Data processing: presentation processing of document inventions

20090276690 - System and method of embedding symbology in alphabetic letters and then linking the letters to a site or sites on the global computer network: A system and method of embedding symbology in alphabetic letters and then linking the letter to a site or sites on the global computer network, i.e., the Internet, are provided. The system and method provide for capturing an image of at least one character fixed in a medium; determining at... Agent: Casella & Hespos

20090276691 - Method and system for navigating and selecting media from large data sets: Some embodiments of the invention provide a method of accessing a data set. The data set includes a set of data elements. The method collects the data elements of the data set. The method receives a lens item. The lens item provides a set of parameters for searching the data... Agent: Haverstock & Owens LLP

20090276692 - 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: Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP

20090276693 - Document processing apparatus and document processing method: Examples of settings that can be set and are referenced in a case of automatically generating a table of contents page include a table of contents document size, document direction, ineffectiveness of settings for the overall document, selection of initial symbols, page numbers to be employed, presence/absence of lead lines,... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20090276694 - System and method for document display: A computer implemented method for displaying document information includes receiving a document, identifying a plurality of different terms in the document, determining positions of the terms in the document, and creating an index of the terms on the document. The plurality of terms in the index are indexed to the... Agent: Daniel J. Henry

20090276695 - Automatic document generator: A document template generator is provided for creating a document template, a pair of templates (200, 300) is provided with corresponding objects. A processing module (22) compares a parameter of input data to a parameter of a dominant object in one of the paired templates (200, 300) to calculate a... Agent: Klarquist Sparkman, LLP

20090276696 - High-fidelity rendering of documents in viewer clients: Tools and techniques are described for high-fidelity rendering of documents in viewer clients. Methods provided by these tools and techniques may detect whether client systems have a plug-in installed for rendering high-fidelity content. in response to detecting that a given client system has installed the rendering plug-in, these methods may... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090276697 - Methods and systems for treating overflow conditions and for re-sizing printable content: Various embodiments evaluate content that is to be printed and ascertain whether the content is going to overflow or be “orphaned” onto a second page when printed. If some content will create an orphan when printed, then the content is scaled to fit onto a single page when printed. In... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090276699 - Document processing apparatus and control method thereof: Document data to be edited includes reference information to external document data corresponding to a component document constituting the document data. When the component document is selected and when an instruction is given for the reflection thereof in the external document, a chapter to be updated is identified first, and... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20090276698 - Document synchronization over stateless protocols: Example systems, methods, and data structures are directed at synchronizing documents. One example data structure includes receiving a request from a first client to edit a document, and sending short-term check out metadata to the first client to begin an editing session. The data structure includes a plurality of cells... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20090276700 - Method, apparatus, and computer program product for determining user status indicators: An apparatus for providing user status indicators may include a processor. The processor may be configured to receive context information from one or more platforms. The processor may also be configured to determine one or more user status indicators based on the context information and provide for presentation of the... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20090276701 - Apparatus, method and computer program product for facilitating drag-and-drop of an object: An apparatus, method and computer program product are provided for facilitating the drag-and-drop of an object, wherein the distance a user has to drag a graphical item associated with the object may be reduced. Once a user has selected an object, for which a graphical item is displayed on an... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20090276702 - Method and apparatus for browsing item information and recording medium using the same: A method and an apparatus for browsing item information and a recording medium using the same are provided. In the present application, a user interface is displayed in a touch screen of a portable electronic device, and an item icon bar is displayed at one side of the user interface,... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20090276703 - Profile-based help for metaverse applications: A method, medium and implementing processing system are provided for enabling enhanced help or guidance that is tailored to a user and is available on a multitude of “levels” and in a variety of ways. A user is enabled to create a user profile by inputting information about his or... Agent: Ibm Corporation (rvw)

20090276704 - Providing customer service hierarchies within a virtual universe: The present invention is directed to providing customer service hierarchies within a virtual universe. A method for providing customer service hierarchies within a virtual universe includes: receiving a customer need request from an avatar; presenting a virtual interactive menu and/or a web page after receiving the customer need request; and... Agent: Hoffman Warnick LLC

20090276706 - Method for automating troubleshooting flowcharts: A troubleshooting flowchart is automated by taking relevant information from the flowchart and entering it into a control file or database. A graphical user development tool is provided so a flowchart can be automated by someone not skilled in programming. Whenever possible the troubleshooting device queries the device under test,... Agent: Andrew Lukes

20090276705 - System architecture and process for assessing multi-perspective multi-context abnormal behavior: A multi-perspective context sensitive behavior assessment system includes an adaptive behavior model builder establishing a real-time reference model that captures intention of motion behavior. It operates by modeling outputs of multiple user defined scoring functions with respect to multiple references of application specific target areas of interest. The target areas... Agent: Gregory A. Stobbs

20090276707 - Directed communication in a virtual environment: The present invention is directed to directed communication in a virtual environment. A method for method for providing directed communication between avatars in a virtual environment in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention includes: determining a relative location of a first avatar and a second avatar in a... Agent: Hoffman Warnick LLC

20090276710 - Master multimedia software controls: A software control mechanism is disclosed for use with a plurality of media applications. The software control mechanism comprises a media control panel structured for use with a plurality of media applications. The media control panel is independent of each media application. Each media application is displayed within a computer... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20090276709 - Method and apparatus for providing dynamic playlists and tag-tuning of multimedia objects: A user may post items that are associated with multimedia objects, such as audio files and video files. The posted items are automatically added to the dynamic playlists of other users who are “following” the user. A user's dynamic playlist is provided to that user for viewing and for accessing... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

20090276708 - Systems and methods for classifying recorded information: An incident recorder records original and supplemental incident information using a simplified user interface.... Agent: Taser International, Inc.

20090276711 - Scene-granular geographical-based video footage visualizatons: Systems, methods, and computing devices are provided for viewing scene-granular video based on geographical location. The computing device may include a memory configured to store video and geographical coordinates at which the video was captured. The computing device may further include, a processor that is configured to execute a video... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090276713 - Network accessible content management methods, systems and apparatuses: A computer implemented method and system for transforming multiple data sources into information displayed on multiple websites and stored in a computer readable medium. One described method includes inputting two or more keywords in a computer readable medium, creating two or more data feeds based on said keywords or a... Agent: Law Office Of Michael P. Eddy Michael P. Eddy

20090276712 - Safety awareness system: The disclosure describes, in one aspect, a method of providing notification data. A user can input notification data at a terminal in response to one or more prompts. The notification data is transmitted from the terminal to a centralized server. The centralized server stores the notification data. The centralized server... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20090276714 - Graphical storage system visualization, timeline based event visualization, and storage system configuration visualization: A method and system for visually displaying and navigating a computer storage system are disclosed. The storage system can be graphically browsed to select a particular entity in the storage system. A graphical timeline of events relating to the selected entity is displayed. Selecting an event from the timeline displays... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP

20090276715 - User interface for managing network download and configuration tasks: A user interface for management of network operations, particularly networked electronic gaming machines, the user interface including operation assignment interfaces, each assignment interface providing information about the respective operation, a calendar interface on which the assignment interfaces are provided, the calendar interface providing at least date and time information, and... Agent: Seed Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20090276716 - Content adaptation: A web page content adaptation process and system which prioritizes requested web page content for adaptation in accordance with a user's level of interest in the web page content is described. The requested web page content is grouped to form multiple content clusters and a priority value is assigned to... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20090276717 - Integrated deployment of software projects: A single integrated software project deployment platform is provided that allows administrators to easily and effectively deploy software projects to remote computers. This allows business users with no Information Technology background or capabilities to develop and deploy sophisticated applications for execution on remote systems, such as mobile computers. Mobile workers... Agent: Beyer Law Group LLP

20090276718 - Virtual world teleportation: The present invention is directed to teleporting avatars between disparate virtual worlds. A system is disclosed that includes a facility for creating a persona profile for an avatar in a first virtual world when the avatar wants to be teleported out of the first virtual world; a facility for transferring... Agent: Hoffman Warnick LLC

20090276719 - User interface method and apparatus for online interactive gift registry: A method is provided to promote the acquisition of a set of items comprising: sending requester GUI controls over a network to a requestor's electronic device; receiving from the requestor's device over the network assembly instructions for a contribution solicitation object; and sending the object and contributor GUI controls over... Agent: Apple Inc. C/o Novak Druce + Quigg LLP

20090276721 - Method and apparatus for configuring a device: To facilitate evaluation, testing and/or configuration of an electronic device, one or more interactive setting diagrams are provided in the form of a block diagram for showing inter-relationships of functional blocks of the device, and/or a diagram for showing signal processing functions of the device. In the case of an... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20090276720 - Methods and systems for the distance-based sharing of information: Disclosed is a method for distance-based sharing of content. The method comprises, in one embodiment, receiving a request to send content to one or more of a plurality of registered users based on a distance from a first geographical location. The method also comprises determining recipients of the content based... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP

20090276722 - Method and apparatus for dual mode content searching, selection, delivery, and playout: The invention includes a method and apparatus for searching, selecting, delivering, and presenting content to a user. In one embodiment, a method receiving content selection criteria, determining a set of candidate content items by selecting ones of a plurality of available content items using the content selection criteria, and propagating... Agent: Wall & Tong, LLP/ Alcatel-lucent Usa Inc.

20090276723 - Enabling access to rich data: Systems and methods for enabling access to data, including data represented using a variety of “richer” data formats, are disclosed. Such systems and methods may be useful, among a variety of cases, with applications or entities that may not typically be able to access such richer data. In at least... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090276724 - Interface including graphic representation of relationships between search results: A multi-dimensional graphic user interface displays selected types of information regarding items included in one or more databases or returned by a search in accordance with locations on a two-dimensional display area or projection of a three-dimensional space on a two-dimensional area and provides for selective display of information about... Agent: Whitham, Curtis & Christofferson & Cook, P.C.

20090276725 - Method and user interface for the graphical presentation of medical data: A method and a user interface for the implementation of a medical examination with at least one imaging device operated by determination and input of a group of measurement parameters via an input device of the user interface, generation of spatially resolved image information with the at least one imaging... Agent: Schiff Hardin, LLP Patent Department

20090276726 - Automated user interface adjustment: An event associated with a viewable area of an encapsulated component that represents at least a portion of content associated with a user interface component is detected. A determination is made that the event will result in at least a portion of the viewable area of the encapsulated component being... Agent: Lee Law, PLLC IBM Customer Number

20090276727 - Image display apparatus, image display method, and computer-readable storage medium: An image display apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention includes: a moving unit configured to move a display position of an image displayed on a display screen; a setting unit configured to set a compressed image display area on the display screen; and a compression unit configured... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20090276728 - Arrangements for managing assistance requests for computer services: In one embodiment, a method for facilitating computer system assistance for system users is disclosed. The method can include receiving a ticket that can indicate an issue to be addressed by the assistance system. The ticket can be associated with a computing asset. The system can search and locate at... Agent: Ibm Corporation (jss) C/o Schubert Osterrieder & Nickelson PLLC

20090276729 - Adaptive user feedback window: The subject matter disclosed herein relates to maintaining a history of user interaction data within a sliding window, where the sliding window may be sized based at least in part on a quantification of such user interaction.... Agent: Berkeley Law & Technology Group LLP

20090276730 - Techniques for navigation of hierarchically-presented data: The present disclosure generally relates to providing third party applications a standardized framework for presenting user interface elements for its content. In particular, embodiments may provide application programming interfaces (APIs) to user interface views and user interface control elements. In some embodiments, the APIs may provide user interface views and... Agent: Apple Inc./bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090276731 - Image processing apparatus, image processing method, image sensing apparatus, and recording medium: The present invention provides an image processing apparatus including a slider display unit configured to display, on a slider bar, a slider used to change an adjustment value used upon execution of image processing of image data, a thumbnail display unit configured to display a plurality of thumbnail images which... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.C. John J Torrente

20090276732 - System and method for storage, display and review of electronic mail and attachments: A method for managing email messages. The method comprises: (a) identifying a root email message sent by a first party to a second party; (b) assigning a tracking identifier to the root email message, (c) linking the tracking identifier and the root email message, (d) identifying first branch email messages... Agent: Beusse Wolter Sanks Mora & Maire, P. A.

20090276733 - Method, system, and graphical user interface for presenting an interactive hierarchy and indicating entry of information therein: A method, computer system, and graphical user interface for presenting an interactive hierarchy and indicating entry of information therein is disclosed. An interactive hierarchy is used to organize information using nodes arranged in multiple levels, where the interactive hierarchy may also be used to select a node to operate on.... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP

20090276734 - Projection of images onto tangible user interfaces: A surface computing device is described which has a surface which can be switched between transparent and diffuse states. When the surface is in its diffuse state, an image can be projected onto the surface and when the surface is in its transparent state, an image can be projected through... Agent: Lee & Hayes, PLLC

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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