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Behavior Modification Wristwatch
A wristwatch including a watch band and a watch body having an octagon shaped perimeter and being red in color and having the word STOP thereon to resemble a stop sign.
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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20110314376 | METHOD AND SYSTEM THAT DISPLAYS A TOOLTIP When zooming in on (or magnifying) a field of a user interface (UI) it would be advantageous to be able to dynamically view a label of the field and input into an input element of the field without having to scroll a magnified or zoomed UI. By providing a tooltip adjace... | 12/22/2011 |
| 20110167343 | System and Method for Applying Link Analysis Tools for Visualizing Connected Temporal and Spatial Information on a User Interface A system and method for analyzing a plurality of data elements having both temporal and spatial properties, where a first data element and a second data element of the plurality of data elements are linked by at least one association element. The system and method inclu... | 07/07/2011 |
| 20110138279 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR INTEGRATING PRESENCE DATA WITH CONTACT DATA AT A COMMUNICATION DEVICE A method, apparatus, and system for integrating presence data with contact data at a communication device is provided. A display device associated with the communication device is controlled via the processing unit to provide a representation of the contact data in at l... | 06/09/2011 |
| 20100318743 | DYNAMIC SCREENTIP LANGUAGE TRANSLATION When a user interface cursor hovers over a user interface item, a determination is made as to whether the user interface item has an associated screentip. If the user interface item has an associated screentip, text associated with the screentip is identified, a transla... | 12/16/2010 |
| 20100042921 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR VIEWING SOFTWARE HELP DOCUMENTATION A system and method for viewing software help documentation obtains a feature name of a current interface of a software and a position of a cursor in the current interface, and receives a control command to invoke a help system of the software. The system and method fur... | 02/18/2010 |
| 20100042922 | CUSTOMIZABLE, DYNAMIC AND ON-DEMAND DATABASE-INFORMER FOR RELATIONAL DATABASES Techniques for displaying information associated with a database are disclosed. A database-informer displays information (or additional information) about various database objects displayed for a user. The database-informer may be presented to user as a tool-tip. Howeve... | 02/18/2010 |
| 20090319897 | ENHANCED USER INTERFACE FOR EDITING IMAGES A digital image editing system and method are presented that allow a user to visualize a range of changes to an image. The system determines a range of parameter values for a parameter of a selected filter. Then, the system creates multiple thumbnails of the image where... | 12/24/2009 |
| 20090300496 | USER INTERFACE FOR ONLINE ADS A user interface may be utilized to allow a user to control display properties of online ad content on a hosting webpage (e.g., hosting ads from one domain on a webpage from a different domain). This may be accomplished by creating a cross-domain frame in the hosting we... | 12/03/2009 |
| 20090288005 | Display of Supplementary Information on a Graphical User Interface Disclosed are method and apparatus for displaying supplementary information on a graphical user interface. A request for supplementary information is received. The supplementary information is retrieved and displayed in a reserved display field in a graphical user inter... | 11/19/2009 |
| 20090187824 | SELF-REVELATION AIDS FOR INTERFACES Systems and/or methods are provided that facilitates revealing assistance information associated with a user interface. An interface can obtain input information related to interactions between the interface and a user. In addition, the interface can output assistance i... | 07/23/2009 |
| 20090183073 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DISPLAYING DOWNLOAD INFORMATION AT AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE A method and apparatus for displaying download information at a graphical user interface (GUI) at an electronic device, the electronic device having a display module displaying the GUI, is provided. If a message, in a message list displayed at the GUI, is selected, and ... | 07/16/2009 |
| 20090089674 | SEQUENTIAL FUNCTION CHART (SFC) ONLINE EDITING WITHOUT RESET A change monitor as part of an online editor of a sequential function chart (SFC) programming environment monitors edits to a control routine. The change monitor provides warning to users before taking actions that would result in a reset of the control routine currentl... | 04/02/2009 |
| 20090083628 | NAVIGATION SYSTEM FOR A 3D VIRTUAL SCENE A navigation system for navigating a three-dimensional (3D) scene that includes a model or object with which a user can interact. The system accommodates and helps both novice and advanced users. To do this, the system provides a walk tool GUI that has a quite motion zo... | 03/26/2009 |
| 20090063955 | Depth indicator for a link in a document A storage medium and computer that determine a tree representing links embedded in documents, create a depth indicator having a size proportional to the size of the tree, and display the depth indicator with a root link in a root document. The tree is determined by repe... | 03/05/2009 |
| 20090049383 | TOOL-TIP FOR MULTIMEDIA FILES A tool-tip presentation system for multimedia files. The tool-tip presentation system can be configured to respond to proximity events associated with a selected entry in a list of multimedia files such as screen captured images or complete audio files. Based upon the s... | 02/19/2009 |
| 20090018759 | Navigation Device A navigation device displays predicted traffic information downloaded from a server device and statistical traffic information stored in a storage unit, on the same screen. Both information items may be displayed in such a manner that at least a part of them is overlaid... | 01/15/2009 |
| 20080307306 | CONTACT PICKER INTERFACE An interface for enabling a user to quickly access contact information automatically displays a list of expected contacts that are most likely to be selected by the user when attention is directed to an appropriate object requiring contact information. When a contact is... | 12/11/2008 |
| 20080294989 | Alarm correlation system Network applications rely on ever-increasing diverse and complex transport service mechanisms. A transport service between points in a network often traverses multiple technologies involving numerous containments and adaptations. A network event affecting the transport ... | 11/27/2008 |
| 20080276171 | Filing System A filing assistant for coupling to an e-mail application; the email application comprising a message database for storing and retrieving messages and a graphical user interface (GUI) for displaying the messages and for allowing the user to otherwise interact with the ap... | 11/06/2008 |
| 20080276172 | DYNAMIC MOUSE OVER HANDLING FOR TIGHTLY PACKED USER INTERFACE COMPONENTS Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to mouse over sensitive user interface components and provide a novel and non-obvious method, system and computer program product for dynamic mouse over handling for tightly packed user inte... | 11/06/2008 |
| 20080263448 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR LOW BANDWIDTH PLAY POSITION PREVIEWING OF VIDEO CONTENT A computer readable storage medium includes executable instructions to display video content. A cursor associated with the relative position of the video content is provided. A new cursor position associated with a request for a new relative position of the video conten... | 10/23/2008 |
| 20080244403 | Function calculator having help display function A function calculator includes a display unit and an input unit which inputs an arithmetic expression containing a function in accordance with user operation. When the input unit inputs an arithmetic expression, the calculator causes the display unit to display the arit... | 10/02/2008 |
| 20080215974 | Interactive user controlled avatar animations A method for controlling an avatar in a virtual space, the virtual space accessed through a computer network using a console, is disclosed. The method begins by capturing activity of a console controller and processing the captured activity of the console controller to ... | 09/04/2008 |
| 20080104513 | System for retrieving information A graphical user interface system for facilitating the retrieval of information relating to at least one predetermined category of information. The system comprises a computer, a user controlled pointing device and a graphic display, said graphic display comprising a nu... | 05/01/2008 |
| 20080034329 | System to present additional item information A computer-implemented system and method for displaying additional information corresponding to an item represented by a visual indicator in response to a mouseover event is disclosed. Various embodiments receive a mouseover event corresponding to a visual indicator dis... | 02/07/2008 |
| 20080016445 | On-Demand Numerical Conversion An apparatus, program product and method provide on-demand numerical conversion of convertible numerical values such as measurements and monetary values. A numerical value that is displayed in a document such as a web page, and that is represented in a native unit, may ... | 01/17/2008 |
| 20070245241 | Computer program product, apparatus and method for displaying a plurality of entities in a tooltip for a cell of a table A computer program product, electronic device and method are provided that enable a user to easily view, in a tooltip, all of the entities of a plurality of entities contained in a cell of a table when the width of the cell prevents the cell display from showing all of ... | 10/18/2007 |
| 20070180381 | Browser application Techniques are described for web navigating. Web pages may be organized such that each web page is associated with a corresponding tab, and a visual tip is displayed for a web page in response to selection of the associated tab. A visual tip also may be displayed for a ... | 08/02/2007 |
| 20070174230 | System and method for displaying information in association with an electronic file management application Displaying associated information adjacent to, or in proximity of, an electronic file displayed within an electronic file management application. An e-file callout system associates e-file callout information with an electronic file. When a user hovers or selects an ele... | 07/26/2007 |
| 20070094616 | Method and apparatus for displaying key information in portable terminal A method and apparatus are disclosed for displaying key information in a portable terminal. Display of key information is provided such that a user can easily confirm information about a shortcut key set by the user or a function for each key of a key input module. ... | 04/26/2007 |
| 20070094600 | AUTOMATIC 3D OBJECT GENERATION AND DEFORMATION FOR REPRESENTATION OF DATA FILES BASED ON TAXONOMY CLASSIFICATION Disclosed are a system and method for generating three-dimensional objects to represent files in a three-dimensional environment. A primary classifier classifies stored files into groups based on a first set of properties and generates three-dimensional mesh objects to ... | 04/26/2007 |
| 20070011603 | Method, system, device and software product for showing tooltips for page segments and generating content for the page segments A method, system, device, and software product are presented for describing to a user a section of a page on a small display, such as a mobile phone display. A section selection signal indicates a section of the page, and then a tooltip describes content of that section... | 01/11/2007 |
| 20060236244 | Command links A command link input control has a main title portion describing a user input option corresponding to selection of that command link. Upon selection of the command link, a dialog containing that command link is completed without requiring a user to select additional inp... | 10/19/2006 |
| 20060150099 | Methods and systems for displaying an enlarged image A method and system for displaying an enlarged image on a display. The display is configured to be connected to a device that generates a user interface in which a user may control a position of a cursor. The method can include providing a first image, providing an enla... | 07/06/2006 |
| 20060123341 | Apparatus and method for adaptively generating tooltip A method and apparatus are provided for adaptively generating a tooltip to be displayed in association with an object, such as a push button or a check box, according to the state of the object. The method comprises determining a current state of the object; and generat... | 06/08/2006 |
| 20060069996 | Fisheye viewer and wiggly icon Users scanning listings of items are able to easily and quickly read each item in a list without actually leaving the list, as would be the case when following a regular hypertext link. The contents of each link are displayed in a separate, smaller viewing window that m... | 03/30/2006 |
| 20060036946 | Floating command object A floating command object is provided for offering a set of commonly or frequently used commands in close proximity to a selected text, data or other object in a document. When a given object is selected for editing, the floating object automatically displays near the o... | 02/16/2006 |
| 20060010384 | Real-time multimedia visual programming system A user friendly visual programming system with a visual programming interface that allows a user to visually create multimedia programs in real-time. In this system, input and output functions are represented as graphical input and receive interface leads, respectively.... | 01/12/2006 |
| 20050283728 | Method for graphical presentation of objects and technical processes on a screen and computer program product used for this purpose The invention relates to a method for graphical presentation of objects and/or technical processes on a screen, as well as an editor implementing the method. For the graphical reproduction of objects or the illustration of technical processes it is frequently necessary ... | 12/22/2005 |
| 20050283727 | Non-resident methods and systems for providing clickless user actuation of a webpage The present invention provides methods and systems for clickless user actuation of a webpage through a non-resident application. The non-resident application provides clickless web browsing by determining the position of a user-controlled pointer, displaying an indicato... | 12/22/2005 |
