Data processing: presentation processing of document inventions

20090271690 - Handling cross-domain web service calls: Methods and apparatus are described for handling asynchronous web service calls across multiple domains. A JavaScript library provides a framework for handling such requests without being restricted by the “same origin” policy enforced by browsers.... Agent: Weaver Austin Villeneuve & Sampson - Yahoo!

20090271691 - Linking digital and paper documents: Various embodiments facilitate linking physical documents to digital documents. Links link physical documents to digital documents. Using a sensor, the physical documents are automatically detected and identified on a digital workspace. A computer is capable of displaying graphics, and user interaction with displayed graphics can be detected. The digital workspace... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090271692 - Method for making digital photo album: A method for making a digital photo album on a digital photo frame, the method includes the following steps: selecting a plurality of photos in the digital photo album, and ranking the selected photos, reviewing each of the selected photos one at a time in the digital photo frame, detecting... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Steven Reiss

20090271693 - Asynchronous user defined functions: A framework for enabling users to create User Defined Functions (UDFs), which can run simultaneously without using multiple calculation threads, is provided. A calculation engine continues a remainder of calculation operations independent of a pending asynchronous function upon starting to run the asynchronous function without waiting to receive a result.... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20090271694 - Automated detection of null field values and effectively null field values: Disclosed are systems for, and methods of, automatically detecting and treating field values of a particular field as null field values in records of a database. The system and method provide automatic treatment of these field values as null field values by calculating a critical frequency for the field. Based... Agent: Hunton & Williams LLP Intellectual Property Department

20090271695 - Method of accessing or modifying a part of a binary xml document, associated devices: s

20090271696 - Conflict resolution: Embodiments of a collaborative authoring environment enable a user to resolve editing conflicts arising when synchronizing a user copy of a data file with a master copy of the data file. Content updates may be synchronized separately from metadata updates. Metadata updates may be synchronized automatically, whereas content updates may... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20090271697 - Creating a text-editable web page using a word processor: Embodiments of a method for providing documents, which may be performed by a system, are described. During operation, the system determines presentation information for content in a first document. Note that the content may include characters, and that the presentation information may specify relative positions of the characters in a... Agent: Pvf -- Apple Inc. C/o Park, Vaughan & Fleming LLP

20090271698 - System reporter-repository auditor: The System Reporter-Repository Auditor is a method for compiling system inventory data in an IPTV solution, including IPTV and database patches, and generating files in editable format. The method involves accumulation of system data in XML and other text format and generation of a configurable file/report from the XML and... Agent: Alcatel-lucent

20090271699 - Apparatus and method for updating a report through view time interaction: A computer readable storage medium includes executable instructions to open a report including a view time interaction module, to display structured report data provided to the view time interaction module, and to modify the structured report data in response to a call to the report initiated by the view time... Agent: Sap GlobalIPC/o Cooley Godward Kronish LLP William S. Galliani

20090271700 - Text type-ahead: Methods and arrangements of text entry are discussed. Embodiments include transformations, code, state machines or other logic to index segments of text from multiple sources and receive segments of text being entered into text-entry applications in a floating application. The embodiments may also involve matching the segments of text to... Agent: Ibm Corporation (end Ny) C/o Schubert Osterrieder & Nickelson PLLC

20090271701 - Method for systematically identifying technology-based solutions: A process for identifying technology-based solutions in the context of technical component development includes identifying technical components for particular technical systems, as well as the corresponding technological functions associated with the identified technical components. In one embodiment, development obstacles associated with technical component development may be identified. A set of... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20090271703 - Electronic device and user interface display method thereof: An electronic device and a user interface display method thereof are provided. The method organizes a plurality of computer programs and a web browser executable on the electronic device into a virtual book including a plurality of ordinary pages and a list page. Each ordinary page of the virtual book... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20090271702 - Method for switching user interface, electronic device and recording medium using the same: A user interface switching method, and an electronic device and a recording medium using the same are provided. First, a plurality of user interfaces are provided, and one of the user interfaces is displayed in a touch screen of the portable electronic device. A representative icon bar and a hot... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20090271704 - Displaying help sensitive areas of a computer application: A window of a computer application on a display device is controlled through associating a pop-up window with the screen window of the computer application, wherein the computer application provides more than one screen window and a pop-up window is associated with each screen window of the computer application, and... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20090271706 - Method and apparatus for organizing and playing data: The present invention provides a general solution to presenting media interface and navigation tools for content provided from a plurality of sources. The invention maintains a user at a single site regardless of the source of the media content. This permits a consistent interface to be presented to the user.... Agent: Yahoo! Inc. C/o Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20090271705 - Method of displaying interactive effects in web camera communication: To allow for greater interactivity in video chat environments, displaying multiple effects from a sender of a first electronic device to a chat client of a second electronic device on a video chat region starts with the sender selecting an effect. If the selected effect has a predetermined mapping interactive... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20090271708 - Collaboration software with real-time synchronization: A collaboration program operates on a computer system for storing, sharing and synchronizing data between different users. Centrally stored content data items are organized by associations into one or more folders, with the folders arranged by associations in a multi-level hierarchical structure. Users have access to all folders and content... Agent: ShewchukIPServices

20090271707 - Extensible browser platform for web applications: An enhancement to a web browser offers an extension mechanism for web applications to utilize client-side resources, thereby moving more extensibility and flexibility to the client-side. The web browser may expose some control interfaces to meet various requirements from web applications. Using the extension mechanism, the web applications are able... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090271709 - Method and apparatus for setting up wireless lan of device: A wireless local area network (LAN) set up method and apparatus by which a client apparatus not having a character input function can easily provide wireless LAN setup. The wireless LAN set up method includes the operations of scanning associable wireless LAN devices so as to search for information about... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090271710 - Remote on-screen display control: A remote control of an on-screen display is provided. One example embodiment includes a method for receiving a first command from a user input device and converting the first command from the user input device to a second command, wherein the second command is in a display device format that... Agent: Alleman Hall Mccoy Russell & Tuttle LLP

20090271711 - Automated relationship management for darwin information typing architecture: Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to relationship management in information architectures and provide a novel and non-obvious method, computer system and computer program product for managing links in a Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA). In one embodiment of the invention, a method for... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20090271712 - Messaging device having a graphical user interface for initiating communication to recipients: A messaging device allows a user to initiate communication to recipients via a graphical user interface. In some embodiments, messages are composed by a user via a touchscreen display. Pre-existing messages may also be retrieved by the user via the display. Icons representing potential message recipients are displayed, and the... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20090271713 - Document collaboration by transforming and reflecting a document object model: Technologies are described herein for document collaboration by transforming and reflecting a document object model. A DOM representation of a document to be shared is obtained at a host computer, transformed, and reflected to one or more participant computers. Each of the participant computers receives the DOM representation of the... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090271714 - Identifying mutual friends in online environments: The invention described herein detects an external user entering into a virtual world that includes a virtual area. In turn, the invention described herein identifies a plurality of joined users that joined each virtual area and computes a joined user weighting for each of the plurality of joined users. The... Agent: Ibm Corporation- Austin (jvl) C/o Van Leeuwen & Van Leeuwen

20090271715 - Collaborative augmented virtuality system: A system for use on a computer network 112 where multiple users can simultaneously experience “Virtual Worlds” 102 augmented with inputs from the real world via instruments such as Microscopes, Telescopes, 3D scanners etc. These “Collaborative Augmented Virtuality” systems can be made to be compliant with “laws of science” using... Agent: Ramakrishna J. Tumuluri

20090271716 - System and method for real-time scheduling: A system and method for dynamically scheduling a meeting time in association with an instant messaging client. The system includes a chat server, a grid scheduling server, a local instant messaging client, a remote instant messaging client, and a grid scheduling client. The instant messaging client facilitates a chat session... Agent: HolmanIPLaw/ibm Rsw

20090271718 - Apparatus, method, and computer program product for characterizing user-defined areas: A method of specifying a boundary for an area is provided, which includes receiving a first input from a first user regarding a first configuration of a boundary of an area. The first input may serve to establish an area of arbitrary and possibly irregular configuration, such as an area... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20090271717 - Operating method for a computer with embedded browser: A computer executes a program, wherein said computer opens a usage window of a user interface of the program when calling said the program. In the execution of the program with an opened usage window, the computer receives usage commands for a usage part of the program from a user... Agent: Schiff Hardin, LLP Patent Department

20090271719 - System and method for analysis and display of geo-referenced imagery: An improved system and method for analysis and display of geo-referenced imagery overlaid with information such as vegetation health, land cover type and impervious surface coverage. In one aspect, an image analysis system creates a map of a selected area of land by overlaying information extracted from an image or... Agent: Phillips Lytle LLP Intellectual Property Group

20090271720 - Method for deriving intelligence from activity logs: Techniques for segregating one or more logs of at least one multitasking user to derive at least one behavioral pattern of the at least one multitasking user are provided. The techniques include obtaining at least one of at least one action log, configuration information, domain knowledge, at least one task... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20090271721 - Organizational roll-up/down: Information related to an industrial control system can be disclosed graphically on a visual display. To traverse through different system portions, an organizational hierarchy can be used to enable a user to roll down into deeper level or roll up into a higher level. A user can input a choice... Agent: Turocy & Watson, LLP Attention: Heather Holmes

20090271722 - Method of providing graphical user interface (gui), and multimedia apparatus to apply the same: A method of providing a graphical user interface (GUI) and a multimedia apparatus using the method. The method includes generating a first item, second item and line connecting the first item and the second item on a screen, and generating a third item according to user additional operations, to enable... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20090271723 - Object display order changing program and apparatus: An icon line is displayed on a screen so as to align icons laterally. When a user slides a stick laterally based on an originating point corresponding to a point on an icon of the icon line, it is possible to scroll the icon line laterally in accordance with the... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, P.C.

20090271724 - Visual characteristics of user interface elements in a unified interest layer: A user-activatable dashboard (also referred to as a unified interest layer) contains any number of user interface elements, referred to herein as “widgets,” for quick access by a user. In response to a command from a user, the dashboard is invoked and the widgets are shown on the screen. The... Agent: Apple/fenwick

20090271729 - Method for processing a chronological sequence of measurements of a time dependent parameter: A method for processing a chronological sequence of measurements of a time dependent parameter measured in or on a human body, in particular of a physiological glucose concentration, and a system thereof are disclosed. A database stores a plurality of chronological sequences of measurements of the time dependent parameter and... Agent: Dinsmore & Shohl, LLP One Dayton Centre

20090271727 - Physical object visualization framework for computing device with interactive display: Devices and methods for displaying a visualization graphic on an interactive display are provided. One disclosed device may include an interactive display configured to detect a tag positioned proximate a display surface of the interactive display. The device may further include a processor configured to execute an application program and... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090271726 - Providing convenient entry points for users in the management of field devices: An aspect of the present invention enables administrators to specify custom entry points, which facilitate a user to access desired information quickly. In an embodiment, such administrator specified entry points are also displayed in a home page, which is displayed when a user requests management of a corresponding field device.... Agent: Honeywell International Inc. Patent Services

20090271725 - System and method for rack management and capacity planning: A system and method for monitoring, at a Web browser, electrical components can include the steps of receiving, information related to electrical components, such as servers, disposed in a plurality of cabinets, a portion of the cabinets being located in a first geographic location, and a second portion of the... Agent: Patent Docket Administrator Lowenstein Sandler PC

20090271728 - Visual representation manipulation: An industrial control configuration can be disclosed to a user as a specific representation, such as a physical layout of different units of the configuration. A user can seamlessly move between different representations, such as switching from the physical layout to a logical layout. The representations can provide real time... Agent: Turocy & Watson, LLP Attention: Heather Holmes

20090271730 - System and method for conducting online campaigns: Systems and methods for generating displays showing interactions with a piece of content accessible via a number of unrelated websites are described. One embodiment of the invention includes storing a piece of content within a database and providing access to the piece of content via a website hosted by a... Agent: Kauth , Pomeroy , Peck & Bailey ,llp

20090271731 - Electronic device and user interface display method thereof: An electronic device and a user interface display method thereof are provided. The electronic device includes a touch sensor and a display. The electronic device organizes a plurality of computer programs and a web browser executable on the electronic device into a virtual book. Each page of the virtual book... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20090271732 - Image processing apparatus, image processing method, program, and recording medium: An image processing apparatus includes an input unit to which an image of an object picked up by an image pickup device is input, a display device on which the image is presented, an image presenting unit configured to present the image on the display device; a viewpoint detecting unit... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20090271733 - Information processing apparatus, control method, and storage medium: According to one embodiment, an information processing apparatus includes a display unit which has a touch sensor on a screen, a detection unit which causes the touch sensor to detect that press on an arbitrary text of text data displayed on the display unit has continued for a predetermined time,... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090271734 - Display method and device thereof: A display method is disclosed. The display method includes the following steps. Capture a facial feature of a user to obtain an image. Process the image to obtain a viewing angle of the user. Scroll page content displayed by a display element according to the viewing angle of the user.... Agent: Muncy, Geissler, Olds & Lowe, PLLC

20090271735 - Extensible and application-adaptable toolbar for web services: Providing a user interface (UI) on a web page. A toolbar section is defined on the web page. The web page includes a content section being different and separate from the toolbar section, and the content section displays additional content of the web page. One or more groups are specified... Agent: Senniger Powers LLP (msft)

20090271736 - Method and disc drive for providing a content entity from a storage disc: A method for providing a content entity from a storage disc is described. The storage disc comprises at least one further content entity. Each content entity comprises a main menu and at least one submenu accessible via the main menu. The storage disc further comprises an entity selection menu. The... Agent: Glenn Patent Group

20090271737 - Method and system for graphically emphasizing a path through a diagram: Methods and systems for graphically emphasizing a selected path through a diagram, where the diagram includes a number of nodes and a number of lines, the methods and systems including: applying a node highlight effect to a node of the number of nodes in the selected path, where applying the... Agent: Kali Law Group, P.C.

20090271738 - Method and user interface for the graphical presentation of medical data: In a method and a device for the implementation of a medical examination via a user interface of at least one imaging device determination and input of a group of measurement parameters take place via an input device of the user interface. Spatially resolved image information are generated with the... Agent: Schiff Hardin, LLP Patent Department

20090271739 - Input control unit: A display section 15 is provided with a function partition area containing function determination areas and a match detection section 167 generates match detection information indicating that a pointer exists on a predetermined function determination area based on pointer position information indicating the display position of the pointer from a... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20090271740 - System and method for measuring user response: A system and method for measuring user response to a stimulus, such as an advertisement, includes displaying the stimulus to the user, displaying a color bar to the user, and receiving a selection of a color from the color bar made by the user in response to the stimulus. The... Agent: Barnes & Thornburg LLP

20090271741 - Method and system for providing content: A method for providing content through a content providing system, including permitting access to the system through a media device; outputting a screen including a plurality of menu items including a view brand content item; when the view brand content item is selected by a user, outputting a screen including... Agent: Saliwanchik Lloyd & Saliwanchik A Professional Association

20090271743 - System and method for a transparent record: Embodiments of the invention are generally directed to a system and method for a transparent record. A record is displayed in a graphical user interface. The record contains at least one container having one or more elements. In an embodiment, a read service accesses a first interface of the container... Agent: Sap/bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090271742 - User interface navigation design system: A user interface navigation design system and method is described in this document. In some embodiments, a user interface (UI) navigation diagram is generated. The UI navigation diagram displays two or more of the plurality of screen views and corresponding navigation relationships. A screen view is selected according to a... Agent: Honeywell International Inc. Patent Services

20090271744 - Intelligent autocompletion: Various embodiments utilize an auto-complete module to expose a website's content structure. In at least some embodiments, a user can take an action within an application and, responsively, the auto-complete module can retrieve a site index file or site map and use the site index file or site map to... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090271745 - Map display system, map display device, map display method, and map distribution server: A map display system having display means for displaying a map image and object display control means for displaying object images on the map image according to the location of the objects, wherein, when a cursor is moved to a desired object image and operated to select it, information on... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20090265603 - Apparatus and method for composing scenes using rich media contents: A user interface method and apparatus for a Rich Media service in a terminal. A decoder decodes a received stream to check a header of the received stream. A renderer adaptively composes a scene using scene composition elements of the received stream, according to adaptation information in the header checked... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, LLP

20090265604 - Graphical representation of social network vitality: A method for presenting a graphical representation of the strength or vitality of a contact's social network is disclosed. When a user pulls up a graphical user interface displaying contacts in his or her social network, in addition to the traditional profile data for each contact, a virtual object may... Agent: Vierra Magen/microsoft Corporation

20090265605 - Fixed-form information management system, method for managing fixed-form information, and computer readable medium: A fixed-form information management system includes: an image input unit that captures an image of a document; a fixed-form recognition unit that recognizes a fixed-form type and an information structure of the document from the image captured by the image input unit; a comparison unit that compares the information structure... Agent: Sughrue-265550

20090265606 - Method for creating a table in the automation environment: Project planning software is made available to a user within an automation environment. Table editors or grids are implemented therein. Some columns are logically linked to one another, which would preclude such columns being separated. Nevertheless, it is possible to separate columns within the course of moving or hiding them.... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090265607 - Method, system and computer readable product for management, personalization and sharing of web content: A computerized system and method for managing, annotating and sharing web pages comprising: a system server comprising a server application and a www server, the system server communicating over the internet with one or more client computers, each S comprising a www browser and a client application, the system server... Agent: Ronny Fogel C/o Daltan Consulting Ltd.

20090265608 - Dynamic method for generating xml documents from a database: The invention describes a method for automatically generating XML documents containing data extracted from a database source. The method consists of defining a number of templates in the format of the database, these templates containing executable statements. Queries associated with each of the templates are also defined. The queries are... Agent: Young & Thompson

20090265609 - Method and system for producing and organizing electronically stored information: The invention provides techniques for efficiently organizing and reviewing electronic documents to be produced in the course of a discovery process. The technique provides for marking the master or pivot document with review information, and identifying a plurality of duplicate documents related to the master or pivot document. The technique... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20090265612 - Methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for specifying content of electronic mail messages using a mail markup language: A method, apparatus, and computer program product are provided for specifying content of electronic mail messages using a mail markup language. A method may include receiving content for inclusion in an electronic mail message. The method may further include receiving an indication of a formatting for at least a portion... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20090265610 - Rendering markup language macro data for display in a graphical user interface: Embodiments are provided for rendering markup language data representing a macro as macro objects in a graphical user interface on a display device and for converting macro objects to markup language data. In one embodiment, markup language data representing the macro from a data source may be translated into macro... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20090265613 - Template author and method of driving data capture in document templates: A method of providing data capture in a document template which has conditional criteria and data definitions. The method steps apply incomplete data to the document template; parse the document template; identify a data capture step; request data in response to the data capture step; and, re-parse the selected document... Agent: Robert W. J. Usher Patent Agent

20090265611 - Web page layout optimization using section importance: Methods and apparatus are described which enable the efficient adaptation of web pages to mobile displays. The more important or relevant sections of a web page are identified and configured into a more compact form. Both layout preserving and high compaction techniques are described.... Agent: Weaver Austin Villeneuve & Sampson - Yahoo!

20090265615 - Data processing server and data processing method: A screen in which multiple documents are integrated and displayed is provided. An XML data acquisition unit refers to a user database and acquires content data registered by a user from a web server. An HTML data conversion unit converts XML data into HTML data. A module builder builds a... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090265614 - Method for converting a computerized briefing file to a pc-less briefing file and briefing system for presenting the pc-less briefing file: A method for converting a computerized briefing file to a PC-less briefing file is disclosed and comprises the steps of: presenting the computerized briefing file via a briefing software, wherein the computerized briefing file has a plurality of pages of briefing data; capturing the plurality of frames of the presented... Agent: Kuo-lung Chang

20090265616 - Method and apparatus for displaying information and storage medium thereof: A method and an apparatus for displaying information are provided. The information includes a word or a picture. The information is displayed with an original proportion. When receiving a first input signal, the information is displayed with a first proportion within a predetermined boundary, according to the first input signal.... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20090265617 - Methods and systems for use in maintaining media data quality upon conversion to a different data format: The present embodiments provide methods, apparatuses, and systems for use in maintaining data quality upon conversion to a different data format. Some embodiments provide methods that receive media data in a first format, initiate a first conversion of the media data at the first format to a second converted format,... Agent: Fitch Even Tabin & Flannery

20090265618 - Method of browsing web information using a mobile handheld device: A method of browsing web information using a mobile handheld device is disclosed. Capture rules are pre-established in a web page capture server. When a mobile handheld device is linked to the web page capture server, the mobile handheld device is allowed to assign one of the capture rules. The... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, P.C.

20090265619 - Handheld electronic device with disambiguation of compound word text input employing separating input: A handheld electronic device includes a reduced QWERTY keyboard and is enabled with disambiguation software that is operable to disambiguate compound word text input. The device provides output in the form of a default output and a number of variants. The output is based largely upon the frequency, i.e., the... Agent: Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott, LLC

20090265621 - Campaign monitor: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, in which syndication spaces for a webpage are identified, each syndication space defining a location on the webpage in which one or more content items are displayed at a client device, and each content item associated with one or more campaign attributes.... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20090265623 - Customizing calendar views: The present solution provides a system for users to create public and/or personal custom tags, apply them to calendar events, and then view calendar events based on various combinations of tags. Users can manually apply either preexisting or newly created tags to individual (or repeating) calendar events or they can... Agent: Hoffman Warnick LLC

20090265624 - Electronic forms preparing and managing system, electronic forms preparing and managing program, and program storing memory media: An electronic forms preparing and managing system in which electronic forms data are selected from a memory of a computer, new electronic forms having an optional format are prepared using the selected data, and are shown on a monitor of the computer. The electronic forms preparing and managing system includes... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20090265622 - Interactive placement ordering: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, in which syndication spaces for a webpage are identified, each syndication space defining a location on the webpage in which one or more content items are displayed at a client device, and each syndication space is associated with one or more attributes.... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20090265620 - Website advertising inventory: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, in which syndication spaces for a webpage are identified, each syndication space defining a location on the webpage in which one or more advertisements are displayed at a client device, and each syndication space associated with one or more attributes. Display data... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20090265626 - Apparatus and method of controlling display: A print preview image of structured document data including link information is generated and displayed in a display unit, and location information indicating a position of a linked area in the print preview image is generated. The linked area corresponds to the link information included in the structured document data.... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20090265625 - Image processing apparatus capable of preview display, image processing method, and computer-readable medium storing image processing program: A display controller displays a page selection menu generated by a page-selection-menu generator for selecting pages having a specific attribute based on contents of setting relating to printing in common. As one example, when both-side print setting is made, as a specific attribute based on the contents of the setting... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20090265628 - Method and apparatus for operating user interface and recording medium using the same: A method and an apparatus for operating a user interface, and a recording medium using the same are provided. First, a plurality of user interfaces is provided and one of them is displayed on a touch screen of a portable electronic device. Then, the touch screen is used for detecting... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20090265627 - Method and device for controlling user interface based on user's gesture: A mobile device and a method for controlling a user interface of the mobile device are disclosed. According to an embodiment, the method includes detecting a movement of the mobile device as applied by a user's gesture, scrolling at least one of a page displayed on the display and a... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090265629 - Systems and methods for extending assistance in a multi-function peripheral device: Systems and methods of providing help to users of electronic devices, such as multi-function peripherals (MFPs), are disclosed. Help information is maintained in a plurality of storage devices that are in communication with a plurality of MFPs. The storage devices are configured so as to be located remotely from the... Agent: Knobbe, Martens, Olson, & Bear, LLP

20090265630 - Device for estimating user operation intention and electronic device using the same: The apparatus according to the present invention is to be used in an electronic device having an input section to receive a manipulation by a user and operating based on the user's manipulation, and infers a manipulation intent of the user. This apparatus includes a storage which stores a database... Agent: Mark D. Saralino (pan) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20090265632 - Non-linear presentation canvas: Technologies are described herein for providing a non-linear presentation canvas. A non-linear presentation canvas is provided. The non-linear presentation canvas is a virtual space onto which multimedia files and hyperlinks can be inserted. A content preview for one or more of the multimedia files and hyperlinks inserted onto the non-linear... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090265631 - System and method for a user interface to navigate a collection of tags labeling content: An improved system and method for visualizing and navigating a collection of tags labeling content in a user interface is provided. A visualization displaying a categorized subset of related tags may be generated in a user interface from a collection of tags labeling content items. One or more tags may... Agent: Law Office Of Robert Bolan

20090265633 - Network gateway for a vehicle: The present invention relates to the network gateway for the vehicle sharing the contents between all display units of an inside-vehicle. For this, the invention includes an interface connecter which is connected respectively to at least one or more display units that receive a user command and display the process... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20090265634 - Situational workspaces: A workspace container provides data content in a generic way with interfaces and tools common to data of different types. The container has an owner, and may include one or more activities, which each have an objective and are associated with various resources to accomplish the objective. User interaction in... Agent: Sap/bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090265635 - System for visualizing design and organization of wireless mesh networks in physical space: A visualization tool for displays devices included within a self-organizing mesh network with respect to the physical space occupied by the network. The visualization tool receives an image representing the physical space occupied by the wireless mesh network, scale information defining the scale of the received image, and location information... Agent: Kinney & Lange, P.A.

20090265637 - Method and apparatus for providing service and method and apparatus for controlling terminal: A method and apparatus for providing a widget service. The method includes receiving a user request signal to request that a service provided in a first space using a widget application be provided in a second space; receiving information for providing the service in the second space from an external... Agent: Mcneely Bodendorf LLP

20090265636 - System and method for selling preference-based virtual objects: A system and method for selling preference-based virtual objects comprising receiving one or more user commands from an input device, transmitting, to at least one server, the one or more user commands to identify one or more preference-based virtual objects based on the one or more user commands, receiving the... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20090265638 - System and method for controlling secure content and non-secure content at a fuel dispenser or other retail device: A retail payment, advertising, and content switching system and method are disclosed. According to one embodiment, a secure content source or a non-secure content source is allowed to drive a customer user interface, respectively, without compromising security requirements. The content may be video, audio, prompts, or any other type of... Agent: Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough, LLP

20090265639 - Evaluation of remote user attributes in a social networking environment: A computer host is configured to perform a method for defining user attributes with associated verification values for social networking accounts. The attributes concern the user's personal characteristics or attributes. The host publishes the attribute information to other clients together with interactive objects for soliciting corroboration of the attribute information.... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz LLP

20090265640 - Collaboration widgets with user-modal voting preference: Collaborative voting widgets (or controls) provide a graphical user interface (GUI) that is adapted for collaborative effort between groups of individuals. The widgets have a modal selection state that changes the appearance and functionality of the widget depending on whether the widget is being presented to a particular user (e.g.,... Agent: Ibm Corporation (mh) C/o Mitch Harris, Attorney At Law, L.L.C.

20090265641 - System, method and computer program for conducting transactions remotely: A transaction system and method is provided that ensures a high degree of non-repudiation. The transaction system may include a media conferencing terminal and a client computer on each end of the transaction. The system may be linked via a network such as the Internet so that transactions may be... Agent: Miller Thompson, LLP

20090265642 - System and method for automatically controlling avatar actions using mobile sensors: Increasingly people want to maintain a persistent personal presence in virtual spaces (usually via avatars). However, while mobile they tend to devote only short bursts of attention to their mobile device, making it difficult to control an avatar. The core contribution of this IP is to use implicitly sensed context... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090265643 - Instant messaging reception indication: An instant message device provides an instant messaging reception indication by displaying an instant message sent by the instant message device, along with a visual indication of the current state of the instant message. The current state of the instant message reflects whether the instant message has been visibly displayed... Agent: Garlick, Harrison & Markison (alu)

20090265644 - Automatic repositioning of widgets on touch screen user interface: A method, apparatus and program product are provided for repositioning user interface widgets on a touch screen. A repositioning rule is provided. A triggering event is detected. In response to the triggering event, one or more widgets are repositioned in the touch screen interface using the repositioning rule.... Agent: Steven E. Bach Attorney At Law

20090265646 - Method and apparatus for displaying personalized user interface: A method of displaying a user interface (UI), wherein the displaying is performed by a client, is provided. The method includes receiving UI data from a server, generating the UI to be displayed based on the received UI data and characteristics of the client and displaying the generated UI.... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090265645 - Method and apparatus for generating user interface: Provided are a method and apparatus for generating a user interface (UI). The method receives a plurality of UIs from a plurality of servers and generates and displays a combined UI by combining (or aggregating) the plurality of UIs, so that a user can control a plurality of devices through... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090265648 - Method and apparatus for providing/receiving user interface in which client characteristics have been reflected: A method and apparatus for providing/receiving a user interface (UI) is provided. In the method and apparatus, a server provides, to a client, a UI encoded in a multimedia data format by considering client characteristics. Accordingly, various UIs for controlling the same server can be provided/received, thus making a UI... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090265647 - Modifying time associated with digital media items: A computer-implemented method includes displaying multiple content items in a user interface, where each content item has an initial time value. Input is received to modify time values of the multiple content items. Input of a new time value for a content item of the multiple content items is also... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20090265650 - Efficient information transfer systems: This invention relates to providing a system for improved user productivity and administrative management capability enabling control of software application functionality. Productivity is enabled with a single drag-and-drop operation for moving data in email attachments to web-enabled databases. In commercial work environments, where multiple computer software applications must collaborate with... Agent: Stoneman Volk Patent Group

20090265649 - System and method for management and distribution of multimedia presentations: A system for delivery of content-based products. The system includes a content library which provides advanced interfaces for adding, manipulating, arranging and storing multimedia presentations, and for interacting with rich multimedia presentations.... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20090265651 - System and method for managing a travel itinerary: User interface showing timed and sequence events interleaved in a travel itinerary is disclosed herein. According to a preferred method of the present invention, the planning begins with a particular day at a destination. Next, ad hoc activities are created as a list in no particular order. Generic activities are... Agent: Catalyst Law Group, Apc

20090265652 - Machine tool and software magnifier operating method thereof: A software magnifier operate method of a machine tool includes selecting a magnifier image button on an operate interface to execute a software magnifier program. A first position of the operate interface is selected for magnifying the first position into a first magnify area. A second position of the operate... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Steven Reiss

20090265653 - system and method for generating an informational media display on a document processing device: The subject application is directed to a system and method for generating an informational media display on a document processing device. A document processing signal representing the status of a document processing operation on an associated document processing device is first received. Media content data and preference data corresponding to... Agent: Tucker Ellis & West LLP

20090265654 - System administration discussions indexed by system components: A method provides, as part of a computer administration system, an administration interface that can operate on almost any computerized device that has a user interface. The computer administration system manages components of a computer system and the administration interface is operable to configure the components and to provide dynamic... Agent: Frederick W. Gibb, Iii Gibb Intellectual Property Law Firm, LLC

20090265655 - Navigable text user interface: A user interface method that presents data to a user, for both inspection and modification, in the context of navigable natural-language text, providing for validation, confirmation and execution of user actions as well as integration of graphic controls.... Agent: Mark Fiedler

20090265656 - Graphical user interface having an attached toolbar for drag and drop editing in detail-in-context lens presentations: Detail-in-context techniques are described. In an implementation, an original image is distorted to produce a distorted region for a selected object at a first position in an original image displayed on a display screen. The distorted region magnifies at least a portion of the object. A signal is received to... Agent: Sadler, Breen, Morasch & Colby, Ps

20090265657 - Method and apparatus for operating graphic menu bar and recording medium using the same: A method and an apparatus for operating a graphic menu bar and a recording medium using the same, suitable for a portable electronic device having a touch screen, are provided. First, a graphic menu bar is provided, which includes M graphic items arranged in sequence, where M is a positive... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20090265658 - Method and system for performing scrolling by movement of a pointing object in a curvilinear path on a touchpad: A method of moving an object in a generally circular manner on the surface of a touchpad and causing a list to be scrolled as long as the object is moving, wherein a method is provided for activating a scrolling function, wherein a method is provided for determining what direction... Agent: Morriss Obryant Compagni, P.C.

20090265660 - Image transmission device, display system, image transmission program, and recording medium: An image transmission device which transmits image data of a display image to be displayed by a display device includes: a selecting unit which selects an object constituting the display image; a data generating unit which generates transmission data to serve as the image data of the display image on... Agent: Advantedge Law Group, LLC

20090265659 - Multi-window display control system and method for presenting a multi-window display: An exemplary multi-window display control system comprises: a read module, a display module, and a display; the method for presenting a multi-window display is also provided, the method comprising: reading the size of a display by a read module; sending the size of the display to a display module; displaying... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Steven Reiss

20090265661 - Multi-resolution three-dimensional environment display: A computer manages display of objects having different resolution values in a coordinated multi-player game process. One or more servers and client applications operate cooperatively to manage and display various different resolution areas representing output from the unitary game process. The server receives input data from a plurality of clients... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz LLP

20090265662 - Method and apparatus for adjusting display area of user interface and recording medium using the same: A method and an apparatus for adjusting a display area of a user interface, and a recording medium using the same are provided. In this method, a first user interface and a second user interface are displayed on a touch screen of a portable electronic device. The first user interface... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20090265663 - Systems and methods for communication between user interfaces: A computing system for communication between user interfaces of test programs is provided. The system includes a first user interface, a communication interface, a second user interface, and a processor. The communication interface receives a test command issued from the first user interface. The second user interface polls the communication... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Steven Reiss

20090265664 - Method to provide user interface to display menu related to image to be photographed, and photographing apparatus applying the same: A method to provide a user interface (UI) includes the UI, the present general inventive concept provides the UI to specify a certain region of an image to be photographed and to display a menu for an image displayed on a specified region.... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20090265666 - Method for prompting outstanding event in screen lock state, electronic device thereof, and storage medium thereof: A method for prompting an outstanding event in screen lock state, an electronic device thereof, and a storage medium thereof are provided. In the present method, at least one outstanding event type is obtained first, wherein a corresponding occurrence time of each outstanding event type is greater than 0. Next,... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20090265665 - Methods and apparatus for interactive advertising: Methods and apparatus for interactive advertising. A user may optionally select some or all of the interactive advertising for storage for later viewing or use. For example, in one embodiment, the user may have access to a personalized storage space for digital information and by, e.g., selecting a hyperlink, store... Agent: Goodwin Procter LLP Patent Administrator

20090265667 - Techniques for providing three-dimensional virtual-world presentations: A technique for providing a three-dimensional (3D) virtual-world (VW) presentation includes selecting a 3D real-world (RW) presentation. One or more messages, including 3D VW presentation steps that are associated with the 3D RW presentation, are then received at a VW presentation object that includes a VW presentation root script. The... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20090265668 - 3d input/navigation device with freeze and resume function: 3D input/navigation device, method and computer program product for controlling an object in a three-dimensional space by an operator, wherein an object can be switched in a frozen condition in which the movements of the object are suppressed with respect to at least one direction such that the object can... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20090265669 - Language input interface on a device: Methods, systems, devices, and apparatus, including computer program products, for inputting text. A user interface element is presented on a touch-sensitive display of a device. The user interface element is associated with a plurality of characters, at least a subset of which is associated with respective gestures. A user input... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20090265671 - Mobile devices with motion gesture recognition: Mobile devices using motion gesture recognition. In one aspect, processing motion to control a portable electronic device includes receiving, on the device, sensed motion data derived from motion sensors of the device and based on device movement in space. The motion sensors include at least three rotational motion sensors and... Agent: Sawyer Law Group PC

20090265670 - User interface for a mobile device using a user's gesture in the proximity of an electronic device: An electronic device having a user interface on a display and method for controlling the device, the method including: detecting a proximity of an object to the display; detecting a two-dimensional motion pattern of the object; and controlling the user interface according to the detected two-dimensional motion pattern. Also, a... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090259926 - Methods and apparatus to play and control playing of media content in a web page: Methods and apparatus to play and control playing of media content in a web page are disclosed. In one example, a method of monitoring media content in a web page loads a web page containing a media player and media content, processes an image of the web page to determine... Agent: Hanley, Flight & Zimmerman, LLC

20090259928 - Systems and methods for employee compensation planning: Systems, methods, graphical user interfaces (GUIs), and computer readable media for providing information related to a compensation plan for an enterprise. A view of a portion of a compensation plan developed by a compensation planning application is presented and includes a hyperlink. The hyperlink is associated with information related to... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20090259927 - Systems and methods for video content association: In addition to methods for associating video content, the present invention provides a system for video content association. The system for video content association includes at least one video file stored in a database. Furthermore, the system for video content association includes a video association controller configured to receive a... Agent: David A. Einhorn, Esq. Baker & Hostetler LLP

20090259929 - System and method for submitting a patent application electronically: A system and method for submitting a patent application electronically includes converting a specification and figures of the patent application saved in a storage device into an application body extensible (ABX) word file, converting the ABX word file into an extensible markup language (XML) file and a portable document format... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Steven Reiss

20090259930 - Dynamically selecting properties to display in a table based user interface: Dynamically selecting which properties to display for a group of resources is provided. A selection of a group of resources is received to be viewed in a graphical user interface. A determination is made as to whether the group of resources is one of a plurality of previously saved groups... Agent: Ibm Corp. (wip) C/o Walder Intellectual Property Law, P.C.

20090259931 - Table generating method and table generating apparatus: A table generating apparatus calculates the total of the values of weights set for the widths of a plurality of columns included in a table, and determines the width of each of the columns based on the table width, the total, and the weight set for the width of each... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20090259932 - User-selectable hide option for a user interface, which is not persisted, and which is not dependent upon intra-document controls: A stored document of a persistent data store can include digitally encoded content. A version of the stored document can be created that is placed in a non-persistent memory. This version can be referred to as a rendered document. Content from the rendered document can be presented in a user... Agent: Patents On Demand, P.A. Ibm-rsw

20090259933 - System for displaying an annotated programming file: A system includes a display, a processor executing an application program for displaying an annotation file, and memory storing program instructions of the application program. The processor associates an annotation with a programming module of a baseline file to display, in an unsegmented window of a graphical user interface, the... Agent: Ibm Lotus & Rational Sw C/o Guerin & Rodriguez

20090259934 - System and method for rendering dynamic web pages with automatic ajax capabilities: A system for rendering a dynamic web page is provided. The system includes a server hosting a web site and in communication with a client via a network. A first parsing engine is provided on the server and is adapted to parse a page script to generate an intermediate script.... Agent: Dorsey & Whitney, LLP Intellectual Property Department

20090259935 - System for delivering and enabling interactivity with images: A system, including apparatuses, software and methods, is disclosed for capturing and delivering images as to which various interactive functions are enabled for a user. The images introduced to the system can come from any one of a variety of sources, including from a digital camera. A graphical user interface... Agent: Louis J. Hoffman, P.C.

20090259936 - Methods, apparatuses and computer program products for generating a preview of a content item: Methods, apparatuses and computer program products are provided for generating a preview of a content item. In this regard, generating a preview may be included in updating a content item. A preview of a content item may be generated by retrieving the content item via an interface, where the interface... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20090259937 - Brainstorming tool in a 3d virtual environment: Computer-based group brainstorming system and method are disclosed. The invention system and method provide a certain area (e.g., a depicted room) as a brainstorming area in a virtual environment. A processor engine enables brainstorming sessions of multiple users in the certain area. For a given brainstorming session, the engine (i)... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds

20090259938 - Device setting system: A PC performs a setting for an MFP capable of mounting various optional equipments. The PC has a storage portion for storing descriptions of various functions of the MFP, a mounted state of the optional equipments and setting instruction information on the respective functions, and storing parts where the descriptions... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20090259939 - Multimedia mobile personalization system: A multimedia mobile personalization system provides a remote control that detects a user's electronic tag, e.g. an RFID tag. The remote control notifies a multimedia device of the user's identity. The multimedia devices tailors it operations to the user's preferences stored locally. Multimedia content such as broadcast or recorded television... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20090259940 - Mobile video application service creation tool: A tool that enables a technologically unsophisticated user to develop and deploy what could be considered a technically complex video application without requiring the user have knowledge in the workings of various programming technologies. A wizard-driven web-based approach to dynamically and intelligently generate video media (e.g., menus) for mobile devices,... Agent: Smith Frohwein Tempel Greenlee Blaha, LLC

20090259941 - Preprocessing video to insert visual elements and applications thereof: Embodiments of this invention relate to preprocessing video such that visual elements, such as advertisements, can be inserted at a later point in time when the video is requested by a user. In an embodiment, a video and target data is received. The video is analyzed to determine how a... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20090259942 - Varying an audio characteristic of an audible notice based upon a placement in a window stack of the application instance issuing the notice: An application instance can be identified that is associated with an audible notice, which is to be presented. A placement of the application instance in a window stack can be determined. An audio characteristic (e.g., volume, pitch, speed, repetition, audio channel, etc.) of the audible notice can be adjusted based... Agent: Patents On Demand, P.A. Ibm-rsw

20090259943 - System and method enabling sampling and preview of a digital multimedia presentation: There is presented a system and method enabling sampling and preview of a digital multimedia presentation. The system comprises a presentation server and a presentation content database configured to store a plurality of digital content including the digital multimedia presentation, accessible through the presentation server. The system also comprises a... Agent: Disney Enterprises C/o Farjami & Farjami LLP

20090259944 - Methods and systems for generating a media program: A method for generating a media program includes extracting data from at least one data source, creating at least one program clip using the data, wherein the at least one program clip includes a first media clip, generating at least one data tag corresponding to the program clip using the... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090259945 - System and method for generating web based multi-tier, wiki-based control panels: A system and method for generating web based multi-tier, wiki-based control panels that provides a technique for provisioning and managing datacenter services, such as for example physical and virtual servers.... Agent: Dla Piper LLP (us) / Sun Microsystems, Inc.

20090259946 - Dynamic spawning of focal point objects within a virtual universe system: In various embodiments, the density of a plurality of virtual universe avatars within a predetermined proximity from a designated focal point object in a virtual universe is determined. One or more auxiliary focal point objects associated with the designated focal point object are dynamically spawned within the virtual universe based... Agent: Ibm Endicott- Delizio Gilliam, PLLC

20090259947 - System for displaying a plurality of associated items in a collaborative environment: A system is described for displaying a plurality of associated items in a collaborative environment. The system may include a memory, an interface, and a processor. The memory may store items, each item associated with another item. The processor may provide the graphical representation of the items to a user... Agent: Accenture Chicago 28164 Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20090259948 - Surrogate avatar control in a virtual universe: The present invention is directed to providing surrogate avatar control in a virtual universe. The invention enables one resident of the virtual universe to take over the avatar of a second resident. A method for controlling an avatar may include providing the avatar in the virtual universe, where the avatar... Agent: Hoffman Warnick LLC

20090259949 - Cross-browser rich text editing via a hybrid client-side model: A full-featured cross-browser hybrid rich text editor for editing webpage content. The hybrid editor is integrated with a user interface (e.g., toolbar, menu bar), and provides the appropriate context-sensitive behavior when users interact with the user interface and the interface contents. The hybrid editor responds immediately to basic commands (e.g.,... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090259953 - Customizable specification library: A system and method for generating custom construction specifications for use with a graphic user interface. The system provides for a user's own specifications to be uploaded to the system and adapted for use with the system graphic user interface as a custom master specification. Additionally, the system allows for... Agent: St. Onge Steward Johnston & Reens, LLC

20090259950 - Editing user interface components: A system that executes a user editable application includes a user interface that includes a plurality of components organized in a tree structure. The system indicates which of the plurality of components may be editable by a user of the application. The system receives editing input from the user for... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P. Oracle International Corporation

20090259952 - Information processing apparatus and method of controlling same: UI widget content includes reference information by which its own UI widget refers to a child UI widget, and a description of an initial-focus designation for designating which of its own UI widget and child UI widget will have initial focus. A self-UI widget is generated, a child UI widget... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090259951 - Light-weight managed composite control hosting: A managed composite control can be directly (without intermediary hosting layers) hosted within an unmanaged hosting application. A managed control which can host managed composite controls is provided, the managed control being directly hostable within any unmanaged hosting control. An adapter (control) wraps the managed control content before the control... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090259954 - Method, system and computer program product for visualizing data: A plurality of data attributes are displayed to a user. The user makes a selection of at least two of the attributes. An initial one of the selected attributes is displayed, together with all possible values for the initial one of the selected attributes. The user selects at least one... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20090259956 - System and method for enabling review of a digital multimedia presentation and redirection therefrom: There is presented a system for providing a digital multimedia presentation. The system comprises a presentation server; a presentation content database accessible through the presentation server, the presentation content database configured to store a plurality of contents including the digital multimedia presentation, a plurality of digital media contents and a... Agent: Disney Enterprises C/o Farjami & Farjami LLP

20090259955 - System and method for providing digital multimedia presentations: There is presented a system and method for providing a digital multimedia presentation. The system comprises a presentation server and a presentation content database configured to store a plurality of digital multimedia content items, accessible through the presentation server. The system also comprises a presentation control application configured to enable... Agent: Disney Enterprises C/o Farjami & Farjami LLP

20090259957 - Configurable icons for content presentation: Overlay applications for use in a media presentation system are described. An example method for use with broadcast media includes maintaining a collection of overlay applications to be displayed in connection with the broadcast media; enabling a user to select and configure one or more of the overlay applications for... Agent: The Directv Group, Inc. Patent Docket Administration

20090259958 - Mobile terminal and method for controlling widget arrangement on standby screen: A mobile terminal and includes a standby screen for displaying widgets. Basic arrangement information of the widgets is set to arrange selected widgets on the standby screen. Then, the widgets selected for a standby screen are parsed, and the widgets are loaded to a standby screen of the touch-screen panel... Agent: H.c. Park & Associates, PLC

20090259959 - Seamless drag and drop operation with multiple event handlers: A computer-implemented method of selecting event handlers can include initiating a drag and drop operation for a source object and, responsive to detecting contact between the source object and a window of a graphical user interface (GUI), displaying a plurality of icons, wherein each icon represents an event handler for... Agent: Cuenot, Forsythe & Kim, LLC

20090259960 - Image-based controlling method for medical apparatuses: The invention relates to a method for controlling a medical apparatus, wherein: patient image data is generated using an image-generating medical apparatus; a patient image is produced on the basis of this data and displayed on an image output unit; and a medical apparatus is in turn controlled by an... Agent: Don W. Bulson (brai)

20090259961 - Configuration based engineering data collection (edc) for manufacturing lines: Methods and systems for integrating manufacturing equipment with factory automation software. In one embodiment, an equipment integrator (EI) has a user interface to facilitate user input of configuration information to provide an adaptable interface between a manufacturing tool and a manufacturing execution system (MES) that is operable over a plurality... Agent: Applied Materials/bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090259962 - Character input method: A method is provided for inputting characters to an electronic device having a virtual keyboard displayed on a screen. The method includes the step of displaying a plurality of character entry regions (1). Each region is adapted to display either, at a first level, a plurality of character options, or,... Agent: Ira S Dorman

20090259963 - Display area navigation: Display area navigation includes detecting an input device event, providing a display area navigation window, receiving a display area navigation command, and relocating an input pointer according to the display area navigation command. A display area provided by a large display and/or a plurality of displays may be quickly and... Agent: Haynes And Boone, LLPIPSection

20090259964 - Methods of interfacing with multi-input devices and multi-input display systems employing interfacing techniques: Methods and systems for interfacing with multi-input devices employ various techniques for controlling the window framing of images. Such techniques provide control, including moving, sizing, and orientating, of one or more displayed window frames in which one or more images are displayed.... Agent: Patent Docket Clerk Cowan, Liebowitz & Latman, P.C.

20090259965 - Methods of interfacing with multi-input devices and multi-input display systems employing interfacing techniques: Methods and systems for interfacing with multi-input devices employ various techniques for controlling the window framing of images. Such techniques provide control, including moving, sizing, and orientating, of one or more displayed window frames in which one or more images are displayed.... Agent: Patent Docket Clerk Cowan, Liebowitz & Latman, P.C.

20090259966 - Information processing apparatus, window display method, and computer readable medium to store display control program: The information processing apparatus which performs multi-window display control includes a window change unit 102 to search among windows displayed on the screen for a window which at least partially overlaps an area identified based on a designated position and to change the display of the found window so that... Agent: Nec Corporation Of America

20090259967 - Methods of interfacing with multi-input devices and multi-input display systems employing interfacing techniques: Methods and systems for interfacing with multi-input devices employ various techniques for controlling the window framing of images. Such techniques provide control, including moving, sizing, and orientating, of one or more displayed window frames in which one or more images are displayed.... Agent: Patent Docket Clerk Cowan, Liebowitz & Latman, P.C.

20090259968 - Method for switching wallpaper in screen lock state, mobile electronic device thereof, and storage medium thereof: A method for switching wallpaper in screen lock state, a mobile electronic device thereof, and a storage medium thereof are provided. In the present method, an input signal is received by a touch screen when a mobile electronic device enters a screen lock state. Then, whether the input signal is... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20090259969 - Multimedia client interface devices and methods: Mobile devices are described, along with related services, systems, and methods. These devices include displays with pixel dimensions and pixel densities in ranges that are chosen to allow users to enjoy a more intuitive and more “desktop-like” Web or multi-media experience compared to other devices, while still enabling the devices... Agent: Kuware, Inc.

20090259972 - Configuring a textual language program on a first device to invoke a graphical program on a second device: A system and method for creating and using configuration diagrams for configuring distributed systems. The methods described herein may be used for various types of operations in configuring distributed systems, including creating programs, managing programs in the distributed system, deploying programs to various distributed devices, configuring remote execution or inter-operation... Agent: Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel, P.C.

20090259971 - Media mashing across multiple heterogeneous platforms and devices: Systems and methods providing for improved navigation and aggregation of a multiplicity of Internet based media and communication types are disclosed herein. In various embodiments, a Internet experience Manager (IEM) is adapted to present, to a user, a user interface. The user interface is defined in an interface window. The... Agent: Patterson, Thuente, Skaar & Christensen, P.A.

20090259970 - System and method for random voice communications through a social network: A system and method for establishing voice connections between users of a social network. User access is granted to a social network through a VoIP phone. The social network is navigated based on user input. The user is directly connected to a second user randomly for voice communications based on... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20090259973 - Dvd menu navigation with reduced input button count: A method of the interactive features on a DVD utilizing restricted user inputs e.g. reduced number of key pad buttons. The DVD menu may be collapsed to form an indexed linear list of the menu buttons. A user then sequentially navigates through the menu using a one or two directional... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20090259974 - Method and apparatus for displaying content menus in a mobile device: A display method for displaying content menus for use in a mobile device is disclosed. The method comprises the following steps. First, a user request is received. Second, display brief of actual data is acquired from an entry of an index file of a non-volatile storage medium according to the... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20090259975 - List display apparatus, list display method and graphical user interface: A list display apparatus includes: a picture generating unit for generating a three-dimensional list picture, the three-dimensional list picture having a plurality of lower item cards having a respective lower items in a hierarchical structure being unfolded and expanded in a bellows configuration when shifting from an upper level to... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20090259976 - Swoop navigation: This invention relates to navigating in a three dimensional environment. In an embodiment, a target in the three dimensional environment is selected when a virtual camera is at a first location. A distance between the virtual camera and the target is determined. The distance is reduced, and a tilt is... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox, P.l.l.c.

20090254799 - System for creating graphical display from text: A graphical creation software system implemented on a computer comprising a program embodied on a computer-readable medium, the system being for use by a user to create a graphical presentation of text input into the system having, a screen display, a library of graphical images, a computer-based interface to correlate... Agent: Robert M. Schwartz, P.A.

20090254800 - Method for providing user-definitions of terms: The present disclosure is a method for providing user-definitions of terms associated with a document. A method for providing user-definitions of terms may include providing a document, receiving text, receiving a request to define a term within the document, associating the user-provided definition of the term with the document, notifying... Agent: Ibm Corporation (accsp) C/o Suiter Swantz PC Llo

20090254801 - Model navigation: In an embodiment, a modeling environment (ME) may be configured to provide a navigation widget for navigating through a model. The navigation widget may display a first hierpath where the first hierpath is associated with a path to a first portion of the model. The ME may receive input, via... Agent: Lahive & Cockfield, LLP/the Mathworks Floor 30, Suite 3000

20090254802 - Publishing system and method that enables users to collaboratively create, professional appearing digital publications for \"on-demand\" distribution in a variety of media that includes digital printing: Apparatus and methods are provided for providing publishers and authors with the organizational and creative tools to professionally create books inclusive of writing, graphics and multi-media. The apparatus and methods further enable users to design and format their publication with minimal effort. A text editor is used to manipulate the... Agent: Billy J. Knowles Bk Patents, Inc.

20090254803 - Programming methods for improving browser-based electronic forms: The invention describes programming methods that allow unmodified web-browsers to reproduce the rich display, interactivity, printing, and reliability only found previously with specialist electronic form software. Embodiments of the inventions include improving the display of forms created with images and HTML form elements, enhanced control of entry of data in... Agent: Meredith & Keyhani, PLLC

20090254804 - Method and system for managing bipolar disoder in a patient: A method and system for managing bipolar disorder in a patient, by providing an electronic journal for the patient and a plurality of electronic stations for participants in communication with the journal and with selected other electronic stations, wherein there can be recorded and communicated by the patient, and by... Agent: Scott R. Foster Pandiscio & Pandiscio, P.C.

20090254805 - Method of drafting a claim set: A method and computer program for drafting a claim set in a patent application presents a Tool bar (20) including an Add Claim option (22). A detailed numbered claim is presented and includes a plurality of old limitations and novel limitations. By selecting the Add Claim option (22) in the... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC

20090254806 - Adaptive parsing of sparse xml data: A system for representing and generating XML data is provided. The system includes one or more processors and a mapping module configured to execute upon the one or more processors. The mapping module is configured to map each sparsely-encoded XML element of a sparse representation of a document into a... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20090254810 - Information processing apparatus, data processing method, and storage medium: An information processing apparatus which processes document information includes a designation unit configured to designate information which is not to be displayed in the document information, a generation unit configured to generate identification information which is uniquely determined, an addition unit configured to add metadata for restoring the designated information... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20090254808 - Load-time memory optimization: Various embodiments can be used to process packages or documents that contain markup language describing one or more documents. Markup language descriptions can be processed to identify certain objects that reoccur or are repeated in the markup language description. If a re-occurring or repeating object is encountered in the markup... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090254809 - Objects having usage rules that exist outside of the environment in which the object is used: An object that is usable in a plurality of different environments comprises at least one property having an associated rule that affects the object. The object and at least one of its properties and associated rules exist outside of an environment that the object is used in. The rule associated... Agent: Panitch Schwarze Belisario & Nadel LLP

20090254811 - Objects having usage rules that exist outside of the environment in which the object is used: An electronically manipulative object that is usable in a plurality of different electronic document environments comprises at least one electronically stored property that includes an associated rule that affects the object or the electronic document environment that the object is used in. The at least one electronically stored property and... Agent: Panitch Schwarze Belisario & Nadel LLP

20090254807 - Progressive page loading: Various embodiments provide an ability to load documents and access page content associated with documents while the documents are still being loaded. In at least some embodiments, while a document's structure is being processed in the background, individual pages can be requested. The same can be said for individual documents... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090254812 - Sgml document validation using xml-based technologies: An SGML validation system comprises: an XML validation engine; a translator configured to convert an SGML document to a translated XML document; a set of XML schemas against which the XML validation engine validates the translated XML document, the XML schema set configured such that errors detected by the validation... Agent: Fay Sharpe / Xerox - Rochester

20090254813 - Document processing apparatus and document processing method: A document processing apparatus accepts input of image information which represents a document, separates the image information as content of the document into regions, associates the image information separated as content into regions with information used to lay out the content, and holds the associated information as learning information. Subsequently,... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090254814 - Per-edge rules and constraints-based layout mechanism: Architecture that facilitates customized object behavior by allowing for the application of layout rules and constraint on each edge of the document object. This edge-based approach can be applied to layout applications such as desktop publishing. The rules, constraints, and constraint parameters accommodate typical layout scenarios. A layout algorithm is... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090254815 - Using a word processor with accounting data: A method of transferring data from a financial program to a word processing program to view and modify financial documents in the word processing program is disclosed. The method may entail selecting a template in an accounting program wherein the template has a field related to the selected template, identifying... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP (microsoft)

20090254816 - Method of associating properties or fields of graphical objects with each other for efficient composition of documents: A computer-implemented method is provided for preparing a document for editing. The document includes a first graphical object and at least one variable field or property in a second graphical object that is associated with a property of the first graphical object. The first graphical object has a plurality of... Agent: Panitch Schwarze Belisario & Nadel LLP

20090254817 - Enhanced spell checking utilizing a social network: A computer-implemented method of enhancing spell check. The method can include receiving from each of a plurality of clients at least one custom term and at least one class identifier that is associated with the custom term. The custom terms and the associated class identifiers can be processed to provide... Agent: Cuenot, Forsythe & Kim, LLC

20090254818 - Method, system and user interface for providing inline spelling assistance: A method for providing inline spelling assistance to a user via a user interface. The method includes receiving at least a prefix of a word being typed by a user, determining whether the word is being misspelled while the user types the word, monitoring a number of times the word... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - IBM Lotus

20090254819 - Spelling correction system and method for misspelled input: A spelling correction system and method automatically recognizes and corrects misspelled inputs in an electronic device with relatively lower computing power. In a learning process, a misspelling correction dictionary is constructed on the basis of a corpus of accepted words, and context-sensitive strings are selected from among all the strings... Agent: Cha & Reiter, LLC

20090254820 - Client-side composing/weighting of ads: The claimed subject matter provides a system and/or a method that facilitates displaying relevant advertisements to a user. A display engine can browse a portion of image data during a browsing session. An evaluator can identify a context related to two or more concurrent and on-going browsing sessions. An ad... Agent: Lee & Hayes, PLLC

20090254821 - Systems and methods for interactions with software probes: Systems and methods are provided for enabling interaction between a user and a software probe inserted into application code for monitoring and testing application performance. Communications are initialized with the software probe and a user interface is provided to the user. Command data is received from the user through the... Agent: Patent Group 2n Jones Day

20090254822 - Hi-efficiency wizard framework system and method: A method and computer program product for defining a first data request for presentation within a wizard. The first data request solicits a first response from a user of the wizard. At least a second data request is defined for presentation within the wizard after receipt of the first response... Agent: Holland & Knight LLP

20090254823 - Bookmark interpretation service: A bookmark interpretation service is described. In embodiment(s), a bookmark save event can be received from a media device when a bookmark is initiated while a video stream of media content is rendered by the media device, such as when the bookmark is initiated by a viewer at the media... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090254827 - Browser interpretable document for controlling a plurality of media players and systems and methods related thereto: A browser interpretable document comprising a first media file or a pointer to the first media file; a graphical user interface definition, or a pointer to the graphical user interface definition, the graphical user interface definition comprising a first user interface element and a function associated with the first user... Agent: Yahoo! Inc. C/o Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20090254824 - Distribution of context aware content and interactable advertisements: Disclosed herein is a method and system for providing context aware multimedia content and interactable advertisements of business services on visually distinct and mutually independent display sections on a mobile device screen of a user. A client application is provided on the mobile device. The client application sends a first... Agent: Ashok Tankha

20090254826 - Portable communications device: Improvements enhance the use of portable communications devices such as cellular telephones. According to one embodiment, data storage capacity is added to the device, such that if a “speed-dial” type operation is initiated, the device is operative to announce a pre-recorded message previously associated by the user with that key... Agent: Sadler, Breen, Morasch & Colby, Ps

20090254825 - System for displaying search results along a timeline: In one embodiment, an apparatus may receive search results from a database. The search results may be from a search request that requests database entries associated with a project. The apparatus may display a timeline, where the timeline includes display regions that correspond to time periods. The apparatus may display... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20090254828 - System and method for acquisition and storage of presentations: Embodiments of the present invention enable the extraction, classification, storage, and supplementation of presentation video. A media system receives a video signal carrying presentation video. The media system processes the video signal and generates images for slides of the presentation. The media system then extracts text from the images and... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20090254829 - User interface with visual progression: In one embodiment, a graphics user interface is provided. The graphics user interface includes a plurality of graphical representations identifying separate audio data, respectively. Each of the plurality of graphical representations is configured in a list to be selected for playback of the respective audio data. A progression icon is... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20090254830 - Digital image albums: To better realize the great potential of amateur digital photography, the present invention introduces an integrated system for the acquisition, organization, manipulation, and publication of digital images by amateur digital photography enthusiasts. The system of the present invention first acquires images from a number of different image sources. Images acquired... Agent: Adeli & Tollen, LLP

20090254831 - Yahrzeit system and method: A method of and system for providing an electronic Yahrzeit display corresponding to the current date including determining a current date, performing a search in a database storing a plurality of Yahrzeit entries to identify the Yahrzeit entries having an anniversary of the death date corresponding to the current date,... Agent: Arent Fox LLP

20090254832 - Method and apparatus for collaborative design of an avatar or other graphical structure: A method and apparatus for collaborative design of a graphical structure is by users of a network. First, a description of the graphical structure is downloaded from a network server to client devices of the users. User modifications of the graphical structure are then uploaded to the network sever from... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20090254833 - System and method for displaying information about subnets: An interface for a database. The database contains information about subnets in a large network, such as the Internet. The interface displays the information in a hierarchical fashion. However, because all subnets cannot be displayed on a display at once, some subnets are displayed, and a user reaches other subnets... Agent: Matthew R. Jenkins, Esq.

20090254834 - Standard schema and user interface for website maps: Various embodiments provide a standardized schema that can be used by site developers to define a site map and its associated hierarchy. In at least some embodiments, a corresponding user interface can be created within an application such as, for example, a Web browser, to allow the user to specify... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090254835 - Method and system for use with the internet: A method of increasing the awareness of users of the Internet to services and products provided by web sites, wherein the method includes establishing a hosting web site on the Internet having a data processor for registering web site owners (WSO's) as subscribers to a hosting service. The method also... Agent: Henry Brendzel

20090254836 - Method and system of providing a personalized performance: A computer for use with a system capable of providing a personalized performance of at least one story having a predefined timeline and a method of operating the system. The method comprises receiving one or more inputs from one or more users; analyzing at least said received inputs in order... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090254837 - Accessing external functionality within a component-based web application: Embodiments of the invention provide techniques for incorporating functionality of a first web application into a second web application composed and managed by a component-based application framework, such as JSF. For example, the web pages of an existing application may be displayed to the user of a web application composed... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, LLP/ibm Svl

20090254838 - Information display system based on user profile data with assisted and explicit profile modification: A data processing system for delivering an open profile personalization system based profile data structures that contain one or more interest nodes. The interest nodes include respective sets of targets and qualifiers, where the targets and qualifiers comprise typed-attributes to be used in the filtering of information files for delivery... Agent: Haynes Beffel & Wolfeld LLP

20090254841 - Apparatus, method, and computer program product for characterizing user-defined areas: A method of specifying a boundary for an area is provided, which includes receiving a first input from a first user regarding a first configuration of a boundary of an area. The first input may serve to establish an area of arbitrary and possibly irregular configuration, such as an area... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20090254840 - Local map chat: Information communication technology operable to provide users with a means for sharing information and comments is disclosed. The information communication technology provides a means for participants to place chat comments on an interactive graphic such as a dynamically rendered map that participants can track, edit and collaboratively work with in... Agent: Yahoo C/o Mofo Palo Alto

20090254839 - Techniques to remotely manage a multimedia conference event: Techniques to remotely manage a multimedia conference event are described. An apparatus may comprise a mobile remote control having a communications component operative to establish a wireless connection between a mobile remote control and a multimedia conference server hosting a multimedia conference event. The mobile remote control may include a... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090254842 - Interfacing with a spatial virtual communication environment: A spatial layout of zones of a virtual area in a network communication environment is displayed. A user can have a respective presence in each of one or more of the zones. Navigation controls and interaction controls are presented. The navigation controls enable the user to specify where to establish... Agent: Edouard Garcia Attorney At Law

20090254843 - Shared virtual area communication environment based apparatus and methods: Improved systems and methods for navigating and interacting in virtual communication environments. At least some of these systems and methods provide a framework that includes one or more virtual areas and supports realtime communications between the communicants. At least some of these systems and methods provide an interface that includes... Agent: Edouard Garcia Attorney At Law

20090254844 - Method and system for managing event reservations and resource dispatching: A system and method for allocating resources to an event and/or managing the allocation of the resources. The event may comprise a ticketed event, such as, a tour, a shuttle service, an excursion, a sporting event, a concert, a play, a stage performance, or other type of performance or event,... Agent: Bennett Jones LLP

20090254845 - Method of associating properties or fields of graphical objects with each other for efficient composition of documents: An automated method is provided for preparing a document for editing. The document includes a first graphical object and at least one variable field or property in a second graphical object that is associated with a property of the first graphical object. The first graphical object has a plurality of... Agent: Panitch Schwarze Belisario & Nadel LLP

20090254846 - Interactive host-aware advertising: Embodiments of the invention provide a method, system, and media for enabling an advertisement to interact with a software application. This can include receiving advertising content that is to be hosted by a software application. The advertising content can include an advertisement to be presented as well as an object... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. (c/o Microsoft Corporation)

20090254847 - Analysis of visually-presented data: A person may interact with visually-presented data in order to specify an analysis to be performed on the data. Data may be presented through a browser or other program in a visual form, such as a chart or graph. The person may interact with the visual presentation of the data... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090254849 - Method and user interface for the graphical presentation of medical data: Operation of a method and a device for the implementation of a medical examination via a user interface of at least one imaging device include determination and input of a group of measurement parameters via an input device of the user interface, generation of spatially resolved image information with the... Agent: Schiff Hardin, LLP Patent Department

20090254848 - Method and user interface to generate and present medical examination results: A method for generation and presentation of medical examination results of at least one imaging device includes the steps of definition and input of measurement parameters via an input device, generation of spatially resolved image information with the at least one imaging device,) and storage of the image information as... Agent: Schiff Hardin, LLP Patent Department

20090254851 - Method and system for conducting a survey by using a wireless device: A method of conducting a survey by a wireless device having a memory circuit and a display screen, the wireless device being capable of wireless communication with a server during a connection period, is provided. The method involves: downloading from the server during the connection period a metadata variable; displaying... Agent: Nexus Law Group LLP

20090254850 - System providing progress indicator for monitor firmware loading process: A method of providing an indication to a user of a status of an updating process of a video display monitor is disclosed. The method comprising receiving a set of instructions by the video display monitor, loading the set of instructions into a memory of the video display monitor, detecting... Agent: Gateway, Inc. Attn: Patent Attorney

20090254852 - User interface overlay system: A method and system for providing an overlay window for an application to display augmentation data over the user interface of the application is provided. An overlay system includes an overlay component and an engine component that interface with the application and a presentation manager used by the application to... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20090254855 - Communication terminals with superimposed user interface: An electronic device includes a user input device and a display screen. A moving picture representative of a pointing object that is external to the electronic device is superimposed onto the display screen, and a plurality of features of the pointing object are interpreted as selection pointers so that a... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec, P.A.

20090254853 - Method of viewing a single document in multiple scaled views: There is provided a method of viewing a document. The method includes displaying a first document in a first viewing window using a first scale value and a first origin coordinate. The first viewing window defines a coordinate array. The method includes determining a second origin coordinate within the coordinate... Agent: Stetina Brunda Garred & Brucker

20090254854 - System and method for visualizing a multi-screen workspace on a single screen display: A system (200) and method (600) for visualizing on a single display screen (SDS) a first plurality of display screen windows (FPDSWs) displayed on display screens (234, . . . , 240) of a multi-screen workspace. The method involves determining a relative placement pattern (RPP) for the FPDSWs (250, .... Agent: Honeywell International Inc. Patent Services

20090254856 - System and method for prompting users to subscribe to web feeds based on web browsing activity: A method (and corresponding system and computer program product) that prompts users for web feed subscription based on web browsing activities of the users is disclosed. The method monitors web browsing activities of a user related to a web page, and determines that the web page supports web feeds. Responsive... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20090254859 - Automated selection of avatar characteristics for groups: Systems, apparatuses, and methods for automating avatar selection for groups are disclosed. A representative method includes providing a software application accessible to multiple users, and a database of available avatar characteristics that are selectively combinable to create user-specific avatars with which the users can represent themselves to each other in... Agent: Hollingsworth & Funk

20090254861 - Dual display content companion: A method includes displaying a listing of content items in a first display area and displaying supplemental content items related to at least one of the content items in a second display area that is separate from the first display area. The listing of content items may represent content items... Agent: Thorne & Halajian Applied Technology Center

20090254858 - Dynamic e-mail signature manager: A dynamic electronic mail signature manager for managing a user's electronic mail signatures inserted into electronic mail messages. An electronic mail signature is displayed within a message composition user interface such that each component of the electronic mail signature is displayed in either an “include” display state or a visually... Agent: Lotus And Rational Software David A. Dagg, Esq.

20090254860 - Method and apparatus for processing widget in multi ticker: Provided are a method and apparatus for processing a multi widget that unitively manages/displays various widgets in a multi ticker. The method includes registering predetermined widgets, analyzing information types of the registered widgets, determining a display type of widget information according to the information types of the registered widgets, and... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090254862 - Method and apparatus for user interface for child oriented computer network: The system provides a method and apparatus for implementing a user interface that is easily usable by children while still providing a rich network browsing environment for the child. The system provides a method of rating network content that is easily understandable by a child and uses images and words... Agent: Dla Piper US LLP

20090254857 - Wireless communication device pre-purchase personalization: A portable electronic device or wireless communication device (WCD) has at least one provision for optional equipment or user services. Options are provided for a user in a menu selection for selection by the consumer of the options. The user selects the options for the particular WCD and the options... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090254863 - Systems and methods for accessing system utilities: In one embodiment, an information handling system may include a processor, a display that may provide a user interface allowing a user to select one or more system utilities to be accessed, memory that may include a plurality of memory partitions storing a plurality of system utilities, and a management... Agent: Baker Botts, LLP

20090254864 - Visualization system and method: The invention is a method and system by which a visualization of a predetermined subject can be generated with the assets and/or attributes of the subject identified and, if assessed, the results of the assessment can be indicated. The visualization includes a center point with a core which represents the... Agent: Head, Johnson & Kachigian

20090254865 - Graphical user interface for accessing information organized by concentric closed paths: A graphical user interface for a computer system having a plurality of icons, each icon representing an activity. A display controller launches the activity associated with a selected icon when selected. An organization algorithm directs a processor of the computer system to arrange the plurality of icons along a sequence... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20090254866 - Method and system for displaying a multitude of objects on a display: A method displays a multitude of objects on a display, the display offering an electronic pointer device. A maximum number of objects to be displayed in an adaptable orientation at a time is determined. The multitude of objects are automatically grouped into at least one group containing at most the... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090254867 - Zoom for annotatable margins: The claimed subject matter provides a system and/or a method that facilitates interacting with a portion of data that includes pyramidal volumes of data. A portion of image data can represent a computer displayable multiscale image with at least two substantially parallel planes of view in which a first plane... Agent: Lee & Hayes, PLLC

20090254869 - Multi-parameter extraction algorithms for tactile images from user interface tactile sensor arrays: A user interface employs a tactile sensor array producing a rich flux of independently-adjustable interactive control parameters, rates of change, and symbols derived from these as well as tactile shapes, patterns, gestures, syntaxes, and phrases from each of one or more regions of contact or proximity. The tactile sensor array... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20090254868 - Translation of gesture responses in a virtual world: Translating gestures made by one avatar to a second avatar in a virtual world by receiving an input from a first user representing an input gesture to be made by the first avatar to the second avatar. The input gesture is translated to generate at least one translated gesture for... Agent: Moore & Van Allen, PLLC For Ibm