executing image displaying method, and storage medium storing program: It is controlled to determine priority for each of plural display objects, wherein the priority having plural levels, and to change displays of the plural display objects in the determined priority, in accordance with a display form of an image different from the plural display objects. To achieve this, the... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080320408 - Devices, systems, and methods regarding machine vision user interfaces: Certain exemplary embodiments can provide a method, which can comprise, via a coordinator sub-process of a machine vision user interface process, causing a user interface of a machine vision system to be defined. The machine vision user interface process can comprise a plurality of components. The coordinator sub-process can be... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080320407 - Method for processing data: The invention relates to a method for processing data, said method comprising a plurality of steps. A plurality of data sources are provided. At least one data access method is provided for accessing the individual data sources, said data sources providing a homogeneously reprocessable data structure. The individual data sources... Agent: Salter & Michaelson The Heritage Building

20080320409 - Tightly-coupled synchronized selection, filtering, and sorting between log tables and log charts: In an event detection and monitoring system displaying event data in both tabular and chart formats, the displays of each are tightly-coupled to one another so that when a user selects an event in one format the corresponding event in the other format is highlighted or otherwise emphasized. When a... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20080320410 - Virtual keyboard text replication: The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for replicating text at a virtual keyboard. Characters submitted to, displayed at, or accumulated for submission to an application data field are echoed at a keyboard data field that is in relatively close proximity to virtual keys used to... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20080320411 - Method of text type-ahead: Methods and arrangements of text entry are discussed. Embodiments include transformations, code, state machines or other logic to enter text selecting text based upon the number of words in phrases of the text, upon the number of letters in words of the text, or upon other patterns of the text.... Agent: Ibm Corporation (jss) C/o Schubert Osterrieder & Nickelson PLLC

20080320412 - Document processing device and document processing method: A document processing apparatus has an operation input unit which allows a user to input an instruction. A document readout unit reads out an XML document described in a first vocabulary. A mapping relation creating unit detects the elements or the attributes included in the XML document, and creates definition... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080320413 - Dynamic user interface for previewing live content: A dynamic user interface for previewing live content includes multiple tiles. Information for multiple pieces of live content available from a gallery is obtained, and this information is presented in the multiple tiles of the user interface in accordance with a current user interface layout. In accordance with one aspect,... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080320414 - Edge anti-aliasing: Methods and apparatuses for efficient edge anti-aliasing.... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080320415 - Apparatus, method and computer-readable storage medium for accessing media content: An apparatus is configured to present a graphical user interface (GUI) that includes category, subcategory and media content fields. The category field identifies therein categories associated with pieces of media content. The apparatus is configured to receive selection of an identified category, and in response thereto, (a) note the selected... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20080320416 - System, method and computer program products for point of contact family services: An application for providing point-of-contact family services includes providing a plurality of kiosks located at public points-of-contact, each kiosk having at least a computer system, a display, an input device and a network interface. At each of the kiosks, a main menu is presented with selections that include at least... Agent: Larson And Larson

20080320417 - Mail status notification system: The present invention provides a mail status notification system including a software application, at least one item of mail, a colour-coded identification means and at least one functional feature whereby the mail status notification system provides a means of enabling a user to quickly and easily identify the status of... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.C.

20080320418 - Graphical user friendly interface keypad system for cad: The present invention offers an improved GUI interface for CAD software to allow users easy access to menus. A user can execute commands and options with little disruption and with minimal hand movement. The keypad is represented on the computer screen and is called a GUFI (Graphical User Friendly Interface)... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP

20080320419 - Touch screen device, method, and graphical user interface for providing maps, directions, and location-based information: A device, method, and graphical user interface for providing maps, directions, and location-based information on a touch screen display are disclosed.... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP/ Ai

20080313528 - Method and system for producing patent specification: A method and system for producing a patent specification is capable of producing a patent specification draft rapidly for the inventor, applicant or patent attorney, thereby reducing the time to complete the specification and improving the mutual understanding between the inventor and the patent attorney. After the inventor inputs the... Agent: Yao-hui Chang

20080313527 - Region-based controlling method and system for electronic documents: The invention provides a region-based controlling method and system of electronic documents. In this method, the electronic document is first encapsulated within a virtual “container”, forming a new electronic file (system), which contains at least a region judgment module, used to judge the current location of the document, and contains... Agent: Michael N. Lau Lau & Associates, LLC

20080313529 - Increasing accuracy in determining purpose of fields in forms: An arrangement for increasing the accuracy in determining the purpose of fields in electronic forms is disclosed in which a form mapping mechanism describes the layout of a form, for example, by identifying the location of objects on a form—such as text-entry fields, drop-down menus and the like that are... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080313530 - Method and apparatus for making devices on a local network remotely-accessible: The present invention relates to method and apparatus for enabling remote query and control for a device on a home network. A starting control point or a gateway of home network in accordance with the present invention makes out a document of device list that shows a device in association... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20080313531 - Method and apparatus for making devices on a local network remotely-accessible: The present invention relates to method and apparatus for enabling to request querying and/or controlling operations to a device on a home network via Internet. In a method in accordance with the present invention, a document of device list to show devices is made out in browser-interpretable format (or in... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20080313532 - Method and apparatus for repurposing formatted content: A method and system for reformatting data. The method involves a series of steps which can include identifying a template which corresponds to a specified document. The specified document can contain formatted data. Additionally, the step of applying a template to the specified document can be extracting data from the... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20080313533 - Dynamically laying out images and associated text using pre-defined layouts: Technologies are described herein for dynamically laying out images and associated text using pre-defined layouts. The pre-defined layouts are created and data defining the layouts is stored in a layout definition file. An application program provides a user interface for dynamically laying out the images and associated text using the... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080313534 - System and method for text translations and annotation in an instant messaging session: A system and method for translating received input from a sender to recipient in an instant messaging dialog is disclosed. The method comprises receiving instant messaging input from a sender for recipient, wherein the instant messaging input comprises at least one subculture specific term. A category is identified the defines... Agent: At&t Corp.

20080313535 - System of processing a document targeted for one system on another system: A document processing system for actively processing a document targeted for one system on another system. The system of processing a document having associated field definitions targeted for a system operating in a first encoding scheme in a text editor operating in a second encoding scheme includes determining if a... Agent: Ibm Corp. (wip) C/o Walder Intellectual Property Law, P.C.

20080313536 - Situation sharing and viewing: A system for sharing and displaying information may have a definition tool that allows a user to select a group of information sources and publish the sources as a situation for the user. A display mechanism may be able to collect several situations from various sources and display the situations... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080313537 - Document management apparatus, document management method, and program: A method is described for displaying a preview image of a document in which a plurality of constituents is defined. The includes setting an authority for each user with respect to each constituent; displaying on a display device a content of at least one constituent as a preview image; designating... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20080313538 - Visual feedback display: Visual feedback may be provided. First, a continuous contact with a first point on a surface may be detected. The surface may comprise, for example, a touch screen or a touch pad. The continuous contact may be caused by a selecting element comprising, for example, a stylus or a digit... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20080313539 - On-board input and management device for a computing system: An on-board input and management device is disclosed. In an exemplary implementation, a method of managing a blade computing system may include monitoring current systems status in a blade computing system with an integrated management controller. The method may also include using the integrated management controller for user interaction to... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080313540 - System and method for event-based rendering of visual effects: A system and method is provided for rendering visual effects, or other types of effects, in response to an occurrence of one or more events. The visual effects may be rendered on a user desktop in order to alert or otherwise notify a user that the one or more events... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20080313541 - Method and system for personalized segmentation and indexing of media: This disclosure describes systems, methods and user interfaces that allow a user to identify, annotate and share a portion of a media item with another user. Through the user interface, the user may render a media item and identify a segment of the media item. Based on the media item,... Agent: Yahoo! Inc. C/o Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20080313542 - System and method for witness testimony collection: A witness testimony collection system may include a storage medium configured to store one or more documents. An interactive pen display device may be configured to transmit, in real time, digital ink markings on a document selected from the one or more documents. A high definition camera may be configured... Agent: Pepper Hamilton LLP

20080313543 - Systems and methods to provide communication references to connect people for real time communications: Methods and apparatuses to present communication references to connect people for real time communications in response to requests to terminate the presentation of documents. One embodiment includes: responsive to a request from a user to terminate a presentation of a document, determining a reference to an entity based on a... Agent: At&t Legal Department Attn: Patent Docketing

20080313544 - Programmed apparatus and system for dynamic display of presentation files: A method of preparing and displaying a cumulative presentation and a presentation system are provided. A listing of available individual presentation files is provided through a user interface. Each of the presentation files comprises a plurality of presentation slides. A user is queried through the user interface to select presentation... Agent: Duane Morris LLP - PhiladelphiaIPDepartment

20080313546 - System and method for collaborative information display and markup: The present invention provides a system that allows documents of various types to be shared between users at geographically dispersed client computers. The users may contemporaneously manipulate the documents and each users manipulations are displayed to the other users in real time using a lightweight synchronization process.... Agent: Bereskin And Parr

20080313545 - Systems and methods for providing desktop or application remoting to a web browser: Systems and methods (“tools”) are described that enable a user to access and interact with a remote desktop or application without the need to install a plug-in or software in addition to a web browser. In some embodiments, the tools include double buffering graphics that display the remote desktop or... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20080313547 - Method and apparatus for presenting a graphical user interface: A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a communication device having a controller to present a graphical user interface (GUI) with a plurality of toolbars, detect a selection of a web-based toolbar, present the GUI with a hierarchical listing of content associated with the... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20080313548 - Systems and methods for activity-based control of consumer electronics: The present invention provides apparatus, systems and methods for activity-based control of multiple consumer electronic devices independent of a state of the consumer electronic devices. In an embodiment a remote control apparatus for controlling consumer electronic devices includes a user interface, a consumer electronic device interface, a transition-based controller and... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20080313549 - Extensible remote display infrastructure with dynamic virtual channels: An extensible remote display infrastructure is described that provides support for a competitive multi-vendor development environment. Application functionality may be partitioned to suit the needs of a given application and client-side functionality may be packaged in dynamic virtual channel plug-ins for remote display clients. Interactive coupling between the remote display... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20080313550 - Recording medium on which web conference support program is recorded and web conference support apparatus: A Web conference support apparatus acquires arbitrary attribute information from attribute information of a user, specifies a related video conference data file having information related to the attribute information in a set of video conference data files of a Web conference, forms link information which accesses the related video conference... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080313551 - Apparatus and method for forced linking of product/service offers on a web page: A web page that includes offer cells is presented to a user. Each of the offer cells is associated with an offer for a product or a service. Each offer cell may include a boundary and a hyperlink. The user may select an area within one of the offer cells,... Agent: Docket Clerk

20080313552 - Method for customizing cover for electronic device: A method and system for customizing a cover for an electronic device is provided. A plurality of templates associated with a plurality of electronic devices are provided. A client may select a template. The client may create and edit images on the template associated with a model of an electronic... Agent: Mccormick, Paulding & Huber LLP

20080313553 - Framework for creating user interfaces containing interactive and dynamic 3-d objects: An arrangement for creating a fully interactive user interface containing 3-D objects is provided by a suite of attached dependency properties in a single class that operates under the Windows Presentation Foundation (“WPF”) programming model. The framework for exposing such 3-D interactive functionality, named Facade 3-D, enables application developers to... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080313554 - Apparatus, method, computer program and user interface for storing information: An apparatus including: a memory for storing files in a storage system including a plurality of folders; a display for presenting the plurality of folders and the files stored in the plurality of folders to a user of the apparatus; a user input device for enabling a user to designate... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20080313556 - Access control system with rules engine architecture: As access control system and method is provided. The access control system in one aspect may comprise a client application operable to provide a user interface for allowing a user to dynamically configure rules and associated parameters for controlling access to an entity; a rules engine proxy operable to receive... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20080313555 - Scalable user interface: The scaling of a user interface according to network or device limitations is disclosed. One embodiment provides a method of scaling a user interface, comprising sending a user interface over a network to a networked device, detecting a performance limitation of the user interface in at least one of the... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080313557 - System and methods for diagnosing and managing organization change: A system and methods for diagnosing and managing organizational change. A method for diagnosing solutions to organizational performance issues comprises: receiving a list of issues which affect performance of an organization; in response to user input selecting a predefined category for each issue, generating a diagnostic chart including each issue... Agent: George Mack Riddle

20080313559 - Functionality for handheld field maintenance tools: Improved functionality of handheld field maintenance tools is provided. A user may interact with the handheld field maintenance tool using a software application that communicates with the tool and with a manufacturer server. Tool information, including a unique tool identifier, is uploaded from the tool and associated with at least... Agent: Christopher R. Christenson Westman, Champlin & Kelly, P.A.

20080313558 - System and method for managing media with virtual directories: A system and method for managing media files (e.g., utilizing virtual directories). Various aspects of the present invention, for example, comprise interacting with a user to define one or more virtual file directories and/or associated media file characteristics. One or more media file characteristics may, for example, be associated with... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080313560 - Financial decision systems: The financial decision system provides for real-time calculation of buying pressure and selling pressure for any tradable instrument market. Additionally, it provides real-time visual simultaneous plots and charts of buying pressure and selling pressure. Further, the system automatically presents buy and sell indicators and expert commentary based on automatically detected... Agent: Stoneman Volk Patent Group

20080313563 - Method and apparatus for creating map template and method and apparatus for managing devices using map template: A method and apparatus to create a map template, and a method and apparatus to manage devices using a map template, the method of managing the devices using the map template including: searching for one or more devices to be managed; selecting a map template that represents an interior structure... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080313562 - System and method for designing landscape architecture based on real image: For an easy and efficient designing of landscape architecture, disclosed is a system for designing landscape architecture based on real images, which includes: a user interface supporting an exchange of information between the user and the system; a database storing real images obtained by processing photographs of landscape architectural elements;... Agent: Saliwanchik Lloyd & Saliwanchik A Professional Association

20080313561 - Techniques for representing and organizing user interface data: Techniques are described for representing commands of a user interface of an application. One or more command descriptions for one or more commands are received. Each of the command descriptions has one or more properties and represents an instance of one of the commands. One or more command group descriptions... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080313564 - System and method for text disambiguation and context designation in incremental search: Methods and systems for text disambiguation and context designation in incremental search are provided. A method for selecting items in response to ambiguous keystrokes entered by a user and unambiguous metadata associated with a previously selected search result includes receiving ambiguous keystrokes, selecting and presenting a first subset of items... Agent: Wilmerhale/boston

20080313566 - Dynamic interface for remote control of a home automation network: A home automation network system having an automation controller and a remote control is described. The automation controller can dynamically download extracts from a menu database to the remote control as a user navigates through the menus. Downloading can be based on remote control configuration parameters communicated to the automation... Agent: Thorpe North & Western, LLP.

20080313565 - Dynamic user interface for in-diagram shape selection: Technologies are described herein for providing a dynamic user interface (UI) to allow a user to select an active diagram shape for insertion into a flowchart or other diagram without leaving the drawing canvas. Through the use of the embodiments presented herein, a diagramming application provides a user with a... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080313568 - Digital multimedia playback apparatus and control method thereof: A digital multimedia playback apparatus and a control method thereof in which a user starts touching, on a touch screen, one of an item and a function icon ends touching the other one of the item and function icon to control the items and functions displayed thereon. The digital multimedia... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080313567 - System and method for providing dynamic prioritization and importance filtering of computer desktop icons and program menu items: System and method for displaying an item on a display of a computer, wherein the item represents a file installed on the computer, are described. In one embodiment, the method comprises, responsive to a determination that a usage rate of the file exceeds a predetermined minimum rate, displaying the item... Agent: Haynes And Boone, LLP

20080313569 - Digital video reproduction apparatus and method: The invented apparatus includes a part of measuring the duration of activation of a select button on its control pad. When the select button is activated longer than a predetermined period, the apparatus enters a mode of continuously selecting multiple thumbnails for selecting a plurality of successive thumbnails. During this... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080313570 - Method and system for media landmark identification: Methods and systems are described for allowing a user to quickly determine parts of a media item in which the user will be interested. In the methods and systems described, a timeline is provided for the media item and semantic icons are used as media landmarks along the timeline. The... Agent: Yahoo! Inc. C/o Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20080313571 - Method and system for automating the creation of customer-centric interfaces: An interface is provided by creating prompts for the interface. The prompts represent tasks to be accomplished by a user and are obtained based on user input. The prompts are grouped according to relationships, obtained from the user input, among the tasks. The interface is updated based on user feedback.... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080313573 - Creating, displaying, and editing a sub-process within a process diagram: Technologies are described herein for creating, displaying, and editing a sub-process within a process diagram. A diagramming application provides for the grouping of existing process operations of a process diagram into a sub-process. The sub-process is displayed within the process diagram as a container that may be expanded and collapsed... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080313572 - Presenting and navigating content having varying properties: Technologies are described herein for presenting and navigating content having varying properties. One or more local or networked providers are searched for content objects. Content objects include associated metadata and may be stored within a content container. Each content object is displayed separately from its associated content container. Displayed content... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080313574 - System and method for search with reduced physical interaction requirements: A user-interface method and system for displaying a set of search results on a user device having a limited display area and having a five-button interface, where a user may explicitly or implicitly choose a search result to be expanded in order to provide space for displaying additional metacontent related... Agent: Wilmerhale/boston

20080313575 - System and process for controlling electronic components in a ubiquitous computing environment using multimodal integration: The present invention is directed toward a system and process that controls a group of networked electronic components using a multimodal integration scheme in which inputs from a speech recognition subsystem, gesture recognition subsystem employing a wireless pointing device and pointing analysis subsystem also employing the pointing device, are combined... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. (c/o Microsoft Corporation)

20080307296 - System and method for pre-rendering of combined document pages: The subject application is directed to a system and method for pre-rendering of combined document pages. First, electronic document data inclusive of page data representing a plurality of document pages is received. A combine instruction is then received to combine the received page data. Multiple document pages are then combined... Agent: Tucker Ellis & West LLP

20080307297 - Method and system for click-thru capability in electronic media: Methods and systems for capturing, collecting, analyzing and auditing of electronic documents. In an embodiment, there is provided the ability to present an audit function or “click thru” capability with respect to image files, non-structured text, non-structured html, and pdf documents.... Agent: Kelley Drye & Warren LLP

20080307298 - Method and system to process an electronic form: A method and system to process an electronic form is provided. The system may include a communications module to receive a request to digitally sign an electronic form, the electronic form being direct rendered, a suspend module to respond to the request by suspending direct rendering, and a signed content... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/adobe

20080307299 - Client-side components: Generating web pages dynamically at a client is disclosed. In some embodiments, when a web application or other code determines that a page is to be displayed, a set of components required to generate the page dynamically at the client is determined. Any components not already available at the client... Agent: Van Pelt, Yi & James LLP And Apple Computer, Inc.

20080307300 - Display control information generation: Provides a Web server for generating display control information for dividing and displaying a form in a style conforming to a client device used by a user, which includes a HTTP request reception unit for receiving a form request from the client device, an application code database for storing a... Agent: Louis Paul Herzberg

20080307301 - Web clip using anchoring: Methods, computer program products, systems and data structures for generating a signature for a portion or portions of a content source are described. The signature can be generated by identifying a portion or portions of a content source, and determining a signature that defines the portion or portions. If the... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080307302 - Display device, display method and image forming apparatus: A display device for displaying a plurality of options. When the number of the options to be displayed is to be changed according to aspects of display, the display device is controlled so that at least one of the options can be displayed in a display position which differs in... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080307303 - Overflow stack user interface: Systems and methods for providing an overflow stack. An overflow stack can be generated based upon adjustments to a group display area and based upon application of one or more display criterion. An overflow stack can include representation of any system objects that can not be displayed in an adjusted... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080307305 - Method and apparatus for dynamic session placeholder for message collection user interface: A method and apparatus for representing a conversation of related messages is provided. In a message collection user interface for displaying messages sent and received by a communications device, a dynamic session placeholder is used for a respective conversation of related messages. The message collection user interface is displayed including... Agent: Ogilvy Renault LLP

20080307304 - Method and system for producing a sequence of views: A method for producing a sequence of views, comprising the steps of providing a screenplay as an initial meta script in a meta script language for a computer; converting the initial meta script into commands for controlling at least one motion picture production device; executing the converted commands with said... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080307306 - Contact picker interface: An interface for enabling a user to quickly access contact information automatically displays a list of expected contacts that are most likely to be selected by the user when attention is directed to an appropriate object requiring contact information. When a contact is selected, the corresponding and appropriate contact information... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20080307307 - Image capture and manipulation: The present disclosure includes, among other things, systems, methods and program products for image capture and manipulation.... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080307308 - Creating web clips: Methods, computer program products, systems and data structures are described to assist a user in identifying a number of potential areas of interest and selecting an area of interest suitable for clipping as the user navigates around a content source. In some implementations, the content source can be parsed and... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080307309 - Three dimensional viewer for video: A computer-implemented method of presenting digital content can include displaying several arranged in a staggered formation in a user interface, wherein at least one of the several panes is entirely visible and adjacent panes are partially visible and displayed adjacent to the entirely visible pane, displaying a frame of an... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080307310 - Website application system for online video producers and advertisers: A system for accessing development components, including an online video clip library of templates and an online music clip library, and enabling online production of user-friendly, custom-integrated media products. The system includes a Web application on a Website for hosting services for producers/advertisers/users. The system also includes a search engine... Agent: Edward Langer C/o Shiboleth Yisraeli Roberts Zisman & Co.

20080307311 - System and method for obtaining and sharing content associated with geographic information: A system and method are provided that allow the obtaining, categorization, discovery, and navigation of content, in particular video content. The system may be operable for a user, for a set of people authorized by the user, or for anyone with an Internet connection. The system employs a desktop software... Agent: Mayer & Williams PC

20080307312 - User interface development tools: A user interface tool can use a repository of user interface elements to create a user interface. One or more of the elements in the repository can be reused within the interface or among multiple interfaces. At least some of the elements have associated behavioral information. The behavioral information can... Agent: Klarquist Sparkman, LLP

20080307313 - Apparatus, system, and method for topological display of user interface elements: An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for topological display of user interface elements. An input/output module receives the selection of a UIE. A topology display module displays a topology view of the selected UIE and a child UIE of the selected UIE. A relationship display module displays a modified... Agent: Kunzler & Mckenzie

20080307314 - System connections and user interfaces: This description relates to methods and systems for providing user interfaces on a first system for browsing other systems coupled to the first system. In one embodiment, a method includes logging into at least one second data processing system (DPS) from a first DPS, the second DPS having a storage... Agent: Apple Inc./bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080307315 - Adaptive user interface for multi-source systems: A method for controlling configuration display screens within a client-host multi-source system, including transferring look & feel parameters from a host device to a client device, setting parameters of a configuration program for the client device, according to the look & feel parameters transferred by the transferring, generating, by the... Agent: Soquel Group, LLC

20080307316 - System and method for assigning user preference settings to fields in a category, particularly a media category: A system and method for assigning a user preference setting for fields in a category, particularly a media category, using groups is disclosed. A category typically contains a plurality of fields. Instead of the user having to individually weight each field in the category to assign their preferences, the present... Agent: Concert Technology And Withrow & Terranova

20080307318 - Data pivoting method and system for computer network asset management: A method, system, and network include hardware and software for selecting data of a particular type relating to the management of resources associated to form a local area network of computer workstations and associated peripherals. The present disclosure automatically inventories computer workstations, peripheral devices, and related software associated to form... Agent: HulseyIPIntellectual Property Lawyers, P.C.

20080307319 - Image-forming apparatus and information-processing method: An image-forming apparatus includes a web browser and is connectable to a network. The image-forming apparatus includes a transmission unit configured to transmit a menu request including identification information of the image-forming apparatus, a reception unit configured to receive a response to the menu request from a management server via... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20080307317 - Systems and methods for selecting and/or communicating web content: The present invention provides systems and methods for selecting and/or communicating web content. Systems and methods are disclosed for rendering object(s) in web pages movable by a user of a client device. The object(s) may further be selected for communication to one or more other device(s) and/or location(s). For example,... Agent: Latimer, Mayberry & MatthewsIPLaw, LLP

20080307320 - Online system and method for enabling social search and structured communications among social networks: A system and method for enabling structured communication among a social network is disclosed. The system enables a user to formulate a question and answer pattern including potential responses to the question based upon the form of question. The system then translates and transmits a message including the question and... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20080307321 - Method and system for construction document management and distribution: A method for processing an order for construction document printing comprising receiving a first printing request, wherein the request is comprised of one or more documents that must be printed for one or more users; determining an address associated with each of the one or more users; determining a closest... Agent: Ralph A. Dowell Of Dowell & Dowell P.C.

20080307322 - Presenting text messages: In an instant messaging application, a message container (e.g., a stylized text bubble) is provided for indicating that an activity has occurred in a non-foreground chat. The message container can be displayed in the chat where the activity occurred. The message container can contain a portion of the message (e.g.,... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080307323 - Calendaring techniques and systems: The calendaring techniques and systems described herein enable a user to more easily resolve conflicts for attendees to an event by visually indicating available time slots for all attendees in a calendar window or in a timeline window separate from the calendar window. The first available time slot may be... Agent: Apple Inc./bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080307324 - Sharing content in a videoconference session: A videoconferencing participant can share content with other participants seamlessly and effortlessly. A consistent user interface is used to present content no matter what type of content is being shared. Navigation controls allow a participant in the videoconference session to control what content is being displayed. The particular navigation controls... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080307326 - System, method, and service for inducing a pattern of communication among various parties: A communication pattern inducing system focuses on the propagation of topics amongst a plurality of nodes based on the text of the node rather than hyperlinks of the node. A node could represent a weblog or any other source of information such as person, a conversation, images, etc. The system... Agent: Fleit, Gibbons, Gutman, Bongini & Bianco P.l

20080307325 - Videoconferencing systems with recognition ability: A videoconferencing system which encodes different streams of information. The information may include video, audio, speech recognized versions of the audio, and language translated versions of the audio. Text may be sent as part of the videoconference... Agent: Scott C Harris

20080307327 - Three dimensional defect mapping: A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer usable program code for a three dimensional presentation of defects in a system. In response to a request to present a set of defects using a three dimensional presentation, information is retrieved for the set of defects from a database, wherein the information... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20080307328 - Methods and systems for editing of web pages in an application capable of displaying web page content: Editing of blocks of web page content from within an integrated application capable of displaying a web page. An algorithm based on both the element and the element format is applied to identify a qualifying block to which a user's input is directed. The heuristic applied to identify such a... Agent: Apple Inc./bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080307329 - Screen editing apparatus, screen editing method, and computer program product: An attribute storing unit stores a type attribute indicating a type of a selection component for defining how a selection component having a plurality of options is to be displayed and a display attribute indicating a display status of an operation component representing each of the options. A display attribute... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080307331 - Graphic information generation system: There is realized a graphic information generation system capable of allowing alteration at a quote-destination with linkage kept in continuous state, and enlarging a link part size by integrating similar link parts in one, to thereby implement customizing. In the graphic information generation system for generating a graphic object file... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20080307330 - Visualization object divet: A graphical user interface includes a desktop and a visualization object receptacle defining a depth aspect. One or more visualization objects are disposed within the visualization object receptacle. A selectable divet can be displayed proximate to a visualization object to indicate an actionable state associated with a system object represented... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080307339 - Child-oriented computing system: A child-oriented browsing system is provided wherein the system is implemented using a piece of client software, executing on the computing device of a child, and a website/server that manages the client software and other functions of the child-oriented browsing system.... Agent: Dla Piper US LLP

20080307337 - Classifying digital media based on content: A computer-implemented method for classifying digital content can include displaying one or more poster frames in a user interface, wherein a poster frame corresponds to an item of digital content, displaying one or more first level classification panes adjacent to a poster frame corresponding to an item to be classified,... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080307332 - Data transfer indicator icon a diagram: Configuring wires/icons in a diagram. The diagram may be an executable diagram such as a graphical program or a system diagram. The diagram may include a plurality of icons that are connected by wires, and the icons may visually represent functionality of the diagram. The diagram may be executable to... Agent: Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel, P.C.

20080307333 - Deletion in electronic backups: Systems and methods are provided for storing and restoring digital data. In some implementations, a method is provided. The method includes displaying a current view, initiating a history view, the history view including two or more visual representations of corresponding earlier versions of the current view, identifying a selection of... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080307338 - Interface representing cookbook for facilitating charitable giving to charity: A method (e.g., provided in the form of a machine-readable medium on which are recorded machine-executable instructions for performing the method, execution of which by a machine provides an interface representing a cookbook for facilitating charitable giving to a charity) includes: providing at least one of first, second and third... Agent: Edward A. Maurer

20080307335 - Object stack: Stack elements corresponding to system object are associated with a stack item and aggregated in the stack item. A context engine provides contextual control of the stack item and stack elements.... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080307341 - Rendering graphical objects based on context: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products and computer readable media, for rendering graphical objects. A context of a user interface element in a graphical user interface is identified. The identified context is mapped to one or more effects. A graphical object associated with the user interface element is... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080307342 - Rendering semi-transparent user interface elements: A computer-implemented method includes: determining an intensity of a visual effect to be applied to a user interface element; adjusting the intensity of the visual effect based on a characteristic feature of a background area; and rendering the user interface element based on the adjusted intensity of the visual effect.... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080307336 - User interface for application interface manipulation: Selection of visualization objects, such as applications windows, is performed by determining a position of a system object. A graphical representation of a system object can be positioned over a display area of an application interface. The application interface is preeminently displayed in response to a graphical representation of system... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080307334 - Visualization and interaction models: Visual representations of system objects are associated, and one or more association characteristics of the associated visual representations are identified. Interaction models and/or visualization models are automatically selected from a plurality of interaction and/or visualization models based on the identified one or more association characteristic, and the selected interaction and/or... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080307340 - Web application configuration method and system thereof: A Web application can be used without delivering data directly to a Web application provider. An application provider with a user interface function sends a user-operated Web browser an application script for providing a user interface function that operates on the Web browser. A data provider, which cooperates with the... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080307343 - Browsing or searching user interfaces and other aspects: User interfaces for browsing and/or searching are described. In one embodiment, a method includes displaying a first display area for display representations of documents matching a search query, the first display area configured to display content of the documents which can have a plurality of different types of content including... Agent: Apple Inc./bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080307344 - Plant monitoring equipment and plant operation monitoring method: A plant monitoring apparatus and a plant operation monitoring method are disclosed, wherein the plant monitoring apparatus includes a display unit for displaying a plant monitor screen having a plurality of windows displayed in superposition with each other, a monitor unit for monitoring a status change of the plant, and... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080307346 - Metadata editing control: A metadata management architecture. The architecture includes a property component that lists one or more properties related to a file, and a viewing component that present files having one or more of the related properties. A synchronization component provides immediate synchronization between property editing fields of the property component and... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080307345 - User interface for electronic backup: Systems and methods are provided for storing and restoring digital data. A method includes receiving, a first user input requesting that a backup interface be displayed, displaying the backup interface, the backup interface including a display area for presenting at least a first visual representation of an earlier version of... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080307347 - Application-based backup-restore of electronic information: Systems and methods are provides for storing and restoring digital data. In some implementations, a system is provided. The system includes a backup component, the backup component for capturing a state of a view of a user interface of an application as part of a backup operation and a first... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080307348 - Method to review, preview and modify change plans from a progress bar: A method, system and computer-usable medium are disclosed for using an interactive progress indicator bar to graphically display the completion status of a plurality of computer operations, modify predetermined operations before they are completed, and then restart the modified operations. An interactive progress indicator bar is implemented in a graphical... Agent: Hamilton & Terrile, LLP IBM Rsw

20080307349 - Sharing a computer display across a network: Detailed herein is a technology which, among other things, allows a source computer to display image data on a destination computer's display. In one approach to the technology, a method of sharing a monitor across a network is described. This method involves retrieving graphics information from a display driver on... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080307350 - Method and apparatus for improved desktop arrangement: A method and apparatus for organizing and viewing information in a data processing system is described. According to one embodiment of the invention, a group is created according to a predefined set of rules where the group contains a plurality of icons. The group is displayed on a desktop of... Agent: Apple Inc./bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080307351 - Multi-dimensional application environment: A back surface is axially disposed from a viewing surface, and one or more side surfaces extend from the back surface to the viewing surface. An application content frame for an executing application is generated on the back surface. One or more application control elements for the execution application are... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080307352 - Desktop system object removal: A graphical user interface includes a first system object, e.g., a window. The first system object is removed from the graphical user interface when the first system object remains inactive for a period of time, and the first system object is substantially overlapped by a second system object e.g., a... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080307353 - Medical apparatus and user interface for a medical apparatus: A medical apparatus comprises a user interface (30) enabling setting of parameters and a control system (18) for defining on the user interface screen (31) an operating region (32), where working displays are displayed, and a navigation region (33), where navigation keys (35) are displayed; the navigation keys are organized... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20080307354 - Information processing apparatus: In order to efficiently display a plurality of images on a display screen, the display screen is divided into a number of areas based on the number of images that are designated for display. For example, if four information items are selected and designated for display, the screen is divided... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080307355 - Operating apparatus, image forming apparatus, computer readable recording medium and method for controlling display panel: An operating apparatus includes a display panel that displays a plural of popup windows with layers and a cancel button used to cancel displaying the popup windows except a window of the highest layer, where the popup windows indicate setting information as the popup windows are shifted relative to each... Agent: Von Simson & Chin

20080307357 - Automated default dimension selection within a multidimensional enterprise software system: Techniques are described for automatically selecting default dimensions of multidimensional data for publication. A computer-implemented system, for example, includes a data store having multidimensional data. The multidimensional data includes one or more data cubes having dimensions. The system further includes a publish module for accessing the data store and publishing... Agent: Shumaker & Sieffert, P.A.

20080307356 - Navigation apparatus and navigation program: Recognizing that a search target must be particular identifying words, words that are shared by a plurality of sets of destination data are stored as search keywords appended to individual sets of destination data that serve as the search targets. In execution of a search for a destination, keywords that... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20080307358 - Highlighting related user interface controls: Highlighting related user interface controls to selected items improves the ease of use and the intuitiveness of a graphical user interface. In preferred embodiments, user interface controls that are related to a selected object in the display are uniquely highlighted when an object is selected to show the user what... Agent: Martin & Associates, LLC

20080307363 - Browsing or searching user interfaces and other aspects: User interfaces for browsing and/or searching are described. In one embodiment, a method includes displaying a first display area for display representations of documents matching a search query, the first display area configured to display content of the documents which can have a plurality of different types of content including... Agent: Apple Inc./bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080307362 - Desktop filter: A desktop operable to display one or more system objects is modified using one or more filters, operable to modify the presentation of the one or more system objects.... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080307359 - Grouping graphical representations of objects in a user interface: Graphical representations of distinct system objects are associated into a group. The group is displayed in a user interface as a graphical element having one or more views. The group can be collapsed into a stack and gestures can be applied to group. Operations are performed on the group in... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080307360 - Multi-dimensional desktop: A graphical user interface has a back surface disposed from viewing surface to define a depth, and one or more one or more side surfaces extend from the back surface to the viewing surface. An icon receptacle is disposed on one or more of the side surfaces, and one or... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080307361 - Selection user interface: Selection of visualization objects, such as icons, is represented by a flowing selection boundary. The region enclosed by the selection boundary can include a display properly, e.g., color and/or texture. The display property may be adjusted in response to an identified event, e.g., the presence of a cursor or a... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080307364 - Visualization object receptacle: An icon receptacle is disposed along a depth aspect, and one or more icons are disposed within the icon receptacle, one of which is a stack item.... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080307365 - Object transitions: Object transitions can include providing a graphical transition of an object item that retains an aspect ratio associated with the object item while transitioning the object item into an instance of an executing object associated with the object item.... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080307366 - Reflections in a multidimensional user interface environment: A graphical user interface has a back surface disposed from a viewing surface to define a depth. A visualization of receptacle is disposed between the back surface and a viewing surface and contains a visualization object. A reflection surface is defined such that a reflection of the visualization object is... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080307367 - Method and apparatus for a drag and drop operation implementing a hierarchical path name: A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer program product for transferring a file item. The process selects a file item in response to receiving a first input command. The process selects a file item in response to receiving a first input command. The process then identifies a file path name... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20080307368 - Dynamically adjusting the range of a navigational controller for an infinite workspace: One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that dynamically adjusts the range of a navigational controller for an infinite workspace within a graphical display environment. During operation, the system determines that an object has moved from an original position to a new position with respect to a display... Agent: Pvf -- Apple Inc. C/o Park, Vaughan & Fleming LLP

20080307369 - Method, interaction method and apparatus for visualizing hierarchy data with angular chart: A method and apparatus for visualizing hierarchy data with angular chart are provided wherein the hierarchy data comprises a plurality of levels. The method comprises determining at least one of the plurality levels of the hierarchy data as base levels; visualizing data units in the base levels with the angular... Agent: Anne Vachon Dougherty

20080307370 - Display system for an aircraft cockpit: The display system (1) comprises means for determining the geographic position of a cursor (CU) on a screen (3A), means for transmitting this geographic position, and means for displaying on at least one other screen (3C) a characteristic symbol (S1) which is located in this geographic position.... Agent: Stevens Davis LLP

20080301539 - Computer-implemented method and a computer system and a computer readable medium for creating videos, podcasts or slide presentations from a business intelligence application: A computer-implemented method of preparing a presentation of a data set retrieved from a database, comprising the steps of: providing in a memory entities, of first metadata items, that respectively define which data to include in data sets retrievable from a data superset stored in the database. Further providing in... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20080301540 - Displaying the same document in different contexts: A computer readable medium is provided embodying instructions executable by a processor to perform a method for modifying a document according to a display context, the method including providing a document for display, the document comprising a function for determining a display context and modifying a style of the document,... Agent: Frank Chau, Esq. F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20080301541 - Online internet navigation system and method: A method and a system for enabling website navigation, the method comprising: providing web-page tags with capabilities for rendering specific content for each visitor to a web page/site based on the past and current behavior of the visitor; providing configurable content templates and editable content embedded in the webpage/site; and... Agent: Edward Langer C/o Shiboleth Yisraeli Roberts Zisman & Co.

20080301542 - Digital paper-enabled spreadsheet systems: A digital paper-enabled system includes a spreadsheet printed on digital paper and usable with a digital writing instrument, such as a digital pen. A method of using the system includes (1) designing a digital paper-enabled spreadsheet with a spreadsheet integration module; (2) printing the designed spreadsheet to receive writing from... Agent: Black Lowe & Graham, PLLC

20080301543 - Intelligent document filtering: In a network environment that includes a plurality of nodes and that uses a markup language to create documents, a method for filtering the documents is provided. The method includes the step of, upon receiving a request from a requesting node among the plurality of nodes, constructing an input Document... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20080301544 - Method and apparatus for viewing electronic commerce-related documents: The present invention includes a method of providing users with formatted access to XML and similar documents received from trading partners using a general purpose viewer or browser. Particular aspects of the present invention are described in the claims, specification and drawings.... Agent: Haynes Beffel & Wolfeld LLP

20080301545 - Method and system for the intelligent adaption of web content for mobile and handheld access: According to the present invention, there is provided a novel method and system for supporting dynamic Web content adaptation in the mobile Internet, while retaining the semantic coherence of the site's original contents. This is accomplished by analyzing, processing, and displaying web content using several algorithms. While the preferred embodiment... Agent: Kohn & Associates, PLLC

20080301546 - Systems and methods for rendering media: Methods and systems are provided for maintaining the aspect ratio of an image in the form of a graphic element or a photograph on a printed product in a theme collage. The aspect ratio of each image in the theme collage is maintained independent of any aspect ratio or resolution... Agent: Carr & Ferrell LLP

20080301547 - Automatic alignment with subcomponents on a visual layout: A processing device may include a WYSIWYG tool for designing two-dimensional visual layouts. The processing device may display a visual layout including a first object component and a second object component. The first object component, or an object subcomponent thereof, may be moved or resized, or an object subcomponent of... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080301548 - Method and system for laying out paginated content for viewing - continuation: A method and system in a document viewing control for laying out an invisible page grid based on various criteria, including whether the pages of a document are fixed, contain reflowable content, whether the fixed pages are all the same size, and where the user has actively focused a page... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20080301550 - Image-processing device: An image-processing device includes a first memory, a determining unit, a creating unit, and an outputting unit. The first memory stores a first file and a second file. The first file includes first printing data and first additional information. The second file includes second printing data second additional information. The... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20080301549 - Production environment crm information gathering system for vi applications: A system and method for gathering CRM information in a variable imaging application utilize keywords which are associated with each image of a number of digital images. A variable imaging job stream is generated containing one or more of the digital images. Keyword metadata may also be inserted into the... Agent: Fay Sharpe / Xerox - Rochester

20080301551 - Taste network system and method: A system and method for controlling the content presented to a viewing user based upon the viewing user's determined similarity with other users who have rated the content. An indication can be received from the viewing user that can change a similarity threshold that represents a maximum taste distance between... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20080301554 - Terminal device having power saving mode and folding mechanism enabling open/close motion of the same: There is provided a terminal automatically executing access processing to a URL registered in advance on a network in response to the cancellation operation of the power saving mode. This enables to execute accessing the predetermined URL on the network only by the cancellation operation of the power saving mode... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080301552 - User-created metadata for managing interface resources on a user interface: A computer-implementable method enables a user to customize navigation of User Interface (UI) resources that are displayed on a computer User Interface (UI). A computer receives, from a user, an input of user-created metadata. This user-created metadata is associated with one or more UI resources that are depicted on a... Agent: Law Office Of Jim Boice

20080301553 - Verifying compliance of user interfaces with desired guidelines: Verifying the compliance of user interfaces with desired guidelines. In an embodiment, the desired guidelines are specified as a set of validation rules that are to be checked against image frames having multiple display portions. Each validation rule is specified as being applicable to specific interface characteristics. Thus, each validation... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080301555 - System and method for providing animated browser thumbnails: A system and method for providing animated browser thumbnails for use in a browser. The actions of a user on a particular web page can be recorded and saved by the system as a bookmark and/or other historical item in the browser's browsing history. When the user later decides to... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20080301556 - Method and apparatus for displaying operational information about an electronic device: A method (100) and apparatus (300) for displaying operational information about an electronic device, that determines a change of an operational status of the electronic device, maps the operational status to at least one of an appearance characteristic and an action of an avatar (205, 210, 215, 220) related to... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20080301557 - Systems, methods and software products for online dating: Provided by aspects of the present invention is an online dating service that provides system driven interactions in addition to and/or alternative to user driven aspects of online dating. The online dating service provides a virtual setting in which two users at a time are presented with virtual scenarios to... Agent: Herman & Millman

20080301558 - Interface, method, and system for providing inline contextual help and support: A method and apparatus is disclosed herein for providing contextually relevant support information. In one embodiment, a server provides a web page over a network that includes one or more help indicators. The web page and the help indicator are shown to a user in a window of a graphical... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080301559 - User interface that uses a task respository: In aspects, object types are placed in a task repository and controls register with the task repository for notification when a different object type is selected. When a different object type is selected, the task repository is notified of the object type. In response, the task repository determines a list... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080301560 - Retaining style information when copying content: An illustrative implementation is described for copying an identified portion of source content along with style information associated with the portion. The implementation allows the identified portion to be pasted into target content. By virtue of the extraction and retention of style information, the identified portion that is pasted into... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20080301561 - Apparatus and method for automation of multimedia-enabled correspondence management systems (mcms): A system for sending large numbers of personalized multimedia communications to other people by automating the creation and delivery of custom one-to-one and template-driven one-to-many video and/or audio (multimedia) communications. The present invention also provides an automated means for a message originator to select and direct a third party to... Agent: Merek, Blackmon & Voorhees, LLC

20080301562 - Systems and methods for accelerating access to web resources by linking browsers: Retrieval of information and resources over the Internet is accelerated by automatically linking and synchronizing multiple device browsers in multiple tabs of device windows. The parallel tasks of access and execution, enables a client computerized device to search for information in parallel by activating multiple web sites' search engines, activating... Agent: Steven A. Nielsen Allman & Nielsen, P.c

20080301563 - System and method for targeted message delivery and subscription: A system, method and computer program product for product that enables users of broadcast messaging systems to more expediently and efficiently find communities, both for subscribing and for sending messages. The system, method and computer program product provides an end-user with the ability to send messages for delivery to more... Agent: Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, P.C.

20080301564 - Build of material production system: Some embodiments of a build of material production system have been presented. In one embodiment, a graphical user interface (GUI) is presented via a client machine on factory floor to allow a user to submit a request to build a document from a master document in a predetermined natural language... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080301565 - Bookmarking and lassoing in a geo-spatial environment: A method, apparatus and system of bookmarking and lassoing in a geo-spatial environment are disclosed. In one embodiment a method of bookmarking a plurality of entries includes receiving a lasso drawn on a geo-spatial map by a user, obtaining a region on the geo-spatial map based on the lasso, obtaining... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

20080301566 - Bitmap-based display remoting: bitmap transfer-based display remoting by a server coupled to a client is described. Specifically, an application executing on the server implements operations to render a portion of a graphical user interface (GUI). The server decomposes corresponding rendering-based command(s) into simple bitmap raster operations commands. The server sends the bitmap-based commands... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20080301567 - Proximity-dependent events: A calendar application for use with a first portable electronic device includes time-dependent events having a start time and an end time and proximity-dependent events having a specified device ID that corresponds to a second portable electronic device. Both the time-dependent events and the proximity-dependent events are stored in the... Agent: Perry + Currier Inc. (for Rim)

20080301568 - Method for proposing the meeting in the regional community service system based on mobile blog through a mobile terminal: Disclosed is a method for proposing a meeting in a moblog-based regional community service through a mobile terminal. The method includes the steps of setting a plurality of main arenas by dividing a geographical area in a regional unit, setting and storing one or more virtual spatial locations, the one... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20080301569 - Image-displaying device: An image-displaying device includes a storing unit, a displaying unit, a controller. The storing unit stores a first correlation data and a second correlation data. The first correlation data indicates a plurality of first thumbnails including a plurality of first display thumbnails and also indicates a sequence of the plurality... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080301570 - Spaciotemporal graphical user interface for collaborative and secure information sharing: A collaborative information sharing system as described herein employs a graphical user interface (GUI) that displays a spaciotemporal rendering along with icons that represent items of interest, such as aircraft, vessels, radar equipment, and communications equipment. The GUI is also used to display item data that describes, defines, or identifies... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20080301571 - System and method for administration and documentation of health care services: A method and system for collecting data that employs selectable pictographs, as presented via an interface, that a user can select and populate a data field by correlating what is observed or what actions are taken with the available selectable pictographs. Once the selectable pictographs are selected and the relevant... Agent: M. Scott Carey

20080301572 - Method and system for laying out perforation patterns: A method and system for automating the layout of perforation patterns is described. An embodiment of the invention includes an innovative software application running on a computer, which application allows a perforation designer to select lines or arcs that comprise edges of a building panel. The application determines a starting... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20080301574 - Modeling, monitoring, and analysis of computer services: Computer services and other computer entities may be monitored and evaluated by using a model that defines the services and relationships between the services. The model may be used during discovery for finding entities and creating instances of the entities and instances of the relationships between entities. After discovery, data... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080301573 - System and method for indicating page component focus: The present invention relates to systems and methods for providing content items containing components utilizing focus indication focus indication. The method according to one embodiment comprises receiving a request from a client by a content delivery network for a resource that comprises a plurality of resources. The plurality of resources... Agent: Yahoo! Inc. C/o Dreier LLP

20080301575 - Variably displayable mobile device keyboard: A variably displayable mobile device keyboard includes a display for presenting two or more groups of basic images, such that a different keyboard display can be generated by each of these groups of basic images, a filter for filtering one or more groups of basic images so that a single... Agent: Merchant & Gould PC

20080301576 - Page flow framework: Aspects of the subject matter described herein relate to a page flow framework. In aspects, a page flow engine includes logic to navigate between pages. To make its determination of what page is next, the page flow engine uses an indication of the current page and may also use properties... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080301577 - Information processing device and computer readable medium: An information processing device according to the present invention stores user attribute data and pieces of application attribute data. The information processing device retrieves the user attribute data (Sa1), retrieves application attribute data of running application programs (Sa3), and determine whether there is application attribute data matching the user attribute... Agent: Michaud-duffy Group LLP

20080301578 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for navigating a sequence of illustrative scenes within a digital production: Methods, systems, and computer program products which enhance the use of digitized content by users are described. The methods, systems, and computer program products include causing portions of the content to be adjusted in size according to dimensions which would best facilitate electronic review of the content. The methods, systems,... Agent: Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner LLP

20080301579 - Interactive interface for navigating, previewing, and accessing multimedia content: An interface for navigating and previewing content is provided. In one example, an interface includes a plurality of content modules displayed in a two-dimensional array, each content module associated with a summary of content and an initial display. The initial display may include, for example, an image and text associated... Agent: Yahoo C/o Mofo Palo Alto

20080301580 - Device, time, and location based notification content transfer and presentment system and method: A notification system, comprising a notification database and a notification application, receiving notification content from a sending device and provides the notification content for rendering on a target receiving device. The notification database may store, for each of a plurality of instances of notification content, the notification content in association... Agent: Warren A. Sklar (soer) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20080301581 - Method and system for providing additional information service onto e-mail: A method of providing dynamic services for web applications, such as e-mail, is disclosed. When a user selects text or an item, the selection is analyzed for the presence of various formats or patterns. For example, the items selected or highlighted by the user may be identified as a name,... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080301582 - Taste network widget system: A system for generating a widget that can show the similarity between users. A web server can host a web page that is associated with an owner user. A similarity engine can determine the similarity of a visitor user from whom a request for the web page is received at... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20080301584 - Image displaying device: An image-displaying device includes a storing unit and a displaying unit. The storing unit stores correlation data between a plurality of thumbnails and a sequence of the plurality of thumbnails. The displaying unit is capable of displaying a predetermined maximum number of thumbnails based on the correlation data. If a... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080301583 - Image-displaying device: An image-displaying device includes a storing unit and a displaying unit. The storing unit stores first correlation data and second correlation data. The first correlation data indicates a plurality of first thumbnails including a plurality of first display thumbnails and also indicates a sequence of the plurality of first thumbnails.... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080301585 - Method for hotspotting the visible world using visual iconography or audio indication: The present invention is directed to a method for hotspotting the visible world using visual iconography or audio indication, comprising the steps of: (a) creating a world page and assigning an alphanumeric keyword to the world page; (b) placing a logo and the keyword on a selected surface; (c) viewing... Agent: Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP

20080301586 - Image managing apparatus, image managing method and image managing program: An image managing apparatus includes a storage part, an input part, a grouping-processing part, a representative image extraction part, a folding-button preparing part, a folding-screen preparing part and an output part. An image is stored in the storage part. A user's instruction is input by the input part. The grouping-processing... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080301587 - Control system for a motor vehicle: A control system for a motor vehicle having a manual operating means having a plurality of adjustment degrees of freedom for selecting and/or activating entries in a menu structure having a plurality of menu levels, and a screen display (2) having a plurality of display areas (210 to 250) for... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20080301588 - Method for verification of file-based media content: A method for automatically verifying one or more features of file-based media content (108) is disclosed. This file-based media content includes one or more media content files. The method includes customizing (204) a test plan on the basis of the one or more features. Customizing the test plan includes creating,... Agent: Lester H. Birnbaum

20080301589 - Method of graphical display of hierarchical hardlinks to files in a file system: Methods, apparatuses, and computer program products are provided for graphical display of hierarchical hardlinks to files in a file system that includes identifying multiple hardlinks for a file and displaying relationships among the multiple hardlinks and the file. Some embodiments also include a hardlink comprising a link to a file... Agent: Ibm (roc-blf)

20080301590 - Navigation of a directory structure: A user interface for navigating a directory structure includes a first screen area for showing a directory path to a currently identified target location and a second screen area for showing the contents of a currently identified target location, a user control having a plurality of predetermined modes of actuation,... Agent: Perman & Green

20080301591 - Web page backup across multiple windows: Provided is a desktop navigation tool (DNT) for navigation across multiple web pages, including the original and the second web page described in the paragraph above. An “UP” button enables a user to navigate from the new web page back to a different window, opened from a particular window. A... Agent: Greg Goshorn, P.C.