Data processing: presentation processing of document inventions

20090300471 - Processing publishing rules by routing documents based on document conceptual understanding: Embodiments of the invention may be used to improve enforcement and compliance with publishing rules in an automated and provable manner. Prior to publication, documents may be processed using publishing rules (workflows) based on conceptual analysis of document content. Additionally, embodiments of the invention include a content creation system configured... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20090300472 - Method of authoring, deploying and using interactive, data-driven two or more dimensional content: A method whereby dynamic, interactive, two or more dimensional media can be assembled and delivered where the need for pre-packaged binary content files and pre-compiled content is eliminated by using a markup language, a standard URI to identify local and/or remote media resources within a markup text, a standard protocol... Agent: Proskauer Rose LLP

20090300473 - Systems and methods for displaying albums having links to documents: Under one aspect, a method of displaying information includes: obtaining, responsive to a user query, an album from a remote computer, wherein the album comprises a plurality of links. Each link is to a static graphic representation, and each static graphic representation is stored in a document repository in a... Agent: Jones Day

20090300474 - Computer-based architecture using remotely-controlled electronic grid-based calculators: The present invention comprises a centrally-maintained electronic grid-based calculator and requisite service-oriented architecture to expose the calculator's computational facilities as a service to remote users. Furthermore, the present invention provides a server-side automation architecture of the electronic grid-based calculator which facilitates the distribution of intellectual capital throughout the business enterprise... Agent: Centralytics, Inc. (c/o Matthew O. Brady, Esq.)

20090300475 - Web-based system for collaborative generation of interactive videos: Systems and methods are provided for adding and displaying interactive annotations for existing online hosted videos. A graphical annotation interface allows the creation of annotations and association of the annotations with a video. Annotations may be of different types and have different functionality, such as altering the appearance and/or behavior... Agent: Google / Fenwick

20090300479 - Data converting apparatus and data converting program: A data converting apparatus includes: a display image producing section that receives a file including one or more records in each of which records print data for one or more pages is described so as to produce image data for displaying; a preview displaying section that displays an image based... Agent: Young & Thompson

20090300478 - Image forming apparatus, information processing method and program: An image forming apparatus includes multiple executing units; multiple Webpage generating units each corresponding to an executing unit and configured to execute a process corresponding to an HTTP request and generate a Web page for displaying information indicating the process result; multiple menu-information integrating units, each corresponding to an executing... Agent: Ipusa, P.l.l.c

20090300477 - Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and computer-readable recording medium storing an information processing program: An information processing apparatus parses document data described in a structured language to extract necessary information from the data. At least a part of the document data is stored in a storage unit, and the stored document data is parsed in order to extract information contained in the document data... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090300482 - Interactive user interface for converting unstructured documents: An interactive interface facilitates the conversion of unstructured documents into XML-compliant documents. A document is parsed to identify fact items in the content of the document. A classifier associates initial labels with an identified fact items, and the fact items and associated initial labels are forwarded to a user for... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20090300476 - Internet guide link matching system: A method of identifying relevant information while a user views an application user interface is provided. A keyword(s) is identified from an application user interface presented at a first computer, wherein the identification is performed transparent to a user viewing the application user interface. The identified keyword is compared with... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20090300480 - Media segment alteration with embedded markup identifier: A classification method and system for possible content alteration of a media work may include criteria regarding content that is feasible for alteration. Such criteria may be maintained in records that are accessible to an interested party. Some embodiments may include a record of primary authorization rights applicable to a... Agent: Searete LLC Clarence T. Tegreene

20090300481 - Server apparatus, information processing apparatus, data processing method, and storage medium including program: A character string not to be referred to which is included in structured document data is extracted, and an XML generation unit generates a random code table. Then, the XML generation unit generates a conversion font by converting character codes of a font using the table. The character codes of... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20090300483 - Stylesheet conversion engine: In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a browser-independent cascading style sheet (CSS) that conforms to a CSS standard, and automatically modifying the browser-independent CSS to incorporate different CSS related features of various browsers. The method further includes creating one or more CSS files customized for the various browsers.... Agent: Red Hat/bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090300484 - system and method for local modification of remotely submitted document processing jobs: The subject application is directed to rendering a remotely submitted document processing job using secondary job processing parameters specified at the rendering device. Electronic document data, associated identification data, and initial instruction data is received via a remote client interface. Location data of a selected rendering device is received via... Agent: Tucker Ellis & West LLP

20090300485 - Techniques for automatically generating wiki content: Various technologies and techniques are disclosed for automatically generating Wiki content. Documentation files are transformed from a first markup language format to Wiki pages in a second markup language format utilized by a target Wiki. One or more style sheets are used to assist with the transforming from the first... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090300486 - Multiple-document summarization using document clustering: Systems and methods are disclosed for summarizing multiple documents by generating a model of the documents as a mixture of document clusters, each document in turn having a mixture of sentences, wherein the model simultaneously representing summarization information and document cluster structure; and determining a loss function for evaluating the... Agent: Nec Laboratories America, Inc.

20090300487 - Difference only document segment quality checker: A system and method for checking an author's revisions to a document or an electronic communication in a multiple party communication string without checking un-authored text.... Agent: Ibm Corporation (accsp) C/o Suiter Swantz PC Llo

20090300488 - Systems and methods for automatic spell checking of dynamically generated web pages: Systems and methods for automatically spell-checking dynamically generated web pages include: generating, by a server responsive to a request from a client, a dynamically generated web page containing at least some text; transmitting, by the server to the client, the dynamic web page; intercepting, by a process, the dynamic web... Agent: Choate, Hall & Stewart LLP

20090300489 - Selective access to a frame buffer: A method, system, and computer program display data by selectively providing access to a frame buffer. When a request for a destination location for display data is received, a determination is made as to whether the data will require further processing prior to display. If further processing is needed, a... Agent: Raubvogel Law Office

20090300490 - System for displaying a position viewer for previewing the display of an advertisement: A system and method are disclosed for displaying a preview of the positioning of an advertisement within a page. An advertiser may identify a position for displaying its advertisements and a position viewer provides a preview display of the appearance of the advertisement at that position within a page. The... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione / Yahoo! Overture

20090300491 - Method to assist users in preventing errors when using type-ahead: A method and system to provide selection of entries in input fields, such as email client, includes pre-processing a list of potential addresses before the list is shown to a user by eliminating less important or invalid entries, and then displaying a list of entries for selection to the user... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20090300492 - System and method for effectively selecting functions in an electronic device: A system and method for effectively selecting functions in an electronic device includes a command database that is created for storing device commands that include specifically-defined patterns and corresponding respective device functions. Appropriate pattern input means may be utilized for detecting the patterns that are input by device users. A... Agent: Gregory J. Koerner Redwood Patent Law

20090300493 - Explicit use of user context objects in a virtual universe: An approach that facilitates explicit use of user context objects in a virtual universe is described. In one embodiment, there is a user context object tool that includes a user context object retrieving component configured to retrieve the plurality of user context objects for presentation to the avatar. A user... Agent: Hoffman Warnick LLC

20090300495 - System and method for an adaptive wizard utility for graphical user interfaces: System and method for implementing an adaptive wizard utility for a graphical user interface (“GUI”) are described. In one embodiment, the method comprises, responsive to presentation of a page of the wizard utility to a user, monitoring user activity in connection with the page; analyzing the user activity to determine... Agent: Haynes And Boone, LLPIPSection

20090300494 - User assistance panel: A system for providing user assistance receives a request for help content for a first component of a plurality of components displayed on a user interface page. The system generates a user assistance panel that is displayed simultaneously with the user interface page without substantially obscuring the user interface page.... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P. Oracle International Corporation

20090300496 - User interface for online ads: A user interface may be utilized to allow a user to control display properties of online ad content on a hosting webpage (e.g., hosting ads from one domain on a webpage from a different domain). This may be accomplished by creating a cross-domain frame in the hosting webpage, which can... Agent: Microsoft Corporation Patent Group Docketing Dept.

20090300497 - System and method for focused navigation within a user interface: A sequence of cards is stored that graphically represents available options within an information system. In response to a single user action, the sequence of cards is successively displayed within a focus area of the user interface. In response to a subsequent user action, the successive display is discontinued to... Agent: Vulcan, Inc. C/o Stoel Rives LLP

20090300498 - Method and system for generating and presenting mobile content summarization: This invention involves a system and method to construct a visual representation of multidimensional data that works especially well for video. The system comprises an application on a mobile device having a screen, an assignment module assigning the media segments to the screen, a rendering module rendering the assigned media... Agent: Telcordia Technologies, Inc.

20090300499 - Information processing apparatus: According to one embodiment, an information processing apparatus includes a display controller configured to generate a video signal of images including a moving picture, command transmitting and receiving module configured to transmit and receive the commands, detecting module configured to detect an event to change a display state of the... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20090300500 - Methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for determining icons for audio/visual media content: An apparatus may include a processor configured to determine one or more attributes of a video clip. The video clip may comprise a plurality of video frames. The processor may be further configured to determine a video frame from the video clip based upon the one or more determined attributes... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20090300501 - Intelligent agenda object for a presentation application: A system includes a memory, a display, and a processor programmed to load a configuration program and an intelligent agenda program into the memory. The intelligent agenda program is adapted to interface with a slide presentation program and respond to a plurality of user inputs to a graphical user interface... Agent: Lee Law, PLLC IBM Customer Number

20090300502 - Aggregration, standardization and extension of social networking contacts to enhance a television consumer experience: A system and method for the aggregation, standardization and extension of social networking contacts to enhance a television consumer experience are described. An embodiment of a system includes a device connected to one or more devices with social networking technology. The device is accessed by a user to invite one... Agent: Molly Mccall Intel Corporation

20090300504 - Free busy calendar interface: An electronic device having access to a calendar database comprising calendar event data identifying events scheduled for respective time slots and a method of using such a device are provided. The device is configured to generate on a display a calendar events detail user interface screen that includes a plurality... Agent: Ridout & Maybee LLP

20090300503 - Method and system for network-based augmentative communication: The present invention discloses a method and system of augmentative communication which employs a server, a network, and a client device to generate augmentative communication output on the client device. A user on the client device receives augmentative communication output by generating a request directed to the server, which the... Agent: Inventivity, LLC

20090300505 - Information processing apparatus, recovering method of entry information thereto, and recording medium: An information processing apparatus (web system) connected to a network to transmit and receive information is configured to monitor an entry into an information entry field (html or web page) provided from a network, to store the entry contents into a storage means (recording system) along with identification information, and... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090300506 - Mark-up extensions for semantically more relevant thumbnails of content: The claimed subject matter provides a system and/or a method that facilitates rendering of a portion of published content. A browsing session can enable navigation and display of a portion of published content. A render definition enforcer can implement a tag related to the portion of published content with at... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090300507 - Wireless medical room control arrangement for control of a plurality of medical devices: A wireless medical room control arrangement includes a wireless controller having a wireless router. A room identifier and a device identifier are stored in the controller. A communication interface sends commands to and receives commands from the wireless controller. In response to commands from the interface, the wireless controller sends... Agent: Flynn, Thiel, Boutell & Tanis, P.C.

20090300508 - Metadata-based entertainment content selection: A method of accessing content stored on a digital media content storage device on which one or more content records contain metadata defining media content on the device, comprising downloading from the device to a controller unit at least some of said metadata, storing said downloaded metadata in a database... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20090300509 - Profile and consent accrual: Consent management between a client and a network server. In response to a request for consent, a central server determines if requested user information is included in a user profile associated with a user and if the user has granted consent to share the requested user information. A user interface... Agent: Senniger Powers LLP (msft)

20090300510 - Simultaneous remote and local control of computer desktop: A method for computing includes running a desktop sharing program on a local computer so as to permit a remote user to view, on a remote computer, which is connected to communicate with the local computer via a network, an image of an entire area of a display screen of... Agent: Gerald T. Shekleton

20090300511 - System and method for streamlining user interaction with electronic content: Various aspects and embodiments are directed to a graphical user interface that organizes interface elements into views of computer content for presentation to a user. Different views of are used to provide an interface that is responsive to configurations of the device and responsive to activity being performed by the... Agent: Lando & Anastasi, LLP

20090300512 - Preference editor to facilitate privacy controls over user identities: A privacy preference editor enables a user to institute privacy preferences relative to user identity information on a card-based and category-based basis. An identity selector furnishes information cards representative of user identities. The editor allows the user to set a privacy preference for each information card. Any proposed disclosure of... Agent: Rg & Associates

20090300513 - System and method for creating an avatar: An avatar or avatar environment to visualize data may be provided within a social networking system or service, for example as part of the Internet, and/or within a desktop widget, panel, gadget, or the like. The avatar may further evolve or alter its appearance, animation, or other visual or audio... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20090300514 - System for effective meeting invitee response status: A system for visually representing an event as part of a larger schedule (e.g., calendar). The representation of the particular event may include an indicator configured to display invitee status. Functionality may also be configured to provide additional information, for example, by user interaction. In at least one instance, a... Agent: Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell LLP Attn:IPDocketing

20090300515 - Web server for supporting collaborative animation production service and method thereof: A web server for supporting a collaborative animation production service. The web server includes a user interface (UI) unit to provide a UI to receive direction data for each scene required for animation production in parallel to users connected to the web server, and a generating unit to combine the... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090300516 - Apparatus for navigation and interaction in a virtual meeting place: An apparatus for providing for virtual communication and collaboration comprises a collaborative virtual environment (CVE) application executing within a distributed data processing system, and a shadow module implemented within the CVE application. The CVE application provides a virtual world represented as a grid of an interconnected set of locations each... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Europe

20090300517 - Providing user control of historical messages in electronic mail chain to be included in forwarded or replied electronic mail message: A method, system and computer program product for controlling which historical messages are to be included in a forwarded or replied email message. The number of email messages in a chain of email messages contained in an email message is determined. A graphical user interface is generated that contains an... Agent: Ibm Corp. (wsm) C/o Winstead Sechrest & Minick P.C.

20090300519 - Conference system, data processing apparatus, image transmission method, and image transmission program embodied on computer readable medium: In order to facilitate understanding of the content of a presentation in a conference, an MFP, in receipt of presentation page information from a PC operated by a presenter, transmits presentation page data specified by the presentation page information among page data for a plurality of pages included in data... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20090300518 - Contact group dynamics in networked communication devices: A communications terminal (200) including a user interface communicably coupled to a controller is configured to form a group of contacts. In one embodiment, the terminal displays only contacts having at least two attributes in common. In another embodiment, the terminal displays a group of contacts having a social relationship... Agent: Motorola Inc

20090300520 - Techniques to manage recordings for multimedia conference events: Techniques to manage recordings for multimedia conference events are described. An apparatus may comprise a recording management component operative to manage recording and reproduction operations for a multimedia conference event. The recording management component may comprise an event capture module operative to record a multimedia conference event to form a... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090300521 - Apparatus for navigation and interaction in a virtual meeting place: An apparatus for providing for virtual communication and collaboration comprises a collaborative virtual environment (CVE) application executing within a distributed data processing system, and a navigation module implemented within the CVE application. The CVE application provides a virtual world represented as a grid of an interconnected set of locations each... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Europe

20090300522 - Individual information element access for unopened objects: A copy request is received that individually identifies an information element associated with a first unopened object to copy from the first unopened object. The individually identified information element is copied from the first unopened object. The information element copied from the first unopened object is stored to a memory.... Agent: Lee Law, PLLC IBM Customer Number

20090300523 - System and method for embedding information in an electronic device: A system and method for embedding information onto an electronic device includes a memory device that is coupled to the electronic device for storing embedded information that the electronic device may then access and utilize. A device user initially utilizes a device ordering system to create a device order that... Agent: Gregory J. Koerner Redwood Patent Law

20090300524 - Automatically assigning data bindings in visual designers: Various technologies and techniques are disclosed for automatically assigning data bindings to data sources and data sets in the design surface of visual designers. A user selection is received to insert a data element into a data region on a design surface. When there is just one data source and... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090300528 - Browser event tracking for distributed web-based processing, spatial organization and display of information: A Zeetix technology may effectively present resources of any networked environment, such as the internet as a virtual computing platform. An interactive visual presentation, such as on a computing facility human interface, may provide tracking of user gestures in an intuitive, responsive, web-based direct-manipulation user interface to this virtual platform.... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20090300526 - Computer based method for creation, personalization, and fulfillment of customizable art printed on canvas: A computer based method of offering customized art to a user. The method comprises of using a collection of digital images and design elements organized in an online flash application generating a customized digital image representation of the art product. Steps include: (a) digital image selection; (b) canvas size selection;... Agent: Abigail Port

20090300530 - Method and system for multi-touch-based browsing of media summarizations on a handheld device: The inventive system comprises a touch screen on a mobile device and an application that defines a set of functioning components that provide the functionality for navigating media. The inventive application comprises components including event handling touches on the touch screen, presentation and layout interacting with event handling, content cache... Agent: Telcordia Technologies, Inc.

20090300525 - Method and system for automatically updating avatar to indicate user's status: A cellular or wireless mobile device includes a one or more sensors and a processor configured with software to receive data from the one or more sensors, calendar data and device settings, compare sensor, calendar, device settings data, and an authorization level of a requesting user to avatar selection criteria,... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090300531 - Method for providing human input to a computer: The invention provides a method for providing human input to a computer which allows a user to interact with a display connected to the computer. The method includes the steps of placing a first target on a first portion of the user's body, using an electro-optical sensing means, sensing data... Agent: Warner Norcross & Judd LLP

20090300529 - Screen editing apparatus, screen editing method and computer-readable information recording medium: For prescribing a state of a selection operating part having options disposed on an operating page displayed, a type attribute of the selection operating part, a display attribute of displaying or not displaying an operating part corresponding to each option of the selection operating part, and priority setting information indicating... Agent: Ipusa, P.l.l.c

20090300527 - User interface for bulk operations on documents: A user interface displays a group of related documents such that bulk operations may be performed on them without requiring the user to individually access each document to perform an action. Properties, such as a status, contributor information, submission date and submission deadline and the like are also displayed with... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20090300534 - Apparatus and method for displaying network status: A method for displaying the status of at least a portion of a CATV system comprises providing a first layer including first geographic indicia, selectively overlaying a second layer including second indicia of the CATV system in a region illustrated in first layer on the first layer, and selectively overlaying... Agent: Barnes & Thornburg LLP

20090300532 - Conveying privilege escalation to users: Techniques, systems, and apparatuses for conveying privilege escalation to a user are disclosed. In some aspects, a privilege escalation request is initiated in a first operating environment. The first operating environment may foreshorten to reveal a second operating environment associated with the privilege escalation. The second operating environment includes a... Agent: Lee & Hayes, PLLC

20090300533 - Etl tool utilizing dimension trees: A method and apparatus for an ETL tool utilizing dimension trees. The method may include identifying various dimensions associated with one or more databases, and creating dimension trees based on these dimensions. The method may further include creating an ETL pyramid having multiple levels, linking the dimension trees to corresponding... Agent: Red Hat/bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090300535 - Virtual control panel: A system that enables a user to interact with a virtual control panel using a user controlled pointing object. The system includes a portable identification element, a tracking unit adapted to capture data representing the position of the pointing object and the position of the identification element, a storage unit,... Agent: Venable LLP

20090300536 - System and method for navigating in a display window: Navigation between a plurality of property sheets on a display of a mobile electronic device, each of the property sheets having a tab index and a layout defining a plurality of elements. One of the property sheets is a displayed property sheet and one of the elements is a current... Agent: Ridout & Maybee LLP

20090300537 - Method and system for changing format for displaying information on handheld device: A method and system for changing a display format for information rendered on a handheld device based at least in part on a velocity of the handheld device recognizes that when the velocity of the handheld device that is optimally held by a stationary user in both hands in a... Agent: Sharp Laboratories Of America, Inc.

20090300538 - Display control apparatus and display control method: A display control apparatus determines if an application manager has attribute information compatible with attribute information of a selected application program, and controls the application manager which is determined to have the attribute information compatible with the attribute information of the application program to execute display processing of the application... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090300539 - Electronic book with information manipulation features: An electronic book having various features for manipulating text or other information. The subscriber may highlight, cut and paste, copy and paste, and annotate information within an electronic book. A multiple page view feature permits the subscriber to simultaneously view any plurality of pages of an electronic book, and a... Agent: Arent Fox LLP

20090300540 - System, method and computer program product for animal imaging: A computer controlled veterinary imaging and diagnostic tool, the tool being performed by execution of computer readable code by at least one processor of at least one computer system, the tool comprising a main viewing area for the presentation of one or more images; a file list viewing area for... Agent: Briggs And Morgan P.A.

20090300541 - Apparatus and method for positioning windows on a display: A method for positioning a window on a user's display may include providing, in a window-based computing environment, an image representing a display area of a user's computer screen. This image may be divided into a plurality of regions. Each region may represent an area within the display area. The... Agent: Nelson & Nelson, P.C.

20090300542 - Structured displaying of visual elements: Presentation descriptions are provided to an operating system of a computing device to present outputs associated with the applications in an organized and intuitive manner to the user. The presentation descriptions provide the operating system with information about the structure and meaning of the output element. The task of organizing... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20090300543 - Visual indication of changes in the same user interface dialog originally used to enter the data: A method for generating a graphical display denoting a difference between values from different invocations of dialog boxes in a graphical user interface comprising: displaying a dialog box on a display device; detecting a value that has changed in the dialog box; and displaying a previous value corresponding to the... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

20090300544 - Enhanced user interface and data handling in business intelligence software: A business intelligence and reporting solution can include a databook interface that acts as both as a reporting mechanism and an interface for providing data visualization parameters. In some embodiments, the databook includes a plurality of palettes whereby visualization parameters can be specified through a drag-and-drop interaction with the databook.... Agent: Dority & Manning, P.A.

20090300545 - Presenting information regarding selected items: An approach is described for recording the selections made by a user and then presenting information regarding these selections to the user in various contexts. Each selection corresponds to the user's express request to receive information (such as a telephone number) that is useful in performing a transaction (such as... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090300546 - Creation and suggestion of contact distribution lists: Techniques described herein allow for suggesting creation of distribution lists and suggesting use of distribution lists once they have been created. For instance, these techniques may track a frequency with which contacts (e.g., email addresses, phone numbers, screen names, etc.) are used with one another. The techniques may then suggest... Agent: Lee & Hayes, PLLC

20090300547 - Recommender system for on-line articles and documents: A system and method for recommending on-line articles and documents to users is disclosed. The method provides an article widget user interface and a full-screen widget user interfaces to allow a user to rate articles, to preview articles, to filter articles based on category, article length, or other characteristics. A... Agent: Venable LLP

20090300548 - Multi-display window with scroll ring input: A graphical user interface for a portable diagnostic device includes a first window area in which a navigation bar is displayed, a second window area in which data list items are displayed and a wheel menu, selectively overlaying at least a portion of the first and second window areas, in... Agent: Baker & Hostetler LLP

20090300549 - Relationship-based and context-based user interfaces for exchanging data: A system and method for presenting an interface to a user of a mobile device, the interface allowing a user to identify and select data that is to be transmitted to another mobile device. In some embodiments, the interface generated by the system allows the user to select data for... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20090300550 - Method and device for assisting users in reporting health related symptoms and problems: The present invention discloses a device, a method and software for mapping health related symptoms and problems with the aim of collecting and structuring information related to sick person's health related symptoms and problems. A device is disclosed which comprises hardware and a graphical user interface (GUI) for user interaction.... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20090300551 - Interactive physical activity and information-imparting system and method: A method of imparting information includes interactively selectively displaying information to a person or user, based on the physical location of the person relative to a display screen upon which the information is displayed. A tracking system is operatively coupled to the display that selectively displays the information. The tracking... Agent: Jonathan A. Platt Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20090300552 - Application navigation: A method for operating a user interface for switching between computer applications is provided. The method may include displaying first, second and third navigation controls. The first navigation control may include entity selectors, the second navigation control may include application selectors, and the third navigation control may include sub-application selectors.... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione / Yahoo! Overture

20090300553 - Defining a border for an image: Some embodiments provide a method that provides a display area for displaying an image that includes several of edges. The method provides a border drawing tool that in response to cursor movement across the image displays a search window about the cursor. The search window specifies a region to be... Agent: Adeli & Tollen, LLP

20090300554 - Gesture recognition for display zoom feature: A method, apparatus, and system are disclosed that provide a computing user with an ability to engage in a multitude of operations via the entry of gestures. Computer operations may be mapped to shapes, and a comparison may take place between a user-entered gesture and the shapes to determine whether... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20090300555 - Web page display apparatus and web page display method: A Web page display apparatus includes: an acquisition unit for acquiring a Web page; a generation unit for generating a reduced Web page by reducing the Web page so that the particular element has a width smaller than that of the display size when a user-specified particular element in a... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20090292980 - Authoring package files: Various embodiments described herein include systems, methods, software, and data structures of and for authoring and presentation of package files. Some such embodiments include instantiating a package file and receiving a presentation specification to include in the package file, the presentation specification displayable within a media playing application to provide... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/adobe

20090292981 - Inputting data to a web page: A system for inputting data to a web page that is selectively accessed and displayed through a web browser executing on a computing device includes an electronic scratch pad on the computing device that is configured to identify data entry fields on an accessed web page and to retrieve a... Agent: Ibm Corporation C/o: Rader, Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20090292982 - Automated propagation of user interaction effects to equivalent ui artifacts: A method for automatically propagating changes in user interaction effects across multiple user interface pages. The method includes selecting a first web based user interface page and activating a user interaction effect. Then producing a user interaction change message which is sent to a server side broker on the framework... Agent: Ibm - Spp Shimokaji & Associates, P.C.

20090292983 - Html filter for prevention of cross site scripting attacks: An HTML filter is described that converts HTML tags into HTML object and associated param tags. In an exemplary embodiment, the present HTML filter also validates existing object tags so that they may render in at least one, and optionally all, major browsers. In another exemplary embodiment, the presently described... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - Fox Entertainment Group

20090292984 - Method and system to selectively secure the display of advertisements on web browsers: A method and system to selectively secure the display of advertisements on web browsers. A method in accordance with an embodiment includes: defining a particular displayed area of the interpreted markup file; obtaining the DOM tree of the interpreted markup file, the DOM tree comprising parent and child nodes, each... Agent: Hoffman Warnick LLC

20090292985 - System and method for schema evolution in an e-commerce network: A method and computer system are described for conducting commercial transactions. An enhanced type of XML schema may be used which supports integrity constraints and polymorphism. Schemas are identified by the use of Uniform Resource Names. XML processors residing on transaction servers or trading partner servers parse document instances by... Agent: Haynes Beffel & Wolfeld LLP

20090292986 - Populating dynamic page template with digital content objects: A dynamic page template is populated with one or more digital content objects, comprising. For each digital content object, a locus is determined in relation to the dynamic page template. The locus specifies locations on the dynamic page template at which the digital content object can be placed. The digital... Agent: Hewlett-packard Company Intellectual Property Administration

20090292987 - Formatting selected content of an electronic document based on analyzed formatting: One aspect of the present invention can include a method, computer program product, system, and/or device for formatting content of an electronic document. In the aspect, pending content from a source document can be identified that is to be inserted into a target document. An insertion point in the target... Agent: Patents On Demand, P.A. - IBM Cam

20090292988 - System and method for adjusting font size of information displayed in an electronic device: An electronic device includes a display unit, a distance detector, a control unit, and a converting unit. The display unit is used for displaying information. The distance detector operatively detects a distance between an object and the display unit. The memory stores a table relating font size to predetermined distance,... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Steven Reiss

20090292989 - Panning content utilizing a drag operation: Computer-readable media, computerized methods, and computer systems for intuitively invoking a panning action (e.g., moving content within a content region of a display area) by applying a user-initiated input at the content region rendered at a touchscreen interface are provided. Initially, aspects of the user-initiated input include a location of... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. (c/o Microsoft Corporation)

20090292990 - Terminal and method of control: A terminal having a touch screen includes a vibrator configured to provide feedback of a vibration of varying amplitude or frequency when a list is scrolled. The vibration varies as the position of a displayed portion of a list is scrolled using a scroll bar. A unique vibration pattern may... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20090292991 - Building macro elements for production automation control: A macro element template is replicated to build a macro element library. A macro element is associated with executable instructions for controlling a plurality of production devices to produce a special effect or segment of a media production. One or more automation control objects are positioned onto a control interface... Agent: Thomson Licensing LLC

20090292992 - computer system and a switching method for the same: A switching method includes: when a control unit receives a first command signal and determines that a host computing device is turned off and a power source is disabled, configuring the control unit to operate a switch unit in a first switch state and to enable the power source, thereby... Agent: Ladas & Parry

20090292993 - Graphical user interface having sound effects for operating control elements and dragging objects: Systems and methods for providing an enhanced auditory behavior to a graphical user interface are described. Control elements portrayed by the graphical user interface on a display are associated with at least two states. When transitioning between states, a sound effect specified for that transition can be provided to provide... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20090292994 - Automated content tracking and conversion: Source file information is associated with source file content in response to a copy operation of the source file content from a source file. An automated conversion of the source file content to a form compatible with a target file is performed based upon differences between the source file information... Agent: Lee Law, PLLC IBM Customer Number

20090292995 - System and method for accessing and configuring field devices in a process control system: A system includes a client that presents a user interface to a user, where the user interface is associated with a field device in a process control system. The system also includes an interface component having (i) an emulator that emulates a device manager associated with at least the field... Agent: Honeywell International Inc. Patent Services

20090292996 - System and method for accessing and presenting health information for field devices in a process control system: A system includes a server configured to generate a request for status information and/or diagnostic information associated with a field device in a process control system. The system also includes an interface component having (i) an emulator configured to emulate a device manager associated with the field device and (ii)... Agent: Honeywell International Inc. Patent Services

20090292998 - Aggregating and sharing keys of web pages over page viewers: Disclosed are apparatus and methods for collecting information regarding areas or objects of interest of web pages, or other web objects. The areas or objects of interest are referred to herein as “keys”. In certain embodiments, as web pages are viewed by users, users can define one or more keys... Agent: Weaver Austin Villeneuve & Sampson - Yahoo!

20090292997 - Method for compressing topological information pertaining to managed resources to enhance visualization: A method is provided in association with a managed system having a substantial number of resources. The method includes the step of selecting an attribute that is common to all of the resources, wherein each resource has a status in regard to the selected attribute that is one of a... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20090292999 - Desktop sharing method and system: In a distributed computer network where displayed information is shared between at least two computers, a method of enabling remote control of a host computer having a display region that is to be shared with at least one client computer. The method includes tracking time lapsed since a local user... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP (c/o Patent Administrator)

20090293000 - Methods and systems for user interface event snooping and prefetching: The present invention relates to systems, apparatus, and methods for utilizing user interface (UI) snooping to optimize network connections. The method includes accessing, by a client proxy running on a client system, a UI events queue. The UI events queue is stored on the client system. The method further includes... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP Viasat, Inc. (client #017018)

20090293001 - System and method for generating and reporting cookie values at a client node: A method and apparatus for tracking and reporting traffic activity on a web site whereby cookie data is compiled at the visitor computer using cookie processing script embedded within the web page downloaded over the Internet and operable on the visitor computer. Data mining code within the downloaded web page... Agent: Marger Johnson & Mccollom, P.C.

20090293002 - Method for generating a set user identifiers associated with user introduction information, method for accessing this information, associated server and terminal: m

20090293003 - Methods for interactively displaying product information and for collaborative product design: A system for interactively displaying and distributing information. The information may relate to consumer products, any type of article of commerce, marketing and advertising layouts, floor plans, planograms or any other type of information that is capable of being illustrated graphically. A consumer engages in an Interactive Information Session with... Agent: Bereskin And Parr LLP/s.e.n.c.r.l., S.r.l.

20090293004 - System and method for migrating from a first application to a second application: A system and associated method for migrating from a first application to a second application where the second application is an alternative to the first application with respect to functionality. Overlaying a first graphical user interface (GUI) onto the second application where the first GUI corresponding to the first application.... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20090293005 - System and method for user interface design generator for data management applications: A system for user interface design, including an application information model stored in a data processing system storage. The system also includes a user interface design generator configured to retrieve the application information model, apply known patterns of requirements and interaction for data management activities, and produce and store a... Agent: Hewlett-packard Company Intellectual Property Administration

20090293006 - Log-information processing apparatus, log-information processing method, and computer program product: A log-information processing apparatus includes a first interface unit, a storage unit, and a control unit. The first interface unit is configured to be attached and removed to and from an image processing apparatus. When the first interface unit is connected to the image processing apparatus, the control unit performs... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20090293007 - Navigating among activities in a computing device: A computing device runs multiple activities concurrently and provides at least two modes for interacting with the activities. The user may toggle between the modes as desired. In a full-screen mode, one activity occupies substantially an entire display screen. In a windowed mode, the activity is visible within a window,... Agent: Raubvogel Law Office

20090293008 - Information processing device, user interface method, and information storage medium: To group a plurality of data items through a simple operation, an information processing device includes a displaying unit for displaying an image of a virtual space where a plurality of data-related positions respectively associated with a plurality of data items are set and each data-related position is surrounded solely... Agent: Gibson & Dernier L.L.P.

20090293009 - Method and system for page navigating user interfaces for electronic devices: A method for providing navigational control of paginated electronic information, includes: loading paginated information into an electronic device capable of displaying paginated information in response to a user's selection; determining the total number of pages in the paginated information, and the number and page lengths of chapters, indexes, appendices, and... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - IBM Tuscon Division

20090293010 - Method for selecting objects displayed on an operator system: A method for selecting objects displayed on an operator system is described, the operator system being provided to operate and monitor a process flow in a plant and the objects representing plant components. Further, elements for selecting components of interest in a plant displayed on a display unit are provided.... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090293011 - Pivot search results by time and location: Aggregating temporal information and location information to form a collective query. A search query is received from a user to identify search results. Temporal information and location information associated with the query inputs from information sources are received. One or more search results associated with the received query are identified... Agent: Senniger Powers LLP (msft)

20090293016 - Adaptation of the presence status of instant messaging: g

20090293015 - Application platform: In devices of comparatively small system resources such as a multi function printer, when an application is uninstalled, a user cannot refer to or operate information having been managed by the application that has been uninstalled. With respect to an application, an alternative application to be started as an alternative... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090293012 - Handheld synthetic vision device: A handheld synthetic vision system includes a display, a sensor suite and a computer all housed in a handheld unit. The system enhances normal vision by displaying to a user actual or digitally created visual scenes of objects and information that may or may not be perceptible to unaided human... Agent: Honeywell International Inc. Patent Services

20090293014 - Multimedia content information display methods and device: A method of displaying available multimedia content items includes receiving a request to display a set of available content items. In response to the request, a first set of icons are provided for display, where each icon corresponds to a type of available multimedia content. The icons are displayed in... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Lna Attn: Patent Docketing

20090293013 - System and method for providing content on an electronic device: A computing device includes a display and a processor coupled to the display and configured to display a plurality of items of information in a time-sequential manner, with a predetermined time interval between items of information being displayed. At least one of the items of information includes data originating from... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20090293018 - History-based tracking of user preference settings: A process is disclosed for using the existing Universal Resource Identifier (URI) history feature of browsers to maintain user preference settings, or other state information, used by one or more web sites or other systems. In one embodiment, when a user makes a particular preference selection on a web site,... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20090293017 - System and method to assist in tagging of entities: A method to assist in tagging an entity includes a user selecting at least one threshold for the user's activity of at least one entity; monitoring user activity of the at least one entity; and when the at least one threshold is reached, automatically suggesting or recommending to the user... Agent: Cahn & Samuels, LLP

20090293019 - User interface having slider controls for weighted parameters in searching or decision making processes: User interface having slider controls for weighted parameters in searching or decision making processes. Slider controls may correspond to certain search parameters, which may be given more or less weight in searching depending on the user's adjustments to the position of the slider controls. A sliding display element may also... Agent: Wilson, Sonsini, Goodrich & Rosati

20090293020 - Display-integrated image forming apparatus, image display system, and image display method: A digital multifunction peripheral provided with a scanner portion, an operation portion, an image forming portion, a device control portion, a fax modem, a communications portion, a management portion, and a hard disk (HD) is connected to a server apparatus via an external network. A large-format display is attached integrally... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090293021 - Input control device: An input control device for enabling the user to perform predetermined operation for an icon simply by performing move operation of a pointer without button operation is provided. An operation selection area generation section 167 generates position information of an area indicating operation corresponding to selection and activation of predetermined... Agent: Panasonic Patent Center

20090287987 - Non-destructive media presentation derivatives: The claimed subject matter relates to various architectures that can, inter alia, facilitate creation of a synch file as well as facilitate interpretation of the synch file. Both creation and interpretation can be accomplished in conjunction with an original media asset. The synch file can include transformation commands that can... Agent: Lee & Hayes, PLLC

20090287988 - Methods, systems, and computer readable media for automatically and securely citing and transferring electronically formatted information and for maintaining association between the cited or transferred information and back-end information: Methods, systems, and computer readable media for automatically and securely citing and transferring electronically formatted information and for maintaining association between the cited or transferred information and back-end information are disclosed. According to one method, a selection of media content copied from an electronic source is received. The selection of... Agent: Jenkins, Wilson, Taylor & Hunt, P. A.

20090287989 - Presenting tag clouds based on user information: In some embodiments, a method comprises detecting a request to display a tag cloud, where the tag cloud includes a plurality of tags and the tags hyperlink to related web content. The method can also comprise determining a user's interests and preferences based on the information provided by the user.... Agent: Ibm Raleigh Iplaw (dg) C/o Delizio Gilliam, PLLC

20090287990 - Systems and methods for dynamically generating graphical memorabilia projects for presentation and use: Systems and methods for generating and physically rendering graphical memorabilia projects are described herein. Generally, the methods comprise providing and organizing photos, selecting a theme-based kit, selecting a dynamic page layout template, selecting a design and color palette, personalizing a memorabilia project comprising the template, and physically rendering the memorabilia... Agent: David B. Tingey

20090287991 - Generation of fusible signatures for fusion of heterogenous data: Methods, computer-executable instructions on computer-readable media, and systems for generating fusible signatures for information contained in two or more corpora of data. The fusible signatures can allow the information from the separate corpora of data to be merged, or fused, into a single information space that allows information analysts to... Agent: Battelle Memorial Institute Attn:IPServices, K1-53

20090287992 - Methods, systems and computer program products for creating and modifying labels used by pharmaceutical dispensing systems: Apparatus, methods and computer program products for creating and modifying labels for use by pharmaceutical dispensing machines are provided. A pharmaceutical dispensing apparatus includes a touch screen, a processor, memory coupled to the processor, and a computer program residing in the memory that is executable by the processor for guiding... Agent: Needham James Boddie, Ii Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec, P.A.

20090287993 - Management device and method thereof: A main control unit determines whether or not a previous version with which comparison is to be made exists regarding a document stored in a session storage unit. Next, confirmation is made regarding whether or not there is difference between both compared objects, and the control unit determines whether or... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20090287994 - Document processing device and document processing method: A technology is provided which presents a summary of a document in an easy-to-understand manner. An acquisition unit of a document processing apparatus acquires a document described in a markup language. A condition setting unit sets a condition for display of an outline of a document for each tag set... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090287995 - Method and apparatus of dynamic updating web portals: The web portal's contents management becomes complex and sometime tedious job. There are needs for an efficient and cost effective way to manage large volumes of the web contents for web portals. The posting and withdrawing operation of the present invention has provided a means for making the tasks of... Agent: Sheng Tai (ted) Tsao

20090287996 - Image layout device, recording medium, and image layout method: The image layout device configured to enable users to lay out images includes a layout data storing unit configured to store layout data sets that specify image arrangement regions for laying out the images, a layout selecting unit configured to automatically select the layout data set from the layout data... Agent: Young & Thompson

20090287997 - System and method for the on screen synchronization of selection in virtual document: Disclosed is a system and method for synchronizing virtual and physical documents. The system can be used in conjunction with screen reading software for synchronizing the screen reader's virtual representation of a component to components that are visually displayed to a sighted user.... Agent: Gray Robinson Attn: Stefan V. Stein/IPDept.

20090287998 - Text creating and editing system and method with dynamic data loading: The present invention is directed to a system and method for creating and editing documents or messages by dynamically loading the required data on the computing device as the documents or messages are being created or edited. This invention has relevance for creating or editing documents or messages in non-English... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20090287999 - Information processing device and display information editing method of information processing device: An information processing device of an aspect of the invention has display means having a display region; operation means, having a contact region, for outputting a position signal indicating the position of a contact operation in the contact region; range decision means for deciding a target range of the display... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20090288000 - Interactive application for accessing information about a condition: Generally described, aspects of the disclosed subject matter are directed to computer systems that allow information regarding a condition, such as a skincare condition, to be accessed over the network. In accordance with one embodiment, a method is provided that allows a user associated with the client computing device to... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, PLLC

20090288001 - Trigger event based data feed of virtual universe data: Business owners in a virtual universe may want to create a data source that transmits a data feed when certain parameters are met. Functionality can be implemented within a virtual universe to create a data feed when a trigger event occurs. The data feed may include data about the trigger... Agent: Ibm Endicott- Delizio Gilliam, PLLC

20090288002 - Virtual universe teleportation suggestion service: The present invention is directed to a system, method and program product for providing teleportation suggestions to avatars in a virtual universe. A service is provided that determines the set of teleportation suggestions for the avatar based on at least one of: an inventory analysis of the avatar, a historical... Agent: Hoffman Warnick LLC

20090288003 - Cost effective system and method for monitoring machinery units: The present software and hardware system provides monitoring and adaptive operator communication and software for a plurality of machinery units (12) such as machine tools in a shop floor or factory environment. The monitoring system includes a data acquisition processor (16) including a read-only measurement input bank (22), a computer... Agent: Olson & Cepuritis, Ltd.

20090288004 - System, method, apparatus and computer program product for providing a notification of widget availability: A method of providing a notification of widget availability may include receiving an indication of a visited location associated with a user, determining whether the visited location is associated with a widget on a device associated with the user, and providing a notification to the user of an availability of... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20090288005 - Display of supplementary information on a graphical user interface: Disclosed are method and apparatus for displaying supplementary information on a graphical user interface. A request for supplementary information is received. The supplementary information is retrieved and displayed in a reserved display field in a graphical user interface. The reserved display field may be configured by a user to adapt... Agent: At & T Legal Department - Ws Attn: Patent Docketing

20090288006 - Multi-dimensional documents locating system and method: A method of visualizing and manipulating data on a display of a computer is provided, the method comprising retrieving a plurality of documents from a file system operably connected to the computer, each said document having at least one attribute associated therewith; graphically organizing the plurality of documents retrieved from... Agent: Maya-systems Inc. Attn.: Intellectual Property Department

20090288007 - Spatial interfaces for realtime networked communications: A current realtime communication session is established between communicants operating on respective network nodes. A spatial visualization of the current realtime communication session is displayed. The spatial visualization includes a graphical representation of each of the communicants in spatial relation to a graphical representation of a virtual area. During the... Agent: Edouard Garcia Attorney At Law

20090288008 - Building macro elements for production automation control: A macro element template is replicated to build a macro element library. A macro element is associated with executable instructions for controlling a plurality of production devices to produce a special effect or segment of a media production. One or more automation control objects are positioned onto a control interface... Agent: Robert D. Shedd, Thomson Licensing LLC Patent Corporations

20090288009 - Methods and apparatus for graphical object implementation: A system displays a graphical element in a graphical user interface, and receives a command to display the at least one graphical sub-element associated with the graphical element. The system replaces the display of the graphical element with a display of at least one graphical sub-element associated with the graphical... Agent: Chapin Intellectual Property Law, L.L.C. Westborough Office Park

20090288011 - Method and system for video collection and analysis thereof: A computer implemented method of performing video surveillance on a computer system, wherein the computer system comprises a video and a display with a graphical user interface, the graphical user interface including a source window to view play back of the video, the surveillance method comprising: determining an area of... Agent: Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP

20090288010 - User interfaces for editing video clips: A computer-implemented method including displaying in a user interface, a first thumbnail representing a first video clip including a first plurality of frames; displaying in the first thumbnail, a first transition point positioned between a left edge and a right edge of the first thumbnail, the first transition point associated... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20090288012 - Secured electronic transaction system: A configuration (a system and/or a method) are disclosed that includes a unified and integrated configuration that is composed of a payment system, an advertising system, and an identity management system as well as their associated methods such that the unified system has all of the benefits of the individual... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20090288013 - Scalable user interface system: Methods and apparatus are provided for a scalable user interface system. A user interface is divided into general reusable user interface components and application specific user interface components. Next profiles are created for user interfaces based upon server capabilities and client side device capabilities and reusable user interface components are... Agent: Honeywell International Inc. Patent Services

20090288014 - Widget platform, system and method: A widget platform is disclosed. The widget platform includes a plurality of widget templates, a plurality of widget code portions, wherein at least a portion of the code portions are available for placement into ones of the plurality of widget templates, a search engine, wherein the search engine locates, responsive... Agent: Thomas J. Mcwilliams, Esquire Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP,

20090288015 - Widgetized avatar and a method and system of creating and using same: An avatar is disclosed. The avatar includes computing code that provides for addition of the avatar as non-static content to at least two unique at least partially static web pages, and secondary computing code resident within the computing code, wherein the secondary computing code provides for association with at least... Agent: Todd A. Norton Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

20090288016 - Method and system for transferring full-track content media files from a server computer system to a user mobile device: The invention provides a method of transferring media, comprising receiving a selection from a user computer system over a network at a server computer system, transmitting a download page from the server computer system to the user computer system, the download page having a link, based on the selection, a... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20090288017 - Device and method for relaying a massage instruction: A communication device and method is provided for relaying a massage instruction from a person receiving a massage to a massage therapist. The communication device has an input module and an output module, which may be mounted to a massage table. The person receiving the massage operates a plurality of... Agent: Quarles & Brady LLP

20090288018 - Framework for supporting transition of one or more applications of an organization: A framework for supporting transition of one or more applications of an organization is provided. The one or more applications are transitioned from a first set of users to a second set of users. The framework includes a transition module, a knowledge capture module, a knowledge validation module, and a... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20090288019 - Dynamic image map and graphics for rendering mobile web application interfaces: A method and system of generating a graphic display. Initially, a background image is displayed. One or more image containers that specify areas overlaying the background image are defined. Images to be rendered in these image containers are requested from a server. The server dynamically generates the images and transmits... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090288020 - System and method for communicating about charitable donations: A system and method for communicating about charitable donations and the donation process can be utilized by multiple classes of donors such as individuals, businesses and nonprofit agency donors. The system includes a networking web site accessible via a local or global computer network that allows donors to streamline the... Agent: Kolisch Hartwell, P.C.

20090288021 - System and method to support dynamic widget distribution: A process is proposed that enables a widget vendor or aggregator to continuously present widgets via a widget network to a user who previously grabbed and embedded a first widget presented by the vendor or aggregator. The user may initiate the browsing of the widget network from a user placement... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP

20090288022 - Dynamically changing a user interface based on device location and/or date/time: The user interface of a location-aware device (e.g., a wireless telephone) is intelligently altered/configured based on the current location of the device, movement of the device, and/or current date/time. The user interface is automatically changed by activating a specific function and/or displaying a specific set of menu items as a... Agent: Rogitz & Associates

20090288023 - Establishing a graphical user interface ('gui') theme: Methods, apparatus, and products for establishing a graphical user interface (‘GUI’) theme, including: receiving, by a GUI theme creator, a media file including one or more digital images, the one or more digital images including a plurality of pixels, the plurality of pixels representing a plurality of colors, the plurality... Agent: Ibm (rps-blf) C/o Biggers & Ohanian, LLP

20090288024 - User interface apparatus, image forming apparatus using the user interface apparatus, and method thereof: An image forming apparatus provides visual feedback according to a determination of whether an input window is activated. The image forming apparatus includes an input unit which receives input of letters or numbers, and a user interface unit which generates a user interface screen including an input window to display... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20090288025 - Graphical programming system with event-handling nodes: A system and method for enabling a graphical program to receive and respond to programmatic events, such as user interface events. The graphical program may include a graphical user interface having various user interface elements and a block diagram having a plurality of nodes indicating functionality of the graphical program.... Agent: Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel, P.C.

20090288026 - Processing data records: Among other things, a user is enabled to identify arbitrary data records of interest that belong to a file of data records that are expressed in an arbitrary format. Pre-generated information about the records of the file is used to enable a user to view a portion of the arbitrary... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20090288028 - Apparatus and method for managing content: A content management apparatus displays, on a display unit, a first display object representing a content item, at least one area for including the first display object, and a second display object used for setting a condition regarding movement of the first display object into the area or from the... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20090288027 - Visualization and management of information technology components: Computer systems, methods and software are provided for visualizing and managing information technology components associated with a computer system. This can include displaying a grid having a plurality of cells, wherein each cell is capable of containing a unit of management and receiving user input associating a unit of management... Agent: Patrick R. Scanlon Preti Flaherty Beliveau & Pachios LLP

20090288029 - Display system with user options: A method of displaying automation data is provided. First individual data points correlated with individual time points are received from a machine system. The first individual data points are stored in correlation with the individual time points. A user input is received indicating a selected time. The selected time is... Agent: Rockwell Automation, Inc/sr

20090288030 - System and method for task management: A method of assigning tasks is provided. In one embodiment, the method includes displaying, on a user interface, one or more representations of tasks and a calendar of dates, each representation being indicative of a task to be completed. The method also includes receiving a user input indicative of a... Agent: Target Brands, Inc.

20090288031 - Time block planning: A system, method and apparatus for time block planning is disclosed. For example, one disclosed embodiment comprises receiving a first task with a set start time and a set duration, receiving a second task with a flexible start time, and scheduling the first task at the set start time and... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090288032 - Electronic device and user interface display method thereof: An electronic device and a user interface display method thereof are provided. The method includes the following steps. First, organize a plurality of computer programs and a web browser executable on the electronic device into a virtual book. Each page of the virtual book includes a user interface of one... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20090288033 - User-directed capture of unstructured information from web pages with assignment to data type: A software application includes a window having at least first and second panels. The first panel is programmed to provide access to Internet-based sources of information. The software application also includes a user-operable selection tool programmed to select non-structured information from an Internet-based source of information presented in the first... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20090288034 - Locating and identifying controls on a web page: An approach is provided that receives Web page data at the user's computer system with the Web page data including graphical user interface (GUI) controls. A process running on the client computer system identifies each of the GUI controls included in the Web page data. A rendered image of the... Agent: Ibm Corporation- Austin (jvl) C/o Van Leeuwen & Van Leeuwen

20090288035 - Scrollable views in a client/server application: Described herein is technology for, among other things, a method of displaying a number of views in response to user scrolling. A basic, generic view is initially rendered for display on a client. Subsequent views are rendered for display that tracks the scrolling. During the scrolling process, data is not... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090288036 - Multi-window display apparatus, multi-window display method, and integrated circuit: A multi-window display apparatus capable of displaying a plurality of windows on a screen thereof is provided with means for, when a new window is displayed so as to be superimposed on a window which has already been displayed, displaying the new window without covering significant information as ranch as... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20090288037 - Method for facilitating cooperative interaction between software applications: A computer software system is disclosed for single step coordination between software applications. A monitoring application automatically identifies a target application and presents a prompting window, such that if possible (but not necessarily) it appears to be attached to a side of the target window. Clicking a control in the... Agent: Russ Weinzimmer

20090288038 - Method, system, and program product for controlling a display on a data editing screen: The invention provides a method, system, and program product for controlling a display on a computer-aided design (CAD) data editing screen, whereby commands more likely to be utilized are preferentially displayed.... Agent: Ibm - End Shimokaji & Associates, P.C.

20090288039 - Managing inputs from a plurality of user input device actuators: A computing device and method for managing inputs from a plurality of user input device actuators are provided. The computing device may include code stored in memory for implementing, via a processor, an actuator input module configured to receive a first actuator input from a first user input device actuator,... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090288040 - Method, system and storage device for an embedded command driven interface within a graphical user interface: A command line interface that is imbedded within a program can be implemented to any graphical user interface. An exemplary storage medium that is coupled to the processor such that the processor can read information from, and write information to, the storage medium. Herein, a method and system for providing... Agent: HulseyIPIntellectual Property Lawyers, P.C.

20090288042 - Method and system for controlling multiple computers: A system for controlling multiple computers comprises a plurality of host computers with associated display screens with particular display boundaries, a set of a cursor control device and a keyboard and a KM (keyboard/mouse) switching device with second set ports coupled to each of the host computers and first set... Agent: Roger H. Chu

20090288041 - Methodology to create a logical landing zone surrounding an object to react to determined html events: A method, system, and computer-usable medium are disclosed for managing elements within a graphical user interface (GUI). Logical landing zones are generated to create non-visible areas of a GUI associated with one or more GUI elements. A mouse cursor is hovered over a first linked element results in a JavaScript... Agent: Hamilton & Terrile, LLP IBM Rsw

20090288043 - Method and system for moving a cursor and selecting objects on a touchscreen using a finger pointer: A finger pointer is used for moving a cursor and selecting objects on a touchscreen. The finger pointer includes a cursor indicator and a finger contact area. The cursor indicator points to a location on the touchscreen that would be activated when the finger pointer is selected. The finger contact... Agent: Young & Thompson

20090288044 - Accessing a menu utilizing a drag-operation: Computer-readable media, computerized methods, and computer systems for intuitively invoking a presentation action (e.g., rendering a menu) by applying a drag-operation at a top-level control button rendered at a touchscreen display are provided. Initially, aspects of a user-initiated input applied at the top-level control button are detected. These aspects may... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. (c/o Microsoft Corporation)