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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120110496 | MOBILE TERMINAL AND CONTROLLING METHOD THEREOF A mobile terminal including a memory including at least first and second OSs (Operating Systems) and applications dedicated to each of the first and second OSs; a display unit configured to display a first OS (Operating System) dedicated screen including the application... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120110497 | CHANGING STACK WHEN SWAPPING A dual-screen user device and methods for revealing a combination of desktops on single and multiple screens are disclosed. Specifically, a determined number of desktops and/or running applications can be selectively displayed on dual screen displays conditioned upon in... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120084706 | LAUNCHED APPLICATION INSERTED INTO THE STACK A dual-screen user device and methods for revealing a combination of desktops on single and multiple screens are disclosed. Specifically, a determined number of desktops and/or running applications can be selectively displayed on dual screen displays conditioned upon in... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20110314409 | INFORMATION TERMINAL, COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT AND METHOD THEREOF According to one embodiment, an information terminal is capable of connecting to a network, and includes an associating module and a display module. The associating module associates a virtual desktop with network identification information. The display module displays,... | 12/22/2011 |
| 20110225537 | EQUIPMENT WITH DUAL SCREENS FOR CONTROLLING MULTI-COMPUTERS AND THE OPERATING METHOD THEREOF An equipment for controlling a plurality of computers and the operating method thereof are provided. The equipment electrically connects to a Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) module and a touch LCD module and a plurality of computer respectively, where the LCD module receiv... | 09/15/2011 |
| 20110060951 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, CONTROL METHODS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM An apparatus determines whether a current display is a web screen, when a user operation performed via the web screen indicates a display of a native screen and when a web server instructs the apparatus to display the native screen. The apparatus switches the current di... | 03/10/2011 |
| 20100275267 | SOCIAL AND RETAIL HOTSPOTS Systems, methods, and apparatus for social and retail hotspots are provided.... | 10/28/2010 |
| 20100269060 | Navigating A Plurality Of Instantiated Virtual Desktops Navigating a plurality of instantiated virtual desktops including maintaining a z-axis order of a plurality of currently instantiated virtual desktops; receiving a user's invocation of one or more mouse buttons; identifying the received invocation of the one or more mou... | 10/21/2010 |
| 20100235777 | PROVIDING A PROXY VIEW FOR AN APPLICATION IN A WINDOW MANAGER A window manager process hosts proxy window objects created by an application in a window manager display structure. A process in a device creates a local proxy view object within a window manager display structure for the window manager process. The process registers a... | 09/16/2010 |
| 20100223574 | Multi-Screen User Interface A user interface and techniques for presenting content in a multiple virtual screens are described. The user interface has one or more multiple virtual screen to define separate and distinct portions of content data. Overview, related content information may be placed i... | 09/02/2010 |
| 20100188230 | Dynamic reminder system, method and apparatus for individuals suffering from diminishing cognitive skills A computer implemented method for automatically delivering a series of dynamic alerts to a user and for automatically reconfiguring the user interface to compensate for changes in perceived diminished cognitive ability of the user, said method being implemented using a ... | 07/29/2010 |
| 20100169820 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CHANGING SYSTEM MODES A method, computer program product, and computing system for providing a graphical user interface via an operating system. The graphical user interface may be configured to permit a user to define a plurality of modes, one of the modes being a current mode. The method m... | 07/01/2010 |
| 20100169821 | LAYOUT SWITCHING DEVICE, SCREEN GENERATING DEVICE FOR MOVING OBJECT,INFORMATION DISPLAY SYSTEM FOR MOVING OBJECT,MOVING OBJECT,AND CONTROL METHOD In one embodiment of the present invention, a layout switching device includes: a disregard list storage section for storing, for each of display layouts, a disregard list indicating a type of state information which can be disregarded even when the state information is... | 07/01/2010 |
| 20100125905 | Method and Apparatus for Associating User Identity In accordance with an example embodiment of the present invention, an apparatus, comprising a processor configured to associate a first virtual screen with a first user identity receive input for transitioning from the first virtual screen to a second virtual screen, an... | 05/20/2010 |
| 20100064245 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PARALLEL DATA DISPLAY OF MULTIPLE EXECUTING ENVIRONMENTS A computer display controller arbitrates between multiple environments in a computer system to apportion display space between the multiple environments. The display controller may be implemented in hardware, firmware, or software, and determines display space allocatio... | 03/11/2010 |
| 20100064068 | APPARATUS, METHOD AND PROGRAM Provided are an apparatus, a method, and a program for displaying an operating screen in a short time when the apparatus is powered on after change in configuration thereof. After the apparatus is powered on, the operating screen on the previous activation is displayed,... | 03/11/2010 |
| 20090327174 | TASK HISTORY USER INTERFACE USING A CLUSTERING ALGORITHM The aspects of the disclosed embodiments include clustering a set of discrete user interface states into groups; presenting the groups on a display of a device; and enabling selection of any state within a presented group, wherein selection of a state returns the user i... | 12/31/2009 |
| 20090300537 | Method and system for changing format for displaying information on handheld device A method and system for changing a display format for information rendered on a handheld device based at least in part on a velocity of the handheld device recognizes that when the velocity of the handheld device that is optimally held by a stationary user in both hands... | 12/03/2009 |
| 20090265628 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR OPERATING USER INTERFACE AND RECORDING MEDIUM USING THE SAME A method and an apparatus for operating a user interface, and a recording medium using the same are provided. First, a plurality of user interfaces is provided and one of them is displayed on a touch screen of a portable electronic device. Then, the touch screen is used... | 10/22/2009 |
| 20090210816 | SWITCHABLE PANEL LAYOUT EXTENSION Techniques for arraigning elements on a panel are disclosed. The technique includes defining attributes for user interface elements in a switch panel, defining a layout algorithm in switchable panels, and calling the layout algorithm in each of the switchable panels fro... | 08/20/2009 |
| 20090204925 | Active Desktop with Changeable Desktop Panels A desktop environment for a mobile computing device provides the user with multiple user desktops that can be changed on the fly by the user depending upon the particular experience the user desires. The desktop environment comprises a desktop module with a plug-in inte... | 08/13/2009 |
| 20090199125 | MEDICAL SUPPORT CONTROL SYSTEM A medical support control system, comprising: a first controller connected to at least one device; a second controller connected to at least one device; and a manipulation display device shared by the first and second controllers, wherein: the manipulation display devic... | 08/06/2009 |
| 20090132915 | VIEW SELECTION AND SWITCHING Application logic and user interfaces are separated to allow more than one interface or view to be easily employed for given application logic. A particular interface can be utilized to display data and/or facilitate interaction simply by identifying the interface. Avai... | 05/21/2009 |
| 20090113306 | DATA PROCESSING DEVICE A data processing device includes a displaying unit, a user type determining unit, and a display controlling unit. The display unit displays display data including first display data for visually impaired users and second display data for sighted users. The user type de... | 04/30/2009 |
| 20090088968 | MAP DISPLAY APPARATUS AND MAP DISPLAY METHOD A map display apparatus includes an image storage unit that stores images in association with corresponding items of image capturing position information of places where the images were captured; an image information reading unit that reads image capturing position info... | 04/02/2009 |
| 20090089101 | Techniques for underwriting insurance policies using web-centric insurance management system A scalable, adaptable, modular, and web-centric Insurance Back-Office System (IBOS) for serving the needs of carriers, agencies, agents, and service providers in the insurance industry is disclosed. The IBOS provides a framework for allowing web-centric collaboration am... | 04/02/2009 |
| 20090070701 | MULTIPLE UI PARADIGMS WITHIN A SINGLE APPLICATION A user interface (UI) with multiple UI paradigms. Each of the multiple UI paradigms is substantially different from the other UI paradigm(s). The substantially different UI paradigms are within a single application. A switching mechanism, which is also a part of the sin... | 03/12/2009 |
| 20090049397 | System And Method For A Simple Graphical Interface Embodiments of systems and methods for a simplified interface are disclosed. More specifically, embodiments of modes of interaction with a surgical console may be provided such that these modes of interaction limit or curtail the range of functionality which may be adju... | 02/19/2009 |
| 20090007003 | Accessing an out-space user interface for a document editor program An out-space actuator is selected to access an out-space user interface for a document editor program. An out-space actuator is associated with an in-space user interface having a displayed document. When the out-space actuator is selected, an out-space user interface i... | 01/01/2009 |
| 20080307349 | Sharing a computer display across a network Detailed herein is a technology which, among other things, allows a source computer to display image data on a destination computer's display. In one approach to the technology, a method of sharing a monitor across a network is described. This method involves retrieving... | 12/11/2008 |
| 20080256472 | METHOD AND MOBILE COMMUNICATION TERMINAL FOR CHANGING THE MODE OF THE TERMINAL Disclosed is a mobile communication terminal and a method for changing modes of the terminal, which changes a mode of the mobile communication terminal according to a location of a changed menu bar if a menu bar displayed on a touch screen is dragged and dropped.... | 10/16/2008 |
| 20080201659 | Computer system having multipurpose desktops The computer system, used for an operating system and providing desktops for a user to switch, includes a memory, a desktop management unit and a control unit. The memory stores desktop storage units, in which each of the desktop storage units stores a desktop file, and... | 08/21/2008 |
| 20080201654 | INFORMATION PRESENTATION APPARATUS An information presentation apparatus, which presents an image of an object and information associated with the object to an operator, is composed of a user interface section including an operation section to be operated by the operator or a display section which presen... | 08/21/2008 |
| 20080178113 | Managing display of user interfaces Managing a display of a user interface. In one implementation, a first user interface and an option to change the first user interface to a second user interface may be displayed. A selection of the option to change the first user interface to the second user interface ... | 07/24/2008 |
| 20080178112 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RENDERING MULTIPLE USER INTERFACES A method, computer program product, and multimodal user interface system for rendering a first graphical user interface on a display screen. The first graphical user interface includes a first functionality mapped to a first input option of a multi-option input device. ... | 07/24/2008 |
| 20080168379 | Portable Electronic Device Supporting Application Switching A portable electronic device displays, on a touch screen display, a user interface for a phone application during a phone call. In response to detecting activation of a menu icon or menu button, the UI for the phone application is replaced with a menu of application ico... | 07/10/2008 |
| 20080126978 | System and method of enhancing computer security by using dual desktop technologies A system and method of enhancing a computer sysem secuirty provides dual desktops for one user on one computer. One desktop is assigned low privileges and is used to handle potential risky tasks.... | 05/29/2008 |
| 20080115080 | DEVICE, METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR INFORMATION RETRIEVAL An information retrieval device includes an area splitting unit that splits the input information into a plurality of subareas by each information attribute, an extracting unit that extracts a retrieval key from the input information in each of the subareas, a display c... | 05/15/2008 |
| 20080034314 | Management and generation of dashboards A dashboard manager can be used to create, manage and deploy dashboards. Each dashboard can include one or more user interface elements (“widgets”). The dashboard manager can be invoked for providing a variety of management functions. In another aspect, dashboards, ... | 02/07/2008 |
| 20070245256 | SYTEM AND METHOD OF WINDOWS MANAGEMENT A system and method of windows management. The system and method comprises at least one window having information displayed thereon and a processor for determining an application type associated with the at least one window and rendering the at least one window at a pre... | 10/18/2007 |
