Data processing: presentation processing of document inventions

20080104493 - Method of constructing a machine-readable document: A method of constructing a machine-readable document comprises applying a document construction process to first and second input machine-readable documents comprising a template document and a variable data document to produce an output document binding the variable data to the template. Each input document is declared to be of a... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080104494 - Matching a slideshow to an audio track: In a method for a matching a slideshow with an audio track, a slideshow is received. The slideshow comprises a timebase defining display times for slides of the slideshow. An audio track is received. The audio track is utilized to warp the timebase such that a display time for at... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080104495 - Profile display in virtual social networks: Systems and methods for profile display in virtual social networks are provided. Users of a virtual social network can share information with other users of the virtual social network through user profiles. Some users may have multiple user profiles, including user profiles from sources external to the virtual social network.... Agent: Carr & Ferrell LLP

20080104496 - Method and system for facilitating social payment or commercial transactions: A system and computer implemented method for providing a widget are described. The widget is embeddable, copyable and for dynamically displaying multimedia content. The method and system include receiving a campaign configuration for a campaign and a configuration of the widget. The campaign includes at least one goal related to... Agent: Strategic Patent Group, P.C.

20080104497 - Method of identifying an extractable portion of a source machine-readable document: A method of identifying an extractable portion of a source machine-readable document for extraction to an input machine-readable document is described. The method comprises inserting a reference to the extractable portion which includes a source document locator and an extractable portion identifier in an input machine-readable document which is processable... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080104498 - Dynamically merging columns within a table: In a computer system having a graphical user interface including a display and a selection device, a method of selecting and merging columns on a spreadsheet includes displaying a first data set residing in cells in a first column; displaying a second data set residing in cells in a second... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - IBM Tuscon Division

20080104499 - Method for exposing graphical user interface layout logic and parameters: A method is disclosed for exposing graphical user interface layout logic and parameters. The method may be used with any language or tool capable of creating a graphical user interface. The equations affecting an element's properties in the graphical user interface are exposed to the designer. The designer is able... Agent: Brian C. Kunzler Kunzler And Associates

20080104501 - Cross-tier intelligent document generation and management: This application relates to document generation and management and, more particularly, cross-tier intelligent document generation and management. Various embodiments provide systems, methods, and software to quickly generate document templates with fields associated with data items, instantiate documents from such document templates, and submit the documents for processing and dispatch to... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/sap

20080104500 - Method and system for recovering online forms: The illustrative embodiments provide a computer implemented method and system for recovering an incomplete, online form. A browser receives a document and determines whether the document is a first form. Responsive to the document being a first form, the browser initiates a handler to recognize a form exit event. Responsive... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20080104502 - System and method for providing a change profile of a web page: An improved system and method is provided for adaptively refreshing a web page. A base version of the web page may be partitioned into a collection of fragments. Then the collection of fragments may be compared with the corresponding fragments of a recent version of the web page to determine... Agent: Law Office Of Robert O. Bolan

20080104503 - System and method for creating and transmitting multimedia compilation data: This disclosure generally may disclose an efficient and easy to use system and method for sending combined captured data, and synchronized audio/visual annotation data.... Agent: Snell & Wilmer L.L.P. (main)

20080104504 - Method of controlling construction of a machine-readable document: A method of controlling construction, at a remote source, of a machine-readable document is described. The method comprises the steps of presenting a view of a machine-readable document template stored at the remote source and having static and dynamic portions, the dynamic portions being processable in conjunction with a variable... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080104505 - Method, system and program product supporting customized presentation of toolbars within a document: In response to a user marking a plurality of regions within a document of the application program, the application establishes a corresponding plurality of sections of the document including at least a first section and second section. In response to user selection of one or more toolbars from among a... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20080104506 - Method for producing a document summary: The summary textual units are used to form the document summary. The thematic segmentation is dependent on the category to which the document is associated and the summary textual units are selected for each text segment depending on the theme with which the text segment is associated.... Agent: Louis Tessier

20080104507 - Web page dependent browser menu: A web page is electronically retrieved from a remote site such as a server, using a web browser program. At a graphical display interface is simultaneously displayed a browser toolbar of menu items, at least a portion of the retrieved web page, and at least one pre-selected element of the... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20080104508 - Method of constructing an editable machine-readable document: A method of constructing an editable machine-readable document comprises processing a machine-readable template document and a machine-readable document defining an editable portion of the template document to construct a machine-readable template document including an identifiable editable portion.... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080104509 - Method and system for dynamic flowing data to an arbitrary path defined by a page description language: Improvements to a method for flowing variable data, such as text data, image data, bar code data, and the like, into a path of a template defined by a PDL specification in a high-speed printing operation.... Agent: Macmillan Sobanski & Todd, LLC

20080104510 - Graphical interface for search engine: The invention relates to presenting search query results to a user in a manner that displays hits organized by categories, thereby presenting the user with the ability to view the number of hits in a particular category and to then link to those individual hits. The invention includes various types... Agent: Technology, Patents And Licensing, Inc.

20080104511 - Automatic software application menu generation: A method and apparatus are provided that allow for automatic applications menu generations when an updated application is available to a vehicle diagnostic device. The applications are verified to ensure that they are authorized for the vehicle diagnostic device. Templates can be used to generate the applications menu by associating... Agent: Baker & Hostetler LLP

20080104512 - Method and apparatus for providing realtime feedback in a voice dialog system: A method and apparatus for providing feedback to the user of a voice dialog system. The apparatus includes a voice dialog processing module for receiving speech input from a user and conducting a dialog with the user. The voice dialog processing module determines dialog status data and passes it to... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20080104513 - System for retrieving information: A graphical user interface system for facilitating the retrieval of information relating to at least one predetermined category of information. The system comprises a computer, a user controlled pointing device and a graphic display, said graphic display comprising a number of pixels for generating an image comprising x times y... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20080104514 - Method and apparatus for controlling reproduction of audio/visual data: A reproduction apparatus and a method for controlling the reproduction of the audio/visual data in the apparatus includes: providing at least one input element selectable by a user to execute a predetermined function on a reproduction control screen so that the user controls the reproduction of the audio/visual data; and... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080104515 - System and method for slide presentation: Displaying slide presentations in a user interface (UI) on a display screen is enhanced by providing multiple display modes in a slide presentation viewer. A text mode shows text information distilled from the slides. A preview mode shows thumbnail slide images rendered from the slides and a mixed mode shows... Agent: Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott

20080104516 - System and method for editing slideshow: A slideshow editing system for editing images into slideshow comprises an input device for sending a control signal to a host. The host receives the control signal and executes application programs to preview and edit image files with real time feedback, and interactively edit the slideshow and display the slideshow... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20080104518 - Method and system for communicating user interfaces between first and second users over a network: A system generates a first user interface that includes a first plurality of items respectively associated with a first plurality of selection functions. Next, the system presents the first user interface to a first user over a communications network. Next, the system receives a first plurality of selections from the... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/ebay

20080104517 - Representation, decision models, and user interface for encoding managing preferences, and performing automated decision making about the timing and modalities of interpersonal communications: The present invention relates to a system and methodology providing a user interface that can be employed by contactors and contactees in conjunction with a communications architecture for identifying and establishing an optimal communication based on preferences, capabilities, contexts and goals of the parties to engage in the communication. The... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080104519 - Image data processing system, image data generating apparatus, terminal equipment and program product: In each of personal computers, information concerning an application software to process image data sent to a scanner is received. A dialog box is displayed and a user entry is made as to whether transmission is permitted or not. When transmission is rejected by the user, a notice of the... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080104520 - Stateful browsing: Systems and methods pertaining to maintaining and provisioning state information of user sessions are disclosed. In one embodiment, a system includes a plurality of web browsing engines adapted to run in an operating system instance, with the plurality of web browsing engines adapted for remote interaction via a corresponding plurality... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20080104521 - Methods and systems for providing a customizable guide for navigating a corpus of content: Methods and systems are described for navigating a corpus of content items stored in one or more information repositories within a distributed communications system. The content items may include video feeds, audio feeds, television broadcasts, website, a web log or the like. Using any browser application, the user views content... Agent: Yahoo! Inc. C/o Dreier LLP

20080104522 - Methods and systems for modifying raster graphics software programs: A method for enabling raster image editing software to work with geospatial imagery includes identifying geospatial metadata for an image upon opening of the image, and monitoring all raster image editing operations performed on the image to determine if the geospatial metadata is affected. The geospatial metadata is updated if... Agent: Patrick R. Scanlon Preti Flaherty Beliveau & Pachios LLP

20080104523 - Apparatus and method for extracting and sharing information: A message exchange unit receives and distributes a message in a community in which a plurality of users participates. A message memory stores the message received by the message exchange unit. An extraction rule memory stores an extraction rule applicable for the message. The extraction rule includes an extraction pattern,... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080104524 - System and method for facilitating ip telephony applications: A system and method enabling designers to create IP telephony applications without the need for the designers or IP telephone users to understand either the native data format used by the IP telephones or emulators or the programming language used to construct the IP telephony applications. IP phone devices such... Agent: Godfrey & Kahn S.c.

20080104526 - Methods for creating user-defined computer operations using graphical directional indicator techniques: Methods for creating user-defined computer operations involve displaying one or more graphical directional indicators in a computer operating environment in response to user input and associating at one graphic object with the graphical directional indicator to produce a valid transaction for the graphical directional indicators.... Agent: Wilson & Ham Pmb: 348

20080104525 - Modeless watch window in an iconic programming system: An iconic network communicates with test and measurement instruments. A watch window displays and updates data values of the iconic network as the iconic network is processed.... Agent: Agilent Technologies Inc.

20080104527 - User-defined instruction methods for programming a computer environment using graphical directional indicators: Methods for creating user-defined computer operations involve displaying one or more graphical directional indicators and a visual display object in a computer operating environment in response to user input and associating at one graphic object with said graphical directional indicator to produce a valid transaction for the graphical directional indicators.... Agent: Wilson & Ham Pmb: 348

20080104528 - Capturing a gui display environment: Methods, systems, and products are provided for capturing a GUI display environment. Embodiments include identifying a plurality of rendered GUI objects in the GUI display; selecting one or more GUI objects for non-functional re-rendering; selecting one or more GUI objects for functional re-rendering saving the content and display characteristics of... Agent: Ibm (roc-blf)

20080104529 - Draggable legends for sql driven graphs: A computer program product for providing a graphical user interface for graphing results of a Structured Query Language (SQL) is presented and calls for displaying fields identified by the query; identifying selected fields from the query for graphing; and graphing the data from the selected fields.... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - IBM Rochester Division

20080104530 - Senseweb: Senseweb is described. In an embodiment, a first selection identifying a region of interest is recognized. Additionally, a second selection indicating at least one selected condition potentially monitored within the region of interest is recognized. Then, at least one sensor in the region of interest monitoring the selected condition is... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20080104533 - Method and system for generation of a user interface: In a method, system, and computer medium encoded with a data structure, for generation of a user interface for a medical application to be executed by a medical apparatus only the parameters and/or parameter cards that are relevant for controlling the respective application are presented as control elements in the... Agent: Schiff Hardin, LLP Patent Department

20080104531 - Spatial organization and display of enterprise operational integration information: A Zeetix encompasses a collection of information organized around spatial domain, which may be around a geographical location in a real geography or a virtual geography, and all human-made constructs on it. A geographic Zeetix may show store locations for a franchise business, listing locations for a realtor, or police... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20080104532 - Spatial organization and display of enterprise operational integration information: A Zeetix encompasses a collection of information organized around spatial domain, which may be around a geographical location in a real geography or a virtual geography, and all human-made constructs on it. A geographic Zeetix may show store locations for a franchise business, listing locations for a realtor, or police... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20080104534 - Video apparatus having bookmark function for searching programs and method for creating bookmarks: A video apparatus having a bookmark function for searching a program, and a method for creating a bookmark are provided. The video apparatus includes a storage unit which stores at least one program, a program detector which detects whether the program changes, and a bookmark creator which creates a bookmark... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080104535 - Dynamic thumbnails for document navigation: A “Spatial Navigator” provides a document navigation environment that leverages user spatial memory. Graphical thumbnail-type representations (“thumbnails”) provide scaled versions of entire documents. Changes to documents are immediately reflected in corresponding thumbnails. Similarly, document search results are highlighted in corresponding thumbnails. One or more dynamic document selection windows present arrangements... Agent: Microsoft Corporation C/o Lyon & Harr, LLP

20080104536 - Information processing apparatus, control method for same, program, and storage medium: An information processing apparatus includes a display unit configured to display a plurality of objects, a first movement unit configured to move one or more of the plurality of objects to one or more movement destination areas on the display unit in response to a user's operation, a determination unit... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080104537 - Method of improved viewing of visual objects on a display, and handheld electronic device: An improved handheld electronic device and method facilitate use of the handheld electronic device by visually outputting certain visual objects on the display in an enlarged fashion. Icons and clickable buttons can be enlarged when a visual focus is thereon to indicate that a received selection input will initiate the... Agent: Brij K. Agarwal Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott, LLC

20080104538 - Method of operating popup window of browsers through remote controller: The present invention provides a method to operate a popup window of browsers through a remote controller adopted for use on a remote controller and an information appliance equipped with a browser. The method uses the remote controller to substitute a mouse or keyboard to maneuver operation of the popup... Agent: Nikolai & Mersereau, P.A.

20080104539 - Reproducing apparatus, reproducing method, and reproducing system: According to one embodiment, there is provided a reproducing apparatus including a communication unit which receives a fixed-term content from an external device via a network, a storage unit which stores the fixed-term content in a storage area via the communication unit, an input unit which inputs a warning condition,... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20080104540 - Declarative association of dialog fields: A computer-based user interface comprises a dialog control element for usage in creating a dialog. The dialog control element acts upon a data model containing an object defined by one or more properties and modifiable by one or more controls. The dialog control element can associate object properties with controls... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080104542 - Apparatus and method for conducting searches with a search engine for unstructured data to retrieve records enriched with structured data and generate reports based thereon: Records in databases or unstructured files are enriched with metadata and are indexed for retrieval by a search engine. In response to a search request, a graphical user interface (GUI) control based on the metadata associated with the search hits is constructed and displayed with the search results in a... Agent: Levine & Mandelbaum

20080104543 - Guidance apparatus, method and program of analysis work: An analysis purpose input means, an analysis process generation means, an analysis process display means, an analysis process execution means and an analysis process storage means are provided. Modeling techniques conforming to the analysis purpose, analysis techniques, analysis result evaluation techniques, information on computation period, cost and computer kind as... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080104541 - Method of assisting user interaction with a touch-screen device: Embodiments of methods of assisting user interaction with a touch-screen device are described. In some embodiments, the method comprises operating a touch-screen device under a responsive state, wherein a touch-screen of the touch-screen device is capable of receiving user input, displaying a first user interface having a first list of... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080104544 - User interface with variable sized icons: A method of presenting content on the user interface display screen of a portable electronic device includes the presentation of a plurality of icons. The icons scale in size in accordance with a position of the respective icons along a curved path.... Agent: Creative Labs, Inc. Legal Department

20080104545 - Multimedia viewing enclosure with predetermined content: A multimedia viewing booth is disclosed that includes a computer terminal with a touchscreen, a CPU, a payment processor and a digital media I/O unit. The touchscreen displays a certain number of icons with each icon linked to predetermined content. A first portion of the icons is linked to a... Agent: Salvatore J. Maiorino, Esq Sun Trust International Center

20080104546 - Systems and methods for creating an interactive 3d visualization of indexed media: A 3D graphical user interface includes a two-dimensional ground-plane layout representing the relationship between one or more leaf elements of a tree data structure The interface further includes at least one building-like structure, each of the at least one building-like structures corresponding to a respective one of the one or... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080104547 - Gesture-based communications: Application workflows can be improved using gesture recognition. Interpreting non-functional attributes of gestures, such as relative sizes and/or positions and/or locations, can indicate relative degrees of functionality of the gesture. Thus, gesture inputs trigger proportionate functionality at an application, whereby the gesture input can include a gesture component and at... Agent: Peter Vogel Ge Healthcare

20080098289 - Method and system for providing a widget for displaying multimedia content: A system and computer implemented method for providing a widget for dynamically displaying multimedia content are described. The method and system include receiving a plurality of parameters for an ancestor widget of the widget. The ancestor widget is embeddable, copyable, and for dynamically displaying at least a portion of the... Agent: Strategic Patent Group, P.C.

20080098290 - Method and system for providing a widget for displaying multimedia content: A system and computer implemented method for providing a widget are described. The method and system include receiving a rule and at least one condition corresponding to the rule for the widget. The widget is embeddable and dynamically displays multimedia content. The widget provides input to a provider and receives... Agent: Strategic Patent Group, P.C.

20080098291 - Method and system for cross-platform form creation and deployment: The present invention is directed to systems and methods of creating and deploying electronic forms for collecting information from a user using a browser, where the browser may be one of a plurality of browser platforms. Characteristics of forms are entered by a human designer using a form designer by... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080098292 - Automatic document reader and form population system and method: A system, and method for automatic population of a form with data from an identification document. The system has a computer and an identification document reader or card scanner coupled to the computer. The card scanner is operable to read machine-readable indicia (e.g., magnetic stripe, bar codes) from one or... Agent: Gibbons P.C.

20080098293 - Method and system for stylesheet execution interactive feedback: A method (and structure) for displaying mapping relationships defined by a plurality of instruction elements, each instruction element providing a relation between zero or more source elements and zero or more result elements, where each source element includes one of a plurality of source elements and each result element includes... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20080098294 - Collaborative annotation of electronic content: An apparatus, program product and method provide a collaborative annotation environment that permits viewers of electronic content to share their personal annotations with other viewers of the electronic content only after the personal annotations have been reviewed by a party other than the original authors of such annotations. In addition,... Agent: Wood, Herron & Evans, LLP

20080098295 - Annotation management system: An annotation management system for providing real-time annotations for media content during a videoconference session is provided. The annotation management system includes a media management server configured to manage media data and annotation data for distribution to participants of the videoconference session. A storage server in communication with the media... Agent: Epson Research And Development Inc Intellectual Property Dept

20080098298 - Compound web document generation method and web-based editing system for generating a compound web document: Files of various file formats are converted into markup language files, such as HTML files or XML-based files, and a compound web document is generated from the markup language files so that the compound web document may be displayed using a web browser, such as Internet Explorer. Files of the... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080098297 - Method and system for providing presence information: The present invention discloses a method for providing presence information, including: setting a validity period of the presence information; publishing, by a presentity client, the received presence information and the validity period to a presence server; and distributing the received presence information and the validity period to a watcher client... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080098296 - Rendering hypertext markup language content: In general, one aspect of the subject matter described in this specification can be embodied in a method that includes rendering Hyper Text Markup Language (HTML) content, in an HTML rendering engine, to primitives of a vector graphics rendering engine; rendering the primitives, in the vector graphics rendering engine, to... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080098299 - Document conversion and use system: A document conversion and use system which converts a first structured document into a second structured document different in structure from the first structured document, comprising: a template storage unit storing a template indicating the structure of the second structured document; a structure specification unit for reading out the template... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080098300 - Method and system for extracting information from web pages: A crawler collects webpage data and obtains a list of URL's of interest used to construct a searchable index. The HTML stream is received for each relevant URL and each HTML stream is imported onto a browser or rendering engine so as to render the page. From the browser, the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080098301 - Peer-to-web broadcasting: A method for peer-to-portal broadcasting, including providing a web page for a portal, the web page including an inline frame (iFrame), receiving meta-data for media files selected by a user for broadcast to the portal, and dynamically generating source code for the iFrame upon request, the source code including instructions... Agent: Soquel Group, LLC

20080098302 - Method for spell-checking location-bound words within a document: The present invention uses spatial dictionaries (termed locationaries), for meaningfully checking and correcting the spelling of text on Geographic Information System (GIS) maps or other computer documents containing spatially, or coordinate-, bound text. Locationaries keep track of correctly spelled words and the geographic areas within which they are considered correctly... Agent: Thomas & Raring, P.C.

20080098303 - Document managing system and method thereof: For each of documents or folders containing the documents, setting data on a plurality of setting items in a print settings window for printing the document and display setting data on the print settings window are stored. When an instruction is provided to print a document, the print settings window... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080098304 - Methods and systems for prompting users of computing devices: Systems and methods for prompting a user of a computing device on a scheduled basis and interpreting the user's responses to the prompting, are described.... Agent: Daryl D. Coutts

20080098305 - System and method for content management in electronic displays: Methods, systems, and computer readable media are disclosed for presenting media content, which may include visual content and audio content, on a display network. A computing server and a plurality of electronic displays at a variety of display locations and in communication with the computing server are provided. A plurality... Agent: Trask Britt

20080098306 - Web integrated interactive voice response: One embodiment of a representative system for web integrated interactive voice response includes an interactive voice response system adapted to provide a plurality of voice menus to a user over a telephone and a graphical user interface system adapted to provide a plurality of menus in a graphical format to... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP/ At&t Delaware Intellectual Property, Inc.

20080098307 - Device for controlling the switching of a user interface: This invention relates to a device for controlling the switching of a user interface (100) to a plurality of computers (120, 130, 150), said user interface including display means (111) and at least one input peripheral (112), and being interconnected with said plurality of computers via a switch (165). The... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080098308 - Unified interface for managing dsl services: A method for providing access to internet services includes displaying a graphical user interface (GUI) comprising a first pane configurable to display internet connection identifiers. The method also includes connecting simultaneously to the internet through a non-secure internet service provider and through a secure virtual private network over a single... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080098309 - Managing virtual machines and hosts by property: Virtual machines and hosts of virtual machines are dynamically organized and managed in accordance with specific properties of the virtual machines and hosts. A system can be browsed for virtual machines/hosts having a specific property(s). Properties and property values are represented by a hierarchical structure of folders and subfolders, and/or... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP (microsoft Corporation)

20080098310 - System for displaying and managing information on webpage using indicator: Disclosed is a system for displaying and managing information on a webpage using an indicator in which, a memo and so forth can be recorded in the desired contents of the webpage through the indicator and the URL of the webpage can be stored with the indicator to call out... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080098311 - Method and system for navigating in a database of a computer system: The invention is directed to a computer program, a computer system and a method for navigating in a database of a subject system. The subject system comprises a graphical user interface. The invention method comprising steps of (i) returning results (110a-g) from a query in the database, and (ii) displaying... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C.

20080098312 - Method, system, and graphical user interface for dynamically updating transmission characteristics in a web mail reply: A method, system and graphical user interface for dynamically updating transmission characteristics in a web mail reply are described. In one embodiment of the invention, a graphical user interface includes a web mail reply form that includes: one or more address fields; an input area for inputting a reply message;... Agent: Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, LLP.

20080098313 - System and method for developing and managing group social networks: A system and method for facilitating the configuration and management of events within a social networking system is disclosed. The system enables members of similar or different geographic region and/or like interests, hobbies, social status, relationship status, family status, etc. to interact with the system to view activities, register to... Agent: Snell & Wilmer L.L.P. (main)

20080098314 - Method and system for preparing and delivering an archive of information reposed on a collaborative transaction management platform: A method and a system for preparing and delivering an archive on a computer-readable medium is provided. A platform gathers and stores data on the platform that can be viewed through a first graphical user interface over the Internet. In addition, the platform generates an archive of the data in... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20080098315 - Executing an operation associated with a region proximate a graphic element on a surface: Executing an operation associated with a region proximate a graphic element on a surface. A user interaction with a region proximate a graphic element on a surface is detected, where the surface comprises a plurality of regions proximate the graphic element. Responsive to the user interaction, an operation associated with... Agent: Wagner, Murabito & Hao LLP

20080098317 - Automatic reference note generator: Content is transferred from one computer resource to another computer resource by receiving a first insertion point or replacement area from a first user interface to a destination computer resource, receiving an enablement to perform automatic paste operation, switching to a user interface to a source computer resource, receiving a... Agent: Ibm Corporation (rhf)

20080098316 - User interface for browsing image: This invention discloses an image search and display system that includes a graphic user interface to provide to a user with visual display of three-dimensional selections of location, time and people to navigate pictures. The location and time will be presented on a distorted map and timeline respectively, where the... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080098319 - Method and apparatus for interacvtive multimedia author tool and dynamic toolbar: A method of relying upon intelligent feedback to create a dynamic toolbar that provides navigation and creation options that change dependant upon the location of the dynamic toolbar and the type of multimedia page being viewed.... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080098318 - Method for providing menu screen suitable for menus provided by external device and imaging device using the same: A method for providing a menu screen suitable for menus provided by a connected external device, and an imaging device using the same, are provided. The method includes acquiring menu name information on names of menus provided by a connected external device; and displaying names of menus provided by the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080098320 - Media editing and creating interface: A computer readable medium containing media creating application code which implements the following procedures, generating in a user interface an application window having a window frame the window frame defining a pane, displaying a theme in the pane, displaying a plurality of buttons on the frame; and displaying a status... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20080098321 - Method and apparatus for in-band discovery of capabilities of managed devices: An in-band mechanism for discovery of device management capabilities is provided. The in-band discovery mechanism is similar to an out-of-band discovery mechanism and uses a non-proprietary mechanism. A management provider may query the management capabilities of devices and may register devices that may only be managed in-band with a directory... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, LLC

20080098322 - Method and apparatus for collecting and analyzing surface wound data: A 3D surface wound, injury, and personal protective equipment (PPE) data entry system provides an easily usable graphical user interface through which an examiner can objectively record data relating to surface wounds and injuries sustained by a subject human, as well as PPE used when the wounds/injuries were sustained. The... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20080098323 - Multimedia visual progress indication system: A multimedia visual progress indication system that provides a cache bar that is overlaid onto the program material or displayed on a dedicated display. A cache bar indicates the length of a recording session or the length of stored program material and expands to the right when material is being... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20080098324 - System for assisting input of dates in data processing system: Assisting the computer input of date values includes storing a pre-specified reference date in a storage device, storing one or more user-inputted digits in the storage device, complementing the input digit sequence with a digit sequence generated on the basis of the reference date, and displaying the one or more... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20080098325 - Method and system for facilitating social payment or commercial transactions: A system and computer implemented method for providing a widget are described. The widget is embeddable and for dynamically displaying multimedia content. The method and system include receiving an event configuration for an event, receiving a configuration of the widget, and allowing the widget to be copied to provide a... Agent: Strategic Patent Group, P.C.

20080098326 - Laying out web components using mounting and pooling functions: To edit a web page so that various contents can be displayed, while ensuring fine uniformity of the whole web page, a mount (board art) is displayed within the web page so that content, such as an image or a text, can be pasted in the mount. When pasting the... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20080098327 - Method and system for presenting information in a summarizing accordion view: A user interface for providing an information gateway between a user and a computer platform includes two or more windows for displaying information, and for facilitating information entry from a user. The windows may be in the form of a rectangular box, although other shapes may be used. The size... Agent: Wilmerhale/boston

20080098328 - Animation of icons based on presence: A method and system for indicating availability of a contact is provided. The presence system displays to the user an indication of the presence state in association with the contact. The presence system provides an indication of the availability associated with the presence state of the contact when the user... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP/msft

20080098329 - Patient information bar and method for tracking and displaying blood products: A method and system for managing blood products and tracking their movement in which a database is provided for entering and storing information pertaining to each patient, and a patient toolbar is provided for selectively displaying patient information and condition including but not limited to each patient's special needs, prior... Agent: Reilly Intellectual Property Law Firm

20080098330 - Method and apparatus for accelerated scrolling: Improved approaches for users to with graphical user interfaces of computing devices are disclosed. A rotational user action supplied by a user via a user input device can provide accelerated scrolling. The accelerated nature of the scrolling enables users to scroll or traverse a lengthy data set (e.g., list of... Agent: Technology & Innovation Law Group, PC

20080098331 - Portable multifunction device with soft keyboards: A portable multifunction device displays a first icon and a second icon on its touch screen display. In response to a sequence of finger movements across the first and second icons, wherein the finger stays in contact with the touch screen display during the movements, the portable device highlights the... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP/ Apple Computer Inc.

20080098332 - Displaying group icons representing respective groups of nodes: Information is displayed regarding an arrangement of nodes coupled by a communications network. The nodes are associated with corresponding characteristics. Plural groups of the nodes are defined based on the characteristics associated with the nodes. Group icons representing the respective groups of nodes are displayed.... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080098333 - Method and apparatus for collecting and analyzing surface wound data: A 3D surface wound, injury, and personal protective equipment (PPE) data entry system provides an easily usable graphical user interface through which an examiner can objectively record data relating to surface wounds and injuries sustained by a subject human, as well as PPE used when the wounds/injuries were sustained. The... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20080092031 - Rich media printer: A method of creating a print document including rich media content. The method includes receiving a document to be printed, receiving rich media content to be associated with the document to be printed, converting the rich media content to one or more discrete frames to be incorporated in the document... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080092032 - Web page development environment that displays frequency of use information: A web page development environment includes a link disambiguator that assures each link in a web page may be uniquely identified in an access log. An editor reviews the access log and displays a web page in a manner to visually indicate how often certain portions of the web page... Agent: Martin & Associates, LLC

20080092033 - Configurable column display of information at a web client: A method including receiving input from a user, retrieving data based on the input, generating a tabular display of the data according to default settings and adjustable user settings, and transmitting the tabular display to the user. A system having a server application structured and arranged to receive input from... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080092034 - Identifying and annotating shared hierarchical markup document trees: Disclosed are a method, information processing system, and a computer readable medium for managing documents. The method includes analyzing a plurality of hierarchical markup documents, wherein each hierarchical markup document is representable by a hierarchical tree structure. A shared hierarchical markup document associated with the plurality of hierarchical markup documents... Agent: Fleit, Kain, Gibbons, Gutman, Bongini & Bianco Pl

20080092035 - System and appertaining method for structured reporting of a native measurement import count for display: A method and appertaining system are provided for presenting observation and measurement data that is supplementary to a native mode application to a display. A DICOM Structured Report (SR) file is read into a database using one or more mapping files. An algorithm determines which values in the SR have... Agent: Schiff Hardin, LLP Patent Department

20080092036 - System and method for import and export from a solid modeling program: There is provided a computer-implemented method for importing information stored in a tag-based markup language file into a computer modeling software package, and exporting changes in the information back to the file. There is also provided a system, and associated instructions for carrying out the method.... Agent: Ohlandt, Greeley, Ruggiero & Perle, LLP

20080092037 - Validation of xml content in a streaming fashion: A method and apparatus for validating XML documents in a streaming fashion is provided. A streaming validator validates an XML document by comparing the contents of the XML document to an XML schema. Tokens are generated for each element or attribute of the XML schema and for each element or... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker/oracle

20080092038 - Document vectors: A method for classifying documents to allow a multi-dimensional graphical representation is disclosed, the method comprising displaying a first group of documents on a first document vector; and displaying a second group of documents on a second document vector. A display tool and a multiparty documents handling tool are also... Agent: Maya-systems Inc.

20080092039 - Web portal page interactive user interfaces with maximum accessibility to user selected portlets: Overcoming the cluttered effect of Web Portal pages by an implementation for a Web Portal page interface on a computer controlled Web display station or terminal that comprises a plurality of portlet sections in said each Portal page, each portlet including text and at least one active hyperlink to another... Agent: Ibm Corporation Intellectual Property Law

20080092040 - Document display apparatus and document display program: A document display apparatus extracts a document element constituting a document and enlarges and displays the extracted document element. The document display apparatus includes: a document display unit that displays the document element in a first display area; a document element selection detection unit that detects selection of the document... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20080092041 - Method and apparatus for allowing runtime creation of a user experience for a wireless device: An apparatus [100] includes an application layer [205] to present an application behavior specification and a presentation specification. An engine layer [305] receives at least one input corresponding to a proposed modification to at least one of the application behavior specification and the presentation specification. A modality interface layer [215]... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20080092042 - Electronic dissemination of solicitations: A computer-implementable method includes providing a web-based primary graphical user interface (GUI) within which a user can post a job listing, the primary GUI operable to include multiple web-based secondary GUIs associated with respective job-listing posting services.... Agent: Black Lowe & Graham, PLLC

20080092043 - Controls and indicators with on-screen cognitive aids: The invention relates to an applet for a mobile computing device, comprising an element to detect user input and perform appropriate associated actions, and to provide a cognitive aid for users of the mobile computing device. The invention also relates to a method for controlling operation of a mobile computing... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Darby & Darby P.C.

20080092044 - Cascading clouds: Disclosed herein is a method comprising presenting to a user a tag cloud at level n; wherein the tag cloud comprises an icon located next to each tag in the tag cloud; selecting an icon from the tag cloud at level n; and presenting to the user a tag cloud... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - IBM Austin

20080092047 - Interactive multimedia system and method for audio dubbing of video: An interactive multimedia system and method for audio dubbing of video is described whereby a number of participants may create new audio for a video clip. The video clip may be selected from among a group of pre-existing video clips. A director may act to determine the parameters of the... Agent: Kleinberg & Lerner, LLP

20080092046 - Playlist management method: A playlist management method for a mobile terminal is provided for editing a playlist in association with a currently playing multimedia file without stopping playback of the multimedia file. The playlist management method includes playing a multimedia file and editing a playlist in association with the multimedia file during the... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080092045 - Trial selection of stb remote control codes: A method consistent with certain embodiments of identifying a functional command set for an access device that accesses television programming provided by a service provider involves, at a control device, transmitting a command from a first command set to the access device; ascertaining whether or not the access device provides... Agent: Miller Patent Services

20080092048 - Data processor: To detect boundaries between the content of a telecast, for example, and commercial messages, included in the telecast, highly accurately when the user is deleting the commercial messages. A data processor includes: a picture level detecting section, which receives a video signal including a plurality of pictures and detects the... Agent: Mark D. Saralino (mei) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20080092049 - Audiovisual presentation with interactive seamless branching and/or telescopic advertising: One aspect of the invention is a method for playing a stored content providing a plurality of segments which collectively contains the stored content, each segment has using first terminus and a second terminus with the content having a temporal flow from the first terminus to the second terminus. At... Agent: Heinz Grether PC G2 Technology Law

20080092050 - Personalized slide show generation: A personalized slide show generation system is comprised of a script generator and a personalized slide show generation engine. The script generator is configured for employing a user interaction associated with an image to generate an interaction script. The personalized slideshow generation engine is coupled to the script generator and... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080092051 - Method of dynamically creating real time presentations responsive to search expression: The disclosure describes a method of dynamically creating real-time presentations responsive to search expressions. The method comprises retrieving information from search engines, parsing the retrieved information to create dynamically a structured document including mark-up tags, and rendering the structured document as a slide show presentation of images by a multimedia... Agent: Movi LLC

20080092052 - Method of dynamically creating real time presentations responsive to search expression: A method (80) and system (90) of customizing multiple user interfaces mapped to functions can include receiving (82) a new user interface component, determining (85) if the new user interface component is received as a result of a user request or a service provider input, and setting (86) the new... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20080092053 - Method and apparatus for seamless management for disaster recovery: A method, apparatus, article of manufacture, and system are presented for establishing redundant computer resources. According to one embodiment, in a system including a plurality of processor devices and a plurality of storage devices, the processor devices, the storage devices and the management server being connected via a network, the... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080092054 - Method and system for displaying photos, videos, rss and other media content in full-screen immersive view and grid-view using a browser feature: User-initiated or intelligently automated acquisition, extraction and presentation of content such as photos, videos, and/or other content (e.g., news stories, product displays, advertisements, etc.), from a Web site in a full-screen slideshow via client-side software, which may be implemented as a stand-alone application, an extension (a.k.a. plug-in, or add-on), a... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20080092055 - Method of providing options to a user interacting with a printed substrate: A method of providing a plurality of options to a user via user interaction with a printed substrate, said substrate comprising user information and coded data enabling the user interaction, said method comprising: (a) a user performing the user interaction with the substrate using a sensing device, said sensing device... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20080092056 - Method of providing options to a user interacting with a printed substrate: A method and apparatus for abstracting Internet content is disclosed. An apparatus that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a terminal device having a User Interface (UI) element that links a Graphical User Interface (GUI) element to each Internet resource identifier (IRI) of one or more... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20080092057 - Framework for creation of user interfaces for electronic devices: A user interface framework (UIFW) application is arranged and configured to facilitate rendering a display on an electronic device. The UIFW application comprises a skin file including features and screen layout information, the skin file associated with an application; a theme file, separate from the skin file, and including screen... Agent: Law Offices Of Charles W. Bethards, LLP

20080092058 - Method of data collection among participating content providers in a distributed network: A content delivery network (CDN) service provider extends a content delivery network to gather information on atomically identifiable web clients (called “user agents”) as such computer-implemented entities interact with the CDN across different domains being managed by the CDN service provider. In one embodiment, a set of machines, processes, programs,... Agent: Law Office Of David H. Judson

20080092059 - System and method for online and programmatic planning of events that are attended by persons: A programmatic, online system and method by which individuals can plan an event that is to be attended by persons, enabling individuals to share event schedules, and provide information by which various other activities can be planned for the event.... Agent: Shemwell Mahamedi LLP

20080092061 - Methods, systems, and products for mapping facilities data: Methods, systems, and products are disclosed for mapping facilities data. A graphical mapping of facilities information, overlaid onto a map of roads, is generated and displayed. An outer perimeter of a geographic area is defined, and the outer perimeter is displayed in the graphical mapping. A bill of materials that... Agent: Scott P. Zimmerman, PLLC

20080092060 - System and method for capturing website user feedback: Systems and methods for capturing user feedback in real-time over a communication network are described, where user feedback functionality is embedded directly in a web page. In one embodiment, the web page of a service provider includes JavaScript code which provides a listener server with control of the content of... Agent: Dla Piper US LLP

20080092063 - Im conversation counter and indicator: A user interface that enables user perception of status regarding communications that leverage an instant messaging platform may be rendered on a display. The user interface includes an instant messaging application user interface that enables perception and selection of instant messages for an instant messaging user, and a status indicator... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080092062 - Online performance venue system and method: An online performance venue system and method including a central server and a plurality of user terminals allows users to meet, communicate, learn, and perform. Users may perform live, record their performances for later playback or download, such as for a fee. Users may further create groups or bands and... Agent: Myers & Kaplan Intellectual Property Law, L.L.C.

20080092064 - Conceptual model for human computer interface for representing user profiles: A system and method for representing an individual in a computer network includes compiling personal data for an individual. A floor plan of a house is generated having at least one room having attributes reflective of the personal data of the individual. The floor plan is interactively displayed to permit... Agent: Keusey, Tutunjian & Bitetto, P.C.

20080092065 - Third party control over virtual world characters: A method and system provides arrangements creating a relationship between a real-world entity and a virtual world environment. A participant or player can participate in various virtual world experiences including activities, settings, events, purchases, sales and diverse transactions to acquire virtual products, virtual services, and/or virtual items of value. Feedback... Agent: Searete LLC Clarence T. Tegreene

20080092066 - Extensible markup language rendering and layout: Extensible markup language layout and rendering behaviors are disclosed. A core engine provides existing layout and rendering behaviors for a predetermined markup language, such as HTML. External components are designed to provide extended layout and/or rendering behaviors, in addition to the behaviors of the core engine. A mechanism, which can... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. (c/o Microsoft Corporation)

20080092067 - Custom properties for automation control: The present invention provides central management of custom properties, including graphic facets, for an industrial control system. Standards for the custom properties are centrally developed and are then propagated to projects. Even after one or more projects have been developed, the custom property can be centrally changed, and the change... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20080092068 - Method for automating construction of the flow of data driven applications in an entity model: An associated between a data type and a user interface (UI) element such as a Page and/or Panel, and a data type allows dynamic determination of application flow including menu and menu items. This may allow a dynamic determination of all target UI elements to which an end user may... Agent: Seed Intellectual Property Law Group PLLC

20080092069 - Graphical representation of a port security state: Information associated with a port security state of a network device is received. The received information is converted into an icon that corresponds to the port security state of the network device. The icon is displayed to a user.... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080092071 - Automatically collapsing advertising module: A method of Internet advertising comprising an advertising module that automatically closes or collapses after a short period of time is disclosed. The advertisement section of the advertising module comprises flash animation or static text and graphics. While a webpage is loading the advertising module is displayed in the user's... Agent: Sinorica, LLC

20080092070 - Systems and methods for presentation of operational data: Methods and apparatus for presenting event activities associated with an operational system having sensors. The apparatus includes a display device and a processing device in data communication with the display device. The processing device detects events that exceed a predefined threshold limit based on data produced by the sensors. The... Agent: Black Lowe & Graham, PLLC

20080092072 - Graphical user interface for an information mediation system: A graphical user interface for an information mediation system is provided for assisting the user to discover an information source that matches a sense of value of the user which normally can not be explicitly expressed in language, from a plurality of information sources such as bulletin board sites. The... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080092073 - Systems and methods for creating embedded target images: Methods for generating an embedded target image to be stored in a non-volatile memory device of an embedded system as firmware thereof are disclosed. A graphical user interface (GUI) editor is generated to facilitate a user in providing settings information for multiple pins of a chip installed in the embedded... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080092074 - Ascribing visual metadata to workflow components modeled using graphical icons: Visual metadata is ascribed to workflow components that are modeled using graphical icons. The visual metadata includes instructions for displaying a graphical icon in a predetermined left-right or up-down orientation, displaying a graphical icon in one of a plurality of predetermined sizes, embedding customized anchor points within a graphical icon... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - IBM Rsw

20080092075 - Method of building a database of a lighting control system: A lighting control system is operable to control the amount of power delivered to a plurality of electrical loads. The lighting control system includes load control devices (such as digital electronic dimming ballasts), motorized window treatments, controllers, lighting hubs, and personal computers. The personal computer is preferably executing a graphical... Agent: Ostrolenk Faber Gerb & Soffen

20080092076 - Automatically scaling the information and controls in navigation tabs per available window area: A method in a data processing system for providing a user of the data processing system with control of a software object organized into a plurality of information levels including initially displaying a first display window having a first size. The first display window includes a first level tab navigation... Agent: Cardinal Law Group

20080092077 - Interactive streaming news headline display: Systems and methods for displaying news headlines are provided. More specifically, embodiments of the present invention relate to interactive streaming news headline displays. According to various embodiments of the present invention, news headlines and/or stories can be presented in ways that improve “glanceability” over conventional methods. Some embodiments provide for... Agent: Faegre & Benson LLP Patent Docketing

20080092078 - Scroll position estimation apparatus and method: A scroll position estimation apparatus includes a unit acquiring a complex document including main data and sub-data items, the main data being for determining a layout of presentation of the complex document, a unit visualizing the main data, a unit presenting the visualized main data, a unit acquiring scroll positions... Agent: Charles N.j. Ruggiero, Esq. Ohlandt, Greeley, Ruggiero & Perle, L.L.P.

20080092079 - System and method for an integrated interface for systems associated with locomotive operation: An integrated interface system is provided for a plurality of systems associated with locomotive operation. The integrated interface system includes a main controller with a main display and an interface between each system and the main controller. Each interface is configured to communicate a respective set of time-dependent diagnostic information... Agent: Beusse Wolter Sanks Mora & Maire, P.A.

20080092080 - Copy control information deciding apparatus: The copy control information deciding apparatus includes: a thumbnail obtaining unit 9 which obtains plural pieces of individual control information which are respective pieces of copy control information of plural scaled-down images which are displayed in a menu simultaneously; a copy control information deciding unit 11 which decides a piece... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20080092081 - Mobile terminal and idle screen display method for the same: A mobile terminal and idle screen display method for the same are provided. The mobile terminal includes a memory unit for storing an idle screen image, a display unit for displaying the idle screen image, an input means for generating a selection signal to select a zone of the idle... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20080092082 - Mobile terminal: According to an aspect of the invention, there is provided a mobile terminal including: an application processor configured to execute application having first mode and second mode, wherein the first mode includes first number of menus and the second mode includes second number of menus smaller than that of the... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20080092083 - Personal viewing device: A method of using a personal viewing device that has a display includes sensing a coordinate and an attitude of the personal viewing device and then calculating display data based on stored object data, the coordinate and the attitude. The method further includes displaying on the display a representation of... Agent: Agilent Technologies Inc.

20080092084 - System for collecting a click-through fee from an advertiser: A system for crediting a proportion of a click-through fee from an advertiser to a facilitator of a user interaction with a printed substrate, said system comprising: (A) the printed substrate, said substrate comprising user information and coded data, said coded data enabling said user interaction; (B) a sensing device,... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20080092085 - Method of delivering an electronic document to a remote electronic device: A method of preparing a document for delivery to an electronic device including building a graph structure, include hyperlink nodes and bookmark nodes, representing a map of the document, and traversing and paginating the graph structure into successive pages each having a page index value. For each hyperlink node, the... Agent: Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott

20080092086 - Graphical acquisition of an objective function: A user interface is described which displays a shape and enables a user to manipulate that shape by dividing it into a number of regions. Each region has an associated term which is made up from one or more constraints. A mathematical function, such as an objective function, is generated... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20080092087 - Method and display data entry unit: A display data entry unit and method of configuring and operation of a display data entry unit composed of one or more display-containing data inputs that, in a preferred embodiment, include one or more depressible display-equipped keys. The unit can interface with an API that changes images shown on display... Agent: Boyle Fredrickson S.c.

20080086678 - System and method for preparing distributable multimedia presentations over the internet: The invention includes a system and method for creating, displaying and searching for a multimedia presentation over a communication network Multimedia presentation modules are stored on an information processor that enable users to select options associated with the multimedia presentation. Further, an internet web site is hosted on the information... Agent: Ostrolenk Faber Gerb & Soffen

20080086679 - Data structure for defining a chart: This application discloses an invention that is related, generally and in various embodiments, to a data structure for defining a chart.... Agent: Mayer Brown LLP

20080086680 - Techniques of document annotation according to subsequent citation: A method for presenting expressed principles of a first document according to the impact of subsequent commentary is provided. Principles of the first document that subsequent documents agree with are presented in a common, recognizable manner, such as highlighting. Principles of the first document that subsequent documents disagree with are... Agent: Christopher V. Beckman

20080086681 - Systems and methods for providing relayed language interpretation: Systems and methods disclosed herein to provide relayed language interpretation are disclosed herein. The relayed language interpretation permits a caller to communicate with a third party. A language interpretation call is received from a caller at a language interpretation provider. A caller language corresponding to a language spoken of the... Agent: Patent Ingenuity, Pc

20080086682 - Markup language template conversion: An apparatus, system, and method for markup language Web page template conversion includes providing an XHTML template file and converting the XHTML file to XSL. The conversion may be carried out through a converter XSL file, which, when loaded in memory together with the XHTML template file, is applied to... Agent: Kunzler & Mckenzie

20080086683 - Reporting engine for object relational networks: A reporting engine for searching data in relational databases enables data retrieval through simple user input objects while respecting the business logic and security logic of the relational database. The reporting engine includes a template that expands user-input objects to search an exposed object network that is located in an... Agent: Clifford Chance Us LLP

20080086684 - Clinical activity navigator: A clinical activity navigator facilitates documentation of multiple clinical activities. When a plurality of clinical activities are selected for document, an activity navigator user interface may be presented that includes an indication for each of the clinical activities. The indication for each clinical activity includes a link to documentation for... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.l.p. Intellectual Property Department

20080086685 - Method for delivering tailored asset information to a device: A method and system for delivering tailored asset information to a device are disclosed. According to one embodiment, a method accesses a database comprising information from a first reporting source about an asset and information from a second reporting source about the asset. A pre-defined user selectable criteria is then... Agent: Trimble Navigation Limited C/o Wagner Blecher

20080086686 - User interface for displaying images of sights: A method and system for identifying sights associated with a location and for displaying images associated with those sights is provided. A tour system identifies sights associated with a location by submitting a search request formed using the location to an image search service. The tour system identifies salient phrases... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP/msft

20080086687 - Graphical user interface for audio-visual browsing: An improved graphical user interface (GUI) is for use with an audio player or other device having a touchscreen or similar display, according to one embodiment of the invention. The content that is available for playing is represented on the GUI by a plurality of thumbnails, such as for example... Agent: Fitch Even Tabin & Flannery

20080086688 - Various methods and apparatus for moving thumbnails with metadata: Various methods, apparatuses, and systems are described for a moving thumbnail generator. The moving thumbnail generator generates one or more moving thumbnails that are tagged and time-stamped to arbitrary video trigger events that take place in an associated original video file. Each of the moving thumbnails has two or more... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20080086689 - Multimedia content production, publication, and player apparatus, system and method: A rich-media content production and distribution system includes a rich-media content production mechanism including a one or more studio production tools for producing content including at least one of dynamic or static images, dynamic video or audio, text, HTML, mixed media presentation, Microsoft PowerPoint slides, Adobe PDF pages, etc., wherein... Agent: Ater Wynne LLP

20080086690 - Method and system for hybrid call handling: The present invention provides a hybrid call handling method and system. The method comprises navigating a plurality of received calls from a plurality of callers. The method further comprises monitoring a call health status for each of the plurality of the calls being navigated for entire call duration and notifying... Agent: Frederick W. Gibb, Iii Gibb & Rahman, Llc

20080086691 - System for controlling and monitoring therapy modules of a medical workstation: A system is provided for controlling and monitoring therapy modules of a medical workstation. The system includes a first control and display unit, at least another control and display unit and at least one therapy module, which is either a ventilation module or an infusion module. The control and display... Agent: Mcglew & Tuttle, Pc

20080086692 - Systems, methods, and media for aggregating electronic document usage information: Systems, methods and media for determining and aggregating electronic document segment usage information from different versions of a document are disclosed. More particularly, hardware and/or software for determining the aggregate segment usage for an electronic document received from one or more users are disclosed. Embodiments include receiving from one or... Agent: Ibm Corporation (jss) C/o Schubert Osterrieder & Nickelson Pllc

20080086693 - Method for interfacing with a memory card to access a program instruction: A method for interfacing with a memory card is provided. In this method, a selection of a program instruction is provided and the program instruction associated with the selection is read from the memory card. The program instruction thereafter is executed. Systems and computing devices for interfacing with the memory... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione/sandisk

20080086694 - Multiple language development environment using shared resources: An operator interface system with respect to an industrial automation device comprises text/symbol translation strings persisted in a computer-readable medium for utilization with the operator interface system. An interface component relays the translation strings to a client device that includes fonts that enables the client device to graphically render text/symbols... Agent: Rockwell Automation, Inc./(at)

20080086695 - Method to color tag e-mail content containing multiple replies to ease reading: A method for color tagging electronic mail (e-mail) content containing multiple replies, such that the e-mail facilitates easy reading by a recipient of the reply e-mail. The method includes receiving e-mail containing various forms of content on a client node. Afterwards, the method proceeds with dispatching a reply e-mail from... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - Ibm Lotus

20080086696 - System and method for using virtual environments: A method for interfacing with a virtual environment provided by an operation module is disclosed. The method includes the steps of providing a participant computer terminal to permit a participant to interface with the virtual environment by way of a participant avatar; providing an agent computer terminal to permit an... Agent: Honigman Miller Schwartz & Cohn LLP

20080086697 - Method and apparatus for status display: A system and method for information display based on a family of display screens for displaying information derived from numerous data sources. Each display screen includes function controls as well as indicator controls. The function controls link a first level display screen to subsidiary display screens. A capacity is provided... Agent: Jeffrey A. Pyle Williams, Morgan & Amerson, P.c.

20080086698 - Display information in an interactive computing device: An interactive computing device comprises a display (2) includes fish-eye areas (4) and (6) for displaying information concerning a plurality of function items in the form of a list or table. The selection of an item results in an increase in the area of the display used to display the... Agent: Harrity Snyder, L.l.p.

20080086699 - Fast input component: A graphical user interface is disclosed, that includes selectable items; a set of indices to the selectable items; a presentation field having a subset of the set of indices, wherein the subset is selected from the set of indices by scrolling the presentation field; and an input interface capable of... Agent: Perman & Green

20080086700 - Systems and methods for isolating on-screen textual data: The systems and methods of the client agent describe herein provides a solution to obtaining, recognizing and taking an action on text displayed by an application that is performed in a non-intrusive and application agnostic manner. In response to detecting idle activity of a cursor on the screen, the client... Agent: Choate, Hall & Stewart / Citrix Systems, Inc.