Did You Know...
...that when IBM conducted a market study of Chester Carlson's invention in 1959, the company concluded that it would take only 5000 units of his new product to saturate the market? IBM therefore declined to be part of the new product introduction. Too bad for IBM. Carlson's invention was the xerography process, and his new product was the beginning of the Xerox Corporation. It is estimated that every day, worldwide, 3,000,000,000 copies are made!!
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| 20080109751 | Layer editor system for a pen-based computer The present invention is a system that provides a layer editor representing layers using box like controls. The layer controls are arranged in vertical stack representing the ordering of the layers in the paint application and provided with a highlight frame that indica... | 05/08/2008 |
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| 20060020902 | Interactive graphical user interfaces for computer display systems with simplified implementation for exposing completely hidden windows Displaying on a display screen at least a portion of each of a set of windows initially completely hidden within said stack. Defining each hidden window in the stack of windows and mapping for each hidden window the collective perimeter of all of the windows in the stac... | 01/26/2006 |
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| 20050278654 | Organizing session applications Embodiments of the present disclosure provide systems and methods for organizing session applications. Briefly described, in architecture, one embodiment of the system, among others, includes logic configured to display a user interface for initiating a command to launc... | 12/15/2005 |
| 20050268249 | System and method for multiple document interface A method for displaying a MDI graphical user interface, includes displaying a parent window displaying one or more command menus, corresponding to one or more parent window features, within the parent window, displaying one status bar, corresponding to one or more paren... | 12/01/2005 |
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| 20050223340 | Method of navigating in application views, electronic device, graphical user interface and computer program product The invention relates to a method of navigating in application views of an electronic device, to an electronic device, to a graphical user interface, and to a computer program product. The electronic device is configured to: display an initial application view on the di... | 10/06/2005 |
| 20050210410 | Display controlling apparatus, display controlling method, and recording medium A display controlling apparatus is disclosed which displays icons representative of data in layers on a screen, the display controlling apparatus including: an operating section which, based on operations performed by a user, obtains at least instructions for how to dis... | 09/22/2005 |
| 20050210416 | Interactive preview of group contents via axial controller The present invention relates to a system and method to facilitate rendering of a collection of display items such as a collection of document sheets appearing under a singular display icon or object. In one aspect, a system is provided for displaying item collection pr... | 09/22/2005 |
| 20050188306 | Associating electronic documents, and apparatus, methods and software relating to such activities A method of associating a first electronic document with a second electronic document comprising having a first physical paper identifier (130) having pen-readable coding (12) which codes for an identifier for the first electronic document, and reading the... | 08/25/2005 |
| 20050188329 | System for and method of generating and navigating within a workspace of a computer application A computer application and method for generating a workspace and navigating therein are disclosed. Code can be used to generate an application workspace for an associated computer application, wherein the application workspace is comprised of a plurality of screens and ... | 08/25/2005 |
| 20050188326 | Image assortment supporting device An image assortment supporting device displays an assortment window allocated including an assortment view R2 and a sorting view R4 on a display screen of a display unit of a computer. A sight of thumbnail images is displayed in the assortment view R2. ... | 08/25/2005 |
| 20050149879 | Computer interface having a single window mode of operation A computer-human interface manages the available space of a computer display in a manner which reduces clutter and confusion caused by multiple open windows. The interface includes a user-selectable mode of operation in which only those windows associated with the curre... | 07/07/2005 |
| 20050125740 | Method and apparatus for managing input focus and Z-order An improved system for managing user inputs and z-order in a graphic user interface (GUI) environment is disclosed. A GUI element may include a plurality of keys corresponding to keys on a typical keyboard, and may serve as a replacement for the keyboard. The system per... | 06/09/2005 |
| 20050125741 | Method and apparatus for managing input focus and z-order An improved system for managing user inputs and z-order in a graphic user interface (GUI) environment is disclosed. A GUI element may include a plurality of keys corresponding to keys on a typical keyboard, and may serve as a replacement for the keyboard. The system per... | 06/09/2005 |
| 20050108654 | Method, system and program product for processing requests in a web application An improved solution for processing requests in a web application. In particular, the invention provides a method, system and program product that ensure that a page, such as a login page, that may be displayed as a result of the request is displayed in a top level wind... | 05/19/2005 |
| 20050071774 | Method and system for displaying multiple aspect ratios of a viewport A method and system for generating an image display plan is provided. In one embodiment, a planning system allows a user to create a display plan that specifies a sequence of images that are to be displayed and how the images are to be displayed. The planning system all... | 03/31/2005 |
| 20050050471 | Methods of displaying resources of overlapping but separate hierarchies A method of using a Graphical User Interface (GUI) to display relationships amongst resources of a system can include illustrating at least two overlapping but separate hierarchies in the same mosaic-like graphic, each hierarchy representing one or more of the relations... | 03/03/2005 |
| 20050044505 | Creating an opaque graphical user interface window when a display unit is in an off state According to some embodiments, an opaque graphical user interface window is created when a display unit is in an off state. ... | 02/24/2005 |
| 20050010876 | Method and apparatus for providing a three-dimensional task gallery computer interface The present invention provides a three-dimensional user interface for a computer system that allows a user to combine and store a group of windows as a task. The image of each task can be positioned within a three-dimensional environment such that the user may utilize s... | 01/13/2005 |
