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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120131498 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR APPLYING SERIES LEVEL OPERATIONS AND COMPARING IMAGES USING A THUMBNAIL NAVIGATOR An example image layout and display navigator system includes a navigator that includes a miniature layout representation corresponding to the layout of images on the display. The navigator is to appear on the display based on user action with respect to displayed conte... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120131496 | Grouping and Browsing Open Windows Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for managing open windows in a desktop GUI are disclosed. In various implementations, open windows displayed within a 2D desktop plane can be organized into one or more 3D browsable stacks in a 3D desktop space, where each s... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120084688 | MANIPULATING PREVIEW PANELS IN A USER INTERFACE Methods, machine media, and systems that can manipulate preview panels are disclosed. In one embodiment, a preview panel can be transformed, in response to user interaction with the preview panel, into an icon representing the file containing the content displayed in th... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120084712 | KEEPING FOCUS AT THE TOP OF THE DEVICE WHEN IN LANDSCAPE ORIENTATION Systems and methods are provides for adjusting focus during an orientation change. A full screen window has focus before the orientation change. After the device is oriented in the landscape orientation, the focus is maintained on the window. However, a configurable are... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120084713 | Providing User Interfaces and Window Previews for Hosted Applications A local computing device may use a remote computing device to host various resources on behalf of the local computing device. The local computing device may receive data related to a graphical window of the remotely hosted resource and generate a graphical window on the... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120054674 | SMART DOCKING FOR WINDOWING SYSTEMS A graphical user interface system is provided. The system includes a display and a processor, coupled to the display, configured to display a window, in an initial position. Upon receiving a window docking input by a user indicating a request to dock the window at a pre... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120047459 | Information processing apparatus In order to efficiently display a plurality of images on a display screen, the display screen is divided into a number of areas based on the number of images that are designated for display. For example, if four information items are selected and designated for display,... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120023442 | DYNAMIC USER INTERFACE FOR PREVIEWING LIVE CONTENT A dynamic user interface for previewing live content includes multiple tiles. Information for multiple pieces of live content available from a gallery is obtained, and this information is presented in the multiple tiles of the user interface in accordance with a current... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20120017169 | System and method of dividing a window according to trail System and method of dividing a window according to trail are provided. The system and the method record the moving trail of an indicating signal and then divide the window according to the moving trail into two independent blocks to display the file separately. By comp... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20120017170 | TAKING SCREENSHOTS OF A FAILED APPLICATION An approach for taking screenshots of a failed application is disclosed. The method includes running a test of a module, where the test is run in a single operating system process that uses a plurality of web browser windows on a display screen. The method further inclu... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20120011467 | Window Opening and Arranging Method A window opening and arranging method adapted in a computer system is provided. The method comprises the steps as follow. A window on a screen of the computer system is provided. A continuous touch signal passing two sides of the window inputted from a command input mod... | 01/12/2012 |
| 20120011469 | METHOD FOR PRESENTING MAN MACHINE INTERFACE AND HANDHELD DEVICE AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM USING THE METHOD A method for presenting man machine interface (MMI), a handheld device and a computer program product using the same method are proposed. The proposed method is adapted for the portable device, and includes following procedures. Firstly, a first column is displayed, whe... | 01/12/2012 |
| 20120011468 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING A DISPLAY POSITION OF A USER INTERFACE ELEMENT According to one embodiment, an apparatus which is executable a browser, a player and a first software, the player being plug-in of the browser and configured to play back video content and to output video data to display a video based on the video data in a first sub-w... | 01/12/2012 |
| 20110302526 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CONSTRUCTING BUSINESS RULES IN A BUSINESS SOFTWARE SYSTEM USING INTELLIGENT TILES Methods and systems for constructing rules enable a simultaneous display of multiple windows on a display screen of a computer system. The multiple windows include a first window configured as a library and a second window configured as a canvas. Custom configuration of... | 12/08/2011 |
| 20110258578 | Interfacing Between Applications Utilizing a Desktop Module Interfacing between a plurality of applications includes opening the plurality of applications in a container according to a configuration file. The plurality of applications are associated with a plurality of business units. A processor determines an event subscription... | 10/20/2011 |
| 20110252363 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS Provided is an information processing apparatus that displays on a screen at least a part of a display region, in which display elements are arranged; terminates the display of the display region when an operation of specifying a first direction with respect to a predet... | 10/13/2011 |
| 20110239157 | Multi-Display Electric Devices and Operation Methods Thereof Multi-display electric devices and operation methods thereof are provided. The operation method is applicable to a multi-display electronic device including a screen, a touch-sensitive screen, and a processing module. A window is displayed in the screen, and a thumbnail... | 09/29/2011 |
| 20110239156 | Touch-sensitive electric apparatus and window operation method thereof Touch-sensitive electric devices and window operation methods thereof are provided. The window operation method is applicable to an electronic device including a touch-sensitive screen, a storage unit and a processing module. The window operating method includes the fol... | 09/29/2011 |
| 20110225544 | FLEXIBLE DISPLAY OF VISUAL CONTENT ON MULTIPLE DISPLAY DEVICES Mechanisms to allow a user to flexibly display visual content on multiple display devices connected to a computer. Each of the multiple displays may be configured to display a portion of visual content from a computer desktop or from an external content source. Each por... | 09/15/2011 |
| 20110209086 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND OPERATION METHOD AND OPERATION CONTROL METHOD FOR THE INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS According to one embodiment, an information processing apparatus includes a generating unit, a display unit, an input unit, and a processing unit. The generating unit generates a graphical user interface image including an operation area in which display components resp... | 08/25/2011 |
| 20110202865 | PERSPECTIVE VIEW A method is provided for displaying a graphical user interface to a user. The graphical user interface includes a perspective, which is an arrangement of areas, each area containing at least one portlet which presents one aspect of stored information. The graphical user... | 08/18/2011 |
| 20110202872 | Apparatus and method for performing multi-tasking Disclosed is an apparatus and method for performing multi-tasking, and more particularly to a multi-tasking performance apparatus and method which easily enable a shift between a plurality of applications being executed and a shift into an initial application. A current... | 08/18/2011 |
| 20110191712 | PORTABLE TERMINAL A portable terminal includes a display unit that displays an image based in image information; a touch panel overlapped by a display area on which the image is displayed; a move unit that moves a window in response to movement of an object while the object is in contact... | 08/04/2011 |
| 20110179375 | Popping and Ghosting Tabs from Tabbed Groups in Graphical User Interfaces A method, system, and computer-usable medium are disclosed for the management of tabbed panels within a graphical user interface (GUI). A tabbed pane, comprising a plurality of overlying panels, each with a viewable tab, is displayed within the GUI. A tab is selected an... | 07/21/2011 |
| 20110166916 | Time-Resolved & User-Spatially-Activated Feedback Entrance and Method Thereof The present invention discloses a time-resolved & user-spatially-activated feedback entrance (TruSafe) graphical user interface (GUI), useful to distinguish between allowed human feedback (entrance-OPENED) and disallowed response generated by a computer (entrance-LO... | 07/07/2011 |
| 20110119622 | WINDOW DISPLAY CONTROL APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING WINDOW DISPLAYS A plurality of display windows corresponding to a plurality of applications is formed from a plurality of fixed window frames that is displayed with regularity on one display screen of a display unit. A display control unit performs display control by sequentially displ... | 05/19/2011 |
| 20110119621 | PROVIDING CONTENTS INFORMATION FOR NETWORK TELEVISION A contents processing device connectable to a network includes a network interface unit configured to request, via the network, contents information from each of a plurality of contents providers, and to receive, via the network, contents information from each of the pl... | 05/19/2011 |
| 20110087982 | WORKSPACE MANAGEMENT TOOL A method for providing a workspace management tool includes presenting a workspace overview graphical user interface (GUI) having a first area and a second area. The first area includes visual indicators of favorite applications of a user, and the second area includes m... | 04/14/2011 |
| 20110083080 | CLIENT SERVER SYSTEM AND CONNECTION METHOD In at least one embodiment of the disclosure, a computing device comprises a network interface that receives terminal information corresponding to a terminal connected to a network. A storage device stores profile information defining that the terminal is permitted to c... | 04/07/2011 |
| 20110083099 | MOBILE DEVICE AND OVERLAY DISPLAY METHOD THEREOF A mobile device and method for displaying content in overlay form are provided. To remove user's inconvenience due to limitations on the size of a display unit, the mobile device outputs a first portion of content in a display unit and simultaneously outputs a second po... | 04/07/2011 |
| 20110072388 | Method and Apparatus for Altering the Presentation Data Based Upon Displacement and Duration of Contact A method (300) and apparatus (900) for altering the presentation of data (102) on a user interface such as a touch sensitive display (101) of an electronic device (100) are described. Alteration of the presentation of data (102)... | 03/24/2011 |
| 20110047505 | OBJECT BASED ADAPTIVE DOCUMENT RESIZING What is disclosed is a resizing method that utilizes segmentation information to classify objects found within a document and then selects the most appropriate resizing technique for each identified object. The present method employs readily available document parsers t... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110035254 | USER INTERACTION LAYER A method is disclosed for assessing a consumer's interest in content on a webpage in a client-server architecture. A consumer client terminal displays an interactive display layer, including webpage content from a webpage content server, to a consumer over a background ... | 02/10/2011 |
| 20110035701 | FOCAL POINT ZOOM Various embodiments provide a focal point zoom component that is configured to perform a focal point zoom operation. In at least some embodiments, the focal point zoom component receives a request to perform a zoom operation at a focal point of an element in a page disp... | 02/10/2011 |
| 20110016422 | Display Apparatus, Display Method, and Program There is provided a display apparatus including a display capable of displaying a plurality of windows using a browser, a device such as a touch panel that detects a screen operation on the display performed by a user, a selection unit that selects a first window specif... | 01/20/2011 |
| 20110016423 | GENERATING WIDGETS FOR USE IN A GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE During a technique for generating a window, a description of an object and associated attributes, which include information other than a visual presentation of the object, are received from a user. Then, different types of widgets are generated based at least on the des... | 01/20/2011 |
| 20100325577 | WINDOW BROKER ARCHITECTURE Retrieving information from a display server. Information about all visible windows displayed on a display by the display server is retrieved. Descriptive information about visible windows displayed on the display, and windows on a shelf is retrieved from the display se... | 12/23/2010 |
| 20100293110 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ELECTRONIC OPTIONS TRADING ON A GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE A method and system for electronic options trading on a graphical user interface. One or more sets of electronic option trading information are automatically displayed in a graphical in a dynamic option information column in a market depth format. The information displa... | 11/18/2010 |
| 20100287494 | User Interface Presentation of Information in Reconfigured or Overlapping Containers A graphical user interface provides a display of multiple items of information in a manner such that the user can comprehend the relationship of various items to one another over a wide span. To achieve this result, at least some information containers are allocated a r... | 11/11/2010 |
| 20100287493 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR VIEWING AND EDITING AN IMAGE IN A MAGNIFIED VIEW Viewing and editing of a displayed image in a magnified view. In one aspect, a method for displaying a magnified image using a computer system includes causing a display on a display device of a first image, and causing a display on the display device of a second image ... | 11/11/2010 |
