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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120130948 | PHYSICAL ITEM DATA RECORD CREATION VIA CLONING A DATA OBJECT IN AN ACCESSIBLE COLLECTION An item data management server having the capability to create a physical item data record for a physical item in the control of a user based upon a data object of an accessible collection. The item data management server presents a clone command query to the user termi... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120131509 | PORTABLE TERMINAL AND METHOD OF UTILIZING BACKGROUND IMAGE OF PORTABLE TERMINAL A method of utilizing a background image of a portable terminal, and a portable terminal for implementing the method, are provided. The method includes displaying the background image, determining whether an input event is detected in the displayed background image, ide... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120131481 | Dynamic De-Identification of Data The present invention relates to a method, computer program product and system for masking sensitive data and, more particularly, to dynamically de-identifying sensitive data from a data source for a target application, including enabling a user to selectively alter an ... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120131036 | One-click exceptions A method and system for automatically defining and applying an exception rule to reports created from at least one multi-dimensional database, comprising: defining global exception parameters, displaying at least one report created from a multi-dimensional database, rec... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120109782 | IMAGING PRODUCT SELECTION METHOD A computer implemented method of transacting a sale for an image composited product includes presenting a graphic user interface (GUI) is on a display of a computer system and providing a selection of different image products. The user is enabled to select a subset of d... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120110478 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SUPPORTING SOFTWARE Provided are a software service supporting system and method to a plurality of clients using a software virtualization technology in a server-based computing environment. The present invention is configured to allow a server to execute software selected by a request of ... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120110514 | Graphical User Interface for Managing Virtual Machines A graphical user interface (GUI) for managing virtual machines (VMs) that are running in one or more hosts provides a search interface that is intuitive and presents search results in a tree structure that lists or marks items that meet user-designated search criteria. ... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120083339 | Systems and methods for transforming and/or generating a tangible physical structure based on user input information A method for transforming a virtual object based on user input information including receiving by an input device a user input alpha-numeric input information, correlating, using one or more processors, the user input alpha-numeric information with transformation of one... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120072367 | DRY-RUN DESIGN TIME ENVIRONMENT This disclosure provides various embodiments for performing a dry-run of a business process model in a design-time environment. A start event and end event of the business process model are identified, defining a path of a flow map including a sequence of a plurality of... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120071786 | VISUALIZATION OF VALUES OF A PHYSICAL PROPERTY DETECTED IN AN ORGANISM OVER TIME A system for visually indicating, in real time or post hoc, values of a physical property detected over a period of time along a dimension of an organism to a user on a temporal plot and a profile plot, either individually or concurrently. The detected values may be vis... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120072859 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COMPARING AND REVIEWING DOCUMENTS A document processing system for accurately and efficiently analyzing documents and methods for making and using same. Each incoming document includes at least one section of textual content and is provided in an electronic form or as a paper-based document that is conv... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120072860 | TECHNIQUES TO PROVIDE PIVOT-BASED SEARCH FOR BUSINESS DATA Techniques to provide a visual pivot-based search of business data may comprise displaying an entity of the business data as an interactive element. A searcher may select an entity as a pivot of a search, via the visual interactive interface. The visual interactive inte... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120054688 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM There is provided an information processing apparatus including a press-down detection unit for detecting a press-down operation, and an information processing unit for performing, in a case a plurality of press-down operations are successively detected by the press-dow... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120048090 | Power Tool Control System and Table Saw Assembly A power tool control system includes a non-contact measurement and alignment device operative with the power tool and enabled to establish various readings, such as power tool settings. A graphical user interface communicatively coupled with the non-contact measurement ... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120054665 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, PARAMETER SETTING METHOD, AND PROGRAM There is provided an information processing apparatus including a position detection unit for detecting a contact position of an operating tool which has contacted a screen, an area size detection unit for detecting a contact area size of the operating tool which has co... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120054653 | VISUALIZING USER INTERFACES Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for visualizing user interfaces. In one aspect, a method includes presenting a user interface visualization for an application. The application is configured to perform fu... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120054649 | System for Enabling a User to View Visual Content on an Information Handling System A navigation system which provides: a navigation front end which provides tiles that are easily identifiable and content-driven vs. context-driven; a navigation system that includes an expanded view/tile paradigm; and a navigation system that allows users to interact wi... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120054651 | CLOCK DISPLAYING SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DISPLAYING SWITCHABLE CLOCK A clock displaying system includes a display, a placing module, a clock user interface (UI) module, a trigger and a processor. The placing module designates a clock area on the display. The clock UI module creates at least one clock UI at the clock area. The at least on... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120054650 | AUTOMATED OPERATOR INTERFACE GENERATION IN A CONTROL SYSTEM System(s), device(s), and method(s) provide automated configuration of operator interface(s) in an industrial control system, the automated configuration is based at least on control logic that regulates a process and associated equipment in an industrial environment. A... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120054652 | DIAGNOSIS SUPPORT APPARATUS, DIAGNOSIS SUPPORT SYSTEM, DIAGNOSIS SUPPORT CONTROL METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEMORY A diagnosis support apparatus includes a display control unit configured to display an input GUI which receives input of a plurality of findings regarding a subject, a deducing unit configured to deduce a diagnosis of the subject on the basis of the findings input throu... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120054648 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR NAVIGATING BETWEEN VISUAL COMPONENTS Methods and systems are described for navigating between visual components. A first visual component, of a first operating application in a plurality of operating applications, is detected in a first application region of a presentation space of a display device. A firs... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120047517 | INTERACTION MANAGEMENT In a system, at least one web server provides an interface to a web-enabled application to a first computing device, with the web-enabled application and the at least one web server belonging to a first domain. An interaction routing module routes a contact event to the... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120042281 | SAME-DISPLAY COMPARISON OF CONTENT FOR DIFFERENT RENDITIONS OF A SINGLE COMPUTER PROGRAM An method for use in a computer system for determining correspondence between at least two renditions of a single computer program includes enabling the identification of a selected screenshot related to navigation within the computer program and, as a response to the i... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120038552 | UTILIZATION OF INTERACTIVE DEVICE-ADJACENT AMBIENTLY DISPLAYED IMAGES A telecommunication device configured to project an ambiently displayed image at a location proximate to the telecommunication device on a surface that is substantially parallel to a plane formed by a body of the telecommunication device is described herein. The telecom... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120038658 | Composition of Digital Images for Perceptibility Thereof Teachings herein compose a digital image so that the image is perceptible on a viewing surface, such as a projection surface or a transparent screen. In doing so, the teachings advantageously recognize a digital image as consisting of one or more logical objects, like b... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120042269 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR NESTING TIMELINES A system and method for creating, editing, and displaying nested timelines. Using the disclosed system, a user can create linked timelines within a timeline and represent the linked (or “nested”) timelines as single elements in the timeline. Nested timelines allow a... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120042271 | ENABLING USER INTERACTIONS BETWEEN USER INTERFACE COMPONENTS An apparatus, method, and computer program product are disclosed for enabling user interactions between user interface components. An initial event module detects an initial user input event to a graphical user interface. The initial user input event is associated with ... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120036483 | DEVICE, METHOD FOR DISPLAYING A CHANGE FROM A FIRST PICTURE TO A SECOND PICTURE ON A DISPLAY, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT A device is described having a memory storing data specifying a change animation between pictures to be displayed successively on the display, a setting circuit configured to store a setting specifying that a change animation between pictures to be displayed successivel... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120036458 | AUTOMATIC CONTEXT PASSING DURING MANAGEMENT APPLICATION NAVIGATION Various embodiments of systems and methods for automatic context passing during management application navigation are described herein. When management applications work with different managed entities, the managed context is preserved by following the relations between... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120036455 | USER INTERFACES FOR NAVIGATING STRUCTURED CONTENT User interfaces for navigating structured content. In one example embodiment, a user interface for navigating structured content includes a grid and a plurality of multi-dimensional cells each having a unique position in the grid. Each cell is configured to display only... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120029939 | METHODS AND APPARATUS TO GROUP AND PRESENT CLINICAL RECORDS Methods and apparatus to present and group clinical records are disclosed. An example method includes obtaining work list data of a healthcare practitioner and one or more clinical records associated with the work list data; extracting descriptive information from the c... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120030119 | SECURITY SYSTEM AND METHOD THAT ALLOWS USERS TO SECURELY SETUP AND MAINTAIN SYSTEM SECURITY FOR ALL BUSINESS SYSTEMS A system, method and computer-readable medium for providing comprehensive security to business systems by distributing the security for accessing the business systems across databases at a plurality of locations. The distributed security simplifies security maintenance ... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120030217 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ANALYZING AND VISUALIZING ENUMERATED INFORMATION A system and method for analyzing clinical data includes a reference database comprising a stored set of reference data comprising enumerated results of a reference population for a clinical test. The system also includes a patient database comprising a stored set of cl... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120027178 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR ARCHIVING X-RAY FLUOROSCOPY IMAGES Methods and apparatus for archiving x-ray fluoroscopy images are provided. One method includes receiving fluoroscopic images from a fluoroscopic imaging system and storing all of the received fluoroscopic images during an image acquisition scan by the fluoroscopic imagi... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120023424 | Apparatuses and Methods for Generating Full Screen Effect by Widgets An electronic interaction apparatus with a touch screen coupled thereto is provided. In the electronic interaction apparatus, a processing unit executes a widget, and the widget generates a widget image and at least one display object. Also, the widget displays the widg... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20120023425 | Live Wallpaper Display of on-screen elements is coordinated, which includes generating a graphical wallpaper representation in a first process on a first visual layer on a display of a computing device, generating one or more graphical objects in a second process on a second visual la... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20120022991 | Consolidated Price Level Expansion Certain embodiments provide consolidated price level expansion. Data associated with the individual price levels represented by a consolidated price level is expanded and provided through an expanded consolidated price level interface. In certain embodiments, the expand... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20120023441 | Electronic Device and Method for Displaying Events Using the Same This disclosure provides an electronic device and a method for displaying an event used for presenting a first type of event and a second type of event to a user. The method includes the following steps. A time interval inputted by the user is received. A record of the ... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20120023440 | MOTOR VEHICLE The invention relates to a motor vehicle having an operator control element for the operator control of a function of the motor vehicle, wherein the operator control element comprises an upwardly directed surface having a touchpad for the operator control of at least a ... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20120023423 | ORIENTATION FREE USER INTERFACE A dynamically orientable graphical user interface (GUI) can include user input controls that are configured to receive user input. The GUI can be displayed as a band around a perimeter of a horizontally oriented interactive display surface. The user input can be receive... | 01/26/2012 |
