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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120131501 | PORTABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD THEREFOR An electronic device is provided including a display, a processor and a memory. The processor is coupled to the display and the memory to carry out a method of facilitating user interface navigation in the electronic device. In a first view shown on the display, a first... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120084727 | MODAL LAUNCHING Embodiments are described for handling display of modal windows in a multi-screen device. In embodiments, a modal window will be launched and displayed in a display which receives the input that resulted in the display of the modal window. The other portions of a first ... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120072866 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, STORAGE MEDIUM, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD A game apparatus as an information processing apparatus includes a CPU, and the CPU executes a program as to a memo application and another application different from the memo application. When the program of the memo application is executed during execution of the othe... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120015629 | SECURING A MOBILE COMPUTING DEVICE In general, this disclosure describes techniques for unlocking certain functionality of a mobile computing device upon wirelessly detecting that an external device is in relatively close proximity to the mobile computing device. One example method comprises: providing a... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20110302529 | DISPLAY CONTROL APPARATUS, DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD, DISPLAY CONTROL PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM STORING THE DISPLAY CONTROL PROGRAM A display control apparatus includes an input unit configured to be operated to change the display state of a plurality of content items displayed on a display screen, a circling detector configured to detect a circling operation, detect the circling direction and numbe... | 12/08/2011 |
| 20110296343 | METHOD FOR SWAPPING DISPLAY CONTENTS BETWEEN MULTIPLE SCREENS A method for swapping display contents between a first and a second screen. The first screen is a primary screen. A window is displayed on one of the first and the second screen. The method includes: calculating a window movement distance according to a relative positio... | 12/01/2011 |
| 20110239125 | USING MULTIPLE DISPLAY SERVERS TO PROTECT DATA A first display server and a second display server execute on a processing device. The first display server provides a secure environment for data presented in first application windows of the first display server and the second display server provides an unsecure envir... | 09/29/2011 |
| 20110214089 | MENU DISPLAY FOR A GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE Methods of providing a menu display 1 for a GUI 31 are disclosed together with a computer program, a computer-readable storage medium 34 and apparatus 31 for the same. Methods include the steps of displaying a menu 1 in the form of a g... | 09/01/2011 |
| 20110209039 | MULTI-SCREEN BOOKMARK HOLD GESTURE Embodiments of a multi-screen bookmark hold gesture are described. In various embodiments, a hold input is recognized at a first screen of a multi-screen system, and the hold input is recognized when held in place proximate an edge of a journal page that is displayed on... | 08/25/2011 |
| 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 |
| 20110078625 | GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE WINDOW ATTACHMENT A method includes identifying a first graphical application window and a second graphical application window. The first graphical application window and the second graphical application windows are each associated with separate applications. An attachment relationship m... | 03/31/2011 |
| 20110055847 | PROCESS MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD A process management system includes a display, a process management module and a plurality of window process modules. The window process modules communicate with the process management module. Each window process module processes one function on the display. Each windo... | 03/03/2011 |
| 20110029987 | EMBEDDED ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND COMMUNICATION METHOD THEREOF An embedded electronic device includes a system processor, a display module, a first window module and a second window module. The first window module can be run to generate a first window process. The first window module includes a first message definition module to de... | 02/03/2011 |
| 20100293470 | Hierarchically-Organized Control Galleries A computing system provides a graphical user interface having hierarchically-organized control galleries. The computing system displays the graphical user interface on a display device. The graphical user interface contains a document area and a control ribbon. The docu... | 11/18/2010 |
| 20100293503 | BUSINESS PROCESS MANAGEMENT (BPM) ADD-IN FOR OFFICE SOFTWARE One embodiment of the present invention comprises a plug-in for an office software product. The plug-in can allow for the creation of a Business Process Management (BPM) instance that can be related to an open document in the office software product. The Business Proces... | 11/18/2010 |
| 20100293489 | METHOD OF SETTING DRIVER PROGRAM OF IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM WITH TRANSPARENT FUNCTION A method of setting a user interface of a driver program of an image processing device includes applying a transparent setting to display the driver program in a transparent state on a display device to the driver program, and displaying the driver program with the appl... | 11/18/2010 |
| 20100275222 | Networked spreadsheet template designer A networked spreadsheet template designer allows administrators to easily create and deploy robust reporting and input applications that leverage existing spreadsheet templates and knowledge in an easy to use user interface. Templates are created to operate directly in ... | 10/28/2010 |
| 20100138780 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR USING EXTERNAL DISPLAY DEVICES WITH A MOBILE COMPUTING DEVICE The present disclosure relates to methods and systems for using external display devices with a mobile computing device. When an external display device is connected or attached to a mobile computing device, output data associated with a resource executing on the mobile... | 06/03/2010 |
| 20100131889 | USER INTERFACE TO EXPLORE DATA OBJECTS AND THEIR RELATED SUPPLEMENTARY DATA OBJECTS Disclosed is a user interface for interactively exploring data objects associated with a business context. The user interface includes a business data explorer having an object navigation panel and a side panel. The object navigation panel is operable for displaying a f... | 05/27/2010 |
| 20100083168 | DEVICE INFORMATION DISPLAY APPARATUS A device information display apparatus for displaying multiple pieces of device information respectively obtained from field devices through communication therewith on a display unit based on the Enhanced EDD standard is structured such that it includes: a multi documen... | 04/01/2010 |
| 20100070898 | CONTEXTUAL WINDOW-BASED INTERFACE AND METHOD THEREFOR A contextual windows-based interface and a computer-implemented method for use with the contextual windows-based interface are provided. The interface consists of several generally adjacently disposed contextual windows wherein each contextual window generally leads to ... | 03/18/2010 |
| 20100031189 | Connecting Standard Operating System Windows with a Visual Tack The method presented herein is directed to connecting and coordinating the movements of two or more windows open on a display screen. The method provides for the application of a visual tack indicator to show the user that the windows are grouped together and to distrib... | 02/04/2010 |
| 20100017751 | Multicast File Viewing and Editing In various embodiments, concurrent access to a plurality of subsets of a unit of information is provided. A first subset of the unit of information is displayed in a first window. An adjunct multicast window is activated in accordance with an icon associated with a remo... | 01/21/2010 |
| 20100017752 | Multicast File Viewing and Editing In various embodiments, multicast window set is generated. A multicast close operation is performed. Subsequently an open operation is performed, wherein displayed portions of a unit of information at a time of the multicast close operation are redisplayed in the multic... | 01/21/2010 |
| 20100005415 | DEVICE FOR ANALYSING VARIABLE MAGNITUDES BY SIMULTANEOUS MULTIPLE WINDOWING The device (D) is dedicated to the analysis of time varying magnitudes. It comprises a tool for managing display windows (MA) each for displaying the representation of a selected magnitude and each associated with a first magnitude selection tool (01) and a secon... | 01/07/2010 |
| 20090327953 | UNIFIED NAVIGATION MODEL BETWEEN MULTIPLE APPLICATIONS Web style navigation methods are applied across applications and webpages, whether local or web-based, and hypertext navigation methods used in the web are extended to local applications. Local and web applications are mixed seamlessly so that the user does not perceive... | 12/31/2009 |
| 20090327946 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TRACKING PATENT RELATED INFORMATION To facilitate faster, more efficient, and more effective extraction of information from patent file histories, the present inventors, devised among other things, systems and method for tracking changes to patent claims, specifications, and/or drawings that are shown in ... | 12/31/2009 |
| 20090319922 | Non-Bypassable Disclosures in Electronic Transactions Methods, software, and systems for ensuring that one or more pieces of information are presented as a “non-bypassable” manner and can be viewed as intended during an electronic transaction. For instance, where a required disclosure is provided in a pop-up window, it... | 12/24/2009 |
| 20090319944 | NAVIGATION DISPLAY INCLUDING MULTI-CONTROL WINDOW A display system, including a main window and a multi-control window, for displaying graphical data in a navigation display. The display system further includes one or more sensors for obtaining data regarding at least one of traffic targets, waypoints and craft traject... | 12/24/2009 |
| 20090288037 | Method for Facilitating Cooperative Interaction between Software Applications A computer software system is disclosed for single step coordination between software applications. A monitoring application automatically identifies a target application and presents a prompting window, such that if possible (but not necessarily) it appears to be attac... | 11/19/2009 |
| 20090282364 | GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE FOR MULTI-FRAME PRESENTATION A computing device configured to execute computer code to generate a graphical user interface (GUI) for creating a multi-frame presentation is provided. The generated GUI may include a canvas pane configured to display a main frame and supporting frame icons representin... | 11/12/2009 |
| 20090265663 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR COMMUNICATION BETWEEN USER INTERFACES A computing system for communication between user interfaces of test programs is provided. The system includes a first user interface, a communication interface, a second user interface, and a processor. The communication interface receives a test command issued from th... | 10/22/2009 |
| 20090249203 | USER INTERFACE DEVICE, COMPUTER PROGRAM, AND ITS RECORDING MEDIUM An interface device executes a first display process, a moving and display process and a second display process. In the first display process, a plurality of items each including hiragana of Japanese alphabet, are displayed on a full screen liquid display touch panel. I... | 10/01/2009 |
| 20090249191 | Signing Ceremony System And Method A system and method for conducting an electronic signing ceremony is provided. The electronic signing ceremony may include a number of defined steps performed by one or more people on a number of documents in a predetermined order. An activity, such as providing a digit... | 10/01/2009 |
| 20090240751 | Text-based calculator for dimensional computations The present invention relates to tools that handle and perform computations using dimensional and dimensionless values, automatically converting them appropriately within equations, outputting answers in default or user-selected output units, and indicating when inconsi... | 09/24/2009 |
| 20090241048 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DISPLAYING A DATA MODIFICATION TIMELINE Systems and methods for displaying data modification may include a user interface displaying a timeline with one or more items, which may include their own item timeline, corresponding to the same time period. A change made in item values may be reflected in the timelin... | 09/24/2009 |
| 20090241060 | Method for navigating between sections in a display space A computer-implemented method for navigating between sections in a display space is furnished. The sections in the display space are each assigned to a particular location of the display space, and representatives are provided which are each assigned to a particular sec... | 09/24/2009 |
| 20090235204 | Systems and Methods for Linking Software Applications A system is provided for linking software applications. The system comprises a message backplane configured to linked software applications by sharing messages associated with events occurring in a respective linked software application with one or more other linked sof... | 09/17/2009 |
| 20090193359 | PHOTO BROWSE AND ZOOM Groups of photo thumbnails are presented to the user, and where a user selects one of the thumbnails, a transition is provided replacing the group of thumbnails with the photo represented by the selected thumbnail. The photo may be displayed without cropping or stretchi... | 07/30/2009 |
| 20090193358 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR FACILITATING INFORMATION ACCESS DURING A MODAL OPERATION One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that facilitates accessing information during a modal operation. The system operates by presenting an initial window for an application to a user in a display. The system then presents a subsequent window in the ... | 07/30/2009 |
