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Data Processing: Presentation Processing Of Document, Operator Interface Processing, And Screen Saver Display Processing > Operator Interface (e.g., Graphical User Interface) > User Interface Development (e.g., Gui Builder)

User Interface Development (e.g., Gui Builder)

User Interface Development (e.g., Gui Builder) patent applications listed are from June 2005 to current and include Date, Patent Application Number, Patent Title, Patent Abstract summary and are linked to the corresponding patent application page.

11/22/07 - 20070271523 - System and method of skinning themes
A media engine for creating a graphical interface for an application on a device is disclosed. The media engine comprises an interaction interface for notifying the media engine of changes to the application, a renderer for rendering the graphical interface, a parser for parsing, from a template file, template information ...

11/15/07 - 20070266328 - Script generation
Indirect update functions, for updating a form, are generated by supplying update functions to a synthesiser, and generating an activation network, based on these update functions. The invocation sequence of the activation network is then determined, and used to update elements of a form. The generation of the invocation sequence ...

11/08/07 - 20070260992 - Graphical procedure development environment
A method, system and program product for graphically developing a procedure. A plurality of procedure elements can be displayed in a first section of a graphical user interface. One or more procedure elements can be selected from among the plurality of procedure elements for manipulation in a second section of ...

11/01/07 - 20070256024 - Apparatus and method for using a panel layout to consolidate dynamic and interactive graphics representative of input and output data
A computer readable medium includes executable instructions to select a panel layout with panels specified in combination. Interactive graphic files representative of input and output values for panels within the panel layout are selected. The interactive graphic files are associated with panels in the panel layout. A composite interactive graphic ...

10/25/07 - 20070250783 - Method and system to provide online application forms
A system and method are provided to build an application form (e.g., an online application form). The method may comprise providing a graphical user interface (GUI) to a user, the GUI including page layout zone and page and a page type zone include a plurality of reference page types. User ...

10/25/07 - 20070250782 - Selective coloring of a drawing surface to indicate a logical grouping
A method, apparatus and computer-readable medium for managing visual representations of relationships between active graphical areas such as text fields in a GUI and underlying software objects is presented. In one embodiment, the method includes the steps of receiving, by computer logic, a selection of an object graphical depiction of ...

10/18/07 - 20070245253 - Tool holder
A tool holder includes a body, a head, and a flange. The body is dimensioned to fit closely within a slot formed within a flight block. The head is positioned at a distal end of the body and has a recess to receive a cutting tool and hold the cutting ...

10/18/07 - 20070245252 - Enhanced display of properties for a program object
A solution for managing a program object that generates an enhanced user interface for displaying properties of the program object is provided. A set of properties for the program object are obtained from the program object and/or deployment data for the program object. A property object that corresponds to the ...

10/18/07 - 20070245251 - Rss hostable control
The embodiments described above utilize and leverage RSS to enable a user to interact more easily with different types of data, or data from different sources that are available over the web. In accordance with at least some embodiments, a hostable and/or customizable control is provided and gives the user ...

10/11/07 - 20070240067 - Strategy editor supporting automatic designation of displayed line style based upon a connection data type
Enhancements to a strategy object editor for creating and modifying control strategies for process control systems (both distributed and discrete) is described. The improvements include: supporting a set of graphical depictions for individual control object (modified by an appearance object editor), drag and drop connections for declarations that connect control ...

10/04/07 - 20070234223 - User definable interface system, method, support tools, and computer program product
In a cursor-based computing environment generating a display, a user-definable interface is configured by a user and activated when needed by a user, wherein the user-definable interface comprises a plurality of buttons. Functions of the buttons are selectable by the user according to his preferences. These preferences may be derived ...

09/20/07 - 20070220436 - Data templates in user interface elements
A data template that is used to generate arbitrary data of a user interface element that is part of the hierarchy of user interface elements used to render a user interface. The data template is used to generate the arbitrary data of the user interface element, even though that component ...

09/06/07 - 20070209011 - System and method for dynamic creation and customization of user interface in a web service environment
A method, system, and computer program product for dynamic creation and customization of a user interface in a web service environment, including dynamically generating and customizing a portlet; providing policy based access to the portlet depending on a consumer of the portlet; providing caching or cache refreshing of a feed ...

09/06/07 - 20070209010 - Computer implemented systems and methods for testing the usability of a software application
In accordance with the teachings described herein, systems and methods are provided for testing the usability of a software application. A test interface may be provided that executes independently of the software application under test. A task may be assigned via the test interface that identifies one or more operations ...

08/23/07 - 20070198940 - Logical representation of a user interface form
User interface (UI) forms are rendered on different types of display targets. To generate a UI form that can be rendered on different types of display targets metadata stored in at least one application is transformed to build a logical user interface (UI) representation. The UI form is rendered on ...

06/28/07 - 20070150822 - Platform-independent distributed user interface server architecture
A distributed user interface (UI) system includes a client device configured to render a UI for a server-based application. The client device communicates with a UI server over a network such as the Internet. The UI server performs formatting for the UI, which preferably utilizes a number of native UI ...

06/28/07 - 20070150821 - Gui-maker (data-centric automated gui-generation)
An apparatus and method for creating a data centric graphical user interface (GUI) having XML document, Style(s), unique functionality (if required or desired), and data pair(s). The XML document coded with the Style(s), unique functionality, and data pair(s) are compiled to generate GUIs where the data being displayed is of ...

06/07/07 - 20070130531 - Data driven transfer functions
In one embodiment, a method for adding a new function type to an application development tool includes determining that a function specified by a user for a design of an application is of a new type, and presenting a user interface (UI) associated with the specified function. The method further ...

06/07/07 - 20070130530 - Application element group operations allowing duplication while preserving interdependent logic
In one embodiment, an application design method includes identifying one or more application objects selected by a user when designing an application. The method further includes duplicating the selected objects while preserving dependencies associated with the selected objects. ...

06/07/07 - 20070130529 - Automatic generation of user interface descriptions through sketching
A desired graphic user interface (GUI) is sketched and then scanned into memory or is sketched using a stylus whose movements are tracked and recorded in memory. Sketched objects such as windows, lists, buttons and frames are recognized automatically and normalized for the GUI to be created. Containment relations among ...

05/03/07 - 20070101280 - Closer interface for designing electronic forms and hierarchical schemas
A system and method that enables a designer to build electronic forms and corresponding hierarchical schemas are described. Displays of hierarchical schemas, electronic forms, and components used to build the hierarchical schemas and electronic forms are provided to the designer. The designer selects components and arranges them on a display ...

05/03/07 - 20070101279 - Selection of user interface elements for unified display in a display environment
Methods, systems, apparatus and computer program products are provided. One method is provided that includes determining for a display environment when a number of unspecified user interface elements are desired to be displayed, automatically selecting user interface elements from available user interface elements to satisfy the number and displaying the ...

05/03/07 - 20070101278 - Web site theme designer
A user interface for a user interface creation software service is provided. The user interface includes a first display portion corresponding to a display of user interface data management categories such as theme, footer management, header management, font style and navigation style. The user interface includes a second display portion ...

04/26/07 - 20070094609 - Executable and declarative specification for graphical user interfaces
Techniques for decoupling models created during design-time from the runtime environment. A declarative and executable representation for GUIs for applications is provided that is independent of any particular runtime platform, GUI framework, device, or programming language and which acts as an interface between the design environment and the runtime environment. ...

04/26/07 - 20070094608 - Runtime modification of data presented in a graphical element
The present invention provides ways for application programs to allow users to dynamically update data that is presented in a GUI element. In one aspect of the present invention, a method is provided that receives a command when a GUI element is displayed for the purpose of updating one or ...

04/26/07 - 20070094607 - Integration of composite objects in host applications
A graphical object is generated according to a first application in a document of a second application. The graphical object is constructed as a composite, data-driven object. The graphical object's data is organized so that the semantic data (e.g., relationship among individuals on an organizational chart) is persisted separately from ...

04/12/07 - 20070083817 - Height-adjustable game table
Disclosed is an input device which is used to input control instructions into a data processing system, embodied more particularly in the form of a mobile telephone. The input device comprises a movement capture device used to capture a translator movement of a reference point of the input device and ...

04/05/07 - 20070079250 - Device home page for use in a device type manager providing graphical user interfaces for viewing and specifying field device parameters
A device management utility is described that includes a generalized graphical user interface facilitating access to a variety of resources associated with selected device types. In particular, the utility includes information interfaces communicatively linking the utility of a variety of data sources. In addition, the utility includes a graphical user ...

03/15/07 - 20070061741 - Declaratively defined control actions
An extensible control design framework is utilized to declaratively define a control (both visual and non-visual) and other components. The functionality of a control may be expanded by declaratively adding behaviors and semantics via an object called an action. The control does not become unduly complex by the addition of ...

03/15/07 - 20070061740 - Content based user interface design
Design of a user interface can be based on content of a data source bound to the user interface. Access can be provided to a data source having fields containing respective items of data. The items can be automatically analyzed to determine which types of user interface elements and/or properties ...

03/08/07 - 20070055944 - Configuration of displays for targeted user communities
A method and apparatus is provided to generate a plural number of differing data displays, each based upon a multi-information display template that has the information to drive each separate data display. Each data display may be different as regards selected information to appear on each data display, selected placement ...

03/01/07 - 20070050719 - System and method for dynamic assistance in software applications using behavior and host application models
A Cooperative Help Assistance (CHA) system and method provide real-time user assistance for one or more windows-based Graphic User Interface (GUI) applications or a single application's different subsections such as web pages, running concurrently in any operating system. The CHA System enables the development of an informative assistance object independently ...

02/22/07 - 20070044031 - A method, system and computer program product for rendering a graphical user interface
A method of rendering a graphical user interface (GUI) model for a software application in a GUI builder, the method comprising the steps of: storing the application GUI model as a copy of the application GUI model in a buffer of the GUI builder; receiving a first GUI environment configuration ...

02/22/07 - 20070044030 - Graphical programming methods for generation, control and routing of digital pulses
A system and method for configuring a target hardware device. The system receives user input selecting instances of circuit-like primitives and instances of dataflow primitives. The user may wire the instances together using wires of various kinds to specify a graphical program. The wires are distinguished into types depending on ...

02/22/07 - 20070044029 - Sidebar engine, object model and schema
An engine is provided for displaying an application for hosting a second application. The hosting application can be a sidebar on a display. The engine can contain a part or program which can include a manifest file, a definition file and/or a script file. The manifest file may contain a ...

02/15/07 - 20070038948 - Self-organizing report
A computer-based method for generating a report. The computer-based method includes: initializing a plurality of report parameters; determining a report editing mode based a selected report editing mode; generating a filtered list of report components based on the plurality of report parameters and the report editing mode; determining a report ...

02/15/07 - 20070038947 - Method and device for generation of a parametric model associated with a 3d geometry
A device for generation of a parametric model associated with a 3D geometry includes a converter capable of converting a specifications tree into a graphical user interface in which, for at least one active element of the tree, there is associated a dialog box including at least one field associated ...

02/15/07 - 20070038946 - Systems, methods and devices for controlling a multifunctional product using a scriptable user interface
Methods for improved on screen creation for the Graphical User Interface (GUI) of an MFP (Multi-Function Product) by providing Java Virtual Machine (JVM) applications control of MFP built-in functions such as copy, scan, fax, e-mail and FTP. Flexible means of controlling the flow of application-user interaction are enabled to provide ...

02/08/07 - 20070033535 - System and method for information entry in report section
A computer-based method is provided for media or data entry into a section of a report via an electronic network. The method includes: displaying a graphical user interface (GUI) comprising information indicating a plurality of program processes; receiving first user input selecting a first program process from the plurality of ...

02/01/07 - 20070028179 - Method and apparatus to present an integrated process modeler
A method and apparatus for an integrated process modeler is described. The modeler comprises a non-technical interface to permit design of a business process by a non-technical use and a technical interface to implement substeps of the process to automate technical aspects of the process by a technical user, using ...

01/11/07 - 20070011621 - Methods and systems of graphical user interface presentation
Methods and systems for graphical user interface (GUI) presentation. First, an application comprising a GUI is executed. The application triggers an analyzer analyzing a description file depicting attributes of components of the GUI. The analyzer provides and stores the attributes in a data structure. When a GUI component is to ...

01/11/07 - 20070011620 - Dynamic interface component control support
A system, computer program and method for developing a graphical user interface (GUI) in a computer program. The invention allows developers to control the properties of interface components according to the state of a program during execution. According to the invention, a GUI development environment may be configured to provide ...

12/21/06 - 20060288301 - Automatic user interface generation
A user interface generation system comprises a reception component that facilitates receipt of instantiated objects from within a programmable logic controller, wherein the objects conform to a hierarchically structured data model. A view generation component communicatively coupled to the reception component utilizes a subset of the objects to dynamically generate ...

12/14/06 - 20060282787 - User interface method and system for application programs implemented with component architectures
A computer implemented system is disclosed for providing a graphical user interface (GUI) for an application program. The system includes a renderer, a proxy, and a workflow manager. The renderer is defined to render the GUI. The proxy is defined to provide to the renderer each component necessary for rendering ...

12/14/06 - 20060282786 - User interface state reconfiguration through animation
The size of a tool displayed in a user interface can be dynamically adjusted based on the current needs of the tool. When the user chooses a new function to perform using the tool, the tool's size and appearance is adjusted to an interface tailored for the selected function. To ...

12/07/06 - 20060277480 - Facilitating communication between user interface components that transmit information in incompatible formats
A system that facilitates communication between user interface components (or parts) that transmit information in incompatible formats is provided. The system includes an adapter that receives information in an information communication format of any one of the parts, and transforms the received information into an information communication format of any ...

11/30/06 - 20060271862 - Method, apparatus and computer program product for implementing automatic reapportionment of graphical subwindows based upon sensed, dynamic changes
A method, apparatus and computer program product are provided for implementing automatic reapportionment of graphical screen subwindows based upon sensed, dynamic changes. Predefined dynamic change information is monitored for selected subwindows. The monitored predefined dynamic change information is compared with user selected configuration values to determine a reapportionment for the ...

11/16/06 - 20060259870 - Providing a user interface
A system for providing a user interface includes a gadget definition, a style definition, and a scene file. The gadget definition includes one or more XML-based gadget definition tags defining a gadget element and the style definition includes one or more XML-based style definition tags defining one or more style ...

11/16/06 - 20060259869 - Providing a user interface
A system for providing a user interface includes an XML-based scene file that includes an element tag that specifies an element of the user interface. The system also includes an XML-based animation tag and an XML-based state tag. The animation tag includes an animator element for applying an animation to ...

11/16/06 - 20060259868 - Providing a user interface
A system for providing a user interface includes an XML-based scene file including an element tag specifying an element of the user interface. In addition, the system includes an animation tag associated with the element tag. The animation tag includes an animator element for applying an animation to the element ...

11/09/06 - 20060253789 - Graphical user interface (gui) based call application system
An approach for providing self-service call plan application development is disclosed. A graphical system includes a computing system that is configured to cause a graphical user interface (GUI) to be present for automated creation of an application for controlling call flow logic. The application supports a predefined feature set. Additionally, ...

11/09/06 - 20060253788 - Method, apparatus and computer program to provide a display screen button placement hint property
Disclosed is a method to develop a graphical user interface that includes entering a data structure that specifies a preferred form of a Button to appear on a display screen, and in response to the data structure, defining at least one of a displayable Button placement for a specific instance ...

10/26/06 - 20060242591 - File dialog user interfaces and creation of same
An OS generates a file dialog in response to a request from an application program. The file dialog has a format with a dedicated extensibility region. Multiple user interface controls from a predefined collection of UI control types can be placed within the extensibility region. An application requesting display of ...

10/19/06 - 20060236254 - System and method for automated building of component based applications for visualizing complex data structures
A system and method for generating a screen component configured to visualize a data structure in a displayed screen on a graphical user interface of a device. The screen component for including in an application for execution on the device and having definitions expressed in a structured definition language for ...

10/19/06 - 20060236253 - Dialog user interfaces for related tasks and programming interface for same
One or more task page dialogs are housed within a frame. Each task page includes a header region and a content region. The header region includes a title serving as a main instruction regarding what input is expected within the content region. The content region includes text and/or user interface ...

10/19/06 - 20060236252 - Task dialog and programming interface for same
A task dialog having a main instruction and a command region, and optionally a content and/or footer region, is automatically generated in response to a request from an application program. The task dialog main instruction is automatically sized and located so as to form a concise instruction or question located ...

10/05/06 - 20060224981 - Method for integrating user models to interface design
A method that incorporates a detailed, precise procedure of designing a user interface by utilizing agent behavioral models. This method applies quantitative and qualitative agent behavioral models derived through the Categorize Describe-Model (CDM) methodology to the iterative design stage of interface development. The method includes: (1) categorizing at least two ...

09/14/06 - 20060206827 - Live graphical user interface builder
A graphical user interface (GUI) builder program is provided on a server. The GUI is built for interaction with a remote or local application, such as a client application being run on a remote processor. The GUI builder program allows connection with the GUI to the application while the GUI ...

09/14/06 - 20060206826 - Development framework for mixing semantics-driven and state-driven dialog
An application program interface embodied on one or more computer readable media is disclosed. The interface includes a first dialog container configured to facilitate development of a first type of dialog within an application. Also included is a second dialog container configured to facilitate development of a second type of ...

08/31/06 - 20060195794 - User interface element property customization
User interface element property customization is provided. An application requiring a user interface attempts to load a user interface modification resource. If the resource fails to load, a default user interface is provided. However, if the resource successfully loads, modifications set forth in the resource are applied to appropriate user ...

08/17/06 - 20060184888 - Using existing content to generate active content wizard executables for execution of tasks
A computer implemented method of converting existing content files into an active content wizard executable file is provided, along with systems and tools for doing the same. In the method, an existing content file is converted into a corresponding file in an active content wizard schema. A database of user ...

07/27/06 - 20060168536 - Method and terminal for generating uniform device-independent graphical user interfaces
The invention relates to a method for generating a user interface of a network node. An application is structured into a core application part responsible to handle data objects and a viewer/controller application part responsible to display said data and to initiate actions on said data, wherein said viewer/controller application ...

07/06/06 - 20060150112 - System and method for generating complex character-based computing interfaces
A method for dynamically generating a console menu is described in which the method displays a console menu to a user that provides one or more menu options. Each of said one or more menu options are coupled to one or more console listeners. The method waits for said user ...

06/01/06 - 20060117265 - Method for constructing user interface
One or a plurality of first components are selected, instructions to convert the first component into a second component which is different from the type of the first component are provided, the data corresponding to the first component is converted into the data corresponding to the second component, and the ...

05/18/06 - 20060107222 - Dynamic generation of wrapper classes to implement call-by-value semantics
A system and method for dynamically generating proxy classes in order to enforce call-by-value semantics between clients and EJBs collocated with a virtual machine. The virtual machine can be a Java virtual machine (JVM) or some other type of virtual machine. The proxy classes are dynamically generated at runtime using ...

05/11/06 - 20060101346 - Device and method for designing and planning an operating interface
The invention relates to a device and a method for designing and planning an operating surface, in particular a human-machine interface of an automation component. The design and planning of an operating surface is hereby simplified for the project planner by showing the connections of the components to be planned ...

05/11/06 - 20060101345 - Distributed service creation environment for intelligent endpoints
According to one embodiment, a method for creating telephony features for an endpoint includes receiving a plurality of instructions defining a graphical representation of an implementation of one or more telephony features for an endpoint. The graphical representation includes a plurality of graphical elements representing a state process of the ...

05/04/06 - 20060095856 - Portable terminal and display data editing method for the same
The present invention is a portable terminal and a display data editing method for the same capable of easily changing preliminarily stored display data to any expression preferable to the user. A display processor 3e1 controls the writing and read-out data in and out of a memory unit 5, and ...

12/22/05 - 20050283733 - Method and circuit configuration for computer-assisted generation of a graphical user interface
For computer-assisted generation of a graphical user interface for an equipment monitoring unit and/or equipment control unit of at least one appliance such as a household appliance, a base structure of the graphical user interface is determined from a base configuration file. Equipment-specific static detail data from an equipment-specific equipment ...

12/15/05 - 20050278646 - Spontaneous discovery of remote service profiles
A system for providing spontaneous discovery of remote service profiles is provided. A Bluetooth-enabled communication end point registers the service profiles available on Bluetooth devices in communication with the end point over a personal area network. The end point then translates the service profiles to a format supported over a ...

12/15/05 - 20050278645 - Master data framework
A system for organizing data is provided that includes a default template library and a universe of fields, each of the fields selectable by a user to apply to a particular modifiable template. The default template library includes a plurality of modifiable templates adapted to describe financial transactions. The system ...

12/08/05 - 20050273721 - Data transformation system
A data transformation system includes a display generator for displaying an image. The image includes a first window showing a first data structure having at least one data element and a second window showing a second data structure having at least one data element. The image also includes a display ...

12/01/05 - 20050268245 - User interface for path determination system
Aspects of the present invention relate to a client-based graphical user interface for infrastructure path determination. In embodiments, methods and systems are provided for a user interface and remote infrastructure planning. Methods and systems provide a user interface for allowing a user to select an object that relates to the ...

11/24/05 - 20050262447 - Fisheye lens graphical user interfaces
A method for interacting with a region-of-interest in an original image displayed on a display screen, comprising: applying a lens to the original image to produce a presentation for display on the display screen, the lens having a focal region for the region-of-interest at least partially surrounded by a shoulder ...

11/03/05 - 20050246649 - Online/offline multimedia directory system
According to the invention, an integrated multimedia directory system permitting a user to access a multiplicity of web pages containing multimedia is disclosed. The system includes point and click control panel pages for a hierarchy of directory management levels such as a listing subscriber, an administrator, one or more levels ...

09/22/05 - 20050210397 - Ui design evaluation method and system
A system for evaluating user interface (UI) design is provided. On a mock-up (1) of the UI design, operation buttons (2) are arranged. An ID signal generating element (31) is embedded in each of the operation buttons. An ID signal reading element (11) is attached to a finger of a ...

09/15/05 - 20050204298 - Method, system and program product for determining differences between an existing graphical user interface (gui) mapping file and a current gui
A method, system and program product for determining differences between an existing graphical user interface (GUI) mapping file and a current GUI is provided. Specifically, under the present invention, a first list of objects based on an existing GUI mapping file (i.e., pertaining to a previous version of a software ...

08/04/05 - 20050172238 - Page function architectural framework
An architectural software framework is provided for creating Web-style application software incorporating protocols and means for expansion and interfacing with other Web-style programs, as well as a reusable basic programming structure, including abstract and concrete data types, that assist in building Web-style applications. The architectural software framework includes a page ...

07/21/05 - 20050160368 - Systems and methods for authoring a media presentation
A system and method for authoring a media presentation including a media presentation environment representation having a portion defined as a hot spot associated with a media presentation device. Various embodiments include a hyper-slide listing portion, a media presentation authoring portion, and/or a media presentation device listing portion. Various embodiments ...



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