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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) > On-screen Workspace Or Object > Window Or Viewpoint

Window Or Viewpoint

Window Or Viewpoint 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.

11/08/07 - 20070260997 - Content editing protected view
A software application window shows current content in a content region and navigation information in a plurality of navigation regions, with the navigation regions showing contextual information for the current content, as well as for related content. A request to hide navigation information is received, and navigation information for related ...

11/08/07 - 20070260996 - Method for presentation of revisions of an electronic document
A method and apparatus for displaying the evolution of an electronic document (e.g. word-processing document, portable-document-format file, spreadsheet, drawing, and the like), containing tracked changes, is disclosed. In accordance with the disclosed method and apparatus, the revisions of an electronic document may be treated as parent frames. In between the ...

09/27/07 - 20070226645 - Mobile communication terminal and method therefore
A graphical user interface for an electronic apparatus such as a mobile terminal is presented. The graphical user interface gives a user access to a multi-level structure of selectable user interface items. The graphical user interface involves, on a display of the electronic apparatus, a focused region, an unfocused region ...

09/27/07 - 20070226644 - Method and apparatus to control the display of windows in a processing system
A processing system may include a display device, a primary window manager, and an auxiliary window manager. The primary window manager may display a first remote-enabled window in the display device. The processing system may also include a program to generate a mouse-enabled window, and the primary window manager may ...

09/20/07 - 20070220441 - Systems and methods for organizing data items
Systems, methods, and software for organizing data are described. An organizational method is selected from one or more predetermined organizational methods, specified by a parameter, or determined from information about the data items. Data items are sorted based on the organizational method. ...

09/06/07 - 20070209017 - Controlling scroll speed to improve readability
A scrolling speed controlling system including a personal computer, a human interface device, an executable application, and a scroll speed adapter component. A user choosing to scroll an application window quickly may experience reduced readability of the information in the window because the speed at which the window is scrolling ...

08/16/07 - 20070192727 - Three dimensional graphical user interface representative of a physical work space
A three-dimensional user interface is described in which applications are accessed via user interaction with images of three dimensional shapes providing on a display of a computing device. A user is able to adjust their viewpoint within a virtual three dimensional environment. The user interface provides an efficient and intuitive ...

08/02/07 - 20070180398 - Window cleanup via desktop icon
Provided is a system and method that enables a user to manage a computer desktop by eliminating clutter. An enhanced desktop tool enables the user to select and/or define rules for managing the windows in the user's desktop. In some embodiments, a method of desktop management is based upon the ...

07/26/07 - 20070174782 - Smart icon placement across desktop size changes
Intelligent rearrangement of icons on a desktop in response to changes in desktop size, such as orientation, may be provided using a number of approaches. Desktop area in multiple orientations may be divided into a grid having equal numbers of rows and columns, and placement of icons in each orientation ...

07/12/07 - 20070162868 - Window positioner/sizer
Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for a window positioner/sizer. A computer-implemented method of displaying information on a computer display device includes displaying a first popup window on a primary window, the first popup window comprising controls enabling selective positioning and sizing of the first popup window relative to ...

06/28/07 - 20070150829 - System and method for dynamic zoom to view documents on small displays
A system and method for dynamic zoom adjustment based, in part, upon: the raster data in the user selected local area is disclosed; and/or the knowledge of a prevailing font size in a user selected region such that the text in that region is enlarged to be just readable. To ...

06/21/07 - 20070143704 - Integrating user interfaces from one application into another
The invention discloses a system and method for integrating user interfaces (UI) within an application. The invention can be configured to display an UI of a second application within a first application in a manner that the user cannot identify that the second application's UI is displayed on top of ...

06/07/07 - 20070130536 - Interface display system and method
An interface display system for displaying an interface having a plurality of controllable objects includes a database for storing a plurality of programs for changing properties of the controllable objects of the interface; an operation analyzing module for receiving an operation and analyzing a type of the operation and the ...

05/31/07 - 20070124696 - Centralized user interface for displaying contextually driven business content and business related functionality
A centralized User Interface (UI) comprising a supplementary UI and a desktop UI is employed to bring in enterprise constructs into the desktop application. The supplementary UI is generated and dynamically positioned based on selections on the desktop application UI. Summary information associated with data that is to be synchronized ...

05/31/07 - 20070124695 - Presentation of groups of items
A system, a method and computer-readable media for presenting groups of items to a user. Items are divided into groups, and a group header is associated with each group. The items and group headers are presented on a screen display, and the displayed content is subject to navigational requests from ...

05/17/07 - 20070113196 - Window switching method and system
A window switching method. A window list is automatically adjusted according a lower limit to the sizes of program symbols on the window list, thus preventing the symbols on the window list from unlimited shrinkage due to an increased number of runtime program windows. ...

05/17/07 - 20070113195 - Automatic and persistent x window control for multiple applications and multiple windows per application
System and method for controlling presentation of windows on a computer display are described. In one embodiment, the system comprises a text file associated with an application, the text file comprising at least one data string, wherein each data string is associated with a window and comprises window configuration information ...

05/10/07 - 20070106955 - Computer system with graphical user interface including drawer-like windows
A window management mechanism allows a user to open a window as a drawer or, perhaps more appropriately named, a pop-up window. The drawer is an opened window that a user has dragged down to a drawer region at the bottom of the screen such that only the title bar ...

05/10/07 - 20070106954 - Exclusive use display surface areas and persistently visible display of contents including advertisements
In a computer system having a display device with a display surface, a portion of the display surface is reserved for an exclusive use by a program, to allow contents rendered by the program to be persistently visible. In one embodiment, the reservation is accomplished through reducing the width and ...

05/03/07 - 20070101288 - Preview including theme based installation of user interface elements in a display environment
Methods, apparatus, and computer program products are provided including a method for displaying a user interface element in a display environment. The method includes receiving a selection of a user interface element to be displayed in a display environment, and selectively displaying the user interface element in a preview environment ...

05/03/07 - 20070101287 - Pop-up windows in a computer system
The present invention provides a method, data processing system and computer program product in which a progressively changing warning is provided to the user of a computer system, over a period of time, to indicate that a pop-up window is to be displayed and given focus. The warning may be ...

04/12/07 - 20070083821 - Creating viewports from selected regions of windows
A method, apparatus, system, and signal-bearing medium that, in an embodiment, create a viewport based on a selected region of a source window, determine data that is within the selected region, and display the data in the viewport. The source window is minimized to an icon, which represents the source ...

04/12/07 - 20070083820 - Input association
Embodiments of associating a plurality of inputs with one or more applications are disclosed. ...

04/05/07 - 20070079252 - Simulating multi-monitor functionality in a single monitor environment
The systems and methods of the present provide techniques for virtualizing, simulating or providing multiple displays for an environment having one display device or less display devices than desired. The techniques of the present invention virtualize a client's display environment by modifying and controlling the behavior and appearance of an ...

04/05/07 - 20070079251 - Graphical user interface with intelligent navigation
Systems, methods, media, and other embodiments associated with facilitating intelligent navigation in a graphical user interface (GUI) are described. One exemplary system embodiment includes a control element configured to facilitate closing a window and identifying a GUI navigation target. The example system may also include a top-level object configured to ...

03/08/07 - 20070055946 - Apparatus for providing multiple screens and method of dynamically configuring multiple screens
An apparatus for providing multiple screens and a method of dynamically configuring multiple screens are provided. The apparatus for providing multiple screens includes a service processing module which generates logical screens displaying services and a display screen and swaps the services between the logical screens, and an output module which ...

03/01/07 - 20070050729 - Display apparatus, method, and program
There is provided with a display apparatus including: a display apparatus which displays a first window and a second window, comprising: a receiver configured to receive a composite object obtained by composing a first object and a second object, from a server; a display unit configured to display the composite ...

02/22/07 - 20070044035 - Docking and undocking user interface objects
The present invention relates to a system and method for displaying information or a part within a second application, such as a sidebar application. The part can be docked in the sidebar application or undocked from the sidebar application and can send corresponding docking messages in a docking protocol to ...

01/18/07 - 20070016873 - Visual expression of a state of an application window
A method for changing a visual state of an application window representation is described. The method includes steps of displaying an application window representation with a default visual state, and changing the default visual state of the application window representation to one of at least two different visual states. The ...

01/04/07 - 20070006094 - Instant messaging interface having a tear-off element
A user interface on a display enables user perception of information regarding a communications session that leverages an instant messaging platform. The user interface includes an instant messaging application user interface and one or more tear-off elements corresponding to ongoing instant messaging communications sessions. Each tear-off element is configured to ...

01/04/07 - 20070006093 - Canceling window close commands
A method, apparatus, system, and signal-bearing medium that, in an embodiment, receive a close command directed to a window, and determine whether the close command was received within a close threshold time of the display of the window. If the close command was received within the threshold time, in various ...

12/28/06 - 20060294476 - Browsing and previewing a list of items
Integrating the browsing and previewing of a list of items. A list of items is provided for display in a first display area. A list of content abstracts corresponding to the list of items is displayed in the second display area. As the user selects one of the items displayed ...

12/28/06 - 20060294475 - System and method for controlling the opacity of multiple windows while browsing
A method referred to as x-ray browsing for allowing a user to browse through windows on their desktop is provided. Aspects of the invention include responsive to a command, making a first window the window in focus on the display screen and changing the relative opacities between a content portion ...

12/21/06 - 20060288304 - Printing control apparatus, information processing apparatus, control method therefor, computer program, and computer-readable storage medium
This invention allows the user to select files to be printed from arbitrary folders, easily designate a folder selected in the past, and confirm data files in the folder, thereby improving the operability of selecting a file to be printed. For this purpose, the display window has a folder view ...

12/21/06 - 20060288303 - Portable electronic device and window control system
A portable electronic device includes a controller configured to operate applications on at least two frameworks, a display configured to display windows of the applications, and a manager configured to manage a display order of windows to be displayed on the display. The manager inserts a dummy window between the ...

12/14/06 - 20060282792 - Method of displaying and interacting with information on a rotary fabric
A system and method by which menus, displays, charts, maps and pictures may be presented to a user and very quickly seen and used in the context of a larger display without obscuring key elements of that display. Menus or other graphical displays are anchored to the sides of a ...

11/30/06 - 20060271878 - Information processing apparatus capable of displaying a plurality of windows
According to one embodiment, an information processing apparatus includes an input device, a memory device, a window identifier storage unit which stores, in the memory device, window identifiers which correspond to at least two windows of a plurality of windows, which are designated as to-be-controlled windows by an operation of ...

11/30/06 - 20060271877 - A system and methods for selective sharing of an application window
A method of selective sharing of an application window includes the step of selecting, at a source node, a first application window for sharing with at least one consumer node. A determination is made that a second window obscures at least some of the first application window. The first window ...

11/23/06 - 20060265665 - Terminal apparatus, network system, window display method, and computer program
Upon reception of data updating information from a server apparatus (14) in a situation in which a presentation window is “closed” or “minimized” on a display unit (24) of each of terminal apparatuses (11-13), that presentation window is displayed on the display unit (24). The user who uses each of ...

11/16/06 - 20060259873 - Method and apparatus for protecting communication of information through a graphical user interface
A method and apparatus for protecting communication of information through a graphical user interface displays a graphical user interface that includes a trusted interaction window. In one example, the method includes continuously determining whether information has been overlayed on top of at least a portion of the displayed trusted interaction ...

10/26/06 - 20060242594 - Multi-window display system and method for displaying video data and storage medium
There is provided a multi-window display system that realizes simplified operation of window displays. Digital data selected more recently is displayed in a main screen window display section, and a plurality of subsidiary screen window display sections are displayed at progressively smaller sizes relative to the main screen window display ...

10/12/06 - 20060230360 - Method for selecting signal sources of a display apparatus
A method for selecting signal sources of a display apparatus is provided. The method comprises the steps, which is following as providing a plurality of windows for a menu, displaying the image content of a plurality of signal sources of the display apparatus via the windows, and selecting one of ...

10/12/06 - 20060230359 - Methods of forwarding context data upon application initiation
A method to be performed in a computer system having a function for initiating applications that allows context data to be forwarded to the initiated application in a character string includes receiving a user input made during execution of a first application. The user input requests a specific operation to ...

10/12/06 - 20060230358 - System for inspecting a printed image
A system is provided for inspecting a printed image. The system is provided with at least one evaluation unit, a display device and an image scanner. That scanner takes an image that represents, at least partially, a printed image. The copied printed image belongs to a sequence of images printed ...

10/05/06 - 20060224992 - Graphical user interface management
A graphical user interface (GUI) is presented on a display including a parent window and a number of child windows rendered within the parent window according to a display scheme. When the size of one of the child windows is changed, the size of one or more of the other ...

10/05/06 - 20060224991 - Method and apparatus for application window grouping and management
A method for displaying a plurality of windows on a display screen is described. The method includes steps of displaying a first application window and a second application window on a display screen, declaring the first application window and the second application window as a group, the second application window ...

09/28/06 - 20060218505 - System, method and program product for displaying always visible audio content based visualization
As indicated above, the present invention provides system, method and program product for displaying visualization based on audio content. The invention includes an always visible area, such as a tool bar, that has at least one area for displaying visualization. When the always visible area is displayed on the computer ...

09/28/06 - 20060218504 - Method and program for managing a plurality of windows
A plurality of types of windows are simultaneously openable in accordance with an application program, and one or more windows are simultaneously openable for each of the types. One or more types can be designated from among the plurality of types of windows, in accordance with a request of a ...

09/14/06 - 20060206835 - User interface element with auxiliary function
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 ...

09/07/06 - 20060200779 - Cell based end user interface having action cells
An EUI for presenting contents to a user, is constituted with at least a first display container cell, a second display container cell nested within the first display container cell, and an action cell nested in either the first or the second display container cell. The action cell being associated ...

09/07/06 - 20060200778 - Windowing and controlling system thereof comprising a computer device
A method and a program system comprising a plurality of windows displayed as an evolving series of instances of said windows with different sizes is described. The content of said evolving series of instances of window sizes may be changed according to specific rules and a change is performed when ...

08/24/06 - 20060190839 - Application sharing user interface improvements
An improved application sharing system and method are described wherein shared window data is treated according to different sets of rules depending upon the fraction of the shared window data that corresponds to the actual shared window. In this manner, occlusions of a shared window on a sharer display may ...

08/24/06 - 20060190838 - Window stack control method, window management program, and window management apparatus
When controlling a window stack for managing a stack of windows in displaying a plurality of windows on a display unit (11) by a computer (7), each of the application programs (101, 102, and 103) assigns a window to a group, and the window management program (104) collectively arrange the ...

08/17/06 - 20060184893 - Graphics controller providing for enhanced control of window animation
A graphics controller providing for enhanced window control interfaces between a host and a graphics display device. The graphics controller includes a memory, a fetching module and a window translating module. The memory stores at least a portion of the image data corresponding to a first window of image data ...

07/20/06 - 20060161860 - Multiple window behavior system
A method for displaying a plurality of windows on a display screen is described. The method includes steps of associating a first window with a second window, where the second window is independent of the first window, arranging the first window and the second window on a display screen, where ...

07/20/06 - 20060161859 - Multi-application tabbing system
A method for displaying a plurality of windows on a display screen is described. The method includes steps of associating a first window with at least one second window, the at least one second window being independent of and external to the first window, and combining the first window and ...

07/13/06 - 20060156249 - Rotate a user interface
Systems, methods, and devices are provided for rotating selected ones of a plurality of user interfaces on a display without rotating unselected ones of the plurality of user interfaces. ...

06/22/06 - 20060136836 - User interface with scroll bar control
A user interface is provided for displaying content supplied by a content provider in a view window. When the user interface detects user selection of zoom view mode, display settings of the view window are saved and a resized form of the document is displayed in the view window. When ...

06/08/06 - 20060123356 - Dynamic and updateable computing application panes
A system and process for providing adaptable controls to computing applications to facilitate interaction by an operator with displayable content. In a computer system running a computing application, it is advantageous to provide adaptable controls that have the ability to reflect content or feature preferences of operators of computing applications. ...

06/08/06 - 20060123355 - Information analysis method
An information analysis method is described and which includes steps of providing a data analysis framework for selectively holding a plurality of interrelated computer viewable views of selected data; interacting the plurality of computer viewable views; and evaluating the plurality of computer viewable views substantially simultaneously. ...

06/01/06 - 20060117270 - Display parameter adjustment
A user interface for the adjustment of display parameters. The user interface includes a plurality of selectable icons arranged in a matrix, each icon having a visual cue indicating the display adjustment achieved by the selection of the icon. The visual cues may include level and window number values and ...

06/01/06 - 20060117269 - Method for displaying multiple frames on small screen of communication device
The present invention discloses a method for displaying multiple frames on a small screen of a communication device, which comprises the steps of setting display width for all subwebs and root web of a webpage to its maximum while the communication device is used for browsing the webpage on the ...

05/25/06 - 20060112350 - Display apparatus, display method, display program, and recording medium with the display program
The present invention provides a display apparatus for zooming and displaying a portion of an object to be displayed on display means according to an instruction by a user and allowing scrolling a display portion for the object to be displayed. The display apparatus includes input means for accepting the ...

04/13/06 - 20060080620 - Electronic system for collecting and automatically populating clinical order information in an acute care setting
A graphical user interface for use on a computer coupled to an enterprise electronic medical records system for accepting order data including an order entry window corresponding to an identified order, the identified order including one or more parameters. The graphical user interface also including an expandable order editing box ...

04/13/06 - 20060080619 - Method and system for document draft reminder based on inactivity
The present invention provides a flexible system and method for notifying a user when the user has an open document which is inactive over a predetermined period of inactivity defined by the user. The user may be able to set a desirable period of inactivity for each application at the ...

02/16/06 - 20060036967 - Remote meter reading using transmitted visual graphics.
A technique for remote meter reading (RMR) of a plurality of meters uses visual image devices coupled to pattern recognition technologies to allow unattended meters, gages, registers, screens, and other similar display equipment to communicate their output data without human intervention to a central source and to provide this data ...

02/09/06 - 20060031779 - Selectively sharing screen data
The present invention relates to systems and methods for providing screen sharing techniques to selectively share portions of the screen between a source node and a consumer node. The source node, such as the computer of a presenter of an online meeting, may transmit screen data to a consumer node, ...

02/09/06 - 20060031778 - Computing platform for loading resources both synchronously and asynchronously
A platform that provides the ability for a developer to specify different synchronicity properties for navigations within the same application is disclosed. This includes the ability to specify synchronicity globally for the entire application, to specify different synchronicities on different navigation windows within the application, and on different frames within ...

12/01/05 - 20050268247 - System and method for controlling a user interface
A system and method permits user control of a graphical user interface displayed to the user. The system comprises a user input device communicatively connected to a computing device. The computer device includes a display to display a graphical user interface, and a controller configured to partition the graphical user ...

11/17/05 - 20050257165 - Application sharing user interface improvements
An improved application sharing system and method are described wherein shared window data is treated according to different sets of rules depending upon the fraction of the shared window data that corresponds to the actual shared window. In this manner, occlusions of a shared window on a sharer display may ...

10/20/05 - 20050235218 - Image forming apparatus having display unit for displaying an executable program and control method therefor
An image forming apparatus having a display unit for displaying a program which can be executed in the apparatus has an input unit for inputting a program into the image forming apparatus, A display control unit controls a process for displaying select keys including a plurality of select keys to ...

09/29/05 - 20050216857 - Information processing technique to support browsing
This invention is to support browsing by users. A method of the invention includes extracting a display item which is not displayed in a main window and has a predetermined attribute, and storing data concerning the extracted display item into an auxiliary window data storage; and displaying an auxiliary window, ...

09/15/05 - 20050204305 - Pen-based interface for a notepad computer
A notepad computer with a page display region displaying a page of a document on which a user can write using a pen or stylus type writing tool is provided. Associated with the page is an interface that can be used with the pen. The interface includes a core task ...

09/08/05 - 20050198587 - Method and apparatus for defeating a mechanism that blocks windows
In one embodiment, a computer program blocks windows categorized as bad windows, while allowing windows categorized as good windows to be displayed. The computer program may categorize a window by consulting one or more lists. In one embodiment, a list may be updated from time to time to optimize the ...

09/08/05 - 20050198586 - Display control device and method
A display control device for controlling a display of a display device responding to display processing from a plurality of processing units. A display controlling program controls the display device in response to at least one processing unit. The display controlling program receives a request from one processing unit to ...

09/08/05 - 20050198585 - System and method for window navigation in gui environment
In a GUI environment including a plurality of windows, a user may establish one or more groups of windows such that the windows comprising each group are related. The user may cycle focus successively between the windows in the group in response to a focus cycle command input by the ...

08/25/05 - 20050188325 - Highlighting panning window interface
The present invention is a graphical user interface with a panning window interface that allows presentation of a high-level view of a dense graphical map structure simultaneously with a detailed sub-portion of the dense graphical map structure. The graphical user interface provides a movable panning window that allows an operator ...

08/11/05 - 20050177797 - Key event controlling apparatus
A grab accepting section (14) receives a request from a grab window (10) to grab a desired key event over a focus window (34). A grab requesting section (16), which retains key event request sets each composed of a plurality of key events which may be issued until the time ...

06/02/05 - 20050120309 - Method of and apparatus for displaying messages on a mobile terminal
A method and apparatus simultaneously displays the main text and/or more attached filed of a message received in a mobile terminal. This simultaneous display allows a user to confirm the main text and attached files in the message. The main text and attached files may be shown in respective areas ...



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