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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20080040666 | TARGET ADVERTISEMENT IN A BROADCAST SYSTEM The disclosure is directed to an access terminal. The access terminal includes a display configured to enable a user to view a presentation having content, and a processing component configured to receive the presentation and select an advertisement to insert into the c... | 02/14/2008 |
| 20080005669 | LIFE EVENT RECORDING SYSTEM In general, in one aspect, a method for facilitating on-line creation of a journal for a life event includes creating a template storyboard relevant to the life event, prepopulating the storyboard with content relevant to the life event, receiving photographs from a use... | 01/03/2008 |
| 20080005668 | User interface for mobile devices A computer-implemented method of displaying information on a mobile device is discussed. The method includes displaying on the mobile device a first view having a first search result element in an expanded format and a plurality of additional search result elements in a... | 01/03/2008 |
| 20070299613 | Processing of seismic data using the S-transform The present invention relates to a method and system for processing seismic data. Seismic data indicative of at least a time-dependent seismic trace are transformed into time-frequency domain using the S-transform. The transformed seismic data are processed for determin... | 12/27/2007 |
| 20070294616 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE DISPLAYING METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM OF THE METHOD An image processing apparatus which displays a thumbnail image of a stored image is disclosed. When a thumbnail image of a stored image is displayed, it is determined whether the stored image is open or secret by using an attribute attached to the stored image. When the... | 12/20/2007 |
| 20070288845 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING AN EXECUTABLE FILE FROM A USE CASE A system obtains a file associated with at least one interaction that satisfies a requirement of the application. The file (containing at least one instruction) is associated with a graphical user interface allowing a user to define at least one interaction, as a use ca... | 12/13/2007 |
| 20070283248 | ELECTRONIC PAPER RECORDING APPARATUS An electronic paper is mounted on a paper mounting unit on which the electronic paper is mounted detachably. When a user operation is performed on the display screen of the electronic paper, the user operation position with respect to the display screen of the electroni... | 12/06/2007 |
| 20070277097 | APPARATUS, SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR CONTEXT-AWARE AUTHORING TRANSFORM An computer program product, a system, and method are disclosed for providing a training service. Delivery of the training service comprises selecting an input file comprising a plurality of presentation options, a plurality of mode definitions and a transform module. T... | 11/29/2007 |
| 20070277098 | Method and System for Presentation of Information Postings to Prompt Reflection A method and system for presenting information are provided in which multiple information postings (231, 232, 233) on a user accessible display (206) are generated by one or more users. The user accessible display (206) is updated to show most recen... | 11/29/2007 |
| 20070266311 | System and method for directing attention to web site content Attention of a user is direct to content offered via a Web site by monitoring interactions of a user with a currently displayed Web site page to determine if the user has indicated a desire to exit from the currently displayed Web site page. When it is determined that t... | 11/15/2007 |
| 20070266312 | Method for displaying face detection frame, method for displaying character information, and image-taking device An aspect of the present invention provides a method for displaying a face detection frame in an image-taking device, which obtains an image signal representing a subject continuously at a predetermined cycle, displays a live video preview on a display device based on t... | 11/15/2007 |
| 20070260978 | Embedded display system and method used by the system A device and a method are provided for displaying documents in a variety of formats in one or more embedded display devices. Also provided is a custom server device which controls one or more embedded display devices to display content. The custom server device comprise... | 11/08/2007 |
| 20070250768 | Method, Terminal Device and Program for Dynamic Image Scaling Display in Browsing There is provided a displaying method for displaying content, created for a first terminal device having a first display screen size, on a second terminal device having display means with a display width smaller than that of the first display screen, comprising the step... | 10/25/2007 |
| 20070234206 | Frame Page Displaying Method, Frame Page Displaying Device, and Program In a state in which an operation screen for operating a frame in a frame page has been displayed, whether a change occurring to a frame in the page different from the currently displayed frame is a change arising from an operation satisfying a condition that is regarded... | 10/04/2007 |
| 20070226611 | Character display device and character display method The present invention is intended to speed up rendering that is performed in the course of displaying a document that contains both icons and characters. A character display device that displays a document containing both icons and characters includes: a searching unit ... | 09/27/2007 |
| 20070226612 | SERVER-SIDE HTML CUSTOMIZATION BASED ON STYLE SHEETS AND TARGET DEVICE A request reception module receives a request for an document stored within document server. A parsing module parses the document to generate therefrom a corresponding document object model (DOM) including at least one object. A style sheet access module obtains a style... | 09/27/2007 |
| 20070214412 | Method and System for Generating a Network Monitoring Display with Animated Utilization Information A method for displaying storage network information in a user interface. The method includes identifying a topology map for a storage network and gathering operating information, which is processed to determine a performance parameter, such as utilization. A performance... | 09/13/2007 |
| 20070198924 | DYNAMIC WEB PAGE GENERATION METHOD AND SYSTEM In comparison to unnecessary page generation of the prior art, the page generation time according to the current invention is substantially reduced, and the generated page is efficiently accessed. Since in response to at least one of a predetermined set of update events... | 08/23/2007 |
| 20070180353 | Systems and methods for generating documents using multimedia data gathering tools A system for generating a document by collecting information from an end user using a multimedia interface using at least one computing system comprising a processor and a computer readable medium. The computer readable medium has instructions executable by the processo... | 08/02/2007 |
| 20070180370 | System and method for sequencing pages in a document processing device A system and method for sequencing pages in a document processing device which is capable of implementation on any type of document processing device. The method begins with the receipt of document data representing a series of pages for output by an associated document... | 08/02/2007 |
| 20070180369 | Method and apparatus for automatically formatting data based on a best match test result type In one embodiment, a computer implemented method for formatting data involves 1) automatically comparing data associated with a test result, the known data types being associated with test result types, to known data types to determine a best match test result type for ... | 08/02/2007 |
| 20070180374 | Resolution reduction technique for displaying documents on a monitor A method of generating an output image having a lower resolution than that of a source image is provided. A thinned image is generated by discarding outer pixels of the source image. In parallel with generation of the thinned image, an averaged image is generated, such ... | 08/02/2007 |
| 20070180368 | Systems and methods of data storage for a medical practice group Systems and methods provide a data viewer for hierarchical XML data storage of medical records for a medical practice group on transportable media. The data viewer creates a snap shot in time of a medical practice group's medical records and provides a user interface wi... | 08/02/2007 |
| 20070165270 | Image forming apparatus, system and method using printing layout templates An image forming apparatus, system and method using printing layout templates are provided. The system includes a communication device determining a layout template for printing an image from a layout template list and transmitting the image and the information on the d... | 07/19/2007 |
| 20070162845 | User interface for webpage creation/editing Enabling a user to create and/or edit a webpage is disclosed. A selection of a selected template from a set of one or more webpage templates selectable by a user to create and open for editing an instance of a webpage is received. An instance of a webpage based at least... | 07/12/2007 |
| 20070162846 | Automatic sub-template selection based on content Enabling a user to create or edit a webpage is disclosed. A content type of a content item to be included in the webpage is determined automatically. Code appropriate to the content type as required to include the content item in the webpage as published is generated. ... | 07/12/2007 |
| 20070150810 | Virtual desktop Virtual Desktop—Meta-Organization & Control System wherein a real-time-accessible memory media having at least one dynamic substantially cyclic electronic-data structure is associated (by an ongoing algorithmic activity for respectively regularly transforming each pro... | 06/28/2007 |
| 20070139694 | Document optimization selector A method and apparatus include user interface and processing techniques that provide a solution for configuring an image processing path, and associated image processing module parameters, with minimal user input. The solution consists of two key components—a set of e... | 06/21/2007 |
| 20070143669 | Method and system for delivering documents to terminals with limited display capabilities, such as mobile terminals A method and system delivers documents to terminals with limited display capabilities, such as mobile terminals. More specifically, a method and system adapt a document in order to make same displayable on a terminal with limited display capabilities. The method include... | 06/21/2007 |
| 20070143671 | WYSIWYG multifunction device finishing options A method, document processing apparatus, and computer readable recording medium for performing document preparation of documents to be printed by a printing device capable of applying finishing functions to the printed document. A document preparation program further in... | 06/21/2007 |
| 20070143670 | Printing apparatus and method A printing apparatus and method for capturing and formatting the content of a web page. The apparatus and method determining if a portrait formatted representation of the web page and a landscape formatted representation of the web page, include equivalent content, and ... | 06/21/2007 |
| 20070136660 | Creation of semantic objects for providing logical structure to markup language representations of documents Semantic objects are created that provide a structure for markup language representations of documents. The semantic objects include text runs that are produced from the markup language representation and that are placed into semantic blocks that group text runs accordi... | 06/14/2007 |
| 20070130515 | System for displaying images with multiple attributes A system (30) for displaying a subset of images from an image data set, in particular for medical applications such as MRI or CT scanning. The images are associated with three attributes with a respective range of values. The images on the display have values wit... | 06/07/2007 |
| 20070124670 | Systems, methods, and media for printing web pages Systems, methods, and media for printing a Web page by modifying the Web page in response to user inputs are disclosed. Embodiments may include receiving a command to print a Web page, analyzing the Web page to be printed for one or more modifiable elements, and generat... | 05/31/2007 |
| 20070101257 | Electronic file re-formatting tool An electronic file decomposition system is illustrated. A parser of the electronic file decomposition system decomposes an electronic file into different components based at least in part on metadata of the components. An interface of the electronic file decomposition s... | 05/03/2007 |
| 20070101262 | Data transformation from content data for viewing content in network environment into data for printing the same on consecutive pages An information terminal equipment communicable with a server via a network is disclosed. The equipment includes: a unit that enables the equipment to communicate with the server; and a selector that selects as a first content one of content elements represented by displ... | 05/03/2007 |
| 20070101263 | Visual screen indicator Embodiments of the present disclosure provide systems and method for viewing electronic documents. Briefly described, one embodiment of the system, among others, includes an electronic viewer application to display contents of an electronic document; and a visual indica... | 05/03/2007 |
| 20070094592 | Data visualization methods, data visualization devices, data visualization apparatuses, and articles of manufacture Data visualization methods, data visualization devices, data visualization apparatuses, and articles of manufacture are described according to some aspects. In one aspect, a data visualization method includes accessing a plurality of initial documents at a first moment ... | 04/26/2007 |
| 20070094240 | Diplomas express Diplomas Express was designed to speed delivery of diplomas to students after they graduate. Currently, students have to wait a minimum of five months before they can receive their diplomas. This is due to sending a list of graduates' names, degree type, school, graduat... | 04/26/2007 |
| 20070079256 | Method, apparatus and program for outputting images A card reader loads thumbnail image data from a memory card. Plural thumbnail images are arranged in a matrix, and displayed as an index image on an image selection screen. The thumbnail image to be printed is selected on the image selection screen. The card reader load... | 04/05/2007 |
