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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7626959 | Wireless telecommunications system for accessing information from the world wide web by mobile wireless computers through a combination of cellular telecommunications and satellite broadcasting A hybrid cellular telephonic and satellite radio broadcast system for enabling a wireless mobile computer to rapidly and effectively access information from the Web. The combination of a mobile wireless receiving computer, with wireless cellular telecommunication as... | 12/01/2009 |
| 7577711 | Chat room communication network implementation enabling senders to restrict the display of messages to the chat room chronological displays of only designated recipients A participant in an instant messaging chat room may send restricted messages to only a set of selected participants in the chat room. Enabling a user at a display station to select a set of only users to receive a restricted message, and send the restricted message ... | 08/18/2009 |
| 7516403 | Network distributed display pages with images and symbols selected from a universal library A data processor controlled user interactive display system for displaying hypertext documents, each including a sequence of display screen pages received over a communications network such as the World Wide Web. In order to reduce downloading time, Web pages are tr... | 04/07/2009 |
| 7475353 | World wide web receiving display station with a web browser generating a graphical user interface with a universal web site logoff button enabling a browser routine for user logoff from selected web sites An implementation for a user at a receiving Web station keeping track of logged on Web sites, and a convenient universal logoff interface button to logoff the logged on Web site. The combination of an implementation at a receiving display station generating a GUI in... | 01/06/2009 |
| 7385605 | Computer display system for dynamically modifying stacked area line graphs to change the order or presence of a set of stacked areas in the graph respectively representative of the proportions contributed to a total by each of a set of time dependent variables Graphically displaying the proportion of a total value of a time dependent variable contributed by each of a set of elements. Applicable in a graph environment comprising the steps of displaying the proportion contributed by each element as an area within an ordered... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7376896 | System for recording world wide web browsing sessions navigation on a real-time basis and for subsequently displaying the recorded sessions as surrogate browsing sessions with user enabled real-time modification An implementation for the generation of a surrogate Web browsing session at a Web receiving display station by a user who does the basic browsing or searching for a principal user, e.g. the physically limited individual or the executive/professional ordering the bro... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7313616 | Web site management in a world wide web communication network through periodic reassignment of the server computers designated for respective web documents related to document weight based on byte count and program content A World Wide Web (Web) distribution site for accessing a plurality of Web documents from a database through a distribution system comprising a plurality of server computers of different computer powers wherein server computers are designated for documents based upon... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7266584 | Electronic mail distribution via a network of computer controlled display terminals with interactive display interfaces enabling senders/receivers to view sequences of only text from sequences of E-Mail having same headers A display interface at a sending/receiving display terminal including the conventional implementations for reading and sending E-Mail with an implementation for organizing the text content of a chronological sequence of E-Mail documents having the same subject ident... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7263668 | Display interface to a computer controlled display system with variable comprehensiveness levels of menu items dependent upon size of variable display screen available for menu item display A display interface system for computer controlled displays including a window in a display screen, for the display of visible data; a set of selectable items in the portion of said display screen; an implementation for varying the area of the display screen portion... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7206747 | Speech command input recognition system for interactive computer display with means for concurrent and modeless distinguishing between speech commands and speech queries for locating commands A speech recognition system which does not switch modes of operation when interpreting speech queries, such as help queries, or receiving actual spoken commands. The system handles both concurrently and seamlessly in the same operation mode. The present invention is... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7158620 | Telecommunications system for minimizing fees paid to telecommunications service providers by selecting the optimum provider for each telephone call from a group of available providers based upon tracked measurements of different sets of conditions determining providers' fees Selecting the optimum service provider for each telephone call made so as to minimize the cost of each call. Each of the service providers is likely to be charging fees for calls at different rates determined by the measures of different sets of predetermined callin... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7143342 | Distributing condensed versions of displayable information in hypertext markup language documents transmitted on the world wide web to personal palm-type display computers There is provided to developers and owners of Web documents, the ability to create Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) documents, which in addition to their basic set of natural language data conveying a first version of information of a particular content displayable ... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7143128 | Interactive data processor controlled display interface for tracking of allocated messages in a dynamic workload balancing communication system Tracking and displaying of allocated messages in dynamic workload balancing systems in message driven transaction environments which involve distributing data processing transactions into messages and dynamically allocating each of the messages to different computer... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7140040 | Protecting wireless local area networks from intrusion by eavesdropping on the eavesdroppers and dynamically reconfiguring encryption upon detection of intrusion Apparatus for eavesdropping within an area layer adjacent to and surrounding a LAN area periphery for potential wireless transmissions of an intruder having a lower frequency within a level below the LAN frequency; and an implementation responsive to said eavesdropp... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7096254 | Electronic mail distribution network implementation for safeguarding sender's address book covering addressee aliases with minimum interference with normal electronic mail transmission The E-mail sender's address book is safeguarded from computer virus intrusion with only minimal interference with normal E-mail distribution from the sender. Complete encryption of the address book create interference with the send function in that before any E-mail... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7085816 | Reducing downloading time for Web documents at World Wide Web receiving display stations by preselecting specified Web documents to be downloaded in a text-only mode In order to reduce overall downloading time for Web documents without depriving the user of valuable Web document resources, the user at a receiving Web station is enabled to preselect which received Web documents will be downloaded in a text-only mode. An implement... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7076268 | Preventing inadvertent striking of keys and like buttons in handheld palm-type devices when such devices are not in handheld usage A handheld palm-type device senses that it is being held in a human hand, but not any specific human hand. It can sense whether it is held in any human hand. A handheld palm-type device with keys for data entry and apparatus for preventing inadvertent striking of th... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7010584 | Changing the operating system in a computer operation without substantial interruption of operations through the use of a surrogate computer The current operating system on the primary computer system continues to run, i.e. the computer system on which the operating system is to be changed. A second computer or surrogate computer system with the new operating system to eventually be installed in said fir... | 03/07/2006 |
| 7003261 | Expanding the scope of coverage of wireless cellular telephone systems into regions beyond the cellular array areas by proliferating the installation of transmission repeaters into automobiles that may be randomly driven within these regions If RF transmission repeater units could be mounted in as many automobiles as possible, particularly automobiles owned by drivers residing in low population regions, the likelihood would increase that there could be established wireless transmission paths between a w... | 02/21/2006 |
| 6970867 | Bookmarking of web page frames in world wide web for accessing web pages within a frames implementation A process in a computer managed communication network such as the World Wide Web with user access via a plurality of data processor controlled interactive display stations and with a system for displaying documents, e.g. Web pages, transmitted to said display statio... | 11/29/2005 |
| 6970832 | CONFIGURATION OF COMPUTER SYSTEMS BASED UPON PURCHASER COMPONENT NEEDS AS DETERMINED FROM PURCHASER DATA ENTRIES AND HAVING A TIERED STRUCTURE OF FINANCIAL INCENTIVE LEVELS AUTOMATICALLY PROVIDED FROM DISTRIBUTER TO SYSTEM RESELLERS A distributer of the computer components, which has developed the process for configuring computer systems or networks, provides to the seller or reseller a configuration process comprising a prompting system for computer purchasers to make a sequence of interactive... | 11/29/2005 |
| 6937984 | Speech command input recognition system for interactive computer display with speech controlled display of recognized commands The present invention provides a solution for users of voice recognition systems who still need visual feedback in order to confirm the accuracy of spoken commands but need to operate in a “hands-off” mode with respect to computer input. In an interactive comput... | 08/30/2005 |
| 6895290 | Limiting the damaging effects of loud music from audio systems, particularly from automobile audio systems Minimizing the damaging effects of loud music but with minimal reduction in aesthetic quality of the music. When music presented through an audio is sampled in order to determine average frequency, music having very low average frequencies is predictably likely to b... | 05/17/2005 |
| 6847871 | Continuously monitoring and correcting operational conditions in automobiles from a remote location through wireless transmissions Continuously monitoring automobile operations, performance and operating conditions from the remote diagnostic centers through Continuous wireless transmissions so that faults may be immediately recognized and corrected or the operator warned or actions remotely ini... | 01/25/2005 |
| 6823344 | File manager system providing faster and more efficient interactive user access to files in computer displays A computer controlled user interactive display system having the customary provision of user access to the files stored therein through the display of a plurality of interactive objects which may be icons or even text representing the files usually in an arrangement... | 11/23/2004 |
| 6820056 | Recognizing non-verbal sound commands in an interactive computer controlled speech word recognition display system Simplifying command recognition from speech term recognition in speech recognition technology. A system for recognizing non-verbal sound commands within an interactive computer controlled display system with speech word recognition comprises standard technology for ... | 11/16/2004 |
| 6816855 | Building software statements such as search queries to a tabular database through a user-interactive computer display interface A user-interactive display interface implementation for building structured software program statements and, particularly, such structured statements which may serve as search queries to databases including a plurality of display rows together with means enabling th... | 11/09/2004 |
| 6795853 | INTEGRATION OF ADDITIONAL COMPUTER COMPONENTS INTO A COMPUTER OPERATION THROUGH ATTRIBUTE ENABLED INTERACTIVE SELECTIONS PRESENTED IN COMPOSITE LISTS AVAILABLE TO THE USER IN A VARIETY OF DISPLAY SCREENS A system for the accessing and addition of computing components outside of and consequently non-native to a current computer operation through a user interactive interface which involves predetermining a plurality of computing components to be selectively added to t... | 09/21/2004 |
| 6747681 | Computer controlled interactive display with dual cursor image storage for a smooth transition during cursor image change Smoother transitions between changing cursor images which are less stressful to the interactive user of a computer controlled display are provided by apparatus for changing the cursor image, including a frame buffer for storing the display screen image as a pixel ar... | 06/08/2004 |
| 6714970 | Protecting open world wide web sites from known malicious users by diverting requests from malicious users to alias addresses for the protected sites Protecting open Web sites from known malicious users in a World Wide Web (Web) communication network with access to a plurality of open Web sites responsive to requests from users at IP addresses throughout the Web. There is provided in association with a protected ... | 03/30/2004 |
| 6711589 | Method of doing business by identifying customers of competitors through world wide web searches of job listing databases A business method for identifying business competitors' customers through Web searches of job listing databases or job boards and company Web sites where jobs are also often posted directly. Items such as competitors' business names, product names, acronyms, etc., a... | 03/23/2004 |
