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...that the Band-Aid Bandage was invented by a Johnson & Johnson employee whose wife had cut herself? Earl Dickson's wife was rather accident prone, so he set out to develop a bandage that she could apply without help. He placed a small piece of gauze in the center of a small piece of surgical tape, and what we know today as the Band Aid bandage was born!
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| 20120110450 | DYNAMIC HELP USER INTERFACE CONTROL WITH SECURED CUSTOMIZATION A help interface is generated to present static help content and customized help content for an application. Help content data is accessed to define the static help content and a control command to support incorporation of the customized help content. The control comman... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120110449 | Method And System For Guiding User Selection Of A Replacement Watercraft Propeller A computer implemented system automatically launches a video to assist a computer user in navigating through a set of menus on a graphical user interface (GUI) without separately requiring the computer user to select a link to a video file or launch a software program d... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120084648 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATED END-USER SUPPORT A system and method for displaying content in a browser window associated with an end-user is described. In one implementation, data that includes links is received from a content provider, each of the links is identified and encoded, and the received data along with th... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120017148 | Navigating Between A Map Dialog And Button Controls Displayed Outside The Map A method of interacting with a map displayed on a mobile device entails displaying a map in a map dialog on a display of the mobile device, displaying control buttons on the display but outside the map dialog, and receiving user input to switch between a map manipulatio... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20110320943 | Process and Apparatus for Computer Training An adaptive and interactive training system and method is provided. The system provides training content to a user of an application program based upon a variety of factors. The system selects the training content based upon the user's individualized needs vis-à-vis an... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110314375 | Personal Assistant for Task Utilization An electronic personal assistant that uses task information to obtain task performance assistance and help content is provided. Tasks from an electronic tasks application may be utilized by the personal assistant application to search a variety of information sources fo... | 12/22/2011 |
| 20110307780 | CLOUD-BASED APPLICATION HELP A cloud help system is described herein that is a confederation of both internet and product help content that gives the user of a software application a rich web-based user interface for searching the internet in conjunction with and in the context of the software appl... | 12/15/2011 |
| 20110296304 | Adaptive Gesture Tutorial A system and a method are disclosed for determining and presenting a gesture tutorial comprising audio and/or video presentation on a gesture that is not frequently used by the user. To determine a tutorial, the system determines the user's gesture repertoire comprising... | 12/01/2011 |
| 20110271185 | PROVIDING A CONTEXT-AWARE HELP CONTENT USING A TRANSPARENT OVERLAY ON A TOUCH SENSITIVE SCREEN Objects shown on a display interface can be collected for a running application. Identifications (IDs) representing the objects can also be collected. A determination can be made concerning whether there are object identifications of objects with help contents associate... | 11/03/2011 |
| 20110264611 | PRESENTING AN INTERACTIVE GUIDANCE STRUCTURE IN A COLLABORATIVE ENVIRONMENT A collaborative work environment is provided that supports collaboration among users for performance of a people service that is associated with ad-hoc activities. An information base is provided that includes information relating to responsibilities of the users and wo... | 10/27/2011 |
| 20110258544 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SUGGESTING AUTOMATED ASSISTANTS BASED ON A SIMILARITY VECTOR IN A GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE FOR MANAGING COMMUNICATION SESSIONS Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for suggesting and inserting automated assistants in a graphical user interface for managing communication sessions. A system for suggesting an automated assistant generates a firs... | 10/20/2011 |
| 20110246880 | INTERACTIVE APPLICATION ASSISTANCE, SUCH AS FOR WEB APPLICATIONS An application assistance system is described herein that provides an on-demand canonical user interface that can quickly allow a user to learn the actions exposed by an application, such as a web site. The application assistance system is a pattern and method for guidi... | 10/06/2011 |
| 20110246881 | TRANSLATING TEXT TO, MERGING, AND OPTIMIZING GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE TASKS A system and method that enables a plurality of lay users to collaborate on automating computer tasks is disclosed. In one embodiment, the system automatically performs these tasks, rather than just documenting how to perform them. The system allows a database of soluti... | 10/06/2011 |
| 20110238498 | SERVICE STAGE FOR SUBSCRIPTION MANAGEMENT A utility for managing subscriptions for multiple services in a consistent fashion. The utility may collect information from multiple service providers and present the information to a user in a consistent format. A user interface component may control the user interfac... | 09/29/2011 |
| 20110231758 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GENERATING AUTOMATED SOFTWARE WORKFLOWS FOR BIOLOGICAL TESTING The workflow application integrates with a research software application associated with a laboratory instrument to provide a user with step-by-step instructions on how to follow the workflow steps of a laboratory experiment. The instructions are dynamically tailored, a... | 09/22/2011 |
| 20110218957 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING DIAGNOSTIC SERVICES A request to diagnose a problem with an appliance is provided to a diagnostic system whereupon the diagnostic system functions to interpret the information indicative of the problem with the appliance to thereby normalize the information indicative of the problem with t... | 09/08/2011 |
| 20110161812 | Searchable Menu system via Keyword Search Displaying a visual cue is disclosed. One or more search criteria is/are received. One or more objects that are associated with a user interface is/are searched based at least in part on the one or more search criteria to obtain a search result. A sequence of one or mor... | 06/30/2011 |
| 20110145707 | COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED METHOD AND SYSTEMS FOR ASSISTING A USER IN APPLYING A BUSINESS PROCESS PATTERN A computer-implemented method for assisting a user in applying a business process pattern. In some embodiments, the computer-implemented method includes providing a graphical user interface (GUI) adapted for displaying a first representation of a business process and fo... | 06/16/2011 |
| 20110131491 | DYNAMIC HELP INFORMATION Dynamic help information is provided by receiving unit, configured to receive at least one operation of a user and to obtain the user's operation history, where the operation history includes at least one operation; a determining unit, configured to determine the corres... | 06/02/2011 |
| 20110119582 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR RENDERING MULTIPLE HOSPITALITY SERVICES TO A USER VIA A VIRTUAL PLATFORM FIELD A method and system for rendering multiple hospitality services to a user via a virtual platform are provided. The method includes providing the virtual platform. The virtual platform includes one or more virtual guides in an electronic device. Further, the method inclu... | 05/19/2011 |
| 20110078569 | VALUE HELP USER INTERFACE SYSTEM AND METHOD A computer-implemented method providing value help user interface for an underlying application where a request for field names associated with at least one value help backend system is sent by a server. The server may receive the field names from the backend system and... | 03/31/2011 |
| 20110072346 | CONTEXT-BASED SMART TAGS A context-based action determiner is configured to facilitate the application of context-based smart tags. The context-based action determiner includes a type determining module configured to determine a type of a context object based on a context in which the context o... | 03/24/2011 |
| 20110060989 | HELP FILE GENERATING METHOD AND APPARATUS A method of generating a help file used commonly in different models of image forming apparatuses includes reading a setting value indicating a function provided by one of the image forming apparatuses, setting a field value of a parameter corresponding to the read sett... | 03/10/2011 |
| 20110047462 | DISPLAY-INDEPENDENT COMPUTERIZED GUIDANCE A method for display-independent execution of a computerized guidance script, the method comprising capturing a screenshot of a graphical user interface (GUI) of a computerized application, analyzing the screenshot for matching a control of the screenshot with a control... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110041057 | COMPUTER SELF-SUPPORT MANAGEMENT A computer based technique for providing a list of selectable computer solutions in a self-support environment. The technique includes sending a computer solution to the client computer in response to a request from the client computer for the computer solution from the... | 02/17/2011 |
| 20110041056 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE WITH TOUCH-SENSITIVE DISPLAY AND METHOD OF FACILITATING INPUT AT THE ELECTRONIC DEVICE A method includes receiving a character in response to a touch on a touch-sensitive display, adding the character to a character string, identifying, from stored data, objects that at least partially match the character string, and determining a next character of at lea... | 02/17/2011 |
| 20110035251 | METHODS, APPARATUS, AND SYSTEMS FOR FACILITATING AND/OR VERIFYING LOCATE AND/OR MARKING OPERATIONS First ticket information is electronically received relating to at least one locate request ticket pertaining to a locate and/or marking operation, in which a presence or an absence of at least one underground facility within a dig area planned to be excavated or distur... | 02/10/2011 |
| 20110010197 | Connecting Consumers with Service Providers A request to generate a medical service team for a particular consumer of medical services is received and records including names of one or more medical service providers associated with providing a medical service to the consumer of medical services are retrieved from... | 01/13/2011 |
| 20100325540 | SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TOOL FOR PROVIDING USER CONTEXT INFORMATION TO IMPROVE MESSAGE QUALITY AT DEVELOPMENT TIME A message occurrence can be detected when a software application runs on a computing device. The message occurrence can be an occurrence where a text containing message is presented upon a user interface of the software application or a log associated with the software ... | 12/23/2010 |
| 20100325541 | GUIDANCE INFORMATION PROVIDING DEVICE AND GUIDANCE INFORMATION PROVIDING SYSTEM An MFP sequentially displays a plurality of operation screens on a display panel by switching, and receives a user operation on each operation screen. The user operation is performed for the switching or execution of a function, and the operation screens include screens... | 12/23/2010 |
| 20100313127 | AGGREGATION LEVEL AND MEASURE BASED HINTING AND SELECTION OF CELLS IN A DATA DISPLAY Described herein are methods and systems for providing hints for and selecting cells within a crosstab that are compatible. Providing hints manifests the compatible cells and the selection is limited to compatible members. Hinting at unselected but compatible cells prov... | 12/09/2010 |
| 20100293461 | HELP INFORMATION FOR LINKS IN A MASHUP PAGE A mashup page presents link help information for logical links that pass context between widgets on the mashup page.... | 11/18/2010 |
| 20100281313 | DYNAMICALLY GENERATED WEB SURVEYS FOR USE WITH CENSUS ACTIVITIES, AND ASSOCATED METHODS Certain example embodiments disclosed herein relate to online survey systems and/or methods. In certain example embodiments, the questions to be asked are substantially insulated from an application that asks the questions. This abstraction may be accomplished in certai... | 11/04/2010 |
| 20100235738 | PRODUCT LIMITATIONS ADVISORY SYSTEM A system that automatically prompts a computer user about a known limitation of a product component, such as a software component. Generally, there is contemplated herein a method including providing a physical computing device, running software in the physical computin... | 09/16/2010 |
| 20100229022 | COMMON TROUBLESHOOTING FRAMEWORK Techniques for improving a troubleshooting experience by providing a common troubleshooting framework. Such a framework may enable use of common elements between troubleshooters and lead to similarities between troubleshooting packages, which may improve the user experi... | 09/09/2010 |
| 20100223549 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING ENTERTAINMENT DEVICES USING A DISPLAY A method is disclosed for controlling an electronic device, the method including but not limited to electronically identifying a first remote control device for a first electronic device at a multimedia processor end user device; accessing specification data for the fir... | 09/02/2010 |
| 20100223550 | APPRATUS, PROGRAM AND METHOD FOR ASSISTING A USER IN UNDERSTANDING CONTENT An assisting apparatus, method and computer program that assists a user in understanding content. The assisting apparatus includes a history storing unit that stores a history of assistance settings set up by the user for each of a plurality of pieces of content already... | 09/02/2010 |
| 20100218095 | Obtaining user assistance An apparatus, device, method, computer program product, and system that searches a plurality of end user assistances respectively corresponding to a plurality of items for an end user assistance correlating with a user-selected item.... | 08/26/2010 |
| 20100211421 | AUTOMATIC QUOTE GENERATION FOR CUSTOM CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS Automatic quote generation for custom construction projects. In one example embodiment, a method for automatically generating a quote for a custom construction project includes various acts. First, a server system receives, from a kiosk system, data corresponding to cus... | 08/19/2010 |
| 20100185472 | Locomotive Assistant There is provided a system for managing information comprising a network, a hand-held mobile device, and a central server computer. The network is established between the central server computer and the hand-held mobile device to communicate computer readable informatio... | 07/22/2010 |
