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Data processing: presentation processing of document

20130124951 - Content aware slideshows: A method, system, and computer-readable storage medium for performing content based transitions between images. Image content within each image of a set of images are analyzed to determine at least one respective characteristic metric for each image. A respective transition score for each pair of at least a subset of... Agent:

20130124953 - Producing web page content: A method for producing web page content includes identifying blocks within a web page. The blocks are selectively assembled into sections. The sections are selectively assembled into article candidates. An article candidate that includes article content is distinguished from article candidates that do not include article content. Content is produced... Agent:

20130124952 - Techniques for the automatic animation of document content: Techniques for the automatic animation of document content are described. An apparatus may comprise a difference component operative to receive an old layout of a document and a new layout of the document, the new layout corresponding to an application of one or more changes to the old layout of... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20130124954 - Method and apparatus for merging digital content: Embodiments for merging digital content are disclosed.... Agent:

20130124955 - Representation of last viewed or last modified portion of a document: A method, system, and computer program product for storing the settings of a last edited page or a last viewed page of a document and preprocessing the document to generate a thumbnail of the document. In an embodiment of the invention, the thumbnail comprises a representation of the last edited... Agent:

20130124956 - Coauthoring in a drawing tool: Methods and systems for coauthoring in a drawing tool are described. One computer-implemented method includes displaying a first user name of a first user in association with a first shape on a drawing, and receiving an indication that a second user is collaborating on the drawing. The method includes receiving... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20130124959 - Application generation apparatus, application generation method, and computer-readable recording medium: The application generation apparatus of the present invention includes: determination means that determines whether a URL is input into a preset cell among a plurality of cells composing a spreadsheet displayed by executing spreadsheet software; and generation means that causes another terminal to acquire an HTML file based on URL... Agent: Casio Computer Co., Ltd.

20130124958 - Enrichment of data using a semantic auto-discovery of reference and visual data: Methods, systems, and computer program products are provided for automatically enriching data in tables of report documents. A table of data contained in a document is received. A category of data stored in a column of the table of data is determined Enhancement information associated with the determined category is... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20130124957 - Structured modeling of data in a spreadsheet: Data displayed on a spreadsheet and data from one or more data sources are used to create a model within the spreadsheet. The data may be obtained from many types of data sources, such as: relational databases, multidimensional sources, cloud services, data feeds, spreadsheet files, text files, data from the... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20130124960 - Automated suggested summarizations of data: Technologies are described herein for generating field sets of a data summary table. Multiple fields in a spreadsheet document are identified. Multiple field scores for each field of the plurality of fields are determined. A field set incorporating two or more of the plurality of fields is generated based on... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20130124961 - User interfaces and methods to create electronic documents with forms implementing content input fields: Embodiments of the invention relate generally to computing devices and systems, software, computer programs, applications, and user interfaces, and more particularly, to implementing content input fields in forms to create electronic documents, among other things.... Agent: Adobe Systems Incorporated

20130124962 - Visually distinct text formatting: Techniques for visually distinct text formatting are described, including receiving an input, the input indicating presenting text visually distinct based on one or more differences in formatting associated with the text, evaluating a document including the text, the text being formatted according to one or more font attributes, the one... Agent: Adobe Systems Incorporated

20130124965 - Context aware annotation: Various embodiments of systems and methods for context aware annotations are described herein. A user request is received to visualize a dataset according to a user selected visualization type. A visualization of the dataset is created according to the user selected visualization type and the created visualization is displayed on... Agent:

20130124964 - Enrichment of named entities in documents via contextual attribute ranking: Technologies pertaining to retrieval of contextually relevant attribute values for an automatically identified named entity in a document are described herein. Named entity recognition technologies are employed to identify named entities in the text of a document. Context corresponding to an identified named entity is analyzed to probabilistically assign a... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20130124963 - Multiple application and selective annotation content presentation service: Methods and apparatuses are provided which may be implemented to in various computing devices to provide a presentation service through which content from two or more applications running on one or more computing devices may be shared along with selective annotation content.... Agent: Adobe Systems Incorporated

20130124966 - Network system comprising a computer and a reading device: A network system includes a computer and an apparatus for reading digital documents, including an apparatus display being connectable to a communication channel of the computer via a connector. The computer includes a converter to convert a document to a format displayable by the apparatus, a first watching unit to... Agent: Oce-technologies B.v.

20130124967 - Collaborative commenting in a drawing tool: Methods and systems providing for collaborative commenting in a drawing tool are provided. One example method includes receiving a shape on a drawing canvas, and receiving a comment associated with the shape, the comment including a name of a commenting user. The method also includes receiving an indication of a... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20130124973 - Automatic diary for an electronic device: An Automatic Diary System (“ADS”) for an electronic device comprising a personal aggregation module, a page generation module, and an output module. The personal aggregation module may be configured to receive input data from a data input module and at least one other module and, in response, produce aggregation data.... Agent:

20130124977 - Editing web pages: In particular embodiments, a method for editing a web page includes identifying a plurality of components that collectively form a programmatic representation of a first web page. At least one of the components has content that dynamically changes in response to data retrieved externally from the content. A second web... Agent: Cisco Technology, Inc.

20130124972 - Electronic content management and delivery platform: An education digital reading platform provides aggregation, management, and distribution of digital education content and services. The platform ingests content from a variety of content sources, transforms the content for web-based publication, and distributes the content to connected end-user devices via a network. The transformed content preserves the original page... Agent:

20130124975 - Maltweb multi-axis viewing interface and higher level scoping: A method, apparatus and computer program product for navigating in a multi-dimensional space containing an electronic publication formed from predefined portions of text-based data encoded using a markup language are disclosed. A selected predefined portion is displayed in a first display region. A point on a primary axis of the... Agent: Timebase Pty Limited

20130124976 - Method and system for inserting data in a web page that is transmitted to a handheld device: Disclosed is a system and method that adds additional data (a banner, footer or a header, for example) to a web page while the data is transferred toward a mobile device. An exemplary system can comprise an intermediate node between a surfer and the Internet. Such an intermediate node element... Agent:

20130124970 - News recapping: Various embodiments pertain to techniques for providing a website recap. In some embodiments, a difference between a previously loaded version of the website and a current version of the website is created and utilized to select web pages or content items for display to a user. For example, if the... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20130124971 - Real time web script refresh using asynchronous polling without full web page reload: Enabling the updating of Web pages already received at the Web client station with only the change data, without the need to completely refresh the received Web page by transmitting a Web page from a Web page source site to a requesting receiving display station, and monitoring whether the source... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20130124968 - System and method for using design features to search for page layout designs: Various embodiments of a system and methods for using design features to search for page layout designs are described. The document and image structures of a page layout design may be analyzed to determine design features which define the style of the page layout design. Dependent on the design features,... Agent:

20130124974 - System for assembling webpage's region of other website into a webpage of a website and method for the same: According to the present invention, a method for assembling sections of web pages of websites comprises: enabling a section to be set on a webpage of an object website (200) displayed on a user computer (500) (step S41); enabling a device (50) for providing a website-section-assembling service, which is installed... Agent:

20130124969 - Xml editor within a wysiwyg application: A WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) application that is originally incapable of rendering an XML (Extensible Markup Language) file is converted into a WYSIWYG editor capable of rendering the XML file and manipulating the XML file in a WYSIWYG manner. Upon conversion, the WYSIWYG editor is capable... Agent: Crowell Solutions, Inc.

20130124980 - Framework for creating interactive digital content: A digital content creation platform can include a variety of features for creating an interactive digital publication. The functionality can include adding one or more sections, one or more pages to a section, and one or more layers to a page, such as box, story, image, video, table, map, and... Agent: FutureIPLimited

20130124981 - Inserting content and exclusion zone(s) into a page: Information relating to an exclusion zone to be provided on a page is received (102), where the exclusion zone defines a corresponding area of the page that is free of content to be inserted in the page. A layout defining plural partitions on the page is produced (104), where the... Agent:

20130124979 - Method and apparatus for capturing, analyzing, and converting scripts: Methods and apparatus for capturing, analyzing, and converting documents are provided. Provided in some embodiments is a method that includes obtaining a script document comprising script elements, assessing a layout of the script document, wherein the layout comprises a physical location of the script elements within the script document, determining... Agent:

20130124978 - Text image review process: Techniques that facilitate review of bitmapped representations of text in a file are described. In some embodiments, one or more signals representative of cursor movements over a bitmapped representation of text in a bitmap image may be received. One or more selected text elements may be determined based on the... Agent: Adobe Systems Incorporated

20130124982 - Systems and methods for camouflaging an information stream: Information is camouflaged to permit discreet access of the information at times when it is otherwise inappropriate to access the information. Information is camouflaged for computer device display by analyzing visual characteristics of baseline information designated to be displayed on a portion of an electronic display and causing the electronic... Agent:

20130124983 - System and/or method for document conversion: Embodiments of methods, apparatuses, devices and systems associated with document conversion are disclosed. In one particular implementation, an apparatus is provided which includes a document conversion program capable of generating at least a portion of a first document based at least in part on one or more portions of data... Agent: Adobe Systems Incorporated

20130124984 - Method and apparatus for providing script data: A method includes receiving script metadata extracted from a script for a program, wherein the script metadata includes clip metadata associated with a particular portion of the program, associating the clip metadata with a clip corresponding to the particular portion of the program, receiving a request to revise the clip... Agent:

20130124985 - Conditional localization of singular and plural words: Conditional localization may be provided. A message comprising a numeric component may be prepared for display on a user interface. In response to determining that the numeric component is associated with a descriptor word, a localized variant of the descriptor word may be retrieved according to the numeric component.... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20130124986 - Translation management system: A translation management system in a computer environment. A preferred embodiment of the invention automatically detects when a document, data stream, or non-text file in the master language has been updated and notifies the user which corresponding documents, data streams, or non-text files in the other languages require translation which... Agent: Transperfect Global, Inc.

20130124987 - Translation management system: A translation management system in a computer environment. A preferred embodiment of the invention automatically detects when a document, data stream, or non-text file in the master language has been updated and notifies the user which corresponding documents, data streams, or non-text files in the other languages require translation which... Agent: Transperfect Global, Inc.

20130124988 - Media presentations including related content: Media presentations including related content are described, including presenting a workspace and a content shelf, presenting a media presentation in the workspace, designating a portion of the media presentation based on parsing the media presentation according to a predetermined criterion, and displaying a content related to the portion of the... Agent: Adobe Systems Incorporated

20130124989 - Providing contextual on-object control launchers and controls: Object editing controls may be provided. First, a selection of an object within an electronic document may be received. Then, in response to the received selection of the object, at least one selectable control may be displayed. The at least one selectable control may be configured to provide a set... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20130124991 - Audio playback device and method of controlling an audio playback device: An exemplary audio playback method is applied on an audio playback device. The audio playback device includes a touch screen and a storage unit. The storage unit stores audio files. The method includes controlling the touch screen to display a playlist and a scroll bar comprising a scroll block for... Agent: Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.

20130124994 - Method for content presentation during trick mode operations: It is provided a method for content presentation during trick mode operations, wherein a first content file is associated with a plurality of content items and each content item corresponds to a content segment of the first content file, the method comprises the steps of receiving an instruction for a... Agent: Thomson Licensing

20130124990 - Timeline management: Timeline management is described, including selecting a segment of a timeline, activating a control, and replacing the segment of the timeline with a visual indicator used to identify the segment of the timeline.... Agent: Adobe Systems Incorporated

20130124992 - Tool for navigating a composite presentation: A computer readable medium storing a media editing application for creating media presentations is described. The application includes a graphical user interface (GUI). The GUI has (1) a composite display area for displaying graphical representations of a set of media clips that are part of the composite presentation and (2)... Agent: Apple Inc.

20130124993 - Virtual phonograph: A processor-implemented method to control a playback of recorded sound is provided. The method includes displaying on a pressure-sensitive display screen a processor-generated image of a vinyl record and playing, by use of a processor in communication with a processor storage, a sound encoded in the processor storage, to produce... Agent:

20130124995 - Document authoring: Embodiments of methods, devices and/or systems for authoring a document are described.... Agent:

20130124996 - Video editing including simultaneously displaying timelines and storyboards: Video editing including simultaneously displaying timelines and storyboards is described, including displaying a timeline of a video presentation, displaying a storyboard of the video presentation including scenes of the video presentation. simultaneously to the displaying the timeline, and navigating the timeline in response to receiving an input to select a... Agent:

20130124997 - Digital video system with intelligent video selection timeline: A digital video system comprises a plurality of recorders and a client device. The recorders store digital video from a common source. The client device comprises a screen, an input device, and a processor configured to run a graphical user interface (GUI). The GUI comprises a timeline, a selection indicator,... Agent: Utc Fire & Security Corporation

20130125000 - Automatic generation of multi-camera media clips: Some embodiments provide a media-editing application. The application receives a selection of several media clips for creating a multi-camera media clip. Based on metadata stored with the media clips that identifies sources of the media clips, the application automatically assigns the clips to at least two different groups in the... Agent:

20130124998 - Preview display for multi-camera media clips: Some embodiments provide a graphical user interface (GUI) of a media-editing application. The GUI includes a composite display area for displaying a set of media clips that define a composite presentation. The set of media clips includes a particular media clip which includes several different groups of ordered clips that... Agent:

20130124999 - Reference clips in a media-editing application: Some embodiments provide a media-editing application. The application defines a reference clip data structure for a media clip that represents one or more media files imported into the media-editing application. The application receives a command to add the media clip into a composite media presentation. The application defines a clip... Agent:

20130125001 - Digital photo album: A digital photo book for storage and display of digital photos comprising: a photo array, where the photo array includes a means for displaying a plurality of digital photo images; an interactive means, where the interactive means controls the display of the digital photo images; a cover, where the cover... Agent:

20130125002 - Automatic stacking based on time proximity and visual similarity: Automatic stacking based on time proximity and visual similarity is described, including a method, comprising analyzing a time proximity of a plurality of electronic images, performing a visual similarity analysis on the plurality of electronic images, and stacking the plurality of electronic images based on a result of the time... Agent: Adobe Systems Incorporated

20130125003 - Action representation during slide generation: Techniques for displaying object animations on a slide are disclosed. In accordance with these techniques, objects on a slide may be assigned actions when generating or editing the slide. The effects of the actions on the slide are depicted using one or more respective representations which represent the slide as... Agent: Apple Inc.

20130125004 - System and method for managing wireless connections in computer: A Wireless Connection Utility (WCU) provides a unified user experience for managing various types of wireless connections, including Wireless WANs, Wireless LANs, and Bluetooth networks. The WCU functions as a gateway for a user of a computer to monitor the computer's wireless network status, to switch wireless connections, to configure... Agent:

20130125005 - Contextual data displayed via browser toolbar: A browser toolbar displays contextual data from a search engine service for a webpage currently being displayed by a web browser. The browser toolbar identifies the URL of a webpage currently being displayed by a web browser. The browser toolbar provides an indication of the URL to a search engine... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20130125006 - Protocol sensitive visual navigation apparatus: Embodiments of this invention include a protocol sensitive visual navigation apparatus, and associated methods, for navigating and relating different protocol levels of a protocol. A test and measurement instrument can include the protocol sensitive visual navigation apparatus, which can facilitate analyzing, searching, and measuring various aspects of the different protocol... Agent: Tektronix, Inc.

20130125007 - Remote access to layer and user interface elements: 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 Inc.

20130125008 - Systems and methods for providing content streams: Various embodiments can concern a method of organizing and displaying two or more content elements. The method can include: receiving a first content element from one or more users; creating a parent content stream for the first content element; displaying the parent content stream to the one or more users;... Agent: Stremor Corporation

20130125009 - Remote desktop localized content sharing: Illustrative embodiments disclose managing content displayed in a remote data processing system by identifying a set of links displayed in the content of the remote data processing system during a desktop sharing session between a local data processing system and the remote data processing system. The local data processing system... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20130125010 - Method and apparatus of providing personalized virtual environment: An approach is provided for providing a personalized virtual environment for a visitor of a service community. A comparison is made of identification information of the visitor with contact entries of a plurality of registered users of a service community. Additionally, an identification is made of content of one or... Agent: Nokia Corporation

20130125012 - Dynamic user customized web advertisements: A device receives a user profile associated with a user of a user device, where the user profile is generated based on information associated with one or more transactions performed by the user, via the user device, with a first web site. The device also receives, from a second web... Agent: Verizon Patent And Licensing Inc.

20130125011 - Enabling service features within productivity applications: Systems, methods, and software are described herein for enhancing features within program applications. In an implementation, a user associated with a productivity application is identified and a service application associated with the user is identified. A service feature that corresponds to the service is enabled within the productivity application. The... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20130125015 - Automated data delivery systems: The Automated Data Delivery Systems (ADDS) are two delivery systems designed to either deliver specific data to customer computers over a network, e.g., the Internet, or from one application program to another. In both cases the user computer requesting data delivery can either have a special automatic data reception capability... Agent:

20130125013 - Distributed media player branding: Distributed media player branding is described, including receiving a request indicating retrieval of data associated with a media player, the request being sent from another media player, retrieving the data associated with the media player by the another media player, the data being configured to present at least a portion... Agent: Adobe Systems Incorporated

20130125018 - Method for controlling content-sharing, and portable terminal and content-sharing system using same: content-sharing among a plurality of content-providing devices. The method includes: receiving information on a content from a first content playback device and displaying images corresponding to the content; storing the received content information; and transmitting the stored content information to a second content playback device and ending the displaying of... Agent: Lg Electronics Inc.

20130125014 - Method of transitioning content on user devices: A method and system for micro-cloud computing is described. An application serving node, which is a specifically configured piece of customer premises equipment such as a set-top box, is the server for a micro-cloud network. Various user devices that form part of the micro-cloud network, such as television sets and... Agent: Disternet Technology, Inc.

20130125017 - Selective sending of portions of electronic content: A user of a handheld communication device selects in a foreground process portions of an electronic document. In a background process a new document is prepared that comprises the selected portions. The user selects the address for forwarding the new document, and the new document gets sent in a background... Agent:

20130125016 - System and method for transferring content between devices: A system and a method for transferring content between devices are disclosed. In a preferred embodiment, users lay their electronic devices (such as content reading devices, mobile tablets or smart phones) side by side and use a touch screen to “slide” or “swipe” digital content (e.g., via finger swiping of... Agent: Barnesandnoble.com LLC

20130125020 - Efficient navigation of hierarchical data displayed in a graphical user interface: Techniques are described for display and navigation of hierarchical messages, which displays include contextual data for the messages. Context information for a current message includes reply messages, parent messages, and metadata representations. Message representations are also associated with visual depth indicators that are independent of the text of the messages.... Agent:

20130125022 - Method, device and system for sending, receiving and updating interactive information on the internet: Method, device and system for receiving, sending and updating interactive information on the Internet are disclosed. A method includes: after detecting a predetermined type of a user's operation, a user device prompts the user to input a contact address of a recipient of the interactive information; the user device then... Agent: Tencent Technology (shenzhen) Company Limited

20130125019 - System and method for displaying message history when composing a message: A system and a method are provided for displaying message history while composing a message. The method includes displaying a message composition application comprising a first recipient field, a message history display area, and a message composition field; detecting an input into the first recipient field for specifying a recipient;... Agent: Research In Motion Limited

20130125021 - Tablet all-in-one application: A method and apparatus for an all-in-one tablet application is described herein. In one embodiment, an application presents marketing data on a visual display of the computing system viewable to a user. The application retrieves stored information from a remote Customer Relationship Management (CRM) server for processing by the computing... Agent: Conceptus Inc.

20130125024 - Method of networking groups of users and organizations and disseminating information: A system and method for connecting users and organizations using an internet-based communication platform having a database and a user interface. The method includes storing information regarding a plurality of organizations into the database and receiving through the user interface information relating to a particular user. The method further includes... Agent: Textfund, Inc.

20130125025 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for providing remote participation in multi-media events: Implementing remote participation in events is provided. The implementation includes providing a view of an instance of an application on endpoint systems in response to a common option received from users of the endpoint systems of the application, receiving a role from each of the users that include an active... Agent: At&t Mobility Ii LLC

20130125023 - System and method of sharing application information: Methods and apparatus are provided for sharing application information. Application information regarding a plurality of applications is stored. The application information is received from a plurality of user terminals. An application information request is received from a user terminal. The application information is edited. The edited application information is provided... Agent: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

20130125028 - Hazardous device detection training system: Systems and methods involve the extension of the well known technique of virtual reality to encompass the use of virtual or real sensors as a means of detecting virtual threats including mines and improvised explosive devices in complex threat environments and to allow fully immersive computer based basic training, pre-deployment... Agent: Cobham Cts Ltd.

20130125027 - Massive simultaneous remote digital presence world: Various methods and apparatus are described herein for enabling one or more users to interface with virtual or augmented reality environments. An example system includes a computing network having computer servers interconnected through high bandwidth interfaces to gateways for processing data and/or for enabling communication of data between the servers... Agent: Magic Leap, Inc.

20130125026 - Systems and methods for enabling personality facets having virtual social profiles: A computing system and methods that enable a Facet-based virtual layer to the social graph of an online service for network users. Virtual Personality Facets are provided so that users may role play, experiment with different personalities, or disguise their identity. Facets of personality may be represented by multiple virtual... Agent: Mimesis Republic

20130125030 - Accessible list navigation: Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, apparatus and computer program product for accessible list navigation. In one embodiment of the invention, a user interface article of manufacture configured for accessible list navigation can include markup defining a list including multiple list item, an obscured marker associated with at... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20130125029 - Extensible web-based 3d modeling: A system for extending the functionality of a web-based, three-dimensional modeling in a browser application is stored as instructions on a computer-readable medium. The instructions include an interface module that may receive user commands from the browser application that define a script including functions to modify or create a 3D... Agent: Trimble Navigation Limited

20130125031 - Context related location based content: Briefly, in accordance with one embodiment of the invention, location based content may be obtained from a remote network based at least in part on a determined location of a wireless device. The location based content that is obtained is further suitable for a context of an application running on... Agent:

20130125032 - Visual and functional transform: Techniques for a visual and functional transform are described, including presenting a graphical representation including a first level and a second level, the first level and the second level each including an option associated with an object, receiving an input indicating selection of the option, and selection of the option... Agent: Adobe Systems Incorporated

20130125033 - User interface to define and/or communicate space between objects: Briefly, in accordance with one embodiment of the invention, an object may be utilized to define, communicate, and/or control a spatial relationship between at least two other objects. Such an object may be somewhat analogous to a spring in that a minimum margin between the two other objects may be... Agent: Adobe Systems Incorporated

20130125037 - Displaying a prediction candidate after a typing mistake: A method includes receiving an input string from a virtual keyboard, generating at least one string based on the input string, where the input string is not a substring of the generated string, responsive to a determination that the generated string was previously generated based on the input string, selecting... Agent: Research In Motion Limited

20130125034 - Touchscreen keyboard predictive display and generation of a set of characters: A method including receiving an input of a character from a virtual keyboard rendered on a display, generating a set of characters that includes the character, and displaying the generated set of characters at a location that is associated with the virtual keyboard and that is on the display. An... Agent: Research In Motion Limited

20130125036 - Touchscreen keyboard predictive display and generation of a set of characters: A method including receiving an input of a character from a virtual keyboard rendered on a display, generating a set of characters that includes the character, and displaying the generated set of characters at a location that is associated with the virtual keyboard and that is on the display. An... Agent: Research In Motion Limited

20130125035 - Virtual keyboard configuration: A keyboard rendered on a display of an electronic device, the keyboard comprising a plurality of keys, each key corresponding to one or more different characters of a plurality of characters, wherein the plurality of keys are arranged in two or more rows, wherein at least one row includes two... Agent: Research In Motion Limited

20130125038 - Text operations in a bitmap-based document: Techniques and structures that facilitate text operations in a bitmap-based document are described. In some embodiments, a bitmap image, as well as one or more data structures that may include text code data and text coordinate data, may be generated from an original document. Text coordinate data may relate a... Agent:

20130125041 - Format object task pane: A format object task pane is provided that presents contextual formatting controls for formatting objects. The format object task pane may be docked to an edge of an application window and may be modeless, allowing a user to interact with application functionalities while the task pane is open. Formatting controls... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20130125040 - Interstitial navigation panel for navigating data representing content and applications: Embodiments of the invention relate generally to an interstitial panel in an interface for navigating content. In various embodiments, methods and computer readable media can render content in response to selections in navigational panels without transitioning away from content in a content panel. In one embodiment, a method includes rendering... Agent: Adobe Systems Incorporated

20130125042 - Methods and apparatus employing a reference grid for generating electronic manifests of underground facility marking operations: A grid is displayed on a display device to provide a reference for a geographic area including an excavation site. User input is acquired that relates to a geographic location of at least one physical locate mark applied by a technician to a ground surface at the excavation site to... Agent: Certusview Technologies, LLC

20130125039 - Resolution monitoring when using visual manipulation tools: Resolution monitoring when using visual manipulation tools is described, including determining a minimum resolution for a visual manipulation tool, monitoring a usage of the visual manipulation tool, and interrupting the usage of the visual manipulation tool if the visual manipulation tool is operating below the minimum resolution.... Agent: Adobe Systems Incorporated

20130125043 - User interface providing method and apparatus for mobile terminal: A user interface providing method and apparatus for a mobile terminal may include a three-dimensional user interface to assist with grouping items and displaying items, and the movement therebetween. The user interface providing method for a mobile terminal may include: outputting a three dimensional user interface screen (3D UI screen)... Agent: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

20130125044 - Machine vision system program editing environment including synchronized user interface features: A machine vision system program editing environment including synchronized selection and/or identification of related features in a plurality of different user interface windows is provided. In particular, one of the windows is an editing window where a part program representation is displayed for editing by a user. In one embodiment,... Agent: Mitutoyo Corporation

20130125045 - Apparatus including a touch screen under a multiapplication environment and controlling method thereof: An apparatus including a touch screen is provided. The apparatus includes the touch screen to display a first window for executing a first application and a second window for executing a second application, and a controller to detect whether a display change event for changing a screen display occurs in... Agent: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.

20130125046 - Dynamic non-interruptive visual image isolation: Dynamic non-interruptive visual image isolation is described, including providing an overlay window over an interface displaying the image, the interface being configured to display the image and the overlay window being configured to have a cutout disposed over the image, receiving dimming input, the dimming input being associated with an... Agent: Adobe Systems Incorporated

20130125047 - Multi-pane interface: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for presenting content. In one aspect, a method includes determining that user interaction with a search result has occurred, where the search result was presented in a results pane of a display. A browsing pane is generated... Agent: Google Inc.

20130125048 - Method and system for applying 3d switch panel in instant messaging tool: A method and system for applying 3D switch panel in instant messaging tool. The method includes creating a window, and creating a plane model according to the window; receiving a command for triggering rotation; and rotating the plane model to drive the interface window of the instant messaging tool to... Agent: Tencent Technology (shenzhen) Company Limited

20130125049 - Auto adjustable pane view: Techniques for an auto adjustable pane view are described, including receiving a request to display a plurality of elements in a pane, the pane located in a display space, determining a number and a size of the a plurality of elements, and sizing the pane based on the number of... Agent: Adobe Systems Incorporated

20130125050 - Screen relayout: Briefly, in accordance with one or more embodiments, the contents of a window may be reflowed to accommodate one or more of a change in the size or aspect ratio of the window, a change in size of one or more objects or subwindows within the window, and/or the addition... Agent: Adobe Systems Incorporated

20130125053 - Determining semantic information of business applications: Various embodiments of systems and methods to determine semantic information of a plurality of business applications are described herein. In one aspect, a selection of user interface elements of a first business application and a second business application of the plurality of business applications are received. Further, data processing paths... Agent:

20130125052 - Expandable user interface menu: Expandable user interface menu techniques are described, including displaying a menu having a menu item, receiving an input indicating selection of the menu item, and expanding the menu, based on one or more parameters associated with the menu item, to present a structure configured to receive another input associated with... Agent: Adobe Systems Incorporated

20130125051 - Historical review using manipulable visual indicators: Historical review using manipulable visual indicators is described, including providing a visual indicator of activity associated with a file, the visual indicator being presented as a function of time, presenting an element associated with the visual indicator, the element being configured to be manipulated by an input device, and manipulating... Agent: Adobe Systems Incorporated

20130125054 - Image processing apparatus that displays icon, method of controlling the same, image processing system, and storage medium: An image processing apparatus which is capable of improving the visibility and operability of icons for a user. The image processing apparatus includes a console section. A button data import-processing section acquires location information of a server on a network. A server stores icon data indicating an icon to be... Agent: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

20130125055 - Information-processing device, information-processing system, information-processing method, and computer-readable storage medium: An exemplary information-processing device includes: a first display control unit that controls a display unit to display plural items of application information; a first selecting unit that selects one item of application information from among the plurality of items of application information; a second display control unit that controls the... Agent: Nintendo Co., Ltd.

20130125056 - Device, method, and storage medium storing program: According to an aspect, a device includes a display and a controller. The display displays an icon corresponding to an application. The controller changes a display mode of the icon according to a use status of the application corresponding thereto.... Agent: Kyocera Corporation

20130125057 - Analysis of complex data objects and multiple parameter systems: A computer facilitates multiple parameters data analysis by special visualization and navigation methods. Data to be analyzed is loaded from an external source the computer displays the data in response to user input using a variety of methods including data tables, slices of data spaces, hierarchically navigated data spaces, dynamic... Agent:

20130125058 - Hierarchy-indicating graphical user interface for discussion threads: Techniques are described for display and navigation of hierarchical messages, which displays include contextual data for the messages. Context information for a current message includes reply messages, parent messages, and metadata representations. Message representations are also associated with visual depth indicators that are independent of the text of the messages.... Agent:

20130125059 - Hierarchy-indicating graphical user interface for discussion threads: Techniques are described for display and navigation of hierarchical messages, which displays include contextual data for the messages. Context information for a current message includes reply messages, parent messages, and metadata representations. Message representations are also associated with visual depth indicators that are independent of the text of the messages.... Agent:

20130125060 - Visual depth-indicators for messages: Techniques are described for display and navigation of hierarchical messages, which displays include contextual data for the messages. Context information for a current message includes reply messages, parent messages, and metadata representations. Message representations are also associated with visual depth indicators that are independent of the text of the messages.... Agent:

20130125062 - Dynamic and local management of hierarchical discussion thread data: Techniques are described for display and navigation of hierarchical messages, which displays include contextual data for the messages. Context information for a current message includes reply messages, parent messages, and metadata representations. Message representations are also associated with visual depth indicators that are independent of the text of the messages.... Agent:

20130125063 - Dynamic and local management of hierarchical discussion thread data: Techniques are described for display and navigation of hierarchical messages, which displays include contextual data for the messages. Context information for a current message includes reply messages, parent messages, and metadata representations. Message representations are also associated with visual depth indicators that are independent of the text of the messages.... Agent:

20130125061 - Efficient navigation of hierarchical data displayed in a graphical user interface: Techniques are described for display and navigation of hierarchical messages, which displays include contextual data for the messages. Context information for a current message includes reply messages, parent messages, and metadata representations. Message representations are also associated with visual depth indicators that are independent of the text of the messages.... Agent:

20130125064 - Terminal apparatus and gui screen generation method: A terminal apparatus operates according to manipulation by a user on a Graphical User Interface (GUI) screen. The terminal apparatus includes: a generator that generates the GUI screen, the GUI screen including an object selectable in the manipulation and a pointer for selecting the object; and a blur calculator that... Agent: Panasonic Corporation

20130125066 - Adaptive area cursor: Described is a technology by which a user's cursor movement is assisted to help select elements of a user interface that may be otherwise difficult to target. An area cursor is provided that may intersect more than one element. If so, a computation result (e.g., a percentage) is computed for... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20130125067 - Display apparatus and method capable of controlling movement of cursor: A display apparatus and method capable of controlling the movement of a cursor are provided. The display apparatus includes an input unit which receives a cursor movement command; a display unit which displays a cursor and at least one object on a screen and moves the cursor in accordance with... Agent: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

20130125065 - File format conversion of an interactive element in a graphical user interface: Briefly, in accordance with one embodiment, in a graphical user interface, an interactive element in a first file format, such as hypertext markup extension language, may be converted into a second file format, such as portable document format, wherein the interactivity of the interactive element may be preserved in the... Agent: Adobe Systems Incorporated

20130125068 - Methods and apparatus for natural media painting using a realistic brush and tablet stylus gestures: Systems and methods for providing a natural media painting application may receive user inputs through tablet stylus gestures. A user interface may detect stylus gestures that mimic real-world actions of artists based on information collected during user manipulation of the stylus, and may map the gestures to various digital painting... Agent:

20130125069 - System and method for interactive labeling of a collection of images: Various embodiments of a system and method for labeling images are described. An image labeling system may label multiple images, where each of the images may be labeled to identify image content or image elements, such as backgrounds or faces. The system may display some of the labeled image elements... Agent:

20130117643 - Method and apparatus for scraping of digital magazine that is edited in layers: According to one embodiment, a scrapping method of a digital magazine edited in layers is provided. In the method, at least one layer is selected, and content of the selected at least one layer is stored in a scrap book.... Agent: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

20130117644 - Generating and printing target page numbers over links while printing documents or web pages: A method and system for generating information related to links in a document by preprocessing the document for at least one link within the document followed by modifying content of the document such that the modified content includes information related to at least one link within the document in an... Agent:

20130117645 - Method and apparatus for generating a feed of updating content: The application describes a first system for monitoring changes to a target web page and also a second system for providing information on changes to a target web page. The first system is configured to display said target web page to a user; receive a user specification of at least... Agent: Taptu Ltd

20130117646 - System and method for delivering and activating a virtual gift card: A system and method for delivering and activating a virtual gift card includes storing in a database at least one data item for use in creating a virtual gift card. A server creates a unique identifier for the virtual gift card and sends the unique identifier to the virtual gift... Agent: Revtrax

20130117647 - Systems and methods for completing a loan application on a mobile technology platform: A mobile technology platform (403) for processing loan applications is provided which includes a display and a non-transitory, computer-readable medium. The medium has recorded therein a software program containing suitable programming instructions which, when executed, causes to be displayed on the display a screen having (a) an index portion (243)... Agent:

20130117649 - Report data justifiers: A method includes providing a source report for display that includes a first plurality of data values each associated with a first context, the first context comprising an intersection of dimensions of a multidimensional database. The method includes receiving a selection of a first data value of the first plurality,... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20130117648 - Spreadsheet data processing method and system: m

20130117650 - Generating reproducible reports used in predictive modeling actions: A method and system that generate reproducible reports describing one or more analytical functions are disclosed. The reports describe a sequence of analytical functions and allow subsequent executions of the sequence of analytical functions. The matrix space that is inherent in worksheets is used to record a sequence of operations... Agent:

20130117651 - Interaction between web gadgets and spreadsheets: Gadgets integrate with spreadsheets and the spreadsheet calculation engine. A gadget is bound to a range of cells (one or more) within a sheet. When one or more of the cells of the bound range is accessed (e.g. selected, hovered over, edited, deleted, added), the gadget is notified. The gadget... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20130117652 - Techniques to generate custom electronic forms: Techniques to generate custom electronic forms are described. An apparatus may comprise a logic device and an application having a form manager component. The form manager component may be operative on the logic device to manage one or more forms for a user interface of the application during a run-time... Agent: Sas Institute Inc.

20130117654 - Method and system for data analysis: A data analysis and display system and method for performing a plurality of operations on data arranged in data tables. One or more of the following data operations are provided: combining separate data together, for example by joining and appending; normalizing and summarizing; copying; calculating and presenting new information from... Agent:

20130117653 - Real time visual feedback during move, resize and/or rotate actions in an electronic document: Real time feedback during move, resize or rotate actions in an electronic document is provided. During live drag actions, the layout shown during the action may be the layout produced when the object is dropped. Detection of slow performance of an application and aborting a redraw action as needed may... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20130117655 - Systems, methods, and interfaces for providing electronic book versions within an access device: A method includes transmitting a first signal associated with a first version of an electronic book. The method also includes detecting an indication of a second version of the electronic book and generating, in response to detecting, and transmitting a second signal associated with an addition instruction and the second... Agent:

20130117660 - Automated document revision markup and change control: Automated comparison of Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) documents for revision mark-up includes reading document data from first and second DITA documents into respective document object model trees of nodes, and identifying and collapsing emphasis subtree nodes in the trees into their parent nodes, the collapsing caching emphasis data from... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20130117658 - Block zoom on a mobile electronic device: A device, system and method are provided for processing structured documents, such as webpages, for display. Various elements within the structured document are parsed and rendered by an electronic device for outputting to an external or integrated display. In response to a detected scaling instruction, such as a zoom in... Agent: Research In Motion Limited

20130117656 - Conversion of web template designs: A portion of the CMS stage of web site development is automated to convert a static markup language mockup and its referenced resources into a renderable CMS web template. One or more features in the mockup are represented by one or more static markup language elements, which are replaced by... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20130117657 - Designing interactive web templates: A web template author can author interactive web templates via a static markup language-based authoring tool. The web template author can insert static markup language snippets representing one or more configurable controls of a web template into a static markup language-based authoring tool. Each snippet includes a definition of a... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20130117659 - Dynamic server-side image sizing for fidelity improvements: Dynamically-generated images sized according to a requesting web client application display resolution are provided. The client application may calculate a target display resolution and pass the target display resolution as an input parameter with a request to a server for application content. The server may use the desired size input... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20130117661 - Formatting system monitoring information: Embodiments disclosed herein relate to formatting system monitoring information. In one embodiment, a processor formats information related to monitoring a system. The formatted information may be related to components in a system. In one embodiment, the processor formats received information related to the system. The processor may output the formatted... Agent:

20130117663 - System and method for selectively displaying web page elements: Systems and methods are disclosed for selectively displaying content corresponding to web page elements. A web page element can comprise one or more DIV tags that may be used to encapsulate and identify other elements and information. The first name and the first address of the element are stored. In... Agent: Yahoo! Inc.

20130117662 - Utilizing scrolling detection for screen content encoding: A method, a device and computer readable storage media facilitate detecting a scrolling area within digital content comprising a plurality of frames, wherein the detection includes a comparison between a current frame and a previous frame to determine at least one location within the current frame in which pixel values... Agent: Cisco Technology, Inc.

20130117664 - Screen display method applicable on a touch screen: A method for screen display on a touch screen is disclosed. The method is used on a touch screen, wherein the touch screen comprises a display area, and the display area has a first display boundary. The method includes: displaying a first document area of an electronic document within the... Agent:

20130117665 - System and method for individualized media publishing: A system and method of individualized media publishing including a customization server configured to receive an electronic work from a content creator, create a custom field within the electronic work, and store the custom field in a database or a memory storage device. The system and method receives a request... Agent: Ironcutter Media, LLC

20130117666 - User interface systems and methods for manipulating and viewing digital documents: A tool document file may also be stored in the memory and may provide an internal representation of a document providing an image that is representative of a graphical tool. Associated with a tool document can be tool code that is capable of processing the content document file to create... Agent: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

20130117667 - System and method for in content discussions: Systems and methods for permitting in-content discussions regarding electronic content are described. The present invention allow users of digital publication readers to share comments regarding specific parts of an electronic publication with other users that are concurrently reading or have previously read those parts. In this manner, the invention provides... Agent: Barnesandnoble.com LLC

20130117668 - Presentation of multiple sources of application guidance information: A product guidance system is described herein that provides consistent methods and processes to aggregate product guidance from different online (and potentially local) sources, to ensure that the guidance aggregation is done with proper quality criteria (e.g., content/author reputation), to define how guidance is aggregated and presented appropriately for the... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20130117669 - Systems and methods for controlling use and operation of a family of different treatment devices: A system for controlling a treatment device generates a graphical interface that visually prompts a user in a step-wise fashion to use the treatment device to perform a process of forming a pattern of lesions that extends both circumferentially and axially in different levels in a body region. The graphical... Agent: Mederi Therapeutics Inc

20130117670 - System and method for creating recordings associated with electronic publication: A system and method that allows recording and playback of audio in association with an electronic publication such as an electronic book. Many applications that are used to view electronic publications are based on technologies that do not have audio capabilities that allow a user to record audio in connection... Agent: Barnesandnoble.com LLC

20130117671 - Methods and systems for editing video clips on mobile devices: Computer-implemented methods, systems, and programs are provided for creating and editing video content on mobile devices.... Agent: Triparazzi, Inc.

20130117672 - Methods and systems for gathering data related to a presentation and for assigning tasks: Methods and systems for gathering data related to a presentation and for generating tasks are disclosed. The presentation is given to an audience by a presenter using a display system. The display system includes a display portion, an input portion, a memory portion for storing the presentation, and one or... Agent: Wheelhouse Analytics, LLC

20130117673 - System and method for flexible configuration of a controlling device: A system and method whereby an user interface editing device is used to create a user interface for a controlling device, the created user interface including user interface elements that are associated with functional operations of a virtual equivalent of an appliance. After the created user interface is transferred to... Agent: Universal Electronics Inc.

20130117674 - Systems and methods for managing security data: Certain embodiments of systems and methods for managing security data are provided. In one embodiment, a system can be provided. The system can include at least one processor operable to execute one or more computer-executable instructions. The system can also include at least one memory operable to store the one... Agent: U.s. Security Associates, Inc.

20130117675 - Social web browsing: A method of guiding a user's web navigation through the recommendation of online content in the form of a navigation recommendation includes a server and a browser. The browser receives identification associated with a user in a navigation network and transmits the login information to the server. The browser additionally... Agent:

20130117679 - Aggregation system: Apparatus, method, and manufacture, illustratively the aggregation apparatus includes a computer system configured to provide, at a web site, an interface which enables each of multiple users to register for an account; and provide, at the web site, an interface which facilitates a login by each registered user; provide, at... Agent:

20130117678 - Method for opening file on virtual desktop for cloud-based system, the system and computer readable storage medium applying the method: A method for opening a file on a virtual desktop for a cloud-based system includes the following steps: The at least one external cloud server does not belong to the cloud-based system. A virtual desktop is provided to a client. The client displays the virtual desktop by a browser. An... Agent: Institute For Information Industry

20130117677 - Methods and systems for displaying web pages based on a user-specific browser history analysis: Methods and systems for automatically parsing the content of a users browser history to extract information about that user's browsing habits, interests, likes, and dislikes utilizing text analytics and unsupervised machine learning. A topic model can be utilized to filter the display of web content and employ visualization techniques to... Agent: Xerox Corporation

20130117680 - System and method for dynamically changing the content of an internet web page: A host Web page includes an evolving interactive dialog box wherein an Internet user may enter user data to be processed. When the user completes entering user data in a first revolution of the interactive dialog box, the first revolution is replaced with a second revolution of the evolving interactive... Agent: Ebay Inc.

20130117676 - Visually analyzing, clustering, transforming and consolidating real and virtual machine images in a computing environment: System, method and computer program product for generating a GUI that facilitates the management of real and/or virtual images on computing machines in a computing environment. The system and method provides for an interactive visualization of virtual images (machines) and the software components included in each virtual image or real... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20130117681 - Method and apparatus for targeting updated personal data to providers: A method and apparatus for targeting updated personal data to providers, performed in an electronic device having a display screen, the method including displaying an indication of an update application, on the display screen, for user selection, displaying personal data obtained by the update application on the display screen, receiving... Agent:

20130117682 - Information processing apparatus for remote control of device, and control method and storage medium therefor: An information processing apparatus capable of easily remote-controlling a device connected thereto through a network. The information processing apparatus, e.g., a PC is installed with a remote control client application in which a display control part causes a display unit of the PC to display a software key screen, and... Agent: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

20130117683 - Web command prompt: A method of streamlined web site navigation includes providing a command line interface supplemental to a graphic user interface. The command line interface accepts entry of verbs and parameters from a web site-specific vocabulary. The web site-specific vocabulary allows a user to access functions of a graphic user interface page... Agent: Salesforce.com, Inc.

20130117685 - Apparatus and method of modifying user interface based on network condition: Provided is an apparatus and method of modifying a user interface based on a network condition. The apparatus includes a communication unit, a contents replaying unit, a determination unit, and an interface modification unit. The communication unit communicates with a server through one or more wired/wireless communication methods. The contents... Agent:

20130117684 - Dynamically generated icons for graphical user interface on client: Icons for use and display in a graphical user interface (GUI) on a client are generated on a server. The icons (e.g. bitmaps, PNG, GIF, JPEG . . . ) that may be used in the GUI are created by the server and reflect a theme that is associated with... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20130117686 - System and method for dynamically changing the content of an internet web page: A host Web page includes an evolving interactive dialog box wherein an Internet user may enter user data to be processed. When the user completes entering user data in a first revolution of the interactive dialog box, the first revolution is replaced with a second revolution of the evolving interactive... Agent: Ebay Inc.

20130117687 - System and method for dynamically changing the content of an internet web page: A host Web page includes an evolving interactive dialog box wherein an Internet user may enter user data to be processed. When the user completes entering user data in a first revolution of the interactive dialog box, the first revolution is replaced with a second revolution of the evolving interactive... Agent: Ebay Inc.

20130117688 - Displaying contact nodes in an online social network: A computer-implemented method of displaying contact information in an online social network, including displaying at a graphical user interface of a first user a plurality of visual representations of contact nodes each representing a second user or a group of second users who belong to social contacts of the first... Agent: Gface Gmbh

20130117689 - Electronic device and method of displaying information in response to a gesture: A method includes displaying, on a display of an electronic device, an information element associated with an application and detecting a first gesture. In response to detecting the first gesture, at least a first part of a first image is displayed, including information associated with the application, while reducing display... Agent: Research In Motion Limited

20130117690 - Managing user definable co-user lists: A real time notification system that tracks, for each user, the logon status of selected co-users of an on-line or network system and displays that information in real time to the tracking user in a unique graphical interface. The invention provides user definable on-line co-user lists, or “buddy lists”, that... Agent: Facebook, Inc.

20130117691 - Systems, methods, and graphical user interfaces for concurrent display of reply message and multiple response options: Systems, methods, and graphical user interfaces for concurrent display of a reply message and two or more response options are disclosed. In some implementations, a method includes, at a computer, maintaining the display of a reply message associated with a plurality of response options. Each respective response option in the... Agent:

20130117693 - Easy sharing of wireless audio signals: One embodiment of the invention is directed to a method comprising receiving, at a first media output device, streaming media from a media source device, receiving, at the first media output device, a command by motion or voice to share the streaming media with a second media output device, and... Agent:

20130117692 - Generating and updating event-based playback experiences: Exemplary methods, apparatus, and systems are disclosed for capturing, organizing, sharing, and/or displaying media. For example, using embodiments of the disclosed technology, a unified playback and browsing experience for a collection of media can be created automatically. For instance, heuristics and metadata can be used to assemble and add narratives... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20130117694 - Polling systems and methods: Computer systems and computer-implemented methods for assisting individuals in conducting, participating in, and viewing polls, while minimizing statistical bias and maximizing poll accessibility and poll viewing functionalities, are disclosed. A computer-implemented polling method is implemented on a website. The polling method includes registering a user account, facilitating the creation of... Agent: Cooperative Software Systems, LLC

20130117695 - Moving an activity along terminals associated with a physical queue: Aspects of this disclosure describe techniques for moving an activity down a physical queue. An example technique estimates a wait time to reach a service point for a user at a first position of a physical queue, selects an activity for the user at the first position of the physical... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20130117696 - Apparatus, system, and method for managing adherence to a regimen: A method of managing adherence to a regimen in a subscription based computer implemented healthcare information environment. The method includes receiving at a mobile device information from a receiver that a dose was ingested by a living subject. The method provides wirelessly communicating the information over a wireless network to... Agent:

20130117698 - Display apparatus and method thereof: A display method of a display apparatus is provided. The display method includes displaying an interaction image including one or more objects therein, detecting a touch input with respect to the interaction image, and if detecting the touch input, changing a display status of the interaction image to express physical... Agent: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

20130117697 - Method for displaying background wallpaper and one or more user interface elements on display unit of electrical apparatus at the same time, computer program product for the method and electrical apparatus implementing the method: A method for displaying background wallpaper and one or more user interface elements on a display unit of an electrical apparatus at the same time is disclosed. In the method, a Region of Interest (ROI) on the background wallpaper is designated by analyzing the background wallpaper. The background wallpaper is... Agent: Htc Corporation

20130117699 - Granting object authority via a multi-touch screen to a collaborator: In an embodiment, in response to a gesture by an administrator, a security palette is created and displayed on a multi-touch screen. In response to a move by the administrator of a first icon to within the security palette, wherein the first icon represents a first object, a same authority... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20130117700 - Landscape delta path calculation: Disclosed are methods, systems and products, including a method that includes generating a system landscape overview of a system landscape including a plurality of systems identified by a unique identifier; placing a system in a location using a context sensitive menu including information to enable placement within the system landscape... Agent:

20130117701 - System and method for coordinating a multi-user internet-based appointment scheduler for fashion and related arts: A computer network having software executing in an associated storage medium and related method, the computer network comprising a graphical user interface with the software. A member profile management interface has a dialogue for a member to create a member profile wherein the member inputs personal attributes. A project management... Agent:

20130117702 - Method and apparatus for managing reading using a terminal: A method of managing reading and an apparatus efficiently manage stored electronic books. The method of managing reading in a terminal includes: setting a reading period with respect to an electronic book and a reading amount by dates of the reading period; monitoring an achievement rate of the reading amount... Agent: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

20130117703 - System and method for executing an e-book reading application in an electronic device: A system and method execute an e-book reading application in an electronic device with a touch screen, via a touch gesture. The e-book reading application executing system includes: a touch screen for sensing a touch gesture; a storage unit for storing a look up table (LUT); a controller for detecting... Agent: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

20130117704 - Browser-accessible 3d immersive virtual events: A system adapted to provide multiple immersive three-dimensional (3D) event spaces to multiple sets of users, each set of users associated with a particular 3D event space, includes: a set of web servers adapted to provide multiple URLs, each URL associated with a particular 3D event space; a set of... Agent:

20130117705 - Electronic device and method of controlling the same: A method for controlling an electronic device with a touch-sensitive display is described. While the electronic device is in a user-interface lock state, an unlock image is displayed and contact with the unlock image on the touch-sensitive display is detected. In response to a detected contact on the unlock image,... Agent: Acer Incorporated

20130117706 - Vehicular manipulation apparatus: A remote manipulation apparatus includes a main body and a manipulating handle manipulated by a user to move to cover all the orientations from a manipulation basis position defined on a basis of the main body. Movement of the manipulating handle relative to the manipulation basis position corresponds to movement... Agent: Denso Corporation

20130117707 - Velocity-based triggering: Methods and devices for providing a user-interface are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method is disclosed comprising receiving data corresponding to a first position of a wearable computing device and responsively causing the wearable computing device to provide a user-interface comprising a view region and a menu. The method further... Agent: Google Inc.

20130117708 - Scroll method and apparatus of user device: A scroll method and apparatus is provided for scrolling is provided. The scroll method includes extracting, when a request to display a scroll object is detected, the scroll object; drawing an entire region corresponding to the entire scroll object into a frame buffer; and presenting, on a screen of the... Agent: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

20130117709 - Smart window creation in a graphical user interface: A method for controlling a graphical user interface (GUI) comprises preparing a window for displaying at an intended display location in a window display operation. The location of GUI control elements of the window at the intended display location and the location of a graphical cursor are identified. GUI control... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20130117710 - System and method of viewing updating for planning item assemblies: A system and method of displaying item lists and item views for a product assembly process. The method includes storing item data and visualization data, displaying the item data, receiving a first user input that selects a subset of the item data, receiving a second user input that selects a... Agent: Sap Ag

20130117711 - Resize handle activation for resizable portions of a user interface: Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, system and computer program product for resize handle display management in a graphical user interface (GUI). In an embodiment of the invention, a method for resize handle display management in a GUI is provided. The method includes receiving a directive to display... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20130117712 - Interactive image analysis: A system for interactive image analysis is disclosed, comprising an image visualization subsystem (1) for visualizing an image (8). An indicated position determiner (2) is arranged for determining an indicated position of a pointing device with respect to the image (8). A result determiner (3) is arranged for determining a... Agent: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.v.

20130117713 - Selection and organization based on selection of x-y position: An X-Y interaction (XYI) facilitates rapid relationship pairing by creating tap or selection zones that intersect variables. The y-axis contains an indefinite number of variables (items) that can be assigned to x-axis variables (groups). “Items” are individual bits of information or data, like a transaction, song, item, or a to-do... Agent:

20130117714 - List-based interactivity features as part of modifying list data and structure: Embodiments are provided that include interactive electronic list features and functionality, but are not so limited. In an embodiment, a method is configured to enable users to directly manipulate list content and/or structure in context. A system of an embodiment includes at least one client and a server system to... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20130117715 - User interface indirect interaction: One or more techniques and/or systems are provided for utilizing input data received from an indirect interaction device (e.g., mouse, touchpad, etc.) to launch, engage, and/or close, etc. an object within a user interface. For example, a sensory surface of the indirect interaction device may be divided into two (or... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20130117716 - Function extension for browsers or documents: Computer implemented methods and systems for generating a menu of browser extensions. A first user interaction with a first set of information is detected. The first set of information is associated with one or more browser extensions. A first menu for display of the one or more browser extensions is... Agent: Google Inc.

20130117717 - 3d user interaction system and method: A method is provided for a 3D user interaction system containing a terminal device and an operating pen. The method includes displaying a 3D user interface including a 3D icon on a screen of the terminal device, and determining 3D position of a contact portion of the operating pen based... Agent: Shenzhen Super Perfect Optics Limited

20130117718 - Electronic device and method of displaying information in response to a gesture: A method includes displaying information associated with a first application on a touch-sensitive display of an electronic device. A gesture is detected on the touch-sensitive display, which gesture indicates a request to display information associated with a second application. At least part of the information associated with the second application... Agent: Research In Motion Limited

20130117719 - Context-based adaptation for business applications: The present disclosure describes methods, systems, and computer program products for providing context-based adaptations in business applications. One example method includes identifying an executing instance of an application associated with at least one adaptation configuration, where each adaptation configuration is associated with a set of context criteria. An environmental context... Agent: Sap Ag

20130111312 - Method and system of jamming specified media content by age category: In one exemplary embodiment, a computer-implemented method includes receiving a web page with a web browser in a computing device. A jamming trigger term is received from a database stored in the computing device. A targeted age group is also received. The jamming trigger term is located in the web... Agent:

20130111311 - Method for implementing p2p video communication on webpage: A method for implementing p2p video communication on webpage includes the following steps: a user accessing a webpage, loading a flash, and a webpage script calling the flash interface to connect to a socket server; the flash connecting to a stratus server to acquire a key and monitoring received messages;... Agent: Suzhou Codyy Network Science & Technology Co. Ltd.

20130111314 - Automated selection of images for web pages: In various embodiments, a method, a system, and a computer-readable medium are disclosed for creating a pool of images available for display, such as in one or more web pages. In one embodiment, a method is disclosed that includes generating a pre-determined number N of numbers and encoding an instruction... Agent: Ebay Inc.

20130111313 - Methods and systems for interactive rendering of multimedia video in response to navigation input: Methods and systems for rendering a multimedia presentation on a device connected to the internet are provided. One method defines having a multimedia presentation illustrated on a page associated with a website served over the internet. The multimedia presentation is configured to be transferred to the device upon detection that... Agent:

20130111318 - Communication terminal apparatus: A communication terminal apparatus includes a storage unit and a processor. The storage unit stores an obtained file and identification information in association with each other. The identification information identifies a source of the obtained file. The processor displays, in a display unit, a screen including a link character string... Agent: Fujitsu Limited

20130111315 - Geographic visualization of data: Aspects of the subject matter described herein relate to geographic visualization of data. In aspects, data is obtained from a data store. Geographical data within the data is identified. The geographical data is provided to a mapping service that returns mapping data that includes locations corresponding to the geographical data.... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20130111317 - Methods and devices for facilitating access to a webpage associated with a contact: Methods and devices for facilitating access to a webpage associated with a contact are described. In one aspect, a method includes: obtaining a first contact entry; determining if the first contact entry includes a webpage identifier; and if the first contact entry includes a webpage identifier, populating a portion of... Agent: Research In Motion Limited

20130111316 - System and method for providing continued access to user related information: An account ribbon of a website has a plurality of message fields each having a link activatable to cause a display of a type of user related information. Continued access to the user related is provided by causing the account ribbon to be persisted across plural webpages of the website.... Agent: W.w. Grainger, Inc.

20130111319 - Visual navigation of documents by object: A navigable view of objects (e.g. charts, tables, graphs, data sources, individual sheets of a workbook, . . .) that are obtained from one or more electronic object sources are displayed as graphical objects. The objects may be automatically/manually organized within the navigable display (e.g. by type, by sheet, by... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20130111320 - Slicer elements for filtering tabular data: Slicers are configured to filter tabular data arranged in columns. A user may use the slicers to filter tabular data from a client application and/or a server based application/service. Slicers may be created for one or more columns and for all/portion of the tabular data within a column. Selection of... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20130111321 - Multi-dimentional data reporting: A multi-dimensional data reporting system presents a data report based on a data model, creates a callout report model based on a cell in the data report, and presents an instance of the callout report model in a callout interface. In one implementation of the multi-dimensional data reporting system, upon... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20130111322 - Dynamic digital document fields behavior: A field attraction module attracts/detracts interaction to/from particular fields of a digital document. The module detects interaction in the digital document corresponding to a plurality of fields of the digital document is detected. The module determines field attraction weights associated with the plurality of fields. The field attraction weights represent... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20130111323 - Survey system: A method, apparatus and computer program product for creating, editing and displaying surveys is presented. Techniques include receiving a request to create a survey from a survey creator, providing a plurality of survey question types, providing a graphical user interface for composing survey questions using at least one of the... Agent: Popsurvey LLC

20130111324 - Theming engine: A cascading stylesheet (CSS) file transformed with user-selected design variables is provided. One or more CSS files may be received as a first input item, and user defined colors, fonts, layout, and images may be received as a second input item. Embodiments provide for determining if the colors and fonts... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20130111327 - Electronic apparatus and display control method: According to one embodiment, an electronic apparatus displays a page on a screen based on a source written in a markup language. The apparatus searches for a second element in the source based on an analysis result on the source. The second element has an order relationship with a first... Agent: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

20130111326 - Enhanced multimedia content preview rendering in a cloud content management system: Systems and methods for providing improved content previews of files stored in an online content management system with collaboration environment are disclosed. An optimized PDF rendering engine is used to reproduce the appearance of previewed PDF documents. The present disclosure includes a method of evaluating the available system tools for... Agent:

20130111328 - Launching applications from webpages: This specification describes technologies relating to launching applications from content items in webpages. In general, one aspect of the subject matter described in this specification can be embodied in methods that include receiving a content item including a first data element that identifies an application and a second data element... Agent:

20130111325 - Method and apparatus of processing nested fragment caching of a web page: Nested fragment caching of web pages is described. In response to receiving a request for a web page, first-level fragment information of the web page is obtained. Based on the first-level fragment information, a fragment analysis process is successively performed for first-level fragments, wherein the fragment analysis process includes rendering... Agent: Alibaba Group Holding Limited

20130111329 - Hinting system at user interface design time: The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for facilitating the usage of a static analysis based hinting system at user interface design time within a user interface development platform. The static analysis based hinting system enables a developer to identify and apply improvements that can be... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20130111330 - Accelerated compositing of fixed position elements on an electronic device: A device, system and method are provided for processing structured documents for display. Content of a first viewable portion of the structured document having a fixed position in relation to a viewport is rendered as first rendered image data. Content of a second viewable portion that does not have a... Agent: Research In Motion Limited

20130111331 - System and method for structuring speech recognized text into a pre-selected document format: A system for creating a structured report using a template having at least one predetermined heading and formatting data associated with each heading. The steps include recording a voice file, creating a speech recognized text file corresponding to the voice file, identifying the location of each heading in the text... Agent: Nuance Communications, Inc.

20130111332 - Optimal display and zoom of objects and text in a document: An object is zoomed upon selection. A scaling factor is calculated for zooming the object based on current viewing properties of a document and properties of the object as well as the current size of the application window and device. The scaling factor to zoom the object is calculated such... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20130111334 - Electronic device and page processing method thereof: A page processing method for an electronic device with a touch screen is provided. The method includes the following steps: displaying a page of content on the touch screen, the displayed page consisting of a number of regions comprising a center region and a plurality of peripheral regions surrounding the... Agent: Hong Fu Jin Precision Industry (shenzhen) Co., Ltd.

20130111333 - Scaling objects while maintaining object structure: Objects are scaled by scaling properties that affect a physical layout of the object. A scaling factor is determined and each of the determined properties for an object are scaled based on the scaling factor. For example, when scaling a table, properties such as width, height, border widths, padding, text... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20130111337 - One-click makeover: A method for a makeover application executed by a processor includes, when a cloud face analyzer is accessible over a compute network, transmitting an image with a face to the cloud face analyzer over the computer network. The cloud face analyzer detects the face and facial feature points of the... Agent: Arcsoft Inc.

20130111336 - Platform and application independent system and method for networked file access and editing: Platform and application independent system and method for networked file access and/or editing are disclosed. In one aspect, embodiments of the present disclosure include a method, which may be implemented on a system, for identifying an application locally available for use on the device, to edit the file via an... Agent:

20130111335 - Systems and methods for appearance-intent-directed document format conversion for mobile printing: An embodiment generally relates to systems and methods for determining a conversion location based on the content of a document and an intended quality level of the document. More particularly, processing logic can be configured to analyze a document submitted for rendering to determine a content level of the document.... Agent: Xerox Corporation

20130111338 - Inputting in a textbox: Inputting in a textbox comprises: monitoring a related event of inputting text in a textbox; providing an extended window for displaying excess text in response to detecting that the text exceeds the textbox; hiding the extended window, and storing a state of inputted context and the inputted text in response... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20130111340 - Apparatus and method for processing electronic document: An apparatus and method for processing an electronic document that provide an electronic document which is multi-hierarchically structured are provided. The apparatus stores the electronic document including a basic layer having a basic document and an additional layer having displayable additional information which is associated with the basic document, and... Agent: Electronics And Telecommunications Research Institute

20130111339 - Computing device, storage medium and method for analyzing step formatted file of measurement graphics: In a method for analyzing a STEP formatted file of a measurement graphics using a computing device, one or more graphic keywords and graphics analysis modes are predefined in a storage device of the computing device. The method extracts a content keyword and a content character string from each line... Agent: Hong Fu Jin Precision Industry (shenzhen) Co., Ltd

20130111341 - System and method for flexibly taking actions upon activation of defined triggers: A computer-implemented system and method for flexibly taking actions upon activation of rule-based triggers are provided. A collection of documents is stored in a storage device within a computing environment. An activity of a user performed on a document from the collection is observed. At least one of an application,... Agent: Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated

20130111342 - Effective user input scheme on a small touch screen device: Methods and small touch screen devices configured to perform the methods, wherein the methods include: detecting at least one tactile user input within a range of force and/or a duration of time at a central region of a touch screen; displaying at least one set of icons at one or... Agent: Motorola Mobility, Inc.

20130111343 - Load balancing of user interface script execution: A computer-implemented system may include reception, from a user interface client application, of an instruction to execute a user interface script conforming to a user interface component model, and determination of whether to execute the user interface script in the user interface client application or in a user interface backend... Agent:

20130111344 - Help creation support apparatus, help creation method, and storage medium storing help creation program: A help creation support apparatus includes: an identification unit to identify a operational component included in a graphical interface based on source code of the graphical interface; a generation unit to generate management information including identification information that represents the identified operational component; a storage unit to store the management... Agent: Fujitsu Limited

20130111346 - Dual function scroll wheel input: A device includes a display screen, at least one processor, memory, and a plurality of programs stored in memory that are configured to be executed by the at least one processor and cause the device to: display, on the display screen, a column of data comprising a plurality of data... Agent: Apple Inc.

20130111345 - Portable electronic device, associated apparatus and methods: the locked user interaction allowing for the provision of one or more specific limited user inputs using the user interface, to directly interact with associated second mode output provided using the user interface in the second mode, the one or more specific limited user inputs not being associated with general... Agent: Nokia Corporation

20130111347 - Systems, methods, apparatus, and articles of manufacture for playback demonstration at a point of sale display: Systems, methods, apparatus, and articles of manufacture to demonstrate playback device operation at a point of sale location are disclosed. An example system includes a playback device configured for demonstration playback by one or more users at the point of sale location. The example playback device is to respond to... Agent:

20130111348 - Prioritizing selection criteria by automated assistant: Methods, systems, and computer readable storage medium related to operating an intelligent digital assistant are disclosed. A user request is received, the user request including at least a speech input received from a user. The user request including the speech input is processed to obtain a representation of user intent... Agent: Apple Inc.

20130111349 - Provisioning iaas services: Service models may be generated in response to services exposed by two or more IaaS service providers, and an interface may be provided for selection and specification of the service models.... Agent:

20130111350 - Execution screen publication device, execution screen publication method, client device, and cloud computing system: A content selection unit refers to a content information database, which stores content provided to a plurality of client devices and information related to provision of the content, linking the content with the information to one another, and selects, based on the information acquired by referring to the content information... Agent: Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.

20130111351 - Method for remotely controlling mobile terminal and mobile terminal: The present invention discloses a method for remotely controlling a mobile terminal and a mobile terminal, wherein the method comprises: receiving, by a first mobile terminal, a touch-screen operation to an interface to be controlled, wherein the interface to be controlled is sent by a second mobile terminal during a... Agent: Zte Corporation

20130111352 - Method and apparatus for providing product leak source identifications: An approach is provided for providing product leak source identification. A product leak detection platform determines one or more identifiers associated with one or more devices. The product leak detection platform further processes and/or facilitates a processing of the one or more identifiers to determine one or more variations of... Agent: Nokia Corporation

20130111353 - Medical coordination system: A medical coordination system includes a data management server and an in-facility system. The in-facility system each include a terminal device and an in-facility server which is connected to the terminal device and which stores medical information data generated in the medical facility, and the data management server includes a... Agent: Konica Minolta Medical & Graphic, Inc.

20130111354 - Displaying content items related to a social network group on a map: Systems and methods for presenting social content on a map are provided. In some aspects, a method includes receiving a new content item. The new content item is not associated with a social network group comprising a set of subject members and a set of viewing members. The method also... Agent: Google Inc.

20130111360 - Accessed location of user interface: A device to render a user interface, detect a user accessing a location of the a user interface, share a portion of the user interface for a second device to render a second user interface, and transmit information of the accessed location for the second device to render a visual... Agent:

20130111357 - Collaboration management tools for contact centers: A method of managing the operation of a contact center comprises monitoring events occurring in the operation of a contact center and maintaining a set of trigger conditions against which monitored events may be matched. A rule set defines, for at least one trigger condition, the identity of one or... Agent: Avaya Inc.

20130111361 - Creation, sharing and embedding of interactive charts: Systems and methods for generating and sharing interactive charts are described. The interactive charts are generated in an online portal that allows users to customize the interactive features of the chart. An exemplary interactive feature includes an interactive audio feature. The interactive chart can be shared by, for example, embedding... Agent: Icharts, Inc.

20130111363 - Educator effectiveness: Various implementations for managing, monitoring, and promoting user development and effectiveness are described. In one example implementation, a system includes a management module, an assessment module, a content module, and a reporting module. The management module determines a goal for a plurality of users of an organization to meet and... Agent: School Improvement Network, LLC

20130111356 - Inbound and outbound communications aggregated by group: Embodiments enable the display of aggregated notifications in a group icon and enable communication with members of a group via the icon. Groups are defined to each include a plurality of members. As communications are received (e.g., by a mobile computing device), the communications are filtered to identify the communications... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20130111362 - Integrated online workspaces: Systems and methods for providing a workspace are disclosed. In some aspects, a server provides, to a client computing device, access to a workspace, the workspace including one or more members and one or more content items, in response to verifying that the client computing device is associated with one... Agent: Citrix Systems, Inc.

20130111364 - Method and apparatus for providing predefined feedback: A method and apparatus utilized in operating a feedback forum in an online auction environment is described. Instead of allowing users of the system to enter free-form comments for and about other users, a number of predefined feedback comments are provided that relate to an auction transaction. Users leaving feedback... Agent: Ebay Inc.

20130111355 - Methods, apparatuses, and computer-readable media for providing a collaboration license to an application for participant user device(s) participating in an on-line collaboration: Methods, apparatuses, and computer-readable media for providing a collaboration license to an application for participant user device(s) participating in an on-line collaboration are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method is provided for licensing at least one application. The method includes transmitting a license request for at least one collaboration license.... Agent: Avaya Inc.

20130111359 - Relocating a user's online presence across virtual rooms, servers, and worlds based on locations of friends and characters: Techniques are disclosed that allow a user to efficiently move their online presence from a current location in a virtual world to a target location near a friend or character. The target location may be in another instance of the virtual world or in another virtual world. Further, the movement... Agent: Disney Enterprises, Inc.

20130111358 - Systems and methods to provide signals representative of demand response events: A computing device for use with a demand response system is provided. The computing device includes a processor that is programmed to select a plurality of participants from a plurality of customers to participate in at least one demand response event based on customer data. The processor is also programmed... Agent:

20130111365 - System and method for enabling voice and video communications using a messaging application: A method and system are provided for enabling voice communications via a messaging application. The method comprises enabling an instant messaging (IM) presence status option to be selected; and blocking an incoming voice communication when the presence status option has been selected. A method and system are also provided comprising... Agent: Research In Motion Limited

20130111366 - Friends lists with dynamic ordering and dynamic avatar appearance: Techniques are disclosed for presenting information related to a user's friends within a virtual environment. For example, when a user requests to view a friends list, the virtual environment may respond by identifying interactions between that user and their friends. From this, the virtual environment may determine an order to... Agent: Disney Enterprises, Inc.

20130111367 - Virtual world-based virtual object identification system supporting method and system supporting the same: A virtual world-based virtual object identification system supporting method and a system supporting the same. The method includes: collecting information from at least one of real world information providing means providing information according to the position and management of a corresponding identification ID by assigning each identification ID to a... Agent: Korea Electronics Technology Institute

20130111368 - Creating and maintaining images of browsed documents: Embodiments automatically create dynamic thumbnail images corresponding to accessed web pages. Thumbnails, snapshots, or other images are generated for each of a plurality of the web pages (e.g., viewed or visited by a user, or pre-fetched by a browser). The images are provided to the user as, for example, active... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20130111370 - Methods and devices to allow common user interface mode based on orientation: A method and electronic devices to allow a common user interface mode on a first electronic device and a second electronic device are described. In one aspect, the method comprises: receiving first orientation data from an orientation sensor associated with the first electronic device; receiving, at the first electronic device,... Agent: Research In Motion Limited

20130111369 - Methods and devices to provide common user interface mode based on images: A method and electronic devices to provide a common user interface mode on a first electronic device and a second electronic device are described. The first electronic device and the second electronic device each comprise a camera. In one aspect, the method comprises: capturing a first image on the first... Agent: Research In Motion Limited

20130111371 - Unified desktop independent focus in an application manager: Methods and devices for selectively presenting a user interface or “desktop” across two devices are provided. More particularly, a unified desktop is presented across a device and a computer system that comprise a unified system. The unified desktop acts as a single user interface that presents data and receives user... Agent: Z124

20130111372 - Preference management methods and apparatus: Preference management methods and apparatus are disclosed. An example apparatus includes receiving a request for a preference setting from a first application; obtaining a first context value via a context manager in response to the request; and using the first context value to obtain the requested preference setting.... Agent: General Electric Company

20130111373 - Presentation content generation device, presentation content generation method, presentation content generation program, and integrated circuit: To provide a presentation content generation device that generates various types of presentation contents by dynamically generating a template appropriate for the substance of each content set. The presentation content generation device includes an attribute information extraction unit 2 that extracts attribute information indicating image feature from a content set... Agent:

20130111376 - Gui program creation supporting apparatus, gui program creation support method, computer-readable recording medium and integrated circuit: In a case where a screen layout creating unit replaces a generated screen layout with another screen layout, a screen layout comparing unit infers a GUI component in the pre-replacement screen layout, that is similar to a GUI component in the post-replacement screen layout, and correlates the GUI components similar... Agent:

20130111374 - Method for bridging multiple network views: Embodiments which utilize a topology view GUI with elements in each of storage and general network views which indicate the connection to the alternate network via an icon. Properly selecting the icon causes the topology view of the other network to appear. This method allows the connections between the networks... Agent: Brocade Communications Systems, Inc.

20130111375 - Software user interface allowing logical expression to be expressed as a flowchart: Methods and systems for providing a user interface for building a graphical flowchart that represents a database query. One method includes presenting a plurality of flowchart step types, wherein each of the flowchart step types is associated with a different logical expression format. The method also includes receiving a selection... Agent:

20130111379 - Computing device and control method thereof: A computing device includes a display unit to display a screen, a touch input unit to receive a user's touch input on the display unit, and a controller to display a locking image on the screen with a predetermined degree of definition while the computing device is locked, to decrease... Agent: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

20130111377 - Electronic device mode, associated apparatus and methods: the locked user interaction allowing for the provision of one or more specific limited user inputs using the user interface, to directly interact with associated second mode output provided using the user interface in the second mode, the one or more specific limited user inputs not being associated with general... Agent: Nokia Corporation

20130111378 - Portable electronic device, associated apparatus and methods: the locked user interaction allowing for the provision of one or more specific limited user inputs using the user interface, to directly interact with associated second mode output provided using the user interface in the second mode, the one or more specific limited user inputs not being associated with general... Agent: Nokia Corporation

20130111382 - Data collection interaction using customized layouts: Embodiments are directed to providing support for customized element layouts in a user interface. In one scenario, a computer system provides a user interface (UI) for a software application. The user interface includes multiple different UI elements arranged according to a custom layout. The computer system receives a user input... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

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20130111385 - Method and device for adding schedule: A method and a device for adding a schedule are provided. The method includes: integrating a widget application in a schedule application, and connecting the schedule application to the widget application by adding an information communication interface; and notifying, by the widget application and after a user selects and determines... Agent: Huawei Device Co., Ltd.

20130111384 - Method arranging user interface objects in touch screen portable terminal and apparatus thereof: A method of rearranging a display of at least one icon on a touch screen of a portable electronic device is provided. The method detects if the device has entered a tilted state, and automatically rearranges the display of the at least one icon according to the tilted state. In... Agent: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

20130111381 - Modeling properties of data and events as transformations of document data and system values: A system and method for modeling properties of data and events of a business application is presented. The system include a user interface frontend system that displays a user interface, and a user interface backend system that hosts a business application that generates the user interface for display in the... Agent: Sap Ag

20130111383 - System and method for managing measured elements of object: A computing device is connected to a measurement machine to measure an object to obtain an image of measured elements of the object. The computing device generates a tree structure to display all of the measured elements. Icons at nodes of the tree structure are generated corresponding to the measured... Agent:

20130111388 - Display processing system, display processing method, and information storage medium: It is possible for a user to intuitively and efficiently set a predetermined condition for each parameter. A display processing system includes GUI display means for displaying a plurality of parameter components (103) corresponding to a plurality of parameters and a plurality of parameter condition components (104) corresponding to a... Agent: Nec Corporation

20130111386 - Logical cpu division usage heat map representation: A logical central processing unit (CPU) division management view is displayed for a device having multiple logical CPU divisions. The management view is displayed as a heat map representation that includes multiple cells, each of which corresponds to one of the multiple logical CPU divisions. As part of the heat... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20130111387 - Medical information display apparatus and operation method and program: A predetermined period is selected on timeline, and electronic medical record information about examination and treatment received by a predetermined person to be examined during the selected period is retrieved. All of examined regions recorded in the electronic medical record information are extracted therefrom. Further, external view image representing an... Agent: Fujifilm Corporation

20130111389 - Displaying a visualization of a portion of a rolling horizon time series: A method performed by a processing system displays a graph of a portion of a rolling horizon time series corresponding to a realization of a realization time series adjacent to a graph of the realization time series.... Agent:

20130111391 - Adjusting content to avoid occlusion by a virtual input panel: The display of a content area is automatically adjusted such that the display of a virtual input panel (e.g. virtual keyboard, gesture area, handwriting area, . . . ) does not occlude content with which the user is interacting. After adjusting the display of the content area, the content being... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20130111390 - Electronic device and method of character entry: A method includes displaying, on a touch-sensitive display, a keyboard including selectable keys associated with primary characters, responsive to detecting a touch at a location associated with one of the keys, entering one of the primary characters associated with the one of the keys, and responsive to detecting a gesture... Agent: Research In Motion Limited

20130111392 - Service provision device for electronic documents,service provision method for electronic documents,and service provision terminal for electronic documents: A server device gives an identifier to each of digitized electronic pages of an electronic book composed of the electronic pages and manages the electronic book as an original electronic book. An optional number of electronic sub-pages that are pages corresponding to electronic pages is created, an auxiliary identifier is... Agent: Nec Corporation

20130111393 - Modeling reports directly from data sources: A computer program and corresponding method allows for the enablement of generating modeling reports directly from data sources. A descriptive report is directly generated from existing data source objects and is regenerated based on the configuration of columns of the descriptive report that perform calculation or operations on the data... Agent: Sap Ag

20130111394 - Selection interface systems, structures, devices and methods: A user selection interface system comprises one or more rotatable selectors linked to selectable characteristics, and a display linked to the selectors, for display of an image that corresponds to the selected characteristics. The interface is typically linked to a database comprising stored images and other information which corresponds to... Agent:

20130111395 - Systems and methods for flipping through content: Systems and methods for enabling users to rapidly flip through displayed pages of content in an intuitive manner are provided. Graphical animations for transitioning from one page to another can be executed so that portions of three or more pages can be simultaneously viewed. This enables a user to make... Agent: Flipboard Inc.

20130111396 - Exposing inertial snap points: A scroll viewer control that displays associated content having inertial snap points in a scrollable view. The scroll viewer control applies inertial movement to displayed content such that even after a user completes a scroll gesture, the displayed content continues to scroll with reducing velocity until the scroll slows to... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20130111397 - Recording medium storing information processing program, information processing device, information processing system, and information processing method: An example information processing device includes an information processing unit which scrolls a screen of a display unit on which a web page is displayed, in response to a flick gesture or operation, and during flick scroll, reduces the web page in size and displays a portion of the web... Agent: Nintendo Co., Ltd.

20130111398 - Methods and apparatuses for window display, and methods and apparatuses for touch-operating an application: Disclosed are methods and apparatuses for window display, and methods and apparatuses for touch-operating an application. The method for window display enables displaying a window in an appropriate position for convenient use. The method include displaying a main menu including at least one menu item, determining a first window corresponding... Agent: Lenovo (beijing) Limited

20130111399 - Digital image magnification user interface: A graphical user interface for displaying and magnifying a source image about a focus point comprises an image frame with a background image and a zoomed-in image. The image frame is responsive to user input. The background image is created from the source image, and fills the image frame. The... Agent: Utc Fire & Security Corporation

20130111400 - Mobile terminal and folder managing method: A mobile phone (10) includes a flash memory (32) in which folders are set, a camera module, etc., and performs a camera function. In a state that the camera function is being performed, a through image and a saving folder icon (F1) corresponding to a saving folder are displayed. If... Agent: Kyocera Corporation

20130111402 - Displaying a set of data elements: A set of elements, such as, for example, a path, a directory list, a playlist, and a listing of information associated with a file or a song, may be truncated so that a partial set may be generated and displayed. The truncation may be performed in an intelligent manner to... Agent: Apple Inc.

20130111403 - In-vehicle display apparatus: An in-vehicle display apparatus includes a finger position detector, which detects an approach of a finger and a finger approach position, a display controller, which controls a display panel to display operation icons, and a touch panel switch, which is disposed on a surface of the display panel and transmits,... Agent: Denso Corporation

20130111401 - Interviewee evaluator: A user interface for evaluating interview candidates. A user interface, including a first interview card is displayed. The first interview card includes information about a first interviewee and the first interviewee's response to a first interview question. User input indicative of a direction is received. The user input is either... Agent: Hirevue, Inc.

20130111405 - Controlling method for basic screen and portable device supporting the same: A method for controlling a basic screen includes receiving an input signal that requests an output of a basic screen of a terminal, checking a basic screen list including a menu page and a list of one or more basic pages which are managed in the same level as that... Agent: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

20130111404 - User interface for saving documents using external storage services: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a user interface that enables a user to more readily identify and use one or more storage services (e.g., cloud storage services or local storage services) to save, open and/or retrieve documents and other data. Embodiments include receiving user credentials from a user that... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20130111406 - Visually representing a menu structure: A navigator component is displayed including (i) a home icon configured to transition the navigator component to an earlier state, (ii) user-selectable rings that are centered on the home icon and represent sets of the menu views, including a first ring that currently has a visual indication of selection, and... Agent: Sap Ag

20130111407 - System, method and apparatus for providing an application carousel: A method for providing an application carousel includes providing a self-service website for a third party partner supplier to create, select or group apps in a unique app carousel created by the supplier in the website. Blogs, reviews or comments may be provided in association with a GUI of the... Agent: Wmode Inc.

20130111408 - Method and apparatus for increasing the functionality of a user device in a locked state: An approach is provided for increasing the functionality of a user device when the device is in an, at least in part, locked state. The approach involves presentation of a first user interface and rendering of at least a portion of a second user interface associated with the first user... Agent: Nokia Corporation

20130111409 - Pocketed concrete anchor: A critical care workstation includes a display device and a processor, coupled to the display device. The processor executes both a general purpose operating system controlling execution of a selected program for displaying images representing non-real-time data on the display device, and a real-time kernel, controlling execution of a program... Agent: Actuant Corporation

20130111411 - Active path menu navigation system: Disclosed is a method of navigating an information structure comprising: providing a graphical menu interface displaying the items of a given level of the information structure and enabling selection thereof; dynamically constructing an active path as a sequence of active links after an item of the information structure has been... Agent:

20130111410 - Display control apparatus and method for controlling display control apparatus: Processing for pressing a shortcut key to close a menu and processing for pressing the same shortcut key to enter a specific menu are made compatible. A specific menu among hierarchical menus including a plurality of menus for making a setting or an operation instruction about a display control apparatus... Agent: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

20130111412 - User interfaces and associated apparatus and methods: An apparatus comprising at least one processor and at least one memory including computer program code. The at least one memory and the computer program code configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus to perform at least the following: receive user input indicative of one or... Agent: Nokia Corporation

20130111413 - Semantic navigation through object collections: Embodiments are directed to semantically navigating a data collection and to providing custom data mappings for a semantic group of data items. In one scenario, a computer system displays various data items of a data collection on a data presentation interface of a software application user interface. The user interface... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20130111414 - Virtual mouse driving apparatus and virtual mouse simulation method: A virtual mouse simulation method used in a virtual mouse driving apparatus is provided. The method has the following steps of: capturing a plurality of input images continuously; detecting a finger area from the plurality of input images; detecting a specific event of the finger area; and generating a corresponding... Agent: Institute For Information Industry

20130111415 - Portable electronic device, associated apparatus and methods: the locked user interaction allowing for the provision of one or more specific limited user inputs using the user interface, to directly interact with associated second mode output provided using the user interface in the second mode, the one or more specific limited user inputs not being associated with general... Agent: Nokia Corporation

20130104014 - Viewer unit, server unit, display control method, digital comic editing method and non-transitory computer-readable medium: A viewer unit, comprising a shift sequence determination device configured to determine a shift sequence in which display ranges corresponding to the screen size of the display device are shifted sequentially within the page image of the digital comic data, the shift sequence determination device determining the shift sequence to... Agent: Fujifilm Corporation

20130104015 - Digital comic editor, method and non-transitory computer-readable medium: A digital comic editor, comprising: a data acquisition device acquiring a piece of master data of a digital comic, the master data including: an image file corresponding to each page of the comic, the image file having a high resolution image of the entire page; and an information file corresponding... Agent: Fujifilm Corporation

20130104016 - Digital comic editor, method and non-transitory computer-readable medium: The digital comic editor edits a piece of master data of a digital comic suitably for efficiently viewing a digital comic which has an image size larger than a screen size of a predetermined mobile terminal. The digital comic editor enables the master data of the digital comic to be... Agent: Fujifilm Corporation

20130104017 - Method and apparatus for displaying e-book in terminal having function of e-book reader: A method and an apparatus that can display a page of an e-book according to user input information about reading of the e-book are provided. The includes displaying an opened page of the e-book; detecting a pointing position indicated by a pointer and an amount of position variation of the... Agent: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

20130104018 - Method and system for displaying visual content in a virtual three-dimensional space: A system and method for displaying pages in a 3D virtual space. A set of pages may be portioned into one or more clusters of pages that are arranged in a plane in the 3D space so that for each cluster, the pages in the cluster are arranged contiguously in... Agent: Visual Domains Ltd.

20130104019 - Systems and methods for generating a two-dimensional graphical grid representation of the treatment of a document: Systems and methods for generating a two-dimensional graphical grid representation of the treatment of a document are disclosed. A method includes receiving a request to generate the two-dimensional graphical grid representation of the treatment of the document with respect to at least one variable. In response to the received request,... Agent: Lexisnexis, A Division Of Reed Elsevier Inc.

20130104020 - Drag and drop always sum formulas: Inserting a formula at a location on a content surface in a user interface is provided. A user interface showing a status bar which includes one or more predetermined calculations may be displayed on a computer. The computer may receive a selection of a predetermined calculation from the status bar... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20130104021 - Adaptive navigation functionality in a web-based data-entry grid: Techniques for facilitating navigation in a web-based data entry grid. In one set of embodiments, when a user navigates into a cell of the data entry grid, the user's web browser can wait for a predetermined time period before accessing an application server to retrieve input control information for the... Agent: Oracle International Corporation

20130104022 - Systems and methods for automatically filling-in information: A computer-implemented method for auto-filling information is described. A website is accessed on a device. A plurality of fields on the website are analyzed. A location of the device may be determined. At least one of the plurality of fields is filled-in with user information. At least a portion of... Agent:

20130104023 - Mobile data and handwriting screen capture and forwarding: The claimed subject matter provides a system and/or a method that facilitates communicating data utilizing a portable device. An interface component can receive annotation data related to a display associated with a portable device. An annotation component can append a screen shot corresponding to the display with the annotated data... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20130104029 - Automated addition of accessiblity features to documents: A method includes analyzing a first document to identify a first set of one or more tags and responsive to identifying the first set of one or more tags: automatically producing a second document based in part on first set of one or more tags, where the second document includes... Agent: Apollo Group, Inc.

20130104033 - Description method, exi decoder and computer readable medium: A description method of an extension schema and an XML (Extensible Markup Language) document corresponding to the extension schema, for encoding or decoding compatible with both a basic schema and the extension schema based on an EXI (Efficient XML Interchange), the basic schema defining at least one data type, wherein... Agent: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

20130104025 - Enabling immersive search engine home pages: Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media for enabling immersive, interactive search engine home pages are provided. Upon receiving a request for a search engine home page, an image is presented that covers only a portion of the available display. The image includes a portion of a larger image but appears... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20130104028 - Extensible framework for ereader tools: The functionality of an ereader module that is displaying an electronic book (“ebook”) is extended. A user identifier specifying a user using a client device executing the ereader module and an ebook identifier specifying the ebook displayed by the ereader module are received from the client device. One or more... Agent: Google Inc.

20130104031 - Method and apparatus for processing xml for display on a mobile device: A method and apparatus are set forth for creating a Document Object Model of an XML document of predetermined type, comprising a first process for receiving and opening a compressed input file containing the XML document; a second process for opening and parsing the contents of a relationships file to... Agent: Research In Motion Limited

20130104030 - Methods and systems for real-time web tracking and marketing: The present invention contemplates methods and systems for tracking and interacting with on-line users in a given website. The system allows an e-commerce merchant to track user actions and push multimedia content to users in real-time. The system may send promotional alerts based on the current user activity, order history... Agent: Ibt - Internet Business Technologies

20130104032 - Mobile terminal and method of controlling the same: A mobile terminal and a method of controlling the same are provided. The mobile terminal captures an image relating to a predetermined item displayed on a touchscreen, maps attribute information relating to the item to the capture image, stores the capture image, and uses the capture image on the basis... Agent:

20130104024 - Optimization of web page content including video: A system and method for optimizing content of a web page is disclosed. The system comprises a configuration analysis module, a request analysis module, an analytics module and an optimization module that are communicatively coupled to each other. The configuration analysis module receives first and second sets of web interaction... Agent: Google Inc.

20130104026 - Systems and methods for web site customization based on time-of-day: Systems and methods are provided for delivering customized versions of web pages to users. In one implementation, a method is provided for customizing a delivered version of a web page to reflect a current time-of-day at a geographic location of the user. According to the method, a request for a... Agent: Aol Inc.

20130104027 - Systems, methods, and interfaces for display of inline content and block level content on an access device: A method includes receiving a signal associated with a markup language file where the markup language file comprises inline content and block level content. The block level content has a first portion and second portion where the first portion and the second portion have a predetermined spatial relation. The method... Agent:

20130104034 - System and method of providing off-network access to network content: A system and method of creating a data file of network content is provided. The method includes downloading a plurality of HTML webpages from a network, at least one of the webpages including text content and non-text content; converting the plurality of HTML web-pages into unformatted text-only content; and compressing... Agent:

20130104035 - Gps tracking system and method employing public portal publishing location data: A GPS tracking device sends multiple real-time location coordinates to a database which is then published on a secured webpage containing a map and device location. The GPS tracking device owner can retrieve the publishing code or URL from the secured webpage and can then publish the portal in any... Agent:

20130104036 - System and method for text layout using a path-fill algorithm: A method for placing a text string on a page includes obtaining an electronic document identifying a margin of the page, an exclusion region having a perimeter for placement on the page, a texture to fill the exclusion region, and the text string, calculating, using a path-fill algorithm inputting the... Agent:

20130104037 - Merging and fragmenting graphical objects: Object merging in an electronic document may be provided. First, a selection of at least two objects within the electronic document may be received. Then, in response to the received selection of the at least two objects, a menu listing a plurality of merge operations configured to be performed on... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20130104038 - Method for automatic url shortening: A method for automatically shortening one or more Uniform Resource Locators (URLs) via a plug-in or functionality embedded in an operating system. The method may allow a user to initiate a request to shorten the one or more URLs via a command without clicking on the plug-in. An event listener... Agent: Tinyurl, LLC

20130104040 - Haptically enhanced interactivity with interactive content: Interactive content may be presented to a user that is manipulating a peripheral. One or more state parameters that are related to the position of the peripheral may be determined. The peripheral may be identified from a plurality of possible peripherals. The interactive content may be adjusted based at least... Agent: Immersion Corporation

20130104039 - System and method for operating a user interface on an electronic device: An electronic device includes a sensor for determining the position of an input member, such as a user's finger or stylus, for example, relative to a user interface of the device. Before the input member contacts the user interface, the sensor detects the horizontal and vertical positions of the input... Agent: Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications Ab

20130104041 - Capturing application workflow: An application workflow capture system records application usage and behavior semantically as a series of XML-based “events.” A capture tool is used to capture a target application workflow, and a replay tool is used to replay the captured data. The capture tool generates a workflow capture file that includes a... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20130104042 - Anchor override for a media-editing application with an anchored timeline: Some embodiments provide a non-transitory machine readable medium that stores a media-editing application which when executed by at least one processing unit provides a graphical user interface (GUI) for creating a composite media presentation from several media clips. The GUI includes a composite display area for placing media clips to... Agent: Apple Inc.

20130104043 - Handheld devices as visual indicators: A computing device is configured with a multifunctional backlit display. The backlighting can be operated in at least a first mode and a second mode. In a first mode, the backlighting provides luminance to the display so that images on the display can be easily seen. In a second mode,... Agent: Apple Inc.

20130104044 - Integrated application launching in heterogeneous cloud computing environment: Application programs delivered from one or more cloud computing systems (“clouds” or “CCSs”) are integrated into a desktop being delivered/hosted by another cloud (“primary” CCS). In one respect, the integration includes integration of controls for directly launching a separately hosted application program from a desktop hosted by the primary CCS,... Agent: Citrix Systems, Inc.

20130104045 - System and method for mobile interaction: According to one embodiment, a method for collecting feedback from a mobile device user using a mobile interaction application executed on one or more processors of a mobile device includes receiving a selection of a target of the feedback from the mobile device user; presenting a graphical user interface on... Agent:

20130104046 - Role engineering scoping and management: Mechanisms are provided for performing a role engineering project for applying security roles to access operations targeting resources. A plurality of data objects representing one or more user identities, permissions, and resources of an organization computing system are received. One or more filter criteria for filtering the plurality of data... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20130104047 - System for delivery of random novel content: A system for delivery of random novel content is disclosed. The system includes identification of the random novel content from source content imported from a content provider and in response to a selection of a selectable icon visually presented on a web-enabled device. The system further includes presentation of the... Agent:

20130104048 - Unified process management software and method: A unified process management system for creating and executing processes from a remote computer, the system comprising a central server having an associated process database, a process builder and a process player tools located on the remote computer. The process builder tool the process builder tool is configured so as... Agent: Ngk Spark Plug Co., Ltd.

20130104049 - Methods and systems for preventing unauthorized access to patient information: An exemplary method includes a privacy management system 1) presenting, within a GUI, a patient list that initially includes a plurality of entries each comprising a plurality of obscured characters representative of patient information associated with a distinct patient included within a plurality of patients, 2) receiving user input representative... Agent: Advanced Bionics Ag

20130104050 - Method and terminal for changing user operation interface: A method and a terminal for changing a user operation interface are provided. The method for changing the user operation interface includes: determining user identity information; according to the user identity information, searching for main interface functional objects corresponding to the user identity information; and applying the found main interface... Agent: Huawei Device Co., Ltd.

20130104051 - Unified desktop big brother application pools: Methods and devices for selectively presenting a user interface or “desktop” across two devices are provided. More particularly, a unified desktop is presented across a device and a computer system that comprise a unified system. The unified desktop acts as a single user interface that presents data and receives user... Agent: Z124

20130104052 - Internet-pads, tablets, or e-books that support voice activated commands for managing and replying to e-mails: Internet-Pads with voice activated command functions for replying to e-mails are disclosed and enabled. The Internet-Pad may include a touch sensitive screen, a graphical user interface, an image editing application, an e-mail application, an Internet browsing application, and applications for playing audio/video content. An operating system of the Internet-Pad may... Agent: Flexiworld Technologies, Inc.

20130104053 - Techniques to share media files through messaging: Techniques to share media files through messaging are described. An apparatus may comprise a processor and a memory communicatively coupled to the processor. The memory may store a message application that when executed by the processor is operative to communicate a message and a message attachment comprising a media file... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20130104056 - Graphical user interfaces for supporting collaborative generation of life stories: Systems and methods for modifying a social timeline are described. A method for modifying a social timeline includes generating data to display a timeline graphic. The time graphic includes a chronology bar that is associated with at least two dates. The method further includes associating image data with the at... Agent: Google Inc.

20130104055 - Techniques for generating and displaying a visual flow of user content through a social network: A computer-implemented technique for generating a visual display illustrating the flow of user content in a social network is described. The technique can include determining a user content associated with a plurality of users. The technique can further include generating a visual display that includes a region for each user... Agent: Google Inc.

20130104054 - Techniques to facilitate asynchronous communication: Users may communicate an idea asynchronously by including contextual information. The contextual information may be presented in multimodal annotations, suggestions of logical idea progression, and a chronological history of the project creation. The contextual information may include content captured from the real-world including from the user's immediate environment or elsewhere.... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20130104057 - 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: Social Communications Company

20130104058 - Suggestion of user actions in a virtual environment based on actions of other users: Embodiments of the invention provide techniques for suggesting actions to users of an immersive virtual environment based on previous user actions within the virtual environment. Generally, characteristics of actions performed by various users of the virtual environment may be stored in a searchable actions index. Subsequently, the actions index may... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20130104060 - Dynamic selection of one of many available web browsers: A user selection of an item corresponding to a Web page can be received. The user selection can represents a request to open the Web page within an instantiated one of a set of Web browser applications installed on a computing device. A set of Web page elements unique to... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20130104059 - Enabling immersive, interactive desktop image presentation: Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media for enabling immersive, interactive desktop image presentation are provided. Upon receiving a request for presentation of a background image of a search engine home page as a desktop image, the background image is transmitted for presentation on a desktop associated with a computing device.... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20130104061 - Display control system: A display control system for a multi-layer display system including at least one multi-layer display unit. A multi-layer display unit includes multiple stacked or overlapped display layers each adapted to render display elements thereon for viewing through the uppermost display layer. The level of difficulty for a user to view... Agent: Pure Depth Limited

20130104062 - Unified desktop input segregation in an application manager: Methods and devices for selectively presenting a user interface or “desktop” across two devices are provided. More particularly, a unified desktop is presented across a device and a computer system that comprise a unified system. The unified desktop acts as a single user interface that presents data and receives user... Agent: Z124

20130104064 - Customizable vehicle fleet reporting system: Customization features for providing users with the ability to customize various aspects of a vehicle management system are described. These customization features can include functionality for generating custom reports based on vehicle parameters, including diagnostic codes. The customization features can also include features for customizing alerts based on vehicle parameters... Agent:

20130104063 - User interface for product comparison: A novel search interface embedded in the specification sheet of a product. By manipulating the specification sheet of the product the user may filter and refine the search results without having to type search queries and without having to return to the main search result page. The user may select... Agent: New Commerce Solutions Inc.

20130104065 - Controlling interactions via overlaid windows: Some embodiments of the inventive subject matter are directed to affixing a first window to a top layer of a stack of overlaid windows in a user interface, and making one or more portions of the first window transparent. One or more portions of one or more additional windows below... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20130104066 - Stimulation leadwire and volume of activation control and display interface: A method and system include a processor that outputs a model of anatomical structures of a region in which a leadwire is implanted, the structures being distinguished by graphical indicia associated with respective textual descriptions in a legend. Electrodes of a model of the leadwire overlaid on the anatomical structure... Agent: Boston Scientific Neuromodulation Corporation

20130104067 - Task flow interface in a popup region: In one set of embodiments, methods, systems, and apparatus are provided that include presenting, by a computer system, a task flow in a popup component of an application user interface executing in a user interface layer, where the task flow executes in an application layer of the computer system, and... Agent: Oracle International Corporation

20130104068 - Text prediction key: A dedicated text prediction key for inserting a text prediction candidate is described. The text prediction key may be configured and/or output for display in conjunction with an on-screen/adaptable keyboard when a prediction for entered characters is detected. The text prediction key provides a mechanism for explicit insertion of a... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20130104069 - Method for applying supplementary attribute information to e-book content and mobile device adapted thereto: A method that applies supplementary attribute information to the e-book content is provided. The method includes retrieving the e-book content; identifying objects in the retrieved e-book content; selecting one or more of the objects; defining one or more screen alteration attribute values regarding the selected objects; collecting an application condition... Agent: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

20130104070 - System and method for interface and interaction with internet applications: A graphical user interface system for displaying content on a user interface and for integrating and manipulating social network content includes a display window for displaying and manipulating content from at least one social network; a horizontal panel for manipulating content from at least one social network; and tabs on... Agent:

20130104072 - Interactive electronic book: A computer-storage media having computer executable instructions embodied thereon that, when executed on a computing device perform a method for providing an interactive electronic book, the method including providing a user interface for the interactive electronic book, the user interface including representations of pages to display on a display associated... Agent:

20130104071 - System and method for controlling multiple lasers using a graphical user interface: A computer-implemented method for controlling a plurality of electromagnetic energy sources is disclosed. Instructions are executed on a processor to display on a computer-human interface display device a user interface region. The user interface region includes a pie-graph configured to display a total output power of the plurality of the... Agent: Biolase, Inc.

20130104073 - Immersive video intelligence network: A method of providing a navigable environment of an indoor space. The indoor space includes a plurality of rooms 18-30, which are optionally mapped to a floor plan 12. The method includes acquiring a plurality of images 60, 62 that are associated with the plurality of rooms 18-30 of the... Agent: Ohio University

20130104074 - Electronic device, method of controlling display, and program: An electronic device includes a display section that displays an object; a touch panel that detects a touch input manipulation; a touch determination section that determines a type and a direction of the touch input manipulation performed on the object; and a scroll control unit that performs a first inertial... Agent: Panasonic Corporation

20130104075 - Arranging display areas utilizing enhanced window states: Computer-readable media, computerized methods, and user interfaces (UIs) for manipulating display areas on a GUI workspace by transitioning the display areas from an original state to one of a set of enhanced window states are provided. Initially, an indication to resize a display area is received at an operating system,... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20130104076 - Zooming-in a displayed image: A system for displaying an image is disclosed. A user input subsystem (1) is arranged for enabling a user to indicate at least one point of a region of interest of an image (5). A zoom subsystem (2) is arranged for performing a zoom-in operation by filling a viewport with... Agent: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.v.

20130104077 - Drug calendar and reminder system: A drug calendar and reminder system is provided which allows for a user to be reminded when and how to take regularly scheduled drugs. The drug calendar and reminder system allows a user to input one or more drugs including their dosage instructions and schedule, and creates interactive reminders to... Agent: Verizon Patent And Licensing Inc.

20130104078 - Information processing device and recording medium storing control program used for the device: An information processing device includes: (a) a display unit for displaying a representation and receiving an operation that is to be performed, by a user, onto the displayed representation; (b) an icon display controller for displaying, as the representation, a plurality of icons in a first displaying region; (c) an... Agent:

20130104079 - Radial graphical user interface: Systems, methods, and machine-readable and executable instructions are provided for displaying a radial graphical user interface. The radial graphical user interface can include displaying a first layer radial menu item as a circular shape and displaying a second layer radial menu of a number of first menu sub-items related to... Agent:

20130104080 - Automatic photo capture based on social components and identity recognition: In one embodiment, a mobile device automatically captures image frames by acquiring a real-time video sequence, selecting one or more frames from the real-time video sequence based on social network information and identity recognition, and storing the selected one or more frames in a local storage of the mobile device.... Agent:

20130104081 - Display apparatus, display method and computer-readable medium: A display apparatus including a display unit which receives input upon a tap on a display screen, comprises a property display unit configured, when a thumbnail image of data displayed on the display screen is tapped, to change a display region of the thumbnail image to a property screen indicating... Agent: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

20130104082 - Audio/visual device applications graphical user interface: A user interface for an audio/visual device incorporates a racetrack menu made up of menu items disposed about the periphery of a display element in which the visual display of at least one menu item is made up of submenu items of that one menu item that are disposed about... Agent:

20130104083 - Systems and methods for human-computer interaction using a two handed interface: Certain embodiments relate to systems and methods for navigating and analyzing portions of a three-dimensional virtual environment using a two-handed interface. Particularly, methods for operating a Volumetric Selection Object (VSO) to select elements of the environment are provided, as well as operations for adjusting the user's position, orientation and scale.... Agent: Digital Artforms, Inc.

20130104084 - Systems and methods for human-computer interaction using a two handed interface: Certain embodiments relate to systems and methods for navigating and analyzing portions of a three-dimensional virtual environment using a two-handed interface. Particularly, methods for operating a Volumetric Selection Object (VSO) to select elements of the environment are provided, as well as operations for adjusting the user's position, orientation and scale.... Agent: Digital Artforms, Inc.

20130104085 - Systems and methods for human-computer interaction using a two handed interface: Certain embodiments relate to systems and methods for navigating and analyzing portions of a three-dimensional virtual environment using a two-handed interface. Particularly, methods for operating a Volumetric Selection Object (VSO) to select elements of the environment are provided, as well as operations for adjusting the user's position, orientation and scale.... Agent: Digital Artforms, Inc.

20130104086 - Systems and methods for human-computer interaction using a two handed interface: Certain embodiments relate to systems and methods for navigating and analyzing portions of a three-dimensional virtual environment using a two-handed interface. Particularly, methods for operating a Volumetric Selection Object (VSO) to select elements of the environment are provided, as well as operations for adjusting the user's position, orientation and scale.... Agent: Digital Artforms, Inc.

20130104087 - Systems and methods for human-computer interaction using a two handed interface: Certain embodiments relate to systems and methods for navigating and analyzing portions of a three-dimensional virtual environment using a two-handed interface. Particularly, methods for operating a Volumetric Selection Object (VSO) to select elements of the environment are provided, as well as operations for adjusting the user's position, orientation and scale.... Agent: Digital Artforms, Inc.

20130104088 - Controlling a size of hierarchical visualizations through contextual search and partial rendering: Exemplary embodiments disclose controlling of the size and content of a hierarchical visualization by a software component executing on a computer that displays a multi-level hierarchical visualization of nodes including a collapsed sub-hierarchy. The exemplary embodiments include displaying a user interface that enables a user to invoke a contextual search... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20130104090 - Device and method for selection of options by motion gestures: A method for selection of an option on a device is provided where the device is enabled for option selection through motion gestures by a user. The method comprises providing at least one option for a first input request and announcing the first input request and at least one option... Agent:

20130104089 - Gesture-based methods for interacting with instant messaging and event-based communication applications: Gesture-based methods of managing communications of a user participating in communication sessions permit the user to easily manage the communications sessions by defining gestures, defining a meaning of the gesture, and outputting the meaning of the gesture to a communication session when the gesture is detected. The gestures may be... Agent: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.